The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-08-19

Mrs. Louis Theroux returned to Devil:
Lake on Monday last.
Be careful about prairie fres-and be
sure you have good 6re-breaks.
LOST: Ladies' shawl on road to Fish
Lake. Finder kindly return to Mrs. F.
w. Cathro.
For sale: A fine yoke of work oxen six
and seven years old. Inquire of M. A.
Denney. Bottineau.
One Cando cowboy shot another in a
ROY the other day and then killed himself
and yet Bomberger still lives.
Briden Rea was taken suddenly sick
Wednesday evening, but prompt measures
soon relieved him. and he is all right now.
Mrs. F. M Woodward is again with
her sister. Mrs. Noble, having returned
from Chicago considerably improved in
health.
Rev. c. H. Holden will hold service at
Bottineau Baptist Church Sunday next,
morning and evening. Will be at Pea
body church in the afternoon.
After a long and delightful visit in Min
nesota. Miss Nora Thompson returned to
home and duties in the bank Friday last.
She looks we'll and has evidently been en-
joying life.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cathro, Mrs. Griffith and
Mrs. Carter and Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Nc
Intosh spent one day and night at Lake
Metigoshe this week. They express them
selves as having had a very agreeable time.
Everyone seems busy cutting a crop
which promises to be small. The high
winds have whipped out several bushels
to the acre in some instances, while the
average would have been small at the best.
The Willow City Eagle reports that J..
N. Greiner visited their town and said the
wheat in that country is better than here.
AS Mr.. G is good judge of wheat, we
venture to say he never made any such
statement.
Mrs. c. N. Baker is visiting her broth
Oh AN. -SCAlAuS 0SdudlllCu
with the country and the people. She is
a most charming lady, and we hope will
find it so agreeable that her stay will be
- prolonged.
Mr.. w. ]. Hooper, who has been visit
ing his daughter, Mrs. J. H. Keays, left
last week for his home in Paris, Ont, TAX
ing with him a most favorable impression
of the country and people here. We wish
him a safe journey home.
Harry Daley. formerly of Kingston.
Ont, afterward of Bottlneau, and who has
been in Minot during the spring and sum-
mer, returned to this place a few days ago.
Mr.. Daley will be remembered as the
manager of the skating rink.
LOST. On Friday, July 2sth. a silver
watch. 4 OF. case, open face, with small
strap on ring. Supposed to have been
lost between the Baptist and Presbyterian
churches, in Bottineau. about two rods
west of the road. Finder will please leave
word at this Office.
Rev. G. L. Morrill,. a we'll known divine
of Minneapolis. is home from a trip to
Alaska. He came from the Pacific Coast
on the Great Northern. and in an inter-
view in the Tribune" of that city, pro-
hounces it the best line to the Coast for
service and scenery.
A former acquaintance and old-time
friend of many of our people. Mr.. Archie
Finlayson, is visiting his relatives here.
His mother is living at an advanced age,
and Mr.. F. makes annual pilgrimages to
North Dakota to do homage to the purest
love a man ever knows. We are glad to
give him a welcome.
The Buffet car running on the Pacific
Coast trains of the Great Northern is one
of the attractive features of that new and
popular transcontinental route. It con-
tains bath room. barber shop. easy chairs,
smoking rooms: card and writing tables,
library. magazines and large observation
windows. The Great Northern Route is
the shortest to the Coast. and free from
dust. 1t has the lowest rates ever put in
to effect On a transcontinental line. Frank
Saunders, Agent. Bottineau. F. I. Whit
ney. G. P. & T. A.. st. Paul. MINI.
A girl not a thousand miles from Devils
Lake recently found a lot of love letters
written by her father to her mother many
years before they were married. The
daughter read them to her mother pre-
tending they were of recent date, and SUBJ
stituted her own name for that of her
mothers and the name of a young man,
well known to both of them. for her faith
er's. The mother was very much disgust
ed and has forbidden her daughter to
have anything to do with a young man
that will write such nonsense and sicken-
ing stuf.-Devils Lake Free Press.
Peter Haley, of Devils Lake, has invent
ed a portable electric motor, which he
thinks will revolutionize farm labor. The
motor will be attached to mowers, bind
ers, headers. and be used also to propel
wagons. Early in the morning, the farm
er who uses the motor will arise from bed,
release the motor and take it out in the
back yard. after which he will go back to
bed again. When he arises the second
time. about an hour later. the motor will
have fed the stock, MIXED the cows,
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