The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-20

The Grand Forks Piaindealer said
summer had come.
Duluth was having boom.
Itwas President Arthur then.
Larimore Leader made its first appear.
ance, which made two papers in a six
months old town.
Fargo city debt was 1000.
Grand Forks was to have telephone
j'exchange.
County oficers:-C COMMISSIONER were
Frank Aymond, F. G. Myrlck and John
Bechtel. register,H r. Vaughn; treasurer
T.W. Gaffney; sheriff, Thrown; judge
I'of !probate, R. Tweedlie; Superintendent
ID. A. Healey; surveyor, S. .. McGuin
'assessor, D. Dick.
Advertisers were, Gaffney & Knee.
SHAW, attorneys; j. & D. McLachlan
physicians; A. F. Appleton, Crystal
notary; Alfred LaFond, barber; Mcleod
auctioneers and real estate; H.R
Vaughn, real estate; w. J. S. Trail
IEast Grand Forks town lots; Delaney &
Douglas, town lots at Emerson; G. H
Strong, hardware; McTavish & Webb,
general store; CLARK & ;Geeting, attor-
lEeys and land; W. w. Nichols, farm
machinery; T. E. Yerxa, general store
IL. LaMoure, 500 lots in a1aMoure's addi.
tion to Pembina; o. S. Hagerman, hard
ware; johnson, Holmes & Co., farm
Emachinery;sP Pembina county bank. And
there were about two columns of fnal
proofs.
>Churches:-Methodist Rev. s. Snyder:
Presbyterian, Rev. Ri. >Creswell; Con
gregational, Rev. William Ewing; r. G,
REV. Fir. Larche; Episcopal, Rev. T.. HI.
nv. Appleby.
Loads of household goods are going
fout to prairie homes every day.
Rich & Winter, who bought 80 acres
|'from Hon. N. e. Nelsonlfor $500 two
weeks ago were offered GIT 600 this week
for the same property.
The subject of ia city. charter was be-
It1QS dS1GdCcu.
R. Tweedlie rented his 320 acre farm
near Drayton to III. w. Wallace.
Material for the new church at Dray-
ton was on the ground. They decided
to plaster it on the inside. "A. w. McC Crea
broRght the new organ for the church
from Pembina.
Social at r. B. Richardson's. Drayton,
netted S22 for the organ.
Sam Haight ana brother John return
ed from Ontario with horses and will
farm, extensively near Drayton.
j. d. Wallace has returned to Dray-
ton from Ontario with the first carload
of horses ever shipped there.
Newcomers at Drayton that spring
were Messrs A. Black H. Bostlding, j.
and C.. Patmore, G.. Mason, r.. Arm
strong, G. Burrows and Miss Armstrong.
Nr.lViEton moved fnom Pembina to
Crystal to build hotel
Rev. R.J. Creswell organized q Pres
byterian congregation of 81 members in
the Hamilton and Batheate~district.
Messrs Yerxa disposed of their stock
of hardware to Wilkinson and French in
Cavalier.
Hugh ODo1nell and WI. S. Robert.
son were off ON trip to to the noun
tains. lMr. O'Donnell has been dead
many years and Mr.. Robertson is ply
sician in Scotland. Two brothers of the
latter reside in Crookston.)
G. A. McGuin and Miss Emma Rose
of Ernest were married on March 14th.
1t seems doubtful that the bill for the
division of Dakota will pass before the
close of Congress. Ut was seven years
after.)
The tide of immigration from Europe
was growing greater each year.
At the Liverpool Corn Exchange
sample Of Red River Valley wheat was
examined by leading importers and
millers. They pronounced 1t the finest
sample Of wheat on the market and
offered three pennies moro for it than
for the finest samples Of sCalfornia
wheat.