The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08
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Drayton potatoes are said to be rot.
ting.
The; Echo has a nice picture of the
base ball team.
Cavalier sportsmen have camp west
OF that city same as last year.
The Echo editor is home from a two
weeks camping at Alexandria.
Surveyor Mott is at work on the new
ditch from Cavalier to the Red river.
Grandma Bechtel has been seriously
ill for the last three weeks.-Chronicle
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. L. Howard are back
to Walhalla after pleasant trip to the
coast.
I. B. Parsons Of Bathgate has also in
vented new shock loader, said to be
success.
Cyrus Mexican of Bowesmont has
sold his farm for s33 per acre to an Hi
nois man.
H. R. Morris and family are home at
Neche. They have been visiting during
the summer at Nez Perces, Idaho.
The contract for the erection of the
annex to the Neche school building, one
story, was let to D an Malo for $3.50.
Prof. Miles Edgerton superintendent
Of Tacoma city schools was visiting rel
atives and old friends at Neche last
week.
Miss Agnes McCorckell left Neche for
Calgary in response to telegram stating
that her father had baen injured in rail-
way wreck.
VIM. Hills of Bowesmont and Miss
Ella Forbes Of Hallock were married at
the residence OF the BRIDES parents on
Sunday of last week.
Miss Blanche Mcintosh who has been
visiting at EBowesmont has returned to
resume her duties as teacher in the
Minneapolis public schools.
According to new law all wholesale
liquor houses have closed in villages in
Manitoba and one of these is the place
OF Coblenz & Co. Of Gretna.
II c. w. Andrews of Walhalla makes 81
per cent butter, according to the Grand
!. Forks Fair judges. 1t wasn't the highest
but was much better than the average.
: The St. Thomas Times in an editorial
on the home support of newspapers in
Inmates that it is by no means unlikely
/. that the Times may be forced to suspend
publication for want of patronage.
w. H. Smith and Miss Blanche Folln S
took the train at Crystal for Grand Forks
where they are to be married. They
will go from there to Knife River, MINI.
whore the groom has position in lum-
Der camp.
The house on the old r. B. Richard
son farm at Drayton was burned on
6 Tuesday. 1t was one Of the oldest resi-
dences in the township. 1t was occu-
pied by Theo. Chester who lost all his
upstairs goods.
: Samuel Lumsden, who had a small
I farm across the river in Ninn. was taken
, to Drayton for medical treatment and
, died there. He lived alone and was
, sick for week before neighbors noticed
his condition. He came from Scotland
r and has no relatives in this country.
f Ex-commissioner Jos. NORM of Neche
: has made the unpleasant discovery that
. some bromo inermis that he sowed a
) few years ago was nothing but cheat or
chess. 1t grows luxuriantly all right but
that is what is the matter with it. The
trouble is to stop it from taking posses
sion of the farm.
On Friday evening, Miss Sarah Butler
who lived on the H. c. Thompson farm
near Bowesmont, attempted to light a
gasoline stove and there was an explo-
sion which ignited her clothes. She ran
out doors and her brother who was in
the barn ran and tried to extingulsh the
flames, but before they could succeed
her clothes were all burned from her
body. She died Saturday and funeral
services were held on Monday.