The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-03-24

Linton fans held baseball meeting
Flaxton is arranging for fire protec
ton.
The Eagles organized an aerie at
Grafton.
The Granville bottling works have
been sold
A farmers railroad may be built out
of Valley City.
The Great Northern water tank al
York collapsed.
The bride of Bishop Walker was
Miss Bertha Bach.
The elevator companies have suf
Tered severely by fires.
Andrew Larson of Kindred died in
the state asylum at Jamestown.
There will be number of business
changes at Kindred this spring.
Jamestown advertisers are showing
more enterprise than for years.
A Sanborn man lost eleven head OF
horses through feeding rusted straw.
Those who have durum seed wheat
for sale are said to find ready mar.
ket
Almost every town in the state is
going largely into baseball this sum.
mer.
F. G. Harnish, the popular druggist,
| has been, appointed postmaster at
Alice.
Wahpeton is to have a summer park
with booze annex, and all kinds of
| sports.
Many carloads of North Dakota po-
tatoes are going into. Southern states
for seed.
| The Taylor hotel at Rolla was sold
for $4,000, II. NJ. Mclean taking pos.
session.
A lot Of people over the state are
planning to attend the musical festival
in Fargo.
| Travelling dentists and oculists both
report business good ovrr the state
this spring.
| The preliminary steps have been tax.
en- at Bismarck to form water users
association.
The state trolley lire at Bismarck
collected $1,396.72 during the leglsia-
tive session.
Frand Diddle of Devils Lake was
granted permission to change his name
to Frank Little.
The body of the missing negro set
tier in northern Williams county has
not been located.
There have been several prairie
fires, but some people are not con.
WINGED it is spring.
The applicants for a trolley fran.
chise at Valley City refuse to take
mo- for an answer.
Washburn is to have two new eleva.
tors this spring, the contract for the
;, same having been let
lot of range horses are being sold
to the farmers in the central and east
ern parts of the state.
Capt. Herman, the famous steam.
boat captain of Devils Lake, is spend.
ing the winter in Cuba.
A citizens meeting is called to meet
at Wilton for the further consideration
of the mill proposition.
; The people west of Kenmare in
Ward and Williams counties confident
Nv expect 500 extensions
} An agent for an old line elevator
company is said to have stolen two
cars of wheat at Webster.
DR.. Rishel of Mayville lost an in.
strument case about year ago and
has just located it in Wahpeton.
Frank Lynch of Casselton captured
a 35O-pound shark, measuring nine and
a half feet in length, near Palm Beach
Fla.
The mountings for the new bell for
the Slaughter church are now at Will.
ton, and the bell itself is expected
daily.
Bike thieves have started in the
business early. One was caught at
jamestown on charge of theft at
Edgeley.
1t is now said that the alleged mad
dog scare in the Morton county ranges
were merely attacks by wolves upon
the cattle.
There was cooking main at Velva,
and common Plymouth Rock licked a
fancy game to fare-you-well, Brother
Watkins, sab.
There has been vigorous protest in
some of the towns over the lack of
sidewalks. The recent thaw made
them a necessity.
The Odd Fellows of Bottineau and
Willow City are said to have organized
a combination degree team that is
especially strong.
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