The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-06-22

On Stoves.
Stoves are very useful. They are
made Of iron. lift were not for stoves il
would be hard to keep warm. There
are two kinds of stoves. the coal stove
and the wood stove. There are two
kinds of wood stoves, the parlor and the
kitchen stove. The parlor stove is
generally high, but the kitchen stove is
low and has four lids.
W. Nv. CREswEL1.
Last Saturday.
Last Saturday, Annie Mckenzie and I,
went out to Mrs. Nelson's. We started
about one o'clock and came back about
nine o'clock. We had lovely time.
We went out to gather some eggs, and
there were some hens sitting. and Annie
Nelson put her hand under an old hen
and found little chicken?> She took
it out and brought it in to an old hen
who always took all the little chickens.
We looked through the telescope and we
saw little boy and girl out playing. We
thought we knew them. The little girl
had a pail of water and the boy caught
her and threw the water all over her,
and then he ran back home. We saw a
carriage and horse and boy, and then
we saw it was Johnny. Mamie picked
US both lovely boquet of flowers, and
then we went home. We never had
such a nice time before. I have not
mentioned half of the fun we had.
NELLIE VAUGHN.
Geese.
There are plenty of wild geese in this
country, and they fly in large focks. In
the spring they come up from the south
and settle in some slough or coolie or fly
around from place to place, until it be-
gins to get cold and then they go down
south again until the winter is over.
When they fly from place to place and
going north or south q great many are
shot. Sometimes person can get near
them, but generally they are too wild to
shoot. There are great many men who
60 from the different towns to shoot them,
and sometimes get fifty or sixty, but
generally not SO many. These geese are
covered with beautiful white feathers,
and are very large and heavy.
G. H. GRoGAN.
Cheerfulness.
In summer when everybody feels
lazy is the time like to meet cheerful
people. What a happy world this would
be if everybody were cheerful. True
cheerfulness belong to the good. Yet an
evilperson may be cheerful ; for example
a clown, but it is not true cheerfulness.
MAMIE NELSON.
The Stove.
The stove is very useful thing. The
stove is made Of iron. Ifit were not for
the stoves we would get very cold. But
the stove would not be.of any use if it
had not any fire in it. There are great
many different kinds ofstoves made for
different purposes. Some are made for
cooking and others for the parlor. There
are wood stoves and coal stoves.
WM TRAVIS.
The Red River Of the North.
The Red river of the North is Il river
in Dakota. II is called the Rcd river of
the North to distinguish, it from q river
in Louisiana called the Rcd river. The
Red river of the North rises in Elbow
lake MIMI, flows south short distance,
then north, emptying into Lake Winni-
peg, Manitoba. 1t is u large and rapid
river. In winter it is frozen four or five
feet deep and in spring it overdows its
banks. There are many large towns and
cities on it's banks. Small steamers ply
as far up as Fargo-2OO miles from it's
mouth. The Red River valley is one of
the greatest wheat producing regions in
the world. Pembina is town Of about
1000 inhabitants, some seventy-fvc
miles from the mouth of the river.
JOSEPH TRAVIS.
My Little Friend.
She was just five years old her last
birthday. She likes to 60 to school, and
says when she gets to he big girl she
intends to 60 to college with myself and
two or three other friends. Won't that
be splendid, she once said. Very nearly
every time she comes over to our house,
if she thinks Of it, she wants me to give
her music lesson. When I was over at
her house one day she was telling us
how she intended to help her mother
when she was grown up. She said her
brother was to get up first in the morn
ing, and then she would get up and get
breakfast, believe she said, or at least
help, for she always wants to help, small
as she is. When she went to Sunday
school she used to say she wanted to 20
in the big girls class, us she called them.
Dora D. CREswELL.
A Day at Valley Forge.
How we'll I remember the day went
to Valley Forge? We lived but few
miles from it, and one day we wentto visit
it. We started early one morning, and after
a short ride on the cars, stepped out at the
little station and walked to the old house
where General Washington stayed when
there. The house is built of stone, and
is almost exactly the same as when
Washington was there. The window