The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-03-02
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the state meeting Of the Missionary
Society. This will, give you good
opportunity to do your shopping, so get
your want lists filled up and be on hand
at Sacramento Wednesday prepared to
spend the day proftably." Shades of
John Wannanaker! Wouldn't that Jolt
your nervous system? If l was doing
business in this city I'd put muzzIe on
that preacher the first of January and
leave it there until Christmas eve when
l might take it off long enough for him
to answer "Here" when his name was
called out at the Christmas tree. l al
ways pitied dumb person at a Christ
mas tree.
How much better it would have been
for that minister to say: "You are all
cordially invited to. attend the state
meeting of the Missionary Society at
Sacramento on Wednesday next. Broth
err Jones says he will pay % cents for
first class butter this week and that ow-
ing to the mud, now so prevalent, he
asks that all eggs be washed before
bringing in; dirty eggs are poor sign of
Christianity. Frazer & Smiths spring
foods are now arriving and they invite
an early inspection. These merchants
are staunch supporters of this church
and are doing what they can for the up
building of our town and vicinity and
are deserving of your patronage. The
offering will now be received" Now
that's an announcement that announces
something and of course the merchants
would put in couple Of plunks apiece
anyhow. Wish was.a preacher.
l celebrated New Years, at the usual
time on the way out, in Illinois. Now
we are at it again. This time it is a
Chinese New Years. They are little
slow but they stay at it. good while.
The length of a Chinanan's New Year
depends on how much money he has
left after he pays his debts, tor China
man who owes dollar on New Years IS
disgraced. 1t struck me that white
people have something to learn from the
heather yet. One Of them came in
yesterday and said "Happy New Year,
Give one dollar buy GIN" Chinese
New Years opens with an Internal racket
of fire crackers and closes with head
ache. Ipassed Sing Fat & Co.'S store
in Sacramento one morning and the
refuse from fire crackers was shoetop
deep in the street. 1. couldn't help
thinking of what bully time three or
four fellows know in Pembiua could
have had there the night before. The
time Of New Years depends on the new
moon, and John is an imitator. The
fuller the moon gets, the fuller John
gets.
They are pruning the trees here now.
used to think that meant getting the
prunes of the trees, but it don't. They
are cutting the ends Of the limbs off so
they can get them off next summer with
out too high a step ladder. All fruit
trees are kept that way mere, as soon as
the rain lets up little, they will mix up
foul smelling mixture Of sulphur, lime
and salt, get squirt-gun and shoot it all
over the trees. That kills all the little
geezers that are waiting for chance to
spoil the iruit later on.
Wood seems to be plenty here and
lots Of it can be had tor the going after it.
Ldon't mean like some people do not a
thousand miles from Pembina, but land
owners who are cleaning, want it hauled
away. They want it taken by the wagon
load, not by the arm load. 1t seems
pretty gay to be burning orange wood
but there's lots Of it done.
Isaw real CRATER the other day.
I've seen good limitations in North OAK
ota but this man was the real thing aud
watching him gave me definition for
the word. A CRATER is man who puts
good things where they don't belong.
This man was grating trees.
This neck Of the woods could be made
perfectly scrumptuous if lot Of old
blokes who came here in l849 had died
about 1850. Most Of 'em don't prosper
and don't want any one else to. They've
got the finest material for roads that
could be imagined. and the poorest
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