River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-04-27

RIVER FALLS, Wis, APRIL 27, 1899.
Entered atthe oost-o6Ie ein River eaiisassscond
siass matter
LOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS.
The official records show that 1925
battles were fought during the civil
war.
Mrs. Lum berg moved into the Pet
erson house northwest of the depot,
Tuesday.
Marshal McKeen was sick the first
of the week. viii Russ car ried the
marshal's star and cane.
Last Friday the city of Rome was
decorated in honor of the 2S52nd an
niversary of its foundation.
Robert Finn OF River Falls, a brake
man on the Burlington, lost an arm |
in an accident at La Crosse Saturday. |
Island Lake is the name of town
in Chippewa county. If there is any
thing in this name we don't happen
to see it.
Now is the proper time to trans
plant trees-whlle the sap is pushing
along material substance to the
formation of buds.
At the special election in Hudson
the 18th for voting upon the public
sewer question 22l votes were cast for
the sewer and 307 against.
Martin Olson has just received
new line of imported and Domestic
dry goods. Latest novelties in design
and colors at lowest prices.
Mike Kim ball enjoyed a lively run
away with Pratt & Walkers team
Monday morning. The damage was
confined to broken evener.
The biggest fish story we have
heard of the springs catch is that of
DR.. Mcintyre of Hudson who took
home from the Kinnickinnic a rain
bow troutweighing 10 pounds.
Mr.. Kenseth is having his shop
moved to the lot north Of Demulling's
blacksmith shop on main street.
Robert tombstone is performing the
operation with his house moving
tackle.
Leon st. Pierre is In the city and
the general understanding is that it
is his intentio to remodel the Glad
stone, supplying modern conveniences
and omforts-putting in heating
apparatus and baths.
Greatest spring tonic ever offered
suffering humanity. Drives away all
blood purties, constipation, kidney
and liver troubles. Keeps you well all
summer. Rocky Mountai Tea. G.
r. Taggart & Co.
Coley Krauth parades the streets
with new band wagon loaded with
ice for a large number of customers.
The wagon glistens with brilliant
colors in artistic designs-"ads" in
letters so distinct that 'he who runs
may read" Mr.. Norum did the
painting.
IL has been fine weather for seeding
the past ten days and most farmers
will finish putting In wheat and oats
this week. Vegetation has made
fine showing the past few days. Grass
is growing nicely and the green leaves
appear upon soft wood trees.
The refuse of last years vegetation
and other ulations OF useless
residuum is being gathered in I'M
slightly heaps and destroyed by fire.
The evening air is saturated with
smoke, dense, puugent,-of many
odors, offensive to the olfactory
nerves.
The Old Kentucky Home company,
an aggregation of chocolate colored
individuals of both sexes, posed before
a small audience atOpera Hall Friday
night. The performance consisted
of singing and stale jokes by the CO.
terie on the stage and noisy responses
by the audience.
Lee Tricky, the st. Croix Co. giant,
passed through town in lum her
wagon Tuesday, perhaps because it is
a safer conveyance than a buggy.
Tricky is probably the largest man in
the world. He weighs GIG pounds-is
something like TT. inches high and
TT. 5 inches in circum ference.
The Prescott Tribune says the at
tendance in the first primary room
in the city school is so large that it is
deemed best to divide the pupils and
give them halliday sessions. Dividing
the pupils would seem to make twice
as many individual pieces, but still
the halves could have halliday sessions
con veniently.
A solemn and sorrowful event oc-
Cured at Washington, D. c., April 6,
when 1886 young men who had lost
their lives in the Spanish war in Cuba
were buried in the Arlington ceme-
tery-that silent city of the numer-
Gus dead-all men in the prime of
life. The ceremonies were performed