The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-01-18
North Dakota
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sergeant county has eight banks.
There is said to be a drouth at Lin
ton.
Portland is proud of the new opera
house.
Two boys near jamestown killed
five coons.
Wolf hunters had some great sport
at Crosby.
Ole Moe of Cooperstown was adj
Judged insane.
"a Catholic church is to be erected at
Minor in the spring.
Mandan is to have pp-to-date tele-
phones, like those in Bismarck.
Blocked street crossings at Leeds
cause considerable annoyance.
The new opera house at Portland
will be opened early in January.
Sawyer has organized a literary So
ciety and will have debates this win
ter.
The Commercial club at Bismarck is
endeavoring to secure suitable quar-
tiers.
Several children over the state were
injured as a result Of catching onto
bob sleds.
The regular weekly arrest Of Dick
Bowers for blind plugging is reported
at McHenry.
Samuel Sherman was arrested at
Minot on a charge of violating the pro
hibition law.
At Great Bend a boy got mixed up
with a circular saw, but the doctor
saved the pieces. s.
In the saloon raid at Linton $500
worth of wet stuff was found in one
t~hirst-slaking joint.
In a fight between a COW and a
horse near Granville, the milk produc-
er killed the equine.
Banker Mooney of Langdon will
spend the winter in Cuba, looking af-
tie some investments.
One of the daintiest little calendars
so far received is that issued by the
Walhalla Mountaineer.
Dickinson has Joined the Northwest.
ern theatrical circuit with houses in
every town in the West.
The Hotel Northern at Wales was
destroyed as the result of the explo-
sion of an a~cetylene plant. !
Munich is said to have reformed in
punches and there has been a clearing
out of piggers and toughs. j
The people around Walcott are plan
ming to make the farmers institute,
Jan. 1918, a great uccess.
A negro was held at Hope for two
or three. days on suspicion of stealing
a coat, but was discharged.
The certificate of an Emmons coun.
ty teacher was revoked because he
was brutal to one of his pupils.
Steel is being hauled by the Great
Northern for the extension of the st.
Johns branch to the Canadian line.
The early closing movement is pop.
ular in many towns in the state and
will be in vogue during the dull period.
There is a crying demand at Hope
for better order at entertainments by
the younger portion of the audiences.
Jim Shea might act as a peacemak.
er and heal the old feud between Nc.
Cumber and Lauder in Richland coun.
ty.
At Aneta the question of AIMS age
dwindles into insignificance when com
pared to. the query whether Hjetler
really had pneumonia.
A few North Dakotans are still re.
turning from the Alaska country,
Many came back early. A few were
successful and remained.
A railroad telegrapher got on the
warpc.th at Buffalo and started to
shoot up the town, till some one
smashed him on the jaw.
Capt. Strong of Leeds was present.
ed with $500 in recognition of his ex.
cellent work. An old maids conven.
ton is agitated by some of them.
With the football, the deer hunting
and the Christmas tree season over,
! the people of the United States seem
in less danger than for some time.
Gwinner is agitating the cream.
cry proposition, and being in Sargent
county, where such establishments
are a success, will no doubt land.
A Minor thief stole a whole pail
of oysters. That should be enough to
keep all the church suppers in the
country going for an extended period.
A Richland county farmer wants
some big artesian wells sunk In the
eastern half of the county after seeing
how successful they are in Sargent
county.
A bachelors club has been organ.
lied at Coleharbor, an dany members
caught in the society of ladies are to
be expelled. By courtesy of the ladies
no members have been expelled.
One of the many dying railroad ru.
mors is that the Great Northern will
build westward from Grafton to the
cement mines east of Milton; thence
north toward the boundary line.
David Jaribee, the man who was as.
saulted and robbed by G gang of Indi-
ans near Devils Lake some three
weeks ago, has recovered from his in
juries.
Just to show that North Dakota
weather is all right, some of the pa.
pers u a cut of a young man in a
bathing suit making love to a girl clad
in a rather abbreviated costume.
The danger that men incur in mar
rying widows with grown-up sons was
again demonstrated in Emmons coun.