The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-01-31

I. Auc oCOIclltnGN are remembering
Bobby Burns day.
Cando people are talking about the
green grass-there.
z Northern Pacific surveyors are re-
ported around Edgeley.
A billiard hall 1T Cando was raided
and charges Of gambling made. ~
The Cando band is prospecting under
the leadership If 13andmaster Peck.
Sheyenne people are still after
bridge across the Fort Totten country.
Darlington people presented Father
Mcdonald with a valuable fur-lined
coat.
The Red River Valley university has
passed the hundred mark in attend
ance.
Walsh county farmers will organize
a gopher hunt as pastime these warm
days.
Peter Halaas. brother of o. T. Halaas
of Hickson, recently died in Foster
county.
At Mimic one merchant refused to.
close and the clerks have to remain at
the store.
A Sheldon citizen has lost his reason.
and has been taken East for treatment
by specialists.
Sheriff Beverstad of Benson county
recently sold some flax that netted him
$1.50 per bushel.
The Merchants State Bank of Bottin-
eau has been converted into the First
Nationa, bank.
The intermediate teachers at Caring
ton have received an increase of IS per
month III salary.
ct Darlington stray cats and dogs are
disposed Of by dissection for the benefit
OF the class in physiology.
Prof. d. e. Willard of the Mayville
normal, will soon issue a geological
booklet on North Dakota.
Lisbon people are rejoicing over the
premise Of a continued passenger ser.
vice ever the Southwestern.
For While the Kenmare bank will
use parlors of the hotel for business
until their new building is completed.
1t is easy to spot a town with enter
prising merchants, by the number of
advertisements in the local papers.
Fred Pcrschey, living in the north
caster Fart Of Barnes county, was ar
rested on the charge Of stealing flax.
The health authorities seem to have
acted promptly in the smallpox cases at
Bouincau, thoroughly controlling them.
The annual meeting Of the state asso-
citation of the Sons of the American
Revolution will be held in Fargo Jan.
80.
Sargent county people are rejoicing
over the fact that land values have
practically doubled within the past
year.
Grafton people are pleased with the
results Of the North Dakota and North
ern Minnesota Poultry association in
Fargo.
There was a great hunt at Page, and
both factions are said to have talked
so much that the matter was called
draw.
The people of Esmond find their mail
and freight frequently goes co Esmond,
S. D., and the name of the place may be
charged.
HehEan Win.erer Of Valley City Of
fers to Donate free site end $500 to the
public library Of the Barnes county me-
tropolis.
A dance at Jamestown was adjourned
because so few young ladies We're in
attendance. A revival meeting is in
progress.
Sheriff Rattle OF Pierce county has
been in Montana looking for q ranch,
as North Dakota is becoming too thick
ly settled.
New settlers in Cleveland, Stutsman
county, are so numerous that a sub
scription will probably be taken up for
school building.
e. w. Wiley of Steele secured the
contract for carrying the mails from
Steele to Linton, at an advanced rate
over the old contract.
At Page the dog -poicorers have be-
come SO bold that citizens have taken
the matter in hand, and threaten dire
punishment to the guilty wretches.
One Grand F'orkcr wants the city to
build it's own street car line, and an
other wonders how-when the city IS
bonded to the limit.
Petitions are being circulated at
Grand Forks TO secure sufficient sign
ers for a street railway. There is con-
siderable opposition.
Stcckmen in the western part of the
state are pleased with the new order Of
the land department, permitting reser-
voil. filings to be resumed.
State Senator Sanborn, recently APP
pointed register OF the Minot land Of
flee, is said to have one of the best
farms in Ransom county
'Ehe tragic death of two ladies at Mil
ton proves that the kerosene oil sold in
this state will explode-sometimes-
If it don't make good light. Il
w. r. McGlenn has purchased the lots
and ordered material for q three-story
mill at Kenmare. He is now in Mime
apolis purchasing the machinery.
Two doctors in the northern part of
the state had row, and while they
were quarreling nearly all their patients
recovered.
The prairie dogs are out. and old-time
plainsmen say that is a sure sign that
there will be no more continued cold
weather this winter. Even prairie dogs
fail. however, sometimes.
y At Linton some miscreant cut set
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