“Official Newspaper of Pembina County” Oldest Business in Cavalier - Circa 1885 Inside 14 Pages Highlights The Legal Notices............Page 2 Calendar ...................Page 3 Opinions ...................Page 4 Cavalier ND Matters ...............Page 5 Local News...............Page 6 Church Directory ......Page 7 Classifieds ..............Page 10 Chomicles ...............Page 11 Election Results......Page 13 ChronicleChronicle Obituaries ...............Page 14 $1.00 Volume 133 Number 48 Cavalier, North Dakota Wednesday, June 27, 2018 This Week’s Official Spotlight Election Results Visit The North Border School District The annual election for Walla North Border School District #100 was held Tuesday, June 12, 2018. There were a total of 133 Theater! votes cast, 86 going to Shannon Visit the Walla Theater Cosley and 42 votes for Gary during the 4th of July Helland for the Pembina three- festivities in Walhalla this year term; 116 votes were cast year! for Amber Dunnigan for the The theater will be open Walhalla three-year term; 127 for viewing Wednesday, July votes were in favor of 4th from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. and publishing the minutes. Saturday, July 7th from 10 Shannon Cosley and Amber a.m. to 4 p.m. Dunnigan will serve their While viewing the work respective school boards for that has been done treat your three-year terms. self to some great ‘Walla’ The measure to have the popcorn and a rhubarb float minutes of the school board that has been a fundraiser for published in the official the theater. newspaper of the district passed While strolling the streets 127 to 6. of Walhalla, stop at the ____ Gallery in the Chamber Installed At building to see what the Drayton School District Brush Bunch has been doing. The Drayton Public School Also available at the Board election brought 53 City Park Gallery will be rhubarb patrons out to the polls. There “Wendy the Whale” and floats, Wednesdays July 4th were no contested races. “Corky the Crocodile” and Saturday, July 7th from Jessica Aasand ran for re- bouncers have been recently 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days. election to the board for one of added to the east playground Come to Walhalla to the city seats and received 48 of the Cavalier City Park. celebrate the 4th!! votes. There was one abstention Two new covered charcoal — Submitted by Leona and three spoiled ballots and one grills have been added to the Schneider write-in vote for Andrea Passa. ____ Michael Emanuelson ran for east side along with one re-election to his rural seat and covered charcoal grill and one received 46 votes. There was uncovered large group grill one spoiled ballot and Mark near the west picnic shelter. Put Garbage Hatloy received six write-in There is no cost to use the votes. picnic shelters and they are Where It ____ available on a first come basis unless there is a reservation. Belongs Cavalier Chronicle To make a reservation please The North Dakota Game Weekly Deadline call 520-2512. and Fish Department Monday - 10 a.m. ____ reminds outdoor recreationists to keep it clean this summer by packing out all trash. All garbage, including love the simple grateful souls he the floor by the fireplace served as a used fireworks, should be Pembina County: shepherded. Only Nature, cruel bed, with heavy blankets to cover him. placed in a proper trash relentless Nature, on whom they all Living was simple enough. receptacle. If trash cans 150 Years Of History - Part 40 depended and whose fickelness often He must leave it; he must go again aren’t available, or are full, brought tragedy, chilled his heart. with the carts—and on a dangerous And now, after his long absence, he journey. There were no roads, only take the trash and dispose of was glad to be home and he was eager tracks hard to follow over the vast it at home. The Frozen Priest for news from the outside world. He plains, which crossed the country of It is not uncommon to read the letters from France first, then the hostile and warlike Sioux. Father see garbage piling up around laying them down, he picked up one Goiffon feared treacherous weather full trash containers. Of Pembina post-marked St. Paul. Reading this, his more than savage Indian but the Vicar Styrofoam containers are face became grave and he read it again. General’s summons must be obeyed. not biodegradable, but yet By Jim Benjaminson found what they sought, what he had It was from his Vicar General, He must go at once. It was nearing the are often found wedged in hoped for – letters and papers besides Monsignor Ravoux, requesting his end of August and there was only time cattails, drifting or washed Mother Nature can be a cruel landlady. She can scorch you with his books. The mail had come! presence in St. Paul on matters to get to St. Paul and return before up on shore. He stood out sharply in the light; concerning his parish—an unwelcome winter set in. Such a trip with carts Tires, mattresses and blistering heat or freeze you solid. At the snap of her fingers she can inundate small and slender in his clerical garb, summons. He must go again on two must be finished before chance storms kitchen appliances have opening the letters and short-sightedly more months of travel. and snow. He knew the Morneau found their way to public you with flood waters, rip out the trees and smash buildings with tornadic holding them near. He was over thirty, He was weary—his life on the hunt brothers planned to join a party shortly use areas. This illegal but still with the smooth fresh cheeks had been a busy one. After camping so going to St. Paul, he went over to the dumping is costly to clean winds – or lull you into complacency with warm winds and sunshine, with of early youth, and the fine lines about long on the bare prairies, his sheltering Morneau home—he would arrange to up and takes a significant his eyes lent humor when he smiled. walls seemed a haven. Only here in all travel with them. toll on the environment. Not birds singing from every tree top. This is a story that records a time of His neighbors, Paul and Charles this lonely country, was there any link On a morning in the last week of only does it spoil the beauty Morneau, had insisted on unhitching with the established cultured life he August, St. Joseph was awakened by of the land, it destroys extremely harsh weather and survivorship of a hardy pioneer Priest his oxen for him, so he had come had left in France. A few religious the noise of a departing cart train. habitat, has the potential to assigned to the Pembina parish. It is a directly into the house. All three had pictures on the wall, writing materials, Father Goiffon came out of Paul pollute North Dakota waters story that I did not write – it was just returned from two months at the his books and papers on the table – it Dubois’ house—the old man was very and can injure wildlife. researched by Margaret Arnett buffalo hunt and the summer air was was a poor home of but one room, ill and the priest was loath to leave Littering violations MacLeod and printed in The Catholic filled with the harsh screeching of Red twelve square feet, but Father Goiffon him. He had done all he could and had should be reported by World – with a forward by S. P. River carts going on past St. Joe to loved it and was proud of it, for he had administered the last sacraments of the calling the Report All Matheson, Archbishop of Winnipeg, Pembina. built it himself—the neighbors helping Church before he left. Poachers hotline at 701-328- written November 30, 1935. It is story In the previous year—1859-- with the heavy logs. The carts were waiting, the ox of 9921. that gives a clear picture of what life shortly after his arrival from France, A six-year university course in the the second cart hitched to the back of ____ was like on the early prairies of Dakota Father Goiffon had been sent to take classics and a two-year course in the first, so Father Goiffon mounted Territory – and of the hardy souls that Father Belcourt’s parish of Pembina, philosphy had not contributed much to immediately; he was driving his own first inhabited the land. After reading but the Sioux having burned all the his knowledge of building, though it carts. The day was fine and clear and it, I felt I had to share this nearly- Pembina church property, he may have had a bearing on the size of they covered twenty miles the first day. Weekly Chuckle: forgotten story. administered the parish from St. Joe on his one window, which was unusually At Pembina they joined a larger train. ______ its western boundary forty miles away. large for the region. The logs were They traveled along by the Red River, The country seemed boundless in poorly chinked, the window and door over flat country, presently leaving the Way too many people are like With a quick lift of the big wooden its immensity; the life, primitive and were roughly done and the mud floor river and going farther west, soon nice cars with the “check wild, almost frightening. But Father was too soft and uneven. But the coming to the most difficult part of the engine” light on.