The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-09-20

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| elevator at Cando.
Courtenay is reported to have a
church row on hand
Business seems to be booming at
Maddox, Benson county.
The wheat yield around Rowdon is
reported to be disappointing.
The Bisbee school board has selected
a site for a new school house.
North Dakota has 7,434 colored per-
sons, of whom 6,96s are Indians.
Griggs county reports an average Of
twenty bushels Of wheat per acre.
A party of New York hunters are
near Churchs Ferry in private car.
Cement sidewalks are becoming the
rule in many of the towns of the state.
| People who sold their Towner county
| claims last year now wish they hadn't.
Dickinson people want the September
| term of court postponed until Novem-
Der.
There is said to be remarkably fine
| lawn around the school house at Graf
| ton.
Vlolators of the game law are being
prosecuted in some sections of the
state.
A Reynolds boy was run over by
threshing machine and his skull frac-
tured
The dead body of an infant was dis
| covered in the weeds on a vacant lot in
| Fargo.
Wells county gets first prize of the
season for explosions of threshing ma
chimes.
Over 100000 worth Of new buildings
have been erected at Kindred since the
last fire.
A company is being organized by
| Mayville parties to work Kentucky oil
properties.
Some Of the wheat in Barnes county
| is said to be sprouting, as result of
| recent rains.
Jacob Seward of McCauley gets Sc
pension, and Colvin Jeffries of And
| rews $40.
N. j. Bohlke of Wahpeton has ac-
| cepted a position in a dry goods store
in Devils Lake.
Contracts have been let in Washing
ton for the erection of the new build
| ings at Fort Lincoln.
| James Maloney, ST., of Rolla is said
| tc have lost several horses of late from
| poisoning by eating weeds.
Ducks are said to be plentiful in Nell
son county. The water courses are full
and the birds have done we'll.
| The Imperial Elevator company is
i shipping quarried stone for the founda-
ton of it's new elevator at Cando.
Steele county crops are said to be
first class this year, and it is the same
all over the state, with few exceptions.
Not many good words are being said
about anarchists these days. Most per-
sons seem to desire their extermina-
ton.
Valley City has appropriated $1,000
for library maintenance, and now in
vites Carnegie to come on with his do
nation.
Sneak thieves entered the residence
of o. NJ. Nelson of Fargo, and got away
with q watch and chain and other val
uables.
Arni A. Sukke of Milton reports hav-
ing some fine apples, raised on his farm
as good in quality as any coming
from the state.
PanAmerican visitors from North
Dakota are said to be greatly increas-
ing III numbers this month. Wheat is
being marketed.
Joseph, the fve-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Chas. F. Turk was run over
and instently killed by threshing
machine last week.
The normal school at Mayville is I'M
dergoing repairs that will greatly add
to it's conveniences.s The Improvements
are in line with modern ideas.
S. w. Derrick has been appointed SUI
perintendent Of the Fifth division of
the 500, with headquarters at Cakes.
w. r. Corbett is train dispatcher.
$ The General Federation of Women's
clubs draws the color line in member
ship, and so do the Florence Crittenton
clubs of North Dakota, according to
some.
North Dakota seems to be keeping up
its record for new school houses, and
the average of one for every day dur
ing the past two years is likely to be
exceeded.
Early reports of the shooting of the
president said that he died within
into some papers before it could be
corrected.
Attorney Hooper of Darlington has
been appointed states attorney of Fos-
ter county, to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation Of Mr.. Soliday, who
goes to Illinois.
At Grafton guest of one of the l1o.
tells claimed to have been robbed, and |
ran into the street in his night clothes
The officials concluded he was trif1e |
off in his upper works.
DR.. Smith of Cando was trying to |
tame fractions broncho, and the ami
NAL got away from him, got tangled up
in a lot of machinery, sustaining injur- |
les from which he died.
The resignation of Rev. S. S. Klyne
as pastor of the First NJ. e. church at
Drayton has been accepted, and he will |
supply the pulpit of Inc Roberts street |
NJ. E. church in Fargo.
4 People Of North Dakota no longer
feel entirely dependent on the coal bar
ons of the East. If the trust sees fit to