The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-04-19
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County News


band.
Mrs. L. McKechney of Walhalla is re-
covering from an attack of typhoid.
DIR. Brown of st. Thomas is contem-
plating trip east to take post gradu-
ate course.
The Walhalla train was stalled in the
snow at Hensel on Monday night and
abandoned.
Thos, Colvin has purchased the inter-
est of Fred Sutterlin in the st. Thomas
butcher shop.
The Pink Paper hopes the rumor is
true that says the hotel at that place is
to be reopened.
A district convention of Odd-Fellows
was held at Grafton last week and was
we'll attended from this county.
Mr.. Peter Hogue gave his gentlemen
friends at Bathgate supper at which
Hon. III. l.. Holmes was the guest of
honor.
Supt. Pierson, Mrs. Hensel and Miss
Van Steeuburgh have rendered their
designations as teachers of the Drayton
school.
Editor Hager has been elected as
president of the board of directors
for the Feeble-Minded Asylum at
Grafton.
Mrs. Harry Tapley of Hamilton while
standing on table cleaning the ceiling
of room, fell and injured herself quite
seriously.
Drayton is planning an all at home
teamlin base ball this year. w. F. Ware
is to be manager and Rex Wallace Sec
retary and treasurer.
Brinton Hills of Backoo who was tax
en- to Fargo hospital some time ago
for serious operation, is said to be do
ing as we'll as can be expected.
The tenayear old son of Eggert Thor
laceous oflAkra, accidently shot him
self withsa rifle last week and was dead
when found in shed near the house.
Johnyunkins has returned from a
winters stay in Minneapolis to Drayton
and expects to start his ditching ma
chine as soon as the weather will allow.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. s. Smith have left
st. Thomas to take up their residence
on theiriclaim near Rudser in Williams
county. They expect to be absent
eight months.
Martin Littlejohn of Glasston has
been: discharged from the hospital at
Grafton where he has been all winter
recovering from the. effects of injury
sustained while threshing last fall.
Bessie, the youngest daughter of Hall
dor Baker, formerly of Cavalier but now
of Marietta, Wash. died last week at the
Drayton hospital. The cause of her
deathiwas hip trouble of long standing.
A couple of small boxes of matches
were discovered to be on fire in large
packagesof the same in LaMoure & Co.'S
warehouse at Walhalla, in time to save
confagration. Supposed to have caught
spontaneously.
Mrs...D. McMaster, of Leyden, was in
Neche as the guest of her sister, Mrs. j.
P. Edgerton, on Tuesday. Mrs. McMas-
ter, husband and family are making pre-
parations for an early removal to the
Pacific coast. -Chronotype.
DR.. A. o. Allen of Mountain Lake,
Minn., has purchased the Frise resi-
dence in Hamilton from D. d. Warner
and ll.,move to Hamilton for the prac.
tice of..his3profession. He has been in
the business for twenty-seven years.
The Chronotype says that Spring
has sprung.'l Some years ago the Ham,
ilto1correspondent of the Pink Paper
made a similar previous assertion and
found himself in the midst of an action
for libel. Better look a little out Rex.
Miss Lizzie Mcmillan, who has been.
visiting a sister at Langdon. spent Sun
day visiting her parents Mr.. and Mrs. p.
H. Mcmillan. She was on her return to
Minneapolis where she is a professional
nurse in one of the hospitals. Indepen-
dent.
j. j. Whalen and family are to return,
to Hamilton after two years living in.
Palouse, Wash. He has traded his pro-
perty there for the two Arm strong farms
And persons thinking Of moving west
might read the above with little
thought.
h Friends in Pembina county, and the
state generally, will feel the deepest
sympathy with Mrs. r. ID. Hoskins, 81
Bismarck, formerly of Bathgate, and,
Mrs. I. !. Foster II Bathgate, ID the
death "a their mother, Mrs. Armstrong.
|of Winnebag MINI.
NJ. and Nm. John Stafford have re-
turned ~ Crystal atter spending tie
winter ~ Cali eofnia Thirty persons