The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-10-18

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DR.. and Mrs. Wright and children OF
Hallock and deputy collector of customs
Noyes of St. Vincent were guests of Mr..
and Mrs j. p. Hicks of Neche last
week.
A party of land seekers from Illinois
were at Bathgate last week looking
over some land the Foster agency has
listed. They made some selections and
were well pleased with the soil and
conditions. Other of their neighbors
expect to visit this section.
Some of the Bathgate ladies have be.
gun the work of compiling cook book
from receipts used by the best cooks in
that place, and they will have the same
published in book form, suitable for
gifts, 1t will be sold for the benefit of
the M. E. church there.
The Warren football team came up
from Warren Saturday and played an
interesting game with the local team,
composed of high school boys. The final
result was 0 to O. However this was
really victory for our boys as the
Warren team is composed of men who
are great deal heavier than our''boys.'
An interesting football game of last
week was that between the n D. univer.
sity alumni and the university. The
alumni won by score of toe. A fea.
ture of the game was that each side had
one of the Conmy brothers, John for
the alumni and Edward for the "U" and
each was the star player for his side.
Matt Fritz got % bushels of flax per
acre off II acres. Herbrandson out on
the Ranch got 152 bushels of barley
from three acres of grubbed land. Flax
about town here is doing very we'll at
the threshing machine, most of it going
about twenty bushels. But the above
isn't the average yield by anymeans.
James McConnachie, formerly one OF
Walhalla's business men, but for the
past three years located at Palisades
Colo, went to Walhalla Monday for a
visit with his bretAers-and other friends
He has been spending the past month at
lnkster, Pembina and other points. He
has disposed of his Palassede property
and is now located at Portland, Ore.
From November LIST until furthur no
tice the stores of Pembina will deliver
goods to customers from 10 to - in the
forenoon and to IN the afternoon: the
expense Of keeping someone delivering
goods at all times amounts to consider
able and it is thought the new arrange
ments will serve customers nearly as
we'll and will make considerable differ
ence to the dealer.
All the threshing in Pembina county
will be practically done tomorrow even
ing. There are localities where thew
are behind the rest but many rigs pulled
in in the early part of the week, and
generally all the grain of 1907 is either
shipped or in the bin. Reports from
different parts 60 to show that while
the crop is less than half of an average
the net proceeds to the farmer is
more.
A f. Appleton of Crystal, who OF
recent yea1s spends most of his time in
Los Angeles, CAL, was in the city this
week interviewing Judge Kneeshaw and
Others with view of interesting them
in land proposition he has in British
Columbia. The name of the company is
the Appleton Investment Corporation,
with head Office at Seattle. The hold.
ings are $4,000 acres in the Necklace
Valley, way in the interior of British
Columbia and is supposed to include
some of the finest land in .the PROVENCE
1t is on the proposed line of the Grand
Trunk Pacific, and at the present time
reached by pack horses. 1t is said
several in Langdon and from this county
are interested.
On Saturday last, N E. McGruer, one
of the Oldest and best known citizens Of
Langdon, died at the McGruer home