The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-06-16
The Pioneer Express.

The Pioneer Express.
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE Is, 1899.
Local.
st. Thomas expects to have new
depot.
Telephone poles are going up between
Grafton and St. Thomas.
Are you going to the old settlers meet
ing at Walhalla next week?
The Langton school district near Wei
ford are figuring to build new school
house.
Services at Presbyterian church on
Sunday at 200 p. m. Rev. Mr.. Hall,
pastor.
The band will give its regular open air
concert Saturday evening with change
Of program.
A little girl at Herbert DeFoe's was
entered on Dr. Harris health Office re-
cords on Monday.
In Christ church, St. Vincent, next
Sunday night, evening prayer and SER
mon at 7.3O O'Clock.
The Junior League met at Mrs. w. ].
Kneeshaw's last night and were billed to
have good time at ten cents time.
Sunday, June 18th, morning service,
(Holy Eucharist and sernlon in the
Episcopal church, Pembina, at II o'clock.
School election next Tuesday, June
10Th. In this school district No. l, a
successor is to be elected to Aug. Short
Supt. Jackson who attended the Union
school picnic at Crystal last week says
it was great success in numbers and
interest.
T. L. Price has purchased the corner
lot opposite the court house and next w.
Douglas residence and will build house
for rental.
Charles Atkinson reports the sale Of
horses brisk and new car load of fine
/, n To Io middle
of next week.
A copy of the Colorado Springs Ga
zette comes to us by the kindness of
Charles O'Hara Of this city who is visit
ing relations there.
Charles Brown went over to Walhalla
last week and now Feldnan has a load
of Mayors -four than which, our women
folks say, there's no better.
A large gathering met at the residence
of Hon. N. E. Nelson on Friday evening.
1t was in the nature, Of reception to
Rev. and Mrs. Hall of the Presbyterian
church, and very pleasant evening was
enjoyed by all.
A cyclone on Tuesday destroyed the
greater part of the city fNew Richmund,
Wis. about 30 miles east of St. Paul and
the fatalities are upwards of 200. Every
business place in the city with contents
was totally destroyed.
The funeral services of Ransford, the
son Of Mr.. and Mrs Thos. Roadhouse
were held last Friday afternoon at the
M. T. church, Rev. ]. G. Dingle oficiat-
ing. The bereaved parents have the
sympathy of many friends.
Showers have still been frequent dur
ing the week though no great amount of
rain has fallen. The weather on the
whole has been quite cool. Reports
from visitors are that the grain looks very
we'll all over the county and farmers are
looking the same.
On Saturday last, Maxwell youngest
son of ]. D. Wallace, of Drayton aged 8
years, while playing with some other
boys, fell and broke both bones of left
arm between wrist and elbow. DR..
countryman reduced the fracture and the
patient is doing we'll.
Some Grand Forks man in the Herald
declares that three or four drops of
gasoline put in the crown of dandelion
plant will kill it dead. We would like to
see somebody experiment with twenty
five or thirty barrels of gasoline about
our streets end lawns.
The band gave their first regular out
door concert for the summer on Satur.
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