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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21
81. THOMAS.
arvcsting is in full blast.

Harvesting is in full blast.
st. Thomas vas well represented in
Park River Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Porter returned from
their trip south the other day.
The contest between Nloir Of this place
and Catllcrwood of Park River, which
took place OH Monday, is not decided
yet. Catllerwood is a royal kicker and
no mistake.
l.. Il. Storms returned Saturday form
st. Paul where lie had been to receive
medical treatment for his leg. He is q
little better but from appearances it will
be some time yet before he is able to use
it.
The Ladies Aid Society of the NJ. T..
churcl, held u literary entertainment in
the school house last evening. Tie st..
Thomas cornet band was in attendance
and rendered some very fine music.
The program was good and well rendered.
TYNER.
Mclean Bros. did the first tllreslling of
the season a few days ago.
Mr.. Jameson has q new boy to help
him farm, but as yet lie can do nothing
but draw.
Farmers have most ali their barley cut,
and expect to be into oats and wheat next
week. Crops never looked 50 well in
this vicinity. No damage FROM storms
yet.
MIR. jackson, county superintendent O
| schools, visited our ncigh5orhood las
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21

Warm weather has come and the Pi-
oneer Bakery is the place to get ice
cream. 42tf
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21
A Gentle Hint to Town and Country
House Keepers.

fyou have not been at Thompson's
Grocery Store yet, just drop in and see
him, he will be glad to see you and think
it no trouble to give his prices before
making your purchases elsewhere. Also
will exchange for butter and eggs.
Remember the place.-Old Express
Office, Pemblna.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21
A Rap0A1n

A Minneapolis binder for sale. Inquire
of the undersigned.
A.. e. NICHOLS,
If Neclle, DIT.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21
Strayed or Stolen

From the pasture of $. +. Fredricksen,
Tien township. Minnesota, a gray speck-
led marc Is years old, about Is hands
high. Any one giving information lead.
ing the recovery Of said mare will Ike re-
warled by q. BLoMQuIsr,
Pittsbuv. Pembina comfy.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21
Wanted.

At once, a Trustworthy, respectable
young girl for nurse. Apply ut this
Office.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21
Items Of Interest.

G. Moore & 20. has laid in a stock OF
mouldings, picture frames. Any size
made to order.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21
Lost.

Between Pembina and Neclle on Tues
day the 2lst, ladies gold hunting case
watch, attached with q key and small
black enamelled lOcket to black silk
guard. Any one returning it or giving in
formation that will lead to its recovery
will he rewarded. Apply ut this office.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21

Tnos. HEARD, Of st. Vincent, brother
Of Miss Heard, dress maker of this town,
who was accidently shot in the arm last
week, died on Wednesday morning OF
lock,jaw. Deceased was in the employ Of
the railroad company in st. Vincent and
was highly respected.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21
AROUND TOWN.

HEtownship supervisors held a session
on Monday.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21

TaE nights are reaching a convenient
length and becoming perceptibly cooler.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21

HENRY NORRIS furnishes an interesting
war "Reminiscences elsewhere.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21

RExExBER the business meeting to Ike
held this Friday evening at the store Of
McTavisll & Webb, at $50, 10 discuss the
question of a wheat market and to hear
the report of the committee.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21

QUrrE number went from here last
Sunday evening to hear Rev. Mr.. Sem
mems preach at Emerson. He has been
stationed for tho past year at the head of
Lake Winnipeg and his visit to Emerson
was much enjoyed by his many friends
there.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21

In his address at Fargo the other day,
Bishop Walker named Darlington as one
of twelve places in North Dakota where
Episcopal church edifices were needed at
once. and for which a thousand to fifteen
hundred dollars will be required for cacl,
building. The other points are, Devils
Lake, Lisbon, Mandan, Grafton, Mayville,
Dickinson, Tower City, Buffalo, Pembina
and Batllsate.-Carrington News.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21

Ar a meeting held at the store of
SlcTavish & Webb on Saturday evening
last to consider the question of securing
better wheat market, the following
committee was appointed to take the
matter into consideration and report
recommendations: l.. +. Booker, J. G..
Webb. I. Shaw, +. NJ. Nixon, John
kabernagle and G. II. Strong. An ad.
journed meeting will he held this
friday evening.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21

Mr.. AND Mrs. GEORGE THOMPSON had
the sad misfortune to lose their little
child, aged weeks, which died on
Friday morning last. A brief funeral
service was conducted by Rev. Mr..
Wardwell on Sunday afternoon.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21

TIE Emerson Times asks the following
significant questions in regard to that
town: "Why are the long weeds along
the streets not cut down and burned?
Why are the horses allowed to meander
up and down the board-walks?"
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21

THE board of county commissioners
will hold their next meeting September
7th.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21

IT should be borne in mind that where
ciattel mortgages on property in Cavalier
county remain on file in this county, a
certified copy thereof should he filed with
the register of deeds in Cavalier county.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21

4. 00U6LAS,
and TimberCulture entfies made O. the Grand
Forks Land Once. Final Proofs taken. Convey.
sncing promptly attended,
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21

Ill. CRANDELL,
Notary Public. Money to loan on farm pro-
perry. Farm and to IN property for sale.
~.DRAYT0N. DAKOTA.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21

TIE elevator at st. Vincent was sold at
Red Wing last week, but we have not
heard who is the purchaser. .
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21

TIE grain fields are falling in every
direction into the arms Of the self bind.
ers. Should the weather continue favor
able, the harvesting campaign this year
will be short, sharp and decisive.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21

DR.. ADELARD GuERSoN, the newly
appointed collector Of customs, arrived in
town Monday evening. The Doctor was
cordially greeted on his arrival, the
cornet band giving him serenade ut the
Winchester House. In response to this
hearty greeting the Doctor stepped for.
ward and made few graceful remarks
by way Of acknowledgment of his warm
reception. On Tuesday DR.. Guernon
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21

ksEEsHAw . sEvAxs,
Lawyers. Will practice in Courts Of Dakota.
Minnesota and before United States Land once.
Money to Loan and Collections made.
IEABINA, DAKOTA.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21

w Alsn L MILLER,
A..o.ne:s at Law, special attention 70 land
Office bustuess. Office II Grand FORKS National
BAux Bu!lcs1g.
GRAND FORKS, DAKOTA.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21

3. II. BosAaD. GEO. B. CLIsvoRD.
BOSaRO L CLIFFORD,
Attoeneys.st-Law. Practice In United States
GIsud Once. Lend money on Eeel Estate aud Cie =
I'll security. Abstracts 0ftitle furnished.
GRAND FORKS, DAKOTA.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21

w. H. MooRilEAD has rented Lee
Scribners saloon and the latter will
hencefortl, give his attention tothe brew.
cry business.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-31
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Socialists of Philadelphia have quar- reled, and their organization is broken up in other words, they are in state of anarchy, which ought to suit them.
 Tennyson is about to publish another vol ume of poems If his recent poems are fair specimens of the contents of the new volume it will not add to his fame.
 The accounts of the performance at Gin cinnati are conflicting, but it seems clear that the Hon. John L. Sullivan, of Boston, didn't do what he expected to.
 Lord Coleridge lays down the law that a conspiracy to boycott is an indictabls ofense, that a civil action for damages may be maintained for the injury done, and that boycotting may be restrained by injunction. This may be good law, but there is no way to make man trade where he doesn't want to.
 When electricity was first used for light, holders of gas stocks became very uneasy and sold their stocks for less than their value. It came out at the recent Electrical congress in New York city that wherever the electrical system of lighting has been introduced into city or town it has increased the consump- tion of gas.
 The new South continues to flourish. The Manufacturers Record, of Baltimore, says that the last two weeks of the last month, despite the usual dullness to be expected have shown 8 remarkable activity in tho or ganization of new industrial enterprises throughout the South. The splendid crops have imparted new life to business, and preparations are being made for great activi- ty in industrial and trade circles
 In aid of the law prescribing temperance instruction in the public schools of Massa chusetts number of distinguished advocates of the cause have joined in circular point ing out what text books are s'safe'' and what 'sunsafe" This document is signed by Dr. Daniel Dorchester. Lieutenant Governor Ames, Dr. Plumb, Bishop Harris, Mrs. Leon ard and others of like eminence, and its l avowed purpose is to 'tguard against the in troduction into the public schools of sucl textbooks as are calculated to give false and hurtful teaching on the subject of alcohol.
  s'scientifc facts in favor of total abstinence, and that s'set forth the danger attending all use of alcohol as beverage" while the "un l safe" works are those which contain "sug gestions containing it's possible benefits. " l It has been discovered that Adrian Speer l the only person killed by the dynamite ex ! plosion on the steamer Felton at Ph1ladei phia, carried insurance on his life to the e2
 tent of over thirty thousand dollars. He be longed to nineteen secret societies, iron each of which he wonld have been entitled
 to weekly benefits in case of injury, and th' majority of which will pay his widow iron $1 ,000 to $2, 900 each for his death. He als' held S, 900 accident policy in Hartfort
 company, for which he paid twenty cent
 and which would have expired two hours at ter the explosion. These facts and som
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-31
ADMITTED. A
PAYER.

The watermelon is admitted without
 question into our best families, although
 it is always very seedy.-Philadelph Call. A lady visitor at Saratoga changes her
 dress four times day. Her husband is
 staying at home, and changes his shirt once
 fortnigbt.-Li
 A famous tenor has injured his voice by having a toothpick lodge in his throat. He probably swallowed the toothpick to give his
 voice more timber.-N. Y. Graphic. A man who recently obtained aims by say when taken to the station house was com pelled to admit that it was when he was a boy, and that Grant was on top.--Buffalo Times.
 Joel L. Hart, we'll known sculptor, has completed fine piece of statuary called "Woman Triumphant" We should like to see how he managed to idealize the broom Burlington Free Press.
 "Your studies are costing me a great deal, !" said @ father to his son, as he reached in his pocket for money to buy more books with. ''I know it, father, replied the son, with some emotion, as he pocketed a s10 bill, sand I don't study very hard, either. "-New York Sun.
 Medical Item: ''In some parts of South America people live to be over hundred years old. There are no doctors there at all Isn't that wonderfully s1t is not as wonderful as it is here in Texas, 3 growled Colonel Peterby. 'tHere in Texas there are l hundreds of doctors, and nevertheless man occasionally lives to be 8 hundred years old That is still more wonderful. .'-Texas Sift ings.
 A former resident of Lancaster county Pennsylvania, and now of Utah penitentiary remarks in a letter to 8 friend: t4 am serv ing out six months sentence for loving
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-31
Monday, August 3I, 1885.
SUNDAY LABOR.

The annual reports of Colonel Wright, the chief of the Massachusetts bureau of labor statistics, always have much in them that is of interest to students of social problems. And the sixteenth of these reports, which is just out, is particularly full and valuable
 The most notable feature of the report is part second, which is devoted to the consider ation of Sunday labor, the extent to which it is carried, it's causes, it's economic effect upon the persons directly involved, and it's relation to the modern industrial system. The in crease in Sunday labor has been great within the past few years. The whole number of persons performing Sunday labor in Msssa- chusetts is given as 115, IT'S, of whom 59, ,736 are males and 56, ,042 females. These are somewhat more than one-tenth of the male
 persons employed in all occupations in the
 State and somewhat less than one-third of
 the female persons employed The greater
 proportion of females is caused by the fact
 that the whole number of female domestics,
 laborers. In other occupations, except the
 kindred ones of boarding-house keepers,
 hotel and boarding-hous employees, and per-
 sons employed in charitable institutions, the
 number of females employed on Sunday is
 comparatively small. Including both sexes,
 the number of persons doing Sunday work is
 between one-seventh and one-sixth of the
 working people of the State.
 The conclusions drawn from the facts collected are that when syste-
 matic work for the production of wealth is done on Sunday the tendency, probably ire sistible, is to break down the rate of pay so that the laborer receives no more for seven days work than the six days wage would have been, and such labor causes 8 marked deterioration in the vital powers; but system atic work in personal service does not have these effects. He who works seven days re- ceives seven days wages for this kind of work, and the average days pay is not di unfinished, nor is the workers health or vigor impaired. A weaver, says Colonel Wright, who should try to tend his looms steadily for one thousand days in succession would prob ably break down long before the end of that period, but a horse car conductor goes through an equal term without losing day and with vigor unimpaired. Nearly all the systematic work done in Massachusetts on Sunday, says the report, is personal service rendered by man to his fellow man and not to any considerable extent for the accumulation of wealth.
 Colonel Wright believes that all wealth and true ec onomic welfare that man now has with Sunday labor he could easily have with out It if he set his mind in that direction. Probably he could
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-31
$5 per Year.
9rly Goods.

About the only things in our Cotton Dress Goods Stock not likely to sell were a lot of fine Scotch Ginghams at 4oc yard and some French Sateens at 35c. They were too fine quail ties and too high priced. They are just as fine now, but the price has been made I8c. They are a bargain.
 We looked through the Elm broidery Stock last week and found some short lengths some soiled pieces pieces which have been with us too long. We laid out a table full of bargains. In the lot are some at soc which were marked ST and $I.25, some at 25c which weFs--z5c, some not marked down as much, but all very cheap and positive bargains. /
 Remember please that we have made reductions in the prices of all our Dress Goods, all our Black Goods, all our Silks and Velvets. Remember please that all our fine Summer Gloves are down below cost. Remember please that Fans and Parasols are marked at prices to close out stock at once. Re- member that the best bargains in markdown goods are always to be had of
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-31
RARE SPONGES.

Some Curiosities Fished Up From The Ocean By Professional Divers. From the New York Sun
 A glass showcase in William street, near Fulton, contains two remarkable sponges. One is the largest ever found. It was pulled up off Florida in 1872, and it is exactly cir | cular in shape, except where hole was made tearing it away from it's bed. As it hangs in four feet in circumference, but when its
 thirst is quenched with several buckets of water it swells out to eight feet.
 The other curiosity is the largest cup sponge ever known. It came from the Grecian archipelago, and won a medal for beauty at the Fisheries exposition in London in 1882. Its surface would cover several square feet and it is valued at several hun dred dollars. There is also in the case an antique earthen jar, with sponge attached to it. This jar is about foot and half high and has four handles. It is of red dish color, and must be very old, as it is known that none was made like it since the year 1900. It was perhaps dropped over board from some ancient vessel. The in- side was deeply encrusted with fossil she'll fish.
 Sponges come from Florida, Nassau, the Bahamas, Cuba, and the Grecian archipela- go. There are about forty varieties ranging from the cheapest Cuban sponge at 715 cents pound to the Mediterranean cup sponge at $75 pound. The latter, however, are gen erally sold by size, and not by weight They are used by surgeons in dressing wounds, ad- ministering chloroform, and the like delicate operations. The common grass and yellow sponges are worth 40 to 65 cents 6 pound, | and the sheep's wool sponges, such as are
 used in washing carriages, brings $2 pound. Bath sponges run up to 80 pound The | supply of sponges is less than the demand, and that keeps the price up. Formerly sponges were obtained off Florida by dredg- l ing machines which tore up all big and little, alike, but laws have now been passed which prohibit the fishing of sponges less than four inches wide and four inches long. This shuts out the dredges.
 l The sponges are obtained by colored divers or by fishing with hooks. The divers are trained to the business from childhood, and are able to stay under water for surprising ly long time. They cut the sponges loose with knives and bring them to the surface. The divers run much risk from sharks. The hooks are attached to long poles, and, in order to see the sponges, an odd kind of telescope is used. This is tub, about five | deep, with clear glass bottom. The fishing | is done in from twenty-five to thirty feet of | water, and when this tub is moved along the | bottom it enables the fishers to see the 1 sponSes beneath it with great clearness. The l pole is then lowered and the sponge torn away with the hook.
 Sponges very offensive in smell when 1 taken from the water, and soon grow worse. | This is cured by burying them in dry sand, | and, when decomposing has ceased, expos ! ing them in wire cages to the action of the | tides
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-31
Fresh FashfoR Notes.

The most marked feature of the coming
 seasons dresses will be the absence of the
 ''bunchy' side draperies. In the streets black toilets are more fre- quently worn than ever; some have narrow
 plastrons of very finely plaited white cam
 bric or percale.
 There are great many parasols just now
 with the pattern of the black lace run in
 gold, the lace falling in festoons beyond the
 parasol.
 In washing gowns, light materials would
 seem to be all made with velvet collars and
 cuffs, which causes them to look lighter and cleaner by con trast.
 The bunch or tournure at the back con- only the double pad, but it is exaggerated and not beautiful in consequence. High bodices and no sleeves to speak of are being worn in the evening; the collars are very high, and edged with beads The upper portion is filled in with net or beaded fabric.
 Open-work tissues in the style of either
 lace or canvas, which are so fashionable this year, now appear in the early autumn sea- son, both in silk and fancy wollen material, striped with chenille or velvet, or broe aded with small silk patterns. The unglased kid glove is still fashiona ble, but no longer as exclusively so as it was a short time ago. The soft, shining glove is once more making it's appearance, more es- pecially for evening dress, and, as rule, with dressy toilets.
 The milkmaid frock is novelty. The drapery is drawn up on the left side through loops and cords almost to the waise, thus in. timaiting the milkmaids turned-up skirt with the lining showing. A pocket is placed on the left side The bodice is laced in l front, and has striped fchu, the ends tucked into the facing.
 Sleeves for indoor toilets display an inf I nite variety Of styles. Elbow sleeves should always accompany 8 dinner or soiree corsage which is opened slightly in front, and are l made of velvet and lace, the lace being puffed and the velvet plain; some of these elegant affairs are also ornamented with hanging with clasps or brooches.
 l Fer the autumn tailor-cut costumes, al of woolen material, are however, somewhat 1 more elegant than they were in the spring ! The latest models are of cashmere, serge, ol | light cloth, quite plain, and in dark shades I of color, the skirt round, and plaited with 6 very soft draped puff; but the tunic, which | is mere tablier of the same material, ,draped ! a little on the left side, is trimmed with g deep boarder in braid-work or netted i ground, embroidered with gold and with 6 | few metallic beads; the short bodice with I small basque opens with two revers over [ vest covered with braided work; this pattern 1 is very simple, but extremely elegant, and ! can be made in any color.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-31
NO. 2O6

means as brilliant as it used to be in the days when there were not so many entertain nents, and driving was the afternoon amuse- ment, selll 1t IS very striking one. The air and pose of the women are we'll worth an artists study-not that he may copy them, but that he may avoid doing so The con- sciousness of being on dress parade, of being beside very eligible young man on the box seat, with one of the several best bonnets on, surmounted by paraso1 of unearthly dimensions, imparts a dignity, firm cold ness to the feminine face, nay, even to the feminine back, that is quite terrific. Occa- sionelly one sees some young woman who appears to be amusing herself, chatting gay ly with her companion, but usually the women look like SO many gorgons of polite society dhe Gorgons, be it remembered, were handsome) ,sternly doing their duty in the days pageant.