River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-03-20
CLIFTON.

Supt. Baker occupied the pulpit last
Sunday at the church.
Miss Ada McGray is to teach in dis
trict No. the coming summer.
G. f. Cheney has relatives visiting
him from the southern part of the
State.
Robt. Wilkinson and Hosea Beers
started for Red River Tuesday. They
expect to be absent seven or eight
months.
Wm. Kendrick has returned from
Jersey, whore he has been hauling
wood for n. Argetsinger the past Win
ter.
Alfred Cochrane, head miller at
Dayton, starts for Red River this
week with the intention of opening a
farm, the coming summer.
Several of our farmers are going to
Red River after the spring crop is in
here with the intention of opening
farms in the far famed valley.
Farmers who commenced sowing
wheat in the spring that was, will
have plenty OF time To speculate as to
the average yield per acre, while they
are waiting for warm weather.
The members of Glenwild Lodge,
/. E. pant Of them, assembled at the
church last Friday, armed with pals
and scrub brooms and after d day S
hard fight made an impression on the
windows, floor and furniture that we
trust may be lasting.
The water in the lake is rising very
slowly.
Good seed wheat in this town is very
scarce.
The price of wheat has been on the
decline during the past week,
Will Caldwell closed his school in
Trimbelle last Friday and is now at
home.
Hay sells more readily and COM
mands better price now than it did
month ago.
". II. aud Helen ALwater spent a
part of last week visiting friends III
Pleasant Valley.
There were religious services at the
school house in Pierce Valley last
W ednesday afternoon.
Frank kendrick is in River Falls
working as an apprentice in John
Watson's harness shop.
Quite number from this vicinity
attended the neck tie festival at Mann
Valley last Friday night.
Mrs. Il. A. Bailey ami daughter Essie,
Of Prescott, spent last Saturday and
Sunday visiting friends in Clifton.
There were visiting members from
Prescott and Lake Shore, Minnesota,
Lodges, at Glenwild Lodge last Satur-
day night.
Rev. GoodselI did not preach at the
church here last SUNDAY. lie was con
Quoting quarterly meeting in Elder
law 5 place.
VIM. kendrick, Jr., has returned
home. Also several other boys who
went away last fall are returning home
preparatory to spring. work.
There was some wheat soWed dur
ing the warm weather Of last week,
but now the farmers are patiently
awaiting the arrival of spring.
There will be a caucus at the school
house in Clifton Hollow next Tuesday
Afternoon. Let every voter turn out
and put a good ticket in nomination.
The members Of Glendwild Lodge
will hold an open session next Sdtur-
day evening at the church. The en-
tertainmant will consist of essays,
select reading, declamations and mu-
sic. They have been preparing for
this for some time and it will doubt
less be 4 success. Come one, come
all.
II. Bascom's team INDUCED in lit
tie stroll" last Friday afternoon
while Johnnie was in the Clifton Post
Office. they were caught when they
reached home.
WIN. .chofield and D. Pryse held a
temperance meeting at the Pierce Val
ley school house last Friday night. A
good crowd WAS in attendance and
quite number signed the pledge.
The Prescott Temple of Honor, head
ed by the Prescott Comet Band, made
a grand display as they passed through
this town enroute TO River Falls last
Wednesday afternoon. The Band dis
coursed some excellent music when i'll
the vicinity of John Copley's. We
were impressed with the idea, when
we saw this procession, that the Tenn
piars of Honor meant business.