The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-04-24
COUNTY NEWS


Bathgate. Mount Pleasant, Jolistts.
oardar. Romfo, Hamilton. Alma,
Mountain. Drayton, Hyde
Park and Cavalier.
BATMGATE.
Oats are scarce.
Mr.. KENYON, of Fargo. spent Tuesday
IN Bathgate.
There is still good deal Of wheat in
the country. =.
Melheim & Fossum are getting in lots
of new goods.
The rain on Monday put temporary
stop to seeding.
The bridge on Arthur and Sd streets
has new layer of plank.
The register at the Grand Union hotel
shows large business.
Mr.. Hughes, of Grafton, spent part
of Tuesday and Wednesday in Bathgate.
No one should fail to call upon the
merchants at Bathgate and see their
goods.
c. w. johnson and wife started Tues
day for two weeks visit in northern
Iowa.
Mr.. Geo. Douglass, of Cavalier, was one
of the many visitors in town ON last
Saturday.
Wilbur & Whitaker have built q new
machine platform on the north side of
their office.
A good many of our farmers are using
the broad cast seeders this year with
apparent satisfaction.
Probably about one-third of all the
seeding to be done this spring was done
before the rain of Monday.
R. A. Kirk, president OF the st. Paul
Harvester Works spent part of Monday
and Tuesday in our town.
A. F. johnson started this week for
northeastern Iowa, where he may invest
in some property if he thinks it equal to
his Dakota property.
+. A. Wilson has been making extern
sive Improvements on his farm east of
town, he hopes to have his family moved
out by the last of this week.
Money to loan OH improved farms on
easy terms by Aug. Short, Clerk of the
District Court, Pembina. DIT. Stiff
Luke & Watt have put new counters
into their store, trimmed the windows in
the latest style, painted the store room
and filed it with new goods.
Lumber is expected here this week to
stock up the yard of Mohanand T. Stew.
art, who will occupy the old stand of d.
Ferguson, Mr.. Ferguson having sold out
to them.
The skating rink will be in running
order this week. 1t is a fine room and a
credit to the town. May success attend
the founder of such beneficient institu-
ton.
The merchants in town report big
trade for last Saturday. Some of them
could not get out to dinner, nor to supper
till nine o'clock. That is business for you
and makes pretty good showing for
Bathgate.
G. L. Parker sells passage tickets to
and from all points in Europe, also drafts
on all principal cities. Any persons wish
ing to send for their friends across the
ocean will find it their advantage to call
at his Office and procure tickets to send
for them.
Rev. B. Glasgow, of Hull, England, and
party, looking after the interests of the
Colonial and U. s. Mortgage Co., [limited]
passed through Bathgate Tuesday. They
telegraphcd for their agents in Bathgate
to meet them in Grafton and ride north
with them.
Isaiah Fadden has the finest full blood
short horn Durham bull in Pembina
county. The animal can be seen at any
time in Mr.. Fadden's stable on Garfield
street. He is dark red color, large, well
proportioned, fine looking animal. All
farmers in the county who desire to i'm
prove the grade of their stock should see
this animal.
Tough & Fadden have taken out dray
license, and SO purpose to have a little
monopoly of that business. They are
getting to be as bad as the Railroad com
pany, and if their large livery and freight
business keeps up to It's present volume
they will soon be able to build a railroad.
They received some new buggies OH
Saturday night.
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