The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1897-07-30

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MONDAY is the first day of August; fra.
ternal societies and city council take no.
tice of their meetings.
The Mayor .has paid his dog-tax.
That's two kinds of a hint, and better a
hint than kick.
The Sunday evening service at the M.
E. Church, will be under the manage.
ment of the Epworth League.
NoRMAND makes the twelfth life pris.
oner in the pen. Pembina county has
furnished two, Peterson and Till.
On Monday at Crystal young fellow
stranger, accidently shot himself with
pistol. He is receiving the best Of care
and may recover.
THE st. Thomas Times runs an ad fol
the council saloon in East Grand Forks.
The Park River Gazette and Drayton
Echo do the same. Grant gets paid fol
his, Wyard and Fairchild do it for moth
ing.
FISHER Bros. "nery-go-round'' went
to Hamilton, Saturday night. We hear
that Browns outfit came next day and
camped right alongside of them. and
that the fair managers charged them each
$50 for the privilege, and SO the merry
war goes round.
FARMER Lawrence of Joliette.is jubil-
ant. He sold carload of wheat on
Monday for delivery in Duluth at SIX
cents, about So cents net here. He says
it is all on account of Mckinley; and he
has the papers to show to prove it to
doubters. He has 'em too.
Rev. Geo. W.. Willis, the Quaker
evangelist, who was here last winter, is
the guest of Rev. w. E. Clifford. Mr..
Willis has been holding very successful
camp meetings at Hoople and Crystal,
people by hundreds coming from many
miles around to attend the services. ~
Grand Forks Herald. -.
Hon. Judson LaMoufe last April .ad.
vanced about $500 to pay for the proyis.
ions issued by authority Of the govern
ment for the flood sufferers. Last week
he got check for the same from Unels
Sam, who is apparently slow paymas:
ter.
The Icelandic National day will be
celebrated at Hallson, Pembina county,
on Aug. End. The speakers will be Rev.
F. ]. Berman, R. Martinson, d. ]. Lax.
dial, R. Sigurdson. The exercises will
be conducted in the Itelandic language
exclusively.
H. c. FELDMAN replaced the shingles
on his flour and feed store this week.
The old shingles had been in place since
1876, and covered what was then the
roof of the first school house in Pembina
county. Now there are more than 100
schools in the county.
SHERIFF TRUEMNER left on Fridays
train with DIV. Hines, ex-president Of
the Hines railroad, for jamestown. Mr..
Hines. while in charge Of Jailor Brown,
talked in rambling way but submitted
peaceably to circumstances. 1t is said
before he reached jamestown he got vio-
lent and had to be placed in the asylum
by force.
WE hear that George Douglas started
from Minneapolis several weeks ago on
wheel voyage to the northwest. It is
thought he would have arrived by this
time if he had taken a boat. LATER
He arrived Wednesday, having come
half the way on foot, half the way on the
train and some of the rest of the way on
his wheel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hogg have arrived, and
will make their home in the house oc-
cupied by Frank Horr. as soon as he
moves. Mr.. Hogg is assistant agent at
the N. P. station. and Mrs. Hogg resid-
ed at Santa Rosa, California, and was
known as Miss Jennie Wilson until June
Both last Pembina people welcome the
young couple with pleasure. ;
The new tariff bill took effect Saturday.
Charley Atkinson got go head ef Cana
dian cattle over the day before. The old
tariff was 20 per cent of value. 4 The new
'ariff is as follows: 81 on olives less
lone year old; 5s.75 on cattle valued
sthan 81, and 271 per CENT on ali
Several cattle buyers ct capgb3
herds on the wrong side Of lie
llhave to pay the increased
come across.