River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-07-05

RIVER FALLS j JOURNAL.
RIVER FALLS, WIS, July 5, 1888.
Entered al the pOsto1fce in River Fails as second
class matter.
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LOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS.
Mrs. Geo. Pratt returned last even
ing from Dakota.
Charley Hicks is home from Superb
or for a weeks respite.
OF the star route jury, eight were
Democrats and four Republicans.
The Wisconsin state fair will be
held at Madison Sept. 10th to 18th.
Mrs. Lewis Freeman, of Fishers
Landing, Mimi, is visiting in town.
The gross receipts of the Good Tenn
plars festival last evening were about
$50.
Miss Ada Jewell and Mr.. Fred O..
Crary. of Hudson, were married on
the 9th inst.
Miss Emily Pratt returned from
Milwaukee on Monday last, and will
spend the summer at home.
J. II. Langan has sold his house and
lot to Leonard Stiles, of Troy. Con-
sheraton, 81 900.
Scissors and shears sharpened in
good shape at Anderson Bros. barber
shop for Is cents pair.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ballard, of Maine, ar
rived in town last week on Il visit TO
their son, Dr.. +. Ballard.
safe, swift, and ire to regulate the
bowels, are Ayers Carthartic Pills.
Recommended by eminent physicians.
viii Lauder came down from Wah-
peton, ID. T., Tue 5day and will spend
"a short season with his friends in
town.
BIr. l.. Z. Hendrikson, Plymouth,
SAYS: Il was sufferer from general
debility, and Browns Iron Bitters
has cured me.
The Ellsworth stage has reversed
its order of running, and now leaves
River Falls in the morning and re-
turns in the evening.
The Ellsworth Cheese Factory is
now receiving about three thousand
five hundred pounds of milk daily,
and has now on hand several tons of
fine cheese. -Iierdtd.
Gilbert Johnson. of this place, has a
sub-contract to carry the mails be-
tween River Falls and Ellsworth, and
also between this place and New Cen
teryille. lie took the pouches July lst.
The small barn in the rear of Steve
Starin's blacksmith shop owned by b..
II. Pillar, was burned this afternoon
ut about one O'Clock. Loss about $50.
4 small boy with fire cracker did
the mischief.
The attention of school district
clerks is called to the new law requir-
ing the annual reports to be made be-
tween the 10th and 18th days of July.
Clerks in this town will find blanks
at the town clerks office.
The Green Bay Advocate warns it's
readers that two or three deaths have
been caused by eating the leaves of
rhubarb, or pie plant. 1t isnot gem
orally known that while the stalks are
good for food, the leaves are rank poi
son.
The Fourth was quiet day in Riy-
er Falls. A large delegation of our
citizens went to saltwater, and 9TH
ers attended the various plcnlcS and
celebrations in TIE several towns
around us. The weather was cool
and pleasant.
Mr.. @. p. Atkins, of Clifton, eXhib-
tied to us on Saturday last a curiosity
in the way of a double shelled hen 5
egg. The outer she'll girted seven
inches, and between the shells when
the egg was found was quarter OF an
inch Of "white." The inner egg was
of ordinary size, and apparently per-
feet.
The annual summer trotting meet
inc Of the Chicago Driving Park will
be held July l4th to DIST, and promis-
es to be in all respects the great trot-
ting and pacing event of the year.
Sixty thousand dollars in purses and
stakes, and special offers, are prOvid-
ed for in the program.
Mrs. Will Cheever and mother
are the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs.
John CIough. VIII and his father
have been prospecting in the West
this season and have located cattle
ranch in Montana. The latter will
soon dispose of his possessions in the
east and remove to Montana.
The rock crusher has ceased opera
tions for the season. The product this
wear is between | 900 and 1000 loads
of broken stone, distributed over about
four miles Of road. The new roads
are very popular with teamsters draw
ing heavy loads. and will undoubtedly
prove still more so when they become
packed by travel.
Messrs. Geo. Bates, +. l.. ellison,
Otto Anderson and Frank Peterson
played Il matched game Of billiards
yesterday at the fremont House for u
ten dollar billiard cue. The cue was
won by Mr. Anderson, who made an
average of sixteen points to run ON
Il 300 score. The game occupied
about four hours time.
At the annual school meeting last
Monday evening Mr.. j. y. Putnam
was elected director III place of Prof.
j. Is. Thayer. whose term had eXplr-
ed. 1t was decided to have eight
months school the ensuing year, the
fall term to begin Sept. 18th, and tax
of s. 900 was voted. There was a
small attendance at the meeting, only
about a dozen being present.
The striking portrait of John Brown
in the July Century. and - Recollec-
tions of John Browns Raid, by ex-
CONGRESSMAN Botpler, of Virginia, who
was il spectator OF the Skirmish at
Harper's Ferry and expresses the
Southern attitude toward Brown; and
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