The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-04-10
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Horse trainers are busy at many
points in the state.
Another horse thief has been round.
ed up in McHenry county.
Tie. demand that law enforcement
be more general is strong in the land.
The creamery at Kindred will be
rented to reliable buttermaker for
one year.
Railroad Commissioner Westby is
now in the real estate business at
Williston.
A Minneapolis florist has opened an
establishment at Minot and will erect
greenhouses.
Many cities in the state have the
question of library tax up for decis-
ion this spring.
The nine-hour law day in this state
seems to be ignored by the railway
companies to some extent.
New banks are being organized in
the western part of the state. That
doesn't look like hard times.
The fertile North Dakota soil is
ready to give up another big crop to
the men who tickle its surface.
Commissioner Gilbreath will soon
issue new state map that will show
the recently organized counties.
An effort will be made at Minot to
spread the gospel. Several evangel.
lists have been secured for the work.
The Cakes Commercial club is now
a permanent organization with over
100 names on the membership roster.
Farmers at Milton will organize and
incorporate a company to build a
farmers elevator and stock lumber
yard.
The city Of Lisbon has contracted
for the sinking of two additional ar.
tesian wells for fire protection pur-
poses.
A daily mail route has been ordered
from Lennon to Showers, Bowman
county, and it is to be in operation
April
The drainage board of Richland
county has awarded contracts for six
bridges over the Viking drain and
they will be of steel.
Several life insurance companies
have signified intention of not apply.
ing to be relicensed in this state-In.
diana and Iowa companies.
The American Bricquetting company
has started business at Williston.
Mrs. DeLendrecie of Fargo is the
chief hacker of the movement.
The Goose River Bank of Mayville
has sold the Rush farm in Primrose
township, near Hope, containing $50
acres, to Albert and Edward Sparrow
of Portland. The purchase price was
$35 per acre.
Secretary Wilson of the state fair
for Fargo has issued the premium
list for school exhibits and work-it
is In separate form and may be had
for the asking, before the complete
premium list is ready for publication.
Finley won't tolerate rowdyism and
there was demand for the prosecu-
tion of trio of toughs who viciously
assaulted the town marshal who was
in the quiet performance of his duty.
The preliminary evidence before the
justice was enough to hold them I'M
der heavy bonds.
Old settlers of McHenry county will
gather in annual convention at Town
er in June. Many among them took
up claims and settled permanently
when Devils Lake and Bismarck were
the nearest railroad points and haul
ing of products to one of those points
for sale had to be made.
f.
Loafers at Nekoma are known to
be slaughtering pigeons and selling
them to restaurant owners who find
ready demand, believing there can be
no prosecutions, as the birds are not
supposed to belong to any one, but
complaints will be made and stop
put to the wholesale slaughter.
Small towns along the 500 line are
that engineers stop at
hours during the night
and blow out their boilers, making
long and continued noises, making
sleep impossible Some citizens have
found out that it is being done for a
jolly. Ordinances prohibiting the
practice are to be enacted.
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