The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-27

Blacksmith Brown, of Neche, made us
pleasant call on Monday and talked
intelligently of gasoline engines. He is a
good machinest as we'll as blacksmith.
The St. Vincent fair is postponed un-
til Thursday and Friday, Oct. oath and
25th, on account of the late season and
to allow the farmers to get threshing
we'll over.
Don't forget the supper and entertain
ment of the M. E. ladies aid next
Friday night. They are preparing a
fine program and the supper-well, they
have reputation to sustain.
The additional four dozen chairs for
the City Hall have arrived. They are
similar to the others and will make with
them two hundred and eight seets.
This number will obviate borrowing
common chairs, except on extraordinary
occasions.
1t is evident they had more rain south
of us than we had here, as the Red river
rose two feet Monday nj ght and has
been raising ever since. The stage OF
the water up to the last rise was lower
than it has been for ten years, save one
season, when it was foot lower than
this.
This spring some fellow down on the
N. p. line was prophesying fifty cent
barley this fall. Quite a number of
papers wondered what he knew about
it-but he was right, except that he
wasn't high enough. If he believed
what he said, he ought to be million
aire now.
The M. E. conference will be held in
Minot Oct, l6. Bishop Goodsell will
preside. This being the year in which
delegates are to be elected to attend the
general conference, which is the law
making body of the church, meeting
quadrennially, there is to be gathering
of the laymen as we'll as ministers. The
general conference is to be held in
Baltimore, Nd, May LIST, 1908.
Pemblna will have one, and probably
two new concrete or brick buildings on
Cavlleer street next year according to
well founded information. The parties
interested don't care to divulge their
plans but are ample ably to erect attrac-
tive buildings. 1t is fact that if some
one would build a couple suitable stores
in the main block they would find ready
renters yielding good interest on the in
vestment. This also would apply to
dwelling houses.
The new gasoline threshing outfits
sold in this county, and which we have
had reports from, seems to give univer-
sal satisfaction. They are smaller than
the big steam outfits and consequently
less expensive to handle, and the gaso
line power does away with a great deal
deal of expense necessary with steam
power. Messrs. Jephcott and Douglas
threshed over thousand bushels of bar
ley and wheat the other day at cost of
less than fifty dollars, we are told.
The following is extracted from let
ter written by Mrs. Wallace Askey, of
Pincher Creek in sunny southern Alder
ta,' Sept. II, 1907, to her mother, Mrs. E.
Green, of St. Vincent
''We have had our September snow
storm and it is the worst l have seen in
September. 1t began with a heavy
thunder storm after raining all day, it
has been showing for Is hours now,
great thick fakes. All around US the
trees are broken down with the weight
Of the snow. and it is foot and half
deep. Wallace thinks the crops will be
a complete failure, as they were Just
ready to cut, and now they are fiat on
The ground with the weight of the snow
On them" New Era.
; The morning mail via the G. NJ,
Noyes and St. Vincent, to Pembina is
again off. The contractor bringing the
mail to st. Vincent having quit his Job.
He only got 1923. month and we don't
blame him. Now. if we lived in city,
The government would send the mail to
our door from two to dozen times a
day. And if we lived in the country, the
country, the government would hire a
rural. route man to bring it to the house
at least once day. In the small town
Or village, we get it "catch as catch can"
and have to pay from SO cents upward
Tor the privilege of having it put in a
separate box. When the government
gets all the big cities and the country
folks provided for, we hope they will
have little money left for the smaller
towns.