The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-01-19
NORTH DAKOTA
Buffalo wants a town hall.

Buffalo wants town hall.
Cass Lake has voted to- incorporate.
Park Rivers school population is 400.
Casselton has another artesian well.
Barnes county has tnition fund OF
Sis, O3G6O.
Rails will soon be laid on the new
Washburn road.
The Mimic opera house is undergoing
new Improvements.
The Glendale SCHOOLS have opened
for the winter term.
f. d. Murphy has sold his farm near
Hamilton for $1,000.
Frank Hovey has been appointed fish
warden Of Nelson county.
Over 300 students are in attendance
at the agricultural college.
Dan Sullivan of Wahpcton was shot
and killed in Montana.
The home of j. NJ. Hopkins Of Lari-
more was destroyed by fire.
The state oratorical contest will be
held in Fargo in February.
a debating and literary society has
been organized ut Abercrombie.
The new \. o. U. w. hall mt Lakota
will be formally opened on Feb. I'D.
w. j. Hawk has disposed of his ma
chinery business to Timothy Curren.
Leeds has Il new Touring mill which
is being operated to it's fullest capacity.
The Pembina district court is in ses-
sion With eigh1ynine cases on the cal
endar.
1t is expected the cheese factory ut
Wheatland will resume business in the
spring.
w. Gallup of Cassclton is just fin
ishing Il handsome new steel covered
barn.
Some BOO lights have been added to
the Valley City electric light plant re-
Gently
Mink are reported plentiful in Rich
land county and trappcrs are having
good luck.
The additional ward building at the
state insane asylum at jamestown has
been completed
1t is rumored that two large brick
store buildings will be erected ut Lii
kota in the spring.
The depot and freight office of the
Northern Pacific at Casselton are now
lighted by electricity.
S. $. Klein has established Il broom
factory in kenmare and has every
thing in running order.
The citizens OF Cathay experienced
Kerosene oil famine last week, and
some were without light
Carl Olsthd, a member of Company
G, who served i'll the Philippines, died
at Valley City last week
A chess. checker and whist club has
been organized at Cooperstown and it
coEvenes nightly at the hotel.
A farmers elevator is being talked
Of for Mayville. with Il capital of S1O,-
600 and capacity of $4,000 bushels.
+. e. Kenaston of Wahpeton has
been elected president of the American
Threshers Manufacturers association.
| A team ran away at Glendale and
went three miles into the country and
| back again where a cowboy captured
| them Oh horseback.
The assessed valuation of Benson
county is $1,s2OO55 and the rate Of
taxation 3 per cent. The population OF
the county is 1000.
Andrews paint shop and the Midway
cigar store at Darlington were destroy
ed by fire. This makes the second fire
for that town within Il week
| Mr.. Lorin Nelson, a teacher Of Walsh
county and member Of Company g,
has received an appointment in the
census bureau at Washington.
| The citizens of Abercrombic have
appointed a committee to confer with
insurance companies on the proposition
of buying chemical engine.
A little blaze at the Commercial =
house i'll Glendale recently caused con-
siderable excitement among the guests
of the hotel for few minutes.
Ex-senator George Clark of Forest
River has disposed of his property
there and with his wife has gone to the
Pacific coast with view of locating
there.
Hannah Anderson. aged twenty, has
been declared insane at Grand Forks
and committed to the asylum. lnsan-
ity was the result of all attack of
typhoid fever.
Joe Miller, who stabbed Adolph
Ipswich. S. d., while going under the
name OF j. Il. Elwood, and has been
taken to Jamestown.
A man stole jug of whisky from
wagon at Sheldon and the same
night returned it to the home of the
town marshal. the contents untouched.
Must have been Il tough article.
The citizens of Bowbells are con-
stantly endeavoring to become metro
politan, and the next move will be the
organization of Il literary society.
The Griggs County Fair association
will dig we'll on the fair grounds and
will prepare for Il two days celebra
ton July and 5. or ana 4. Purses
amounting to 5000 will he offered.
p. f. Peterson. a contractor who re-
Gently moved from Devils Lake to La