The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-11-08
Henry Douville was brought over from
Neche to serve 30 days and 800 fine, fo
assault on his wife.

From reports from Cavalier county we
fear the cold snap caught a large amount
OF unthreshed grain and lots of blowing
will have to be done next spring.
Miss Sarah Reinholdt, while visiting at
Grafton, was taken with typhoid and
was brought home on Saturday. She
suffered from the same trouble about five
years ago. She is seriously i'll.
The school land sale in Cavalier
county last week was we'll attended, and
nearly all of the large amount advertised
was sold at fair prices. We notice among
the purchasers the name of Judge Knee
shaw for several quarter sections.
Satisfactory Short has been turning the
interior ofhis store hind side before, or
the before side behind-anyway it looks
neater and comes handler. Takes a lot
OF planning to arrange the inside of big
store and takes lots of work to keep it
arranged,
Winter arrived on Saturday, and lot
OF people were not quite prepared for his
sudden coming. On Tuesday about an
inch of snow covered the ground. There's
been a hustling among the storm win
dowts, wood piles, coal stoves, and such
like all this week.
Photographer Anderson finds his bust
ness increasing SO much, that he will
hereafter come every week instead of
twice month, and will come Friday and
Saturday instead of Monday. Mr.. Ander.
son does good work and his pictures are
popular. The new arrangement will
make it more convenient for his patrons.
According to all our exchanges the
threshermen all agree that this has been
hard year and but little money has
been made by them; on the other hand
farmers complain that it has been difficult
to get machines in time and that they
have had to pay big prices; in some
cases, threshers refused to thresh by
bushel, but were paid by the day.
A man named RoIla Middleton of
Ardock, while engaged with threshing
crew near Langdon, lay down and went
to sleep in straw pile. The owner of
the farm, not knowing the man was
there, set fire to the straw, and a little
later the crew were terrified by seeing
Middleton rushing out from the flames
and smoke. He was so badly burned
that he died shortly after.
The annual hunting party left this
week for the haunts of the wild deer near
Buford. Mr.. LaMoure left on Sunday
and Messrs. T. R. Shaw, E. K. Cavalier,
Albert Mountain, Aug. Short and G. G..
Thompson, left on Tuesday. They will
be joined by A. Garnett of St Thomas,
and Nels Burley of Walhalla, on the way
Most of the party will remain until about
Thanksgiving time.
While the freeze-up occurred about a
week or ten days early, yet the farmers
are in so much better shape about their
fall blowing and other work than they
were three weeks ago that most of them
are we'll satisfied. While the acreage
plowed is rather less than usual yet the
two weeks of fine weather finished ur
the threshing as whole and turned ovel
lot of land.
What promises to be the musical even
of the season in Emerson is the concer
to be held in that town on Tuesda,
evening, Nov. 18th, when Miss Ethe
Endicott, soprano, Miss Tena TAFT
violinist. and, Miss Daisy Tory, B. E.
humorous and dramatic Reciter, o