The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-21
The Pioneer Express.

The Pioneer Express.
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY q, 1899.
Local.
No. hard wheat 81 cents.
Circus day tomorrow and everybod!
will be in town.
St. Vincent is also connected with tn,
long distance telephone.
Considerable hail fell in the vicinity O
Crystal last week doing damage to crops
The long distance telephone instru
ments were put in the drug store yester
day.
Bid Purdy took home one of the fines
span of grays Chas. Atkinson brought II
the last load of Iowa horses.
A. H. Anderson, photographer, viii
be in the city all day tomorrow, SO yor
can have your picture taken while you
attend the circus.
T.. r. Shaw has his house six feet ir
the air and r. A. Thacker is busy build
ing the brick foundation, and may catch
up before it gets much higher.
The Degree of Honor meets next
Wednesday, July 10Th. At the last regu.
lar meeting Miss Helen Douglas was
appointed captain OF the Degree team.
Chas. Atkinson will have carload OF
Iowa horses and one carload of Western
heavy draft horses here on August 4th.
He got carload the other day and most
of them are gone.
Regular services in the Presbyterian
church next Sunday afternoon at two
O'Clock. Next Friday evening prayer
meeting and bible study at the residence
of ]. E. Ashley. All are invited.
Deputy Clerk of Court Geo. Peterson
has now his family comfortably located
in the dwelling next door to the church
in South Pembina. Geo. was always of
religious turn Of mind and on the right
road.
Commencing July 1st the Northern
Pacific Railway reduced passenger rates
on all lines IN Minnesota to basis of
three cents mile. The fare from Emer-
son to Winnipeg is now s1.95, instead of
$3.50 previously.
We are III receipt of a program OF the
annual fair and race meet of Kittson
county at Hallock, August 1st and End.
The purse in the tree-for-all trot is sl5O.
and other purses proportionate1y large.
Fhe program generally is good one.
The city was nearly deserted on
"American Day." Nearly all were at
Winnipeg. The Northern Pacific ran
four special trains besides the regular
passenger, Of fifteen to eighteen coaches
each, where standing room was at a
premium.
The crop prospects continue favorable
and reports from all parts of the county
Indicate all average good year. Hail and
the rains have done some damage in
places but to limited extent. The
weather all week has been all that could
be asked for.
Copt. Moorhead met with an accident
On the ferry last week that laid him up
several days. The rope that operates
the motive power of the ferry broke and
the crank struck him on the hand, ano
it was with considerable difficulty the
ferry was got under control.
Tne new Catholic church at Toilette
will be formally dedicated on Wednes
day, July 26th. A picnic will be held il
Pariseau's grove after the ceremonies
which will be attended by the member!
of the congregation as we'll as others
1t is to be hoped the weather will b,
favorable.
Leifur Oliver ofSouth Pembina took il
the Winnipeg fair with the rest Of tn
Pembina people. On his return ne wa
SO imbued with the sights Of the day tina
he neglected to get off at Pembina an,
went on to Grafton, which was as far a
that train went. 1t was with difficult
Leifur made the conductors understan
the mistake, and to bring him home tn
next day.
A gang Of men have been at wor