The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-07-20
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Inc QaCe OF the Mandan state f01r IS
Sept. 1921.
The new ferry at Bowbells is ready
for business.
The old vets are now getting their
quarterly pensions. &
Cass county is to be the defendant in
another ditch case.
Grafton stores will close during the
summer at $50 p. M.
Walhalla. it is said, will get no long
distance phone this year.
The father of Sheriff Serum of Trail
county, died last week.
A Bottineau boy had his leg broken
in two places by a kick from horse.
Ed Blake at Cando, has secured po-
sition as attendant at the state capitol.
Grafton had fire alarm or two as
the result of the electrical storm there.
Recent rains have improved the situ-
alton in the northern part of the state.
]. NJ. Coulter, has resigned as princi-
pal of the Hensel, Pembina county,
schools.
T. s. Edison of Larimore has been i'll,
and is now ut Grand Forks for treat
ment. 49,
George Miller, the Sargent county
boy, who was accidentally shot with u
revolver, died.
Saturday, July 81, will be a hot time
at Buffal6-horse races, base ball anu
other sports. sa
The solid prairie sod about Bowbells
was wet to depth of four inches Dy
tile recent rain.
Census Enumerator Lee had hot
time among the Icelanders and French
men in Pembina county,
r.; The Belgian hare is sweeping over
the country, and there will soon be no
village without its rabbitry.
Since the recent rains TO section OF
the state seems to have Improved SO
much as Logan county
Collector McConnachie, at the ED
woods custom post, north of Langdon,
is said to have resigned.
Sanborn voted against issuing bonds
for new school building to the tune
of AZ to 2.
H. D. ALERT of Langdon is the North
Dakota member of the committee chos-
en- to notify Bryan of his nomination.
The crop situation has improved SO
much in some localities that the pa
pers are discussing the prospects OF
large yield.
]. A. McFadden anticipates short
age Of hay in Pembina county, and mas
bought several hundred tons in North
ern Minnesota.
New pensioners in South Dakota are:
Isaac n. Parkinson, Soldiers Home,
Lisbon, SO; Thomas Mccall Tigner,
KNOX, SIT.
Cando has a new fire department of
three hose teams and a hook and lad
der outfit, and the next blaze Is anx-
iously awaited.
Prospectors are intending to locate at
Richburg, which is to be the new ter
minus Of the Bottineau branch of the
Great Northern.
A new Presbyterian church is being
built at the Grand River Indian sub
agency, about forty miles south OF
Standing Rock.
]. A.. Mahood of Cando has a chair
which was made for lis father thirty
four years ago, and it is as good as new,
despite it's constant use. .,>..s,
Ira Standish, formerly of Sanborn,
while cutting poles in Montana, sew
cred an artery of his foot and came
near bleeding to death.
The foundation for the new Congre-
gational church at Wahpeton is near
ing completion, and the corner stone
will be laid in a short time.
Little boys and cigarettes started a
fire in the meat market at Glendale
k1,o% fl,oe RunT
partnent to extinguish.
A party of Pennsylvania capitalists
will inspect the coal deposits along the
new Washburn road, with view to in
yestment and development. ~
Henry Greeting of Fort Dodge, Iowa,
dropped dead about four miles south Of
I4akota. He was an old soldier, and in
charge of party of immigrants.
Owing to crop shortage, the commits
sioners of Barnes county have decided
to retrench, and an order for new
iron bridge across the Sheyenne river
has been countermanded.
NJ. NJ. Cook of Dicyek county was
digging we'll, and discovered gooo
quality of Ignite coal. AS there are
no mines of that nature in that part Of
the; state, he seems to have q bonanza.
In the new Washington school dis,
trict in Stutsman county, some of the
notices posted by the clerk We're for an
election June %, when it was held June
10. There promises to be a legal row
over the matter.
Mrs. Anna Carlow, residing twelve
miles from Hankinson, was burned to
death while starting a. fire with kero-
sene. Her husband may lose the use
of his hands from burns received in
trying to- help his unfortunate wife.
The American District Steam Heat
ing company is putting in system in
Grand Forks. Mains are being placed
near the curb on the main streets
through which it is intended to convey
steam for heating a number Of build
ings from the central station. a 2
Pat. Gallagher passed the Nelson
farm, near Balfour, last week, and saw
Mrs. Nelson frantically waving her
arms, Pat went to the house and dis
covered that her five-year-old boy had
fallen into the well, and the father had
encored In trying to get him out. Pat
fshed them both out.
Commissioner NJ. j. Barrett of Minot