The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1912-09-06


The Misses Flossie and Grace Eyfort
left Friday to enter upon their duties %
teaching, the former went to Milton
where she taught last year while the lat
ter will teach at Rugby. Among the
other school marms who left last weel
were Miss Isabel Douglas for Willow CT.
ty and Miss Bessie Douglas for Chicago,
both occupying positions they held last
year.
J.W. Smith, formerly a resident Of
the Emerson district and for few years
living in Winnipeg. died ON Aug. 10Th.
He was "a years old. During hockey
match at Emerson last winter he was
struck in the head with the puck while
acting as umpire which later developed
into serious injury necessitating an
operation from which he slowly declin-
ed. He leaves wife and six little child
rem.
John A. Fowler and his daughter Mrs.
Thompson, of Peterboro, Ontario, are
here visiting the son and brother, VIM.
Fowler. Mr.. Fowler ST.. belongs to the
sturdy stock that pioneered Ontario and
celebrated his S5th birthday some time
ago. He is as active as one twenty years
his junior, and climbs on his sons draw
as gracefully as does "Bill" himself,
and can swap stories with any of them.
1t is seven years since Mr.. Fowler made
his last visit to Pembiua.
Fred Wardwell and Douglas Mckay,
who have spent the last three months
on the boundary line survey returned
home this week. They were under Mr..
French, of the Coast Geological Survey
corps, and their duties were to check
up the work done by the joint commits
sion which surveyed the 49th parallel
last year. They went as far as Glazier
Park,in the Rockies where it was so cold
in the middle of August that they had to
sleep in their clothes under heavy blan-
kets. and their tents were covered with
frost every night. The boys look tanned
and hardy and report pleasant time.
Some complaint has come regarding
the giving of half the road in case of an
automobile coming up behind team
The parties claim that when they come
up behind fellow with team he stub.
bornly refuses to give any of the road,
no matter if there is plenty of room to
turn out. Now the law recognizes the
rights of both the man with the team
and the man with auto, and these rights
should be respected. There are plenty
of men who are running autos who
should be driving OK teams and vice
versa, but all men should not be treated
that way. The law says that when a
man is overtaken by faster vehicle,
the man driving the slower vehicle shall
turn out and give half of the beaten
path.-Hallock Enterprise.
Mrs. w. j. Nicholson near Backoo,
passed away last Thursday Aug. o., af-
ter long illness. She had been pa
tient sufferer and was fully reconciled to
what was evident to her that she must
soon leave loved ones and friends of this
life. She was born in Ontario, Can. and
came to the States with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Mclean, when
she was IL years old. Seventeen years
ago she married Mr.. Nicholson. Her
husband, a little child, six brothers and
four sisters, besides a large circle of
friends are bereaved in her death.
The funeral services were held in the
Presbyterian chuch of Backoo, Satur.
day afternoon, of which sheMas mem
Der, Rev. T. S. Thompson, the pastor,
OFFICIATING. Interment was made in the
cemetery.-Cavalier Chronicle.
/ 1t rained seventeen different days IN
July and in August the weather man
gave it to us on fifteen days. These
ldays came with remarkable regularity
averaging twenty-four hours apart.
Many of the other days were moist and
cloudy but with not sufficient ram to
make record. Very few clear days
since the first day of j uly up to the pre-
sent, that is, clear all the twenty-four
hours. July gave US four and quarter
inches Of water and August totals two
inches. The past week has followed the
previous record with rain on several
days. Considerable Of the wheat crop
has now been il shock four weeks and
and most 81 III at least three weeks.
Some early barley WIS cut previous to
that ssyet the reports arc that the
Ixhsst i not materially damaged, oats
lars hurt considerably whlle sthe early
lbArisy y pm tisally q dead loss.
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