The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1895-12-27
Neche.

line, among the timber on the banks
Of the PemDina river, is the situation
OF the Getty Of Friends" 1t IS moi
however a "Quaker CITY," It's bust.
ness men have too much hustle abou,
them to be taken for slow going Quak.
ers. The name s'Neche'' is an 1udiar
word meaning Friend" Perhaps nc
town In the county draws trade from
80 long distance, particularly to the
westward. Some of the wheat In
the Neche elevators comes forty mile.
to this market.
A little more than a year ago a large
part Of the business portion of this
town was burned QUO. To day, on the
lots thus made vacant, stands a row
of fine brick structures. In one Of
these the Bank of Neche has Its office
and vaults and there are no banks il
the county with finer Office fittings
and conveniences. The officers of the
Bank of Neche are: III. L. Holmes
president; p. @. Donovan, vice presi'
dent, and Frank p. Holmes, cashier
No institution IN the county stand.
ON more solid financial basis. Next
door, in the same block is the general
store Of VIM. Crawford whose splen.
did stock and store room are well
matched. A little farther along is
the new hotel OF T. O'Brien than,
which in size, has few superiors, ex.
cept In the larger cities, while in ap.
p0intments and cuisine it is equal tt,
the best. Both of these blocks are
solid brick. and arc beautiful speci.
mems of architecture. j. LaMoure &
Co. carry probably the largest stock
of general merchandise in the county,
and have trade In proportion. Jo-
seph E. Lee, the Junior member OF
the firm, is the popular manager of
the store. Mr.. A. Noice also runs a
tirst.class genera. store and does a
large trade. DR.. p. G. Donovan. who
is one of Neche's leading men tinan-
cially and politically, not only has a
large practice professionally, but owns
onc Of the best appointed drug stores
to be found any where. G. N. MUIR
ply sells confectionery. toys, fancy
goods and icwelry. Mahon s. Robin
sou wv T.. Walton, manager) aud
Johnston 4 Donovan are two firms IN
the lumber trade. Il. Fl. Smith & Co.
have u fine assortment of harness and
such horse tixings, w. j. Wilson
makes boots and shoes: Z. j. Church
i'll is the city tailor; Il. Vosper and G.
Murphy attend to real estate, loans,
collections. etc: John HI. Askew runs
the meat market and McAdam &
Strong sell hardware, furniture. ma
chinery, etc: DIR. Goulding has a
large and growing practice as a ply
stefan and w. j. Briden keeps the
other drug store, besides large as
s0rtment Of heavy aud shelf hard
ware, tinwars, etc. or course in a
town like this there are feed and
livery stables, SO many that the re-
porter forgot some and we will not
try therefore to enumerate any. The
United States Hotel, P. O'Hara pro.
prletor. has long been noted among
travelling men for its homelike COM
forts or bed and table, and as for the
genial proprietor, there's none to
match him. Louis NORM is the land
lord OF the we'll known Russell house,
which has for years enjoyed q large
patronage, which has this season kept
the house full to over flowing.
This town supplies large amount
Of agricultural machinery each year
to the surrounding farmers through
the firms Of McAdam & Strong, Ma
hon s Robinson, w. A. Murphy and
w. D. Mcleod, the latter being also
the popular and obliglng postmaster.
There are six large elevators Of q com.
bined capacity Ut about 10000 bush.