The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1895-08-09
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ting with the city editor % to the
best way TO gather items Frank has
one Of the greatest three ring SHOWS
on earth.
o. B. Green has bought out Cash.
Ter W.. II. Roberts interest in the
bank and 10 now cashier of the Bank
OF Hamilton. That Mr.. Green will
make an excellent cashier goes with.
out saying. We hope that success
will attend him In his new undertak.
Ing.
C.N. Murphy, Neche, N d. has secur.
led the services OF = first class watch.
maker; call on him when In need o
anything In that line. %
The F. A. & I. N. Elevator Co. are
having trouble over engaging q man
to run their elevator this fall. Half
OF the directors are In favor Of Hon.
]. T. Blackjack while the other half
want change; as 1t rests 1t Is q stand
on. The outcome 1t awited with ill.,
trest.
w. G. Greenlhas, we believe one Of
the finest flower gardens this side Ut
Grand Forks. One would hardly
think 1t possible for SO many different
varieties to grow in our northern eli
mate. 1t il the finest display Of house
and outdoor plants your correspondent
has ever seen Ia Pembina county. Mr..
Green is an excellent flouriculturlst.
Frank Chase reports business Loom
ing and says thut he is having un-
paralleled success selling bed springs.
These springs are said to be the best
on the market, and are made of the
very best Of steel. They will adjust
themselves to concentrated weight
with perfect ease and safety. and are
guaranteed not to squeak, which in
Itself Is blessing to the human race.
Canton.
Foote Bros. EvangelIsts, were here
on Monday night, holding services at
the A. U. U. w. hall.
The Robertson Lumber Co. have a
large addition to their lumber sheds,
also an 8 foot picket fence enclosing
their yard.
Jim Rodger had a colt kicked in the
pasture which broke ITS leg. Jim
prefers trying to heal the fracture
rather than kill the colt.
Here and there harvesting opera.
tions commenced last week, the pres.
ent week 1t will be quite general MS
all grain is changing rapidly.
Donald Thomson has a big wood
pile uncut. which he says has the
same effect as a small pox card In
warding of tramps, not one having
called on him up to date.
A daughter Of Mr.. Robt. Plummer.
aged 10 years died on Wednesday, Of
consumption, being buried on Fri.
day. Mr.. and Mrs. Plummer has the
sympathy Of the whole community.
Duncan Campbell cut a large field
of barley which is a good sample and
will yield heavily. Wheat and oats
prOspects equally as good. Now some
predict that II prices are only right
that we will hear no more Of the sill
yer question, ahem.
The National Elevator Co. and
Strongs elevator have each built an
annex which at present gives the
former capacity of 10000 and the
latter $1,000 bushels. Canton .now
has a total elevator capacity of $780,.
900 bushels.
Deputies Baptic and Richardson
Swooped down on our town about dark
on Friday, and corralled Frank Gillice
Of the Northwestern and Dan Shee.
dy of the Albion hotel and hustled
them off to the county seat for viola
tion of the prohibition law.
j. c. Michigan of Vancouver d. G.
manager Of the Vancouver World,
and wife, have been visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. w. N. Husband. Mr.. Michigan Is
agreeably disappointed in the appear
ance and prospects of Pemblna coun.
ty, and is immensely pleased to find
SO many of his former companions and
friends SO comfortably fixed. Mr.. Nc
Lagan is a live, wide-awake, hustling
and successful journalist conducting
at present, the principal daily and
weekly on the British Pacific coast,
using 4 Bergenthaler type setting
machines.
There has been building boom on,
this summer. Herman Burkholts,
Carl Unke, George Anderson, Tom
Moore, N. Ault, Mike Ault. and Gus
Born have each built large barns or
granarIes. We find very many who
consider it an injustice that such sub.
stantIal Improvements, which 60 so
lar 10 DeauClIy community ana
make homes attractive should become
a target for the assessor, and make
the possessor pay penalty in the
shape of q tax on his desires to have
hrs home attractive and comfortable.
Would 1t not be the wiser plan to
shift the penalty onto the sod stable
and tar paper shanty man, for neg.
lectiDg to improve his property.
Prattford.
Miss Story Of Duluth, is visiting at
Mr.. Story, Of this place.
Mr.. Little is busy building on his
farm which he has lately taken up.
Miss johnson and Master Charley,
of St, Thomas. are Waiting at r.