River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-09-30
PERSONAL.

MISS Eud MdABOOu OF Ullindu Is VS.
iting the Normal.
Mrs.R. NJ. Gage left Tuesday after
noon for Kansas City.
II. 5. Wilcox has returned from his
trip to New York.
Mrs J. Ayers of St. Paul is visiting /
at joel Barnett's.
Mrs. Sorenson of Ma-tell is visiting
her daughters in town. I
Miss Jane Mclaughlin has returned /
from her visit to Milwaukee.
Miss Barager was the guest of Miss !
King at her home in Hudson Sun
day.
Mrs. Georgia Blair Of Portland, |
Oregon, is the guest of her uncle, j.
W Barrett.
Miss Alice Shepard Of Syracuse, y. |
Y, is a guest at the home Of J. II. |
Talmadge.
Oscar Follonsbee came down from
Hudson Tuesday evening and return
ed last evening.
Mrs. John Glover of New Richmond
was the guest of her brother, w. S.
Ensign, yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert A. Dake Of
Minneapolis spent Sunday at the home
of G.. W. Farnsworth.
Mrs. Ed. Johnson returned Monday
from New Richmond where she had
been visiting her sister.
1t will be grateful news to the
friends Of W 5. Ensign to know that
he is able to go cut again.
Mr.. and Mrs. Delos Shaw OF Med
ford are guests at the home of Mrs.
Shaw's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Krauth,
Miss Marie Nc Reavy ii Minneapo-
lis, who has been visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Earnest Ensign, returned home
to-day.
Miller Winterbotham Of the Wis
consin University Law School spent
Sunday with Hon. and Mrs. n. p.
Haugen.
Mr.. and Mrs Craig f. Randall
moved to their new home on the farm
Tuesday, where they are now nicely
settled
Miss Lucina Foster went TO Ham
mond this afternoon TO visit Mr.. and
Mrs. Loggerwall of Memphis, who are
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Van Hee.
Mrs. Isaac b. Tracey and her two
children of St. Cloud, Mimi, arrived
Monday evening to spend several days
with her mother, Mrs. Butler Parker.
Miss Laura Weld left Tuesday
morning for Madison to enter the
State University. Mrs. Lucinda Pow
ell accom- panied her, to visit friends al
the capital.
Miss Gertrude Cairns and Role
Cairns Of Ellsworth, former students
IT the High School, have gone t.
Madison to begin their senior studies
at the University.
Quite a number of friends of Mrs
Hatch and daughter, Bessie, met al
the depot Monday morning TO give
them a farewell greeting on their de
parture for Sturgeon Bay.
Rev. VIM. Gill returned from hi;
trip to central Illinois last Tuesday
evening. He reports light crops in
that section on account Of The droutf
that has prevailed there during the
latter part I'll the season. Pasture,
are as brown as il mid winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Speer of POnti
&C. H., returned home Friday after
spending a pleasant month among
relatives and friends throughout Big
River, Oak Grove aud River Falls
Mrs. Speer is a sister of Mrs. 7. ID
Morrow and Mrs. W. J. Morrow.
Harvest Home Service at the Con
gregational church next Sunday
morning. SGbject of evening sermon
by the pastor, "NebuchadneZzar'
Image of Gold and the Faithful
Three" third in series on DanieD.
Come 70 the w. c. T. U. entertain
ment at Good Templars Hall thi:
evening and hear Mrs. Truesdel
recite: also music well worth the adj
mission fee, and something unique II
tile way OF amusement thrown in
Admission 10 cents children 5 cents.
A bronze monument to the memory
of Robert Louis Stevenson is to be
erected in Portsmouth square San
Francisco. The monument vii
represent a Spanish galleon under
full sail, it being considered the most
representative emblem Of Stevenson
work.
\ long distance telephone line to be
operated by the Wisconsin Valley
Telephone Co. is being constructed tC
connect the following cities: Madi
son, Wausau, Merrill, Eau Claire
Chippewa Falls, MenomOnie, Hudson
New Richmond, Cumberland, Shell
Lake. Hayward, Ashland, Washburn,
Duluth, Superior and the Twin Cities
Our acknowledgements are due l..
W Clark of Clifton for eight potatoes.
This may seem a mere tritle, a baga-
telle--if we had said peck Of potatoes
the cause for an acknowledgement
would have appeared good and suf-
ficient But as matter Of fact, a
peck measure would scarcely have
held the eight potatoes, the largest Of
which weighed a pound and three
quarters. They were Dakota Reds.
Fred Currier is beginning his pre-
liminary arrangements for a second
trip to the Alaska gold fields which he
is to make in the spring. The COM
| pany Of prospectors which he is organ
izing contemplate taking boat with
them at the outset, and are now cor
responding with boat builders prepar-
atory TO placing the order for its con-
| struction. Mr.. Currier is eminently
qualified to pilot just such an out
! tit up the Youkon and its far tribu-
| taries. and teach the tender-foot how
/ to ferret out the elusive nugget