The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-04-14
McfIenry at last has a poundmas-

( A candy factory is possibility for
Minot.
An elevator was burned at st.
Thomas
Wells county will pay cent. boun.
ty on gophers.
G. G. Seebart has leased the hotel
Durnell at Lakota.
A new rural route is to be estab.
lished out of Bisbee.
The .Hannaford Telephone company
will be Incorporated.
Some sections of the state would ap.
preciate good rain.
Valley City merchants will close at
Z o'clock until Aug. !.
The Sheldon creamery has started
business for this season.
Farmers in many counties are busy
distributing gopher dope.
Alleged wheat thieves at Bowbeils
We're held under $1,000 bail. -
Velva is making a lively hustle for
the county seat of McHenry.
There were 142 votes polled at the
recent election in Westhope.
The 500 depot at Harvey caught fire.
but the flames We're controlled.
The electric light franchise is the
paramount issue at Cooperstown.
A load of oats containing 213 BUSH
els sold at Nome one day last week.
A runaway team at New Rockford
badly damaged the trees in the park.
A Souris boy was assisting around a
feed mill and is now short one thumb.
Washburn is to have another eleva-
tor to replace the one recently burned.
! ready ordered their Irvine for this sum-
mer
The new Odd Fellows lodge at Mil
ton will initiate twenty candidates
! soon.7
Enderlin and Sheldon, seven miles
apart, may have a joint electric light
plant.
At Hunter it costs 10 cents to call
o'clock.
N. J. Nygard of Flaxton may lose
an eye as the result of being struck by
a nail.
Health officers in some towns are
| getting strenuous on the cleanup prop
| osition.
Efforts are being made to complets
| the erection of the Catholic church at
Pingree.
N. B. Hannum of, Sheldon is bringing
up a youong alligator in the way it
should grow.
Lakota followed the illustrious ex.
ample of Hankinson and arrested some
local burglars.
At the election at Denhoff there was
not a vote. either for or against the
erection of Jail.
Hoodlums broke glass in the high
school building and the Congregational
church at Jamestown.
Tough characters were given the
option of leaving Bowbells or being
prosecuted. They left.
! Whenever an employee is short it is
the popular custom to attribute his
failings to playing the bucketshops.
Citizens of Chaffee sent $25 to the
North Dakota children's home. Mr..
and Mrs. John Archibold had charge Of
the movement.
There are said to be a number of ap-
plicarts for the appointment as grain
inspector. for North Dakota under the
new Wisconsin law.
An Iowa woman has written the Off
Gals at Minot about a missing son,
and thinks the man recently drowned
there may be her boy.
A Pembina boy fell on the ice and
fractured his collar bone. The erac-
ture did not knit satisfactorily and
had to be broken over and reset.
A young man went to Cathay to sell
a load of wheat and squandered the
proceeds in one of the dives. His
father recovered part of the money the
| next day.
Dozens of creameries have opened
| for business for the summer run.
| There are some over the state that
were operated all winter, and they
seem to have made money.
The 500 is to have townsite just
| where Walsh, Ramsey and Cavalier
counties join. 1t is about fifteen miles
from Langdon and about the same dis
lance from Edmore and Milton.
Oil Inspector Jackman was baggage
master at the Northern Pacific in
Fargo for twenty years, and some of
! his friends would like an autobiog-
raphy to discover how many trunks he
smashed during that period.
Miss Emma Kelley from Kansas
City, Mo-, who was lucky enough to
get about the hest quarter section on
|, the reservation, has been at Crazy a
few days and has bargained with Joe
Stranger to break 100 acres on her
homestead.
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