The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-05-19
County News:

w
of Hamilton, son.
Crystal has ball team of which w. r
Decker is manager.
Drayton voted to bond to build the
new school house. So, 800 worth.
Editor Wood of the Independent is
visiting at Sank Rapids this week.
]. M. Firch who lives south east Of
Hamilton is building fine new barn.
Walhala stage now leaves Necke at
1890 p. m. and arrives at 1916 a. m.
Hugh Morrison has son, and James
Sabraw another, both last week, at
Neche.
Mr.. and Mrs. Murdoch Morrison of
Stokesville are the happy parents Of
twns-.a boy and girl.
A two year old child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Reynolds near Stokesvile fell in an open
well and was drowned.
Alexander Mitchell of Bowesmont has
gone for visit to his cold country"
He will return about Sept. 1st.
Peter Thompson OF Hamilton Is at the
hospital at Grafton where he will nndtr-
go all operation for gall stones.
Miss Elizabeth Hitchcock has declined
reelection in the St. Thomas school, Size
has taught there for three years.
T. R. Chambers of Hamilton went 10
Fargo this week to visit his son John
who is at the Agricultural College.
Neche village marshal Roadhouse's
son Harvey at Winnipeg has new son
and they call the marshal "grandpa"
now.
Mrs. G. S. Hager w IS at Grafton last
week visiting friends. Editor Hagel
went to the Twin Cities for four days last
week.
Judge Murphy Of Neche sprained his
knee and had to stay in the house for
some days. Defective sidewalks was
the cause
Miss Nellie Thacker of Hamilton who
graduates from the Mayville Normal this
spring will teach the B ,thgate primary
next year.
Water rose SO fast in the Red that the
Drayton brick yard people had to hustle
to save their wood that had Just been un.
loaded on the bank.
The Gasston people are preparing all
sorts Of good entertainment for the del
egates 20 the Sunday School convention
that meets there in June.
Chas. Bjorkland, the Bowesmont
blacksmith, has invented new pillow
cultivator which is said to be weed
destroyer that does splendid work.
Miss Sue Riley of the Lyceum bureau
was at Drayton and arranged for a
course of entertainments in that city next
winter. Miss Riley was also at Pembina
but-we have no hall.
At the Tri-county Teachers associa-
ton held st Grafton last week the follow
ing officers were elected: Pres. Prof
Hayward, Cavalier; V. Pres Miss Sue
DIgby, Mimic; secretary, Miss Gertrude
Gulickson, Grafton; treasurer, Prof.
koehler, Grafton.
Cavalier is to have a new state bank
with sl5, 900 capital. Directors are, r.
@. Adams, Robert Mcbride, T. G.
Thompson, John O'Keete and E. H. Res
tameyer. r. Mcbride and w. s.
Johnson will be the heads of the bank.
They expect to build concrete building
2ix40 two stories high. and be ready for
business in August.
George Kenyon of Walhalla was
drowned in abont two teet Of water last
week. A corone''s jury could find moth
ing suspicious in his death. He parted
with a friend short distance from his
own home short time before. There
WAS a shallow exca walton and he STUN
bled into it and smothered in the water.
He was probably intoxicated. He was
laboring man and we'll liked in the
community. He leaves wife and two
children He was insured IN the Work
men for 81, 600.
VIM. Surerus and wife of Cavalier
were driving along the highway when
the horses ran away. They ran in the
direction Of the railway track. and in en-
-deavoring to stop them Mr.. S. broke
one line. Then Mr.. S. heard the freight
train coming along. He lashed the
horses in the hope of getting across be-
fore the train, but found he was too late
and just in time he pulled on the one
line and swung the team into the rail-
road ditch, and against the wire fence.
Outside the fright aud shock no harm
was doue, but it was close call.
Quick Arrest.