The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-07-24

To the members of the Degree of Hon.
or: lodge, Pembina: You are hereby no.
titled that there is an assessment for
July beneficiary No. 3 which must be
paid by July 28th.
M. A. FULL. Financier.
A. B. Buckner, evangelist, will hold
special union services in Reid Hall, st.
Vincent commencing Friday, July oath,
and continuing for two weeks. All are
cordially invited. Rev. Mr.. Buckner is
considered one of the greatest evange-
lists that has visited the northwest.
Mr.. Gillespie, manager of the Reid
farm informs us that he has ninety acres
of late sown barley that he intend plow-
ing down next week. He thinks that the
majority of the late sown crop will be
practically total loss on account of the
lack of rain.
A Langdon automobile party came
over via Walhalla and Neche on We'd
nesday and spent the night as guests of
Mrs. w. J.Kneeshaw. The visitors con-
sisted of Mesdames. McGruer, Boyd, Nc
Intyre, Thompson and Dixon. Mr.. Nc
Laughlin was chaperone in charge.
They returned on Thursday by way of
Morden.
A large number of former residents of
Pembina and surroundings who have
moved to the northwest in recent years
took advantage of the cent-a- mile fare to
the Winnipeg exposition and came up to
visit relatives and friends on this side of
the line. Among these were Sam Ferrie
Of Battleford, Ben Kochendorfer of
Delisle and Gester Dalman of Church.
bridge.
Among the number of automobiles
added to the Pembina list this week is
f. G. Warmers Ford touring car,of forty
horse and Judge Vick's Maxwell, light
touring car of twenty horse and Will
liam Ardies two seated Odds. They are
coming fast and before long the auto will
be as common as the bicycle. Already
there are a half dozen farmers negotiating
for the purchase of automobiles and doing
away with driving horses.
DR.. McQneen writes from Ontario to
friends here that the item published in
the Pioneer Express, copied from the
Milton Globe, to the effect that he con-
templated selling his practice in
Pembina and moving to the northwest is
erroneous and without foundation. Mr..
and Mrs. Mcqueen expect to be in
Pembina by the first of August and that
the doctor is much improved in health.
The grading on the Northern Dakota
farmers railroad, that runs from Milton
to the cement mines will be completed
by the first of next month says Swain
Thorwaldson who has been spending a
week in the city visiting friends and
attending to other business. The town.
site of Mountain has been purchased by
syndicate and will be plated and lots
placed on sale in few days. A bank of
$4,000 capital has been organized and
other enterprises will be established as
soon as the rails are laid and material
can be shipped in. The name of the
Bank is the First State Bank of
Mountain.
Peter Often arrived from the Canadian
northwest last week where he has been
holding down homestead since last fall
and made us pleasant call. He is
located in the Delisle neighborhood west
OF Saskatoon Speaking of the crops
in that section Mr.. Often says they are
excellent, and that they have had fine
weather for all grains The Canadian
Northern is pushing it's line southwest of
Saskatoon and the grade is finished over
a hundred miles. Delisle, the town
named after the Delisle family formerly
of Pembina has been moved two miles, to
be located on the railway and Amos
Delisle is operating general store there.
In another week or ten days the
Pembina telephone system will be
supplemented by about seventy five new
phones that will be made part of this
system at the old rate. It is tie
Northern Telephone line organized at
st. Vincent last winter. It includes the
townships of st. Vincent, Hill and Glow
and the village of Humboldt. The line is
built by the Northern Telephone Com
pany, which is composed principally of
farmers in northern Kittson county.
Arrangement have been made whereby
they pay three dollars per year to the
Northwestern for keeping the line in. re-
pairs and operating it from the Pembina
central. This of course includes the
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