The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-23
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a most successful season.
Cakes is: assuming metropolitan airs,
with its cement sidewalks.
One dealer at Bisbee sold thirty weight
harvesters in bunch.
Drayton's telephone exchange now
numbers sixty subscribers.
Weeds on the vacant let's at Sheldon,
are said to be eight feet high.
A charter has been issued for the
Baldwin State Bank at Lucca
Out at Enderlin the Epworth people
are holding hay-rack parties.
Frank Lathrop, one Of the founders
of Bowden, died suddenly of heart trou-
BILE.
Maj. Fawcett has moved from Glass
ton to Bottineau, and opened a drug
store.
Ward county farmers figure on thir-
ty-bushel wheat and twenty-five-bus
ell flax.
Complaints are made at Enderlin that
the grain in that vicinity is badly
shrunken.
Rev. Meyers, a Dunkard minister at
Cando, has been examined for an in
crease of pension.
G.. H. Moore of st. John was arrested
on a charge of drawing revolver on
Postmaster Smith.
The first frost occurred early in the
month at Pembina, where some garden
truck was slightly nipped.
The school census of Trail county
shows decrease of twelve from last
year. Hurley is not to be blamed.
Wimbledon has selected Prof. Warn
er, brother of the popular physician,
for principal of the schools next term.
Ward, Towner, Bottineau, Pierce and
McHenry counties are said to have the
finest crops that ever grew in the state.
A movement is on foot to establish
convent, or sisters school, in connec-
ton with the Warsaw Catholic church.
The Washburn Coal company has re-
ceived the contract for furnishing coal
for the state penitentiary at $1.S4 per
ton.
j. Dexter Pierce is getting up an ex-
hibit of tame grasses from Grand
Forks county for the state agricultural
| college.
Mrs. A. c. Buck of New Rockford
sprang from buggy to which a run
away team was attached, and broke
shoulder.
Fargo and Cass county will, Jointly,
build a pest house. 1t will be modern
in every respect, with sewer ard water
connections.
G. V. Brown OF Wells county, who is
an agent for hail insurance company,
Ncf of 1r,1,oo
not have cent of insurance.
The farmers who failed to use the
formaldehyde treatment for smut are
looking for an able bodied man to kick
them over quarter section.
The Wahpeton board of trade has de-
cided to hold street fair during the
ls st days of September, if the necessa-
ry arrangements can be made.
The state equalization board raised
Grand Forks county's real estate as
sessment a few-0 per cent. The rail-
roads are assessed at $17,951 1927.
Ellsworth Davis has resigned his posi-
ton in the Minot land office, and will!
go to Manila to engage in the mercan-
tile business with ]. T. Wyard.
Pastor Achison, formerly of East
Grand Forks, and now of Park River,
and wife, celebrated their f1ftieth we'd
ding anniversary the other day.
Because States Attorney Shippy of
Steele county attempted to enforce the
prohibition law, a crowd Of hoodlums
decorated his office with eggs.
James Carney, farmer living near
Bathgate. lost his barn aud contents,
a. 81. III. 4.
The loss will reach nearly $4,000
Williston now has the train dispatch
er's office for Districts and on the
Great Northern, and all trains between
Hav-e and Minot are handled from
there.
Miss Florence Branthover, who has
taught school in Ransom county for !
three years, recently proved up on a
valuable claim AMI returned to Penn
sylvania.
1t is probable that two-mile exten
sion of the James River Valley branch
of the Northern Pacific WILDE made to
the asylum. It would save lot of ex-sl
pense to the state for hauling.
The new fire department building at
w d1ltulAd - AdpAuAy ,AAS61A4AS COu1pASSlON.
The second story will be. fitted ur for
use Of the fremen, and will also be used
by the city council for Its meetings
The Indian supplies for the agency at
Elbowoods are now being shipped via
Bismarck river landing. This makes
more work for the steamboats. There
were fifteen car loads OF up -riverI
II
week. II y .5
4 Many farmers in the state are said to
be planning to post their land, to
prevent miscel laneous hunting this sea-
son. This action will keep trespassers
from running the crops. leaving gates
open, letting stock out. and. above all.
Q small amount Sof game for
the farmers them selves. %.