The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-06

| VIC lihSS lldu SOT0lOOsAOl0 8COHnly
weather lately which has made the roads
heavy.
Mr.. George Baker and wife are al
present sojourning with Rev. Mr.. Scott
and wife.
William Auld has been putting down
walk for James johnson of the first
Mountain.
Seed wheat is plentiful about here.
Following from the market price as high
as Is cents per bnsl,el.
Quite number of our citizens received
complimentary tickets to Judson La
Moure's ovation at Neche.
The glandered horses near Elm Point
have been slipped across the line, but
will be destroyed just the same.
Rev. P. E. Royce of Young Pc. was in
town last week with his bride and q
cutter manufactured entirely by himself
from the first to last.
Miss H. NJ. Jameson of Walhalla will
sell her house and lot cheap, she will soil
for all cash or part with good security.
1t is situated ON Central avenue. lw.
Some people carry an unusual amount
OF red paint with which to paint towns,
&c, but the supply is exhausted at some
time and then it is the painters turn to
become exhausted aud extinguished.
A petition is being circulated by the
people Of Loan Township to form new
county comprising the original Harvey
County, but some are in favor of leaving
OFT range 81 in Cavileer county and en-
bracing range SO Pembina county.
Wether Walhalla will favor such q
scheme will be better known OH the pres.
entation of the petition to her citizens.
TIL first to be buried in the new
Presbyterian Cenetry was Mrand Mrs.
Bells little girl Edna, who died of dipth-
eria, aged five years. Tie parents have
the sympathy of all in there bercavmcnt
as she was child of uncommon bright.
ness and beloved by all who knew her.
We sincerely hope that their other
daughter will be spared to them, although
she is at present suffering from the same
disease. DR.. Donovan of Necl,e il in
attendance and is doing all in his power
to alleviate the suGerings Of the house
hold.
Our little dance of Wednesday evening
january 9th, WAS u decided Sic.
cess. All present were renarking
that it was the plcasant.st evening ever
spent by them in the school house which
has been the scene of many similar
parties. We welcomed OH that evening
people from Boundary City. Ernest,
Rockwell Place, and az far away az
Baltimore. Walimlla still sustains her
reputation, bachelors without ladies' to
the contrary. One feature. of the party
was no gentleman admitted without
one or more ladies'. Why did you hot
come T. Il?
y story has recently reached here
concerning Il lady of uncertain years who
resides not more than twenty miles from
here which is too goo t, sep. Tie last
day of leap year having passed and no
one asking her to glide down lite's
stream with her, she decided it was now
Or never and proposed successfully to a
guy widower, who is the proprietor of Il
large stock ranch near Darlingiord,
Manitoba. They were to be married ut
the residence of the brides brother IN
baclelor) for whom she had been keep
ing house and he, being u musician pre-
sided ut the organ. On the entrance Of
the bride he struck with spirit, "This
is the way l long have sought, And
inourned because 70 md it not" which
caused a smile. Then OH the grooms
appearance he played See the conquer
ing hero comes" and Immediately after
the ceremony he struck up as wedding
march, "What shall the harvest be?"