The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-10-10
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Mandan is to have kindergarten. q
Lisbon reports lot of land lawyers.
Minot is to have central heating
plant.
The typhoid epidemic continues at
Portal
Kenmare's school building is to cost
$4,000.
A kindergarten is to be established
at Minot
Bottineau will soon have electric
lights.
Bathgate asserts it's liability as
residence town.
jamestown is to have new whole
sale fruit house.
Inkster elevators were compelled to
close over Sunday.
The Bismarck school has a total en-
rollment of 401 pupils.
A well-developed case of diphtheria
was found at Enderlin.
A. Dunkard church was organized at
Surrey in Ward county
imposing looking structure.
Col. Hankinson of Hankinson will
raise 100 barrels of apples.
DR.. Lundy of Bottineau is astonish-
ing the natives with his auto.
There are indications of another
county seat eruption at Steele.
The farmers around Forest River
are raising fine lot of cattle.
R. w. Dickey of Dickey county, paid
500 for young Hereford bull.
There were $50 homestead entries
at the Minot landofice in August. ~
The people of Ward county can vote
on county division at the fall cleo
ton.
Wimbledon had a false fire alarm,
but the fre-fghters were there on
time.
The star mail route servive between
Edgeley and Gulm has been re-estab-
lished.
Some Wells and Foster county farm
ers will experiment this fall with win
ter rye.
The militia companies are resuming
regular drills, now that the hot wealth
er is over. 'r
Minot may secure linseed oil mill
because of the abundance of flax in
that vicinity.
Richburg has grown rapidly during
the past year, and now awaits the
Great Northern.
The northwestern part of the state
is adopting uniform text books for the
district schools. |:
A rutabaga eighteen inches in cir
conference was raised on Joe Blanco's
farm. near Kuhn.
N. B. Hawkins will put two boats
on Des Laos lake. He will bring back
cargoes of grain.
Attorney LeSueur of Minot will not
be third candidat efor states attor-
ney OF Ward county.
Twenty-Five men and two women
were given naturalization papers at
Rolla by Judge Cowan.
Postmaster Mortenson of Storlie,
Cavalier county, had a flax yield of
twenty bushels per acre.
A Burleigh county farmer challeng-s
es his neighbors to make a test of
crops on irrigated lands.
Frank Haskins of Minot has three
Jersey COWS which furnish cream for
four pounds OF butter daily.
Prairie fires are reported to have in
f1icted a lot of damage around Ray and
White Earth, West of Minot
The frost killed off the vegetation SO
effectively that the danger of prairie
fires has been greatly increased.
Thrilling and sensational games of
clokinole and dominoes are on tap
when the nights get little longer.
There is opposition to the division
of Ward County for two years till ev-
erything is on more stable footing.
There were so many threshing rigs
around Spiritwood that sufficient help
could not be procured to man them.
Some of the newer towns in the
state complain of too much aggressive
ness on the part OF the blind-piggers.
With flax yielding thirty three bush
els per acre in Barnes county, it is no
wonder that real estate is on the boom.
A we'll for a city water supply is
wanted at Minot, as the water in the
Mouse river is colored greenish tint.
A bike thief swiped a Syracuse
wheel in Fargo, and the owner was
unable to keep his eye on the Grim
son rim"
The steamer Bachelor, the largest
on the Missouri, has been repaired at
Rock Haven, and is now ready for
business.
For the first seven months of 1902
the two Hebron creameries shipped
$4,000 pounds of butter, for which they
received $4,000. 5
A lot of people who filed on desert
claims will lose their holdings, as they
declared the land was unfit for agri-
cultural purposes.
A Granville man drove into the
country to see young lady, and ar
rived in time to witness her marriage
to the other fellow.
A cat and pet rabbit, near May
Vile, each had four youngsters. The
owner drowned the kittens and the old
cat adopted the rabbits.
An alleged kidnapper in Oliver coun-