The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-08-04

VI OtuS& dtlldCtlOuS. DetteI go.
The sun will rise totally eclipsed at
Winnipeg on August Goth. It will also
rise ecllpsed in this locality, but not
quite total. The shadow will be about
an hour passing over the sun. A partial
eclipse of the moon will occur on the
evening of the 18th. About one-fifih of
the surface will be obscured. 1t will
happen between seven and eight o'clock
in the evening.
A drama in two acts, entitled "Mr.
Bob," and "Six Cups of Chocolate"
will be given by Pembina talent about
the 18th inst, for the benefit of the Epis-
copal church. It is said that mirth and
pathos prevails throughout the plays. If
you attend you will be doubly rewarded
by helping good cause and spending
a pleasant evening. Full particulars viii!
be given by programs later.
At the St. Thomas base ball to urna.
ment last Saturday Drayton beat Hensel
8 to 3; Grafton beat Mimic 9 to 0. AT
Grafton same evening Drayton beat
Grafton to 3. 1t is becoming evident
Drayton is the fastest team in the two
countles-alWays excepting Pembina,
which as we have said before hasn't been
in the ring this season.
The weather has been simply perfect
during the last three weeks both as to
crop conditions and as to personal COM
fort. A little rain would be of benefit to
late crops and garden stuff. Some rust
was reported yesterday in the fields but
it is thought that the wheat is now far
enough ahead that the rust cannot injure
to any great extent before harvest.
Pembina is rapidly becoming hive OF
bees. There must be at least two hun
dred swarms in town. Honey is sweet
and rhymes with money. The bee-keep.
ers report this very successful country
for bees. We learn that Commissioner
Myrick who had so many hives last win
ter that he did not have sufficient cellar
room to store them, left several hives in
a woodshed, and the latter Wintered ev-
Ell better than those in the cellar.
Many exchanges are copying the para
graph that few pinches OF blue vitriol !
will purify stagnant water in rain bar
rels and cister1,S and that it will kill the
that make mosquitoes later
But if one does rot care to use vitriol Tor
apparent reasons we would say that agi-
tation will purify any water. Agitate it
any old way, pumping back is good
when one has the pump. Air will purify
any water. ....
Work will begin this week on another
building Gin the burned district which
will be erected by J. B. Branchaud, and
Will occupy the site OF the burned Fra
ernity hall building. 1t will be used for
general store purposes. Old Pembina
S doing pretty we'll in the building line
his season and the prophecy made by
his paper the week following ths FIRE
hat ''the burned district" would be
'uilt up again and in better shape daring
his year is fast being realized. Other
buildings are in consideration, but plans
re not yet definite enough for publica-
ion.
T.W- Kibbee, Drayton, was in the city
N Wednesday and incidentally dropped
nto Our office and gave us some talk as
0 how the acetylene gas company, Of
Which he is president, are getting along.
They are busy all the time and Mr,-Stin-
on is BOW on the Pacific coast, looking
Up business. AT Drayton it was found
necessary to move the gas plant from the
,ank OF the river to location farther up
own, on account of the bank sliding,
hereby cracking the cistern. This work
hey are at now. AS soon as finished at
0rayton they will put in plant at Roth.
say. Mimi, near Fargo, and $50, 600
plant at North Yakima, Wash.
The Weather for July.
Maximum temperature IS; minimum
g; mean 64.S Clear days %; partly
cloudy 3; cloudy 6. Precipitation .92
inch.
July 1904 showed: maximum temper.
ature SO; minimum ~; mean 51.3. Clear
days 26; partly cloudy S; cloudy O. Pre-
cipitation 5s6.
w. c. Short,
Observer.
The fall term of Mankato commercial
College, Mankato, Mimi, opens Sept. 4.
It will paw to enroll then. l