The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-05-25
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system.
Minot seems to be having its daily
burglarles.
"A Lawton is preparing to have big
celebration July 4.
Velva has live commercial club
that is doing things.
The creamery at Bottineau has the
wilk from 1000 cows.
E. T. Halaas of Darlington is can.
didate for the legislature.
The new Eagle band at Devils Lake
Is giving outdoor concerts.
John Wittmayer will build tele-
phone exchange in Goodrich.
A Mrs. Cleary of Mclean county
was gored to death by COW.
The Steele band has secured new
Instructor and will toot this summer.
A lot of alleged mad dogs are mad
because no one has given them bone.
The corn acreage in North Dakota
will be greatly increased this year.
At Mohall Fred Preston flourished a
gun, was arrested and adjudged in
sane.
New Rockford merchants report they
are enjoying the best trade in many
years.
Miss Minnie Nelson Is a candidate
for superintendent of schools in
Barnes county.
A son of Thomas Punton of Ayr ran
away from home two weeks ago and
is still missing.
John Smith, thief at Russell, es
capped from Jail after being arrested
and held for trial.
The ice war in some of the big cities
hasn't bothered North Dakotans q
great deal up to date.
The 500 extension from Garrison
will go through an exceptionally fine
section of the country.
John Murtha, formerly of Kensal. is
said to have been killed in the San
Francisco earthquake.
Some one set fire to the grass in the
coulee near Bathgate, and the flames
set the ice house on fire.
The western part of the state de.
mands a new legislative apportion.
ment and is entitled to It.
A careful reading of the newspapers
of the state seems to indicate there
was frost at some points.
The policeman at Garrison chased .
she coon, named Maud, out of town,
and wasn't kicked, either.
A Montana man. formerly a detec.
tive, visited his young son in Jail at
Minot on a robbery charge.
Barnes county is to the front with q
list Of candidates for delegates to the
state Republican convention.
Balfour is to become headquarters
for that section of McHenry county
for the Standard Oil company.
A we'll known horticulturist predicts
that North Dakota eventually will hs.
come a great apple growing state.
A new road is to be graded into Val.
ley City from the south and the com.
missioners appropriated $3.50 for the
work.
Enlistments are being received for
a new militia company at Devils Lake
to be known as the reorganized Com.
pany D.
A few idle men are still found in the
country, but there are usually about
| four jobs for each man who really
wants work.
Sergeant T. P. Morris of Eddy coun.
| ty has lived in the state thirty-six
years an di some of the oldest residents
| of the state.
A drunken painter at Grand Forks
threatened to kill his wife, and then
resisted the efforts of couple of cops
to land him in JAIL
There is lot of confusion over the
workings of the primary election law
in legislative districts which include
more than one county.
A building, formerly used as blind
pig, is resposing in front of the 500
depot at Bismarck, and the officials
want it. to move on.
The Eagle band at Minot is rejoicing
over the fact that Director Rudd of
Fargo will return to continue in charge
of the organization.
w. H. Thomas, Free Methodist
minister at Steele, will join the regu.
lar Methodists and take charge of the
Turtle Lake church.
The proprietors of clothing house
at Lisbon started to leave town with.
out paying their taxes. They deposit
ed enough money to cover the deal.
1t is said the Great Northern exten.
sion from Esmond to Minot will be
built via Velva and parallel the 500
from there to the Ward county town.
Why does the window washer al
ways start his job when the crowds on
the streets are the largest and the
pole will cause the most annoyance?
Down in Richland some of the legis
lative timber elected in former years