Towner County, ND, Hansboro Pioneer Newspaper published September 1, 1907 - December 31, 1907 ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************ The following news items and articles are all transcribed from the Hansboro Pioneer newspaper. The items included in this file were published between September 1, 1907 and December 31, 1907. North Dakota State Historical Society microfilm numbers 08392 Transcribed May, 2000 by: Mary Lindbo, mjlindbo@msn.com Note: when searching for names in this text, I recommend using various spellings of a surname. I noticed during the transcription that some names were not spelled the same throughout. Since many of the names were not familiar to me, I typed them exactly as they were published. (c) 2000 Mary Lindbo September 5, 1907 AT REST After a long illness during which she has battled bravely for life, Miss Ella White, daughter of Wm. White, who resides eleven miles west of this place, succumbed to the inevitable on Friday last and her earthly remains were laid to rest in the cemetery at Rolla on Saturday. The funeral was held from the Baptist Church and was attended by the young lady's many sorrowing friends and relatives. The Young lady was only seventeen years of age but for the past year has been a sufferer from the dread disease consumption and the end was not unexpected. She was a devout Christian and was ready to go to meet her Maker. In the beautiful works of the poet: "So live that when thy summons comes to join that innumerable caravan, where each shall take his chamber in the silent Halls of Death. Thou Go not, like the quarry slave, at night, scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust, approached thy grave as one who wraps the draperies of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams." May she rest in peace. The Pioneer joins with her many friends of the bereaved relatives in offering condolences. LOCAL NEWS F.H. Murdick left Monday morning on his overland trip to Montana. Miss Betty Long came up from Cando Monday for a short visit with relatives. It is rumored that another train will be put on this line in the future. We hope the rumor is correct. Roland Kessler has been suffering from an attack of appendicitis for the past few days but is somewhat better at this time. John K. Eckles still continues to battle with death. The doctors have given up all hope of saving his live and his death is hourly expected. As per schedule the passenger train on this branch changed time Sunday and we predict that the service will be more satisfactory to all concerned. Game wardens throughout the country are making it hot for those who are hunting without procuring the necessary hunting permit. Better watch out for the warden at Ellsberry, boys, he may start something. People who talk too much receive little attention. Did you ever notice the driver of a four-horse team who yells and swears continually at his horses? The horses get so used to him they take it as part of the game. Mr. Chas. Bisbee arrived from Hansboro Saturday evening and visited here with his sister, Mrs. A. Gerrard several days. Mr. Bisbee informs the Gazette that the country around Rock Lake appears to have suffered more from frost than this section. Bisbee Gazette. An exchange has discovered that a poor girl has to be awfully good looking to be pretty and a rich girl has to be awful homely to be ugly. It might have added that a poor man has to be awfully smart to be intelligent and a rich man almost a block-head to be ignorant. Some people are so lost in contemplation of the golden streets of the heavenly city that they neglect to do anything to morally clean the streets of the city in which they live and others are so entranced with the thought of taking up the harp of a thousand strings by and by that they fail to make this life more sweet and musical. The cheerful performance of their moral duties in this life will prove the surest passport to the life beyond. Minot Independent. Peter Nelson has been enjoying a visit from his daughters the Misses Nelson of Fargo. Fish from the fish hatcheries at Washington have been placed in the waters of Devils Lake and Lake Sweetwater. W.A. Hooser received his new hunting boat Tuesday and the ducks will have to go some to keep out of his reach from now on. E.E. McDougall returned from his trip to the Canadian northwest Monday, after an absence of about a month. He saw considerable of the country and altogether had a very enjoyable trip. The people of Bisbee are rejoicing over the arrival of the mechanics who will erect the new depot at that place. It is reported that the new structure will be much larger than the one burned. Mr. Wynn, the new agent for the Imperial Lumber Co., arrived this week and will take charge of the yard Saturday. Mr. Frantzen leaves on that date for Sarles where he will make his home in the future. The poles to be used for the extension of the Farmers Telephone line arrived here Tuesday and it is probable that the line will be erected and in working order in a short time. We will hope so at any rate, for it will certainly be appreciated when completed. ELLSBERRY ECHOES Wheat harvest is about completed and the hum of the thresher will soon be heard. Charles Tribble went to Hansboro Saturday night. Jacob Lipp and wife, George and Eddie Crum of Cando were Saturday night and Sunday visitors with C.E. Shoemaker and family. John E. Knight and family of Hansboro visited with Robert Ellsberry and family Sunday evening. C.H. Browne of the Hansboro Pioneer and his "little devil" visited with Chas. Wisely Saturday night and Sunday and of course the lake was too near for them to go by and so they had to scare a few ducks. C.H. says the ducks around here are good at dodging. (Landed 47 of them anyway. Ed.) C.E. Shoemaker and J.R. Crum drove to Dunseith Monday after the latter's household goods and family. R. Crum of Hansboro is clerking in the store while J.R. is moving over from Dunseith. Chas. Potter and wife of Hansboro were in this vicinity Tuesday. HORSES STILL IN DEMAND During the last seven years the number of horses in the country has increased about 30 percent, from 15,000,000 to 23,000,000 but value has increased about 112 percent. The average price on the farm in 1900 is stated at $44.50. In 1907 it is $94.50 - the highest price of which there is any official record. Instead of the automobile putting the horse out of business, we are further from the horseless age than ever. Automobiles came along just in time to prevent a horse famine. They merely change to some extent his "sphere of influence". September 12, 1907 EXCURSION NEXT SUNDAY An excursion will be run Sunday, September 15, on this branch to Rock Lake, our sister town on the south and a big jubilee is expected by all. The Eagle Band of Devils Lake and the Badger Band of this place will furnish the music for the crowd and the sports will include horse races, boat races and foot races. U.S. Senator H.C. Hansbrough and others will deliver addresses in the afternoon which feature alone will be well worth the time spent to hear. A big game dinner will be served at The Hotel Keeney and you can rest assured that you will miss it if you miss it. The special train will leave Hansboro at noon arriving at the Lake at 12:30 and returning will leave for Hansboro at 6:00 p.m. The fare for the round trip will be 50 cents from Hansboro and 25 cents from Ellsberry. Everybody go and have a good time. SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN The death of the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Kensit of this city which occurred this morning at 4 a.m. came as a violent shock to the residents of our little town. While it was known that the little one was very low, yet it was not expected that it would not recover. The disease from which the little one suffered was cholera infantum and although everything was done that medical aid and loving hands could do to save the little sufferer, he passed to the great beyond. The sympathy of the entire community goes out to the stricken parents in this their dark hours. "Safe in the arms of Jesus." May they remember that the Master has said: "Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of Heaven." LOCAL NEWS N.O. Sather of Maza is looking after business here. Mr. Chas. Weeden was elected delegate to the annual M.E. conference at Minot, October 11. The man who gets mad at what the newspaper says of him should return thanks thrice daily for what the newspaper knows of him and refrains from saying. Sher Sterritt, traveling representative for the Kelly Shirt Co., was a Hansboro visitor Tuesday looking after the trade. He reports trade as very slim this season, and expects to spend the winter in Montana. A school teacher got so lonesome at Park River that she went "bugs" after having been there only a week. Can't be that the good people there know how to treat a teacher. No one ever heard of a school teacher in Hansboro going crazy. The story of the threshing machine which is being told daily is of a disappointing nature. The yield falling far below what was expected and the quality of the grain will be very low. There is only one consolation left for the farmer and that is that the price is right. Close upon the news of Melvin Main's death came the startling report that the little two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D.K. Brightbill had in some manner been poisoned and died Monday. The little one was idolized by her parents and the loss of their little sunbeam seems more than they can bear. Particulars in regard to how the little one obtained the poison are unobtainable at this time. May the Giver of all good and perfect gifts comfort the stricken parents in their hour of trial. Fire destroyed the large livery barn belonging to George Mateer during the week and that gentleman is again forced out of business by circumstances. The barn together with 13 head of horses, buggies, etc., was entirely consumed. Mr. Mateer's loss is fully $4,000 with only $1,300 insurance. George has certainly had some pretty hard luck in the last few years, but he always comes up smiling and ready to try again. The Pioneer joins his many friends in the country in hoping that he will decide to begin again and wish him better luck from this time henceforth. Miss Florence Gimby is on the sick list. Chas. Bisbee expects to start his threshing rig this week. Miss Margaret Sande left Monday for Grand Forks to attend the State University. Mrs. Wm. Chisholm and son, Howard, left Saturday for Bemidji, Minnesota where they will visit friends. Roland Kessler who has been quite ill for some time past with an attack of appendicitis is able to be about again. L.W. Boise returned the last of the week from Perth, where he has been engaged in doing some plumbing work. Miss Hilda Gimby, of Armourdale is staying with Mrs. D.D. Elliot and attending the Rolla High School. Rolla Herald. Mr. and Mrs. E. Lakeman were called to Cartwright, Sunday to attend the funeral of an aged aunt who expired at the home of his brother-in-law living near that town. Everything in and about Rock Lake appears to be quiet at present. So quiet in fact that Editor Treadwell seems to have missed issuing the Ripples last week. Gazette. Wm. Krisher and family have been enjoying a visit from his two sisters, one from Cavalier, N.D. and the other from Minnesota, who have been here for the past week. They left yesterday for their home. A hunting and fishing party composed of O.L. Sande, C.E. Blackorby, J.E. Brown and D.A. Blackburn left Tuesday morning on a trip to the Turtle Mountains and Lake William, Manitoba. They expect to be home by the last of the week and will no doubt have an excellent time. They were well equipped for the trip and the damp weather of the past few days will only add to their pleasure. Now wait for the fish stories. A report came in today that while the Hansboro crowd was fishing at Lake William yesterday, Chas. E. Blackorby caught his hook in a snag and thinking they had caught a whale, O.L. Sande and John Brown hurried to St. John for help, leaving the "Two B's" in the middle of the lake. Fred Wilkinson who has had charge of the making of the cheese at the Rolla cheese factory this summer, left for his claim near Ray last week. After proving up he will have charge of an elevator at Hansboro. George G. Galloway will make the cheese for the balance of the season. Rolla Herald. Alphonse Durocher has purchased the barn belonging to U. Riendea, which stood on the lot just north of A. LeBrun's residence and had it moved to the lots on which he is building a residence, at the north end of Third Street. Rolla Herald. The many friends of ex-Senator R.W. Main were shocked to learn Tuesday that death had entered his household and taken the first-born. His son, Melvin, while out hunting was accidentally shot and although all was done that medical aid could do to save his life, the grim reaper claimed him for his own. Mr. Main was at Fish Lake and was notified at once, but arrived too late to see his son alive. The blow is a terrible one to the parents and the Pioneer joins their many friends in extending sympathy. ARMOURDALE BRIGHTLIGHTS Wheat harvest will soon be over and threshing will be the order. All we hear is the frost scare. We think it is not so bad as reported. Joseph Henle took his little daughter to Rolla last week to consult Dr. Verrett as she has been in poor health for some time. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hendrickson are the proud parents of a baby girl which came to their home last week, both are doing well. Some of the Rolla sportsmen are in these parts trying their luck shooting ducks and chickens. C.F. Adams of Sarles, N.D., has arrived here to take charge of the Atlantic Elevator. Miss Hilda Gimby and Miss Adeline M. Armour have gone to Rolla to attend the high school. James Keegan and son have gone to St. Paul with a carload of fat cattle. R.L. Carnahan is going to commence to thresh the last of this week. ELLISON JOTTINGS Rev. E. Stauffer from Snyder Lake, preached at Ellison Sunday morning, while Rev. Brubaker filled the pulpit at the former place. Minnie and Ray Miller entertained a number of young people at their home last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C.S. Buck from Calvin were Sunday callers at the W.E. LaBarre home. Rev. J.M. Hanawalt is having a new barn erected on his homestead. W. Willey is the builder. Wells and Rizner have dissolved partnership in their threshing outfit the latter buying out the former. Harvest is progressing nicely. The wheat is nearly all in shock and in some localities people are cutting flax. Samie Whipkey and David Hurd with their families were over Sunday, guests at the Geo. Heller home. Wilson Spohr and wife and little son Floyd, who departed from here about a year ago returned last week to look after his farm interests at this place. Postmaster H.H. Horner had a new cook arrive at their home one day last week, the new born babe and the mother are well and the father rejoices over the first girl. The sad news of Mr. Mateer's livery barn at Rock Lake with all its contents including 13 head of horses being consumed to ashes Friday night was a shock to the Ellison community. The origin of the fire is not known. Mr. Mateer has many friends in the Ellison vicinity that sympathize with him in his big loss. N.W. Hawkinson, the leading lumber and implement dealer in these new towns, recently drove to Calvin and on his return got tight, or at least he says his grip was so tight on the lines that when his team became frightened and spilled him out he could not leave go. Yes, he hung on like a dog to a green bone and finally the team was subdued. Mr. Hawkinson set up the rig and went on his way rejoicing. September 19, 1907 JOHN K. ECKELS DEAD After a Long Illness and Much Suffering, He Passed Away. John K. Eckles, who has made such a valiant fight for life for a number of weeks past in the face of insurmountable odds, succumbed to the inevitable Monday morning at 4 o'clock, and his spirit went to God who gave it. For some time before his passing it was known that his days were numbered and that it was but a question of a very short time and the doctors had given up every hope of prolonging or saving his life. The immediate cause of his death was cancer of the stomach, although he has been in poor health for some time past. Last spring he underwent an operation at Mercy Hospital in Devils Lake and it was thought for a time that this would relieve him, but a few weeks ago he was again taken worse, returned to the hospital and after another operation the doctors gave up hope and pronounced his case incurable. Mr. Eckles was well known in this community, coming here about nine years ago from Nebraska. He was born in Monongahela City, Pa., and was 53 years, 2 months and 5 days old at the time of his demise. He leaves an aged mother, six sisters and two brothers to mourn his death, and his hosts of friends unite in extending heartfelt sympathy to the stricken family. The funeral was held from the M.E. Church. Tuesday afternoon and was attended by the largest concourse of people ever gathered together in our city. Rev. J.W. Kensit was in charge of the funeral and made an eloquent funeral oration. After the service at the church the remains were conveyed to the cemetery where the earthly remains were laid at rest. His earthly pilgrimage is over. May he wake in a better, brighter land. CARD OF THANKS We desire to thank the many kind friends and neighbors who have so kindly given us their help and sympathy during the sickness and death of our beloved son and brother. May God's best blessing on them rest. Mrs. S.J. Eckles N.J. Johnson and family D.C. Farrell and family R.A. McKinstry and family SCHOOLS WILL OPEN Owing to the fact that the mill work had not arrived for the school building and the consequent delay to the workmen who were finishing the building the schools could not be opened September 1 as was intended. They will be opened, however, on Monday, the 30th day of September. Three teachers have engaged and the three rooms will be operated during the fall term. It is more than likely that the fourth teacher will have to be employed January 1 as there are a large number of pupils who will find it impossible to attend the fall term, who will be in attendance on that date. Three hacks will be used to bring the children to and from the school and the routes have been laid out and contracted for and will be run during the entire school year. Patrons are warned to have their children ready when the hacks come as, like time, they will wait for no one. It is quite important that where it is possible the children should be sent to school at the beginning of the term. Send the little ones along. We have a good school building, good teachers and there is no reason why we should not have one of the best schools in the country. LOCAL NEWS Frank Derrig is enjoying a visit from his sister, who came up from Lakota the last of the week. Mrs. Chas. Brown and daughter of Winnipeg are visiting with relatives in this vicinity this week. Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Smith received a telegram Monday announcing the death of her mother. They left Tuesday for Pisek to attend the funeral. The carpenters have the woodwork of the new Wills residence about completed and the plasterers are at work. Mr. Wills will have a very neat and roomy house when completed and one which is a credit to the town. Some road work has been done on our streets the past week. The low places are being filled and the high places cut down and if it is possible to obtain a few men for a short time it is likely that streets will be put in first class condition before it freezes up. Peter Nelson had the misfortune to lose a valuable mule this week. The animal became entangled in a wire fence and was cut so badly that it bled to death. As is always the case, it was the best one on the farm. Sine the Hansboro crowd made their trip to Lake William, it is likely that King Edward will have a new map made of his possessions, as it's said that a new lake was discovered, which they named "Oyster Bay". It is reported in town by hunting parties that two of the horses which were condemned and killed because of their being infected with glanders, have been hauled near the "Big Canon" where they still lie unburied. If someone doesn't want to get into trouble they had better bury them at once. There is a stringent law provided for such offences. Mrs. Manning and little daughter of Cartwright have been visiting with D.A. Blackburn and family this week. The new crop of wheat is being marketed. Some grades No. 1 northern, but most of it will be of lower grade. D.M. Farrell received the sad intelligence Monday by telegram that his brother who had been ill at a hospital in Omaha, Nebraska had answered the call of the grim reaper. It is expected that before the end of the year a new Canadian coin, made of nickel and valued at two cents will be issued. The coin will be convenient for making old change and buying postage stamps. Owing to the dedication services of the R.E. Church at Rock Lake, there will be no services in the Hansboro church next Sunday. Many from here will attend the services at the former town. The hotel still remains closed. Why this state of affairs should continue is a "nut to crack" for our residents. There is plenty of patronage to make it pay if it were open. How long is this to last? A number from this place attended the sports at Rock Lake Sunday and report a very enjoyable time. The ball game was good up to the end of the fifth inning when things went wild and it was turned into a "merry-go-round". However, all enjoyed the speaking and the music, and returned home well satisfied with the day's recreation. ARMOURDALE BRIGHTLIGHTS Miss Beta Sterner of Minnesota arrived here to cook on the car for Magenbook and Sampson. James Keegan and son, arrived home from St. Paul. R.B. McCauley of Hansboro was calling on friends a few days ago. M.G. Rolph has the well diggers back again, hope he will succeed in getting water. Messers. Parks and Meyers have gone to Maza to work on a threshing outfit. Crops around Cando, by reports, are threshing out six bushels to the acre of wheat. George Baldwin is on the sick list. Frank Robinson made a business trip to Rolla the early part of the week. Mr. B. Lawrence of Hansboro, spent a few days with his son Frank and put in the time hunting chickens presenting some of them to his friends in this locality. George McLean and sister and Miss McMillan of Sarles, North Dakota were the guests of Angus Armour and family the first of the week. ELLISON JOTTINGS Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Geedy from Cando spent last week with friends at Ellison. Levi Hunt is reported as being very poorly from a lingering illness. Dr. Balfour reports his condition as being very critical. J.S. Fike chaperoned a company of eight or ten to Canada last week to pick berries and chokecherries. Several of the old reliable wells in this section of the country have gone dry which indicates that the ground must be getting very dry. Hank Heller is putting a new shingle roof on his granary. Messrs. Geo. Cunningham and Jno. Cornelius, from Waterloo, Iowa, arrived last week to assist J.B. Rizner during the threshing season, the latter starting up his rig on his own farm last Saturday. Miss Elsie Robertson and friend from Brumbaugh will attend to the cooking department on the above named rig. In our next we hope to be able to report as regards, the quality and yield of grain in this locality, one thing sure we hear of no complaints concerning binning or grain capacity. Editor Browne, you are not the only fellow that is waiting for the completion of that long expected Farmers Telephone line. When you said it would be ready for business by September 1, what year or century were you alluding to? More anon, if she don't soon put in her appearance. William Deardorff and family from Brumbaugh were Sunday callers in the Ellison community. A number of the threshing rigs are to be started this week. Word was received by the Pioneer this week of a snow storm and blizzard which visited "Sunny Southern Alberta" this week, the snow lying from 18 to 24 inches on the level after the storm had passed. Oats and feed for stock generally was entirely ruined, as little of it was cut. Verily, there are worse places than North Dakota. A little nephew of W.C. Haas, who lives on a farm near Ellendale in the southern part of the state, while playing in the barn, found a bottle of carbolic acid and drank considerable of the contents. The child's mother carried the child over a mile to the home of George Haas and while a team was being hitched a doctor was telephoned in town eight miles away to meet them on the road. Witih the little sufferer they then got into the rig, the horses were put on the run until they met the doctor. By hard work the boy's life was saved and the little woman who made that hard trip of over a mile with the child in her arms is happy. The new bell for the school house was put in place Saturday, and will "ring out" when school commences, September 30. A report from Devils Lake is to the effect that Fred L. Johnson who operated a job printing plant in that city until recently and who formerly edited the Free Press, has disappeared and it is feared that he has committed suicide. He is known to be heavily in debt and probably could see no way out, but the short route. We hope the rumor is untrue. Fred may have had his faults, so have we all, but he was not a bad sort by any manner of means. September 26, 1907 A SAD ACCIDENT John M. Lukanitsch Overcome by Choke Damp and Perishes In Well A thrill of horror passed through the residents of our city Friday morning when it was reported that John M. Lukanitsch had met his death in a well at the farm of Mr. Agarand about four miles southwest of Hansboro. From what we are able to learn, the facts are as follows: The unfortunate man had been digging a well at the above-named place and had struck a large rock which prevented his digging further until the obstruction had been removed. Accordingly, the day before he had discharged a quantity of dynamite and on the morning of Friday went down to see what had been accomplished and to go ahead with the work. Long experience at the work had made him careless and he failed to put on the harness usually used by those who are engaged in this kind of work, or to fasten the rope about him in any way, and when he reached the bottom and struck the deadly gas he was without sure means of rescue. He retained his senses long enough to call "up" to the man who was attendant at the windlass. With all the speed possible this was done, but he had been raised not more than four or five feet when he became unconscious from the effects of the gas and fell from the rope back into the well. A man was dispatched to this town for help while the man on the farm labored untiringly to recover the body of the unfortunate young man. A party including Dr. Hamilton was hastily made up and driven as fast as possible to the scene of the accident. George Wilson placed the rope about him and was lowered into the well at once upon their arrival, hoping to be able to bring the body to the surface but before reaching the body, he was forced to again come to the surface to avoid being himself overcome by the deadly fumes. After considerable work a rope was fastened about the body of the young man and he was brought to the surface where Dr. Hamilton exhausted all the means known to medical science to resituate him, but his efforts were in vain. The remains were brought to town and Coroner Roberts of Cando and J.A. Meyer, a brother-in-law residing at Sarles were wired. An inquest was not deemed necessary and the remains were taken to Sarles by Mr. Meyer where the funeral was held. John M. Lukanitsch was about 24 years of age, in the prime of health and strength, industrious, of good habits, a man among men and a favorite with all who knew him. He was working hard and hoarding his savings to make a visit to the old home at Santa Clara, California, this winter to be with his parents whom he had not seen for the past five years. The Pioneer joins the entire community in offering sympathy to the sorrowing relatives. Card Of Thanks. To the people of Hansboro and vicinity, who have been so kind and sympathetic in the matter of securing and caring for the remains of our beloved brother-in-law, John M. Lukanitsch, we wish to express our most heartfelt thanks and appreciation. Your help, Friends, has lightened the blow and we assure you that we will never forget it. Gratefully yours, Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Meyer LOCAL NEWS Jay Wills made a business trip to Sarles Saturday. J.B. Smith returned from Grafton Sunday. Mmes. Murdick and McKay were Cartwright visitors the last of the week. James Anderson and wife of Rock Lake were Hansboro business visitors Tuesday. The poles for the telephone lines have been unloaded - that's all. Miss Katie Haas, of Ellendale, North Dakota, will arrive Saturday to take charge of one of the rooms in the city schools. The north bound "flyer" broker a spring on the engine Monday and was delayed four hours in its arrival here in consequence. A hunting party composed of W.A. and Art Hooser, D.A. Blackburn and C.A. Paetow went to the narrows at Rock Lake last week and bagged 62 ducks in the evening shooting. Ye scribe acknowledges having received a nice mess of them and would be glad to tackle a like number any time. C.A. Paetow made a business trip down the line today. J.R. Crum is having a barn built on his premises and a veranda put around his house. Mrs. Earle Boise will leave next week for a visit with relatives in Minneapolis. A.D. Pound came up Saturday from Cando for a short visit with his family. Mmes. B.L. Thomas and VanOrder were Cando visitors this week. James Moylan and family came up from Cando Saturday and James says he will re-open the hotel in a few days. We hope he does get busy on this score. Mrs. A.O. Johnson and baby of Williston arrived here Tuesday for an extended visit with her parents Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Anderson. The family of Mr. Wynn, the new Imperial Lumber agent, arrived the last of the week and have taken up their residence in the rooms back of the offices of the company. The damp, cold weather is retarding the fall work to a considerable extent. The usual amount of Canadian wheat is being brought to our market, as they can not only get better grades here, but better prices as well. SERVES YOU RIGHT It is not surprising how many manufacturers of beer claim for their product to be the best on the market, inferring, no doubt, that all others must be of an inferior quality. For our beer we merely claim that it "Serves You Right", that it is healthful, pure and nutritious. We prefer to have our patrons pass judgment upon the merits and if satisfied to order again. To those interested we submit our price list: Cases, 2 dozen large or 3 dozen small, Pilsner - $3.70 Casks, 6 dozen large or 10 dozen small, Pilsner - $10.50 Cases, Old Pale - $3.95 Casks - $11.25 Cases, Cardinal - $1.20 Casks - $12.00 Cases, Dakota Malt (non-intoxicating) - $3.70 Casks - $10.50 Keg Beer 1-4 bbls. (8 gallons) - $3.00 1-2 bbls. (16 gallons) - $5.00 We refund $3 for casks and $1.20 for case, full count of bottles and $1.00 for kegs. Phone 137. Call or address, Jung Brewing Co., East Grand Forks, Minnesota. P.O. Box 264 From present appearances the building of the new railway bridge here is a bigger contract than would be supposed. The fact that the old bridges has to be kept intact in order that traffic may not be interrupted, while the new bridge is being built on the same spot, somewhat delays the work. The earth is being excavated for 15 feet down in order to get a solid bottom for the piers and the water has to be kept out with a steam pump as the work proceeds. Cartwright Review We are in receipt of a dispatch from Devils Lake to the effect that while playing with a loaded pistol (which was not supposed to be loaded) the little son of Dr. Jones accidentally shot the little daughter of Dr. Horsmann of that city. The little girl expired at the hospital. Fred Koester arrived this morning from Brandon, Manitoba to look after business interests in this locality. It is rumored that the long distance telephone company will put in an extension from Rolla to Hansboro this fall. Now, Will, if you don't get busy with the Farmers Line you will certainly have competition when you do come. Oliver Scott, the new janitor for the school building is busy getting the building ready for school which commences Monday. Rev. and Mrs. J.W. Kensit spent Sunday at Rock Lake where they attended the dedication service of the new M.E. Church at that place. October 3, 1907 HANSBORO SCHOOL OPENS School opened Monday morning and although the attendance is small as yet, it will undoubtedly increase from this time on. A competent corps of teachers has been engaged and no pains will be spared by the school board to make the school a standard and one of which the patrons can be proud. The primary room is in the charge of Miss Villia Murdick, Miss Katie Haas presides over the intermediate department and Miss Sorenson is the principal and instructor of the high school department. The enrollment the first morning was fifty-four and sine that time several more have been added to the roll. There will probably be over one hundred pupils in attendance here before the term closes. As yet only three rooms are being operated, but the school board believe that it will be necessary to engage another teacher and open the fourth room probably for the winter term. The weather the past few weeks has been anything but favorable for the farmers to get their grain threshed. Showers have been of almost daily occurrence and the grain is wet - good and west. We need a couple of weeks of good bright weather yet before the crop can be entirely threshed out. The grain this fall is found by threshers to be extremely tough and hard to shell. In some cases it has been found necessary to put in five sets of concaves in the machine instead of three as is generally used. An instance is cited from near Cando where the yield was only nine bushels per acre using three sets of concaves while it was run up to a fraction over twelve bushels by adding the other two sets of concaves. Miss Katie Haas of Ellendale and Miss Sorenson of Buston, the new teachers in the city schools, arrived Saturday to be on hand for their work Monday morning. Our merchants are busy these days unpacking and placing their new stocks of winter goods. Hansboro is the place to trade and don't you forget it. R.L. Colvin, formerly principal of the Cando schools, has accepted the principalship of the Starkweather schools. Mr. Colvin is an excellent instructor and the school board of Starkweather is to be congratulated on being able to secure his services. The wheat yield this fall is very disappointing to all concerned. The best yield which has come to the notice of the Pioneer is that of Wm. Wilson who had a small piece which averaged 17 bushels per acre, but most of the fields are turning out from 4 to 8 bushels. The large oil tanks which the Hansboro Mercantile Co. are putting in are being fitted up and will be in place in as few days, ready for the supply of oil sufficient to carry the entire community through the winter and supply all with oil who may wish it. Enough oil and gasoline will be stored to last for the entire winter, whether we get a train or not. Mrs. Harry F. Adams, daughter of Editor Treadwell of the Ripples has made a settlement with the Great Northern railway for $4,300 for the death of her husband in the Bartlett wreck last winter. Her lawyers are trying to annul the settlement claiming it is not enough and that they were not consulted. A.Durocher was a Hansboro visitor from his farm near Rolla the latter part of the week. The "Two Charleys" Wiseley and Bowman were Ellsberry visitors in Hansboro Saturday. Fire destroyed the old blacksmith shop opposite the livery stable in Rolla the latter part of last week. Earl Boise and family left Monday for Grand Rapids, North Dakota where they will make their home in the future. A debating club is being organized by our young people. Egeland is building an $8,000 school building. Mr. and Mrs. E. Lakeman spent Sunday with Cartwright friends. Miss Amy Brightbill came up Saturday from Cando to visit over Sunday. Chas. E. Blackorby returned the last of the week form a business trip down the line. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Smith, Tuesday morning, a son. All doing nicely. C.A. Paetow returned Tuesday from a visit at the old home in Valley City. He reports that town on the boom in every way. E.E. McDougall made a business trip to Killarney Wednesday. John Askew, the popular Cartwright hotel man was Hansboro visitor Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. D.A. Blackburn and family visited relatives in Cartwright the first of the week. John Wills new residence is almost completed and he expects to move in a few days. Mrs. F.H. Murdick is enjoying a visit from her sister, Mrs. Emma Sherry of Chicago. The Ladies Aid Society met with Mrs. F.H. Murdick yesterday. C.E. Shoemaker of Ellsberry was a Hansboro business caller Tuesday. A.Tennis of Ellsberry attended to the grain buying in the Farmers Elevator here during Mr. McDougall's absence in Manitoba. October 10, 1907 HANSBORO SCHOOL NOTES The School Board has deemed it necessary to add one year of high school work to the course of study for our schools. There are a few in school who are prepared to take up the work of the 9th grade and others will enter soon. Any who contemplate doing so, will aid the teacher and the class by entering as soon as possible. 63 enrollment in the three rooms. Eva Johnson entered school Monday. Sickness kept her out the first week, she is a member of the 9th grade. Clara Olson was absent on Monday. All of the conveyances have succeeded in getting in on scheduled time. Mrs. Murdick and Mrs. Sherry visited the school last week. Thurza Brown and Jacquette alternate in playing the organ for marching. An unknown quantity, boys in the seventh grade. If present conditions continue the amount of wheat that will be marketed at points along this line of railway will be small, as the bulk of the crop tributary to Canadian towns will be sold at bonded elevators in North Dakota. There is not much difference in the market quotations: the difference is in the grading. Wheat that is graded two northern at Cartwright brings one northern at Hansboro, North Dakota and wheat that is four northern at Cartwright is two northern at Hansboro. A farmer, therefore, who has a low grade wheat can make the difference in price between the grades mentioned by hauling to an American market to which he is in many cases quite as convenient as to a Canadian. Cartwright Review. Mrs. J.B. Smith returned from Pisek Tuesday. For the best bread in the city go to Mrs. L.W. Boise. L.A. Roberts of Devils Lake was a business visitor in Hansboro and vicinity this week. Manager P.S. Dunn of the F.G.& S. was a Hansboro visitor the last of the week. W.F. Bacon of Cando was in town between trains Saturday. Commissioner J.W. Pound was a south bound passenger on the Monday train on his way to attend the meeting of the "county dads". Mrs. Emma Sherry who has been visiting Mrs. F.H. Murdick for the past week, left Saturday for her home in Chicago. Wm. Barnes and "Happy" Duncan came over from Rolla last Friday in their auto and visited with friends for a few hours. It is probably that the petition for the incorporation of Hansboro will receive some action by the board of County Commissioners at the meeting which is being held at the county seat this week. The F.G. & S. have added another engine to their equipment. It is considerably larger and more powerful than the other engines which have been in use by the company and has been thoroughly overhauled and rebuilt at the shops. The school board held a meeting on Tuesday. Miss Lemmon is visiting her sister, Mrs. L.W. Boise. The Churchs Ferry Spare Bank was robbed Monday night by a number of "yeggman" who secured about $6,000 and made their escape. The robbery is thought to have been committed by five men in an automobile who were in town in the evening. These parties cannot be located and the authorities have not even a description of the occupants. One of the steel trusses for the new railway bridge was unloaded on Tuesday and the other one will probably be taken off today. As these trusses weigh eighty tons each, the removing of them from the cars is no small undertaking. Cartwright Review The telephone line which has so anxiously looked for has at last arrived - that is the gang of men who have been digging the holes for the posts have arrived. The posts are here in the railroad yards and will be put in place as rapidly as possible. It will probably be a matter of a couple of weeks before the line will be completed into Hansboro. October 17, 1907 ELLSBERRY ECHOES Threshing is about all done, with a poor yield and poor grade. It is going to keep us clod hoppers guessing. Dr. Chas. Real was up from Cando last week looking after his farming interest. George Blose of Cando came up last Tuesday from Cando to look after his farm seven miles southwest of town. J.R. Crum made a business trip to Dunseith last week. Mr. Shireman, the traveling optician was though here Tuesday. There is talk of having revival meetings at this place all next week. Everybody invited to come and bring all your friends. Mrs. J.R. Mary and Ottie Crum went to Hansboro Monday. L.E. Shoemaker is blowing the whistle for H.C. Murphy's gasoline thresher this week. There are two half breeds "boot-legging" to the threshers. It would be well for all if the officers would get out and rustle them down the line. The telephone line will soon be no dream. But we Ellsberryites will have to dream some more for we won't buy the durned thing. But if they will rent to us we might all put one in. But not $30. The Misses Mary Shoemaker and Lettie Butler drove to Rock lake on Tuesday. Joe Wolgamot, the Hansboro herder passed down the line with a nice bunch of cattle bound for Cando Wednesday. LOCAL NEWS D.M. Farrell and Nels Johnson went to Rolla Monday. Everyone is busy plowing during the fine fall weather. W.C. Haas and wife were business callers in Rolla Saturday. P.S. Dunn was up from the lake yesterday on an inspection trip. John Quain and wife will leave this week their home for the future. The usual number of "dead beats" are making their disappearance as the cold weather sets in. Good riddance to bad rubbish. D.A. Blackburn, J.R. Crum, John brown and Neil McKay attended the meeting of the A.F. & A.M. at Rolla Tuesday. The inspector of the custom officer was in Hansboro last week and left here by team for a drive along the border to the Montana line. Tom Lohner who has been employed by Chris Orton for the past few months in the Hansboro Meat Market left today for his home in Adams. J.M. Brayton, formerly agent for the Imperial Lumber Co., at this point, but now located at Rolla, was visiting friends and transacting business here yesterday. The linemen who are putting in the telephone line are here and the wire is being strung and it is likely that everything will be in working order next week or the week after the latest. Landlord Moylan informs us that the Central Hotel will again be opened to the public this week. We are indeed glad to announce this fact as the absence of a hotel in a town of this size certainly creates a false impressing and works an injury to those who are in business in the town. Chas. McKay, the genial blacksmith from Rolla was in Hansboro today. He informs a representative of the Pioneer that he will again resume business in his blacksmith shop at an early date. All his tools were ruined by the recent fire but he has ordered new ones and will start again. We wish him success. R.E. Rognas was over from Rolla last week. C.E. Blackorby was a county capital visitor Monday. W.A. Hooser made a business trip to Egeland yesterday. We are having the finest weather of the year. Our Indian summer has them all beaten. Sheriff James Taylor was in Hansboro the last of the week attending to some legal business in this vicinity. He left that boy in charge of things at Cando. Dr. C.A. Real was in Hansboro several days the past week. He reports things being very quiet at the county seat. Attorney L.H. Sennett came up from the county seat the last of the week and spent a couple of days in Hansboro visiting friends and making new acquaintances. The Pioneer acknowledges a pleasant call. Hugh Lymburn had a narrow escape from a serious accident last week. While working around his threshing machine he was caught between the separator and a grain tank and quite badly squeezed, but fortunately escaped with no serious injuries. J.W. Pound received the sad intelligence last week that his mother was not expected to live and he left at once for the old home in Ontario. His brother, Delmar, who was at Egeland was also notified and left Saturday for the same place. It is hoped by their many friends that they will find their mother's health improved upon their arrival and that she may live a number of years to gladden their lives. Peter Nelson made a business trip down the line Monday. Judge Blackorby of Ellsberry was a business visitor in Hansboro yesterday. The Chicago Cubs won the baseball pennant easily putting the Detroit Tigers to the bad in three straight games. There is to be a box social at the Picton school house Friday evening October 25. You are all cordially invited to attend. Program to begin at 8 o'clock promptly. The open season for prairie chickens closed Tuesday. The birds have been very scarce this fall, it is thought to be owing to the late rains. Very few large bags have been reported by local sportsmen. The roller mill at Rolla was destroyed by fire at an early hour yesterday morning. The building and stock was entirely destroyed. It is supposed that the fire was started from an overturned lantern. The loss will be keenly felt by the farmers in this community. Threshing is about completed. October 24, 1907 THE FIRE FIEND Hansboro Visited by a $10,000 Blaze Early Saturday Morning Shortly before 5 o'clock Saturday morning our citizens were aroused by the cry of "fire". A crowd of anxious citizens quickly collected and found a brisk blaze consuming the Hansboro Meat Market and City Restaurant and Pool Hall. Being devoid of fire fighting apparatus, the people were practically helpless to stop the ravages of the flames, which, after consuming the two buildings above mentioned were quickly communicated to the Central Hotel and the residence of Myron VanOrder, all of which buildings were located on the north side of Main Street. It was with extreme difficulty and hard work that the flames were kept from enveloping the buildings on the south side of the street, but after hard work these buildings were saved with only a small loss. The buildings on the south side which were endangered by the flames were Hooser's Opera House and Pool Hall, The Pioneer Office, The Elite Millinery, Smith's Confectionery Store, Blackburn's Drug Store, Messer & Fernyhough's General Store and Boise's Hardware. Timely action saved them although several of them were severely scorched and every glass broken in the fronts by the extreme heat. When it became apparent that the four buildings which were burned were beyond salvage, the efforts of the fire fighters were centered on saving the general store of VanOrder & Sande, which was immediately west of the VanOrder residence. The store building was in flames a dozen times and as many times was thought to be doomed, but the heroic work of the citizens finally got the flames under control and the store was saved. The fire is thought by many to have been of incendiary origin, as the fire started between the Meat Market and the Restaurant, there being no blaze on the inside of either building when the fire was first discovered. It is however probable that the fire originated from a cigar stub carelessly thrown between the two buildings. The loss caused by the fire is estimated at fully $12,000.00 with insurance of about $3,500 and is practically as follows: C.H. Orton, meat market, fixtures and households goods, $2,000.00; insurance $750.00; J. Rabinovick, building fixtures and household goods $2,000.00, with little or no insurance; James Moylan, hotel building, furnishings, etc., $5,000.00, with no insurance on furnishing and only $1,500.00 on the building; M.E. VanOrder; residence, total loss on building, furniture was saved, at least the greater part of it; buildings across the street were damaged from $350 to $450 by the heat. Fortunately the fire occurred on a morning when there was little or no wind, and had this not been the case it would have been impossible to have saved a single building on Main Street. Everything considered it is indeed fortunate for the people of our little town that the flames were confined to the four buildings and it is a miracle how this was accomplished. Everyone worked faithfully and well to save our little town. No little thanks is due to the men of the Farmer's Telephone crew, who worked like Trojans to control the flames and save property. Chris Orton and son, Theodore and J. Rabinovick and family had narrow escapes from perishing in the flames. Every window on the south side of the street exposed to the heat was broken. Bert Manning did yeoman service in saving the Smith Confectionery store. With considerable difficulty the flames were kept from communicating with the Hansboro Mercantile Co.'s oil house. Messrs. VanOrder & Sande extend their thanks to all who worked so faithfully to save their store building from destruction. It was good work accomplished in the face of almost insurmountable odds, but to the united efforts of the crowd the flames were obliged to succumb. Wells and cisterns in the vicinity of the fire were pumped dry, showing the necessity of providing for a much larger water supply, for future emergencies. The loss falls heavily on all who were burned out. With the limited facilities, it is phenomenal how the fire was confined to the burned district. And Bob McMee slept all through the fire. M.E. VanOrder has moved his household effects into the Messer residence for the winter. Miss Nelson, who has been teaching school in the country northwest of this city, left last week for her home in Fargo. Mrs. C.D. Carmichael of Cando is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Blackorby of this city. Chas. O. Kaufmann, the genial depot agent at Rock Lake, was renewing acquaintances in Hansboro Sunday. Dave Gorman of Cando and Robert Hartman of Egeland were in our city the past week looking after business interests. Miss Groves who has for some time been visiting with her sister, Mrs. Clarence Smith, left Monday for her home in Black Duck, Minnesota. Mrs. T. Long and baby and Miss Betty Long of Cando are visiting relatives in this vicinity this week. The Messer and Fernyough store has been taken in charge by Dave Gorman and Robert Hartman who will close out the entire stock at wholesale prices. Everything is to go, nothing reserved. J. Rabinovick went to St. John Monday. B.L. Thomas and D.A. Blackburn were county capital visitors Monday. Miss Edna Murdick has accepted a position in Canfield's store at Starkweather. Frank Meuwisson, of the State Bank of Rolla, was a Hansboro visitor on business Monday of this week. Mrs. Arthur Hooser of Egeland visited with Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Hooser and family this week. Editor Stead of the Cartwright Review was in our little city, Sunday looking over the ruins of the fire and visiting with friends. He called on the Pioneer and had a pleasant chat. W.A. Hooser returned Saturday from a hunting trip at Lake Irwin. He reports that their party had fairly good luck, bagging over 30 geese and about the same number of ducks. W.T. Wilcox was a pleasant caller at the Pioneer office Tuesday. He informs us that he finds that it pays to trade with the Hansboro merchants in every line. He bought in a load of grain, was paid six cents more per bushel for his grain than he could get in Sarles. HANSBORO SCHOOL NOTES The seventh, eighth and ninth grades organized a literary society last Friday. A program is to be rendered once a month, Friday afternoon. The following officers were elected. President - Adelbert Weeden Vice President - Edna Smith Secretary - Myrtle Weeden Treasurer - Thurza Brown Program Committee - Percy Cowan, Ruth Lawler, Jacquette Brown Leland Pound entered school last week. Ruth Brown has been promoted to the seventh grade. The books for the ninth grade have arrived and we are all ready for work. Iva Barker, Joseph Peterson, Ole Peterson and Swan Olson new pupils in the primary room. Ernest Disher has returned after a week's illness. October 31, 1907 TOO MUCH LIQUID A general order was issued Tuesday to all the line elevators not to buy a bushel of grain, even at the present depreciated prices; not to buy one bushel of grain which is now in storage, and not even to ship the grain already bought which may be in the elevators. This order is something unheard of. Never before in the history of the country has there been a time when the grain firms refused to buy grain, whether in storage or not. The large banks have notified their correspondents not to issue or pay large drafts and the money market is assuming the appearance of a panic. It is hard for those at this distance from the money center to correctly state just what has caused the unprecedented stringency as to money matters; but the daily papers are full of the accounts of bank failures and suspensions and it is hard to see what the outcome will be. The order promulgated by the elevator companies will certainly falls heavily on the farmers of the northwest who have not marketed their grain. Many of them are in such a condition financially that they must sell at least a part of their drop in order to live and should the orders not to buy be kept in force for any considerable time there will be a great deal of suffering caused to all classes. LOCAL NEWS The local telephone exchange have over twenty telephones in service and others spoken for which will be installed as soon as the instruments arrive. The Cando papers want to know where the game warden at Churchs Ferry kept himself when a crowd of "sports" from the eastern cities came out in their private car, slaughtered a hundred or so geese and then took them out of the state as has been alleged in the case. Andrew Dunphy went to Devils Lake Monday to appear before the U.S. District Court. It is alleged that he assisted in the smuggling of some Canadian grain into the local market. His friends are of the opinion that he will be able to disprove the charge. The gang of electricians and linemen who have been putting in the telephones in our town have finished the work and left yesterday for Cando. Hansboro is now connected with the county capital by wire and messages are there transferred to the long distance phone. The telephone has been a long looked for convenience and will prove invaluable to our businessmen. D.M. Farrell, one of our most prosperous farmers from the east side was in town Monday straightening up his affairs preparatory to making a trip to Grand Forks where he will enter the Keeley Institute to be cured of the liquor habit. Dave is one of the best fellows going and it can in truth be said of him that he is his own worst enemy, for we do not believe that he has another in the county. Realizing that he had acquired an appetite that was a menace to himself and his family and their happiness, he has gone to the institute to take the cure and his many friends hope that when he leaves that institution he will have rid himself of the cursed appetite. Mrs. Farrell accompanied him to the Forks. HANSBORO SCHOOL NOTES The following have been perfect in attendance and punctuality for the first month: Thurza Brown, Francis Brown, Ruth Brown, Jacquette Brown, Percy Cowan, Mary Lawler, Lenius Sande, Adelbert Weeden, Myrtle Weeden, Winifred Wright, Susie Brown, Frances Crum, Noral Disher, Lee Howard, Ethel Lawler, Lucy Lawler, Lee Leftwich, Lynch Leftwich, May Moore, Eli Mathison, Bert Mathison, Clara Pound, Grace Tribble, Eare Moore, Bennie Diggins, Roy Lymburn, Ruel Sande, John Lawler, Aleetha Weeden, Irma Johnson, Eva Pound, Opal Tribble, Claire Wills. Manvel Rod and Thurvald Olson have entered the seventh grade. Edna Smith was absent last Friday on account of sickness. Eva Johnson is visiting in Grand Forks. Mrs. Murdick and Mrs. Carmichael visited school last Thursday. George Wilson made a business trip to Newville yesterday. Wm. Chisolm is a Hansboro visitor this week. Miss May Blackorby came up from Cando Monday for a visit with her parents. Rev. Kensit delivered his farewell sermon Sunday and left Monday for his new charge at Walhalla. The first snow of the season made its appearance Wednesday morning, a light fall of the "beautiful" which disappeared with the rising of the sun. L.W. Boise was a Perth business visitor Tuesday. L.A. Roberts was a Cando visitor in Hansboro Friday hunting up delinquents. Newton, the Congress "Candy Kid" was in Hansboro drumming up trade Monday. Miss Pearl Gaye who has been "holding down a case" on the paper at Ambrose this summer is visiting with Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Hooser of this city. N.B. Felton of Grand Forks who was at one time one of the officers of the Hansboro State Bank has been quite ill at his home for some time, but is much improved at this writing. C.A. Weeden returned today from attendance at the term of U.S. court. Fred Wilkinson's family arrived last week and will make their home in the Kessler house this winter. If you think the world owes you a living, you will die of starvation if you sit down and wait for it to call and settle. A.C. Anderson left Monday for Devils Lake where he is summoned as a witness before the U.S. District Court. The social held at the Picton school house last week was well attended and the receipts were most gratifying to all concerned. A.Durocher was in Hansboro Monday and called at the Pioneer office to pay his subscription for another year. He has moved to Rolla for the winter. A number of the smaller towns in the state have been visited lately by disastrous fires. Among the latest to suffer a heavy loss is the town of Ellendale in Dickey County. Fire broke out early Saturday morning and before it could be checked had consumed over $35,000 worth of property. This is the second visit to that town in six months, the former fire destroying over $50,000 worth of property and this second visit will prove a serious blow to that place. D.M. Armour has sold his farm near Armourdale and will leave in the near future for Foam Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada where he has a valuable piece of land. His sons also have land near his and they will make their home there in the future. Their many friends will regret to hear of their removal from this vicinity but all join in wishing them health, wealth and prosperity in their new home. November 7, 1907 LOCAL NEWS A.O. Sather was up from Starkweather today. The Hansboro Construction Co. is building a barn for Jno. Jarvis of Picton. Mrs. C.H. Olson and little daughter of Cando are visiting this week with her daughter, Mrs. B.L. Thomas of this city. Mr. R.W. Kent formerly of Lakota but now of Grand Forks is a business visitor in Hansboro this week. Mr. Kent is a special collector for the Grand Forks Mercantile Co. Commissioner John Pound returned from Cando yesterday from attending a meeting of the county "fathers". Andrew McKay and nephew Mr. Scott came over from the Canadian side Sunday to visit with Neil McKay. They returned Monday. A report reaches the Pioneer that George Woodward formerly of this place, was married to Miss Varty, of St. John, the fore part of this week. The Pioneer congratulates. J.J. McCanna, of Cando, president of the Bank of Hansboro, was in the city visiting friends the first of the week. The Pioneer acknowledges a pleasant call. Anderson Brothers of Starkweather have purchased a half interest in the Nels Sather farm northeast of town and will operate it in the future. This farm is one of the largest and best in Towner County and we welcome the Anderson Brothers to our community. C.H. Orton has erected a new building in the place of the one recently destroyed by the fire. We understand that Mr. Orton will not again engage in the butcher business but will put in a first class pool and billiard hall. Dave Gorman and Robert Hartman left Saturday for a few days visit at their homes in Cando and Egeland respectively, they expect to return the last of the week and complete the sale of the Messer and Fernyhough stock. Jake Rabinovick and wife left Saturday for St. John where he will engage in the restaurant business. He has rented the John Kane building on Main Street in that town and invites his friends to give him a call when in that town. Lawrence Gowland, who murdered Georgiana Brown while employed by her brother as a farm hand, was convicted at the recent term of the king's court at Morden, Manitoba and sentenced to be hanged on Friday, December 13. The crime was committed last spring near Killarney and was a most heinous one and the death sentence fittingly marks the passing of a criminal and the day of execution well chosen, Friday the Thirteenth. Miss Lemmon who has for some time past been visiting her sister, Mrs. W.A. Hooser, left Monday for her home in Minnesota. Mrs. Hooser and Miss Gay returned Wednesday. The Pioneer is informed upon good authority that P.S. Dunn, who for the past three years has so efficiently filled the office of manager of the F.G. & S. Co., has resigned his position and will accept a superintendency on the Great Northern railway. We understand he will be stationed at Havre, Montana. Mr. Dunn, by his pleasant, courteous treatment of the patrons of the road has made many friends who will be sorry to hear of his resignation and remember him with kindest regards and best wishes for his welfare in his new position. We understand Mr. Mikkelson has accepted the position made vacant by Mr. Dunn's resignation. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY INSTALLS DAILY TRAIN SERVICE BETWEEN MINOT AND CROSBY The Great Northern Railway has just issued a circular announcing the installation of daily except Sunday passenger train service between Minot, North Dakota and Crosby, North Dakota to become effective on November 4. Stops will be made in both directions at Berthold, Aurelia, Woburn, Lygnite, Crosby and all intermediate stations. Under new schedule the train leaves Crosby at 7:30 a.m., reaches Berthold at 11:30 a.m. and arrives at Minot at 12:15 p.m. and Berthold at 4:45 p.m., arriving at Crosby at 8:45 p.m. Connection is made at Minot with Great Northern Railway train no. 4, the "Oriental Limited", eastbound to Devil's Lake, Grand Forks, Minneapolis, St. Paul and all principal intermediate points and with no. 5, west bound. Mrs. Wm. Geary is moving into the L.W. Boise building this week and will conduct a restaurant there this winter, in connection with Mrs. Boise's Bakery. We understand that Mr. Boise has accepted a position outside of town for the winter and will leave in a few days to begin his work. President Joseph Kelly came up from Devils Lake yesterday on his motor car on a tour of inspection. When only a short distance out of town he attempted to "pass the section crew and car on the same track" and as his brake refused to work, he ran into the hand car and caused some minor repairs to be imperative to the motor. He spent the night in our little town and returned this morning to the Lake. Neil McKay, our blacksmith was called upon to do a rather difficult piece of work Monday. S.L. Phillips had the misfortune to break the axle on his large threshing engine and expected that he would have to lay up until he could get a new one from the factory; but Bro. McKay proceeded to weld the broken pieces together and Mr. Phillips was saved a goodly number of dollars thereby. The job is no small matter as the axle weighs over 250 pounds and was broken squarely in the center. Mrs. Z.T. Kreiger met with painful accident the first of the week. She was helping haul some hay to the barn from the field and in some manner fell off the load, breaking her arm. Dr. Hamilton reduced the fracture and she is doing nicely at this writing. HANSBORO SCHOOL NOTES The following program will be given by the Literary Society Friday afternoon November 15. Song - School Recitation - Clara Olson Instrumental Solo - Thurza Brown Reading - Lenius Sande Debate: "Resolved That Fire is More Destructive Than Water" Affirmative - Percy Cowan, Francis Brown, Eva Johnson Negative - Adelbert Weeden, Ernest Disher, Ruth Disher Recitation - Edna Smith Violin Solo - Percy Cowan Original Story - Ruth Brown Song - Four girls: Eva Johnson, Edna Wilson, Jacquette Brown, Mary Lawler Song - School Charles King entered school Monday. Clarence Wilson was promoted into the fourth grade this week. All the children are busy preparing their Thanksgiving recitation. Eighty-one pupils are now enrolled. Leland Pound had his composition published in the Journal Junior last week. Orra Wills, George Crum, Ronald Crum, Roy Murdick, Laura and Leeda Fernyhough were enrolled this week. A new clock has been placed in the tower ball. It is a fine one. The primary and intermediate rooms are preparing a Thanksgiving program. Fred Hamlin, the negro, who shot and killed Carl McRae in a row over a poker game at Finley recently, was sentenced to do twenty-five years at hard labor in the state penitentiary. Editor Boyd of the Hannah Moon, was a Hansboro visitor Monday and the Pioneer acknowledges a pleasant call. Mr. Boyd and a party of friends were out in an automobile hunting the festive goose and taking in the country. Three hunters were arrested last week by the Churchs Ferry game warden for hunting on Lake Irwin at night with a light. The law provides that no hunting shall be done on a lake before eight o'clock in the morning and after five o'clock at night. Eugene McDougall who has been absent from our little city for the past two weeks returned Monday. When he left he expected to get a chance to hunt the geese and ducks before the cold weather set in but he busied himself in the general office of the Farmers Grain Co. and got no vacation at all which consequently cannot tell any hunting yarns that will (??-unable to read microfilm) those which we tell in the (??-unable to read microfilm) November 14, 1907 ELLISON JOTTINGS Mr. A.L. Tennis who has been visiting his sister at Edmore returned home one day last week. Mrs. R.J. Ellsberry is visiting friends near Perth and other points. She will be absent all winter. A.B. Blackorby has been calling on friends at Hansboro for a few days last week. The school board has rented R.L. Ellsberry's residence for school purposes for the winter. C.E. Shoemaker drove to Hansboro Saturday evening. J.B. Blackorby went to Rock Lake for a load of potatoes Monday. H.C. Murphy came in from Antwerp Monday to tell us that he is busy at present. Lee Arnold has accepted a job in the section and will soon move to Rock Lake. Rev. Anderson of Rolla gave a short talk in the station house Monday evening. Lottie Butler is helping Mary Shoemaker with house work at present. November 21, 1907 LAND SALE POSTPONED The sale of state and institution lands which was advertised to take place at Cando today, has been declared off by Land Commissioner Hegge. This action is looked upon by the farmers generally as a very good move and all are satisfied as owing to the recent financial flurry many of them find themselves in a position where they would not be able to purchase at the present time, where they could do so easily in a few months from now. Had the land been put on sale today there is a strong probability that a great deal of it would have been bid in by speculators and the farmers for whose benefit the sale was called would have fared illy, and would have got but a small percent of the land which they have watched and planned on adding to their holdings for a number of years past. It is thought that the sale will be held in the spring in plenty of time for the farmers to crop the newly purchased land if the financial situation clears up. HANSBORO ORGANIZES BAND Arrangements were perfected last week for the organization of a band in Hansboro and the new musical organization held their first rehearsal Tuesday evening of this week. The new organization is not composed of beginners but is composed of some of the best talent in the county, about half of them being members until recently of the Badger Band and the balance is made up of the material in town. An instrumentation of over twenty pieces has already been secured and it thought that it will be an easy matter to increase this should it be deemed advisable. Rehearsals will be held twice each week during the winter and it is thought likely that the new organization will be able to furnish some excellent music when the warm weather comes. THANKSGIVING EXERCISES The following exercises are to be held by the pupils of the primary and intermediate departments for the city school: Program Song - School Recitation - Ruel Sande Recitation - Lucy Lawler Recitation - Eva Pound Dialogue - Second grade Recitation - Aletha Weeden Song - School Recitation - Claire Wills Recitation - First grade Recitation - Irma Johnson Recitation - Eli Mathison Story - Jenny Geary Song - School Recitation - Opal Tribble Quotations - Third grade Recitation - Bennie Diggins Recitation - Johnny Pound Dialog - Three girls Song - School Recitation - Dollas Moore Recitation - Inez King Recitation - Rogna Peterson Recitation - Bessie Pierce Recitation - Johnny Lawler Recitation - Roy McKinnon Recitation - Clarence Wilson Dialogue - First grade Recitation - Roy Lymburn Song - School LOCAL NEWS Chas. Wisely was an Ellsberry visitor in Hansboro the last of the week. VanOrder & Sande are having an addition built on the back of their store building for the purpose of storing goods. W.H. James was in from Picton yesterday transacting business with our merchants. D.M. Farrell returned last week from Grand Forks where he has been for the past three weeks. Everybody add their might toward making the new band a success. There is nothing that tends to advertising a town more than a good band and we have it and don't you forget it. Everybody is busy making preparations for winter. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Graybill a boy. All doing well. M.E. VanOrder made a business trip to Armourdale yesterday. Frank Meuwisson of the State Bank of Rolla was a Hansboro visitor yesterday on business. Rev. Leach will deliver the Thanksgiving sermon at the Ginther school house next Sunday evening. All invited. F.M. Harris, collector for the International Harvester was transacting business in Hansboro yesterday. Jay Wills and Arthur Converse were Cartwright visitors today. The "deadbeats" are gradually thinning out in this community. Another of that fraternity is reported to have skipped the country the last of the week leaving a large amount due to creditors. It will be an excellent thing for the country when the stock has been exhausted. A reception was given last Thursday evening by the M.E. Ladies Aid to the new pastor and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. E.B. Palmer. The guests gathered in the church parlors and for a time enjoyed a social session after which a delicious lunch was served by the ladies. The new pastor and his good wife seem to be the right sort and were and will be made to feel at home among us. While attending to the team owned by the John D. Gruber Co., last Saturday, Jay Wills had the misfortune to meet with an accident which might have had a much more serious ending. After having led the animals to water he had taken one of them into the barn and went out to catch the other one to lead it into the barn when the horse wheeled and kicked at him. Realizing that he was too close to the animal to get away in time, Jay flung himself to the ground, but not quick enough to escape receiving both feet of the horse in his back. In falling his head came in contact with some object cutting a bad gash under his eye. Fortunately no bones were broken and after the doctor had dressed his injuries he was forced to remain in the house only a few hours and was attending to his duties with the company again Monday. Had Mr. Wills not had the presence of mind to throw himself to the ground, there is little doubt but that he would have fared much worse. A farewell dinner was given at the home of W.S. Ginther last Tuesday in honor of Messrs. Johnson, Doan, Hill and Leach and families who will leave in a short time for the Canadian northwest. The plate glass for the front of Blackburn & Co.'s store which was broken in the recent fire arrived Tuesday and were placed in position by Contractor Maughan. When attending to some chores Saturday noon, John Wilson suffered an attack of heart failure and fell to the ground near L.W. Boise's store. He was picked up immediately and taken into the building and Dr. Hamilton summoned. Restoratives were applied and after a time the old gentleman was brought to and is now able to be about again. The following paragraph taken from the Farmington, Minnesota paper was sent us by our former Jas. Cook and will prove of interest to their friends here: James Cook and family of Hansboro, North Dakota arrived at the home of his brother Milton who lives on the Barclay farm last Friday. Mr. Cook has rented the John Harmon farm for a term of years and will move on the phone next week. ELLSBERRY ECHOES It seems that Ellsberry is up against the real thing for a school marm. Any good teacher will please report. C.Lawrence and family of Hansboro visited at Shoemakers Monday. Josh James of Rolla is calling on old friends and making new ones here during the meetings this week. Peter Nelson of the Hansboro Mercantile Co., was through Tuesday seeing how rich we clod hoppers were. Wm. Disher and Chas. Tribble are hauling grain these days. Lewis Shoemaker went to Hansboro with a load of hogs Tuesday. Little Miss Stella Enochs is poorly with rheumatism but is some better at present. Snow all gone but a little bit. Snappy just the same. Rev. Steinhoff is delivering some very eloquent sermons at the station house. Charles Tribble says book down another democrat for Towner County for it is a boy by gosh. Mother and son doing fine. Mrs. A. Coleman of Cando is visiting her daughter Mrs. Chas. Tribble. Mrs. Lee Arnold and son are visiting at Rock Lake. C.E. Shoemaker and George Wilson of Hansboro would like to see a certain money lender for a few dollars. Joe and Charley King and Cecil Armour visited with Lewis Shoemaker Sunday. ELLISON JOTTINGS May this fine weather hold out til Christmas anyway and as much longer as we are worthy of. W.A. Deardorff had a lumber hauling bee from Crocus today. Mr. D. intends to raise and complete his barn while the nice weather is lasting. George Deardorff from Perth will do the carpenter work. W.D. Mohler and George Heller are among the many who are slaughtering porkers the past several days. J.D. McDownell is moving his household goods and family to the Alberta country. Edd Huffman and B.A. Deardorff with their families from Brumbaugh were over Sunday, visitors in the Ellison community. County Commissioner Gerrard and County Superintendent Gang were business transactors in our vicinity one day last week. The State and Institution land sale has been dismissed for this year, we think it a good idea too, since the short crop but very few farmers would have been able to have bought any land and by dismissing the sale it will keep out speculators. NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE Whereas, V. Nirva, mortgagor made, executed and delivered to Messer & Fernyhough, mortgagee, his certain chattel mortgage dated February 8, 1907, wherein and whereby said mortgagor mortgaged to said mortgagee the following described personal property, to-wit: One roan mare, four years old, weight about 800 pounds, named "Dutchy", white hind foot; one red cow, short horned, five years old, named "Redy", weight about 700 pounds to secure the payment of the sum of $55.60, which mortgage was duly filed in the office of the Register of Deeds of Towner County, North Dakota. And whereas, default has been made in the terms of said mortgage by reason of the nonpayment of the debt secured thereby and the amount claimed to be due at the date hereof is $59.83. Now, therefore, notice is hereby given that by virtue of said mortgage and by order of said Messer & Fernyhough, the present owner thereof. I will sell the above described chattels at the front door of George Wilson's barn in Hansboro, North Dakota at the hour of 2 o'clock p.m. on Wednesday, November 27, 1907. Dated at Hansboro, North Dakota this 20th day of November 1907. George Wilson, Agent Residence and post office address Hansboro, North Dakota November 28, 1907 Mrs. B.L. Thomas was at Cando last week. Mr. and Mrs. Art Hooser of Egeland spent Thanksgiving with Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Hooser of this city. F.M. Harris of Cando has been in the vicinity for the past few days attending to the collections for the International Co. Roscoe Kent, who for the past three weeks has been transacting business in our little city, left Tuesday for Grand Forks to spend Thanksgiving with his family. S.L. Phillips finished the threshing season last Friday, having put in ninety-three days this fall with his rig. That is not so bad. J.R. Crum and wife are enjoying a visit from their son, who arrived from Imperial the fore part of the week to spend Thanksgiving with the family. Tuesday afternoon a serious fire visited Rock Lake, destroying two fine residences. We have been unable to learn who were the unfortunate losers. The Yeoman lodge of this city will hold a very important meeting next Monday evening, December 2. Every member is requested to be present and take an active part. It is the intention to have a banquet and general good time at the second meeting in December and preparations for this social will be made at this meeting. Billy Cauthers left the first of the week for Devils Lake where he will accept a position for the winter. A revenue officer from Iowa has been making the round in northern North Dakota the past week and is reported to have caught a number of people who have not paid a liquor tax. The government rules are very severe in this respect and many who had no idea that they were violating the U.S. law in selling their mixtures found that they would have to pay the tax of $25 and a little extra for costs to make them remember the next time. Rabbit hunters are getting busy. L.W. Boise came up from Devils Lake today to eat Thanksgiving turkey at home. Supt. Harris of the Board of Health was in the city the first of the week on business pertaining to his office. J.J. McCanna, president of the Bank of Hansboro, was calling on friends in this city the last of the week. The town of La Moure, county seat of La Moure County, had a $150,000 fire yesterday. An entire block was burned. Supt. Conroy of the John D. Gruber Co. is in the city this week assisting manager Haas in taking the invoice of the local stock. N.O. Sather was up from Maza Tuesday, closing the deal for the sale of his large farm northeast of town. He called at the Pioneer office and paid us the price of another year's subscription. The front for the C.H. Orton building was put in yesterday and Chris will soon be ready to receive his customers at the new quarters. E.Y. Burley was a Pioneer caller Tuesday and ordered his Pioneer changed to Rolla for the winter where he has moved his family. The band is flourishing and it is the intention to give the people of Hansboro the opportunity in the near future to attend a musical concert which will be a treat to all music lovers. A.Durocher, of Rolla, was in Hansboro yesterday. Mr. Durocher is considerably worried over the illness of his good wife, who underwent an operation at the Mercy Hospital in Devils Lake recently. The many friends of the worthy couple hope for her speedy recovery. F.H. Murdick is having an addition built to his residence and will open a hotel as soon as it is completed. There will be eight or ten rooms in addition to those already built and while not so large or pretentious as many buildings, the traveling public will be well cared for in the new quarters. A disastrous fire visited Devils Lake last week destroying the Jacobson block, occupied by the Jacobson Sisters. A number of narrow escapes are recorded for the roomers who lived in the second story of the building. The fire is supposed to have originated from the explosion of a gasoline stove. CLIFFORD BLACKORBY WEDDING At Cando, Wednesday of this week at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. C.D. Carmichael, occurred the wedding of Miss Mae Blackorby and Mr. Thomas Clifford. The contracting parties are well known to nearly every resident of this county, the bride having lived here since childhood. For the past few years she has been employed as stenographer by the law firm of Brooke & Kehoe in Cando and she is active in social circles there. Mr. Clifford has for some time past been the cashier for the Great Northern at Cando and has made a host of friends during his residence in that town. The happy young couple will be absent over a month on a wedding trip after which they will settle near Minot or Stanley where Mr. Clifford will have charge of a station. A host of friends join in congratulations and best wishes for a long and happy wedded wife. Among those from this city who attended the wedding were Mrs. A. Blackorby, Chas. E. Blackorby, Mrs. Elmer Barker, James Blackorby, Leslie Blackorby and John Blackorby of Ellsberry, all relatives of the bride. December 5, 1907 DISTRICT COURT ADJOURNED Cando, North Dakota. December 3, 1907 Mr. C.H. Browne, You will please take notice that the Regular December term of the District Court in and for the District Court in and for this County was postponed from the 2nd day of December to December 16 at 3 p.m. 1907. The jurors will not have to report however until December 17 at 10 o'clock a.m. Following is a list of the jurors chosen: Tobias Stapleton, P.F. Harvey, John Hunter, , G.N. Coe, A.V. Price, Luther Welch, Archie Currie, Casper Anderson, Frank Grosser, H.A. Diehl, George Klier, Sr., Andrew Lundberg, C.P. Peterson, Matt Gullikson, J.W. Salmon, M.P. Mahon, Nels Sorenson, Hugh B. Leslie, Nels Boodelson, A.B. Puterbaugh, Ole Iverson, H.E. Wiggins, Robert Irwin, George Dale, George Gerrard, J.C. McDevitt, J.E. Knight, G.W. Rimel, J.J. Gensinger, Godrey Jenson Respectfully yours, W.E. Peck, Clerk of Court ELLISON JOTTINGS Chas. Buck from Calvin was a business caller in the Ellison vicinity last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Miller and Miss Iva Hinkel were Sunday visitors at the C.E. Wells home. Benton Deardorff from Snyder Lake near Brumbaugh, delivered a very able discourse at the Ellison Church Sunday morning using for his theme "The Wisdom of God". The death of Solomon Eikenberry last Tuesday was a shock to the entire community. Burial took place at the Ellison cemetery on Thanksgiving day. Rev. J.H. Brubaker preached the funeral to a crowded home of mourning and sorrowing friends which paid their last tribute of respect to one who was always well spoken of and always had a good word for everybody. Deceased was nearly 73 years old and leaves a widow, two sons and two daughters to mourn the loss of a friend that was ever dear to them. FIRE PROTECTION At a recent meeting of the Commercial Club it was decided to look to the matter of fire protection. The matter was fully discussed and it was decided to build a reservoir 10x16 feet and 10 feet deep on the lots directly back of where the Central Hotel used to stand. Mr. Nelson of the Hansboro Mercantile Co. offered the property to the people of the town for that purpose and Fred P. Ninke, as the lowest bidder was awarded the contract of building the reservoir. This will solve the water question should our town ever again be visited by a fire and it will be much easier to cope with a serious blaze as the well is located centrally in town and will be accessible at all times for such purposes. A committee was also appointed for the purpose of attending to placing a fence around the cemetery and the price of the lots was fixed and arrangements made for the incorporation of the Cemetery Association. The matter of the adjustment of the insurance rates was taken up by the club and in as much as the plat of the town is incorrect and has been so since the town was first platted (building being shown where there are none and none being shown where buildings are standing), the secretary, W.C. Haas was ordered to take the matter up with the board of underwriters asking for an immediate readjustment of the rates and replatting of the town. It is a well known fact by every resident of the town that we are paying a rate of insurance that is unheard of in the history of the state and that the plat which is now used as a basis of fixing the rates is no better than could and probably would be made by a drunken man in the last stages before the snakes. If this plat is revised it will be the means of saving the residents of the town a neat little sum of insurance premiums in the course of a year. LOCAL NEWS C.H. Orton opened his pool hall this week. The new reservoir for fire protection is rapidly nearing completion. W.A. Hooser is away this week attending to business matters down the line. Sheriff Taylor was in Hansboro Sunday on professional business. Hon. Frank Hodgins of our neighbor town, Sarles, was in town today on business. Frank Derrig returned Tuesday from Lakota where he spent Thanksgiving with his parents. Joe Hesse left yesterday for a visit to the old home in Iowa. He will probably be absent for the rest of the winter. R.W. Kent, representing the Grand Forks Mercantile Co. is In the city again this week attending to the settlements of that company in this neighborhood. Don't forget the auction sale at Messer & Fernyhough's store Wednesday, December 12, 1907. The entire stock goes at your own price. Nothing reserved. This is your chance. B.L. Thomas has got in line and joined the band. He received the new slide trombone today and can "blow the stuffin'" out of it now. He will be found among the basses. The entire Messer & Fernyhough stock of general merchandise will be sold at auction to the highest bidder for cash commencing Wednesday, December 12, 1907. Nothing reserved. Everything goes. Stock must be sold and sold quick. From recent repots, it appears that the boy reported by the Kenmare paper as having been killed by a lynx near that place, is alive and well and never even went hunting a lynx. It seems rather strange that the Kenmare paper could not find other material with which to fill their columns without resorting to stories(?). Chas. O. Kaufmann, the agent for the F.G. & S. Co., at Rock Lake was in Hansboro between trains Tuesday. He told the representative of the Pioneer that the fire which occurred there last week was only a couple of small swellings or shacks which were destroyed without any practical damage to other property. The Ripple building was threatened at one time and the printing outfit was moved into the street but by vigorous work the building was saved. W.T. Wilcox came over yesterday from his farm near Sarles to purchase some supplies of our merchants. A report from Devils Lake is to the effect that Mrs. A. Durocher expired at Mercy Hospital last evening. No particulars. C.A. Weeden and family are enjoying a visit from Mr. and Miss Jethcott of Pembina, North Dakota. Mr. Jethcott will return to his home this week. Ice harness races are the order of the day. Eugene McDougall and Bert Thomas have a couple of speedy horses they are willing to race against any of them. Another democratic voter made his appearance at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Dunphy the first of the week. All reported getting along nicely and Andy wears the "smile that won't come off". A bouncing baby boy made his appearance at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Johnston the fore part of the week. All doing well and everybody smokes. This cuts that democratic majority one anyhow. At the last Yeomen meeting it was decided to hold a banquet and social at the next regular meeting when the officers for the ensuing year will be installed. All members are requested to be present and to bring two friends with them. A good time will be given to all. Don't forget the date, December 16. N.B. Felton of Grand Forks was in Hansboro today looking after his business interests here. He has not yet fully recovered from the injuries he received in a railroad wreck last summer but thinks he will be all right in a few months. The date for the band concert for which the boys are working so faithfully will be announced in the near future. A musical treat will be given to all who attend. The class of music will not e of the cheap shoddy order but up-to-date, standard music which any musical organization need not be ashamed to play. F.H. Murdick is getting to be quite proficient on the Norwegian flute which he recently received. There is only one thing that makes him angry and that is to have someone who does not understand the instrument try to play it. He claims it is easily blown out of tune. December 12, 1907 SIT UP AND TAKE NOTICE It seems strange that first class mail cannot be sent to Cando from Hansboro in less than three days. Letters which are put on the train and in the local office at noon of one day and marked 'via Egeland' should reach Cando the same afternoon not later than 5 o'clock. This order of things is being disregarded, however, and mail sent here Monday is not received until late Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. We know whereof we speak and can furnish affidavits to substantiate the statements if necessary. And we will promise this much that if the same circumstances ever occur again, either to us or to any other of our acquaintances, we shall report the same and find out why and wherefore of the matter. If the postal laws are to be broken promiscuously, the Pioneer and several others concerned will want to know why it is tolerated by the government. There is no "bogey man" business about this and we mean business, as it has happened several times to us personally, why not to others likewise. HANSBORO SCHOOL NOTES Grammar Grader The following pupils have entered lately: Pearl Underwood, Mae Gailfus, Cora Cantelon The following composition was published in the Minneapolis Journal Junior last week: About fifty-five years ago, my grandmother came from England, across the Atlantic Ocean. They traveled for eight weeks and three days. There were a great many storms and many times they feared the vessel would sink. They saw icebergs and whales and once a whale came so near that it made the vessel rock. It spouted streams of water higher than an elevator. One morning the captain called the people and told them to go up on the hurricane deck if they cared to see something interesting. They saw the ocean black with porpoises. There were so many that almost as far as the eye could see, the ocean was a black mass. The ship ran out of provisions before the port was reached and the passengers lived on biscuits, and almost everyone was sick. After sailing for eight weeks and three days, they reached Quebec. Ninth Grade - Edna Wilson, Hansboro, North Dakota Primary Notes Helga and Jennis Halone entered school on last Thursday. Eli Tula and Bernt Mathison are in school again. Lucy Lawler was promoted to the third grade. The Peterson children missed the wagon on Tuesday and walked in to school. Fay King re-entered school on Wednesday. Mary Halone entered school last Tuesday. Clarence Orton was promoted into the seventh grade last week. The children seem to enjoy being dismissed at 3:30 o'clock instead of having their recess. Tommy Phillips began school last Monday. Claire Wills was promoted into the fifth grade last week. LOCAL NEWS B.L. Thomas made a business trip to Rolla yesterday. Mrs. B.L. Thomas has been enjoying a visit this week from Mrs. Cora Lundgren of Clyde. W.T. Wilcox was a Sarles visitor in Hansboro the first of the week. W.A. Hooser returned yesterday from a business trip to the western part of the state. Hugo Gailfus was a Picton visitor in Hansboro the first of the week. He made a pleasant call and reordered the Pioneer sent to him until January 1, 1909. Walter Gailfus moved his family in from the farm in Picton last week and is now at home in his residence near the school house which he purchased recently from A.D. Pound. George Brown lost a valuable horse Sunday. James Blackorby returned today from Sioux City where he went with a carload of fat cattle. His cattle sold well and as consequence Jim is happy. W.S. Ginther had the misfortune to lose a valuable horse last Sunday. The animal had been let loose and was running about the yard in its gambols ran over the platform of the well and fell in. It was impossible to save it although every effort was put forth to do so. F.C. Robeson of Cando came up Tuesday to take charge of the auction of the Messer & Fernyhough stock. Owing, however, to the stringency of the money market, it was deemed advisable to call the auction sale off until a later date. The private sale will continue as before. Frank Derrig came down from Hansboro last week Miss Grace Brook left Tuesday for a visit with friends and relatives in the east. She will first visit Illinois, then to Missouri where she will stay for a few weeks and will then go to her old home in Nebraska for the balance of the visit. She expects to be absent all winter and to enjoy a much needed rest as fully as possible. Corvin Goodyear expects to leave in a few days for Grand Forks where he will take a course of instruction in music under Prof. Stout, musical director and instructor of the Wesleyan College. Corvin has the natural ability to make a "winner" as a musician and we hope to hear of him making his mark. The Pioneer will keep him posted on the "doings" in the north end of Towner County. Frank Derrig came down from Hansboro last week and celebrated Thanksgiving with the home folks. He returned on Friday to look after his duties as agent of one of the elevator companies at Hansboro. Lakota American An effort is being made by Rev. Palmer to organize a choir for the M.E. Church in this city, but apparently everything is working wrong end to. It is strange that with the music talent which is in evidence in this community that it should be hard to organize an excellent choir. The talent is here. Get together. The music in a service counts for half. ELLSBERRY ECHOES J.E. Knight of Hansboro was in our burg Thursday night. H.M. Butler went to Cando Saturday. J.B. Blackorby shipped a carload of cattle to Sioux City Saturday. Nettie Mohler of Cando has been visiting her sister Mrs. G.N. Brown the past week. R.T. Elsberry went to Perth Saturday evening. Orvil Gunderman of Cando visited Chas. Tribble and family a few days last week. Mrs. H.M. Butler returned from Cando Monday where she has been working the past two weeks. The church building committee met Monday and decided to build a building 26x38, 12 feet high with a basement the full size of the building. There will be a Christmas entertainment in the station house Christmas Eve and everybody is invited to bring their wife and children. Those who have none of their own are requested to bring someone elses. December 19, 1907 ELLISON JOTTINGS The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Wamsley has been seriously ill the past several days. Messrs. Henderson and Buck from Calvin are kept busy with this fine weather cleaning seed grain for their 640 acre farm near Ellison. J.B. Rizner was a business caller at Rock Lake Saturday. George Brunnemeyer of Egeland spent Sunday with friends at Ellison. Misses Lizzie and Alice Fike leave tomorrow for Mandan to visit their sister Mrs. H.L. Coe. Estey Miller and family from near Sarles visited with the former's sister Mrs. W.A. Deardorff last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Moore entertained a number of neighbors at Sunday dinner. Railway Engineers Unearth a Modern Rip Van Winkle Sacramento, California - The engineering corps of the Western Pacific has roused from his slumber a modern Rip Van Winkle, an old recluse who did not know of the civil war. "Bill" Brown is his name and he lives in a lonely cabin in the Sierras back of Oroville. Here he made his home in the days before the war and only once or twice a year has he entered the nearest mining camp for supplies. Without asking any questions as to what the rest of the world was doing he would go back to his hermitage. In running lines for the Western Pacific, engineers penetrated his hiding place. For a time, he was diffident and refused to talk. At last he became loquacious and began to ask questions. He wanted to know the outcome of the fight between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglass for a seat in the United States senate. His engineering friends brought him to Sacramento to witness the celebration over the coming of the Northern electric road. Rip Van Winkle had slept for 25 years, but "Bill" Brown had been buried for half a century. He refused to take an interest in anything. "This is too much for me", he said. "Too much noise, too much bustle, too many people." He was astonished at the progress the world had made but could not understand it. He gave a sigh of relief when he was placed on the cars and again headed for the mountain wilderness of Butte County. ELLSBERRY ECHOES Louis Hosemaker and H.T. Cornell went to Hansboro yesterday. J.R. Crum of the Cash Store made a business trip to Hansboro the first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Arnold and son visited with H.M. Butler and family Saturday night. R.T. Elsberry went to Hansboro Tuesday. Mrs. Orval Gunderman who has been visiting for the past two weeks with her sister, Mrs. Chas. Tribble, left for Minot Monday. A.C. Madeford and wife have gone to Rugby to spend the holidays with their daughter. IN JAIL FOR DEBT; MAY BE LIFE Teacher Incarcerated Two Months with No Prospect of Freedom Champaign, Illinois - Sherman Cass, a school teacher has been in jail here for two months for debt and under the laws of the state it is possible to keep him there for the rest of this life. The parents of a child whom Cass had chastised recently secured judgment against him for $1,800. Cass refused to pay, perhaps could not pay if he wished, and was sent to the debtor's cell. Under the law he can be kept imprisoned as long as the plaintiffs in the case pay his board regularly each week. So far they have done so. Should they omit payment on the proper day one time the prisoner would be freed. And should they desire to go away for a month and pay for the board in advance for that time, that also would set the prisoner free for the law provides that the board be paid regularly each week. The case makes it plain, however, that a person with a grudge against another may, by securing a judgment, keep him in jail just as long as revenge continues to be worth the price of the plain fare furnished prisoners in the county jails. December 26, 1907 HANSBORO SCHOOL NOTES Mmes. Claude H. Browne and W.C. Haas visited the grammar grades Tuesday afternoon. School closed Friday for the holiday vacation. It reopens Monday, January 6, 1908. Following is a list of the pupils in the primary department who were neither absent nor tardy for the past three months: Frances Crum, Lucy Lawler, Ethel Lawler, Lynch Leftwich, Lee Leftwich and Clara Pound. The names of those perfect in attendance from September 30 to December 20 is given below: Frances Brown, Ruth Brown, Percy Cowan, Mary Lawler, Linus Sande, Adelbert Weeden and Myrtle Weeden. LOCAL NEWS B.L. Thomas is spending Christmas in Cando. W.A. Hooser returned from Cando today. C.E. Blackorby went down the line yesterday on business and pleasure bent. Mrs. B.L. Thomas is spending Christmas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Olson of Cando. Chris Orton returned from his "courting" trip to Cando the last of the week. Deputy Sheriff Wilson returned from Cando the last of the week where he was attending court. Miss Marguerite Sande came up from the State University last Saturday to spend the holidays with her parents. Those who attended the Masonic installation and banquet at Rolla last week report an excellent time. Geo. Yoder and wife of Calio have been visiting this week with Mr. and Mrs. David Wampler at their farm east of town. Gen. Manager Mikkelson of the F.G. & S. Co. was up the line today on a tour of inspection. The jurors who have been in service during the present term of court, came home for the holidays and will not be requested to serve again until the adjourned term which will be held January 22, 1908. W.R. McGregor and Marcus Kessler returned from Cando Saturday to spend the holidays at home. They have been putting up some buildings on one of the J.J. McCanna farms near that city. Court has been adjourned until January 22, at which time the jurors will again have to report and the cases left on the docket will be cleaned up. At least this will be the order of things unless there should be another adjournment taken. Sheriff Taylor who passed through here last week in pursuit of a horse thief returned Saturday to Rolla. He succeeded in finding the team and buggy which the their had disposed of for $85.00 but the man had made good his escape and it is doubtful if he is apprehended. The cistern which is being built to be used by the citizens for fire protection has been finished and the water question to be used in case of fire, is solved for a time at least. There is an ample supply to cope with any ordinary fire and with a small expenditure for apparatus the town will be in must better shape than formerly to handle a blaze. D.A. Blackburn is enjoying a visit from his father this week. Mrs. O.L. Sande is on the sick list this week. James Brown and Chas. Bisbee returned from the county seat Saturday. The city schools closed Friday for the holidays and the children are enjoying the vacation in various ways. Mrs. Ed Lakeman is visiting her parents in the eastern part of Canada and Ed is keeping "bachelor's hall". Our beautiful weather has taken a severe cold and fears are entertained that there will be a protracted illness. Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Haas went to Devils Lake Tuesday to spend Christmas with Mrs. Haas' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed A. Smith of Devils Lake. Frank Grimes and F.H. Murdick returned from Cando the first of the week where they have been attending court. Miss Sorenson, principal of the city schools, left Saturday for Hillsboro and vicinity to spent the holidays with friends and relatives. John Gretson, the enterprising farmer from near Armourdale, left Tuesday for Winnipeg to spend the holidays with his sister who resides in that city. Ye scribe and family were the guests Christmas of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Wiseley and the way we went to that turkey was a caution. John Pound returned from Chicago Saturday where he went with a carload of cattle. He is well satisfied with the trip and the result of the sale. The elevator men are busy these days shipping out the grain in their houses in order to have them empty for the receipt of grain should a storm period set in. The Christmas exercises at the M.E. Church were excellent and all young and old, enjoyed themselves from start to finish. The tree was loaded with gifts and the program was well rounded, attesting a great deal of work on the part of the pastor and the officers of the Sunday School. The State Bank of Dunseith closed its doors last week and it is announced by the deputy bank examiner that all depositors will receive all the money that they have deposited but as to when this will occur he does not state. The failure is supposed to be due to mismanagement and not to dishonesty on the part of the employees and will probably be reorganized at one by the principal stockholder. Miss Derrig, of Lakota, a sister of Frank Derrig of this city, was the fortunate winner of the piano in the recent contest of the Lakota American. Wolves are reported to be quite numerous between here and Sarles. A report came to this town yesterday that the animals became so bold as to come into the pastures and also to attack cattle and horses running at large, running them to the very door of the owners. It might be a good scheme to have a wolf hunt and exterminate a few of the "varmits". The people of this vicinity have been treated for the past few mornings to that great phenomenon, the mirage. Villages, lakes, woods and towns which are fully fifty miles distant have been plainly visible on these occasions. Early risers have been treated to the best views but the apparitions have continued up to the hour of 10 o'clock on several mornings with more or less distinctiveness, and are greatly enjoyed by the newcomers. ELLSBERRY ECHOES H.T. Cornell left for Osnabrook Friday noon to spend the holidays. A.L. Tennis entertained a couple of strangers one night last week. Leslie Blackorby has been granted a liar's license by the majority of the Ellsberryites. J.B. Blackorby came up from Cando Tuesday where he has been "courting" the past week. The Christmas entertainment was a howling success from start to finish and we doubt if there was any better time had nay place on this line and a nicer tree could not be made. Ellsberry don't take a back seat for raising a crowd for anything that comes along.