The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1888-07-27
COUNTY NEWS.

COUNTY NEWS.
For the Readers Of the Pioneer Elk.
press, by Special Reporters,
TOILETTE.
Mrs. Charles Mcpherson has been
spending a few days with friends Mt
Pembina.
The N. T. elevator is taking OH new
coat of paint this week and will soon add
its quota to the improved looks Of the
town. Surely Squatterville is improving.
i NJ. B. Purdy left OH the nortl,-bound
train last Monday to take III the city Of
Winnipeg. He will be back in time, We
believe, to take hand in school matters
at Pembina next Saturday.
John c. Fremont, not lie of political
and military renown, but "colored
gentleman" OF that name, was advertised
to lecture at the school house recently.
We understand the crowd was small and
receipts light.
Last Friday the country in this vicin-
ity was visited by baby hail-storm.
For few minutes tile rattle On the roofs
was considerable. However. no damage
was done, and the farmers still continue
to cry good crops.
| The farmers are now all busy, but if
one happens to have a little spare time
you will generally find him i'll his potato
patel, looking after new arrivals; potato
bugs are the most plentiful they have
ever been in this vicinity.
There is some talk of another clevat or
being built this fall on the side track at
Toilette. The name of the company we
failed to hear. lfthis is so, look out for
competition. Anyway, let the farmers
of the county watch toilette wheat
market.
The east and west roads i'll this town.
ship this week are receiving much need
ed attention. Full forces are at work
grading and opening side bitches to let
the water off. Two years. work is being
put OH and the result is VIC are going to
have good roads.
The lumber for the NJ. 4 N. elevator
OH the river ut Mrs. Shannon's place has
arrived and was unloadcd Sunday. We
wonder if the farmers will remember
that this elevator is being built by the
same company that las gullcd them SC
many years past before the N.P.Ry. was
built,
Johnnie Pariseau. the road commits.
sioncr Of this district, is full of business
nowadays. As road commissioner lie
= is hard to beat. Nobody escapes him
4. Even your humble correspondent las
got to buckle on hisarlnor and callous hi.
hands in the good cause. lie talks q
: going for the railroad gang here aud yol
. will see-wcll, you will see what yor
: will sec.
,, Another good act of the railroad com
pany is the new crossing they have pll
in ut this place. The old crossing, sine,
D the rainy weather set in, has been i'm,
passable for teams and has been Il grea
+. drawback to trade from the west side o
, the track. This they lave rcmeded by
y putting Il new crossing about two hun
}. drcd feet north of the old one on Ian,
I that is always high and dry.
:. laying has commenced and the sob,
! of the moving machine is becomin,
:, quite general. Wheat is advancing, :,nt
D by the time l,aying is completed, l,arves
: will commence. We hear that Lev
: Purdv has a piece of barley that will b,
D ready to cut in Il few days. Who say!
Dakota is not a wonderful country. TIL,
middle Of June grain scarcely out of til,
ground-the last Of July ready to cut.
1t seems the n. p. Try. Co. took III,
hint in regard TO roughness of track OF
J. their line, which appeared in one
Il your late issues, and MS consequence,
c have put on an additional gang of thirty
! five men, who are raising the track ant
l putting it in good order. They ar,
: boarding with Section Boss Dodds ant
, sleep in tents and give the siding quite
+ lively appearance Of an evening.
Although the weather was YER,
r threatening and at times stormy, tho
crowd that gathered at Tate's grove las
Friday week was by no means small no
lacking in mcrriment. The grove itsel
is one Of the plcasantcst we have lat
the privilege of seeing in the Northwest
and when cnbcllshed with swings
croqucttc, grounds and tables covered
with the COOLIES which were being ell
) joycd by the neighbors present, ono
scarcely stopped TO think of what tho
weather might be outside. Taken alto
gcthcr the managers can consider the
picnic a great success.
School matters arc still ut :, bolin:
heat in this district. a petition has been
signed by majority of the voters of the
district for Il division, and school house
at the side track, and been presented tc
County School Slpt. Jackson, who has
called mectinsof all parties interested
at his Office in Penbnn, Saturday, the
18th inst, to hear arguments why the
district should not be divided. We
understand there has been Il counter
call for Il meeting at the school house to
consider the subject Of division OH the
same day, but as the notice given of the
meeting is nol the length Of time rcuuir-
ed by law Uen days. it will not he
generally attended.
HAllIL Ton.
| (TGO late for last wrck.)
Miss Asselstine is visiting friends down
at Fisher.
Hugh Mcdonald is going to build him
q house at once.
Mrs. W. J. Bride is i'll Of chills and
fever. DR.. Muir is attending.
Davcy & Shcrbillo are rushing the NJ.
j.. church now. They have about nine