The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-01-25
NORTH Dakota
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tree. agents.
mckenzie county is to have a court
house in the spring.
Minor wants a public lighting sys.
tenn and more houses.
The fine weather has Topped off a
lot of winter all right.
Great Northern may operate a
seed train this spring.
The business men are already order.
ing their 1907 calendars.
New firms are reported in a lot of
the North Dakota towns.
Nicolai Stair died at Kuhn at the
advanced age Of ninety-two.
The German Lutherans at Harvey
purchased the Presbyterian church:
Mark Pace, Charged with forgery,
has been released on bail at Towner.
Capt. and Mrs. LaTourette of La
kota celebrated their golden wedding.
A Minot grocer extended New
Years greetings to the people who
eat.
Just about the time a Leeds man got
50 he could live without eating he
died. - 4
Lumber dealers in North Dakota re.
port a big business during the past
year.
Of the numerous Wallaces around
Drayton, all have removed to other
states.
a Wilton man lost a draft for 5000
and did some tall hustling until friends
returned it.
w p. Mansfield of Minot has es.
tablished a reputation in California as
a rifle shot.
The realty men are anticipating the
healthiest business for years when
spring opens up.
Hans Gansted of Medina lost five
horses at the time of the big prairie
fire and finally located four.
The railroad agent at McCumber
was suspended as the result of the rob
berry Of that Office Of $1,000.
A Lidgerwood man has a five-year-
old COW that has already produced
six calves in her short existence.
The corner stakes on section lines
in Towner county are nearly obliter'
ated and there is some confusion.
George TONNES, formerly Of this
state, seems to have. struck a bonanza
in his new paper at Puyallup, Wash.
The proposition to issue bonds for
a new school building at Harvey car.
ried. There was not an opposing vote.
The cards of thanks have a new duty
to perform. An Inkster man pub.
lished one on his removal to Grand
Forks.
Arrangements are being made at
Granville for an election to decide or
the question of issuing SO, 000bonds for
a system of fire protection.
A stranger at Leeds was taken i'll
with blood poison and would not dis.
close the address Of his parents until
it was thought he was dying.
1t is difficult to convince some of the
housewives that their lamps are SO
dirty that it is impossible to get a good
light from the Rockefeller oil.
w. e. Cook has sold his six lumber
yards for $4,000. The yards. are 10.
Gated at Balfour, Anamoose, Martin,
Harvey, Manfred and Fessenden.
North Dakota had more miles OF
railroads built this year than any 9th.
er state in the Union ard raised more
bushels of wheat. That's going some.
There are a lot of full-grown men
who are doing their smoking behind
the barn and in the alleys while their
swear-off resolutions are supposed to
be observed.
AT Ashley the whistle at the -four
mill went on a rampage and wouldn't
stop blowing when the engineer really
wanted to. The-people Thought the
burg was blowing up.
There is a row at Darlington be.
cause the street lights are being shut
off, They appear to cost SO much the
city is running in the hole in endeav-
oring to maintain them.
"A resident of Mclean county want.
ed to live in McHenry. His farm was
right on the line and he purchased
some land across the road and moved
his buildings into McHenry.
The date fixed for the state fair at
Fargo seems to be satisfactory to most
people. 1t will be held the week be
ginning July %, and will be over be
fore the farmers reach the busy sea-
son. F.
Now that there is some discussion
as to the validity of the primary cleo
tion law, the former opponents Of the
bill are strongest in their support
of the measure. Some of the insurg-
ents insist the bill is all right.
Ex-Gov. Van SAINT visited Cakes last
week to look after some real estate in
Il terests. He said he wouldn't mind be-
ing a resident of North Dakota next
year There is going to be a fight on
and he always did like a little political
row.
Carl L~anguager,' the little Lidger.
wood boy who had the skin burned off
his back ard arms last May, caused
by his clothes catching fire from a ci-
gazette, and for whom many of the
men about town contributed skin for
Grating was able to leave The hnsnita al