The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-01-19

This is the time Of year merchants are
looking for trade. The warm winter has |
made the demand light for heavy goods
and no merchant wants to carry them |
over. 1t is good time to look over the |
ads. There's another winter coming.
Venues Philippine museua visited
town last week and gave good satisfac-
ton to the large number who attended.
The curios are we'll worth seeing and are
much larger in extent than expected.
They deserve good patronage.
Quite heavy snow for the season of
the year occurred on Saturday, six or
eight inches. 1t was quite light and the
wind blew it off the grades next day so
that it is hardly good wheeling or sleigh
ing. Around town the sleigting is good
and the bells have been singing all
through the balance ofthe week (which,
has been very fine.
Rev. T. U. Richmond Of Bathgate and
Hugh Mclean of Pembina are visiting
our city and spending this week on their
homesteads out west. Both speak in
highest terms of their claims and predict
a prosperous future for Cavalier county.
They are sanguine that a railway will be
in there soon and that thenthey will have
farming community equal to any in the
state.-Langdon Republican.
THE PIONEER EXPRESS has had many
pleasant calls and renewed many old &C
quaintances during this term of court, and
is also gladdened by some beautifully
engraved paper and metal souvenirs of
some of the visitors. There's kind of
kinshlp among the old pioneers of this
county that rises above politics, religion
or distance. Those of us that were here
in the beginning do not forget "Auld
Lang Syne."
DIR. Brennan arrived in town Tuesday
from Drayton, having opened an office
there, where he expects to visit once
each month. His program will be as
follows: Bathgate from the first to the
9th; Pembina, 10th to the 18th; Drayton,
18th to the 22nd; ST. Thomas, 23rd to the
18th; Hamilton, 18th to the last day of
the month. DR.. Brennan, through hard
work and attention has established
good business, and now covers the terri
tory alone that used to be visited by two
or three dentists in former years.
Mr.. Austin R. Harvey Of St. Thomas
has received an appointment on the GUS
toms force here after civil service ex-
animation, and takes the place of Mr.. Ole
Hanson of Reynolds. Mr.. Harvey was
very popular business man in St.
Thomas where he has for some time past
been with the firm of Garnett Bros. He
assumed his position here on Wednesday
and is looking for house for his family.
Mrs. Harvey is a daughter of Hon. S. L.
Haight of St. Thomas and is lady who
has been leader there in social and re-
ligious circles. The addition of this
family to Pembina will be viewed with
pleasure by all of our citizens.
The telegraphic news from the battle
fields i'll South Africa is very confusing.
The censor lets but little come and that
little is so mixed as to times and places
that it is very hard for the ordinary read
er to understand. All that is certain is
that the beleagered cities are getting
weaker rapidly and that the British
armies are pressing to the rescue but are
making slow progress. All this week
news of an important and perhaps
pivotal battle has been expected and
may be wired any day yet. The situa-
ton is like that of two great wrestlers,
Juggling and swaying and tripping, with
the certainty that both are getting tired
and that one is sure to fall in a short
time. A fall by the British would only
mean to try again, if the Boer falls it may
be fatal.
NSPiSoSAA'o1VC SPdiuHAS lids ntIO.
duceed new bill abolishing the army
canteen, the terms of which are so clear
that the attorney general will not fail to
understand. We notice that many peo-
pie, including some of the temperance
organizations, include the navy in their
resolutions and protests in reference to
this matter. 1t might be news to some
of these folks to learn that the grog ra-
ton was abolished and the use of liquor
in the navy prohibited ever since the
civil war. We think Admiral Farragut
was the author of the order. 1t needed
no statute law to abolish liquor in the
navy, and it ought not to need one in the