The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1905-08-31
North Dakota
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Ward county leads with twenty-six
newspapers.
Omemee is to have a new elevator
and coal sheds.
The N. P. is increasing its side.
tracks at Minor.
The Sherwood telephone exchange
Is now in operation.
A burning barn created some excite
ment at Valley City.
The game of quoits is all the rage
at Towner just now
DR.. Grandson Of Edinburg has re-
moved to Winnipeg.
Chambers are reported near both
Souris and Westhope.
Drayton claims the base ball cham
pionship of the Northwest.
The men who own valuable hunting
dogs are on the anxious seat.
The Towner Gun club offered a re-
ward for the arrest of game hogs.
Sherwood business men are agitat.
ing the purchase of a fire engine.
There is a tree claim contest in Kid.
der county-over a filing made in IS.
The date of the election of city Of
ficials at Rugby was changed to Aug.
31st.
Medina is to have a new Catholic
Church 3Ox48 feet, with a steeple 7G
feet.
There are 230 quarters of school
land left in Foster county for sale and
rental.
Harold Stapleton of Hannah was
thrown from a rig and both wrists
broken.
The Westhope base ball team won
seventeen of the twenty games played
this season. f
1t is rather remarkable how much
Exercising" the hunting dogs need
these days. ,
People along the 500 are rejoicing
that there was no telegraphers' strike
on that road.
School lands over the state are be
ing given a reappraisement by the
county boards.
All the bad men We're not chased out
out of Hankinson-or else a new sup
ply has arrived.
The absence of a city marshal a
Hannah gives the hobos considerable
liberty in that section.
The Dago gang at Medina went OF
a strike for a short time, but recon
sidered matters and resumed work.
Superintendent of Public Instruc
ton Stockwell has been in great de
mand as a speaker at the differen
summer schools and county meeting
this summer.
1t seems to have required rathe
drastic legislation to rescue the pee
pie of the state from the dangers Q
the patent medicines they have beel
using so many years.
Bertha Fossholm, a ~14-year-old cir
near Milton, ran away from home an,
was finally located at Edmore. Sh'
left without any funds and was no
travelling on Pullmans.
At Hannah the. residents want tn
Great Northern to drain a pond tina
is formed by the embankment AM
road bed, making a pond of stagnan
water that is a menace to health.
A Sargent county blind pigger wa
arrested in Richland, but on his re
turn the fellow escaped and is maxim.
signs at the North Dakota authori
ties from the Minnesota side of tn,
liver.
Miss Thompson, district superin
tendent of the North Dakota Chill
dren's Home, has been at Granvill,
and other towns in the northern par
Of the state, raising funds for the in
stitution.
A Richland county man got a spoon
full of seed from Central Asia, from
which he is raising four headed wheat
He will get about a half bushel thi
year, and will carefully preserve it 70
seeding next season. J.
Postmasters over the state call al
tention to the illegible n il
which much of the mail is addressed
causing a lot Of trouble with some
while a large amount finds its wa,
into the dead letter office.
The Hannaford people have applied
for a charter for a farmers elevator
There is some discussion as to wheth
er the company shall engage the serv
ices of a. certain resident of Hanna
ford to conduct the affairs Of the OF
%ganization.
The rapid increase in the numbe
of rural mail routes and telephone
lines is putting the farmers thorough.
in touch with the outside world an
giving them the advantages hereto
fore enjoyed only by those who live
in the towns.
The elevator men have their house!
cleaned up for the rush of business tt
commence. soon. In localities where
there has been no rust some of tn.
buyers are wondering what excuse
they will dig up to knock off a few
points on the grade.
A young lady at Des Laos stayed il
a runaway. rig while the horse ran fol
several miles. Finally the animal go
in wheat field and she jumped
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