The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1904-02-26


Extensive experiments A irrigation
VIII be made this summer near New
Salem. s. L. II
A Rutland man deserted his family
and is supposed to have returned tos
Germany. +. II 5ss "a
There is regret that the creamery
organization at Coop failed to
materialize. u ,is 2 l5. q.
The Coe Commission company has
closed Its Offices at Bismarck and
Dickinson. B * I. Nj "a J. @ss n n VI I
The Northern Pacific Is making un-
usual efforts to get new settlers in the
Northw est.
"A Grand Forks boy stole hide.
The father settled Snd then took it out
Of the boys hide.
Grand Forks has breach Of prom
ise case in which a schoolmarm is the
complaining witness.
At Courtenay some wicked boys
swiped a silk tile from book agent.
and never. came back.
Some one has discovered that oat-
meal is not good food, and all the
Scots are on the warpath.
A Barlow man burned his straw
stack to prevent it being eaten by
stock belonging to neighbor.
The Grafton hen show was not q
success financially and some of the
promoters are discouraged.
Grafton offers to give Valley City
Snrnn nnirf0vc
trio light plant to advantage.
There seems to be nothing in a
name-a boy named Christ was badly
| injured near New Rockford.
Grafton people are rejoicing over
the reinstatement of some rural deliv-
cry routes that were cancelled.
The nationality of man at Darcy
was suspected and he published a
statement about the matter. "a.
There were many narrow escapes
from death in the western part of the
state during the recent storms.
The Evolutionary entertainments by
| Miss Tillotson are said not to have
given satisfaction in several towns.
Dealers report falling of in the
sales of ice cream freezers, fans and
fly screens during the past three
weeks.
There is silver lining to all kinds
of clouds, and the talk of good crop
following the severe winter should be
true.
Many men came from the woods in
Minnesota to assist in shoveling the
trains out in the drifts in North Da-
kota.
Sargent county is about as proud of
its fine artesian wells as La Moure is
of the oil well and Kidder of gold
| finds.
An effort will be made to hurry up
the trial of Murderer Rozum of Pisek,
whose victim was a Philippine war
veteran.
From the excessive snowfall in some
sections of the Red river valley it is
expected there will be another food
this spring.
/ Grandville had fire in which the
furniture belonging to Peter Peterson
was destroyed and canine was burn
ed to death.
At Kenmare some one left a silver
dollar with P. M. Cole, with note that
the amount was due him and came as
conscience fund.
Some of the teachers are talking of
organizing teachers union with a
uniform scale of wages for the differ
ent grades.
J If the Bismarck and Mandan peo-
pie continue to fight over the location
of the Indian school they may both
fail to secure it.
4 There is plan to organize a big
Benson county band with players
from Oberon, Leeds, Minnewaukan
and other places. &
The Bottineau county board of
health will be invoked to secure the
removal Of some defunct equines from
near Westhope. #
Perseverance will win in the long
run. Washburn has been agitating
creamery proposition for two years
and finally won out.
i Supt. Stockwell has rendered an
opinion that school districts. SHOULD
stand the discounts on the warrants
for teachers salaries.
4 The Wahpeton preachers will insist
on making the candidates for Office
declare themselves on the prohibition
question at the coming elections.
4 "a farmer at Prattford, Pembina
county, invented a big tanning mill,
a which he operated with q traction en-
CINE and cleaned his seed grain.
a Binford elevator man found his
dog down in the pit Of the concern.
The canine had been missing a week
4 and was trifle chilly and hungry.
[. The people of Steele are aroused
and are hustling for q lot Of things
that will benefit the town IA business
men't association will be organized
Despite the fact that new batch Of
medics were recently authorized to
practice ia the state, several towns
4 still imagine they want 4 physician.
The destruction Of the Minor school