River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-17
PERSONAL.

Mrs E. B. Holmes is visiting in
Prescott.
Chas. Freeman is down from
Thompson, n. D.
f. \. Would of Willmar, Mimi. is
visiting at j. p. Carroll's.
f. j. Burhyte made business trip
to Ord, Nebraska, last week.
w. w. Thayer returned Tuesday
from his trip to Massachusetts,.
Miss Mary Hines of Ellsworth was
the guest of Mrs. Oluff Halls the first
of the week.
Misses Storley and Helickson have
been spending few days with friends
in the twin cities.
Capt. l.. ID. Bartlett of Glendale.
\. D., is the guest of his brother-in-
law G.. p. Burnett.
Mrs. L. L. Follansbee was called to
Rice Lake saturday to attend her
daughter Miss Ella who is quite sick.
j. Z. Weeks left Saturday for
jackson, Michigan, where he will
have charge of flour and feed store,
Mrs. b. +. Weeks and daughter ac-
companied him on visit to relatives
elsewhere in the state.
G. A. Burbank of San Francisco,
formerly of this city. is spending a
few days in town. He has been in i'll
health for some time past and came
east with the hope that change of
climate would prove beneficial.
An exchange makes this point
against the Income Tax law: If a
young woman has an income of Sl0,-
600 she is compelled to pay a tax ON
only $4,000. If her intended husband
has the same income he is subject to
a like tax. III they marry the law
compels them to pay tax on $4,000,
instead of $4,000, as before. The in
come tax discourages matrimony,
and is therefore against public policy
The sugar-coating, which makes
Ayers Pills so easy TO take, dissolves
Immediately on reaching the stom-
ach, and so permits the full strength
and benefit of the medicine to be
promptly communicated. Ask your
druggist for Ayers Almanac, just out
This community has been remark
ably exempt from the discomforts
and Inconvenience of epidemics,
such as measles. scarlet fever and
other diseases the past year. Not in
frequently the inroads of these
diseases, to which children are
peculiarly susceptible, interfere dis
astrously with the favorable results
of school efficiency by the forced
irregularity of attendance on the
part of such patients. But an
epidemic of sociability exhibited in
the surprise" party frequently inter
feres with the successful application
of children to the legimate business
of the school. Sometimes this cpl
demic is as disastrous in its results as
the measles, for, although it may not
prevent the attendance of the de-
voices of this kind of dissipation
from school, it distracts the attention
from the work for which the school is
instituted and maintained. Many OF
these children go distracted" over
the nonsense and frivolity of such
gatherings as these surprise" parties.
while it is often an occasion of incon-
venience to the people where the
surprisers' congregate. 1t would
be better for the kids, the family and
the school if the surprise" party
were tabooed, or obsolete.
Twinkle, twinkle little star
How i wonder what you are
If you don't know go TO the lectures
at the Normal building and find out.
The Chatauqua Circle met with
Miss Wright last Thursday evening at
the home of II. 5. Freeman. There
was a variegation of literary and mu-
steal exercises TO which the society de-
votes one evening each month. This
particular occasion passed under the
nomenclature of "Fagot Party and
was unique in its conception and high
ly interesting and enjoyable. Each
performer east a bunch of fagots into
he open grate-the sole illumination
and its cracking blaze echoed the
brilliant scintillations of the contrib
uUOr.