River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-11-27


versities of these two states play at
Ann Arbor. II will be a battle
royal.
The mil1pond is usually frozen
over at this time of the year and the
ice on it safe for skating. This
year the young people will have to
find some other thanksgiving pas
time.
St. Croix county listed 353 BIZ
cycles for assessment and taxation
this year and Pierce county 322.
The former county owned $50
watches and the latter SOC. There
are not nearly so many of these
utilities in these counties when the
assessor goes to look for them as
there are at any other time.
The Daily Sun of Dixon, ILL.,, says
of Elias Day:
He is certainly genius in his
line and is endowed with great
versatility. His conceptions were
original, humor refined and delivery
graceful. He delighted the large
AUDIENCES one of the very best
characteristics and humorists that
has ever visited Dixon"
After the rains of the first half of
this month the fields were so soft it
was difficult to get on them to do
any team work. The roads were al
so very soft and were afterwards
badly cut up. 1t was fortunate that
frost kept off or the roads would
have been exceedingly rough. They
are in pretty good shape at present.
Thanksgiving services are held at
the Congregational church tonight,
the several religious societies of the
city uniting. Rev. ]. ]. Clemens
breaches the thanksgiving sermon.
The services are held in the even
ing to make it convenient for people
to attend. 1t is customary for peo-
pie to eat all day during thanksgiv-
ing and an hour spent in a church
in the evening will give good OPP
portunity for digestion, while the
mind is in a state of p1acidity.
The fact that the city council has
passed an ordinance forbidding
"expectoration" has little effect in
securing heater sidewalks, nor will
it so long as the special attention of
offenders is not called to the fact
with the s mark attached. Some of
them carry a tobacco pouch in place
of a dictionary and wouldn't know
"expectoration" when they saw it.
The council should have painted on
the sidewalk at intervals: You
MAY SPIT ON THIS WALK FOR $1.00,
spit in the ditch.
Although this fall has been very
good one for the pushing of farm
work and the ground has not been
frozen to any depth to interfere with
it's being worked farmers have not
done much blowing. This does not
mean that farmers have been idle.
They have been hustling all along
and individually have done. lots of
work. Crops were large and help
was scarce, in consequence of which
facts homework than usual was to
be done and farmers had to help
each other. This put them behind
with blowing.
Otto Arnquist, probate judge of
St. Croix county, paid $4O5 into the
county treasury last week as the
result of a court decision. This
was taken in by him while
he was clerk of the court as fees.
Since then the supreme court has
decided that the class of fees from
which this money was derived is
illegal. The statute of limitations
had run as to Mr.. Arnquist in this
but he decided that the
amount rightfu11y belonged to the
county and it was his wish that the
county board should accept it in
behalf of the county.
Apples are abundant this year
and of good quality. There are a
plenty Of them in the market here
now and the price is reasonable.
AS matter of fact the freight adds
largely to the cost here. The
apples in the orchards are remark
ably cheap this year, but the cost
Of barrels and the charges of freight
are just as great as when apples
were scarce in the orchard and the
price high there. This is mighty
good country-in the summer-but
we can't raise apples, pears and
peaches. If we get them we must
buy them and they come a long
ways and come high as a conse-
quence.
1t is learned that Mrs. Gertrude
Young, whose remains were buried