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Beautiful Tribute
Paid Soldier Dead
Officers and Men in Private
Schwan Regiment Write
Touching Letter
The following letter of apprecia
tion and sympathy was sent to Mr.
and Mrs John Schwan ,of this city,
from Captain Secor Cunningham, Jr.,
of Co. B., of the Second Training
Battalion of the Signal Corp, on be
half of the officers and men at Camp
Cueter, Mich. It shows the respect
in which their son was held by those
whom he had associated with since
joining the colors and what his death
at this time means to them:
Company "B 2nd Training Bat
talion, Signal Corps, Fort Leaven
worth, Kansas, October 15th, 1918.
Mrs. John Schwan, Langdon,
North Dakota.
My Dear Mrs. Schwan:—In behalf
of the men and officers of this com
pany. I wish to tell you again how
keenly every one of us feels the loss
of your son. We miss his smile and
his good nature and we feel that
there is a vacancy in our company
which can never be replaced. Your
son was one of those men who make
friends whererever they go—friends
that really are friends—the. kind that
last. Every man in this company
was a warm friend of your son's and
each and every man loved and ad
mired him. He was one of the man
the officers were counting on as good
material for a non-commissioned offi
cer and we shall miss him badly
when the time comes for advance
ment. If there is anything that
any of us can do for you at this
time, I hope that you will not hesi
tate to call upon us. Please con
sider us your friends and let us know
at any time if we can sssist you in
any way.
Very Sincerely Yours,
Secor Cunningham, Jr.,
Captain Signal Corps.
J. H. Dahl, of Huff, N. D., says
that he ia cured of a bad case of rheu
matism by Dr. Mellenthin'a treat
ment after failure with many others.
Dr. Mellenthin will be in Grand
Forks, at the Hotel Dacotah on Fri
day and Saturday, November 1st and
^2nd Hours: 9:00
a.
m. to 4:00 p.
It is important that we raise as'much
wheat as possible next year. There may
yet be ten to twenty days plowing this fall
and with one of these tractors a lot of
work could be done.
Call On For Information.
HARDWARE.,HARNESS, FURNITURE AND FARM MACHINERY
t" THE. HOUSE OF QUAL/TV AND\ S£/?//C£
H.
Again a military funeral when
fully carried out is a devotional pa
triotic service. A detachment of
soldiers conveys the body covered
with the national flag to the grave.
When the body is lowered into the
grave, volleys are fired and taps
sounded. En route to the grave every
soldier stands at salute, and each
sentry present3 arms, as the casket
passes. Last week, while the
hearses were passing through Lang
don, some men were so devoid of
Christian respact for the dead and
seemingly so oblivious of the flag,
as to stand with open mouths, star
ing eyes and
covered heads,
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LOMA •:#^LANGDON,.:^ DRESDEN,
.. NORTH DAKOTA.
COMMUNICATION.
Editor Courier-Democrat
The bodies of two Langdon boys
were' laid to rest last week. The
teligous services were private, the
commitral to the earth was public, as
public as any auction sales that are
continually held around Langdon.
I use the comparison with all respect
and wish to convey this idea: Those
boys left Langdon' a short time ago
with others to the blaring of bands
the waving of flags, and the rhetoric
of patriotic speeches. They came
back to Langdon, not as "victors
from the bloody field, "but better
than victors, they were brought back
dead.—dead in the service of their
country. Only a few persons were
admitted to the short service at the
Catholic church, but the funeral was
for the pubilc, and being in the open
air, it could reasonably be supposed
that a large proportion of the men of
Langdon would be present to pav a
last homage to a dead soldier. "One
true man dead—dead for liberty, is
worth ten thousand men" wrote the
poet. I leave it to the few present
at these two funerals to say what
value was put on these two dead sol
diers for liberty?
while
the hearse passed by.
51 ours Sincerely,
A. Farr Downer.
Langdon, October 21. 1918.
For earache, tooth ache, pains,
burns, scalds, sore throat, try Dr.
Thomas' Eclcetic Oil, splendid reme
dy for emergencies.
TEACHER'S EXAMINATION.
An examination of applicants for
teachers' certificates will be held in
Langdon, on Thursday and Friday,
November, 14 and 15, 1918, begin
ning each day at 8: 00 A. M.
FRED J. REHER,
County Superintendent.
Dated at Langdon, N. D., Oct.
21st, 1918.
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Soldier Boy Christmas Gifts
Families May Send Gifts to Sol
diers.—Through [the co-operation of
the war department, the post office
and the American Red Cross, arrange*
ments have been completed by which
men in the American expeditionary
forces may receive Christmas par
cels from their famlies. Coupons
which will be authorized for ship
ments, will be given to the men over
seas who in turn will forward them
to thier families. The Red Cross will
upon request, supply the families
with the regulation size cartoon in
which the articles must be sent.
All cartoon wrappings will be in
spected before being sent by the pos
tal authorities. But one cartoon
may be sent to a soldier. All Christ
mas parcels must be mailed before
November 15th.
Is Located Near Orland, Calif.
Frank Wohletz left Monday re
turning to his home at Los Molinos,
Calif., after a stay of most of the
time during harvesting and threshing
in the vicinity of Nekoma, where he
lived up to six years ago and is still
the owner of a section and a half erf
valuable farming land. Along with
his brother, Alois, he has a dairy
farm and alfalfa ranch at Los Moli
nos. They also now have bearing
fruit trees there and are within
about twenty miles of Orland, where
the Lindstroms, and others from
Langdon have re-located of late years
Mr. Wohletz. states that his brother
has about concluded to return to this
county and will look arter their joint
interests here, he doing the satre in
California,
Death Enters Mt. Carmel Home
On Tuesday of this week the 22nd
inst., death entered the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Adam Witzel, of Mt. Car
mel, taking from the midst *»f the
family circle their little daughter,
Dorothy, who was in her fifth year
and is the third child of the family.
The sad event followed a short ill
ness of a week that is stated as be
ing due to a case of blood poisoning.
The funeral ia being held from the
home this afternoon at two o'clock.
The family haveythe sympathy of a
wide circle of friends.
Mrs. H. Nesemeier, of Casselton,
N. D. says that she has been cured
of gall stones without operation by
Dr. Mellenthin'a treatment. Dr.
Mellenthin will be in Grand Forks at
the Hotel Dacotah, on Friday and
Saturday, November 1st and 2nd
Hours: 9:00 a. to 4:00 p. m.
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LANGDON, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, OCOTBER 24, 1918
Casket Is Draped
With "Old Glory"
Victim of Spanish Influenza
Buried Here on Saturday
Military Honors
Private Charles L. Foy, the son of
Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Foy, of this city
died at Camp Custer, Mich., shortly
after the hour of midnight On Tues
day, the 15th inst.,from an attack of
pneumonia, following Spanish in
fluenza. The remains reaching the
home here in Langdon on Friday, ac
companied by the father, who left
here for the bedside of bis son, but
failed to reach there before he died.
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Deceased
waB
the second son of
die family, was about twenty-five
years old and was born in Park
River. In June of this year, shortly
before responding to his call in the
military draft lie was married and
on July 22nd, with others of the
quota of Cavalier conuty draftees bid
good bye to his family and friends,
leaving home and loved ones in the
service of his country. Since going
to Camp Custer he was assigned to
service in the commissary department
and was in line for advancement in
rank at the time he was seized with
the illness that preceded his death.
Charley Foy had .grown up from a
mere boy to young manhood right
hefe in Langdon and all who knew
him felt sure that in military life,
as he had while a civilian he would
prove himself to be a man, who
would bring honor to hia country and
flag in the fight which our country
has undertaken to espouse.
The casket,' draped with Old Glory
on Saturday forenoon left the home,
wending its way, first to St. Alphor.
BUS church, where a short private
service was held, thence to Calvary
cemetery, where the funeral closed
with befitting last sad rites in the
pre?.'fnce of quite an assemblage of
relatives and friends of one of Uncle
Sam's noblest and best, who's name
is now on the master roll of our hon
ored dead.
In addition to the young widow
and parents of the deceased there is
left a family of four sisters and three
brothers. Mr. Patrick Lunney, of
this city, is also an uncle of tha
deceased. A brother, Bert Foy, who
is with the U. S. cavalry in Texas
was among those unable to be here
at the funeral.
Langdon Big Potato Market
J. B. Boyd, who is operating the
Langdon potato warehouse this week
reports that the receipts of the new
potato crop, tributary to Langdon
this fall is keeping the warehouse
running lull time ever since the fall
buying season opened. So far his
shipments have reached uvar 3,000
bushels, the sample is ore that finds
a ready market in the east and con
sidering the yield of the potato crop
of the United States this year the
price is keeping up to a figure that
makes the crop a profitable one to
the seller, even in this year of good
prices. At present he has handled
nearly*8,000 bushels, which will be
moved before the cold weather sets
in. He estim&toa that about 20,000
bushels of potatoes will be marketed
here thiB fall.
County Agent Haw Leaves Here
J. W. Haw, wno has been located
in Langdon for the past five years,
while in charge or the better farming
associaton's deni^/miration work in
this county,leaves the city this •reek
with his family for Fargo to take a
position as general field agent witn
the state agricultural college. The
offer, wnich necessitates his retiring
from his wcrk along better farmi ng
lines in thia ioaniy comes in the way
of advancement in his career as an
expert agriculturalist.
Kieffer's Auction Sale Dates
Auctioneer Tony Kieffer while in
town Friday from Wales gave the
Democrat the following schedule of
auction sales which he will conduct
in different parts of the county with
in the coming week.
Oct. 24—Loum Towers, Calvin.
Oct. 25—Allan Pinker ton. Dresden
Oct. 26—Adolph Ettarman, Wales
Oct. 28—Emmanuel Fried, Clyde.
Oct. 29—George Lachner, Minto
Oct. 31—John Strmeich, Hay twp
SERVICE STAMPS.
If you have a son—a brother—a
sweeheart—Use these stamps on your
correspondence or they are designed
as gifts for those who are e»titled to
them. 100 in a ennvelope 10 for cents
WmWt.
Four Osnabrock Boys Implicated
Four former Osnabrock young,men
now at Cashmere, Wash., appear to
have been implicated in a raid made
on an unpariotic resident of that
town, who wouldn't buy war bonds
or help along the Red Cmss. The
victim was stripped to the waist line
given a coat of yellow paint and pa
raded through the town. The four
ex-Osnabrcck young men mixed up
in this fracas were C. E. Uecker,
S. M. Sim, E. A. Jacobs, and B. F.
Pickitt. With several others they
were arrested ^d gfVen trial, liuE
not found guilty of charges brought
Egainst them.
County Oversubscribes Quota
Figures by precinct of the Fourth
liberty Joan drive in this county,
which reached a close on Saturday
night of last week will not, be offi
cially forthcoming until next week.
But we have the assurance of County
Chairman Sillers that not only Cava
lier county, but North Dakota, pnd
the entire United States, for that
matter went clear over the top. Now
the boys who are over there know
that we are right back of 'em. It
was a drive that showed just how
much our people were really at heart
in this war. Twenty million 100
per cent Americans bought Liberty
bonds of the fourth issue and $750,•
000 worth of them were subscribed
for by the people of Cavalier county.
It was a big undertaking, but with
Archie Sillers at the head of the
drive there was nothing to it but get
over the top, and she went big.
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First National Bank
Langdon, N. D.
The
first
NUMBER 14
Today, Thursday, October 24th,
welcomes the first covering of snow
for the winter season of 1918-19.
Has it come to stay?
Make Safe Investments
protection of principle should be the
consideration of every investor. But
it's not always an easy matter for the
ordinary investor to determine the
safety of the issues offered him.
The character of an investment, how
ever, is usually reflected in the con
cern which offers it. Investments
offered through this institution war
rant your confidence.
Safely—Honesty-Courtesy,
Service
First National Bank
Langdon,
N.D.
CAPITAL $ 50,000,00 SURPLUS $25,000,00
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First Anniversary
Their Going Away October
First Was an Overlooked
Event This Year
This year Langdon was seriously in
default in letting October first go by
without the day being given due ob
servance as the anniversary date of
the leaving Langdon just a yearj ago
on that date of the boys of Company
E. Had it not been such a busy time
of the year and the activities of the
loan drive and other patriotic efforts
that our people are busy with at this
time the oversight of a public obser
vance of the day would no doubt have
been avoided. We think that many
of our boys who are in France recall
ed thoughts of the leave taking that
had been their pa^t a year ago on
that date. By the time that another
anniversary rolls around it would now
seem that the home coming' would
have already taken place and that
they will be A?ith us to observe the
second anniversary of their going in
to the fight fcr a world wide demo
cracy and consequent overthrow of 3
autocracy.
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