The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1884-06-13

Our genial neighbor Tom Wilson took
a departure last week and after visiting
Winnipeg, Pembina and the mountains |
came home with weary look il. his eye
and thinks there's no place like home. {"
The annual school meeting of this dis
trlct, No. IS, will be held in the school
house on Tuesday, June IA, at $50 P. n.
A large attendance is desired to talk over
the educational interests of the district.
Drayton Lodge I. o. q. T., No. AZ, are
making preparations for an entertainment
and festival to be given soon. The
necessary committees are at work aud
furthersnnouneemeats win be made next
week.
The crack croquet players of the town
are clicking the mallets from dinner time
till 10 ?. H, vainly imagining they can
play croquet. After thew have practiced
long enough We believe an unknown
will knowingly and openly challenge the
winner to play, best three in five.
Hurrah for the glorious Fourth. It is
coming. and Drayton will celebrate as
usual in appropriate style. The program
is not fully arranged as yet but there will
be games, plc-nics, fireworks, plenty to
eat. and as much national noise as
possible. Further announcements next
week.
w. H. McBain left for Minneapolis
Monday morning to provide for the -four
and milling interests of the town. With
out doubt our farmers will have q
chance to turn their wheat into -four
without paying freight two ways this fall.
That happy time will be here by next
harvest.
Assessor McCaslin has been drumming
the town for the last week with his inter
esting little documents under his arms,
Although We have heard good deal II
talk about 'tfiriag, fighting and kicking, !"
We have not yet heard the shot gun and
no arrests have been made. Mr.. McCaslin
is to he congratulated.
The special services in the NJ. +.
church last Sunday brought out three
large congregations. In the morning,
Rev. Nj. Woolncr preached an able dis.
course relating 10 children. In the after.
noon Tive praise service. consisting o1
Rotations by the little folks, singing BY
the children and addresses by Rev. Mr..
johnson. Mr.. E. 4. Healy and Mr.. A. J.
Wllxce. aud collection was attended,
with much interest. Tie church Wac
prettily trimmed with flowers and
"Children's Day" will long be remember.
ed by the. scholars of Drayton Sunday
school.
New arrivals are swarming into town
so lively just now We hardly have time to
note them. Here are q few of the latest:
Judge Geo. Wallace, prominent lawyer
OF Freeport, N. T.. arrived here fresh
from the Chicago convention, ON Tuesday.
Though little hoarse from over exer.
ton, the prayton atmosphere will soon
produce it's beneficial effects. 20. Mr.. and
Mrs. Jas. G. Healy and son arrived hcme,
after their short absence, by Selkirk and
will summer while here. Welcome. :.
Geo. w. Thomson made flying visit
home Monday. He has been looking
over the country between here and Win
nipeg, and now las gone west.
And last but not least in Importance
in the tram of weekly events comes the
arrival of Messrs. S. r. Smith, w. A.
Anderson and A. H. johnson on board
the Is feet yacht, "Aeola," incorrectly
spoken of as "No. Hard to Manage
She came down from Grand Forks will,
full sail and colors flying Thursday after
noon. and was welcomed by the town
amid the booming of cannon-shot guns,
pistols and rifles. The run from Grand
Forks, q distance of l25 miles by river,
was made in 2G4 hours, notwithstanding
q stiff breeze from the north the last 30
miles of the way, and it is the quickest
time on record, if not the first of the
kind in the annals Of modern history.
The boys say.bets of all kinds were freely
offered in Grand Forks that the tripcould
not be made in thirty hours, and a good
many new that "might have been." The
next trip is to be made after this record
is beaten.