The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-06-09
NORTH DAKOTA

d. IL. bOWtfS got Ille contract LOT lue
Masonic temple ut Fargo. at $27,631.
Ex-senator Casey has returned to
jamestown after an extended Eastern
visit.
At Kuhn a committee has been a1-
pointed to agitatc the question of fire
protection.
July LIST the Mimic postottice will be
raised from fourtl-class to presiden-
tial office
The new asylum buildings will re-
quire the enlargement OF the electric
light plant.
a golf club has been organized ut the
state pen. ,JinltOwn hospital ought to
lave one.
Cooperstown las decided to buy some
twenty acres of land, fence it III and
have Il fair.
The NJ. T.. church at Jimtown will
provide II shed for farmers teams. A
good scheme.
Martin AIarkuson of Cooperstown
had Il choking fit, and died before help
could reach him.
l. Little May Foshay of I.angdon had
her foot severely injured while playing
at the turntable.
Walsh county residents propose to
have u county fair this year that will
be second to none.
G. G. Koerner Of Portland was spilled
by Il runaway team and sustained a
diSlocated shoulder.
Railroad business has so increased at
Jmtown that Supt. Wilson has been
given an assistant
Miss Preston, of the w. G. Il. IT,, has
through the STAGE.
Gus Bell of Jimtown lost two fingers
in Il roundup out at Dickinson. They
got tangled in the lasso.
Articles Of incorporation have been
filed by parties who will erect Il $1,000
125-barrel mill at Drayton.
Mrs. J. l.. Brown of Hamilton is
| claimed to be one among $50 heirs To IL
/ $4O.U00,OO0 estate in England.
Crystal reports that every shop there
has had to increase its capacity this
year. Looks bad for hard times.
DiInie Bros. are building IL kiln of
| 100000 brick, the first new Red River
valley brick on this years market.
The ID. s. B. Johnson company is ask
| ing $500 for corner lots in the new
townsite of McHenry. in Eddy county.
| Langdon seems to- be furnishing Il
sort Of continuous performance OF vari-
! Gus kinds Of miSdemeanorS this season.
\ well caved in upon 'Doc" Reed Of
| FesSenden. but he stood the pressure
| all right. and will soon be as coed as
4! ever.
\ L. per cent dividend has been de-
! Glazed Gu the First National Bank Of
Larmorc'S assets. amounting to some
| $60GGO.
Mrs Bertha NJ. Johnson of Minor.
an aged widow of veteran of the Civil
war. has been granted Il pension Of $S
per month.
Tie electric light plant ut Dawson
City, the property of ]. ID. Trenholm OF
Bathgate. was not harmed by the big
kiondike fire.
The town of Kennmrp. recently al
n'ost totally destroyed by fire will bp
rebuilt at cnce. The origin of the fire
is still a mystery.
G. II. Hamilton. druggist, Hunter,
was pulled for violation Of the prohibit
ton law. but the charge fiZ2!el and the
case was dismissed.
Il. u. ALERT. the popular Langdon
druggist. is trying to organic" :. X. l..
lodge at NorthwOod. with the assist
alce of Henry Dillenbeck
A wholesale grocery house is soon to
;be established ut Valley City. it is said,
and great things are expected of the
500 in the way of freight rates.
Alfred Masters. the five-year-old son
of George Masters of jamestown. was
fatally injured last week by falling I'M
der a dray. the wheels passing over
him.
Wells county is in line with the prog
iresS Of the state. and reports more flax
and wheat sown, and more settlers ar
irving than ever before in the history
lof the county.
June 8 the board of management of
the Valley City normal school will
open bids to award contracts for i'm
|provements and the erection of an add
litional building.
According to reports from Devils
Lake. that city is gradually becoming
a prohibition city, liquor now being
sold by the glass instead Of by the
QuafC, as neretOIOre.
DIR. Flaten of Edinburg has his resi-
dence about completed. and with the
improvements recently made. will have
one of the handsomest residences in
that part of the state.
A blacksmith and machine shop. a
large twO-story brick. livery stable,
IL creamery, a lumber shed, bank, and
several fine dwellings are under course
of erection ut Edinburg.
Frank Lathrop of Darlington will
open drug store at Bowden, the new
town at the end of the Sykeston di-
vision. He bought out the John Zoos
drug stock at Fessenden.
I'D Rose, youngest son of Attorney
l.. A. Rose of Fargo, has been appoint
ell register of the United States land
office. OF Alaska, and will soon start for
the scene of his labors.
The relatives and friends of Company
4, ut Dickinson, held mass meeting
recently, and adopted resolutions ask
/ Ing the muster-out Of the North Dakota