The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1904-02-05
North Dakota
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'Mandan is to have q cement block
factory.
Balfour wants the Rugby Bismarck
railway. !.
A sneak thief swiped $40 overcoat
at Rugby.
Minot is searching for a mayoralty
candidate.
Towner people are rejoicing over the
new depot.
Judson in Morton county is to have
creamery.
Balfourites will bond for a new
school house.
One Rugby man beat slot machine.
He had an axe.
Granville is to have circulating
school library.
Heavy SHOWS fell along the 500 line
south of Bismarck.
Lehr, twenty miles west of Kuhn, is
erecting creamery.
The schools of Church's Ferry and
Leeds have debate.
New Salem will build large Cath
olic church this season.
The retail grocers will meet in
Grand Forks Feb. 1917
The Grand Forks mill has been
closed down for repairs.
Dickinson joins the rest of the towns
with a few cases of smallpox.
Mayor Laing of Milton was quietly
married at Langdon last week.
A Cando man has been disturbed by
the band and wants it dehorned.
There seems to be some trouble in
Mclean county in certin school dis
tricts.
A Mclean county girl reverses the
order of things by advertising for a
hubby.
A Bismarck girl has gone to Toronto
to enter Salvation Army training
school.
Logan county wants a dipping tank
so cattle infected with scab can be
treated.
The Edmore branch of the Great
Northern will be extended to Antwerp
it is reported.
There was some criticism near Velva
of the way contagious diseases were
handled.
Frank Richmond of Edmunds has
been appointed a school teacher in
Honolulu.
The Mercer county seat question is
iiekly to come up in earnest the COM
ing season.
The promoters of the railway from
Leeds to Dunseith want to incorporate
Cor 100000.
Esmond has a telephone exchange
cinched and now every one is pulling
for a creamery.
Fred Mclean of Langdon is in
Washington after an extended business
trip to California.
A Minot man offers to donate five
acres of land adjoining the town for
an orphans home.
Two Cakes girls who attempted to
run away were rounded up and re-
turned to papa and mamma.
Bishop Cowell of Balfour seems to
have stopped the publication of several
of his numerous publications.
The water supply along the new ex-
tension from Granville to Mohall is in
adequate for the Great Northern.
The receiver of the Hankinson mu-
tual insurance fake concern paid rs
cents on the dollar on all claims.
The Northern Pacific is running only
3 tri-weekly service on the Jim Valley
branch from jamestown to Cakes.
There is to be stone-hauling bee
at Litchville to get rock for the foun-
dation of the Congregational church.
Every effort is being made to save
the foot of the young boy who was ac-
dentally shot at Lidgewood by his
father.
A small blaze at the electric light
plant in Wahpeton did enough damage
to put the plant out of business for a
short time.
Ray will have farmers institute on
Feb. 9 and 10. Ten years ago there
was not much farming thought of in
that section.
The Sargent county man who be-
came insane for the fourth time is said
to have been reading the newspaper
scrap down there
| A Napoleon man offers reward to
any one who catches two other resi-
dents of that place using tobacco or
playing pool during 1904.
| A Cooperstown nan wanted to bet
his Plymouth Rock rooster could lick
his neighbours game. There were no
flowers at the p. Rocks funeral.
It is claimed that the farmers along
the route will donate the right of way
for road from Leeds to Dunseith and
some will also assist in grading.
| i A report was circulated that a former
resident of Kellogg had killed two
girls and suicided in British Columbia.
but the rumor was entirely false.