The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-08-11


sold to the farmers organization
Road workers had a muddy time Of
it ill some of the valley counties.
The machinery has been purchased
for the farmers mill at Devils Lake
Edgeley people don't take advan-
tage Of the natural gas in that local.
ity.
The city of Minot almost nad scan
dial in connection with the waterworks
system.
Axel Skalmarud, who had a claim
eight mlles south of Stanley. became
insane.
Northern Williams county continues
to attract lot of attention from jme.
seekers. .
A Minot CRATER is said to have beat
en- Swede farm hand out Of $50 ON
an old trick.
w. M. House of Lidgerwood will go
to Labrador to witness the total eclipse
of the sun.
There are complaints at Hannaford
because of alleged gambling during the
celebration.
Reports of organized gangs Of
horse thieves are numerous in the
state press.
Contractor Kennedy of Fargo is
making Roadway with his sewer job
at Bismarck.
1t is now reported the Southwestern
branch of the N P. is to be extended
southwest of Edgeley.
Hans Molob of Bowdon had his face
filled with powder when a shell ex-
ploded the wrong way.
Balfour may get another branch Of
the 500 and the Great Northern
branch for Rugby as WELL
The Lisbon depot without Tom Boy
den will he darned sight worse than
Hamlet, without the leading man.
The new towns on the Edgeley-
Dawson extension of the N. P. are not
worrying the business men of Edgeley.
The Northwestern Telephone COM
pany will put in an exchange at Mi1to
with connections with all the rural
| lines.
Hope Wallace, a 10-year-old Devils
Lake girl, fell from the rear of bug
| ICY and suffered conclusion Of tho
| brain.
The people of Cavalier county are
anxiously awaiting the extension IF
the Great Northern west from Wal.
halla
With the fear of black rust largely
discuss the possibility of an early
| frost.
A drainage ditch Is being surveyed
near Wyndmere that is expected to
| relieve the conditions on number Of
farms.
There is general change in county
postoffices as a result of the railway
extension in the northern part of tho
state.
The New 500 branch is to run from
Balfour to cross the Great Northern
near Denbigh and run near Westhope
into Canada.
In McHenry county an effort will be
made to prosecute man who bid in
lot of school lands and then failed
| to take them.
President Bangs of the state school
| for the deaf at Devils Lake recently
attended the national meeting at Nor.
gantown, n. C.
Horse and cattle thieves in the
northern part of the state are said to
be running their plumber across the
/, line into Canada.
| August Ponkow of Courtenay died
f, as result of injurie. received in \
| fall from the roof of his barn. He was
seventy-two years old.
Gilbert and Sophia Langseth, asylum
employees, were serenaded in James.
! town on their return from Fargo,
where they were married.
If the Red River Valley counties had
increased like some of those in the
western part of the state North Da.
kota would have had about 10000
people.
Former residents of McHenry coun.
ty are returning from Alberta, where
they did not make success of farm.
ing after two years trial.
Minot will get rid OF some tough
citizens when sentencing day occurs.
as there have been a number of con.
victions before Judge Goss.
The Bottineau county fair associa.
ton will probably secure new man
ager. The present one is in a fight
with the Snewspapersand went SO far
AZ to refuse to extend the usual COM
plimentary tickets to one Of the pub
locations. 3 3s