The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-08-25
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Sneak thieves have been at Hannah
Ward county leads with twenty-six
newspapers.
Omemee is to have new elevator
and coal sheds.
The N. p. is increasing it's 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 re-
ward for the arrest OF game hogs.
Sherwood business men are agitat.
ing the purchase of fire engine.
There is tree claim contest in Kid
der county-over filing made in IS.
The date of the election of city Of
ficials at Rugby was changed to Aug
31st.
Medina is to have new Catholic
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feet.
There are 23O quarters of school
land left in Foster county for sale and
rental.
Harold Stapleton Of Hannah was
thrown from rig and both wrists
broken.
The Westhope base ball team won
seventeen of the twenty games played
this season.
1t is rather remarkable how much
Exercising" the hunting dogs need
these days.
People along the 500 are rejoicing
that there was no te.egraphers' strike
on that road.
School lands over the state are be.
Ing given a reappraisement by the
county boards.
All the bad men were not chased out
out of Hankinson-or else new sup.
ply has arrived.
The absence of city marshal at
Hannah gives the hobos considerable
liberty in that section.
The Dago gang at Medina went Oh
a strike for short time, but recon
sidered matters and resumed work
Superintendent of Public mstruc
tion Stockwell has been in great de-.
mand as a speaker at the different
summer schools and county meetings
this summer.
1t seems to have required rather
drastic legislation to rescue the peo-
pie of the state from the dangers of
the patent medicines they have been
using so many years.
Bertha Fossholm. 14-year-old girl
near Milton, ran away from home and
was finally located at Edmore She
left without any funds and was not
travelling on Pullmans.
At Hannah the residents want the
Great Northern to drain pond that
is formed by the embankment and
road bed, making a pond of stagnant
water that is a menace to health.
A Sargent county blind pigger was
arrested in Richland but on his re-
turn the fellow escaped and is making
signs at the North Dakota authori-
ties from the Minnesota side of the
'eiver.
Miss Thompson, district superin-
tendent Of the North Dakota Chill
dren's Home, has been at Granville
aud other towns in the northern part
Of the state, raising funds for the in
Stitution.
A Richland county manxgot spoon.
full of seed from Central Asia, from
which he is raising four headed wheat.
He will get about half bushel this
year, and will carefully preserve it for
seeding next season.
Postmasters over the state call at
tention 10 the illegible manner in
which much of the mail is addressed,
causing lot of trouble with some,
while a large amount finds it's way
INTO the dead letter Office.
The Hannaford people have applied
for charter for farmers elevator.
Thete Is some discussion as to wheth-
er the company shall engage the serv.
ices of certain resident of Hanna.
ford to conduct the affairs of the or
ganization.
The rapid increase in the number
Of rural mail routes and telephone
lines is putting the farmers thoroughly
in touch with the outside world and
giving them the advantages hereto
fore enjoyed only by those who lived
In the towns.
The elevator men have their houses
cleaned up for the rush of business to
commence soon. In localities where
there has been no rust some of the
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