The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-04-19
Bad Accident at WalhalIa.

Webster of the Walhalla bank, aged
twelve years, was the victim of very
serious accident on Saturday last.
He and number of other boys were
playing about the railway turntable and
somehow his left leg was drawn between
the end of the turntable and the curb
ing and frightfully crushed. The leg
bone was crushed about five inches be-
low the thigh joint and from there
down the flesh was stripped from, the
bones and the lower leg bones were
crushed. Some difficulty was had when
help arrived in extricating the lad from
the turntable, and he was then immedi-
ately hurried to the Doctors care. Ar
engagements were made so as soon as the
train arrived from the south an ex-
ira was made up and the boy with his
friends and the doctor taken to Grand
Forks. There the leg was amputated
near the thigh Joint and on Wednesday
he was reported as doing we'll.
Good PROJECTS for Creamery
The matter of establishing creamery
in Pembina is being agitated, and as
far as gone seems to meet the approval
of all parties that have been consulted
on the matter. 1t is proposed to make
it cooperative, and get as many farm
ers interested as are conveniently locat-
ed. One prominent farmer said he
would furnish fifty COWS after a years
operation and that he will start with
half that number. Macarthur, toilette
and the Pratford neighborhoods could
be handled with the Northern Pacific
and we can see no reason why six to
eight hundred COWS cannot be got tri-
butary to this enterprise. A co-opera-
tive creamery is operated solely in the
interest of its patrons and the farmer
gets all there is in the product of his
COWS, and has his say in the manage
ment.
About the only thing necessary for
the success of creamery is to get
enough cream to run it. The rest is
comparatively easy.
They have been paying proposition
in Minnesota for years and would be
here. Besides the direct profit in the
butter, there would also be the indirect
but Just as important result of killing
weeds. Because then the farmers
would raise more of cultivated and
forage crops and thus clean the land.
A representative of Wisconsin :.man-
ufacturing concern, manufacturing
creamery supplies was in the city this
week talking the matter over, and will
return later on. If the enterprise is a
go it will be in operation next spring.
Weather land River.
A real blizzard was ON hand on Thurs
day night last that reached pretty well
over the northern part of the state with
some SNOW On Monday, ''the snow she
blow some more" and piled up consider
able drifts, sufficient to stop railway
trains on some of the lines. The tenn
perature has been as cold as March or
February and everyone has been buying
another ton of coal and inquiring for
wood that can't be gotten. Farmers
are looking pretty blue over the pros
poets of seeding, though as matter of
fact they have plenty of time yet,
and the more so, that most of
the land was plowed last fall. In the
meantime the residents along the Red
river have been willing to stand the cold
and stormy weather as doubtless that
has saved us. from flood this year.
The Red Lake and smaller branchesi of
the Red river as yet have not risen to
any extent and in most of them the ice
is still on the surface without movement.
The ice on the Red at this point has not
yet given away though the river is clear
at Grand Forks. The ice was reported
as moving some at Drayton on Tuesday
At this place the river has risen to with
in about eight feet of the 1897 food
mark, or so that it was about six feet
lIOtu uOOU COnulGlOuS Ill Lu6 COWu. TIL
day, Saturday and Sunday it rose al
about the rate of ten to twelve inches
per day, Monday about ten inches
Tuesday eight inches, and Wednesday
two inches and was then at stand-stil
We look for decided fall in the water
during the next week unless something
extraordinary occurs, as the water il
falling rapidly at Grand Forks and al
Drayton.
I Representation
Every day the same old story
Keeps hummin' in our ears
"Do you think we'll have high water?-'
!, Answered by bunch of seers.
NINETY seven" keeps buzzin'
All the conversation thru,
It'll some older-timer chips in
With batch of "eighty-two.''