River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-11-06

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S. ]. Mealey, the starch factory
man of Monticello, Mimi, is in the
city to-day.
Mrs. t. J. Snodgrass returned
Tuesday evening from her visit to
her daughters at Cashton.
John Burnett has bought the Mrs.
Munroe house on Vine street, for
many yea occupied by D. B.
Hyatt. Mrs. Suydam will move in
to the house.
Mrs. Holmes with her son and
daughter, who have been the guests
of Mrs. G. w. Farnsworth for few
weeks, returned to their home in
Minneapolis yesterday.
Mrs. Bertha C. Morrison of Min
neapo1is will speak in the M. E.
church next Sunday, morning and
evening. Mrs. Morrison is a lady of
ability and an interesting speaker.
Maiden Rock has a newspaper
again. The Maiden Rock Press
commenced it's weekly visits to the
people of that berg Oct. "a. 1t is a
5-column quarto, published by H.
J. Keller.
The election is over and every
body is glad of it. 1t gives them
rest. Even the defeated candidate
must feel more comfortable than
sitting on the ragged edge of uncer-
ainty-the barbed-wire fence be-
tween hope and despair.
The hardware stores are selling
lots of heating stoves this fall. To
see the number going to homes one
is taken with the shivers in antici-
patton of an awful cold winter. The
merchants say they have no enqui-
llSS lCI GOAL SLONOo C11S IdlI oil
wood heaters.
The vote in the town of River
Falls, po1led at Opera Hall in this
city, was even proportionally lighter
than that of the city. But los votes
were recorded where 800 should
have been cast. La Toilette receiv-
ed SO and Rose 80, a majority of 81
for La Toilette.
The starch factory shut down last
Saturday. The seasons run has
been a good one and the factory has
made an excellent quality of starch.
The factory ground about $4,000
bushels of potatoes and made 1000
sacks of starch, 220 pounds to the
sack-about 80 lbs. of starch to a
bushe1 of potatoes.
The new pump will save the water
works department of the city 81 900
this year. Had it not been installed
and operated the city would have
been called upon to pay out that
sum in fuel. Wood and coal are
much higher than last year. The
last year the pump at the old works
was run the city paid out about
ST 900 for wood. If it were neces-
sary to run that pump this coming
year it would cost more for fuel
than it did the last year it was oper
ated.
Party lines crossed each other in
the election for governor. Many
old Republican wheelhorses gave
Rose boost and some dyed-in-the-
wool Democrats voted for La Fol
1ette. For instance D. M. Lusk,
whose Democracy has often been
demonstrated on the stump with po
tent arguments and who never before
voted for a Republican governor
scratched off the name of David
Stuart Rose at the head of the
Democratic ticket and put a cross
under the name of Robert M. La
Toilette.
Those places which used the gas
light are about all wired for electric
lights. 1t is intended to have all of
them supplied with electric lights
by the last OF this week. When this
is done the gas works will be closed.
The gas light is good light. 1t is
a softer light than that furnished by
electricity; not SO hard on the eyes.
The gas factory has served a good
purpose to it's patrons, but the
stockholders have not got 10 be
millionaires from dividends on their
holdings in the plant.
Fuel is a large item of expense
with families here now. The timber
has been cut for miles back and
wood is now brought to the city
from twelve to fifteen miles back.
It takes farmer all day to come to
the city with load and return
to his home. 1t follows that
wood must be high. If man can
haul cord of oak at load and sells