The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-03-30
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d. w. Burns of Bantry is now a full
dedged deputy sheriff.
John Steel of Minot will open a
lumber yard at Williston.
The Farmers and Merchants State
bank has been organized at Palermo.
Farmers are taking their harness
and farm machinery to town for re-
pairs.
Prof. Loreaux of Cooperstown lost
his pocketbook. He finally found it in
his shoe.
Light, Heat and Power company has
been perfected
Ashley will have a regular train
service on Sunday in the future, but
not on Monday.
A fire in a barber shop at James
town was eXtinguished before the fire
department arrived.
The receipts of the railway com
pany from freight in Palermo for one
day amounted to $500.
Fifty-five immigrant wagons left
Dickinson last week for the southern
counties of North Dakota.
The Rolla band boys need a new
tuba and will give Il dance to provide
funds for the instrument
A Mayville merchant has received
carload of automobiles. The farm
ers around Mayville are prosperous.
Maynard Crane announces his can
didacy for the state senate aud III caps
calls attention TO hos personal infiu-
ence.
For the third time the basement in
tho home of States Attorney Mcbride
of Dickinson has been invaded by
burglars
Cooperstown bricklayer came to
Fargo and joined the union. Every
trowel full Of mortar is now expected
to bear the union label
The jamestown city council passed
All ordinance requiring transient mer-
chants to take out a license at cost
of S. a day or $25 a week
The city of jamestown has revised
its ordinances and will have them
printed in the revised form. 1t will
then be possible for the people to tell
something about what the laws of the
city are.
Members OF the state sportsmen' $
association are figuring on some i'm
provements in the game laws of the
state. 1t will be some time before
they will meet with the approval of
oil who are interested.
States Attorney Zuger of Barnes
county has reached the conclusion
that the 500 railway should pay taxes
on its telephone lines and has conf
menced an action against the railway
company TO enforce the payment of
the taxes.
There will be no flood in the Red
river valley lis spring unless there
is either more snow or heavy rain
The recent thawing and freezing have
transformed a great deal of the snow
into ice. and This will melt slowly and
part of it will be safely Out of the way
before the rest has thawed
Quite a serious fight took place at
Mannhaven last week. II is reported
that both Otto and William Schriber
were horribly beaten. and that one
name cannot be learned. 1t is said
that the fight is the outcome of con-
test case On u claim near Town.
Rolette will in a short time have a
telephone line in town. The Northern
Telephone company is making prepa-
rations to take up and complete line
which was started at Bisbee last fall.
and as soon as the frost is out of the
ground work will again proceed An
exchange will probably be located
there.
The agent Of one of the railroads of
this state was asked why his receipts
from tho sale of tickets had fallen off
so this winter. He responded that
Liz pSOplC i'll Ills SCStlOu WcIC
ing too much beer and whisky to have
money to travel with. He said the en-
press receipts had increased $500 over
the previous year.
A rumor is again current to the ef
feet that the Northern Pacific is going
to build a high bridge across the val
ley just north of Valley City in the
near future. The report has been
heard frequently but it is claimed that
there is now considerable foundation
for the report. Surveyors have been
at work in the vicinity of Valley City
all winter.
A couple applied for marriage IL
ceEse at Ashley and were denied be-
cause of the fact that they were first
cousins. There are many who do not
know that first cousins may not marry
in this state. They may go to another
state and marry ard return here. and
we accept them as legally married.
This is one of the beauties of having
each state make marriage laws for
itself,
Tho law specifios tho lact dow of