River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-03-14
Normal Notes.

Normal Notes.
Miss Bernice Roberts. student Of
the Normal was called TO her home
in Menomonie last Saturday by the
serious illness of her father, who
has since died. Mr.. Roberts was
travelling man and well known to the
merchants in this city.
Miss Jessie Hunt has gone to Perley
to teach four months term of school,
Many other students are leaving to
take spring terms of school, but their
places are filled by others who are re-
turning after teaching winter terms.
The Normal School Literary Society
has the largest membership it has
ever known-eighty-one.
The l. o. c. Il. District Convention
will be held at Ellsworth next Thurs
day and Friday, River Falls lodge has
elected delegates as follows: Messrs
G. Y. Cressey, c. L. Campbell, f.
Otis, E. ii. Mckenzie, Misses Katie
Adams, Katie Chase, Jessie Chidester
and Mrs. Y. Johnson.
Charles Timmerberg of Salem, this
county, committed suicide last Mon
day night by shooting himself with a
| rifle. For some time since Mr.. Tim
merberg although naturally Of a
cheerful disposition has been exhibit
ing some degree of melancholy and it
is supposed that he committed the
| act while under mental depression.
He was residing at the time of his
death with his brothers and it was
noticed that he had arisen early in
the morning and was gone longer
than usual, and lis brothers becoming
alarmed followed him and found that
he had shot himself Ia an old building
not far from the dwelling house.
Mrs. Lizzie f. Taylor, wife of Hon.
III. A. Taylor of Madison, died of
paralysis on Tuesday the 18th inst.
She was stricken on Saturday and
| remained unconscious until her DEATH
| The funeral will take place ia Hudson
| the former home of the family at 10
A. NJ. to-day. Mrs. L. Powell, Mrs. A.
| p. Weld, Mrs. f. ID. Ensign and
other relatives and friends from
this city will attend.
The city of Hudson is the beneficiary
of a thriving trade in the matri-
monial line by its fayorabl, location
| as the Gretna Green, of Minnesota
| runaway lovers who know their OWL
business better than other people do,
including their parents. The
| preachers and justices during January
| and February reduced the number
l56 to 6S by uniting them, making one
| out of two. And it is probable that
| many of these nominal units were
only ''vulgar fractions" But the
| business is bonanza for the preachers.
Frank NJ. Nye, the prosecuting
attorney in the Hayward Cling murder
trial who is evidently match for the
noted criminal lawyer w. w. Erwin
who appears for the defendant, is a
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near River Falls. He was a member
| of the legislature of Polk county in
| 1885 and is a brother oil the famous
| Bill Nye. The senior hereof was a
schoOlmate with the Nye boys in the
River Falls Institute along about
lS72.-Mondovi Herald.
III. c. Thorn, chairman of the Re-
publican central committee died
Tuesday night of paralysis He was
| attacked several weeks ago and sank
rapidly. Mr.. Thorn was young man
of great promise, upright character
and of vigorous physique. The severe
strain of overwork and anxiety had so
reduced his vitaAty that blood
| poison followed the attack of paralysis.
His death is sincerely regretted.
There is hardly a married man, ex-
| cept editors, who does not habitually
carry i'm his pockets the picture of an
attractive young woman, who is not
| his wife. We violate no confidence
when we say her name is Miss Annie
| Wilkes Williams, of Philadelphia,
and that her picture ornaments the
silver dollar which all of us use
Greenwood Cleaner.
The blue-bird is hailed as
harbinger of Spring. 1t is also
reminder that blood purifier is
needed to prepare the system for the
weather to come. Listen and you will
hear the birds singing: Take Ayers
Sarsaparilla in March, April, May.
Charles Frederick Worth, the
famous man dressmaker and ruler of
tn world of fashion, died irf Paris on
Monday last of congestion of the
lungs. He was 10 years old and an
Englishman by birth.
Cantata of Queen Esther,
to be given by the River Falls Choral
Club, at Opera Hall, March IA and 10.
50 people. Beautiful costumes: fine
stage effects. Beautiful Choruses.
Solos, Duets, Trios, etc. Chorus of
Persians. Chorus of Jews.
CAST
| King Ahasuerus. ....................H +. Reed
| Queen Esther Mrs. n. 4. Toby.
/ Zerish wife of Uamanl - Mise Clara Evsns