River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-15
McGregor is home from

Ili1 USOL.
County Surveyor B. R. Eaton
went to Bay City to-day to do some
surveying.
Mrs. Gus Wagner of West Super
ior was in the city few days the
past week.
Mrs. E. G. Rollins returned last
night from a visit to friends in
Minneapolis.
Mrs. E1rnira Powell returned Sat
urday from a visit to White Rock,
S. D., and Appleton, Mimi, accom-
panied by her daughter, Mrs. Fred
Miller of Appleton.
The Normal team and Hudson
High School team played a game
of base ball here Saturday afternoon
resulting in a victory for the Nor
mails by score of Is to 10.
1t is the general expression that
this city presents a very neat ap-
pearance this spring. The people
are aware that the Improvement
League has an eye TO the situation.
Major Sam Campbell has been
reappoined Indian Agent at the La
Point agency. Sam has to put up
bonds to the amount of 100000 for
the faithful performance of duties
as agent, and he gets salary of
81, 300 a year.
The people of Hudson are pro-
noting a scheme for the improve
ment of their city park. In the pro-
iect under consideration it is pro-
posed to first secure the services of
a landscape gardner to plan the
character of the improvements con-
templated.
A force of men are at work near
the postofice excavating for the
purpose of conducting city water
through the basement of the post
office building into the building in
the rear lately occupied for a meat
market by Geo. Theo. Smith. The
building is to be used by the Times
Printing Co.
The postof1ce and the store in
which it was located at Wilson, ST..
Croix county, were burglarized last
Sunday night. The burglars got
about $40 worth of plumber. A man
was arrested near the scene of the
burglary who admitted that he was
one of two men who broke into the
store. He was placed in Jail at
Hudson.
There seems to be a pretty good
prospect of the extension of the
Omaha from Spring Valley to con-
nection with the line from Mondovi
in the near future. The distance
between the present termini, Spring
Valley and Mondovi, is.@about IS
miles. If this road is built, cross
ing the Chippewa at Durand, the
distance from Ellsworth, the end of
the line through here, to a connec-
ton at Durand, is only about e
miles.
The base ball team of the Mime
sofa University NEEDLES came from
Minneapolis Friday to play ball with
the Normal team and incidentally to
attend the dance Of the X club-or
perhaps the dance was the main is
sue and the ball game the incident.
from the score-20 to Is in
favor of the medics, an aggregate of
SIT was a scientific game, if a big
score is indicative of scientific work.
But the kids" have attained to as
high a score.
The convention for nominating
a successor to Hon. j. ]. Jenkins,
member of Congress, will be held
at Chippewa Falls the 29th. The
counties comprising the dis
trict which by act of the last legis-
lature has been changed in the
number from the 10th to the 18th
are Barron, Bayfield,, Burnett, Chip
pewa, Douglas, Dunn, Gates, Pierce,
Polk, Sawyer, and Washburn. The
convention will be composed of 146
delegates. Pierce county will send
IL delegates and St. Croix CO unity
the same number.
R. S. Freeman is adding extern
sive conveniences and embellish-
ments to his fine residence building
and grounds. A new furnace is be-
ing placed in the basement, the
house is being wired for electric
lights, an elegant porch built on the
front and another in the rear. Ce-
ment WALKS have been laid around
the house and to the stables to con-
meet with the sidewalk on the street.
The house occupies commanding