The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-08-10
HARVEST PROSPECTS.
nsighborhood News, Social and Per-
: = sonal Items, Gathered for the
Numerous Readers of the
Pioneer-Express,
from
Hamilton. Bathgate. Drayton, Dres-
den, Beaulien, Cavileer, Elgin,
Young, st. Thomas, Wal
halla, Hyde Park and
Alma.
BATIiGATE.

Alma.
BATHGATE.
Harvest has commenced.
Within the past few days the writer
has been in the neighborhoods of st. Joe,
Ernest, Bay Centre, Walhalla and
Beaulieu. Crops are coming on in good
shape in those localities. Barley harvest
has commenced; several fields are already
cut and Others are ready to cut. In
some places the barley straw is short,
but the heads are long and we'll filled.
Dat straw is generally the usual length
and the heads are long. The wheat
straw is long and there is no danger of
crinkled grain, except in very few in
stances where the grain was so far along
that the drought injured it. The wheat
is already beginning to assume that deep
color beyond the green, and the heart of
the farmer rejoices rs he sees his grain
ripening. The hay harvest is pretty well
over; it is up in good shape and very lit
tie rain has fallen to injure it; few
showers caught the haymakers in the
western part Of the county. The potato
crop is universally good. Other roots and
vegetables are correspondingly good.
The corn crop is, of course, of very limited
extent; however, number of farmers
have quite an amount of corn,
mostly for fodder. The stalks are short,
but are tassled and some in silk.
Mr.. Fred House left us on Sunday.
Many of our farmers are raising several
acres of peas for their stock. Tame
hay is but very little raised as yet in this
part of the county; but the few men that
have tried it, say that timothy hay does
well....Frank Mercer is in charge of
Sackett & Williams hardware store.
Mercer & Chapman have dissolved part
nership; Mercer rctires, while Chapman
continues the butcher business in connec-
ton with his furniture business. MIR.
Sackett is spending good deal of. his
time in the country setting up the st.
Paul and Esterly harvesters......On Mon
day ]. NJ. Lyons and G. NJ. McKenny
made visit at Neche......Alex Nance
and Gardner Gilday went to the noun
tain last week and returned early this
weck.....A number of boys were in from
the mountains i'll the early part of the
week renewing old acquaintance. The
boys all think they have struck it by ly-
locating near the lake......And now that
the survey is under contract anu the
work actually beingAone, they think they
can get their land this fall or winter.......
hIrs. Mostyn, the artist from Pembina
paid our town visit last week with a
view to starting class at this place..
D. Ferguson is just receiving another
large invoice of lumber, laths and shin
giles. This time he will have one hun.
dred thousand feet.......Croquet is the
favorite game of our young folks these
days. The croquet grounds at Messrs.
Mckittrick's, Suttan's, Armstrong; and
sacketts, as we'll as at many others, are
kept lively q good deal of the time. ...A
new organ at the Grand Union makes
that well-kept house more attractivc......
Mr.. Hodgins is back from his mountain
"trip and resumes his place in the store,
which gives MIR. Birch chance togo out
for Sackett & Willson.......M Grandy has
gone south after more horses. Mr.. j.
D.Stack has gone to Wisconsin on q bust
ness and pleasure trip.......David McIllray
and another man had few words re-
Gently which were not pleasant, and then
they had something more substantial
The unfortunate is convalescent, however.
......R. ID. Hoskins expects his mother
the last of the week......Our public school
will soon open with Professor Young at
the head. We are not informed who is
to be his assistant. Some farmers have
informed us that they intend to move in
town for the winter SO that their children
can have the advantage Of the splendid
school at Bathgate......Mr. Bryant of St..
Paul came up one day last week
and made some of our citizens happy by
leaving few hundred dollars of the con-
centrated essence of cash. .....Several car
loads of stone have arrived and will be
used for building more substantial dam
across the Tongue river, just below the
tank......A certain Red River cart, laden
with vegetables, makes its regular
visits at Bathgate......Mr. Medium has
orders for ice from Necle, Hamilton and
st. Thomas. Whitson L. Sons, from
west of st. Thomas, were in town last
week buying some of those celebrated
Warren Snlkey attachments that can
have any kind of pillow attached, either
breaker or stubble, wooden or iron
beams. They took two or three with
them, saying, they were just what they
have been looking for......Dr. Hewitt,
who started from here last week for the
Turtle mountains, cane near shooting
his wife while at Walhalla. She was
picking berries, and the doctor not see
ing her, Shot at bird. Whether
he got the bird or not, he shot the feather
Oft from his wife's hat. Fortunately no
further damage was done.
DRAYTON.
Wanted-a barber and laundrynan.
II some Ching Sung would come along,
who could also handle razor and scissors.
there would be double fortune.
Large quantities of hay have been Sc
in oil, L..