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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-11-13
LOUIS c. SLENDER
Graduate and Licensed
Optometrist
AT DONOVAN'S

E. McTavish from Crystal City,
Man., was among the out of town
guests at the Seeley-Murie nuptials
yesterday afternoon. MIR. McTavish
is both an old friend and near rela.
tive Of the Seeleys.
Included in its list Of building i'm.
provements for the season OF 1920,
Langdon should have one or more
apartment houses to accommodate the
growing demand Of people who wish
to make their homes here. With
not a vacant house or any kind of a
place to get into, Langdon is losing
many families. If the city is to
grow we must find a way of housing
the increased population.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-11-13

Jas. D. McDougall. who left here
last week for Rochester, Mimi, to
consult specialists at the Mayo hospi.
tai there, as to his condition. is at
present staying in St. Paul and from
there it is understood will so to Cali
fornia to the home of a sister. His
condition is quite serious though
good nursing and the mild climate
may be expected to do much to aid
his chance of recovery. The dag
nosis of his case by specialists is un-
derstood to concur with the treat
ment that had been prescribed by
local medical practitioners.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-11-13

Mrs. VIM. Plummer, of this city,
is among the party from Langdon
and vicinity who left on last weeks
Southern Texas excursion intends
making a short stop-over returning
at San Antonio, where she will visit
their brother, Donald Sandison.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merriam, parents of
Mrs. Fred Thompson. accompanied
by their daughter Miss Edna Merriam
left yesterday returning to their
home at Devils Lake for a short stay
preparatory to leaving for an all
winters visit in Southern California.
There is a class of twelve taking
the degree work of the Masonic order
advancing them from the rank of a
Master Mason to the Scottish Rite
degree. But for the weather pre-.
vailing all week there would have
been at least twenty in the class Of
initiates. The larger number com :
posing the class reside in Langdon.
Ernest Olson, son of Otto C. Olson
of Elkwood, took the train from here
yesterday for San Benito, Texas,
where he will look after the putting
up of buildings and the making of
improvements on land which he and
his father purchased in the Valley
of the Rio Graude within the past
year. He will spend most Of the
winter in the south.
Rev. F. j. Hubbard. former pastor
of the Presbyterian church of this
city, was an arrival OF Tuesdays be.
lated passenger, coming from Crook
ston to o.mciate at the wedding of
William j.. Murie. eldest son of MI.
and Mrs. Robt Murie, and Miss Alice
Seeley, the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Arnold A. Seeley, an event which
occurred at. five o'clock yesterday af-
ternoon.
Cards received in the week from
Stanley Walker and Orville Stewart
locate them nearing the Kansas state
line in Nebraska on their auto trip
from Langdon to the Pacific coast.
Their experience with bad roads
aimee leaving home ended when they
got through Minnesota and the boys
are anticipating the weather and see.
merry to make the balance Of their
journey west enjoyable.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-11-13
DR.. E. j. Hughes
DENTIST
\. NJ. HOURS P.
IL Phone 112
1ULKE BLOCK Langdon

The home talent production by
Langdon thespians given advance an.
n%ouncement for Thanksgiving night,
Thursday the 9th inst. is now CIV
en- a date for Friday the 18th, the
night after Thanksgiving.
Shipments of stock have been ar.
irving during the week for the Con.
sumers Stores Company, which will
shortly open up a general merchant
disc business in the old meat market
building recently purchased of j. F.
Ramage.
j. H. Harlan and wife, who left
here last Thursday for the winter,
are making a stop of a couple of
weeks at their old home in Plain.
view, MINI. Later they go to South.
ern Texas and from there possible to
California, returning here in the
spring.
Robert Work and son, Robert j.
Work, IRE expecting to leave shortly
after Thanksgiving for the Rio
Grande Valley in Southern Texas,
where they will look after the con
struction of a house and other build.
ings on land which Mr.. Work some
little time ago purchased at Sar
Benito.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-11-13

= IA, .,.r. ..a ~. -
Joseph McGauvran was here Tues.
day from Onsnabrock for a short visit
Miss l.. A. Gordon returned Friday
from a visit Of part of the week at
Grafton
Highest market price paid for
Marquis Wheat by the Home Milling
Company.
Mrs. Mcqueen returned. Saturday
from Milton after spending part of
the week there with friends.
Mrs. Crimson returned Saturday
from a stay Of part of the week in
Grand Forks at the home of her
family, the Sanfords.
John Wahlen was here over Sunday
from Michigan. N. D., giving bust
ness matters attention in connection
with the old hardware firm of M. O.
Strom Co.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-11-13

"a Have you Joined? 1t costs only a
dollar for membership in the Red
Cross.
The dates of the tri.state grain
growers convention at Fargo are
January Goth to 9th.
Autos are still in use for round
town traffic, despite a snowfall todate
of nearly a foot in depth.
Coming-The De Wello Concert Co
-Auditorium-Tuesday, Nov. IS
the second number of the Lyceum
course.
Saturdays big event-Poultry sup.
per served by the Presbyterian church
ladies at the City Hall from 5 to 8
O'Clock.
Osnabrock is making a weekly fea-
ture on Saturdays of Community Auc.
tion sales. Andrew Newton is the
.a%uctloneer.
Teachers examinations are being
conducted today and tomorrow in
Langdon and Munich under the d.
rection of County Sup't Reher.
November 22nd-Saturday of next
WEEKS the date of the supper and
sale of work to be held by the Epis-
.copal ladies of the guild society, at
the City Hall.
Sixteen head of blooded Shorthorn
young cattle were shipped to Osna-
brock by J.. T. Wild and Grimsi
Goodman from the annual Shorthorn
sale at Grand Forks last week.
Services will be held on Sunday
morning and evening at the Auditor
ium by DR.. Hardness, owing to a de-
lay in fixtures in installing the steam
heating System in the Presbyterian
church.
Mondays storm is noted as having
been one of much less severity thar
) the one of October 18th, in 1912,
when the first snowfall of the season
was accompanied by a raging blizzare
that continued for thirty.six hours.
The postponed H. Witzel auction
sale at Mt. Carmel to have been helt
on Tuesday has been given a further
postponement until today. Nov. 18th,
when indications are that weather
conditions will favor its being sue
cessfully pulled off.
The Langdon lodge of the Daugh
tiers of Isabella were represented a
a class initiation and reunion helt
during the week at Devils Lake by
delegation composed of Mrs. Joh1
Sheehan, Mrs. E. ]. Hughes, Mrs
John Forrest and Miss Sadie Cory
They returned on Mondays passenge
The Democrat wants to publish a
much as possible of the local news o
Cavalier county and especially tn
country tributary to Langdon but tn
paper isn't always informed regard
ing events and at times importan
happenings are overlooked. Use tn
telephone and tell US about the goin
and coming Of your friends and neigh
bors, or of other matters of interest
The ladies of the Langdon Wo
mans Club wish it understood the
extend an invitation to all patron
of the Langdon City schools as we
as parents of the pupils, to be i
attendance at the reception tendere
the teachers of the school tomorrow
Friday evening, in the assembly hal
of the high school. The hour is sc
for eight o'clock and the plan Q
arrangement is such that all may b
assured of an enjoyable evening.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-11-13
A. O.. VOID

Chiropractor and Optometrlst
Licensed to Practice in North
Dakota, Montana; Washington,
Oregon and California.
LANGDON, N. OAK.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-02-14
Business Mans Lunch.

We hear good deal about the fore
sight and planning power of house
wives, but how about the humble office
husband? Take us, for instance, OBJ
serves a writer in the Philadelphia
Evening Ledger. Every Monday we
always scheme out our luncheon menus
for the whole week. This is the way
they look:
Monday-Hot mince pie with vanilla
ice cream on it. Coffee.
Tuesday-Vanilla ice cream with
hot mince pie under it. Coffee.
Wednesday-Coffee with vanilla Ice
cream in it. Hot mince pie.
Thursday-Vanilla ice cream with
coffee around it. Hot mince pie.
Friday--Hot mince pie with coffee
near it. Vanilla ice cream.
Saturday--Co with hot mince pie
adjoining it. Vanilla ice cream
Sunday-Indigestion.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-02-14
DISEASE and COAL
Scientific Discoveries Establish a
Connection.
World Declared to Have Been Free
From Physical Ills Before the
Beds That Supply Fuel
Were Laid Down.

One of the most curious of discus
sions has been started by Prof. Roy L
Noodle, a scientist of high reputation,
who has made a special study of the
beginning of disease. Once upon q
time. he says, there was no such thing
as disease in either animals or plants.
But 1t was a very long while ago. His
that diseases began in the coal-form
ing period. VIXEN the vast deposits of
our fossil fuel were laid down in peaty
bogs from the luxuriant vegetation of
regions then tropical-in Pennsyl-
vania, along the southern Alleghenies
and elsewhere.
In those very ancient times, ever so
many millions of years ago, the earth
was covered with water far more ex-
tensively than at present, and on the
bottom grew fields of "sea lilies"-just
as they do today in marine shadows.
They are oddly initiative of plants.
though really animals, and fossil re-
mains of them found in coal show en-
iargements of the stems plainly due to
attack by parasite worms. During the
an extensive development of those
forms of microscopic vegetation that
we call fungi and bacteria. Nearly ali
plant diseases are due to attack by
parasitic fungi. Most diseases of men
and animals are attributable to bac-
for. rf
have acquired the habit of parasitism.
Minute bacteria and fungi-traces of
their colonies, that Is to say-have
been found in the fossil droppings OF
extinct species of fishes, embalmed, as
one might say, in our coal deposits. In
plant structures of corresponding an
tiquity are discovered natural "cul-
tures' of bacteria, silicified.
The fossil teeth of long-extinct spe-
cies Of fishes have been found affected
by "dental caries"-irregular decayed
spots. Are we to suppose that those
finny creatures of early days suffered
from toothache? Twenty or thirty
millions of years ago arrived the age
Of reptiles, which developed the giant
lizards, that were the largest animals
ever known in the world, If some mod
ern whales be excepted. Some Of their
bones preserved in the rocks) show
deformities obviously due to disease
Certain of these deformities suggest
chronic inflammation of the joints
others, tuberculosis. After the age of
reptiles came the early mammals. They
and their descendants dncluding our
selves) have certainly had due al
fowance of disease ever since. But
(if Professor Noodles dictum is to be
accepted) there was no such thing as
disease in the world up to the time
when the coal beds were laid down.
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-02-14
LABOR WANTS MUTUAL
RAILROAD. OPERATION
GOVERNMENT, OWNERSHIP AND
PRIVATE OPERATIONS RAIL
ROADS BY COMPANY
LABOR TO SHARE PROFITS
Glenn Plumb Voices Labor's Views for
Y. s. Ownership and operation
by Employees, Officers and
the Government.

ngton.-Railroads should be
kept under government control until
congress has developed permanent
plan for their management, Glenn E.
Plumb of Chicago, spokesman for or.
ganized railway labor, told the senate
interstate commerce committee. Twen.
ty-one months of government control,
authorized by the present law, will not
be sufficient time for working out a
solution, Mr.. Plumb said, but railway
employees are hostile to five-year ex.
tension unless the railroad administra.
ton revokes it's order forbidding rail
way employees to participate in poll
tics.
For permanent solution the labor
forces proposed the following:
Government ownership of all rail.
way properties; operation by single
corporation, dividing profits equally
among employees and the government
and directed jointly by representatives
of employees, operating officers and the
public; automatic reduction of rates
when profits exceed a certain amount; !;
and reduction by the Interstate Com
merce Commission Of present power to
regulate rates.
Merits of the plan, it was agreed,
are that it would promote efficiency
through the profit-sharing feature and
through unified operations; take rail
roads out of politics; stabilize invest
ments; eliminate conflicts between
states and federal authority, and pro-
vide local means of financing exten.
sions.
AS prerequisite to government
ownership, the labor interests propos.
ed that railway properties be apprais.
cd without the big allowances claimed
by railway companies for land values,
based on costs of acquiring them at
present.
Much OF the questioning of Mr..
Plumb revolved around the opposition
to the railroad administration politi.
cal order. Mr.. Plumb said this virtu.
ally tied the hands of railroad EN-.
ployes in assisting in developing a so.
luton Of the railway question.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-02-14
Man Of Hioh ideals.

Charles Foss, bee man of Alpine
CAL, sold his seasons output Of
honey, four tons, at 6 cents a pound
when the market price was % cents,
because he felt that profteering at
the expense of the poor, especially in
war time. was wrong.
"God gave us the bee" he said, ac-
cording to the San Diego Union, "and
he charges us no tax on 1t. He gave
us the flowers from which the bee
draws Its honey and they cost us
nothing. Why, when the world il
stepped in suffering and misery.
should any man profiteer on the poorl
"Some day hope to look into the
face of God who gave us the bee and
the flowers, but l could never look
him squarely In the eye If ! had made
single penny out Of a fellow crea-
ture's STRESS"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-02-14
WHY Lake Disappeared.

Mr.. Peerabout was the typical tour
list, so when on his wanderings he
came across depression In the
ground, covering several acres, he
pounced upon native eagerly, firing
his questions at him:
"What is this depression, can you
tell me, my good man?"
"That is the bed of lake."
'Is that so, really? And what has
happened to the water?"
at was this way. There was pic
mic here last year, and they had a
spare case of anchovy, and. as they
didn't want to carry 1t home they
threw 1t In the lake"
Eyes; I seel But what has that to
do with it?"
Everything. The fish ate them
and the salt diet made them so thirsty
they drank all the water"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-02-14
FORGET ALL CARES
fearl Divers Have No Thought for
the Morrow.
During the Brief Fishing Season They
Make Much Money and Spend II
With the Most Reckless
ProdigaIity.

Ihe Paumotu islands-sometimes
called gold mines" Of the eastern Pa
clfic-present a weird and picturesque
scene during the season for pearl fish
ing. From August on come the ma
lives from the surrounding islands to
dive for pearls In the calm waters of
lhe lagoon thrown open for the pur-
pose. Within the narrow strip Of
sand which surrounds the fishing
ground are huddled 1900 or more, in
a mushroom city, sheltered beneath
corrugated iron or thatched huts. II
Is motley company.
There are Paumotu divers, bronzed
sea gods-who, with their ancestors
have been for ages masters of the
deep and conquerors of the shark in
MS own native element. The diver is the
center of solicitude for the buyer and
trader He is the Indispensable object
OF the moving picture man who has
hastily built his theater of corrugated
iron where he dispenses amusement at
metropolitan prices. 1t is the diver
who spends his earnings riding In the
wheezy motorcar which the owner OPP
crates along a half-mile of sandy
beach. 1t is his earnings which at
tract host of others.
In his habits of spending his earn
ings the Paumotu diver is much like
the American prospector and miner
of the days of gold strikes and boom
mining camps. In the days of his
prosperity nothing is too good for him.
He buys the choicest of foods and tin
ned goods. He is proud of the
appearance Of his women folk and
iavishes on them silks, satins. laces
Chinese shawls, high-heeled shoes. pic
ture hats and corsets the last re-
cent discovery. All of these things
the trader tlloughtfally has provided.
Sunday is an Easter parade, and a
pcrformfnce at the picture theater
like an evening at the opera. In no
golden horseshoe" in the world are
more observant or critical eyes, and
woe betide the Paumotu belle who
fancies she can attend two of these
functions clad in the same costume
without being subject to scornful conn
ment.
A good diver during the season will
bring up several tons of shells which
recompense him well. The diver takes
no thought for the morrow. He and
his wife bask in affiuence and en-
joyment. He spends as fast as he
earns. When December comes and
the fishing season is over they return
to their little atoll and the simple life
with nothing remaining for his months
of toll but some soiled finery, the men,
ory Of good time and the anticipa-
tion of repetition 81 their pleasure
the next year.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-02-14
GENERAL PERsHING Will BUY
ESTATE TO BURY THE AmERs-neo s.
CANS LOST IN W,AR, Il *, aa,,,. ,''',''''
CAN BRING BODIES BAL BACK X
National Cemetery In France, 70. iHaxeHa ri
Chateau For Museum, But Fan,i7 oar
lies Can Bring Dead Back To
America II They Desire. ,..g...s,, z,5r e

Boston.-Acting upon Instructions "'a'
from the war department, Gem Pershar
ing has been in communication the past
month with Marshal Petain for the pur- T {
pose of purchasing property for a ma, y,
tional cemetery for the American dead
in France, according tc statement
made here by Secretary OF War Baker.
The orders stipulate, he said, that
chateau or castle shall be located on i s.
the property decided upon, adequate
for a museum to house collection
commemorating Americas participaI
tion in the world war: ion ~
Secretary Baker made clear the plan,ad
would not interfere in any way with IA,
the desires of parents who wish their
dead brought back to this country.
rHThe war department will scrupu' 81
lously respect such requests" he said %
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-02-14
THE YANKS WILL MAKE
TRIPS TO HUN CAPITAL
DAILY COURIER. SERVICE WILL
GIVE AMERICANS CHANCE TO
SEE BERLIN.
HUN REBELS STAGE COUP
Government Buildingss In koenigs-
burg, East Prussia, Are Seized BY
Spartaeans Said To Be From Ber-
lin.-Russians Forced Back.

Coblenz. = A limited number Of off,
GERS and enlisted men of the army of
occupation will be given an opportunity
to visit Berlin by the Inauguration
soon of a daily courier service be-
tween this city and the capital
Couriers were decided upon, owing
to the uncertainty of German mails
and the slowness in transmission of
documentszofsi fsimportance Each cou-
rier. will be accompanied by an Off
Ger, and the trip will be made by ex-
press TRAINS between Cologne and
Berlin the fdhniiig time being about
12 hours. Cologne is about two hours
from serblenz.s Various lieutenants
and captains will be assigned for trips
from day to day, and privates will be
selected win different units assigned
tn Cohf<Aea on H-C
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-02-14
FORCED BACK ex eolshevlllI.

Archafigel. 4-g, The Russian detach-
ment operating with the Americans on
the Pinega front retreated several
versts, after having unsuccessfully at
tempted, an attack In which it encoun-
tered superior numbers of the Bolshe-
vik forces. Artillery and patrol ac-
tions continue on all sectors of the
front. An American airplane has
bombed Bolshevik positions on the
Vaga river.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-02-14
say esrmspytTfS,aa to sankrdpt.

Paris.-Germany is making utmost
efforts to have the allies believe that
she is nearingo bankruptcy, declared
Raoul Peret echairman of the budget
commission Qf the chamber Of Depu-
ties and former minister. Of justice. in
discussing the financial problems fac
ing the peace, c0nfsrence The first
measures jof the eQpference along fl
nancial lipess' 'heI added, should be to
take measures to prevent Germany
from declaring herseH an insolvent
debtor or d bankrupt State.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-02-14

On Nov. II the American army In
Europe was composed of S0.S42 Off.
GERS and 1,S63,474 enlisted men, while
1,162 officers and 21,072 men were at
sea en- route to Europe. The marine
contingent in the expeditionary force
on that date was 1.002 officers and
1883 men, making the total Euro
pean army strength either in France or
en- route there 2.004,sS5 officers and
men. sstl
In the United States ON that. date
were 1,634,499 army personnel. and In
the insular possessions, the canai4s64is.
Alaska, ETC., 55,735.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-02-14
Mother GOOSE, ModernIy ManuIed.

An old woman was sweeping her
house one day and she found silver
sixpence. considering the energy !
should waste in picking 1t up," she
said. "and knowing that couldn't buy
a blessed thing nowadays unless l
found half dozen of them, 'tain't
worth it."
So, with one well-aimed stroke of
her broom. she swept the darn thing
out. thus destroying the childhood of
forever after Of the amusing narrative
regarding her laborious efforts to get
the pig home from market after en-
countering the stile.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-02-14
SEATTLE OPERATES JITNEys.I
Mayor Makes Effort To Supply Need
if ed Transportation r2ho

Seattle, Wash.--City directed auto
mobile "jitney" service was inaugu-
rated in Seattle to break the strike in
compliance with the mayors ultima
tum that the strikers would have to
call off a sympathetic strike or he
would operate all essential industries
Faced by desertions in union ranks,
coupled with results brought about by
Mayor Ole Ansol's ultimatum that
troops would be used if necessary to
restore Seattle's business operations
to normal channels, the sympathetic
strike, affecting approximately $4,000
workers, seemed near its end
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-02-14
COALITION RECOGNIZED.
Lansing Says Y. s. Welcomes cro,.
tian-Servian-sIovenian Union.

Paris.-Secretary Lansing, in |.
statement, says that the government
OF the United States welcomes the
union Of the croatian, servian and
Slovenian people.
Secretary Lansing ads that the t.
nal settlement Of the territorial from.
tiers of the new state must be left to
the peace conference, in keeping with
the desires Of the peoples concerned,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-02-14
MAY Use Draft Boards.

New York. -t7-,sA plan to demobilize
local draft boards, instead of discharg.
ing them direct from camps, is being
considered by the war department, ac-
cording to Police Commissioner En-
right, who made public details of in.
teryiews which he had at Washington