The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-12-06
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Smallpox proved fatal to one man
near Renville.
The mill at jamestown has been com
pleted at last. ,'..-
Benson county is infested with steel
range peddlers. -
Fine deposits of brick clay are found
near Washburn. - ~.
Some Fargoans are to take up claims
around Renville
Good teachers are being paid more
than formerly.
Cocperstown wants a farmers inst
tute this winter.
A case of smallpox was found near
Fsmond--mild form.
Renville gets a postal service from
Mlnot-forty miles.
The new. Catholic church at Cakes
has Ieen completed.
Beef sells at Z to cents 81 pound by
the quarter at Balfour.
The Wilton coal mines are turning
out 300 tons of coal a day.
Wheatand people want the Northern
Pacific depot platform lighted.
Farmers around Fingal are dissats.
fled with the wheat grading.
The 500 agent at Lemert WAS soaked
s. for assaulting young Roberts.
The 500 agent at WishelS had IL mar.
row escape when the depot burned.
Balfour people We're compelled to
pay cxcrbitant rates for threshing.
the hotel at Buford is being enlarged
a q "a
There will be moro blowing to do
next spring than any years in the last
ten.
Richland county is trying the CONSOLE
dated rural school plan in one town
ship.
The counties in the central part of
the state will have boom in the
spring.
Macaroni wheat is becoming one of
the staples of the lower James river
valley.
The new engine built for using lig-
rite coal recently made it's first run on
the Washburn road.
A lot Of farmers around Hannaford
are shipping grain in car lots-when
they can get the cars.
The new Emmons county court house
at Linto has been pronounced O. X.
and will be occupied at once.
The Pan-American exposition COM
mission will mold meeting as soon as
| the exhibit arrives from Buffalo.
A new kind of grass is being Guilt
waited in Griggs county which grows
| two fine crops Of hay annually.
Attorney Myhre of Wahpeton will
| go to Washington Jan. 1 to accept a
clerkship i'll the navy department.
The Northern Pacific is shipping clay
from the Dakota Division to Western
points to be used in repairing dams.
Nearly every town in the state finds
/ the school buildings overcrowded. The
population is increasing every way.
Some one poisoned John Miller's dog
and left stryshnine on the floor, which
go mixed with some oats and killed g
colt.
The tax title sharps met with cool
reception at Grafton and moved on for
fear that it might grow unpleasantly
warm.
DR.. Wanner of Wimbledon and DR..
Piper Of Courtenay each secured judg-
ments against Frank Romelf1nger of
Kersal.
If Lidgerwood can secure an electric
light plant and waterworks next spring
the town will be as metropolitan as any
of 'e1n.
r. Newbower of Reynolds endeav-
ored to pull loaded shotgun toward
him. The doctor amputated his hand
a. the wrist.
Hamilton people do not believe the
trusts cheaper the price of articles
when travelling men are demanding rs
per cent higher prices on goods sold
there.
There are no prisoners in the Bur-
leigh county Jail. but a mean exchange
asserts there are some people out
there who should be in JAIL and there
you are.
1t is understood that there will be- a
big legal fight over the refusal of the
insurance companies to pay the amount
Of the loss on the linseed oil mill at
Grand Forks.
Judge Chilson Of Tower City was
thrown from a wagon and his collar
bone broken. The injury is doubly pain.
full and serious because the judge Is not
as young as ne used to be.
Grand Forks has an anti-cigarette
crusade and a number or prominent
business men have announced they will
rot employ a boy addicted to the habit.
Good thing--shove it some.
One hundred and twenty loads of
Mercer county wheat were hauled into
Mannhaven last -week-and still some
PEOPLE think there Is nothing but stock
and hades raised out on the Missouri
slcpe.
r. J. Pratt. formerly postmaster and
general merchant at Grandin, started
store at Harvey some years ago and
is now establishing another at Souris
iE Bottinau county. He will close up
the Grandin store.
A stockman eighty miles south of
Mandan discovered oil flowing from an
outcropping of Ignite coal. and tipped
some Eastern friends who, arc cold RI