The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-03-14

village OF Pekiq.
Valley City.-An effort is being
made to have Senator Dixon, cam.
paign manager for Theodore Roose.
welt, make at least one address in this
city.
Balfour. Balfour is having the
greatest revival in it's history at the
Evangelical church. About fifty have
been converted. Rev. Geo. w. Hoef,
the pastor, is his own evangelist.
Observation-Disclosures is ~constitu-
ted a SUPPORT of entry in the customs
collection district of South and North
Dakota, in a bill introduced by Repre-
sentative Hanna of North Dakota.
Jamestown.-The electric light com
mittee of the city council is planning
a white way" for jamestown to ex-
tend along the principal streets, the
plan being to have the lights installed
by an assessment.
Valley City. - Dancing for almost
eight consecutive hours upon the occa-
sion of his sixty-ninth birthday ami
versary, is the record of H. A. Tooley
of this city. He was SO and his friends
gave him a surprise party. Dancing
vas started and Mr.. Tooley scarcely
missed a number.
Fargo.-Sec. C. P. Slime of the Far
go Commercial club received a com
m%unication from the secretary of the
board of trade of Camrose, Alberta,
announcing that a special train of
Camrose boosters, which left that city
Feb. 20, will ARRIVE in Fargo, March
81, for the purpose of booming that
city as a manufacturing center of AL
berta. ~
Hillsboro.-Rev. L. J. Anderson, the
pastor who gained fame several years
ago by making a Summing tour of
East Grand Forks, Mimi, disguised
as a lumberjack, is a candidate for
the Office Of mayor of Hillsboro. Mr..
Anderson is pastor of the Scandinav.
ian Baptist church of this city. The
pastor candidate for mayor is a So.
cialist. John Loitwood is his oppon.
ent.
Fargo. The Votes for Women
league of North Dakota, which has just
been organized at Fargo have opened
headquarters in the deLendrecie build.
ing. Mrs. Kate S. Wilder has been
installed as secretary, and the head
quarters will be open Tuesday, Thurs.
day and Saturday afternoon. The OBJ.
ject of the league as the name implies
is to further the cause of womans'
suffrage.
Valley City.-Edwin Maryland, in
charge of the local work for the
Better Farming association will
make free tests of all seed grain for
farmers of this county and give them
results as to percentage of growth that
may be expected. Mr.. Maryland was
appointed to take the place of Chris
Schroeder, who resigned, owing to the
death of his wife. Maryland comes
from the Minnesota university farm.
Michigan. - The 500 railroad will
locate a townsite on it's Fordville to
Drake extension at a point just nine
miles north of Michigan, the purchase
of forty acres for townsite purposes
having just been completed. c. M.
Opone is the farm owner who made
the transfer and he received $40 an
acre. The 500 wanted 100 acres but
spone seld only forty acres. 1t is
generally understood here that the
500 will complete the grading work
and be ready to lay steel in July.
Williston.-George McChesney and
his three children had narrow escapes
when the McChesney residence was
burned. The fire originated from an
overheated kitchen range, and had
gained considerable Roadway before
the members of the household, who
were asleep at the time, were awak.
ened. Mr.. McChesney carried the
youngest of his children out, just be-
fore the stairs down which he had to
pass were cut off by flames. They
were driven into the cold without any
protection other than their sleeping
apparel.
Williston.-There is renewed fric-
tion between homesteaders and stock
men south of the river. The trouble
arises from ranging stock destroying
stacked hay belonging to homestead
ers. Under the law stock has a right
to run at large in winter months and
stacked hay is protected by law only
when properly fenced, the statute pro-
viding that the fence must be sixteen
feet from the stacks and shall consist
of five strands of barbed wire, top
wire five feet from the ground, all we'll
stapled to substantial posts set eight
feet apart.
Jamestown. w. T]rowbridge from
north of Medina was before Judge
Bigelow on a charge of not properly
caring for his stock. The warrant was
sworn out by State Humane Officer
Blake. The defense was that Trow-
bridge moved his stock late in the
eason and was not we'll prepared
when winter came, either with feed
or proper housing. The stock was
taken by the holders of mortgages on
the property and the defendant fined
IS and costs, amounting in all to
$500. The case was continued thirty
days to give him an opportunity ia
settle.