The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-01-18

new nOL0l.
William Witch and Tillie Noe were
married in Coggswell.
Balfour had a wicked fire. which
started in a coal shed.
North Dakota will get a lot OF nail.
road extension work in the spring.
Wolford, one of the recent Pierce
county towns, is to have a new, church.
Three places at Mckinney Were
burgled, the postofice being in the
list.
Thieves entered a meat market at
Minot and got away with 1872 worth Of
meat.
Mckenzie county is said to have a
court house in sight as soon as the
spring opens.
One of the unfortunate features OF
holiday advertising is the way it falls
off afterwards.
A Fargo man says his wife discov-
cred a way to make a Christmas tur.
key everlasting.
The Minot police moved on the prop
erty owners and o the sno is NOV
ing off their sidewalks.
The new buildings of the state hos.
pital will be ready for occupancy by
the middle Of the month.
Extreme cruelty to horses is report
ed near Wilton, where some animals
were shot and others cut!
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The state mail route from Caring
ton to Bowdon will be abolished and
the mail will be carried by rail.
There have been an unusually large
number of complaints against people
for selling m%ortgaged property.
Logansport ought to be a good place
for old maids to locate. At a recent
dance there forty bachelors were pres
emit.
What a field Cassie Chadwick over
looked when she failed to go after the
presidents of the insurance compa-
MES.
Trail county. youngsters are taking
a great interest in agricultural work
as a result of the corn growing con,
tests.
A Billings county mai is charged
with killing a steer belonging to a
neighbor. and using the meat for his
family.
A boy was tried at Fessenden on a
charge of throwing stones at a barn
and breaking a window. The jury dis
agreed.
Washburn business men are build
ing a village hall 36xS0 feet in size,
that town having nothing of the kind
at present.
An attempted burglary was frustrat.
ed at Rolla by a girl falling ove a box
and creating such a racket that the
burglar hiked.
John Haas of Mclean county was
convicted at Washburn of violation of
the prohibition law. He operated at
Coleharbor. .
There was a raid on the blind pigs
at Napoleon and two men were held
to the district court on the charge OF
violating, the law.
Hazelton postofice is now a money
order Office, commencing Jan. !. Part
of the necessary paraphernalia and
red tape arrived some days ago.
This is the season of the year when
railroad men have to be especially &C.
tive to discover broken rails. Two
were found IN the Jamestown &
! Northern the other day, section men
finding n and a freight crew anoth'
er. One piece about four feet long
was broken into small pieces by the
passage Of a,train over it. Fortunate
ly the passenger train was not affected
further than being delayed.
The middle over the sale of the
Cavalier county school lands is un.
fortunate, but 10 n appears to be to
blame. The snow blockade prevent.
ed the deputy land commissioner from
arriving there. The worst misfortune
money to purchase the land. They
have the money on hand but no lands,
and must pay interest just the same
Efforts are being made to have the
lands ~readvertised and sold as quickly
as can be legally done.
Mrs. Martin Kabachki of Lidger.
wood was taken sick some time ago
with e%rysipelas, which developed to
such an extent that the eruption 20
cred her entire body, from the hair
of her head to the soles Of her feet.
This is unusual, in that erysipelas, ex-
cept in two or three cases on record,
has never been known to cover the
entire body, IS in this instance. Mrs.
Kabachki is now recovered and able
to sit up.
1t is not often that people come to
pay their taxes so rapidly that 1t Is
necessary. to keep an Office open day
and night, but this is what Is to be
done at Minot. The county treasurer
arranged to divide his force into two
shifts after the first of the year, SO
that people may pay taxes either day
or night, 1t is requested that the peo-
Pile of the city deal with the night
force as much as possible, SO as to
leave the day force at liberty to at
tend to the country business.
Nels w. Hankinson is getting into
the lumber business at Rock Lake in
great shape, with the largest lumber
shed in the county.
The people Of Wolford are on the
warpath over the delay in freight
shipments after the freight reaches
York tn pn I'M the branch.