The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-14
PEMBINA, AUGUST IA. 1885.
AROUND TOwR.

AROUND TOWN.
e. d. WRIGHT of Duluth, arrived in
town yesterday.
FRANK PERRY, representing the st. Paul
Storage and Implement Co. is in town.
JUDGE I. E. West, prominent citizen
Of Fargo, registered at the Winchester
yesterday.
Nh. SAMUEL ARD1Es sold fourteen
months old steer, Wednesday, to Mr.
Chapman for $25.
The prairie chickens are having good
time and probably still unmindful of the
near approach of Aug. Is.
FATHER KENNY will visit Cavalier,
Bathgate and Pembina on the following
dates: Cavalier, Sunday Aug. 23rd,
mass 1880 a. m. Pembina, Sunday, Aug.
3Oth mass, IL q. m.
IT is observable that the boldest
weather prophets have collapsed into a
state of chronic silence from an over.
powering sense of the dangers that attend
the practise of their profession the
present season.
WILLIAM MERLIN and A. B. Latham oil
Pembins have taken claims OH Wolfcreek
twelve miles south ofhere. They drove
from Pembina with an OK team two weeks
ago, and think this is the finest country
they have seen.--Turtle Mountain Times.
PROF. LEROY, the tight rope walker
gave one of his acrobatic exhibitions in
the city on Tuesday. in presence of 8
large crowd. the rope being stretched
between McTavish & Webb's store and
the Winchester House. He performed q
number Of daring feats.
PEMBINA will doubles furnish better
wheat market this year than it had in
former years. What we need is a good
market and free ferry, and that will be
had without doubt. Our business men
however, have duties in the premises
which should not be neglected.
TIE court house is undergoing some
repairs, internally, this week. D. Wright.
of Emerson, has the contract for plaster
ing the court room ceiling and making
other repairs. The treasurer's Office has
been papered and the other offices are tc
be either kalsomined or papered.
UNDER the supervision of Marshall
Ashley, several pieces of sidewalk have
been built lately. including one from the
new bridge to Mr.. Jerardin's. Two
good crossings have been put in on
Ramsey and Second streets. George
Parker is proceeding with the work OF
cleaning up and grading south Second
street and the bridge will be started in a
few days.
The grain crop, 80 far as our reports
show, isapproaching state of readiness
for the reaper, with prospects generally
of good yield. In few places in
Pembina county we hear of injury to a
small extent, done by a worm at the
roots of the grain. The hot wave, week
before last, also did slight injury to some
of the early grain but the damage from
all causes, as yet. is but small. The
weather set in cool and favorable yester.
day and we hope for favorable conditions
for harvest work which is now beginning.
THE pic-nickers who went with the NJ.
E. Sunday school OH Tuesday had fine
day and a pleasant time. Mr.. Fraser's
grove, near Lake Louise, is a pleasant
place for picnic and Mr.. Fraser and
family showed themselves very thought
full in their attentions to the visitors.
Besides giving the free use of the grove,
they otherwise put themselves about to
make it enjoyable for all. Swinging,
boat riding and other amusements occu.
PIED the time of the party and all seemed
to enjoy themselves.
Ar the specia. school meeting on Tues
day evening, twenty mill tax was voted
for school expenses the present year.
The general feeling seems to be in favor
of keeping up the efficiency and prestige
Of our publicschool. At this meeting the
final report of the auditing committee
was received and placed on file, and a
vote of thanks rendered to Messrs.
Musselmen. Delaney and Thompson, the
members of tile committee, for their
efficient labors. The school board will
make supplementary report in few
weeks, from which we think it will be
seen that the accounts of the district are
in correct shape.
We regret to learn that DR.. c. Stoddard
Smith is likely to accept proposition
from the Chicago college of dental surgery
to take the position of superintendent of
of the Inarmary in connection with that
institution. DR.. Smiths superior merits
as dentist have not been fully rccogniz-
ed in the vicinity of Pembina until he
had recently become settled amongst us,
as we hoped, to stay. Now comes Chica-
60. arrival city, and offers him salary Of
between three to four thousand dollars to
begin with, to fill position that the doc
tor is easily equal to, and We fear we must
let him 60. We understand he enters
upon his duties September 10th, and his
many friends here will wish him success
in his new field. In the meantime it
may as will be confessed that we are los
ing one of the best dentists in the whole
Northwest.