NEVr POST OPTICS CPEN
^aimer’s new post office will be
open to handle the next mail through
from the States, Applications for
boxes are now being taken by Mr.
Felton and soon the long line before
the window will be a thing of the
Though the building was first e
reoted as the community bakery shoe
it is readily adaptable bo the new
use and'will be a great jmerepercent
over the inadequate facilities with
■which Mrv Felton has had to contend
since tne sudden increase of Denuda
tion in the valley.
In a delayed letter to Kay Wilkes
the Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota
asks that his personal season's
greetings be extended to the colony.
Bill Byneck of $91 reports the
first attack upon stock by a pred
atory animal. Because there was not
enough snow to get a good study of
the tracks there is some doubt as to
what ib was that had the nerve to
jump into the pig pen and rio his
sow acorossthe back. Sounds like
a wolverine, but none have been seen
around the place.
Walt Liang inan, who got slammed
right in ths middle by one of Clar
ence Green's horses, is out of the
hosnital and droneed. in to say that
he felt able to again stort snaking
oat logs. This, ne said, would give
him a swell chance to get even with
that horse.
Clair Patten of jj49 had the mis
fortune to lose his cow just four
days after she had freshened. Death
was due to injury during calving.
LOST: Black bitch, 5 months old,
three white raws and white on chest.
Answers tc the name of Goofus.
Please notify Eino Wirtanen Tract
•'*143 or PIONEER office.
ALSO: Big red dog showing some Fal
amute strain. Is wearing new col
lar and answers to name of "Bed."
Notify Pete Lick at L-l Bunkhouse
or leave word at PIONEER office.
VALLEY CITY CAEE
CAVES PIES PASTRY AND BREAD
FRESH DAILY
CIGARETTES CANDY TOEACCO
NORTON'S VALLEY CITY CAEE
HOSPITAL NOTES
If you see George Conners of
Tract #132 hiking night and morn
ing toward the ho so it al don’t for
get it’s because he’s the nroud
daddy of a fine big 7 pound and
11 ounce baby girl, born to Mrs.
George on the 31st and already
named Patricia Mae.
Another proud father is John
Bixler, prof at the lAsilla school.
Little Miss Bixler weighed 8
pounds and 2 ounces when born on
February 2nd. After hearing the
nurses remark of her infant beauty
Eaddy Bixler was right over here
at the office trying to enter her
in the ”Tr!ss Palmer” contest.
John Pfieff has had his infec
ted knee opened and drained and is
getting along as well as can be
exoected *
John TJerdman whose back was
badly wrenched in an accident at
the tumbling of a scaffold timber
in the Community TTall is doing
well.
’’Tykie” C-riose is getting to be
a great big fellow...growing every
day,..and gets a big kick out of
being whooned around in a wheel
chair. Snorts a lot of now
clothes his mother made, too.
Gust °ehiebel is open for ad
vice on how to dry up his fine
Tolstein cow, GLefs due to come
fresh I hire h 20th, hut still in
sists uDon giving 8 quarts to the
milking. Fust he something wrong
with our native feed up here.
In the District election for
a councilman to fill the vacancy
created win n deck Lund bulled the
Din,' there wore a total of 74
votes cast out of the 10C eligible
Ti:is is a far hotter record than
previous elections.
August Rnschke of gl54 received
the highest number, 28; suitor
PLOpel next with 22. Others pol
ling were George Conners 14; Law
rence ^orrisen and Virgil Lckort
4 aniece, and Clarence °tjodin 2*
T e T"roffionsf Club held a meet
ing at the Gift °hon on V.'ednosday
afternoon.
An act of the ""omens* Club
which shows a fine suirit of co
operation is their offer to make
all the curtains for cur fine new
hospital. The material to be
used is white scrim.