The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 24, 1937, Page 10

_THE BISMARCK ‘TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1937 8 ADAMS COUNTY Christmas ‘Cheer’ Was Plentiful meee tl | : ae reniy At Pembina in ’70s, Judge Says | | fairly plentiful in spite of the fact railroad Pembina, N. D., Dec. 24.—There were that the settlement had no white and green Christmases in this eae Southwestern N. D. Clubs Are Outstanding in State on Basis of Record Fifty-eight club members were trained in stock judging work in Adams county during the past year through a new plan of inter-club com- petition advocated by the North Da- kota Agricultural college. Through this plan, leaders of the various agricult ural clubs were brought together for a meeting de- voted to methods of teaching stock judging work. Each leader then went home and taught stock judging within his own club and later selected a team of three members to represent the club at the county. contest. Ten of 11 agricultural clubs in| Adams county sent in teams to the county contest staged in connection with the 4-H fair at Hettinger in Sep- tember. The three high men were se- lected to represent Adams county in the southwest district contest in Man- dan, At this event the Adams courity team placed first and won the right to represent the district at the state contest where the team placed third. Credit for the success of the plan is due County Agent Benjamin P, Gor- der, Nineteen counties sent teams to the four district contests staged in con- nection with the four district fairs at Grand Forks, Minot, Fargo and Man- dan. In these 19 counties taking part, 529 club members received training in Stock judging work before the teams were selected. Counties that sent teams to district livestock judging contests include Adams, Barnes, Billings, Bowman, Cavalier, Emmons, Grand Forks, Mc- Intosh, Morton, Oliver, Pembina, Ramsey, Slope, Stutsman, Towner, Traill, Walsh and Ward, Man’s Death Is Laid to Carbon Monoxide Minneapolis, Dec. 24.—(#)—Foind ! overcome in his automobik in a garage-near his home, Fred Tjernlund, ® truck driver, was taken to General hospital Thursday but was pro- nounced dead on arrival, Carbon poodle gas was believed respon- OFFERS U. $840,000 London, Dec. 24—()—Lord Nuffield, British motor magnate, Thursday of- fered the University of Oxford $840,- 000 to assist graduate medical stu- dents from South Africa, Australia and New Zealand It would bring his benefactions of the last decade to about $50,000,000. Our nearest star is 275,000 times as far away as the sun. ‘ part of North Dakota in the '70s, but all of them were “wet,” according to District Judge W. J. Kneeshaw, 83- year-old Pembina pioneer. ‘The veteran jurist said when he came here in 1873 saloons were nu- merous and Christmas cheer in bottles was common, Turkey was the main item of the Christmas dinner in the homes of many whites and its complements, pumpkin and mince pie and cran- berry sauce were present, Judge Knee- shaw recalled, Children hung up their stockings just as they do now and in the morn- ing found in them oranges, apples, candy and nuts. Still Christmas was much different than now, the pioneer explained. In the first place, besides the offi- cers and men at Fort Pembina and the half dozen customs officers there were only 10 or 12 white families in {Pembina in the early '20s, Among themen active in settlement then were Howard Vaughn, Jud LaMoure, C. Enos Stutsman, W. R. Goodfellow, Frank Myrick, N. E. Nelson, Frank Colombe, Charles Brown, the sheriff, John Kabinagle, W. H. Moorhead and Charles Cavileer and others whose last names only Judge Kneeshaw re- members—Daniels, Weisel and Scrib- ner. Several of these were unmarried. The homes were mainly log cab- ins and board shanties heated by Red river stoves—large box-like af- fairs in which wood was burned. Some of the mixed bloods had fire- places in their cabins which occupied JUDGE KNEESHAW the entire end of a room. Christmas music was furnished by violins and pianos principally, al- thought the fort band sometimes pro- vided cornets and other instruments. Later two Italians who came to the settlement played Italian harps. There were dances at the fort and the civilians attended both the more or less formal ones given by the offi- cers and those for the enlisted men. Christmas supplies, even gifts, were and all freight was brought by steam- boat or transported overland by ox cart. It was necessary to deliver the sup- plies early to escape the winter storms which sometimes halted traffic early in November. Yet turkeys were brought in and the usual Christmas “fixings,” including low-bush cranberries. The whites did not seem to take to the high-bush cranberries that grew here, Judge Kneeshaw said. Christmas tidings were proclaimed by the bell in the Catholic church tower to Pembina. This bell is the one now in the library museum, said to have first been hung in Pembina in 1818, Protestant services were conducted in the school house in the early '70s. Rev. John Scott of Dufferin, across the line near Emerson, Man., and known as “Father” Scott, was in charge. Although buffalo meat and some buffalo hides came into Pembina then Judge Kneeshaw did not see any live buffaloes, or bison, until 1876 when he visited Qu’Appelle, Sask. A native of Montreal, Judge Knee- shaw came to Pembina ftom Paris,} Ont., to operate a store for a Winnipeg firm. He bought furs and hides, most- ly mink, muskrat, fox and wolf. Much of his trade was with Indians and mixed bloods. The jurist married Susan Randall, a native of. Ontario, in Pembina in 1877. She died in 1925 NEW BOOKS ADDED TO PUBLIC LIBRARY Cronin’s ‘Citadel,’ Meigs’ ‘Rail- road West’ Among Recent Volumes A new list of books has been added to the stacks of the Bismarck library, providing those with time on their hands during the holidays the oppor- tunity to “catch up on” some of the newer fiction they have been wanting Books added are “The Mother,” a Polish-Jewish family; Lang: worthy Family,” Corbett, telling the story of the disintegration of a typical American family in a small town at the turn of the century; “The Citadel,” Cronin, the story of the character de- velopment of a young Scotch doctor from his first experience in a Welsh mining village to his career in Lon- {to obtain. OBERT A. OLSON Insurance and Bonds Phone 250 Merry and gay wishes for a good and merry old Christmas. We thank you all. MYER’S GROCERY Thayer at Seventh Phone 631 one Harry Patterson, who as a simple American sailor did much thinking and questioning about God and the ultimate truth; “ in which Susan Ertz bases a histor- ical romance on, Betsy Patterson, the Baltimore belle, who married Jerome Bonaparte, Napoleon's youngest bro- ther; “The Stubborn Way,” Hath- away, 1936 prize-winner in the Hopwood. contest at the Univer- sity of Michigan, this is the story of a middie western millworker at- tempting to break away from the mo- notony of his existence, 4 “Ferment,” McIntyre, a story of strike-breaking and labor-racketeer- ing in Philadelphia; “Railroad West,” Meigs, the laying of the Northern ; “Catalogue,” Mil- burn, a unique treatment of life in a small Oklahoma town at the time two fall-winter mail-order catalogues ar- tive; “So Great a Man,” Pilgrim, a novel of Napole: life from March, 1808, to January, 1800. “Truth to Tell,” Rosman, the story of a brother and sister who were sep- arated, going to live with different relatives without knowing each other until year Inter; “Katrina,” Salminen, |The Nutmeg Tree,” sharp, romantic Helsingfors prize novel contest win- ner, which tells of a girl from the north of Finland who went with her husband to live on the Aland islands; “Children of Strangers,” Saxon race distinction story of the deep south during the 1900's, giving the personal history of Famie, one of the proud mulattoes who as freemen had in- herited land from French ancestors; tale of impulsive Julia and her grown daughter, Susan, lovely but priggish. “To the Mountain,” Smith, sensi- tively written story of modern Japan, telling of Kimi, rescued from the Yoshiwara by a Japanese Christian, who later becomes a servant in his house; “The Faithful Wife,” Undset, in which the unfaithful husband re- & happy ending; “They Seek a Coun- 7,” Young, swift-moving story of a young Englishman and a Boer family during the South Africa trek of the Boers to found a new nation in the wilderness, The only commodity that requires refrigerated transportation in Uru- guay is meat. Miami Fad Slaves to fashion, Vivian Teem and Blanche Hemeon (right), fasten on “slave” anklets that match heavy bracelets of the same ma- terial. It's a Miami fad, MERRY CHRISTMAS To our many friends and patrons, we wish them all the merriest of Christmas days. Firebrand Lupe Velez wasn’t there, and maybe it was best Johnny Weissmuller, famed ‘screen Tarzan, that she wasn't. Shapel Evelyn Thorne of Burbank, Calif, pictured with swimmer’s companion much of the time during his-visit to him, was the Hawaiian Islands. «iti ~ 118 Fifth Bt. And may the New Year hold much in store for you and yours. Thanks for allowing us to serve you. The Bismarck Agency Insurance of all kinds, Real Estate, 11t Third Surety and Rentals & W. A. Hart Phone 877 A Sincere Christmas Greeting from your friends at Dick’s Auto Electric 210% 6th Phone 24 Thank you for ellowing us: to gerve you, | CHRISTMAS, PEOPLE Bismarck, N. D. Ss Christmas Greetings to all our friends and patrons of 1937! We enjoy your patronage. 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