The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-01-04
COUNTY NEWS.

COUNTY NEWS
Tor ths Readers Of the Pioneer Bx.
press. ~ special Reporters. ].
g.. WALnALl.A.
School closed for the holidays:
The more frozen wheat the larger the
crop ofbrides.
w. +. Winter of Langdon eat Christ
mas dinner in Walhalla.
Several transfers Of property took place
last week in this township.
Misses Grace and Daisy Loring are
home for portion of the holidays.
Several of our young folks were delight
ed with the ball in Neclle Christmas.
Miss Mamie Leslie OF Langdon made
friends in Walhalla short visit last
week.
No. l hard grown in this neighborllood
has enabled nearly all to send repre-
sentative of each family east to visit this
winter.
Three men who purchased their farms
last spring took enough No. l hard off
the places purchased to pay for them in
one year.
A suit before Justice s. O. McGnin,
Howet We. Johnston. Change Of venue
was granted before Justice Baker next
| Saturday.
The longest way around is the shortest
way home. So says gent who took sup
per at the boundary city on his way
home from Neclle.
MARRIED. John HOWE and Mrs. Frank
McGuin. Hector McCay and Miss Nc.
Gregor. Robert West and Miss Stuart.
Now some of our young ladies are sew
ing-still there's more to follow.
Never since the first settlement Of Wal
haIla township has she had failure of
crops. and this year has set every body
on the north side of the river beyond
want and With plenty to make improve.
mellts.
a large and respectable audience did
justice to the good things provided at
the Crown Centre school house on New
Years eve. The music and recitations
were good and pronounced by those
present as bein0t the best program pre-
sented i'll that house. The speeches by
L. q. Lee, Ben Snyder, Rev. Parsons and
the chairman were fully appreciated.
Special mention should be given to Miss
Hattie Baker, eight years old, as an clo-
cutionist and Miss Leo rs an organist,
both rendered their parts in excellent
style and show good training. Proceeds,
thirty dollars.
Two car loads of machinery arrived il,
Neche for John +. Mayer. Twenty five
teams belonging to neighboring farmers
who have hearts in the right place went
to Neche and brought it all out. kind
ness which, Mr.. Mugcr fully appreciates
and feels grateful for. Tie machinery is
Of the very latest improved and finished
in fine style. Every convenience is pro-
vided and we will have mill second to
none of the same capacity as barrels)
per day. The mill is built OH the bank
Of u branch of the Pembina river, the
basement being dug out of the bank. 1t
is three stories and the basement high,
2Sxi0 feet and 81 feet to the peak of the
roof Of heavy frame work. 1t is covered
with corrugated iron and has asphaltum
and gravel roof. The engine and boiler
house is constructed OH the same plai,
and is set in the ground ten feet away
from the mill building, covered with iron
ard has gravel roof. The total expense
when complete will be $4,000. Mr.. Ma
ger deserves great credit for his undaunt-
ed enterprise in raising such magnificent
buildings and machinery nearly OH the
site of the old mill ashes, especially in
the face Of sucl, difficulties ms he BIAS had
to overcome. We hope that when his
mill is in running orderall will give him
trial and We feel confident once tried
he will have constant customer. Mr..
jerks with Nordyke, Mormon 4 Co., is
the millwright in charge of the work.
TOILETTE.
Robert McAuley, a farmer living here,
the other day went to work to make pre-
parations to butcher hog which he called
Famous Joe, OF which you have proba-
heard. He first spent whole day in
erecting windlass to hang him up, next
day he undertook to butcher the hog
alone. Putting down feed in a trough,
he called Joe to his last meal, Joe came
at his bidding. McAuley, with knife in
hand. went quietly up to his hosship,
caught HIM by his foreleg to upset him,
when the hog caught McAuIey by his
hind leg with his teeth going through
his pants. drawers, socks and into the
calf of his leg; but Mac not TO he out
done by the hog, stuck the knife into his
throat, when the brute lot 90 his hold.
McAuley went TO the house, got Ills
wounds fixed up while Joe was dying.
lie then dressed him, hung him up
with the MINDLESS. Although McAuley
is still suffering from his injuries, he
has the satisfaction to know that he sue
ceeded in butcllering the biggest pig that
ever was killed in Pembina county, for
when dressed it weighed Gl0 pounds.
The pig was only 1G months old. That
is the kind Of a pig that pays.
CARLISLE.
Ahappy New Year to all.
AdoIph Carl talks ofselling his farm in
the spring and says he is going farther
west to seek his fortune.
Tile tea meeting will be held tonight.
Our program will be excellent aud a
large crowd is expected.
Mr.. Robt. Lindsay wears smiling face
its boy and says he will nave to buy
another 100 acres of land soon.
Mr.. Lee is very anxious to get the
school house moved as he has another
son 10 be educated-all doing well.
Quite number of our young men
stuttd OH Tuesday for the university at
Grand Forks. We expect to have some
lawyers when they return in the spring.
Mis-. Mable Crane. ex-teaclcr of Car
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