The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-08-24
W. o.good has opened a new store

| G. w. Osg0od has opened new store
at Bisbee.
Rev. Green will erect dwelling soon
at Paramount.
Quite number Of cattle are being
picked up around Lisbon.
Hatton denies that there was de-
structive hail storm there.
Mergen Bros. Of Paramount will erect
a two-story brick building.
A. ]. Burnett, former Dickinson at
torney, died in Texas recently.
Late flax is said to be visibly i'm
proved by the recent heavy rains.
Plums, cherries and high-bush cram
berries are plentiful around Pembina.
There is plenty Of help to care for the
crop in the northern part Of the state.
Three colts belonging to Peter Mathe-
son Of Milton, were killed by lightning.
| According to the Williston Herald,
George Marelius is importing Shetland
ponies.
The heavy rains have delayed the
construction of the ne wopera house at
| Casselton.
President Worst expects to go to Col
orado Springs to invite the Farmers
national congress.
Peter Quady, the young boy who lost
a leg by being run over at Harvey, is
able to be up again.
Harvey had a pair of fights and
three runaways last week, and is as
suming metropolitan airs.
A farmer at Wales Cavalier county,
is charged by his nephew with destroy
ing his domestic happiness.
The new town Of Doyan, six miles
east of Crary, Ramsey county, is said
to be a hustling little place.
An educated Jap at Willston robbed
some laborers of 5000. He seems to be
learning American ways.
Farmers who had wheat good enough
to harvest are now losing it, as the re-
cent rains sprout the grain in the shock.
There was woman at the bottom Of
the shooting scrape at Valley City,
where two young men We're filled with
buckshot.
Treasurer r. Mcbride reports $52,-
1922 on hand in Pembina county June
80. Pembina always has a balance on
the right side.
Harry King, a sixteen-year-old boy
living near Valley City, was caught in
mower and had his leg broken and
foot badly crushed.
E. Perry, an employe on the Midgely
farm at Wheatland, fell under the
wheels of a wagon and was run over,
his shoulder being dislocated.
Mrs. Frank Bieber of Casselton was
called to Watertown, Wis, by the seri-
Gus illness of her mother, which ter
minated in death on Wednesday even
ing. I II
Lewis Pond, the progressive young
farmer of Church's Ferry lost his crop
by hail. hut, as he has diversified
farm, he was dependent UPTON the
wheat crop.
Nepthalie Tracy, a tree peddler, is
under arrest at Langdon, charged with
attempted assault upon Mrs. J. Brad
bury, wife of farmer living east Of
that town.
According to a correspondent Of the
Argus, lady barber in Augusville was
visited by g Chinaman, who claimed to
be her husband. He broke all her RAJ
zors and bought her ticket for Grand
Forks.
Commissioner Barrett writes the Bis
marck Tribune of the benefits of tree
pla nting as means of equalizing rain
fall and preventing storms. Commits
sioner Barrett never loses an opportu-
nifty tho promote tree-culture.
An epidemic of diphtheria has broken
out in the vicinity of Valley City.
There are a number of well-defined
cases, but as yet there has been but
one fatality, Mrs. Julia Woodford.
housekeeper at the Lester farm, near
Valley City.
On June 20, DR.. Ridlaub of Fargo
purchased a horse of r. Humphrey,
paying SITS and receivin ga guarantee
of the animals soundness. On July 81
the horse died of pneumonia, and the
doctor has just won suit for the pur-
chase price of the horse. He gets $195
and costs.
A brute down in LaMoure county is
said to have left his COW tied in the
yard two days without water or food
and to have recently left his team in
the stable nearly three days without
anything to eat About week Of be-
ing tied to stake in the sun without
some.
A curious feature is to be noticed in
many of the wheat field sthis year.
This is a second growth of wheat from
the crown of the old plant. after the
original crop has been cut. On may
fields the growth is six to esight inches
high. In many cases there is a new
growth from seed which failed to germ
mate in the spring, but which has been
started by the later rains.
Ward county is so large that county
division is popular move. Minot will
be continued as the old county seat
and there is hot rivalry between
| Bowbells and Kenmare for the head
quarters for the proposed new county.
One reason urged for division is the
size of Ward, which is so large that.
great expense is attached to the adj
| ministration of it's affairs
Lea Wright of Jamestown, as an old