River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-04-30

sofa this year.
A fire in La Crosse last week dis
sipated into thin air property to the
value of $5O0,000.
Pillsbury's Best flour, $105 and
White Lily at IS cents, saves you
40 cents a barrel-at Carroll's.
The United States Steel Corpora
ton is earning $500,O0O a day.-Ex.
Isn't there a mistake in spelling?
A Mortified furnace, used one
winter, for sale cheap. Inquire of
LILLIAN CURRIER.
Of the total exchequer receipts of
Great Britain $3.50, 900, $780,
O0O 900 is derived from the income
tax.
John Neyermeister of Barron
county shot his wife last week,
burned his barn with thirteen head
of stock and then killed himself.
If your grocer gives you a sub
stitute for White-Crest flour either
he hasn't White-Crest or is trying
to work something on which he
makes more money.
Farm lands are dirt cheap"
But a pan of dirt is sometimes
found in a pay streak that means
something different from the or
binary acceptation of that phrase.
The St. Louis Fair is dedicated
to-day. A vast assembly is present,
including a large number of regular
soldiers. President Roosevelt and
Ex-President Cleveland make
speeches.
J. B. Fithian of Hammond is
claimed to be the oldest Odd Fellow
in the United States. He is "a
years old and has been an Odd Eel.
low So years, having joined the or
der in 1910.
Although it has been almost uni
formly cold during the month grass
has made a good growth and grain
is coming up nicely. The moisture
in the ground is a great aid to the
starting Of vegetation.
The editors and promoters of the
new American weekly, Christendom,
have the resources at command to
make the journal the best and great
est of it's kind, and one that should
be in every home of refinement.
Minnesota will retain proprietor
ship Of Barren Island, opposite La
Crosse, which that city wanted for a
park. This action is reta1iatory for
the refusal of Wisconsin to transfer
the island opposite Red Wing to
Minnesota.
Owing to some changes in my
plans l will not use the SO cords of
rock which | have accumulated. |
therefore offer to sell choice build
ing stone, delivered to any part of
the city, at current values.
w. H. PUTNAM.
The columns of Christendom, the
new American weekly published in
Chicago, will keep you in touch
with all the great forces that are
working for the betterment of man
kind, and give you the best thought
on the immediate questions of the
day.
The city has been pretty general
ly tidied up this spring so that at
this time little evidence of the ac-
emulation of the winters refuse
remains in view. In general the
town is neat, in the aspect of streets,
alleys, yards and in the way the
residence buildings are kept.
Nayan r. Mitter of Calcutta,
India, who has just finished a years
engagement with DR.. Johnson of
the Hudson Sanitarium, will be in
DR.. Matteson's Office Mondays and
Thursdays from 8 a. m. to II m.
He is prepared to give all scientific
treatments such as massage, n.y.
dropathic and Swedish movements.
The electric power house has
been under some readjustment late
ly. The door on the west side,
which opened some eight feet above
the floor of the building, has been
transferred to the north side and
the bottom placed on level with
the floor so as TO admit of more
convenient entrance and to facilitate
the admission of machinery. The
switch board has been moved to the
west side of the room and new
wires laid. These changes are
made in preparation for the new
dynamo.
Of fraterna1 orders there is no
end. An organizer for one excellent
| order. comes to town, gets all the