The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-05-04
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Bowbells is long on statesmen.
Binford will organize fire depart
ment.
Build houses" is the cry of most
towns.
This has been an unlucky year for
we'll diggers.
The Paramount band is giving out
door concerts.
Amateur actors at Jamestown will
put on play.
The Starkweather creamery has be-
gun operations.
Landseekers are blamed for some OF
the prairie fires.
: The bridge across Deep river a,
Upham is to be built soon.
The people of Mandan are interest
ed in a briquetting machine.
A tough coon was chased out of
Kenmare at the point of rifle.
Ward county school lands will be
leased May %. That's late enough.
The settlers of Barnes county prior
to 1885 will organize an association.
Nehemiah Davis of Minot is a can.
didate for reelection as county Judge.
Many of the small towns have clos
ed their opera houses for the season.
Machinery dealers have been doing
a bonanza business in Emmons coun.
ty.
There are rumors of bank consoli.
dations in the northwestern part of
the state.
At Mohall the farmers elevator
company may purchase one of the old
line houses.
The North Dakotans of Scandina.
Wan descent are planning big celebra.
tons May II.
A regent fire at Garrison was caus.
ed by carelessness in lighting a fire
with kerosene.
1t is said the town of Ryder will be
on wheels as soon as the 500 exten.
sion is completed.
Two miserable specimens of human
ity in Ward county contested the
claim of a blind girl.
There is a complaint at Bismarck
that the butchers are slaughtering
within the city limits.
r. N. Stevens, assistant attorney
general of the state, is building an.
other house at Rismarck
A good chance is offered in the want
columns to any one contemplating the
purchase of newspaper.
A stranger made bluff at starting
a cigar factory at Paramount and has
not since been heard from.
A Bismarcker is an inventor to
guide for fire escapes. In Fargo the
fire escapes are most needed.
Dowie will have to go some If he
keeps in the limelight while the San
Francisco earthquake is busy.
Some of the men employed on the
reservoir gang of the Great Northern
at Granville went on strike.
The race for county judge in Cass
county will be free-for-all, five can
didats already being in the race
The residence of T. F.. Huston, in
whose home the Saline postoffice was
conducted, was destroyed by fire.
There should be liberal responses
from prosperous North Dakota to the
appeal of San Francisco people for
aid.
A gopher hunter near Rolette acct
dentally discharged his rifle and the
bullet went between the hide and the
coat
Bismarck has been getting so many
additions to the population of the pen
that some of the citizens want a new
census taken.
A farmer in the northern part of the
state writes that he intends to join the
union this summer and work only
eight hours day.
At Grand Forks the opponents of
Sunday baseball guaranteed the league
team management against loss to pre-
vent Sunday games.
The creation of the Williston land
district will make two federal places
more to be filled, and several politi-
clans are after them.
1t is claimed that the cries of Muir
phyism and anti-Murphyism will not
be so loud in Ward county this politi-
cal campaign as last.
The remarriage of Hillsboro min.
lister and his wife, following divorce
secured at Dickinson, is one of the
romances of the year.
Norsks and Irish fought at Mad.
dock. Knives, neckyokes and bolts
wee used. One member of each par.
ty was wounded badly.
Thieves at Ray stole the personal
property of immigrants locating in
that vicinity. That must give settlers
a good impression of their new home.
The early bird catches the worm
when it comes to circulating primary
election law petitions. This average
voter signs the first petition presented
him.
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