The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-12-01
County News /:

Cavalier is to have all Eastern Star
lodge pretty soon.
The Cavalier roller mills have started
bakery as side line in that city.
A bazr and supper by the Catholic
ladies of Bathgate, given last week,
realized S252.
Tom Harrington of Bathgate has
moved to Portal to make his home.
GettIieb Kane went with him
Absalom King, formerly Of Walhalla,
died at Weir Hills, Saskatoon. He
leaves wife and large family.
An entertainment and box social will
be given at the Morris school house in
! district No. 18 on December 8.
R. Knapp has sold his farm. two and
half miles from Drayton. to H. w.
Wallace and will move to the Pacific
coast.
| T. w. Kibbee of Drayton has gone to
North Yakima, WASH, to superintend
| the putting in Of large acetylene gas
plant.
! R. A. and Postmaster E. A. Thacker
have purchased the building formerly
occupied by Green Bros. and will move
there.
Drayton-Cavalier basket ball girls
tried out at Cavalier last week. First
half, SO; second half, 1916, in favor of
Drayton.
On account OF i'll health, Miss Able OF
the Cavalier schools was not able to
continue her work and IS succeeded by
Miss Cutler of New York.
HI. w. Wallace of Drayton bought a
piece OF business property in Winnipeg
last spring for $2O,3OO He sold the
same last week for S32, 500.
MIR. and Ed Collins of Hamilton en-.
tertained large company of young peo.
pie on the occasion Of the eighteenth
b rthday of their daughter Miss Gertrude.
| Joseph Venne and Joseph Ladouceur
OF Leroy plead guilty OF wheat stealing
in the justice court at Cavalier last week
and were bound over to the district
court.
Miss Eva Carpenter of Bay Center and
Alfred Otto of Crystal were MARI. d at
the residence of the brides parents a
week ago Friday. They have gone to
California tor a trip.
John Alexander tells the Chronicle
that he saw lilac bush budding out
anew in Cavalier on November 21st.
Mr.. Alexander is known to us as a
gentleman Of veracity, but in our own
Experience we never saw lilac that
bloomed in November.
Cavaliers new banking house is com
pleted. The lower story is II feet and
the upper is 10 feet. Attorney Brynjolf-
son will have a suite OF looms below
and Attorney Laxdal will have his office
above. The Chronicle says 1t is very
handsome and commodious building.
A young son of w. J. Greenwood, liv-
ing near Crystal, asked his father to
bring him new pair of shoes from
towl, but the father forgot them. The
next time Mr. Greenwood went to town,
when he came to get his halter to tie his
horses he found a five year old boy un-
der the seat. The kid got the Shoes
Call.
Gordon Beaton, age five years, and
Larcum Wilson, aged four. years, were
playing on the river at Bathgate. The
Beaton boy fell in and the Wilson boy,
hardly knowing what to do, went to the
residence of the mother. Mrs. Beaton,
and told her that Gordon had fallen in
the water. She ran, calling Mrs. Hall
on the way, and saw the boy under the
ice, and reaching in, pulled him out and
by vigorous massage the two women
brought the nearly drowned boy back to
life.
Mrs. James Mcconnell of Midland
township died on Sunday. Nov. 10Th, ag-
ed, rs years. Mrs. Mcconnell came to
this county in 1882. Her husband died
four years ago. The interment was at.
BoWesmant. The deceased leaves al
large family of sons and daughters to
mourn her loss. They are Thos. s., Jas,
John A., Vim. H.. Albert E., and Miss
Lottie, Mesdames ]. H. Johnson, R.
Memzies. ]. Sturgeon, c, Shield, all OF
Pembina county, Mrs. w. H. Simpson
of Lindsy, Ont, and Mrs. T. Weeks Of
Coeur de Leon, Idaho. The deceased
was highly respected and her loss is
deeply regretted BY many old friends,
Avid cat was killed west Of St.
Thomas last week that measured two
feet one inch high and two feet elsven
inches from tip TO tip.
Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president
WAS horn in 14(A died 1850 L q 4s ss .slS