The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-05-13

last, near the fire hall, can have the
same by calling at this office-with a
quarter-or the other glove.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. E. Bennett entertain
ed the whist club at their home in St
Vincent last Monday evening. A very
enjoyable time was spent. Mr.. and Mrs.
Wilkens and Mrs. g. G. Thompson tie
ing for first money.
AS we go to press, Thursday evening
there is large gathering of the friends
of Jas. B. Ewing at the City Hall giving
him a farewell, as he leaves for
Joplin, Montana tomorrow. He has a
position there with large lumber firm.
w. w. Felson has been at Grand
Forks this week in attendance at the
state meeting of the county auditors.
Mr.. Felson was elected secretary treas
urer of the association. He also made
an address some of which we hope to
reproduce next week.
The w. G. T. U. will hold dime
social at the residence of Mrs. w. J..
Kneeshaw on this Friday afternoon at
three o'clock, the funds raised to
pay expenses of the delegates to the
county convention to be held at Dray-
ton.
Mrs. McDougall, daughter-in-law
of Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. McDougall who
has been visiting here for several weeks
returned to her home at Willow City
on Wednesday where her husband is
agent for the st. Anthony & Dakota
Elevator Co.
A number of friends gathered at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. T. r. Shaw Wed
nesday evening. The occasion being
surprise birthday party''for Mrs. Shaw.
The evening was very pleasantly spent
at cards. G. G. Thorn pson, for having
the greatest number of progress,ons, was
awarded prize while j. LaMoure was
consoled with ''beet.'
Talking with our local hardware man,
Mr.. Booker of King & Booker this week
he remarked on the large number of
two-horse cultivators that were being
sold in the county this season. ''There
is a reason" as thu advertisers remark,
and the reason means much in the
future farming in the valley. Farmers
don't use two horse cultivators to raise
wheat.
John +. Gill has withdrawn from the
race for register of deeds He thinks
the cost of two elections and the chanc
es taken together are prohbltive, He
ought to be judge because he has
been in the fight four times before.
Mr.. ellis record as a good county
officer is blameless and he had many
friends who would have been glad to
vote for him again if he had stayed IN
the contest.
And now comes Walter G.. Taylor,
editor of the LaMoure Chronicle, and
asks us to say he is candidate for
insurance commissioner on the Republic.
can ticket-with insurgent leanings.
Walter don't send any check--but as
we have already said he is an editor,
there is no need of going into that part
of the story. Walter will have the
good wishes of all the newspaper folks
whether or no-but it is easier for
rich man to thread a cambria needle
than for printer fellow to go through
the front door of a capitol office. Per-
haps this isn't just the correct Biblical
quotation but it is just as true.
The purchase of many autos IS chron-
lcled by our county contemporaries. An
average auto means the expenditure of
about thousand dollars, which in
most cases is unremunerative in money
results. A few people can afford them,
some people have real use for them
but the bulk of them are strictly in the
luxury class. AS an economical fact
every body in town has to help pay for
the surplus autos-whether they ride
in them or not. Perhaps when you
see some gay ''joy" party whirling by
you feel little envious; it may be a
consolation to figure out what share of
the buzz wagon belongs to you.
DR.. Harris new auto has arrived and
he IS now practicing in it in two senses.
We do not believe the story that the
boys tell that when he comes to bad
place in the road that he pulls back
hard on the steering wheel and shouts
''Whoa Dolly but we are sorry to learn
that he broke certain clinical Their
mometer presented him by the writer
some twenty years ago, while attempt
mo tn take the tamporat,,.a - ~.