The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-01-05
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s News Notes

Kensal people are exodusing to
idaho. 5 "a
A lot Of bootleggers were soaked at
Cando.
A. Harvey wife beater is doing q
thirty-day stunt In jail.
Agents for automobiles are prepar.
ing for big sales in the spring.
Celery growers around Bismarck
have been successful the past year.
Twin boys are reported at the
home Of August Beise at Anamoose.
A Bisbee druggist was acquitted Of
selling booze to a confirmed drunk
ard.
Grafton was in hard luck with .
diphtheria epidemic during the holi
day season.
The business men Of Edinburg are
working on. the organization of com.
mercial club.
Attorneys Brennan and Gray of Dew
Ills Lake have written textbook for
law students.
Medina has been surveyed and q
census is being taken preparatory to
incorporation.
Balfour people throw so much ashes
into the street farmers teams get
stuck in the highways.
The little Taylor girl, near Rolla,
who fell into boiling water some weeks
ago, died of her injuries.
Turtle Lake is having house
cleaning and blind piggers and joint
keepers have vamoosed.
Jamestown merchants protest
against the crossings being blocked
too long by freight trains. e.a
Bert Baker was convicted at Wash.
burn Of an attempted criminal assault
IN the person of Mrs. Giese.
Great Northern extension in the
northern part of Cavalier and PEN.
nina counties is being discussed.
The business men of Mimic have
been in conference with a party who
wants to put in another gas plant.
A farmer near McHenry fell under a
horse. The animal stood on the mans
leg long enough to cause fracture.
Mandan wants a larger freight de-
pot. The road needs more storage
room for its supplies, it is supposed.
A servant girl at Oriska wanted to
marry a burly coon and the county
judge at Valley City refused to issue
The license.
Washburn business men are build.
ing village hall 36x80 feet in size,
that town having nothing of the kind
at present.
After several years of effort in that
direction, Cooperstown at last has an
electric light plant and the service is
said to be first-class.
A Buxton man is wroth because he
had to keep car of hogs at the stock
yards twenty-fourl house before he
could get car for them.
Oscar Bush, a painter at Harvey
was ten miles out in the country one
night recently and was kicked on the
arm by horse. The arm was broken.
A balloonist is suing the Mandan
people for an effort he made when he
fell last fall. He seems to think the
fall was more thrilling than success.
ful ascension.
A solicitor for an outside tailoring
establishment is said to have collected
IS i nadvance on a large number of
suits at Casselton, and then to have
disappeared.
Valley City people are as proud Of
the electric line, as the average boy
with a new pair of boots. There are
indications that the line will be ex.
tended in the summer.
500 surveyors have reached Crosby
in northern Williams county, from
Kenmare, which would indicate that
the Thief River branch would be ex-
ended west from Kenmare next year.
Overly, one of the new 500 towns in
Bottineau county, is scarce out Of it's
swaddling clothes, still it has four
banks and wants brass band. The
Observer seems to be filing the last
aeed nicely.
Charles Stiles Of Ward county NOV
ed into Minot the past winter. The
other day he went to his farm and
found some vandals had built a fire
on the floor Of the sitting room and
practically ruined it.
Work has been started on the
bridge over the Des Laos six miles
from Bowbells. The bridge will be
great convenience to the people Of 3
large territory tributary to Bowbells
and the improvement Is due largely
to the enterprise Of the business men.
of the town. NJ.
The Buford townsite squabble is at
last settled, County Judge Austtll hav-
ing made final proof last week \ and by,
the first OF May next It will be possi-
BILE for, those parties who have build>l
ings upon the eight acres to obtain 4
deed for the lots upon which they
have substantial improvements.