River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-08-31

River FAILS JOURNAL.
RIVER FALLS, Wis, Aug. 81, 1899.
Entered the post-o6fc elm River faIIsassseond
class matter
LOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS.
Mrs. John Barrett is dangerously
sick.
Eau Claire will have a good roads
convention Oct. IL.
Ammonia and water is an excellent
antidote for mosquito bites.
Monday, Sept. 4, is Labor Day. The
banks in the city will be closed.
Will Currier has bought the John
Foster farm, which consists of 1926
acres.
CIVIL APP Roberts will attend the
Minnesota State University the COM
ing year.
Lightning slightly damaged a tree
and the sidewalk in front OF Frank
Ulrich's residence Monday night.
The schoolmarms are packing their
grips preparatory to their departure
for their respective fields Of labor.
Smith & Hanson have placed a
third chair in their barber shop to &C
commodate their growing custom.
County Clerk Hohle tells US that
hunting licenses are more in demand
now than marriage licenses.-Ells
worth Record.
Chas. Willard is remodeling the
South Fork building which he bought
of the school district into a nicely
arranged and comfortable dwelling
house.
Baldwin, Belmont, Castleton, Gales
vile, Grantsburg, Fountain City, lola
Prentice, Milton and Vernon voted Il
establish high schools at the annua
district meeting.
Spring Valley built new schoo
house last year. The Sun says If the,
had deferred the building Of the hous,
until this year it would have cos
them $1,000 more.
Joseph Buch will move his famil,
to Kanawa, Iowa, Sept. /, and Arthu,
Symes will move into the house of w
W. Wadsworth on North Main Stree
which Mr.. Buch's people yacate.
Eau Claire people will soon invest
in two automobiles. The horseles:
carriage is winning it's way notwith
standing the immense cost of thu
fancy vehicle. 1t is becoming a fash
ion.
N. A. Thelander is renovatinG
Opera Hall, taking advantage of thu
dull season to do the work. The roo
has been reshingled, the hall replas
tered, and as soon as the walls dry the.
will be papered. A new floor will al
so be laid.
Mrs. Anna Johnson has had tn,
house she purchased of Mr.. Strah
moved broadside to Main Street,
new foundation built under it ant
will have the building put into first
class condition for a residence.
Miss Alice Shultes of the Rive
Falls Normal, G.. L. Bowman of tn,
Superior Normal and Principal Brew
er of Ellsworth finished two weeks
teachers institute at Menomonie tn,
10th. There were present 154 teach
ers during the sessions.
Dr. NJ. L. Robey, formerly o
Grantsburg, will locate here for thu
practice of his profession immediate
ly. He will occupy the rooms for al
Office which were vacated by FL. A
Hagestad last fall-next to Curtis 8
Lagerstedt's barber shop.
Mrs. E. B. Armstrong of River
Falls, Wis, was at Wolf Creek last
week and organized society Of the
Woman's Relief Corps. The G. A. r
Post at that place is one Of the best
in the valley. Mrs. Armstrong wa:
here Monday with Mr.. and Mrs. E. II
Hover of Wolf Creek.-Taylors Fall:
Journal.
The Masonic fund for the benefit o.
the New Richmond tornado sufferer:
of the fraternity amounts to some
thing over 81, 900. 1t is thought II
will reach $3.50 What amount of
funds has been contributed by other
orders to their suffering brethren we
do not know but it must In the ag
gregate be large sum.
DR.. Wiper of Durand is under ar
rest for sending delinquent patient
a dun on a postal card. He added in
a postscript to the dun that he could
not afford to spend two cents postage
by sending the dun in sealed enVel'
ope, which renders the offense just
what the law contemplated-iniury tc
the reputation of the person to whom
the postal was sent.
More farmers seem to have ventur.
ed upon threshing from the shock
this season than usual. For a week
or two after the cutting of rye the
weather was quite favorable for shock
threshing, but for the last two weeks
rain has intarfered with the business