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

A number of old friends assisted Mr..
Charles Full to Jump another milestone
OF his life last Friday evening, and made
it as pleasant as possible for him. It
was somewhat of surprise to him
the party, the milestone having been
in plain sight for the last year.
Old Dad Winter, who started to leave
this country SO quickly CHS spring EVIL
IDENTIFY must have stubbed his toe and fell
down-badly. With a freezing temper
AZURE every night for the last week we
begin to wish he had not left SO much
of his "lingerie" in the lap Of spring.
However, the cool days have been
good for the horses while doing their
spring work. Wheat seeding which
has been long drawn out this season is
now about all finished and much of the
early sowing is showing green above
ground. The land in this locality was
never in better condition. South in
toilette and Bowesmont vicinity the
ground is still rather wet in the depres.
sions.
The Osborn Concert Party of Winnl-
peg which appeared in City Hall on
tuesday evening we're greeted by a
good audience, including a large con-
tingent from Emerson and the sur
rounding country. They gave a very
satisfactory program and were warmly
applauded. Miss Sutherland the
reader possesses fine and attractive
stage presence and her evolutionary
work was greatly enjoyed and she was
repeatedly encored. Mrs. Brewer
was also star on the program, and
found that Show without the violin,
even on the second encore did not
satisfy her admirers. Mr.. and Mrs.
Osborn both in solo and duet were
very pleasing. Pembina will be glad
to have them call again in the future.
A hank of linen fibre hangs in our
1t was sent us by Prof. H.
Bachelor of Fargo. He says that it
was made from North Dakota flax straw
that came from threshing machine
and vas rather poor sample at that.
The most remarkable statement is that
it was made in three hours from the
straw. The old country process of
"retting' takes three or four months.
While we know little about
fax fibre. yet anybody can see from
this specimen it can be used for very
many textile purposes. Forty years
ago this writer saw outside of the ''gins''
in Mississippi, great mounds of old and
useless cotton seed. left to rot, in
many ways resembling the present
straw stacks of North Dakota. Last
week, after the freeze that DESTROYED
much of the growing cotton, the re-
markable statement was made in the
telegraph columns that the planters
were gong to be short of seed and had
appealed to the oil mills to stop
until the farmers were sup
pied. Sometime straw will also become
as valuable an asset to the North Da-
Sota farmer as is the cotton seed now
10 the southern planter.
Died. g.
Z. +. Thompson, "Dick'' died at
Lewiston, Idaho, on May 10th. He was
- years of age and his boyhood days
we're spent i'll this city, where many
DID frierds and schoolmates will hear
with sorrow of his early death. He was
The son of the late George Thompson
Of this city and leaves two brothers
Stewart of Argyle, Mimi, Ralph OF
Lewiston and sister Mrs. Alice Nor
berg of Occur d. Aiene, Id.
Word was received from Great Falls.
of the death of Mrs Ma y
Jane Abrams after short illness Oh
bronchial pneumonia. Mrs. Abrams was
we'll and favorably known in this
county, having been one OF the early
settlers in this locality. Her periodical
visits to her daughters Mrs. f. Aylcn
AMI Mrs. G, B. Harris of this CITY have
given all chance to know and to love
Grandma Abrams, as she was called
ny all. Her life was one of unseltish-
ness, always doing some act'of kindness
for relative or friend and of whom one
can say Il am the better for having
known her." Mrs. Abrams was born
In Kingston, Ont. Jan End 1885 ana
came to the Dakotas il. 1878.
The children left to mourn her loss
are Mrs. Russell Aylen and Mrs. G. B.
Harris of this city, Mrs. Herbert Strain
OF Great Falls, Mont, Mrs. j. Reynolds
of Benson, Mont. and Henry Abrams of
Spokane, Wash. A large clacle of
friends offer their sincere sympathy
10 the bereayed relatives. Details as to
the funeral have not been decided
upon at this writing. Ms. Harris left