River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-06-11

Abraham.
Lovers of a good cigar should try
Frank Thayer's ''27'',
R. n. Jensen received new lot of
zephyr and Scotch ginghams.
r. N. Jensen keeps a full line of
ladies' and gents fine shirts.
A. T. Carroll offers his pony team
for sale. The7 are good roadsters.
II you want your children to have a
natural and easy gait buy the spring
heel shoes for them. Ap Roberts
sells them.
Mr.. Dorman B. Eaton is to give the
North American Review the results of
two years experience as chief of the
! Civil Service Commission.
Go to the Congregational Church to-
morrow night, drive care away, and
learn how beautiful it is to live an
| hour with the masters of prose and
poetry.
Paris green is about the safest,
surest and best potato bug entermina-
| tor Travis & Co. have just received
large supply. A strictly pure arti-
Gle.
Our townsman, Mr.. o. G. Hicks,
| lost about $500 worth of telegraph
poles by fire the first of the week.
They were piled beside the North
Wisconsin railroad at Lakeside await
| ing shipment.
The Joint meeting of the Chippewa
! and st. Croix Conventions of the Con-
| gregational churches will be held at
| New Richmond June 10th and 18th.
Rev. G. II. Rogers of this city is book
1 ed for an address.
| There are various rumors as to
| whether Gen. Butler is or is not to
| write book, but at any rate he is to
appear in literature in the July Har'
per's upon subject on which he is
authority, that of yachting.
"a Days Drive with Montana Cow
boys will be described by the artist
Zogbaum in the July Harper's. Mr..
| Zogbaum spent last summer in the
wild West seeking artistic material,
and this study is ''direct from
nature"
| Marshal Bevans will be obliged to
execute the law upon those dogs
whose owners have not taken out Ii
| cences. Owners of valuable CANNES
should step into the city clerks office
at once and obtain lease of life for
their fayorites.
| nf T,11y
per's will be from charming picture
by F. S. Church-a dainty fancy OF
the repentant Pandora, trying to shut
down the cover of the box whence
the little ills that are to plague hui
manity are escaping.
Petelson's Magazine comes to us for
} July, an unusually brilliant number,
even for it. There is beautiful
steel plate; a double-siZed colOred
fashion in embroidery; and about fifty
other engravings, mostly of fashions,
work table, AMI things interesting to
ladies. The literary contents are
even better than usual.
Mr.. Benedict Burnett is very low
and his recovery is doubtful. Soon
after his misfortune, some three
weeks ago, in which his leg was tract
j ured, he contracted a severe cold which
settled upon his lungs causing con-
gestion. On account of IL advanced
age it was very difficult to arrest the
progress of the disease, or to forecast
the issue.
Those who have expert mented in
killing potato bugs, are of the opinion
that the safest of all ways to destroy
them is with two spoOnfulls of ammo
} mia in gallon of water. 1t is, they
, saw. far better than the dangerous
Paris green or London purple, and
fully as etficacious. We suppose the
cost of ammonia is not so much as the
, poison.-E9.
Mshler's Herb Bitters cures cholera
m0rbus, and thus gets the better of
the disease every time. Samuel An
derson, a blacksmith, living three
, miles from Springfield, o., writes: 81
was taken with a severe attack of
cholera mOrbuS-so severe that | was
! unable to straighten myself. After
: taking two doses of your BitterS l
was entirely cured.
A class for primary teachers desir-
. ing an insight into kindergarten
methods and means applied to school
| work, will be organized in Eau Claire
June %, 1885, to continue six weeks
under the auspices of the Eau Claire
] | Association.
Tuition, including the cost OF ma
terial used, S25.
Applicants also received for the full
f | kindergarten course. Tuition $50.
t ID. Z. SIMoNs, JENNY LLOYD JONES,
/. 7-2t President. Supervisor.
Miss Sarah H. Powell, who has
g taught music at Neillsville during the
2 past eleven months, returns to her
! home at River Falls next Saturday
| morning, to remain. Miss Powell has
| achieved marked success, and made
u an extended circle of friends, in the
4 city. Monday evening her Sunday
f school class met her at Mrs. Dodge
residence, presenting her with testi-
monials of their regard. She cOntem-
J plates studying music a year in the
a musical conservatory at Oberlin, Ohio.
) I-NeiitsrILc True Republican, June 4.
Judson Knight. assessor of the town
= of Clifton makes the following report
i of crops grown in that town in 1884:
| Wheat, 144, 40 bu.; corn, SO, 665 hu.
oats, $3.50 bu.; barley, 2l,1l0 bu.;
rye, ,664; potatoes, ii, sos bu.; root
, crops 9,490 bu.; clover seed, 206 bu.;
2 timothy seed, 20 bu.; clover, l95 acres;
+. timothy, 40 acres; cultivated grasses,
D | 1920 tons; butter, "a, ITO lbs.
The following shows the condition
of farm prospects at present: Wheat,
a 1875 acres; corn, ,257 acres; oats, |,
g 3S5 acres; barley, ,C42 acres; rye, 1913
acres: potatoes, 1877 acres; root crops,
g I7i5 acres; cultivated grasses, 2,7l7
growing timber, 1873 acres; mich cows,
, | 345, valued at IS. 855.
Mr.. w. d. Howels' new novel,
'Indiau Summer, which will begin
in the July Harper's, is one of the
results of his living in Florence two
, | or three years ago, describing, as it
| does, the adventures of a party of
| modern Americans with that ancient
| city for artistic background. The
| title foreshadows a portion of the love
| interest in the story, one of the hero
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