Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-10-31
Halloween tonight.

Halloween tonight.
Today's wheat-$2.O 3.
Another churchless Sunday for
Langdon-this makes the fourth since
the outbreak of the epidemic.
Millions doctor was among the
Spanish flu victims according to re-
ports reaching here yesterday.
Across the line In Manitoba buyers
are gathering in the potato crop of
the province FIR forty.hve cents
q bushel.
Christmas letters to our boys who
are cover there should be mailed
before November Goth to insure reach
ing their destination on time-this
is eff :ial.
Cavalier county drafted men who
have been sent to Camp Lewis,
WASH, have lately been heard from
with the American Expeditionary
Forces in Siberia.
University students who have been
home on a visit during the enfor ced
Spanish flu vacation will be returning
to their work at the Grand Forks ed.
ucational center the first of the week.
Judge Kneeshaw gave attention Ito
pressing court matters while here for
a short week end visit. returning to
his home at Pemb ina from a visit to
his farming interests in the south
western part of this county near
Munich.
Colonel E. Smith. Peterson, a law
practitioner of Park River, who has
been a we'll known Walsh county pio-
neer resident since 1883 died on Sat-
urday of last week following an attack
Of pneumonia.
DR.. w. H. Por er has been able to
find little if any Tina to give to his
candidacy for the state senate from
this district, being kept busy night
and day combating the ravages of
the influenza epidemic through the
western part of the county.
AS vet Co. Sup't Reher has not
been notified by the state department
of education at Bismarck of the set
ting of a date for the annual teachers
institute and meeting of school Off
GERS, usually held during the summer
months, but which this year has been
set back until the month of October.
has again been given an indefinite
p~ostponement until such time as the
health regulations of the county wal
rant the holding of such a public ga
therlng.
Tuesday of next week. November
5th, which by the way is election
day and a legal holiday, is now given
out as the date of the postponed call,
when five selective military drafts
men from this county leave to enter
training at the vocational school at
the Fargo agricultural college. The
number called in this quota of the
draft from over the state to take vo'
, cational training at the agricultural
college at this time is 800. The frs
date set was October 18th, and late,
set for the 25th. and now postponed
to Tuesday of next week, Nov. 9Th.
owing to the influenza epidemic.
About ten days ago the Legislative
candidacy of Hon. John Reid, o
Beaulieu, was given an unexpected
set back when he was quarantine(
with a we'll developed case of small
pox. His name on the ballot as
candidate for representative from thiI
district, however is being we'll take:
care of by his friends although Johr
is down and out in SO far as a per
sonal canvas goes for the closing weel
of the campaign. Mr.. Reid is n o
the %staunchest democrats of thu
county, but in this falls campaign
his breadth of view and stand for tn
general welfare of our state and it
people stands for something more.
The Red Cross boxes are doing goo
,,orl, Hahn tbon a1oD0