The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-06-09
North Dakota
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A new light rate is effective at Bot
tineau.
A lawsuit over a halter at Steele
cost $3.50. ~
The mosquito crop promises to be
large this fall.
Casselton and Buffalo played tie
game of baseball.
The business men of Milton decided
TO erect a town hall.
Forty volunteer workers soon clean
ed up the park at Crystal.
There was a row at Wahpeton over
possession OF restaurant.
North Dakota continues to be the
healthiest spot on the map.
Wahpetonians are planning to estab-
/ fish big commercial college.
1t is claimed the game laws are fire.
quently violated around Crosby.
The ferries across the Missouri are
| said to be doing big business.
The st. Thomas depot was burgled
| and some small change secured.
McHenry had public test of the
new fire engine, and it was success.
At Grand Forks suicides must make
sure thing of the job to avoid arrest.
There is some talk of another grand
jury being called in Bottineau next
month.
The Congregationalists of James
town recently burned the mortgage
| on their church.
| Mayville is making lot of i'm
provements, including an extension OF
the sewer system.
Farmers in Cavalier county are
planning to get shock leaders to han
die the crop this fall.
| Mimic has a chance to get tele-
phone exchange established by the
Northwestern people.
A discharged hired man was arrest
ed at Cooperstown on the charge Of
setting fire to farm granary.
At Rolla a carpenter on an elevator
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by his arms until he was rescued.
Farmers secured the contract for
making the big drain three and quar-
ter miles in length near Mayville.
The quarantine at. Bowbells against
smallpox is said to be rigidly enforced
in an effort to eradicate the disease.
Some of the sheepmen on the Mis-
souri, Slope have been paid as high as
rs cents per found for their wool clip.
The 500 road surveyors have fin
ished line from the Canadian border
to within a half mile of Starkweather.
Trail county had two insane people
last week. A young girl sent to the
asylum, and a man to relatives in Min
uesota.
Dolph Rodeheaver was absent when
the case of the state against him was
called at Cando, and $500 bonds were
forfeited.
There is a rush for choice building
lots at Rock Lake since both the Farm
ers' road and the 500 have surveyed to
that point.
There is talk of consolidating the
Hannaford band with one ont in the
country and getting up . big musical
organization.
Dickey county is adding lot more
fine stock this spring and will become
the fine horse center of the state some
Of these days.
Mnot business men are working
Bismarck. as it will insure division
point in that city.
Walter Allen of the agricultural col
lege will instruct the McHenry band
this summer and pitch for the ball
team at that point
Nels W. Hawkinson, the lumber
man, was shooting at a target at Mu-
mich. The bullet glanced and lodged
in the groin of man in tent
A Michigan horse dealer has been
in Cass and Trail counties getting
some fine horses, which will be sent to
| the New York market after the ami
mails are broken SO they Will not be
afraid of anything on top or under
heath the earth.
| County superintendent of schools
are admonishing those expecting to
apply for teachers certificates to make
a thorough preparation. At the last
| examination there were over so per
cent of the applicants throushout the
state who failed to pass, arithmetic
and civil government proving to be the
principal stumbling blocks. After July
| /, when the s45 minimum law goes
into effect, the department of instruc-
ton will increase the qualifications of
second grade teachers by grading clos
er, giving severer tests. and requir-
ing higher percentages in all subjects.
North Dakota is setting a high educa-
tional standard. as can be seen by
making comparisons with other states.
W. G. Mckenzie of New England,
which is a little country town out from
Dickinson, has solved the problem
Having been burned ont last winter.
he ia now erectinpg stOns ehlildirp IN,