The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-01-19

was raised to 1850 and cashed.
The people along the st. John
branch expect a new train service.
The plat for the proposed incorpora-
ton Of Medina has been completed.
A Granville butcher became the
proud father Of twins Christmas eve.
A lot of station agents and. operators
have been transferred during the past
week.
Mrs. Ole Rigg of Garrison gave
birth to boy, the first child born in
Garrison.
Three days Of winter seem to be tho
record up to date. with none since
Thanksgiving.
The people of lAneta are still kicking
because the postoffice is closed at 6
in the evening.
A Denhoff blind pigger is said to
have threatened suicide by freezing
himself to death.
The Bottineau ladies are said to
have threatened to carrienationize one
of the poOlrOoms.
A bad man from Montana started to
shoot up the town at Bismarck and
landed in the dungeon.
In McHenry county threshing rig
was being moved from one field to an.
other and turned turtle.
The people of Petersburg want the
Aneta branch of the Great Northern
extended north to that point.
George H. Purchase, for many years
at Jamestown, is succeeding we'll as
an attorney at Sentinel Butte.
Frank Hughes of Bismarck was re-
Gently married in Glendive, Mont,
four hours after the young lady said
yes.
A large portion of the male popula-
ton of Denhof was in attendance at
the term of the district court at Wash
bury. e.
Cleveland, Stutsman county, has a
lot of enterprising residents who will
build up the town if given an even
break.
A Minot thief has established a rec.
ord for meanness by stealing pocket
book containing the savings Of a work
ing girl.
An Omen1ee man is a patentee in
an invention to keep the wheels of
traction engines free from mud while
moving.
The smaller towns along the North
ern Pacific west from jamestown are
being equipped with local telephone
exchanges.
There was large supply of holiday
booze at Edmore and it filled the wait
ing room to such an extent passengers
had to stay outside.
Three members of the family of
County Commissioner Horgan of
Neche were ill with scarlet fever and
one death occurred.
Henry Klindt of Walhalla fell from
a loaded wagon and was so badly in
jured that he was thirty minutes re.
gaining consciousness.
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Two men at Fairdale exploded beer
bottles filled with powder. One was
: SO badly cut with flying glass that a
doctor Spatched up his countenance.
A Morton county farmer says he
never patronized mail order house
till last fall. when he was in the store
of a Mandan merchant and heard the
merchant order lot of printing done
in an Eastern jobbing house. He
thought If the merchant could afford
to patronize cheap concerns in the
East the farmers could tackle the same
proposition.
The service medals for the veterans
of the state guard have arrived at the
adjutant generals Office. They are for
three periods of service, ten, fifteen
and twenty years. The medals are
of bronze and consist of two bars and
a six-point maltese cross Joined by
chains. On the top bar are the words
North Dakota" On the second the
term Of service is given, and the cross
is conferred with the seal of the state.
Very few members Of the guard enti-
tied to these medals have as yet APP
piled for them, and as the supply IL
not large, owing to the meager appro-
priation, the boys had best made haste
In their applications Particulars az
ito dates Of enlistment should accom-
pany oil applications. ..,
There were some domestic rows at
Balfour in which two wives are al
legged to have whipped their husbands.
Washburn has q store called the
Come Again. q was burslarized re-
Gently and the ppoprie tor anpounces
ire name does not apply to the burg.
lars. 5fs
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plains that Il ~ tia people and condi.
stti0ass that have chang e not tho cli.
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