The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1903-03-27
County News. {
Observation-Disclosures

Twenty-one teachers were at the ex-
animation in Cavalier last week.
State Auditor Holmes and wife, of
Bathgate, have gone to spend vacation
in Florida.
Bathgate schools reopened last week,
the scarlet fever having been confined to
the first case.
Col. Southard, of Grafton. formerly of
Drayton, and we'll known in Ga R.
circles, is seriously i'll.
George Hunt has left Bathgate for the
Saskatchewan country with two car loads
OF machinery and horses.
w. T. Hicks has caught the northwest
fever and will sell his farm near Neche
and go if he can find purchaser.
WA. Murphy, who recently purchas-
ed the Prairie farm near Neche, has sold
it 70 Thos. Trenbeath for $4,000. It is
fine place.
TIE Cavalier party returned from the
Northwest. None ot them bought land,
but Messrs. Farrow and Fahey filed on
homesteads.
J. E. Lee, OF Neche, has gone to Flor
ida on a trip for his health. He expects
to meet Mr.. LaMoure there, who is now
at West Baden, Ind.
Mrs. H. Pico, of Cavalier, who has
been in the hospital in Minneapolis for
the last three months, has arrived home
much improved in health.
Andrew Robbie and family were ex-
pected back to Cavalier from Colorado
Springs. MIR. R. is now in good health
and will again take charge of the Roller
Mills.
Bathgate expects quite a building
boom next summer. Hills, Manning &
Co. will commence large business
block as soon as the frost is out Of the
ground.
J. S. Anderson, of Crystal, has been
seriously ill for some time and by the
advice of his physician, was last week
taken to the hospital at Grand Forks fol
an operation.
E. D. Benjamin has sold his farm west
of Walhalla to ]. D. Gordon, and will go
to Alameda, N. w. T. Mr.. B. is one of
the old settlers in that locality and will
be missed by many old friends.
The Herald states that Theodore
Brush, former resident of Drayton. and
recently of Kansas City, died at ST. Paul
while on his. way to Angus, Mimi, where
he waste run farm this season.
county treasurer Mcbride, who
was in Cavalier week before last, told
the Chronicle that he would like to live
in Cavalier if he could run up against
some suitable line of business there.
The Mountaineer says the G. N. offic-
lals are desirous of the sentiments Of the
people along the road as to changing the
time OF the trains, but as the proposed
change would break the connections on
the main line, the Mountainser is against
it.
Joseph Walters, of Gardlr, will make
a trip to his old home in Iceland during
the coming summer. He is one of the
most successful farmers Ill his nelghbo Or :
borhood and the story of his prosperity
in this country will sound like tale from
the Arabian Nights to his old neighbors
on the island.
The Langdon Democrat tells story
o. legislator, whom it locates as from
Cass county, that exhibited roll Of $500
which he had saved during the session
OF GO days at IS per day. The friend was
hardly able to understand how he was
enabled to save tnat much money out OF
the total salary, but the legislator .ex-
planned it satisfactorily by saying that he
had his washing done at home. Bis
marck washing must come high.
Miss Lille Perry, of Walhalla, was
married to Hugh McD Donald, Of Winni-
peg, at the Leland Hotsl, March l8. A
somewhat sensational account ofthis al
fair appears in Wednesdays Herald, to
the general effect that before the mar
riage ceremony the bride insisted that
the groom should deed to her his prop.
|ertY consisting several hundred acres
near Stony Mountain and that the dis
mute was not settled when fhe % an, 49,,
had taken place, and that the bride had
left on the next train and that the groom
hardly expected to see her return: all Of
which would seem g be rather mythical,
|as the Mountaineer states that Mis-. Nc
Donald is at Walhalla, arranging her.
business matters preparatory @ joining
her husband1in Winnipeg. 81