The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08
Hope Is to organize football team.


Neche is to have an independent ele.
vator.
New Rockford is making a rapid
growth.
Claim shacks have been stolen near
Flasher.
Minot business houses closed during
the races.
A bunch of bad hoboes was run out
of Granville.
Cavalier county had trial over a
drainage case.
The new elevator at Steele is ready
for the crop.
A Pembina county farmer has SOLD
his farm for $4,000.
Some horses around Pingree were
sick with distemper.
A sign painter struck Steele and
frightened up things.
Flasher may secure telephone con-
nection with Mandan.
Harvey has had an unusual number
Of accidental killings.
A Park River man has invented a
steamless water kettle.
There is a large colony of North.
wood people around Ray.
TIE weights and measures inspection
law got jolt at Crystal.
Williams county offers many advan-
tages to the homeseekers.
The 500 extension beyond Wash.
burn is nearly completed.
Irvine famines were threatened in
some sections of the state.
The First Bank of Goodrich is to be
turned into a national bank.
Many sections of the state complain
of shortage of harvest help.
The question of new roads is an i'm.
portant one in Ward county.
Pot hunters are reported to have
been numerous around Haddock.
Register Sanborn of the Minot land
Office has purchased a fast horse.
Bismarckers want some kind of a
wagon bridge across the Missouri.
1t is said that many land contests
are to be inaugurated around Balfour.
Professional beggars are said to be-
more numerous this year than ever.
States Attorney MCGEE keeps land.
ing the violators of the prohibition
law.
Some one entered drug store at
Sheyenne and took a number of arti-
Giles.
The Collins drug store at Hamilton
has recently been robbed a second
time
Corn seven feet high and leavts six
inches wide is reported from Good.
rich.
Efforts are being made to establish
local telephone exchange. at Osna-
brock.
A lot of agtnts are being appointed
in the new towns on the 500 and Great
Northern.
1t is now reported that the 500 may
extend a line from Darlington to strike
its other branch up the Missouri.
The reduction of freight rates means
a cent or two more for the farmers
for every bushel of wheat they raise
A lot of native horses from the
ranges in the western part of the state
have been sold to the valley farmers
this summer,
The first load of wheat sold at Fair.
mount was an excellent yield, but tho
presence of smut in the grain knocked
the grade point.
A Donnybrool man was licked one
week and mixed up with a runaway
team the next-but is still on the map
as fresh as ever.
The best part of the vacation period
is the fact that the vacations are over
according to those who have been on,
them-and returned.
The bootleggers and blind piggers
can't see why the officials want to
raise SO much racket just now for
while the harvest is on.
There are lot of people in the state
who seem to regard the board Of rail-
road commissioners as kind of an ap.
pendix> to state officialdom
George Custer the seventeen-year
old highwayman who escaped from
Sioux City and was recaptured at Bis.
marck, has been returned to Iowa.
1t is claimed that there will be more
grain stacking in the state this year
than usual. This will make less shock
threshing and fewer hands will be re.
quired.
An Iowa farmer who had sold his
farm for $125 per acre, recently paid
$50 per acre for section near Cando
and thinks he has better land than
he formerly owned in Iowa.
A book agent in La Moure county
claims he stopped at eleven houses in
consecutive order and the number Of
children ranged from four to eleven in
each. He disbelieves the race suicide
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