The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-10-21

We note that our friend Editor Bal
lentyne Of the Emerson Journal is
ADVERTISING his baby carriage for sale at
, bargain. This looks IS if "Bal" has
"wl:h malice aforethought"
to continue the life Of . confirmed old
bachelor. Alas andsas1ass.
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A. D. Cavileer took . short "trip TO Ids:
claim near Roosevelt, only 10 lind his
timber ali burned and his house along.
Without roof he slept on the ground
for the one night he was there The
house of Mrs. s. Smith, near by was
saved but the woods were burned.
George johnson, an old time resident
of West Emerson since 1879, but for the
last four years residing at Carbon,
Alberta died last week aged 70 years.
He was one Of family Of II children of
whom four survive. He leaves q widow,
six sons and two daughters. Isaiah
johnson of Emerson being son.
If the intelligent voter will just COM
pare the figures. given in this paper and
those advertised in papers favorable to
Cavalier. he will discover that $4,000
court house costs just half as much as q
800, 900 court house, though why the
Cavalier people go to such expense in
advertising so simple mathematical
problem we are at loss to explain.
Among the many who went to Grand
Forks to hear Melba on Monday (some
went Saturday to see Carlton beat the U
at foot balD were the folio wing: Messrs.
and Mesdames LaMoure, Kneeshaw and
Misses Nicolai, Simpson, Rich.
mond, King and Wardwell; Messrs.
Rolla King and John Campbell. Most
Of the party returned on Monday night
in sleepy car attached to the N. P.
freight arriving here about FIVE in the
The kind of days that the poet was
asking about when he remarked "What
IS so rare as day in June?" happened
during most of last week, Sunday be-
ing especially fine. Then Monday and
it rained, which was welcome
to the dry earth, which is not yet fully
supplied with moisture after the dry
summer. Thursday morning was clear
and cold with a heavy freeze during
The night, which is really the first cold
weather. for the fall as yet.
The county seat question seems to
nave gotten down to about this conclu-
'ion among the voters, to wit:-"that if
We have to build new court house at
'nce we might as we'll build at Cava-
ier." Pembina people are willing to
stand or fall on this same proposition
which is promulgated by the Cavalier
committee. eff it is necessary to build"
hats the point. If you don't know of
your own knowledge, MIR. Voter, Pembi-
IA invites you to come and see whether
It is necessary or not. But the Cavalier
people are not sending out such invites.
"The Lyceum Players which were at
the City Hall last Friday and Saturday
deserved much better audiences than
were present. The fact that two enter
tainments had been patronized with full
houses within short time, many were
going to hear Melba, and quite num-
Der were out of town was the cause. In
the person of Mr.. McRaye was recog-
nized a gentleman who was here on an
Evolutionary trip thirteen years ago. He
is cousin of Geo. McCrea of Drayton.
Mr.. McRaye was good elocutionist
when here before and has improved con-
since. His "habitan" dialec
pieces are of the very best. The other
members of the company are also very
good in their speciaIties and the company
as whole give an excellent evenings
entertainment.
By the time this is being read, most
everybody in the county will have re-
ceived by mail booklet issued by the
Pembina committee showing photo
graphs of the court house and inside
views of the various county offices as
we'll as some discussion on the issues re-
garding the proposed removal. The
books are gotten up in style that will
at least command attention whether the
recipient is ON one side or the other
aud in themselves will form a souvenir
worth preserving "after this cruel war is
over" The books have been sent out in
patches during the last two weeks, az
the work Of mailing was one Of consid.
cradle time. Anyone who has not re.
ceived booklet by mail can get one By
sending postal card to almost anyone
in Pembina or to this Office. So far a.
heard from the booklets have been vel
received as apfopos to the discussion o