River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-06-04

Work on the church begins Tuesday.
Saturday was busy day for our
merchants.
VS.. Cheeny is building an addi-
ton to his shop and furniture store.
i. III. Tornow is building small
wing to his residence.
The cheese factory is enclosed and
being hurried to completion as fast as
possible.
lIr. Storing has moved into the
McDermot house.
Misses Mary and Matte Fox went to
MenomOnie the first of the week.
A young colt belonging to Q. 2.
Whip ran in play against stump
with such forse as to kill itself.
Emil Leischer has returned from
Washington Territory to recuperate
his failing health.
Cheeny & Whip have on hand full
line of burial cases, and also some
choice funeral robes for both gentle
men and ladies, which they will sell at
figures extremely low. The supply
Of those articles will be appreciated
by the public, for they have long
been needed here to obylate the
| trouble of making trip to some OF
the larger towns for them. Ihey
also keep furniture etc. Call and ex-
anime their stock.
A large concourse of people gath
cred in town on Saturday to attend
Decoration and Memorial services.
| The services were beautiful and inn
pressive, and were fairly under way
| in the grove when a pull OF Wlnd
struck the trees which created pam
ic and dispersed the audience in a
trice. But rally was aftergard made
and the remainder of the services
carried cut in Fox's hall to the salts
faction of crowded house.
The address delivered by D. W.
butcher and Rev. E. B. Russell were
good and well received as yell as the
| children's part of the program Mrs.
| Lowater's original poem written for
! the occasion was an article of decided
merit, and should be appreciated.
The band and the choir rendered eff
fective services which were duly ac-
knowledged.
The Rock Elm Institute will open
for it's regular summer session on
July 10. So far of the many who
have attended this school with the
expectation of procuring certificates
or of bettering the markings on those
held, or of securing certificates OF
bioher Grade. not one has failed.
Terms from $150 to $500 per
month, according to length of term or
grade of branches studied. Good
board from $1.75 to So 90 per week
according to location. Rooms for self
boarding very cheap. The best as
well as the most expensive apparatus
outside Of the State Normal. For
further particulars address l.. Low
| alter, Rock Elm, Wis. Y.
The Memorial services held by A.
NJ. Howard Post on Saturday were
/ we'll attended, and were as follows:
At 1890 the members of the Post
formed in line and marched to the
lower cemetery where each one placed
flowers on the graves of the soldiers
buried there. They then formed at
the hall and marched to the upper
cemetery, escorted by the brass band,
and decorated the graves in that place.
When they arrived at the grave of
one who had been his comrade, Com
| rade Eldred made a short address,
recounting his services and army
| record. They then marched to the
grove, where the regular services of
the order were held. Three young
ladies. Misses June Britell, Nina Low
alter and Minnie Collett, dressed in
character to represent Fraternity,
Charity and Loyalty, the motto of the
! q A. R. then in short addresses ex-
plained these principles in relation to
the Grand Army, and to the ceremony
of the day, during which they deco
rated the monument to the Unknown
Dead with garlands of flowers A
shower seeming imminent at this time
the audience adjourned to Fox's hail.
Comrade butcher made a short ad-
dress on behalf of the Post, suitable
TO the occasion, after which Mrs.
Churchill, Misses June Britell, Nina
Lowater and Minnie Collett, repre-
senting the G. A. r., and twenty
children, participated in a piece called
- Wisconsin in the War;" during
which they sang THE Vacant Chair
and ..Sbaryed in Prison" Mrs. n. NJ.
| Lowater then read the Memorial Poem,
after which Rev. Russell, of Maiden
Rock, made an address which was
highly appreciated by the audience and
listened to with close attention. The
exercises were interspersed with mu-
sic by the brand, who had entirely
new pieces for the occasion. and closed
with the well known memorial piece.
= Cover Them Over, sung by Mrs.
Churchill. Miss Jennie Whip and
Messrs. VIM. and Wilbur Churchill.
and the benediction by the chaplain.
L.