The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1905-08-17

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Well drillers are in great demand in
the newer sections Of the state.
The creamery plant at Ashley was
sold to the farmers organization.
Road workers had a muddy time Of
1t i'll 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 uad a scan
dial in connection with the waterworks
system.
Axel Skalmarud, who had a claim
eight mines south of Stanley, became
insane.
Northern Williams county continues
to attract a lot Of attention from h5me-
seekers.
A Minot CRATER is said to have beat
en- a Swede farm hand out Of $50 on
an old trick.
w. M. House of Lidgerwood will go
to Labrador to witness the total eclipse I
of the SUM-.
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 then 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 be a 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 Mimic
with connections with all the rural
lines.
Hope Wallace, a %10-year-old Devils
Lake girl, fell from the real of a bug
iov on1 crFfaraJ oc~o,ce;cr 20 <hA
brain.
The people of Cavalier county are
cautiously awaiting the extension Of
the Great Northern west from Wal
halla.
With the fear Of black rust largely
allayed, some Of the farmers began to
discuss the possibility of an early
frost.
A drainage ditch is being surveyed
near Wyndmere that is expected to
relieve the conditions on a number Ut
farms.
There is a general change in county
postofflces as a result of the railway
extension in the northern part Of the
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 a man who bid in
a lot of school lands and lhen 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 Pcnkow of Courtenay died
as a result of injuries received in 4
fall from the roof Of his barn. He was
seventy-two years old. 4
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 100000
people.
Former residents of McEenry c)un-
ty are returning from Alberta, where
they did not make a 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 cen.
victions before Judge Goss.
The Bottineau county fair associa-
ton will probably secure a new man
ager. The present one Is in a fight
with the newspapers-and went SO far
as to refuse to extend the usual COM
.plimentary tickets to one Of the pub.
LEGATIONS.