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

Rev. B. E. Wheeler take part in the
Methodist district Conference, which
meets at River Falls on August A.
Huds on Star 4 Times.
II. E. Cook, formerly engaged in
the jewelry business at this place, is
spending the week in town. He will
90 from here to the Black Hills, where
he has mining interests.
The North Wisconsin News has
been moved from Clear Lake, Polk
county, to Hayward, Sawyer county.
Mr.. Johnson, the publisher. gets out
an excellent local paper and deserves
success.
Great Inducements at Kyllo & john |
sons to consumers of GOLDEN SEAL |
Tobacco. They will give away fine
meerschaum pipe within go days. For
further particulars call at the Model
Drug Store.
This state has normal school fund
of more than S. 900, 900 derived from
the sale Of swamp lands. The four
schools established contain 948 nor
NAL and 900 preparatory pupils, with
%, 600 volumes in the libraries.
Mr.. j. II. Langan has lately erected |
erected draped monument to the |
memory Of Joseph Nichols, which is
an ornament to our cemetery and a
credit to Mr.. Langdon, bearing evl |
dence of the beauty, and superior |
workmanship for which all work from |
his shop is noted.
10 Il mot
sting. But as male and female wasp |
wear the same kind of polonalse ana
look as much alike as twins, the only
way to distinguish their sex is to
catch one. If it stings, it is female; |
if not, it is a gentleman wasp.
ssBilI'' Nye left Monday morning
for his home in Laramie, Wyoming |
Territory. is his intention to close
out his interests there and return with |
his family and settle in Hudson, where |
he has purchased a residence. MI. |
Nve improved in health very rapidly |
during his late sojourn here, and 1T is |
the beneicent climatic influence of |
this section upon his physical system |
that brings him back to his native
hills.
The School Board requests proposals |
for painting by contract so much of
the exterior of the Graded School /
Building us is coated with paint, in
GLIDING outhOuses, sc. The bids may |
specify price for both single and doub-
lie coating. Address
C. SMITH, Clerk.
July 5, 1883.
lIr. D. II. Levings informs us that
on Sunday last his strawberry patch
was invaded by number of impious |
individuals whose appetites for ber-
ries overcame their regard for law
and the rights of property, if, indeed,
such regard was ever component |
part of their moral makeup. Mr.. |
I4evings don't propose to allow sec
ond offense to go ''unwhipped of JUS |
tice.
The state board Of health's report |
shows that there were 207 cases of |
smallpox the past year, and III |
deaths; diphtheria, 6757 cases. lI93 |
deaths, scarlet fever, 1892 cases, 407 |
deaths; typhoid fever, 2240 cases, 487 |
deaths; measles, 1882 cases, $50 |
deaths: whooping cough, 1912 cases, |
Al deaths, OF the l2l persons who |
died from smallpox, only ! were vac |
cinated, and the report strongly rec |
commended vaccination.
4 number of ladies among whom
were Miss FO0te and her sister Mrs.
Wilcox of Kansas. Miss Calista An
Grews, Mrs. Louise Parker, Miss Wool
sew and others, accompanied by a still
IL; 4 cd thnun,
selves of the courtesy of Mrs. Abner
Morse to picnic on the grounds of the
latter on the 4th. The day was pleas
ant, the grounds beautiful, with green
banks and running water, and the
company agreeable, affOrding rare
holiday for all who participated.
Billy Winchester acted as major
domo tor the party with his usual ur-
banity and dizziness.
The st. Nicholas for July will be a
memorable number on account OF a
carefully written and wonderfully IL
! lustrated article on the brooklyn
Bridge" Charles Barnard, who is
equally well known as a writer on sci
entIfic subjects. and as a Story-teller
/ for children, and who has watched the
growth of the marvellous structure
from its beginning, and photographed
it from every possible point of view,
furnishes the text, and the pictures are
by G. w. Edwards and by w. Tabor.
The diagrams are numerous and the
description accurate and popular.
The frontispiece, The Lifting of the
Fog" is by Edwards, and shows the
great bridge dimly seen through the
riffs Of the mist.
ARE YOU MADE miserable by In
digestion. Constipation, Dizziness,
Loss of Appetite, Yellow skin =! shi-
/ loh's Vitalzer is positive cure. For
sale by C. f. Davis.
HouSekeepers will he interested in
/ the investigation now going on in Chi
caco in regard to the processes and
materials used in making prime
steam lard" One of the chemists said
/ that he found IN the samples submit
/ ted to him beef or sheep fat and cotton
seed oil to the extent of not less than
/ 10 per cent. \ steamf tier testified
/ that instead of the simp machinery
needed for rendering pure lard from
hoo fat. he had been employed to put
+ I'm complicated contrivanceS for the
reduction and mingling of various
other substances, such as cOttonSeed
oil. tallow, etc. Other testimony of
employees told of even worse practices,
| indicating an adulteration of at least
/ Is per cent. A baker of the city, en-
Gagged in the wholesale manufacture
/ 81 crackers and biscuits, told a repor-
! ter that he found it exceedingly diff
/ cult to get the pure lard required for
+ his business, as crackers made with
adulterated lard do not keep well. He
is obliged to get his supply from small
er and reliable manufacturers, at a
higher price. Chicago will have to
establish the character of her tierce
lard by some adequate system of in
! speetinn and certihcation, or this great
/ industry will be seriously and per-
! r,nananflY injured,