River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-17

| M. c. Pierce returned Monday
from a trip to Milwaukee and Su'
| perior.
| The young people of the churches
joined in giving the students OF the
schools a reception at the M. E.
church last Friday evening.
| Joel Farnsworth arrived in the
city Monday for weeks visit with
friends. He had just come from
visit with his son, Sumner, at St.
| Paul.
| The Methodists are planning a
concert for Friday Oct. 9. With
plenty of talent to draw from the
concert will be worth hearing. Plan
for it.
i Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Muckenhausen
and children went to South Still
| water the 9Th to a tie n d the
funeral of Mrs.. Muckenhausen's
| father.
The attention of the ladies is
especially invited to the large line
of stylish and practical Street Hats
| just received at the Millinery EN-
porium.
The Northern Wisconsin State
fair is on at Chippewa Falls this
week. Next week Pierce county
holds its fair-Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday.
Prof. George Sanford has resigned
as principal of the Plum City school
and goes to California on account
of the health of his whence Miss
Burgie Worthington of this city.
Sixteen new desks were placed in
the high school room last Saturday.
Three of them went into commits
sion Monday morning, the three new
pupils raising the enrolment of the
high school to SO.
Miss Elizabeth Fleming, formerly
teacher in the grammar grades of
the Normal, now assistant super
visor in the Teachers Training
School of Baltimore, Md, visited
the school last week.
Archie Shepard left this morning
for Oberlin, Ohio, to take course
in Oberlin College, with special ap-
plication to music. He will stop
a few days in Minneapolis and Chi
cago to visit friends.
Mrs. w. H. Williams is making
an extended visit with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Geo. w. Swartz, at Mon
roe. Mr.. Williams got lonesome
and went down there for weeks
visit, returning Saturday.
James Ferguson, engineer of the
tug boat Park Bluff, was drowned
at South Saltwater last Saturday
night by the sinking of the boat.
1t is supposed the boat struck a1og,
sinking in So feet of water.
The largest wheat yield we have
heard of thus far was from the farm
operated by James Rogers, % bush
els per acre being reported as
threshed from a 7O-acre field
White Rock Is. d. Journal.
A twenty-fve-cent HAT Social"
| is announced to be held at the Ran.
dali school house Saturday evening.
The ladies bring each hat which
the gentlemen are to trim. Each
lady is requested TO bring supper
| for two.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Borreson of
| Marinette, while on their wedding
trip, visited Mrs. c. w. Brown and
DR.. and Mrs. Sanford last Thurs
day and Friday. Mr.. Borreson was
formerly in the jewelry business at
Ellsworth.
John Anderson, who is employed
with the River Falls, Building &
Manufacturing Co., sent for his
family recently and they arrived
here from Norway last Friday. They
are living in the Mrs. Dunning
house near the JOURNAL office.
There was yet considerable grain
in shock before the late heavy rains.
This necessarily sustained con-
siderable damage, the extent de-
pending somewhat upon how we'll
the shocks were put up. Grain in
stack has also been more or less
injured.
You can get TO the fair handy
next week. An extra will run to
Ellsworth in the morning-We dnes-
day, Thursday and Friday, return
ing each evening. Look out for
| flyers announcing time of leaving
here going out and Ellsworth on
the return.
| I'D. Griffith and wife of Knox
.f1. ro.n 1xyoro -, tI,o oifxy Eri1 ou