River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-07-31
STATE ITEMS.

La Crosse claims s, 900 inhabitants.
Stevens Point boys sell blueberries at four
cents per quart
Work is being pushed ahead rapidly on
the North Wisconsin road.
One thousand pairs Of boots are made daily
at the Waupan Penitentiary.
Numerous persons are prospecting for
mineral claims i'll Barron county.
The next meeting of Wisconsin Pioneers
will be held at Madison June is, 1880.
Nearly two million pounds of cheese have
been shipped from Sheboygan the present
season.
The Changers of Eau Claire county will
have a grand harvest home reunion next
month at Eau Clare.
A company Of Menominee Indians will at
tend the fair Mt Oshkosh and play an exhi-
bition game OF La Crosse.
Lydia Cornelius, daughter Of the chief oil
the Oneida tribe OF Indians, recently gradual
ed at Wisconsin college.
Mrs. Barbara Harmony, OF Prairie Farm,
Barron county, died recently, aged ia. She
was born in Pennsylvania.
Ashland is the paradise of hay fever suffer-
ers, and many OF this class have gone there
to escape their annual ahiictlon.
Dphtheria has broken out at Blue Earth
patients dying within "a hours after the at
tack.
The first barley OF the season was in the
Fond du Lac market Friday. 1t graded No 3,
but was not sold the 0wner refusing an offer o.
forty-two cents per bushel.
Wisconsin is shortly to have a tilt with the
drive-well gang. We learn that w u. An
drews-Greens partner IN the claim on the
drive well patent--in a recent conversation
stated hat lac would soon begin the cotlec-
ton of royalties in Wisconsin
A peach tree in the garden Of MIR. Oliver in
| the Fourth ward, gives promise OF an abund-
ant yield this season, considering the late and
severe tIosts. 1t is useless for any one TO say
now that this climate is uniayorahle Tor -als
ing the luxurious fruit Eau Claire Free
| Press.
A correspondent says that Ripon has ;
| farmer who lives on a 100000 farm and il
| one Of the finest farm residences in that sec
| tion OF the State, comes to the city iii lum
| Der wagon bareiooted, and his wardrobe II
| summer never costs TO exceed sl15. a
| striped shirt, pair Of overalls and q Shilling
| straw hat make the outfit.
| The BURBERRY crop at points east OF thi
/ place is immense. In the vicinity Of Fal
| Greek. on tracts OF land which were no
| burned over, the yield is reported to be ex
I eeedingly large. An average yield OF fit.
/ bushels per Gay are I6hsI W Tue btAGh IAlFtl
Falls market, most of them being picked N
the river by the Indians .-Eau Claire Ere
| Press.
Information Is wanted OF the whereabout
| OF Bridget Lahave Some seven years az
she was livIng Ill Clark's Mill. Manitowot
county II is supposed she moved to Calu
| met county, or Menominees Mich. ANY on
4 knowing OF her whereabouts will confer
favor on her brother Mlehasl by giving an
information they may Obtain Oh her by sd
dressing her uncle, George A-lherry, Branc
post offce, town Of Franklin, ManItowoc coun
III, Wis.
Mr.. Il Butter6eld and family arrived 1
Mena4nonie last Friday, on their way TO hi
homestead near the Washburn farm, in thi
county. The family, consisting oI sewers
persons, have come all the way from Mekea
county, PenI.. liz wagon, III osa-iashione
ellligrant style They started May p, All
hence IL has taken them nine weeks al
three days to make tlla long journey.
mishssp befell tlen, aHd they arrived IT the
destination in goaa health and well please
| with their journey Dunn County News.