Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-12
NORTHERN DAKOTA.

A new opera house is in course of erection
in Fargo.
Coal has been discovered not far from
Valley City.
The Grand Forks brass band has been
resurrected.
Tenement houses are very much needed
in Pembina.
The Northern Pacific Times prints 1000
copies per week.
An Indiana man is negotiating for flour
mill site in Fargo.
I The new court house at Grand Forks is
nearly completed.
A Good Templars lodge has been organ.
lied in Caledonia.
The Pembins Social Assembly dances
every Friday evening.
GAINESVILLE will build a school house two
stories high in the spring.
A gentleman from Ohio has capital to
put into water works in Fargo.
The new depot at Grand Forks is one of
the largest west of Minneapolis.
The saloon men of Fargo are selling out
and going into the peanut business.
Three new school districts have been or.
ganized in Barnes county recently.
Marshall Raymond recently bought .
seyenty.fve dollar lot in Wheatland.
We approve of the name Northern Dako.
ia. 1t does sound better than Pembina.
The Elm river Presbyterian Sunday
school has from forty to sixty scholars.
Casselton is destined to become a place of
no small importance az 4 railroad center.
The new Bismarck paper will put in an
appearance sometime within the next thirty
days.
A Minneapolis man will start q Scandi.
navian paper at Grand Forks in the
spring.
The new paper to be started in Traill
county will be called the Northern
Signal.
The Fargo Times very sensibly asks {:
"Why not call the new territory Northern
Dakota"
The Fargo charity concert, for the benefit
Of the Be!lau family who were 40 badly
frozen early in the winter, netted $240.50.
The Pembina Jail was discovered to be on
fire a few nights ago, bat the fire was extin.
guished before much damage was done.
The Hook and Ladder company of Fargo
will give a ball on the 22d for the purpose
of raising money to buy new uniforms
with.
There is a great deal of feeling and an.
~noyance at Grand Forks on account of the
delay and ir%reaularity of the eastern
mail.
We meant Valley City, Bro. Coe. There is
no Dodging that, and = Melange club, and q
sheet and pillow case party, and lots of fish
caught in the river, and . Minnesota bishop
who owns land in your county, and lots Of
interesting things happening all the time.
Fargo Times: There must have been
something in the air that the last Dakota
legislature bresthed that was demoralizing
aud corrupting. Anslsy Gray got too much
of it and fell. j. q. Burbank is q later and
more conspicuous victim. He seems to have
been spelling.
The old settlers Of the Red river valley
met at Grand Forks, February 9Th, and
effected apermanen organization BY elect.
ing r. M. Probs,6eld Of Moorhead. presi-
dent, Asa Sargent, N. E. Nelson and J. r.
Harris, vice presidents, and George b.
Winship, secretary. A splendid dinner
was served at the Veitz house. Letters
we're read from Gen. H. II. Sibley, ex.
Senator H. M. Rice, N. w. Kittson, ]. J.
Hill of st. Paul, and Cbas. Caviler Of Penn.
J bina. In the evening eloquent speeches
iwere delivered BY Consul j. w. Taylor of
Winnipeg and Judge Ruff Of this place.
after which . grand ball took place. The
occasion was the grandest and most success.
ful ever occurring in the Red river valley.
Ex-Governor Austin and many other guests
we're prevented from being In attendance bv
the non.arrival Of . train.