River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-02
LOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS.


night.
John B. Cough speaks in saltwater
Feb. 9th.
Miss Efie DeMille is attending earle
ton College.
Rev. A. S. Collins is spending this
week in Chicago.
Miss Anna Ellis has gone to Licking.
ton, KY, on visit.
The wood trade in the village has
been lively thus far this week.
A brother of DR.. Matchan, from
Lake City. spent last Sunday in town.
A number of Chicago merchants
have been arrested for selling butter
inc.
r. S. Freeman has new clerk in the
person of Eugene Strout. of Monticello,
Mimi.
Special meeting of River Falls
Chapter. r. A. NJ, next Saturday
evening.
DIR. Gould left for Chicago Tuesday
evening to attend a course of medical
lectures.
Ex-Governor Smith has engaged in
the wholesale grocery business at Mil
waukee.
n. S. DeMille and wife. now of Min
neapolis, tarried in town over last
Sabbath.
F. NJ. Ulerich has erected a building
in the rear of his shop for the storage
of lumber.
Miss Emily Pratt treated her Sabbath
school class to sleigh ride last Mon
day evening.
A. T. Carroll has just received an
other car load of those Celebrated
jackson wagons.
Sleigh riding by the bright silver
light OF the moon has been favorite
pastime this week.
The architects of st. Paul and Min
neapolis have organized an associa-
ton for mutual benefit.
Fox & Pratt have stored upwards of
one hundred and eighty tonsof ice for
next summers campaign.
The actual time occupied by the
jury in the Guiteau case in reaching
their decision was six minutes.
A son of Hon. c. D. PARKER. of Pleas
ant Valley, was married in the south
ern part of the State last week.
The meetings of the Methodist
church have closed for the present.
They will be resumed next week.
Track laying was commenced on the
Hastings and Saltwater railway last
Saturday morning at East Hastings.
During the past year there were l.
S4l inmates of the twenty-five private
benevolent institutions of the State.
D. E. Fisk, now at work for Seymour,
Sabin and Co., Saltwater, spent last
Sabbath with his friends in River
Falls.
Twenty-nine weeks and four days
from the day of shooting to the day of
conviction. How many to the day of
execution
The two hundredth anniversary of
the discovery of the mouth of the
Mississippi river by the great discov-
erer and explorer, La Sale, is to be
celebrated at New Orleans on the 9th
of April next.
According to the Pioneer Press Prof.
III. s. Baker read "a thoughtful
and instructive paper on the History
of Nlhilisra. at the lyceum OF the
First NJ. E. Church of st. Paul last
Sunday evening.
A bill has been introduced into the
senate making it an offense punisha-
bic by $50 fine for any candidate for
Office to treat voter to liquor between
the day of his nomination and cleo
ton day.
In the course of nine months only
the paltry sum of ten thousand dollars
has been paid to encourage the wolf
scalp industry in Wisconsin. The bust
ness is said to thrive best in the well
settled and thickly populated counties.
There are in the State of Wisconsin,
according to the returns made to the
compiler of the Blue Book, 34l news
papers and periodicals. of which num-
Der 1913 are republican, II are demo.
cratic, and Is are religious.
A meeting will be held at the Ire
mont House next Saturday evening
for the purpose of discussing the
advisability of holding an old settlers
reunion at this place some time in the
near future. All interested are re-
quested to be present.
A Good Templars lodge was organ
lied here last Thursday evening with
J. NJ. Smith as Worthy Chief. 1t
starts out with a membership of thir'
ty. aud several applications on hand
for initiation. They propose renting
| Dodge's Hall, and the night of meet
ing will be Thursday.
Nicholas Manson. of Hudson, met
with a severe accident here last
Thursday night which resulted IN the
loss of his right arm. He was in a
state of intoxication during the day
and in the evening he wandered dowr
towards the engine house and collid
ing with the moving train his arm
was mangled in fearful manner. ant