River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-07-17

Nh1i1nCdPOllo dAS NAN'NAA . iSioil1NOS III
Kinnickinnic.
George Taggart was down from
St. Paul several days the past week
returning to-day.
Harvey Starin and Joe and Albert
Johnson went to Wyndmere, N. D.,
Tuesday, to work.
Ernest Whitehead left this morn
ing for Virginia City, Mimi, where
he has employment.
Mrs. A. Blair of Menomonie ar
rived in the city yesterday on visit
to her daughter, Mrs. ]. M. Curtis.
Mrs. Thatcher and mother, Mrs.
Fox, have moved into the Haven
house on Spring street, at the end
of Fourth.
Mrs. M. ]. Taggart and daughter
Margaret arrived here Friday from
Tomah on visit and are the guests
of relatives.
Rev. O. Ellison of Prentice, Wis,
will preach in Swedish in the Bap-
fist church next Monday and Tues
day evenings.
Miss Margaret Farnsworth is en-
tertaining her nephew and niece,
Harold and Nellie Hubbell, of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa.
Mrs. Al. C. Anderson of Menom-
onie is spending the week with Mrs.
Ernie Lagerstedt. Mr.. Anderson
is expected to arrive to night.
There will be services in the Salem
English Lutheran church next Sun,
day morning at 1880 a. M, Rev.
Dr.. ]. C. Clemens of Red Wing
officiating.
Up to the time of going to press
the JOURNAL is advised that the
state convention had proceeded as
far as the nomination of La Toilette
for governor and Davidson for 1ieu-
tenant governor.
Call at the New City Hotel and
counsel the worlds Wonder"
Prof. D. R. Pine, Magnetic Healer.
Cures all chronic diseases or no pay.
One week, July II to "a. Office
hours, 8 to II a. m. and l to p. m.
Miss Bessie Driscoll has returned
from weeks visit in Lake City and
Red Wing. She was accompanied
on her return home by her sister,
Mrs. H. Leach, who will visit with
parents and other relatives here for
a while.
Ole Jensen of Chicago was visit
or in the city the first of the week,
interviewing old acquaintance and
scenes once familiar. He was clerk
in the Gladstone Hotel here for a
time soon after it was opened by its
builder, Mr.. Rossell.
The County Convention sent an
anti-La Toilette delegation to the
state convention but the vote of the
county-14-went to La Toilette.
The State Convention admitted half
of the regularly elected delegates
and half of the self-constituted dele
gates. The regular delegates con-
sidered this an insult and refused
to vote.
1t would seem-considering re-
sults-that the boys misappropria-
ted good deal of surplus energy
in fixing up that caucus. 1t was
much like working for nothing and
boarding yourself" But who pays
the freight?" This surplus energy
might have been bottled up for
emergencies. The football season
is imminent.
The Johnson Brothers are having
their building, formerly occupied
by the Bank of River Falls, fitted up
to suit their convenience as bakery
and restaurant. The safe has been
removed and shipped to Glenwood
TO Mr.. Ainsworth, who recently
purchased it, the vault torn away
and a brick oven built in the base
ment, which is we'll adapted for
such an attachment.
The Republican caucus last Satur-
day was the largest ever held in
this city for the election of delegates
10 the county convention, there be-
ing 237 votes cast. Of these 81 were
cast for the LaFo1ette delegates,
Frank Ensign, Ed. E1ertson, Geo.
TIL. Smith, o. w. Newcomb, j. w.
T. Ames, Jay Grimm, w. P. Mars
hall and John Allard; and 156 for
the anti-La Toilette delegates, j..
Anderson, w. H. Sanderson, Harry
Chinook, A. H. Lord, G. E. Pratt,
T. w. TAFT, A. w. Kaler and R. S.
Freeman.
In our report of the parade of the
fourth of July we seem to have
failed to mention several important