The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1904-05-06
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Odd Fellows have a new lodge at
Salem. Is
Devils Lake claims to have a new
flour mill assured.
Starkweather voted Sc, 500 bonds for
new school house.
Mrs. G. NJ Babcock, prominent
Fargo lady, is dead.
Ladies of the Maccabees hold their
annual meeting at Fargo May 1912.
George L. Schlecter has been recon.
mended for postmaster at Bowdon.
Hon. L. B. Hanna is improving nice
ly after an operation for appendicitis.
Mrs. Col. Lounsberry of Fargo has
been named as state regent of the
D. A. R.
Fargo is to have new gas works
of three times the capacity of the pres.
ent plant.
Quite colony of Russians arrived
at Goodrich last week to settle in Nc.
Lean county.
High water mark on the Red river
is said to have been about forty feet
above the average level.
Many telephone lines are reported
being extended and new ones installed
in different parts of the state.
A Minor man used gasoline to start
the fire, with results that were seri.
Gus, if they do not prove fatal.
One of the Fargo boy burglars got a
reformatory sentence and the other
two are out on good behavior.
At Lisbon the bridge across the
Sheyenne was saved by disgorging the
accumulated ice with dynamite.
Five of the six children of Mr.. and
Mrs. Jacob Johnson of Nelson county
have recently died from malignant
diphtheria.
A Nelson county farmer, writing
about Katfir corn, seems to convey to
the Dakota farmer that it is good va
riety to let alone.
Plans and specifications are pre-.
pared for the proposed government
building at Grand Forks. and bids
must be in by May %.
The Trail county farm recently SOLD
for $4S an acre is said to hold the rec
ord as the highest-priced unimproved
farm ever sold in the state.
The Parmlee habeus corpus proceed.
ings at Lisbon resulted in decision
to award the custody of the much-liti-
gated child to the mother.
The Methodist delegates who are
taking the Los Angeles trip have evil
dence that the church helps them en-
route to good place-some.
Elm, white and green ash, soft ma
pie and box elder are recommended by
a recent writer as particularly hardy
trees for growth in this latituc..
Winfred Baldwin is dead at James
town of jaundice M. Baldwin was
an old resilient of North Dakota and
prominent in state Masonic circles.
George Hoover aged ten, shot and
killed his sister Margery, aged six,
while the boy was shooting gophers on
their fathers farm near Michigan
City.
The sale of drills and seeding ma
chinery has been greatly augmented
by the lateness of the spring and con-
sequent necessity for quick work in
seeding.
Some lady homesteaders are warned
that they may not have witnesses
enough ohelp prove up, because too
modest to get out and make the &C.
quaintance of their neighbors.
George H. Carr of Sheldon has re
ceived his patent from the govern
ment on homestead claim which
special agent of the land department
had recommended for cancellation.
The executive committee of the
State. immigration association met last
week to formulate plans for further
presenting the states claims upon the
attention of prospective new settlers.
A wheat thief doing time in the Bot.
tineau county Jail took a swipe at the
jailer with the leg of a couch, but was
pinioned down by the official until help
arrived to prevent the intended escape.
North Dakota is said to have had
the first rural telephone line ever con-
structed, and may soon have more
lines of telephone in proportion to it's
population than any other state in the
Union.
Martin Hanson, the "spotter" who
has been complaining on alleged booze
vendors at Langdon, Hannah and Os-
nabrock, is said to be the man who
caused some recent CONSERVATION in
Walsh county.
Both the Office and the homestead OF
Miss Frost, superintendent of schools
of Ward county, were contested on the
ground that she was not a resident.
The land department has allowed her
claim to the homestead.
The Indian authorities at Cannonball
are making strenuous efforts to break
up a gang of horse thieves who have