The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-01-31

Guy Mckay is taking advantage Of .
brief shutdown OF the cement mines
whore he is working about forty miles
from Winnipeg, to visit his relatives
here.
There is come criticism Of the endors.
ment of Taft by the Republican State
Committee last week. 1t is thought by
many that it would have been better to
wait until later, when public sentiment
is more crystalized and future events
more developed.
On Wednesday,, February 18th, Rev.
DR.. 1liff, of Philadelphia, one of the
most talented orators of the church
will deliver two addresses in Pembina,
23O p. M, 7:30 PM, in the Methodist
church. The subjects of his addresses
are not yet to hand, but he will deal
with great national problems. The Rev.
Doctor is patriot with the broad out
look of statesman. All are welcome.
Miss Kate Booker, who has been
visiting relatives at Grand Forks, ar
rived in this city on Wednesday. Miss
Booker has relatives and many old
friends here, where she was for time
resident in earlier days. Miss Booker
is missionary of the Baptist church
and has spent many years in India and
is now in this country on her second
vacation from her duties there.
Word from Iceland gives the news
that the winter there until the first of
January had been very mild and some
days almost as warm as summer. A
new industry has been begun which
promises to be of much value to the peo-
pie there. Steam trawlers have been
introduced, several cargoes of fresh fish
have been exported to England where
there was ready market and profitable
returns.
Mr.. Hull, the right-of-way man for the
Midland Continental railway, with
Galveston, Texas and Winnipeg as OBJ
jective points and has been through the
county this week in the interests Of the
company and reports enthusiastic in
terest all along the proposed line. 1t
is expected that the final survey will be
run as soon as the necessary right-of-way
and other requirements are procured.
He leaves in short time on a similar
mission along the line farther south.
The first annual firemen's ball will be
held in the city hall on Tuesday even
ing, February 18th. Invitations, which
will be general, will be issued the first
of the week. Music will be furnished
by the Wiggston's orchestra, of Winni-
peg, famous specialists in dance music,
and refreshments will be taken care of
by a ladies' committee. AS the pro-
ceeds 60 to the firemen's fund every one
in town is interested and should buy a
ticket, which costs $3.50, and one of the
most social events in Pembina thrown in,
Percy and Nelson Noble, aged ten and
twelve years, broke into Fred Wallaces
store at Drayton and helped themselves
to some mittens, eatables, etc, and also
took about six dollars from the till.
They were brought before Justice Cock
burn there and were bound over to the
district court on the charge of burglary
in the third degree. They will doubtless
be sent to the reform school for the
balance of their minority, and which al
most every one who knows of their home
life agrees to he the best thing that
could happen them.
Over Emerson way they have been
raising beans. Geo. Cummings writes
the Journal that last year field of
twenty acres four miles from Emerson
yielded IL bushels to the acre and an
other one mile away, of ten acres yielded
15 bushels per acre. This year tie
first field had "a bushels of wheat to the
acre and the second had 30 bushels.
The balance of the farms had an aver
age yield of IL bushels of wheat. The
price received for the beans was sl.50
and would have been better but some of +,
the beans were split in threshing.
Have you noticed that you have been
getting an extra good paper the last
That is that you have been
having all the extra news with the usual
supply of local matters. Full court pro-
ceedings and all that. But that means
q lot of extra work and considerable