River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-08-01
TRIAIBELLE.

Nels Anderson, an old gentleman lily.
ing on Sec. SO of this town, died recently
of dropsy.
g. Il. Crary has the new flume com.
pleted and the mill is running again.
The census enumerator has finished
his labors and finds 1850 people living
in the town on June LIST. The males ex-
| coed the females by SO. No wonder there
are so many old bachelors in the town.
There are 800 apparently able bodied
men between the ages of Is and 40 for
militia. There are 90 old soldiers and
one ex-confederate.
c. NJ. Stafford's family made the most
butter last year and received the highest
prices for what they sold. They are the
only ones in the town who weighed every
churning and kept record of it.
l.. r. Stafford has more bees than any
other person in town and produced more
honey 900 lbs than anybody else.
Nearly all the farmers objected to Civ
| ing in crop reports and several refused to
| do so until the law was read or explained
| to them.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Tabor of Oak
| Grove visited in town Sunday.
Bernard Klecker has the largest family,
viz: IA. Barney raised more wheat last
year than any other person excepting
his nearest neighbor Mrs. Chas. Heinz
a widow with family of children.
The item in the JOURNAL last week
should have read: The Creamery Co.
shipped thirtytwo tubs of butter to
| Chicago, instead OF two tubs.
Travelling on poor roads, climbing over
rocks, through wire fences by the score,
| hurrying across pastures chased by I'M
ruly stock, hunting after the owners OF
| the plantation or some one else who
could give the desired information; sit
| ting on a bundle of barley in the harvest
| Geld trying to write on a piece of white
| paper in the glare of a MONDAY sun, are
| some of the things the census taker had
to meet. Take it all around it was quite
! a pleasant task, especially when a very
| busy farmer tells you that he has been
| bothered all the morning and that he
has very little time for such lot of fool
ish questions.
There was only one married woman in
the town that could tell all about the
| crops that were raised last year, better
than her husband could tell.
Last week the JOURNAL in an editorial
roundly scored the Board of Health oil
this town, and unjustly so we think. The
truth is bad enough but the inference to
| be drawn from the JOURNALS remarks is
still worse. 1t is true that during the
last ten or twelve years diphtheria has
| on several occasions ragged in the south
| west corner of this town and the adjoin-
| ing portion of Oak Grove, and that dur
| ing that time some fifty or sixty children
| have died of that dread disease. But
| that the board of health has refused or
neglected to do anything is utterly false.
| 1t has been in active service on several
occasions, and constantly in touch with
| the physicians in charge, and last winter
procured the new remedy, anti-toxine,
| at an expense of $500 dose.
One complaint is that quarantine regu-
lations are not observed in the neighbor-
hood, that is, that the well people and
sick intermingle with each other ION the
| sly" but the board of health has no
proof that this is so. In fact it is well
known that the parents have had to lay
| out their own children and put them in
| the coffin, screw the lid down and carry
them alone to the road in order that the
next nearest of kin or some friend might
convey them alone from there to the
grave.