The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-11-02
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News Notes.

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Sherwood people are booming the
town.
A blind pig at Lidgerwood was
wrecked by farmers.
Douglass business men subscribed
money to dig a village well.
A drug store belonging to DR.. J. j.
Reilly at Milton was Quilted by fire.
The 500 has established new town
called Ops four miles east Of Conway.
Truant Oficer Kimball Of N1inot is
rounding up the youngsters who are
not in school
Mrs. Phoebe Kraft Of Turtle Lake
had a fax crop of over twenty-four
bushels per acre.
S. L. Tedford, formerly realty
dealer of Minot, is reported to have
been acting strangely.
At McClusky little girl strayed in
to the field occupied by a vicious bull
and was seriously gored.
Valley City autoists had another
fine trip, which included Cooperstown,
Hanaford, Darcy and other points.
A Minor man went to 'Forman on
business, lost his coat, which was To-
Gated on the back of man at Cogs-
we'll.
Joseph Pfaff of Barnes county be-
came insane brooding over the death
Of particular friend by lightning last
summer.
Chairman Diesem of the railroad
commission has been kept busy STIR
ring up the railroads to relieve the car
shortage.
The commercial clubs in several
towns in the northern part of the
state are endeavoring to foster the use
of Ignite coal.
The high school football team of
Mayville appeals to the citizens to sup.
port the aggregation so some good
teams can be secured.
Several prosperous North Dakotans
are preparing to hike for California
and Florida for the winter. Fewer
will go to Cuba than formerly.
j. D. Bonsack of Rock Lake had
three head of horses. examined for
CHAMBERS by DR.. Smith of Cando, and
after a thorough test were ordered de.
stroyed, as they had developed the
disease.
Safe blowing is among the indus
tries to which greater attention has
been paid in the Northwest this fall,
but in the majority of cases the dam
age to the safe has exceeded the
sums stolen
An epidemic of typhoid fever has
broken out among the railroad
hands" engaged in constructing the
new 500 road from Garrison to Minot,
and the work may be seriously de-
layed in consequence. The scOurge
finds about four victims a day among
the laborers.
At Minot dray teams are required
to take out the fire engine whenever
there is a fire. AS soon as the alarm
is sounded the draymen make a rush
for the fire hall. The other day when
an alarm was turned in a team was
standing unhitched on the streets and
the horses hiked for the station with
out driyer-being the first to arrive.
A prairie fire started near the rail
road track near Bismarck and burned
north to the cemetery, where it de-
stroyed some of the fence, TIE fire
continuing over the pasture and burn
ing hundreds of fence posts along the
pasture fence before citizens reached
the spot and extinguished the fire. It
is supposed the fire started from a
railroad engine.
A Minot woman wanted refrigera-
tor last summer. Her husband told
her to go to the home dealer and Sc
cure one. But she had seen the pic
lures in one Of the mail order cata-
logues and read the wonderful descrip-
ton of the refrigerator for sale, and
sent the Chicago concern about SIS.
In the course of a few weeks small,
inferior iceboxs arrived. It came di-
rect from the factory. The ice box
was refused. a mistake had evidently,
been made. but IT would take several
weeks before the mistake could be
remedied. The icebox was lost on Its
return and didn't get inuntil Septem-,
tex and the order was cancelled The
woman got her money back In due
time, but had to write half q dozen;
letters, She without Ice all sum
mer, and the mail order house had the
use of her money. s5 iss55