The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-06-26
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Minot's market day was q success.

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Minot's market day was q success.
Crops are booming around Neville.
LaMoure is adding several new
buildings. @
The farmers institute at Crosby
was success.
Drainage is the real issue in the.
Mouse river valley:
Summer meetings Of teachers are
already under way.
Election supplies are being sent
out by county auditors.
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The school teachers are hiking to!s
the lakes and home to mother.
Plant fax seed among the potatoes.
and brighten away the buglets.
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Great Northern Detectives located
some stolen property at Williston.
Jerusalem = North Dakota - is to,
have big Fourth of July celebration.
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The valuation Of Grand Forks shows.
an increase Of quarter of million.
A strange man was found in some
rooms at Hankinson and got thirty
days.
The McHenry county early settlers
held big reunion at Towner last
week.
At Beach one man lost thumb and
another finger in accidents on the
same day.
Jamestown attempted to throw herself
in the river. ,
Baseball is a serious proposition
with some towns and defeats 20 hard.
with the losers. :
The advocates in Valley City of the
commission plan of government de-
cided to wait awhile.
Dickinson is to have some more.
parks as result of Senator Simp-
sons gift to the city.
It has been so successfully dehon.
strated that spraying eradicates weeds
that there are few doubters.
Minot is to have another bunch of
brand new ordinances-no shop.worn
affairs for the magic City,"
North Dakotans are rejoicing that
they don't live in the flooded districts
Of Texas, Oklahoma and Montana.
A recent conf1agration at Buffalo
calls the attention of the people of
that town to the necessity of having
better fire protection.
A party of Valley City autoists had
a narrow escape from death when a
wire stretched across the road tore
the top from the machine.
The monuments for the dead on the
Whitestone battlefield will soon be
placed in position. They have been
in the depot at Merricourt for some
months.
Edgeley is getting good deal of at
tention just now owing to the fact that
the new electric light plant will be run
by power that costs the city practi-
cally nothing. The reputation of
Edgeley's artesian we'll is we'll known
on account Of the fact that few years
ago it caught fire and the people were
then aware for the first time that it
contained vast quantities of natural
gas of first-class quality. This gas
will now be used to run big engine
which will generate the electricity for
the electric plant. 1t will be a great
big advertisement for the town. and
will attract investors looking for
cheap power for manufacturing pur-
poses.
A recent interview with member
Of the Presbyterian college location
board elected the information that
the subscription solicitor who has
been in the field for short time has
been withdrawn temporarily until a
more favorable time for his work is
had, which is expected to be in
month or two after the crop prospects
are more definitely defined. The loca-
ton Of the college is yet undecided,
but It is safe to say that no location
win be made until there is practically
a unanimous opinion Of those intrust-
ed with this important work When
the college Is once located there is no
doubt OF the success Of the institution
from an educational standpoint, as the
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