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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-03-16
March Sd, 1882.

TRENTON TIDINGs.-
The river is blocked with ice.
Our roads are again passable.
Maple syrup at Trenton store, only
80 cts. gal.
Spence Palmer is under the weather.
J. ". Boustead is agent for some re-
iiableinsurance companies.
Farewell dance at Trenton Hall Fri
day night.
w. E. Thing has settled down to
farming at Mortified. Mimi.
Overseers, send your annual report to
the town clerk next Monday, as the
law requires.
Call and see those excellent organs
at the Trenton P. 0.
Butter and eggs wanted at the
Trenton store.
Extra Seed Barley at the Trenton
warehouse.
A new party is anticipated at the
coming election.
The Grange here is now running in
full blast.
Capt. Smith, of the "Aunt Betsy,
is here repairing his barge.
Farm labor is scarce here, wages
ranging from $40 to $50 per month.
j. w. Wilkinson, of River Falls,
was in town last week.
Allen Adams is now the owner OF
fine organ.
j. C. Arnold will open his apple nur-
sery this spring. Buy climated trees.
The school exhibition in No. last
Friday night was a success.
Dexter owen is going westward
this week to look up business loca-
ton.
S. A. Porter is the inventor of new
corn planter. 1t is attached on hoe
handle.
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TRTMBELLE TRIPLES. :

TRMBEr.LE TRIFLEs.-
John REESE is hauling lumber for
his new house, which he intends to
build next summer.
Phillip Bolgert and family will
leave for Dakota on Tuesday, the 2lst
Mr.. B. hired out to Mr.. Redmon for
eight months.
School in district No. closed last
Friday.
Mrs. Matzeck was severely injured
by colt on Thursday. She had been
watering the animal and in passing up
to the manger in the stable, the colt
pressed her to the wall so hard that
she became senseless; but on recover
ing she managed to get released and
crept on her hands and knees to the
house. She is in critical condition.
DR.. Young, of Prescott, is attending
her.
In spite of bad roads, Haverlandt's
mill is kept busy night and day.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-03-16
FALLS, 16ss2
EsDAILE ECHOES.

EsDAILE ECHOES
A new clerk at Betcher's.
Frank Baker is at home from the
woods.
The population of our little town
still increases. This time it is little
girl at Lars Larson's.
Newt. Styles has sold five seeders.
Lorin Lusk and wife, of Brookyille,
are visiting in town.
Addie Sweeny is visiting her sister
in Saltwater.
Charley Swanstrom has sold his team
to Joe. Dupree, of River Falls.
Mrs. Wood, of River Falls, is visit.
ing her brother Homer Brown.
Three cases of typhoid fever re-
ported in one house near this place.
Dial. Mason and DR.. Hart were i'll
town few days ago.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-03-16
SOME NEWSPAPER LAWS.

1. A Postmaster is to give written notice by let
ter or card-returning paper does not answer the
law-when 4 subscriber does not take his paper
from the office and state his for its not be-
ing taken; and neglect TO do so makes the Post
master responsible TO the publisher for the pay
ment
2. Any person who takes paper from the post
othce-whether directed 10 his name or another
or whether he has subscribed or not-is RESPONSE
BILE for the pay.
3. II person orders his paper discontinued he
must pay all arrearages, or the publisher may con-
inne to send 1t until payment is made, and collect
the whole amount, WHETHER III Is TAKEN FROM
THE OFFICE OK NOT. There can be no legal dis
continuance until the payment is made.
4. TIE Courts have decided that refusing TO
take newspapers aud periodicals from the post
Office or removing Ind leaving them uncalled for,
is prima facia evidence Of Intentional FRAUD.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-03-16

AN exhibition of cheek fully equal
to that possessed by the proverbial
army mule is the presentation by
members of Congress, with pockets
full of railroad passes, of bills for at
tending the funeral of the late Presi-
dent Garfield, which they imprudently
ask the Government to pay. All Con-
gressmen which stoop to this should
be retired at the end of the present
Congress.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-03-16

A RUMoR is current to the effect that
the great Mormon Prophet, Brigha
Young. is not dead, but that he is liv-
ing in seclusion while awaiting crisis
in the affairs of the Mormon church,
upon the arrival of which he will
emerge from his hiding place in the
role of ''resurrected from the dead
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-03-16

LORD Roscoe declines the position on
the Supreme Bench rendered him by
his stalwart friend Arthur. Conkling
has Presidential bee in his bonnet
and does not propose to go into retire
ment by accepting an Associate JUS
ticeshlp, preferring to help run the
machine" in the Empire State. even
at the risk of seeing it smashed while
under his own manipulation.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-03-16

Ex-Governor FAIRCHnD was gush-
ingly received at Madison upon his re-
turn from nine years absence in Eu-
rope, where he was United States
Consul at Liverpool. Consul General
at Paris and Minister to Spain. The
ovation rendered the gallant General
moved the Milwaukee Sunday Tele-
graph to nominate him for the Presi-
dency in 1884.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-03-16

A GENTLEMAN residing near George
town, North Carolina, asserts that he
has demonstrated that tea can be sue
cessfully grown in that climate, and
that the tea there produced is equal
in strength and delicacy OF flavor to
the best imported article.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-03-16

IT is said that Guiteau is confident
of being released, upon which he is
to get married and go to Eu-
rope on lecturing tour. If he sue
ceeds in his attempt to get free and
then gets married we would advise
him to borrow some money and in
vest 1t in life insurance for the bene-
fit of his wife.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-03-16

TUE Eau Claire News thinks the
State made a great mistake when it
located one of the Normal Schools at
River Falls instead of Eau Claire--a
very natural conclusion for an Eau
Claire paper.
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Ell PAso ETcHIyG5.

Ed PASO ETCHIN1o.-
G. B. Raider was here recently and
sold about 5000 worth of goods in a
few hours. Good tea was sold at %
cents, and good coffee pounds for 81.
On Tuesday and Wednesday of this
week the remainder of the goods in
the store were sold at public auction.
James Cunningham is ON the sick
list.
j. b. Meehan is canvassing for the
book, Ireland of To-day.
Miss C. Hurley has returned to Mad
ison.
Thos. Hurley will take four teams
to Minnesota.
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MARrE1. MERE MENTION

CAUCUS. Notice is hereby given that
a Caucus tor the town of Martel will
be held At the Town House, in the viii
lage of Martel, on Saturday, April LIST,
1882. at three O'Clock p. m, for the
purpose of nominating candidates for
the various town offices.
March 18th 1882.
By ORDER OF ToYN COMMITTEE
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-03-16

THE Tammany Hall Democracy hav-
ing joined the Conkling and Cornell
stalwarts has been formally kicked
out of the Democratic party. 1t ap-
pears that the Republicans of New
York are not above accepting aid from
sources of doubtful purity.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-03-16

If prizes are ever offered, 1T should
only be in cases where the pupil can
not be reached by worthier motives
and as an expedient to lift him to a
higher plane. Of School Manage
| ment.
During this week the following
schools have been reported as closed
Dist. No. 6, Martel, j. P. Austerud
teacher.
Dist. No. 8. Trimbelle, Belle Red
mond, teacher.
Dist. No. s, River Falls, Nettie NJ.
Odell. teacher.
Dist. No. 3, River Falls, Mary A.
VIM, teacher.
Dist. No. 4, Rock Elm, Katie Cream,
teacher.
Dist. No. 4, Trenton, j. w. Smith,
| teacher.
Dist. No. 2. Diamond Bluff, D. H.
Tandy, teacher.
Dist. No. 2. Oak Grove, B. H. Corco-
ran, teacher.
OF the above teachers, the follow
ing will be their own successors: Belle
Redmond, Nettie M. Odell, and Il. ii.
Corcoran.
The Wisconsin Prohibitionist speaks
of Prof. I'll. S. Baker, of st. Paul, as
"a leading educator of the north
west, a fine classical scholar, terse,
vigorous writer"
We have sent the schemes for the
examination of those pupils who wish
to graduate from the course of
Study this spring, to the teachers of
those schools.
TEACHERS COURSE OF READING.-We
have made arrangements with Messrs.
McCray & Co., of Prescott, so that the
teachers of the county can get the
books of the "Course of Reading" as
cheaply of them, (by mail or other
wise) as they can be had in Chicago.
The american Classics is good
work to be used in school in place of
the usual Fourth Reader, as it is very
interesting, besides it will cause the
pupils to become acquainted with some
OF our best writers.
Superintendent Rosenberger, of
Pierce county, has assumed charge of
an educational column in the Riuer
Falls Journal, and makes it lively
and newsy section of the paper!- Wis
consin Journal Of Education.
QUERIES.
No. SO. In s. Hard cider - and '.log
cabin" times, what postage per let
ter did it cost a young man residing in
New York to correspond with lady
friend at Rochester, distance of 1856
miles away! A. L.
No. SO. Dear sir,-why is it colder
in TOO south latitude than in 100 north
latitude? JNo. M.
ANSWERS.
No. AZ. Proper. 81 measured the
distance with a ten-foot pole, re
tanning the hyphen. The noun, in
such expressions, being used as an adj
jectiye, loses the properties of a noun.
A. 7.
No. 48. Dear sir: Allow me to state
in answer to "Query 48, that there is
no difference between mile square,
and square mile, because square
mile contains six hundred and forty
acres, and mile square which
is the same as three hundred and
twenty rods square, contains as many
acres as one hundred and sixty, the
number of rods in one acre is contain
ed in the square of three hundred and
twenty, which is six hundred and for
ty times, or six hundred and forty
acres. S. L. |.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-03-16

The liquor interest throughout the
country is preparing to concentrate its
efforts to stem the tide of temperance
in Kansas at the coming fall election.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-03-16

AN exchange tersely says that Gui-
teau's bullet has placed the control of
the Republican party in the hands of
as INSCRIPTIONS set of politicians as
ever managed a. party.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-03-16

CONGRESSIONAL politics in Minnesota
are beginning to boom and it looks as
though Dunnell and Washburn will
not have clear field for another re-
next fall.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-03-16

KEoKUK, Iowa, claims distinction as
the biggest egg market in the world;
0,500,0 eggs were shipped from
there during the season.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-03-16

Correspondence, discussions, etc. are desired
from the TEACHERS and the FRIENDS of EDucA-
TIoS in this county. Address all comm INDICATIONS
to the Editor. at Maiden Rock. Wis.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-03-16
PLUM CRY CHRONICLES
Eggs 10 cts. per dozen.
Hay So to $40 per ton.


A new fire proof safe has been
placed in the store of S. w. HUM & Co.
S. w. HUM and wife returned from
their visit south Feb. 25th.
A telephone connects S. W. Hunn's
store and residence.
Rev. Mr.. Cook, of Red Wing, favor
ed the people of Plum City with dis
course Feb. GOTH. He is a missionary,
if we are rightly informed.
We understand that Mr.. Leaver will
start for Missouri about the first of
April.
Can there not be Farmers Ali
ance" organized at Plum City! There
is no one who will look to the farm
er's interest outside of the agricultur-
al circle, while there are scores who
will Cypress, for greed or gain. Mo-
nopolies and spectators are feasting
and fattening at the expense of the hus-
bandman, and it is time there should
be an uprising, that the oppressive
burden be lightened.
PLUM CITY SCHOOL REPORT.
Days taught in term, rs
Months taught,
Pupils enrolled, SO
DAYS attendance-total, 2IS8.5
Days absence, 1888
Tardy marks, $40
Determinations. 68
Visitors,
Percentage attendance. "a
The principal hind era n C Q to
thorough advancement found to be
irregular attendance. A number of
pupils will fail to attend school three
months of the year unless more regu-
lar. f. A. TERRY, Teacher.
March 3d 1890
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.EEV'ELR 4.
II P. PETERSON & SON,
WATCHmAKERS and JEWELLERS,
RIVER FALL S, WISCONSIN.

Dealers in Fine Jewelry, Watches, Clocks,
and plated ware Sole gents for the Cele-
brsted Rockford Quick Train Watches All
kinds Of Repairing neatly executed, ana all
work warranted.
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WAyERI.Y WAvELETs.

Tom is again ready to saw.
j. Ii. Pomeroy, of st. Paul. was here
last week.
School In the "Mountain" district
closed last week.
John Harrington was quite severely
injured while rolling logs but is get
ting better.
The political pot is beginning to boil
and the different candidates are inter-
viewing their friends.
Bonnie Thompson will close his win
ter labors at Ell Paso village in two
weeks.
We will inform those parties who
are dissatisfied with the amount of
their taxes that the town clerks books
will convince them that they are in
error as regards being over taxed.
We are informed that general eau
Gus will be held here on the 25th inst.
to nominate town officers for the en-
suing year. Turn out.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-03-16
Rock ELM CENTER REMARKS

Rock ELM CENTER REMARKs.-
Mr.. Craig is quite sick with pneu-
moDia.
Miss S. Elliott gave a candy party
for her scholars and friends at the
close of her school.
Miss Hattie Goodell has closed her
school and gone to OHIO to attend
school.
Several loads of new goods have
been received by our merchants this
week.
Henry Noble is moving back from
Jersey where he has been engaged in
teaming this winter.
Miss Minnie Kimball did not close
her school at the time she anticipated
on account of the mumps.
Miss Florence Olive and Miss Attic
Reed, from Prescott, have closed their
schools and returned home. The
young ladies have made many friends
while here, and during the last few
days of their stay among us were en-
tertained by an almost continuous Sc
ries of visits and parties gotten up in
their honor, while an entertainment
given by them will be pleasantly re-
membered by those who attended it
for long time. They leave us with
our best wishes, and we hope they
may return to teach among us again.
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Educational.

A. RosENBERGER.- Editor
coUSTY SUPERINTENDENT
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AGENTS WANTED s5o tGf F oeg ' Ct laTs'
GARFIELD.

Engraved in Line and StippIe from photograph
.Dnroved by Mrs. Garfield a correct likeness.
a beautiful work of art. No competition.
Sizs ISx24. Send for circulars and extra terms.
TIE Henry Bill Publishing co.. Norwich, Conn.,
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OLE I'll. BANG,
Tailor.

A full line of Cloths kept constantly on
hand. Shop over Boxrud Bros store, Main
St., River Falls, Wis. M
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Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars

on each Train between st. Paul, Madison and
Chicago.
THE WESTERN DIVISION OF the Chicago, st.
PauI Minanef.olis & Omaha Lipe, known as the
St Panl s. Siou5 q "ail DAD Wan liz various
Rranches COMMENCING AT ST. PAUL, reaches
into iowa Dakola are Neo aska- pass' ng shrough
the thliyiu young ci,ies I'd TOW o shakopee,
ST Pese, Nj mao, Worth 'gton. a2d tlfore h Lee
and WIN Branc T. oes reacJes Et1e Ea b Ci,y
and Woodstot i. Mice; Doom. IOWA; and siodA
Falls Dakota.
AT COUNCIL BLUFFS ~ Uoiou De9os with
irs.-clasS Lines OF Road o. all Doidts ia Cent,a.
and Wes.e Missouri, or Kansas. Teas, Ne
brasi.a and Colorado, California, Ali4opa, New
and Old Mexico, makes it worthy OF being called
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-03-16
ONE OF THE GREAT RAILROAD LINES
Chicago, St. Paul, Mime
anQIis 3 Omaha Line.

THE EASTERN DIVISION o. this Line, for
merly re Chicago, st. Paul = niduet pohs ana
North Wisconsin Pathways, reaches ols IRON St
Paul and Inc Lumocf Re3locs o. NO. ~ west
Wisconsin 10 ri ov a d ii connection with the
Chicago North Western Railway, forms direct
through Line between
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THROUGH TICKETS So so q

THROUGH TICKETS south 50 M and and South
West are on sale at all principal stations. Ee sure
and buy through ticket, as they are generally
cheaper: Das you cannot get be tickets you
desire or the ia tion wan ed about rates con-
nectiors Sc, al yoar home zion, write to the
undersigned, and your letter VIII receive prompt
ttant;on T. w TEASDALE.
r r.. CLARKE. General Agent
Gen, Traffic Manager. ST. PAUL, MINI.
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QUERIES.

ANSWERS.
No. AZ. Proper. 81 measured the
distance with ten-foot pole, re
tanning the hyphen. The noun, in
such expressions, being used as an adj
jective, loses the properties of noun.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-02-11
GARDINER.

The thirty-seventh anniversary of the
founding of Warren Division, Sons of Tenn
perance, occurs Feb. Is, 1882. 1t will be ap-
propriately celebrated by some literary exer-
cises and the serving of refreshments. The
Division is IN prosperous condition. numer-
ically and financially
Prof. Torrens proposes to open another
singing school in Rings Hall, and efforts are
being made to secure a membership large
enough to warrant the success Of the under
taking. His assiduous labors With his previous
school met with most gratifying results, prov
ing that there is plenty of musical talent in
Gardiner, and that good chance for devel-
opment will make it of the first-class order.
We predict him success in his new task.
Messrs. Fred Heath and p K. Clason
started for Brunswick Thursday morning to
attend the medical department of Bowdoin
College. Mr.. Heath has been studying for
several months with DR.. Sawyer of this city,
and enters the freshman class. Mr.. Clason
is a senior, and the assistant demonstrator of
anatomy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-02-11
nALLowE11.

Thursday evenings concert by the Weber
Ciuo OF Portland, was listened to BY a crowd
ca house, The programme of fourteen mum
oers vas we'll rendered. The almost perfect
blending of the sixteen voices showed great
amount Of cultivation and practice Perhaps
the numbers most worthy of mention we're
the nrst, Comrades in Arms" the chorus.
Lead, kindly Light, and the last, Farewell
my Native Land in which Miss Merrill's
solo was finely supported by the Club The
song, "Impatience," by Miss Merrill, was also
noteworthy. Although the audience was not
as enthusiastic in applause as on some other
occasions, still we think the entertainment
was enjoyed. Perhaps the classical nature of
the Italian selections, on account of the
words being indistinguishable, had something
70 DO with this; but we are inclined to think
that the talking and other disturbance on the
part Of those who, doubtless, would be great
~ hurt at the insinuation that they were not
ladies' and gentlemen, had much more TO do
with any discomfort. That at least was our
experience. We expect such disturbances
rom boys to whom a ''nigger" show is the
acme OF musical entertainment. but in others
Il only evidences a sad lack of both good
breeding and familiarity with a high class of
music
Among the members of the club were three
bowdoin graduates, Messrs. Paine, rs, V.
!. Wilson, so, and Little, 81. The lyceum
course concludes with a lecture Friday even
ng, February oath, BY Gen. J. L. Chamber
ain of Brunswick. Subject THE Surrender
IF Lee
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WINTH ROP.

Sylvanus Holden died at his residence,
Thursday at II o'clock. after an illness of
several weeks duration. Mr.. Holden was
about so years of age. and for more than half
a century has been a resident of this town.
His wife died several years since, and
he leaves no relatives in this State. He has
a sister and niece in Massachusetts. His
funeral will take place Sunday at half past
one o'clock 7. NJ, at his late residence. He
will be buried with Masonic honors. He was
long member OF Temple Lodge, T. and A.
NJ. Of Winthrop. and was man greatly re-
spected by all who knew him.-Seventy-tw o
tons of tin arrived a few days since for the
Portland Packing Co. to be manufactured
into cans for canning sweet corn next season.
The amount will make 500, 900 cans.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-02-11

Schooner J. W. Vannamann, commanded
by Captain John II. Mason of Augusta. had a
terrible passage from Philadelphia to Fall
River recently. The schooner had over 400
tons of coal on board, with a small crew. On
the trip the weather came up cold and blus-
tering, with a rough sea, requiring Capt
Mason and mate to keep constantly on deck
to work the vessel. The crew were
foreigners. poorly clad, and no sailors
All the spray that dashed against the
sails and the water washed over the deck froze
almost instantly. Captain Mason has one ear
cheek and right hand badly nipped by the
frost, while the mate suffered considerably.
Three of the crew are now in the hospital
in Newport, all more or less used up. Their
feet and hands were frozen so badly that am
putation will be necessary in some cases
The schooner stood the storm fret rate, all
the injury TO her being the tearing OF the
jib and foresail.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-02-11

Ten inches of snow came down from the
clouds yester day. The present fall of snow,
before the IA inches which fell on Sunday
vas barely removed, makes it discouraging
to the ice companies, and it will cost many
thousand dollars to clear the kennebec ice
fields. The Commissioner OF streets has been
all the week clearing the streets OF snow,but
now is added another heavy expense to his
department The storm was not 4 cold one
like SUNDAYS, indeed it seemed all day
a. il it might turn to rain, but still 1t con-
timed to snow thick and fast until five
O'Clock, keeping all within doors who could
.tav there. There is more snow on the ground
now in this section than there has been for
number of wears.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-02-11

Upon the retirement of Miss Flora q.
Cochrane from the position of organist at
the First Baptist church, which she has oc-
cuped with high credit to herself for the past
six years. the prudential committee of the
church unanimously passed the following
resolution
Resolred. That we, the members of the
prudential committee of the Baptist church,
desire to express our hearty appreciation of
Miss Cochrane's high musical ability, of her
generous Willingness TO render valuable
assistance to the society on special occasions,
of her uniformly courteous and ladylike
bearing We give up her services with regret,
and cherish the kindliest wishes for her future
progress in her chosen art and for her future
happiness.