The pioneer express., 1908-06-12

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in the employ of the Hallock Weekly
News, left this week for Argyle where he
goes to join S. E. Thompson in the news
paper business. He is succeeded at the
News office by Mr.. Warner from Argyle.
-Hallock Enterprise.
A telegram from Ottawa to the Win
nipeg Free Press says that the govern
ment have decided to grant subsidy
and guarantee bonds for an extension of
the Canadian Northern railroad from
Pass to Fort Churchill on Hudson Bay
a distance of 4SO miles.
The pardon board which has been in
session at Bismarck committed the term
of ST.. .Hartzell from February to Dec
ember next Hartzell was tried in this
city for the killing of Byron Stoddard
at Langdon. The board took no action
in the case of Till.
Base ball this week, on the home dia-
mond were. Thursday, Emerson VS.. Penn
bina, 2 to 4. This was fine game and
the score stood to until the last in
ming when Pembina made two runs. On
Tuesday Pembina and st. Vincent scor-
ed to in favor of Pembina.
An insane Icelander who had been in
the county, at Cavalier, for week, was
brought before the board of insanity and
is now in Jail here awaiting the action of
the Canadian authorities where he had
been living for about year before CON-
ing to this side. He is likely to be sent
to Iceland again.
Mesdames w. J. Kneeshaw, l. j. Bas
ken, I. A. Burley,and Matilda Morris left
on Wednesday for Walhalla via automo-
bile as delegates to the w. G. T. U. con-
ventlon which met there on the 11th and
18th. Mrs: Burley will stop over and at
tend the S. s. convention which meets
at Cavalier on the 18th and 18th.
The sixteenth annual session of the
North Dakota Chautauqua opens at
Devils Lake, July Bird and continues to
July 18th. From small beginning
Chautauqua has enlarged wonderfully
each successive year until now its an
nual session is one of the big events in
the state. 1t IS expected that the COM
ing session will eclipse all former years
both in Importance and attendance.
The Brehany concert gwen at the
City Hall last Friday evening was rath-
er high priced production for a country
town but the concert was worth the
money. 1t was undoubtedly one of the
best if not the best thing of the kind
that has ever been IN this city. All four
of the troupe are first class artists and
each received unqualified applause and
praise There was good turn cut.
r. G. Reid, the famous Newfoundland
multi-millionair died last week of pneu-
monia after two weeks illness. Mr..
Reid was one of the richest men
of the world, owning large part of the
island Of Newfoundland and was, large
stockholder in the c.. P. R. and other
roads. He owned the Reid Farm near
St. Vincent and was brother Of Mrs.
Duff who resides at st. Vincent.
The Northern Pacifr train from the
east on Sunday had to be run via Glyn.
/ don and Crookston, on account of seri.
Gus washout near Twin Valley, and the
flyer was an hour and half late in Goa,
sequence. The through freight was de
layed two days. Heavy rains of late ir
the vicinity of Fertile has made The
road bed soft.
| A. J. McFadden of Neche, n D., wa.
, transacting business in Haltock Monday
Mr.. McFadden is agent fora patent cul
tivator made in Canada which he says il
the only successful destroyer of the SOW
and Canadian thistle. He succeeded il
placing an agency in Hallock and tn,
machine will soon be on exhibition here
-Hallock Enterprise.
! Sheriff Roadhouse, in answer to tel
ephone message from Grand Forks wa
barely in time to take young man nam
ed Geo. Lund from the train, on Monda
evening, on the charge Of embezMemen
from his employers, Gets Music House
I He was taken back to Grand Forks th
next day, and sent to Jail in default Q
500 bail. The sum taken is said to b
s35.
/ Two Wagons and a Buggy for Sale
r have two wagons and buggy, il
3 good condition, for sale. They are thol
loughly overhauled. III. BASKEN.
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