The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1905-09-28
The Cogswell p%ostofice was burgled

Des Laos lake is to be stocked with
black bass.
Valley City claims the champion shot
of the state.
Cooperstown Masons are to have
fine quarters.
The street fair at New Salem was a
great success.
Some good wells are being located
in kidder county.
Dickey people are now talking with
the outside world.
A detective at Mandan was relieved
of his gun by a hobo.
Bishop Stanley dedicated the Cath.
olic church at Portal.
Some of the toughs have been
chased out of Minot.
Lightning rod agents have worked
Benson county hard.
Rolla merchants have had an un.
usually busy summer.
Only one-fifth of the teachers of the
United States are men.
Fire did some damage in Sundays
pool rooms at Hillsboro.
Some Wilton small boys hacked
each other with hatchets.
A new bank every day is the record
some weeks in this state.
A lot of damage was done to school
property in CooperstOwn.
The Richland county fair will be
held at Wahpeton Oct. As.
Sneak thieves entered a house at
Granville and stole a watch.
Flaxton is establishing a reputation
as an excellent wheat market.
The towns from Casselton to Wah.
peton want a better mail service.
Bisbee business men are to improve
the roads leading into that burg.
The bags of game the first few days
of the hunting season were not large.
Hoboes have a bad habit in Barnes
county of stoning railroad employees.
Prof. Ladd is now after Fargo milk
dealers. Cows must be free from dis.
ease.
The quality OF the wheat around
Hillsboro is reported by the Blade as
poor.
The Catholic church at st. Thomas
has been redecorated and greatly i'm
proved.
Some kids at Cakes played with the
turntable and the doctor chopped off a
few toes.
With the coming of frost the grass
will die and the danger OF prairie fires
is increasing.
Complaints are made of careless
handling Of freight by the 500 between
Minot and Portal. .
Glendale is spending $4,000 on {
city W and has laid lots of cemenr
walks this season.
The threshing season is on and thu
editors begin to report payments OF
back subscriptions.
The postofice at Vesta has been dis
continued and the patrons will ge
their mall River.
A threshing engine caught on nr|
near Washburn and was pulled ouI
after being badly scorched.
A drug clerk was arrested at Sawyer
on a serious charge, but was liberated
on the preliminary examination.
The business men Of Upham are still
after the county commissioners for
bridge across the river at that point.
Rain drove some of the threshine
crews into Pingree and, some rows re
suited as the result of booze fighting.
Ex-Gov. White figures on a big cror
and is reported driving from LitchfielC
to Valley City for several loads o.
Irvine.
Two McHenry boys were foolins
with a target rifle. The doctor whit
tied the bullet out of the wrist of ont
Of them.
A Northern Pacific engine, the ten
der and a box car went off the switch
at Leeds. 1t is supposed a hobo threw
the switch.
The mail agents on the Great North
ern have a careless habit of carrying
Grand Forks papers by and returning
them in the afternoon.
A Churchs Ferry boy threatened hi
parents with great bodily harm i
they didn't give him a lot of money
He finally skipped West.
A Mandan farmer thinks some repre-
sentative farmer of the state shoult
go to the Twin Cities and thank tn,
railroad officials for reducing the grain
rates.
At Cando a stranger attempted t,
board a train and fell between tn,
platform and the rail. The spectator!
held their breath for a few moments
but he escaped injury.
, In Ransom county there are numer
Gus farmers who are drawing from So
to 500 per month from sales of cream
A little side income like this is a yer.
acceptable thing when other things ar,
a little slack.
There are 1877 Presbyterial churches
in North Dakota, with a membership
Of 5,720. There are lightweight min
listers and 298 elders. The stronges