The pioneer express., 1912-02-02
j. LaMoure Jr, P. j. Thue and g. G.
Thompson left this morning for the auto
show at Grand Forks.


j. I. Cockburn & Co., of fDrayton have
sold their drug and jewelry business te
Thomas Wilson. Mr.. Wilson is an ole
resident Of Drayton and recently moved
back from California. MI. Cockburn's
plans for the future are not fully mat
ursd.
=. d. Booker left on Tuesday for Col
orado Springs fora a stay of several weeks
he has been suffering severely from
asthma for some time and goes in hopes
to find better health as he did once be.
fore. He has an uncle en- his mothers
side living there.
Mrs. j. Fred Gill of Portal has been
visiting at Bathgate and Pembina for
the last two weeks. Her baby about
two years old was taken with pneumonia
here and has been very ill but is inn
proving slowly. Mr.. Fred Gill is also
here to help look after the sick child.
The whist club met with Mr.. and Mrs.
Feldman last Tuesday evening. Five
tables were filled and whist enjoyed un-
til eleven o'clock when course of de-
lIcious refreshments WIS served by the
hostess. assisted by her daughter Will
he]mina and Miss Dorothy Basken.
-Four tied for ladies prize, Mrs. G. G.
Thompson winning out by cut. MIR. Ay-
len captured the highest gentlemen's
score.
Miss George Mar Chambers will give
an address at the NJ. E. church on Sun
day afternoon next at three O'Clock.
Miss Chambers is state w. C.T.U
worker and is an orator of high order.
She will give a reading PATSY" which
won her the diamond medal Her sub
ject will be "The Coming Boy and the
Future of the Girl" All invited. Col
lection.
The committee who have the tickets
to sell are asked to get move on to day
and Saturday. No citizen should be
allowed to escape being asked by differ.
ent members of the committee at least
three times. Several matters are press
ing for consideration but the organic
alton meeting cannot we'll be held until
the membership tickets are sold. We
are waiting the action of the committee.
An insane man who has been working
for some time in the vicinity of Neche
as farm hand is in the custody of the
sheriff at Cavalier His home is sup
posed to be at Rochester, N. Y. and an
effort will be made to send him there
His delusion seems to be that certain
people are after HIM trying to see thru
him with an x-ray instrument. Other
wise he appears to be perfectly normal.
John Hart who was engaged in the
saloon business at St. Vincent but sold
out some five years ago and moved to
Minneapolis, lost diamond ring valued
at $500. This week while laborer was
shoveling out the ice house preparatory
SO refiling the place found the ring in
the saw dust apparently in as good con-
dltlon as when it was lost and the jewel
will be returned to the owner The ice
house has been refilled every year since.
The Great Northern Winnipeg flyer
went into the ditch at Donaldson MINI.
on Wednesday evening on it's way south.
At this writing we have NO particulars
as to casultes but it is rumored that
about tweuty persons were injured
through no one killed. Owing to this
accideut the Grpa, Northern flyer north
bound ON Thursday morning came over
the Northern Pacific tracks from Grand
Forks and through Pembin arriving
here about nine o'clock, delivering its
morning mail direct.
The Grand Forks Times of Wednesday
evening tells of new railroad whose
articles of incorporation we're filed in the
state capitol in st. Paul, the route Of
which is from Fargo to the heInternational
boundary ON the east side of the river
and according to the articles OF incor'
poration will touch Fargo Crookston
back into Grand Forks, and thence on
east side north to the boundary. It has
the long name of Chicago. Minneapolis
Red River Valley and Canada Railway,
hut who or whit is behind 1t is not yel
known. Such road would cut off con
siderable trade from some North Dakots
towns situated an the river. s. (,
Some Good ..sds', RsnnInf. @
lave you notlcrd the Mitchell auto
mobile advertising running in this paper,
a It tells lot Of interesting things enc