River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-06-21


Crosse in August.
Mrs. Potter. of Eau Claire. daughter
of Rev. w. Hamilton, is spending a
few days in town.
Cut the grass in front of your lots.
The streets will look better and many
weeds be destroyed.
Be sure to get the prices on Paints
and Painters Materials at KyIlo d
Johnson's Drug Store before buying
elsewhere.
Mrs. Kellogg, nee Cassie Saunders,
of Reedsburg, arrived in town the
first of the week and VIII spend the
summer here.
The Good Templars will give a
strawberry and ice cream festival at
Mr.. E. p. HammOnd's yard, Main
street, on Thursday evening, the 28th
inst.
Miss Eunice Pratt left Monday
morning for Chicago, where she will
probably spend the summer with her
sister, who is in feeble health.
We would call attention to the fact
that many of the shade trees along
our streets are not properly trimmed,
and hang so low as TO interfere with
hats and umbrellas.
Rev. A. S. Collins came up from
Portage last Thursday and spent few
DAYS with his friends here. He preach
ed an able sermon at the NJ. Z. church
last Sunday evening.
Last Thursday afternoon was devot-
ed to general exercises in the primary
room of the Normal School. The
work done by the pupils was Uery cred
liable to their teacher Mrs. Louisa Par
ker.
Vennor is on hand again. He pre-
diets a cool June, very hot July, a
mild August, a windy September, a
calm October with snow from the LIST
to the 4th, an ordinary November and
a boisterous December.
Rev. Hamilton. who has been quite
indisposed for some time, and unable
to occupy his pulpit on account of loss
of voice, has so far recovered as to an
nounce that next Sabbath he will
preach at the usual hours at the NJ. E.
Church.
The State horticultural Society will
meet at Ripon ON the 2Sth inst. The
program includes papers by number
of the best writers in the society
among them Prof. T. II. King of the
River Falls Normal School, and Mrs.
G. L. Tracy, of Ripon College.
Messrs. w. 4. & w. A. Burnett will
soon open a wagon shop in connection
with their blacksmithing. They have
secured the services of tirst-class
workman in the person of Mr.. A. I.
Gage, late of Ellsworth. General re-
pairing will be made a speciality.
The Frontispiece for the July num-
Der of Harper's Magazine is an eXqui-
sitely beautiful engraving from Mr.. f.
s. Church's picture, "A Witch S
Daughter The Number is very rich
i'm illustrations and its Table of Con-
tents presents very strong literary at
fractions.
Mr.. J. II. Lord, accompanied 10y his
wife and daughter Flora, will soon
start on an extended tour through the
south and east, visiting st. Louis and
New York, and spending some time
at their old home in Maine. They Will
make a portion of the trip by water,
going down the Mississippi and up the
Ohio rivers.
Mr.. Rosenberger, our County Supt.,
has a report of the Commencement
exercises of the Normal School In the
Educational column. We were neces-
sariIv absent on account of pressure OF
business. but we have heard the ora
tion bv Mr.. Evans and the essay by
Miss Avery highly commended. All
the exercises passed off i'll a manner
very acceptable the large audience.
Uncle Hosea Bates extends an invita-
ton to all of the boys of his age, OF
thereabouts, to join with him IN Z
game of old fashioned base ball, to be
1Jayed at some convenient point IL
This village on Friday, the 2sth inst
Uncle Hosea thinks that the new game
Is vastly behind the old in all that con
stitutes sport, and wants to show
Young America how it was played III
his day.
The summer meeting of the Mime
sofa Horticultural Society will be helc
at the agricultural department of the
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
ON Wednesday and Thursday. June
97th and 2Sth. Citizens of adjoining
states are especially invited to meet
and exhibit with said society. The
usuai reduction of rates on the rail-
roads is expected, and the citizens OF
Minneapolis offer their hospitalies to
the members during the meeting.
In the North American Review fol
Julv, President Julius II. Seeley
writes of Dynamite as Factor II
civilization, taking of the subject
the reassuring view that dynamitlsm
beinp merely symptom of present
discomfort. is necessarily a transient
social phenomenon which will quickly
disappear as the institutions OF gov
eminent are brought more into har
mony with the interests and asplTa
tions of the masses of the people.
our esteemed cotemporary, Mr.
Mprrick, of the Press, owing to press
ure of business upon him at the ran
road station has discontinued the
Press. In Mr.. Merrick we have al
WAYS found a genial, courteous broth
or editor. While we have many times
differed from him in opinion our per
sonal friendship has remained un
changed. and in bidding him farewell
as an editor we hope it will be long
before the same word shall be spoken
to him as a citizen and friend.
The trustees of the Congregational
church have let the contract for build
inc to Messrs. Burrows Il Rhoads fol
s5=525, the building to be completed
tbe Dresent season. The new building
win be erected partly on the old foun
6ation and partly on new wall. II
will be T shape III form, with tower
an the southwest corner, the upper
nortion of the I being for vestibule
aud a yestry. The audience room viii
Le capable of accommodating about
s0a neople. Oak will be freely used IL
tbe inside finish. The exterior pre-
sents in the drawings a handsome and
neat appearance, and has been favor
abIy critized by leading builders