River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-06-17


city.
The Greenwood mill pond was drain
ed Saturday night for the convent
ence of the depot workmen who laid
sewer pipe from the new building To
the pond.
Don't fail to secure tickets early for
the RemeDyi concert in this city June
q. Seats Will be reserved at Tag
CARTS drug store June % and after
wards up to date Of concert.
a farewell reception was given Fri
day evening at the Normal chapel in
honor of Miss Shultes and Miss Pardee
who left Monday afternoon for Europe.
a delegation of students also made a
cheerful demonstration when they
boarded the train.
Capt. Harry X. Huntoon, Grand
mogul of the famous drummer nine,
will begin his annual baseball cir
cult at River Falls on June 10. Harry
has nine pitchers whether full or
empty is not recorded and one catch
err Sew your buttons on extra tight
if you want your clothes to hold the
fun. Yellow and black are the nine's
coloIs.-Star and Times.
We are in receipt of the first num-
Der of the Bluette Series of short
stories and novels published by Van
Vechten & Ellis, Wausau. Wis. This
embraces within its blue covers fanci-
full ana somewhat allegorical tale by
Laura Cooke Barker called \ Strange
Experiment, printed in handsome
type on deckle edged paper and run
ming through % pages. The publish
ers will send ! to any address for %
cents.
A reunion of Indian tribes will be
held at White Birch, this state, begin
ming July /. Indians from as far
away as Dakota are expected to De
present. The reunion is to be a great
peace gathering of all the tribes of
/ tAOt IliCt II llihitAAAos WV IA 81 VI bAiS
kind ever held between so many diff
ferent tribes. The Chippewa and
Sioux which have been enemies for
centuries almost, will so through the
ceremony Of burying the Ratchet.
The new institution for the feeble
minded, at Chippewa Falls, was
formally opened on the 18th inst.
The Chippewa Herald, in speaking of
the opening of the institution there
very truly says:
"a more philanthropic idea than
the establishment Of an institution
| for this class Of unfortunates was
never before conceived and the people
should feel proud TO claim citizenship
in a state that possesses such humane
and philanthropic sentiments toward
its mental unfortunates."
a. II. Patter, with e. C. Atkins s.
Co., indianapolis, Ind, writes: 81
have never before given a testimonial
in my life. But l will say that for
three years we have never been with
out Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhea Remedy in the house, and
my wife would as soon think of being
without flour rs bottle OF this Rem
edy in the summer season. We have
used it with all three of our children
and it has never failed to c,nr-not
simply stop pain, but cure absolutely.
1t is all right, and anyone who tries it
will find it So" For sale by r. S.
FREEMAN, Druggist.
An odd combination of the vulgar
and the really artistic was put upon
the stage of the Opera Hall last
Thursday and Friday evenings by the
Howard & Doyle Company. The
troup was billed to play for three
nights, but scarcely corporals guard
applied for admission Saturday night
and no performance was carried out.
One or two of the comedians were de-
cidedly clever, but perversely SO: and
insisted on haling in the cheap joke,
killing time with inexpensive posing
and doing over Beach & Bowers-and
that badly The playing was not in
decorous but cheap. The pianist was
an undoubted musician, and his play
ing, together with the artistic effects
of the serpentine dance under the
calcium light, was in direct contrast
to the usual run Of the performance.
The Los Angeles Express prints "a
err between an elusive Chinaman.
Chuck Wong Park, and Chinese In
spector J. d. Putnam. 1t seems that |
Chuck Wong is one Of those thrifty |
sons of the Orient who come to San |
Francisco without a red, make money |
so fast that it fairly makes their
heads swim, and then go back to the |
bosom Of their respective families and
dazzle the household gods with the
perennial twinkle Of gold coin. But
by following out this program Chuck /
Wong found hims self prescribed.
under the exclusion act, from re- |
entering the United States, and on re-
peatedly trying TO crawl in under the
canvas, so to speak, always found
Inspector Putnam ready to nab or
head him off. This time it was nab.
and the hapless Chuck Wong. whose
journeyings in attempting to get
back into the country have cost him
$1,000, finds himself hailed to Justice
before the United States commission
ers