The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1903-12-04
North Dakota
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Sawyer has an era of prosperity.

The people of Cleveland want a
depot
Shack thieves are active around
Sawyer.
There Yves a brief coal famine at
Anamcose.
A seven-foot timber wolf was killed
near Balfour.
Forman is to have an A. o. u. w.
organization.
Esmond people are determined to
have creamery.
Counterfeit money has been discov-
cred at Westhope.
The lumber war at Bowbclls has
reached an acute stage.
The town without skating rink is
the exception this winter
A lot of Minot hunters were success
ful in their chase after deer.
A lot of Montana sheep were fat.
tened in Stutsman county.
The new school building at Minot
will be completed by Dec. is.
Around Courtenay the people will
grow less flax and raise less cattle.
Many komesteaders are taking
claims around Ryder, Ward county.
A man was sentenced to ten days in
Jail at Westhope for stealing coat
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Of the Shiels law in Bottineau county
Pat Purcell was fined $50 at Grand
Forks en- the charge of assaulting his
wife.
More building was done in Sargent
county this year than in many former
years.
Lars Larson has been appointed
mail carrier at Drayton, with John a.
Larson sub
! 1t is claimed that there has bacn
more fall blowing done this year than
ever before.
No trace CT the thief who robbed the
safe in the Staples store at Arabaska
has been secured.
The residence of County Commits
sioner korsmo of Grand Forks county
was destroyed by fire.
Mchall is located in the fertile and
famous Mouse river loop, one Of the
richest spot son earth.
States Attorney Johnson of Ward
county lost pocketbook containing
$50 and valuable papers.
The baseball management at Bow
bells is giving dances to raise funds
for fast tea mneXt year.
Westhope is to have schoolhoEse.
and the one formerly used at Richburg
will be sent to the country. s,e.,s ~
Barber Kelly OF Grand Forks and
Mark Nelson of Portal want to smash
each other at so much per smash
Some Portal Piggers had sudden
ousines sover the line when they heard
Sheriff Scoield was headed that way.
A Bottineau county man shot two
Of his neighbours sheep because the
WOOL producers trespassed on his prem
Uses.
There is general disappointment
over the failure to establish briquet-
ting plants in the western part Of the
state.
Valley City has 421 telephone sub
scribers and about steen hundred 9TH
or people who use their neighbors
phones.
1t is said that trains and 8 on the
Northern Pacific will run to Leeds In
stead of stopping at jamestown, as at
present.
A Ward county man lost his home
by fire. His neighbors got busy and
in just two weeks had new one built.
snug and warm.
The dynamos for the power house
at Bismarck have arrived and the hum
of those Bismarck street cars can al
NEST be heard
Mandan attempted to work up as
much trouble securing a jury as Lang
don lawyers experienced, but failed 10
win the championship.
| A concert company is said to have
| neglected to pay some bills at Grand
Forks and in the future some people
will insist on cash basis.
A Crary man mixed things with an
(obstreperous acetylene light plant and
lis shy few forks full of whiskers and
sye eral square feet of hide 4.
The trains on the Farmers road
from Starkweather to Devils Lake are
said to run SO slow that passengers
shoot flying geese from the windows d
The Valley City: football! team went
TO Casselton to play football, but there
was row over the eligibility Of some
of the Cassslton players and there was
no game.
The fire at illsboro made one less
paper in the eastern part of tie state,
but bunch of new ones in the west
ern part of North Dakota Keeps the
average up.
| A Ward county man, recently mar
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