The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-09-20
Rolla is to have a new elevator.


coming frequent
1t Is said that Walcott has no open
saloons and no blind pigs
Hankinson's telephone exchange will
be in operation soon.
Chickens are reported rather scarce
IN the vicinity Of Mayville.
T. A. Williams is the new night tele-
graph operator at Sanborn.
Bachelors banquets are becoming
popular over North Dakota.
| Balfour proposes to be well supplied
with elevators this year.
Now the school chilcren who have not
been vaccinated are in for it.
George Fulwiler has commenced the
erection of new store at Scotia.
A Granville man reports corn that
will yield fifty bushels per acre.
/ customs officer in the northern part
of the state is reported to have been
! relieved"
Thomas Cochrane of Knox got his
head pretty badly cut while dressing a
beef last week.
| A. J. Phil, a pioneer of Dickey coun-
! ty, died at Glendale, mourned by a
| host of friends.
| Not many reports of accidents Incl
dent to the hunting season have been
| reported to date.
j. j. Reilly is said to be making i'm
provements to the amount of $500 on
the Milton Roller mills.
LaMoure may raise funds by private
| subscription to secure some form of
fire protection.
Work on the Washburn extension
was delayed by the men stopping to
assist in the harvest.
Potato starch factories wouldn't be a
paying investment this year, with po-
tatoes higher than wheat.
Earl Mcdonald of Cando was arrest
ed for hunting chickens without a Ii
cense, but was acquitted.
Wheat yields varying from twenty,
five to forty bushels per acre are re-
ported from Kenmare valley.
North Dakota has ebout &c, 900 more
males than females. What an opportu-
nifty for some Down East old maids!
The slaughter of prairie chickens in
the vicinity of Sanborn is reported to
have broken all former records.
Twenty-Five bushels of wheat ard
seventy-two bushels of oats are the
best Barnes county yields reported.
Farmers are reported as putting ul
granaries, which indicates deter-,in-
alton to hold their grain for a while.
More Bros bardwarde store at VIM
bledon was looted by burglars, and
property to the amount of $3.50 taken.
Secretary Guthrie, of the Casselton
Fair association, is hustling in the in
terests of the coming annual meeting.
The new weather bureau building at
Bismarck was heated by steam. and
things are already warming up on the
slope.
Capitalists are developing plans to
utilize the big crops of wheat straw in
North Dakota for the manufacture OF
| paper
Work on the Hillsboro water. tower,
which was delayed on account Of delay
in receiving iron, is being rapidly
pushed.
| Kolstad & Bang is the name Of a
| new business firm at Osra brock, the
| former q. confecticner and the latter a
| jeweler.
| The Northern Pacific company offers
to compromise about $1,000 worth of
| delinquent taxes in Fargo by paying
about $500.
The Bottineau county court house
bonds We're found to be all right tn ev-
cry particular, and the cash will be
forthcoming.
Miss Rudolphia Huelstetter of De-
troit, Mich, has been elected supervisor
of music and drawing of the Hillsboro
public schools.
Hay fever is quite prevalent in the
state. The farmers and business men
can afford to sneeze little as long as
the prospects are so bright.
The extension of the Great Northern
in Bottineau county is announced COM
pleted to Souris, with the exception Of
the rails, which are coming.
Threshing machine agencies have
found plenty of customers for their
goods in North Dakota this year, espe-
cially in the northern part of the state.
Oscar Woolsey has been appointed
warehouseman at the Great Northern
depot at Hillsboro, and his brother,
Alphonzo, is made express messenger.
Many North Dakotans are becoming
interested in the development Of the
broom corn industry. 1t is said the /
crop can be grown with profit in this l.
state.
Jay Russell of Hankinson has bought
the Merchants hotel at Lidgerwood. E.
c. Gates, the former proprietor, goes to
Geddes, S. D., to engage in the same
business.
Most Eastern people appear to regard
this country as the land of the Daco-
tabs, but the PaE-American exposition
is doing much to demonstrate that it is
an agricultural paradise.
Mike Anderson of velva, McHenry
county. anticipates yield Of 800 bush
els of potatoes to the acre. AT Is cents
per bushel, he can afford to dig them
all.
George Woerner's barn. in Ric,.Iand
county, was struck by lightning and
burned, together with stock, granary
and machinery, the property Of the7ten- 4
ant, Charles Heller.
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