The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-02-12
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There ar eseveral cases Of smallpox
In the vicinity Of Gackle.
Mandan is to be made a dispatch.
Ing point for N p. trains.
At Belfiefd 4 man was arrested on
the charge Of killing too much booze.
With two good roads bills in the
legislature omething is likely to re-
suit.
The osteopaths want q board of ex.
aminers to regulatethe practice in this
state.
The stock yards at Belffeld are to
be removed further from the business
center.
Some Of the seed establishments of
the state report they are doing fine
business.
An effort is being made at Bismarck
to stop the practice of giving away
liquor in public.
The county seat row in Mckenzie
county is like Tennyson's little brook
1T goes On forever.
The firemen at Jamestown are
making an effort to have their hall
furnished up in better style.
The Commercial club just organized
at Lankin promises great things for
the town within the near future.
The county division schemes and
county seat removal propositions in
Williams county are still numerous.
Valley City is to have strong base.
ball team, and might be induced to-
break into the proposed state league.
The time for holding court at
Jamestown may be changed from
January and July to June and Decem.
Der.
The merchants in many towns of
the state are taking kindly to the
plan to establish rest rooms for the
out-of-town shoppers.
If the supreme court decides that
the Stevenson county division plan
did carry there will be more compli.
cations in old Mclean.
Druggist Hanson of Mayville is on
the war path because some one swiped
his big thermometer. This is the sec.
ond offense this winter.
Out at Valley City the fremen
would not permit Shorty" DuVall to
resig nfrom the department, claiming
he had enlisted for life.
Miss Harriet Fleming, formerly Of
Fargo and Larimore, is now chief on.
orator for the N. d. Independent Tele,
phone company at Valley City.
Some people are already making
astronomical observations through
the bottoms of glasses, so they won't
miss any of the eclipses this year.
The discovery of high grade soft
coal around Williston has not only put
the hriquetting business to the bad,
but there is no demand for Eastern
coal.
There have been an unusually large
number Of insanity cases reported
over the state. Some of them devel
oped into merely matter of too
much booze.
The farmers from over the state
who attended the Tri-State conven
ton have returned to their homes
very enthusiastic over the success OF
the big Fargo meet this year.
Statistics prepared by the depart
nlent of agriculture at Washington
shows the farmers of Iowa and the
are the most prosperous in
the entire country. North Dakota
leads in the annual income of each
farm worker with a total of s755. 81
South Dakota $605.69. The average
humber of acres. worked by one man
IN North Dakota is 1874, in South Do
iota 1876. South Dakota farms have
IN average Of six mich COWS each.
North Dakota four. The average
value of buildings on South Dakota
arms is 412.03 on each, North Dakota
|525. Value Of implements and ma
;hinery on each farm in South Dako
average s203.14, and in North Da,
lota $23s.S4. These statistics demon
'trating the success of the middle
western farmers are being cited to the
armers of the south by the farmers
cooperative demonstration workers
Vt the agriculture department to in.
MIR tha,,, a.