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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-12-16
EsDAILE.

Eight and nine hours per day are
worked at the Factory.
VIM. McCourtie has some fine honey
for sale at IL cents per pound.
Mrs. Robert Sherman arrived on
Monday last, also Will Sherman.
The schools in the village will close
their fall term of fourteen weeks on
the Oath inst.
1t is rumored that w. E. Warren
will move Ills stock of merchandise
into the Strickland building soon.
A. j. Mumf0rd came near loosing
his COW recently by getting into the
mill-pond.
C. Peterson limps about with a sore
foot, resulting from dropping a plank
on said foot.
Miss Libbie Monroe has moved hel
stock of millinery goods to her fath
! er's house on upper Water street.
g. Conlin had slight runaway last
week with load of hay. No damage
other than upsetting of the load.
Getting the ''mitten'' seems to be
the greatest novelty just now. Not
50 very novel either 50 some of then
| think.
NJ. E. Quarterly Meeting a5 Maiden
| Rock ON Saturday and Sunday next.
We were unable to learn of any one
falling into mill pond this week, but
may by next writing.
About 25 teachers and others attend
ed the Association at this place las
saturday. A very interesting time
was the natural result. The Superin
tendent seems to be labOring dilligent
| IL in the school Cause.
1t is truthfully asserted that ou
.sbig" boys can create more noise than
| the smaller ones in c0aSting, pro
| vided they are furnished with "a COW
| T5ell accompaniment. We know TIL:
| to be a fact, it having been tested ont
evening last week.
1t is earnestly hoped that the ooart
of education of this place Will take
| steps during the coming vacation u
/ arrange our school rooms into more
| convenient and healthful condition
| than they are at present. 1t can b.
done alta minimum cost and in a Shor
| time. Please consider 1t, gentlemen
There is said to be 26S convicts il
the penitentiary at Saltwater, ten O
whom are women. No partiality i
shown, rs their hair is cut as short a
the mems, and are attired in hickor.
gowns. They are employed in wash
ING and sewing for the rest. Col
Younger bushes himself trimming Of
he leather on cylinder pulleys 70
threshing machines. The only worl
| done by the men is manufacturing til
Minnesota Chief Threshing Machine
and water pals. Their wages ar
| nine cents per day and a weekly allow
ance Ito those who use III of one plul
Of tobacco.
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Plum CRY
Still Plum Town is ahead.

Still Plum Town is ahead.
Mr.. Tomlinson is at work sgain in
his steam saw mill.
Nothing better to read these long
winter evenings than the RIVER FALLS
Journal.
DR.. Curtis & Co., have large assert
ments Of Christmas toys, &c. Looks
AS though old Santa was coming to
Plum Town.
Mr.. Tomlinson has a large engine in
the mill and employs number of
work-men. We think that if energy
and perseverance will accomplish any
thing Mr.. 7. will do a large business
here.
We learn that number of gentle
men, among whom were Mr.. G. L.
Taylor. of Maiden Rock, and MesSrs.
SAM and Asa Doughty, of Lake City,
were in town last week. They are
thinking of building a large grist mill
and also, a hub factory here. We
hear that several leading men have
offered liberal aid to the company.
We are informed By Mr.. Oberding
that his saw mill will be in good order
to begin work next week. Messrs
0ppliger & 0berding are good bushes;
men and have many friends through
out the community.
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Yennor's thaw has come.

Oliver Lamb has lost enc of his
horses.
The tax roll is in the hands of the
treasurer, vino is ready to receive your
tribute.
Spring Grove district will have a
spelling school on Thursday of this
week.
A dance at Eb Danforth' last week
4 pleasant time was experienced.
George Beardsley,of Herman. Mimi.
is stopping in town for season.
Hi. Baker intends having a New
years ball at his residence.
A donation party at the hail for the
benefit of Rev. Foster is announced fol
Thursday evening.
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MAIDEN ROCK.

A little daughter at F. SchultZ's.
Wheat has dropped down to 90 cts.
The sick folks are all getting better
Several arrests have been made the
| past week.
c. Klopf's infant son was buried
on Saturday.
P. Smiths youngest child is danger.
ously III
The school entertainment was a sue.
cess. Proceeds $3.50.
License to sell liquors has been
granted the past week.
Potatoes and canned fruits have felt
the effects of the cold weather.
Our streets are daily crowded with
wood, hoop-poles, beef. pork, &c.
Drs. Hancock and Hertzel have
made several professional calls here
lately.
A number OF our young folks at
tended the theater at Lake City Thurs
day evening.
The pleasant countenance of j. D.
Trumbull is again seen in the store of
H. L. Hubbard & Co.
Kay & McKinstry are actively en-
gagged in buying aud shipping cattle
for the st. Paul market.
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Rock ELM CENTER.

Simon Groot boasts son, also Louie
TprnOw.
Albert Holt has moved back to
OconOmoWOc.
Dexter Owen took drove of $50
sheep from this town last week.
II. Lowater is giving the best of
satisfaction, in the Center school.
The Maiden Rock and Hersey stage
will only make two trips per week at
present.
David Scott leaves for Barron coun-
ty next week to commence a new
farm and make house thereon.
Some of our citizens are paying their
taxes, while others are not satisfied as
to the legality of the tax roll.
F. NJ. Gilmore, assisted by few
friends. gave a concert at the Bell
school house on Wednesday evening
preparatory to organizing class in
vocal music.
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ELLSWORTH.
Sleighing is good.

Slelgnlng Is gOou.
There is to be "A Teachers Associa
ton at this place Dec. goth, 1880.
Geo. B. Dickey. of Hastings, MINI.
was visible on our streets on Wednes
day.
Messrs. Winn & Wood are digging a
well, to supply their engine with
water.
Joseph Manning, of Lake City.
Mimi, was in town on Tuesday and
Wednesday last.
Geo. K. Clements and Oliver Silt,
of Trenton, where among our callers,
on Wednesday.
II. P. Ames has moved into his new
residence. and G. Fenton has moved
into the Court House, having recently
been appointed jailor.
G. L. Haitman. of Lake City, Mimi,
who has been doing several jobs Of
granting and painting, in Ellsworth
returned home last week.
Road master Sullivan, of the G. st.
p, NJ. & O. R. r., and Maj Burnett, of
River Falls, were is town on Wednes-
day Negotiating for wood and ties, for
the above railroad.
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sCONsIN. THURSDAY. DECEMBER IL. 1880.


Mr.. and Mrs. Gunderson are happy.
1t a boy.
J. n. Midboe closed his school in
Dist. No. 4. on Friday last.
The schools in this town, except in
Dist. No. 4, are now in hourishing
condition.
The teachers meeting on Saturday,
the ii inst, was success. Six teach
ers were present.
There is to be public dance at
Gilbertson's Hall on Christmas Eve.
Music by the Baldwin band.
Tom. Nelson has sold his interest in
the steam saw mill to Benjamin
Roche. The firm will hereafter be
Bonsnes & Roche.
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DIAMOND BLUFF.
Locals scarce.

Some of our farmers finished thresh.
ing the first of the week.
Mr.. Sigei McKeen and Miss Addie
Engley, both of this place were united
in marriage on the 9th ult.
There will be Sunday School in the
school house every Sunday hereafter.
The Good Templars of this place are
increasing in number fast.
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Fine sleiehing in this section.

Everybody is preparing for Christ
mas.
The city OF MArtel is blessed with a
telephone at last.
Rags, wool, sheep p4lts, hides, wool
en- stalkings. butter and eggs taken in
exchange for goods at Forseth &
Thompson
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SPRING VALLEY.

School commenced in Dist. No. !
Dec 18th. under the auspices of Miss
Sewall, of Rock Elm Center.
A son of l.. Jacobson is reported to
be very low with typhoid fever. Dr..
Johnson, of River Falls, is attending
him.
Miss Maggie Spafford, of Esdaile, is
engaged to teach the winter term of
school at Spring Valley commencing
the first Monday in January.
The action of the Supervisors in
allowing the assessor ST.. so per day,
looks as though they mean to run the
town on economical principles; but they
were not economical enough to reduce
their wages to the same figures.
The following table shows the
amount of taxes levied in the town of
Suripu alya for thp wear 1890
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VOL. "a
J. w. HAMILTON,
Resident Dentist.
Oaica second door south of POST Office
BOOT & SHOE STORE.

WADSWORTH & WEIGER Manufacturers
OF and dealer in Boots and Sh es, Gloves,
Miltens, Hosiery and every thing usually
kept in first-class loot and shoe store, at the
lowest possible prices. Custom work spec
iality. Repairing promptly and neatly done.
Shop On Main Street first door south OF Cam
erons's bakery, River Falls. Wis. 2l-35
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-12-16

The present Assistant State Superin.
tendent thinks that the Department of
Public instruction needs an overhaul
ing. We agree with him, and are in
favor off constitutional amendment
that will permit the direct payment
of a fair salary to the State Superin-
tendent and thus modify the system
which now practically increases the
pay of that officer above the constitu-
tiOnal limit.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-12-16

The friends of ex-Postmaster Gener-
al and now Judge ID. NJ. Key, of Ten
nessee, want him promoted to an Asso-
ciate Judgeship of the United States
SuuTe mp Court
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Beef, dressed, sc.

Beef, dressed, sc.
Maple wood. green, 81 per cord, dry
| SIS.
sleighing is good on the lake bu
poor on the land.
BILLY Barlow" our saloon man
left suddenly the other day, as some
of his customers did not handle hin
carefully enough when they put hi!
face on the stove.
Last Saturday, Mr.. Frank Eagles
was brought before Justice Butcher
and accused of having made sundry
threats against VIM. IIertzel. Result
Frank is now under $25 bonds to KEEP
the peace.
The oyster supper and entertain
ment given by the pupils of the gram
mar department of our school on the
| evening Of the 10th was a success, al
| though number of experiments illus.
trating the magic of chemistry" had
to be omitted on account Of the late
ness of the hour.
The pupils passed the following res
olutions at their school meeting on
the 18th:
RESOLVED, That we, the pnpils of the
Grammar Department of the Maiden
Rock school. do hereby return our
hearty thanks to our parents and
friends for the substantial aid given
to US by them on the ii inst.
RESOLVED, That we do hereby mani
fest our sincere esteem for the kind.
ness especially shown us by Mr.. II. L.
Hubbard, in that he gave US the
gratuitous use of the church for our
entertainment.
RESOLVED, That the money raised by
us shall be used for the purchase of
needed books Of reference for the pu-
pills of this school, and shall be used
as basis for school library, which
we hope n due time will be largely
increased.
RESOLVED, That copy of the above
resolutions shall be published in the
RIVER FALLS JOURNAL.
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One.
Who Will start singing school.

Seymoure and Walter Ogllvie started
for the pinery last week.
Repairing the old steam mill at the
corners. Report says Batho & Salver-
son will run it.
A donation for the benefit of Rev.
Holt will be held at the Grange hall
Wednesday eve, Dec. Is, 1880.
Dick Van Schoonhovern, of Osakis,
Mimi, is visiting friends i'll Salem
Dick starts for New York State soon.
More than \ hundred carcasses OF
deer have gone to market down the
range line from points north of Grange
Hall.
Two mutations at Odd Fellows Lodge
Monday evening.
Bonnie Thompson, with three ladies
paid Linwood Lodge a visit Saturday
evening.
The Changers hold regular meetings
every Tuesday evening, instead of Isl
and Sd Tuesdays.
d. c. Templar A. Gray. of Prescott,
has been visiting the Lodges al
Maiden Rock, Rock Elm Center and
ono.
Linwood Lodge visited Rock Elm
Center Lodge Friday evening. They
report good time, good sleighing and
splendid moon light night.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-12-16

one whose integrity aud reputation
stands unscathed by any appliance
that envy and partisan hatred could
suggest; of generous impulses and III
domitable ''push' All that is urged
against Mr.. Keyes is that he is a poll
| tician. We desire to assert. without
fear of successful contradiction. that
a man of his prominence W f o L
twenty years has been made an especi-
al target for the opposition and emerg.
ed from the showers of calumny rained
upon him without single adhering
| charge of dishonesty, corruption, de-
linquency in his character as good
citizen, is constituted of the metal of
which true men are made, and it would
be far better for the country if more
like he were in our National council.
In the language of I'M exchange, "he
is able, capable, honest and deserving;
his ability tried, his capacity tested;
his honesty unquestioned; his deserts
universally acknowledged; in h e
United States Senate, his career would
be one of solid. practical service to
Lis party, the State and the Nation.
-e.~~p
In the New England States l79 per
cent. of the United States bonded DEBT
is held; in the Middle States, GA per
cent, in the Western, l4,2; aud in the
Southern, SIS. Women own 80 per
cent. of the bonds held in New Eng
land; 10 per cent. of those held in the
Middle and Western States; aud % per
cent. of those held in the South. Since
these facts have become known, ora
tors on the stump must be discriminate
ing in their references to "bloated
bondholders, or else seem somewhat
ungallant.
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Dayton Mills.

This mill contains all the new and
improved machinery for Custom Work.
Satisfaction guaranteed. A fair share
of patronage is solicited. soft
j. NJ. TozER. Lessee.
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PRGNIX, New YORK,
TRAVELLERS ACCIDENT. Hartford.

pronpnd honorable their adjustments Of We write Policies
wilfnd advantage trial before elsewhere
ofceinH olues& Bradsha block
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Ievied to pay loans OF school
litricts from the trust fund,
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RIVER FALLS ms. AGENCY
L. S. ROUNSEVELL, Agent,
Represents rae E'0Kio,ctng !

| ETNA Hartford,
| PHOENIX,
| UNDERWRITERS, New York,
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1880-05-01

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Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1880-05-01

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Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1880-05-01

IF The elements Of storms have been
very busy il tho last month, and the cas-
ia! shave been severe. About ten
days ago terrific tornado passed over
South Missouri and Northern ARK nsas
and beside doing much damage in a gen
eral way entirely destroyed one town in
Missouri, killing many people. Follow
ing this only u few days after the State
of Maryland, on the Atlantic coast expc-
rienced terrific gale. and in one little
town some eighty souls were blown into
eternity. And following this comes the
Intelligence of a furious cyclone passing
through tho section Of Mississippi in
which is situated the town of Macon.
The force Of tie currents of air, which
seemed to meet in this tosn was such
that almost the entire place was demol-
1shed. Only two houses in the town
were standing when the storm Il ad spent |
its fury. The loss of life was fearful. |
while tho wounded are counted by the
hundred.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1880-05-01
q A big pig was killed at BRUINS Ell

q A big pig was killed at BRUINS Ell
bow, N. Y, recently. The animal meas
nred five feet two aud one. half inches
around bis chops and seven feet one incl,
In girth, was seven feet long and weigh.
cd eleven hundred AMI one pounds. The
operation of fattening it. began last Sep
tembsr, and it was allowed twenty-four
pounds Of meal and two of sugar. It was
fed at =. m. and 9 p. m., and also be-
tween meals, as it were, at p. nj. Du-
ring the last two weeks it had to lie fed
with ladle, as it was unable to feed it.
self. 1t was too fat to walk and two fat
to $40. 1t was Of the Chester white
breed, and was three years and niue
old.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1880-05-01

HONOR FROM EUROPE.-It is conceded
on al sides that DR.. Ayers Pills are
above comparison with other medicines.
Uniting tha best elements known to the
chemist, they are particularly effective
against the numerous stomachic disor-
ders for which they are recommended as
. cure. These pills are so mild, yet so
searching, that thoy are often prescribed
by doct ors who otherwise do not favor
patent medicines. Intle"d, with the
fruits of DR.. Ayers genius in the shape
of P lis. Sarsaparills, Asue Cure, and
Cherry Pectoral, one might with impuni-
~ travel through the swamps of tropical
America, or follow Stanley on his travels
through the interior of Africa.-A a,ster-
dam Nieuws van don Dag. 1t
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1880-05-01
HON. e. W. ROBERTSON.

The subject O. this Ariel.
has, since 1876, Represented
:: the sixth Congressi1 nal Distric1
OF Louisiana in the lower house
OF the National Congress-
through his popularity, a rad;-
cal possessing neither ability
social standing or political in
tcSrlty was displaced. Since
his membership OF Congress, he.
with the balance of the Louisi-
ana delegation, has worked un-
tlrlngIy for the welfare of his
constituents in a general way and
is now pushing a bill for the i'm
p"oVement OF the MiSsissippi.
which should it pass-and it is
III a fair way to pass-would
prove one of the greatest bless
lngs to southern commercial in
terests. Mr.. Robertson has
been in Washington long en-
ough. to become acquainted
with the ways of the capital
and can be of more benefit to
the people than any man in the
District on this account. More
for the benefit of the peo-
pie than for MIR. Robertson. lin
whose ability and patriotism,
however, we have the greatest
faith) we hope to see him again
sent to congress-. If the Dem
ocratic party could be induced
to drop the pcrnicious rule, re-
Gently fallen into, of changing
their representatives at every
lection, it is our belief the in
Eerests Of the people would be
better subserved and the Or
sanization Of the party made ]
stronger. With the exception :
IT A cklen, from the third Dis !
frlct, who has become notorious I
y unworthy of confidence, the II
delegation from Louisi- l.
ma IS very strong and we see t
10 reason why it should not be Il
e
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1880-05-01
ESTRAY NOTICE.

The State of Louisiana-P.rish of yy.st
Feliciana.
a ESTRAY TAKEN up by william,
q - Waddl- of the Parish of West ,reiin;l
ana, state of Louisiana. about the list NJ
tebrllary A. d. 1850. fsnid desc ,tio,
to Wit One Red Cow With white aauLs
marked undertiyure seven in the lett rr
1"H staple fork in the right ear also her
iaI' whte and red spotted. appraised by
worth in cash fifteen dollars Nc
l.. S. AUSTEN.
,,.;, O.. 1904 y. ". 5th Ward.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1880-05-01
CLERKS NOTICE.

! ne STATE OF Louisiana-Parish of Wast
re:lclana Clerks Office /. 1850
r, 18th Judicial District Court.
An LILO matter OF the Succession of Aaron
Ieutsch, decreased.
oiiCE Is HEREBY GIVEN that
,I;a, tAd"Iph Teutscn, has this Clay M.
p,ieu ior letters of administration on H..
; !, "nt succession aid If legal Opposition,
10 issued according to law. '' " III
Z. N. BARROW.
Clerk