River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-15

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week of prayer with meetings every
: evening.
The Woodmen of the World in
stalled officers last night and ban.
quet was served.
w. F. Kahn of Neillsville has
moved to this place. He occupies
the Nye house on 5th street.
The married peoples dance al
the Opera Hall tonight. Music by
the Star Orchestra of Hudson.
There will be services in the Bap-
fist church next Sunday at the
usual hours conducted by Miss
Pratt, a theological student.
Miss Ovedia Johnson teaches in
Ellsworth, commencing after the
holidays and taking the place which
Miss Esther Goodell had held.
The tide of Life Co." left for
a tour in the west last Friday.
They played at Staples, Mimi,
Saturday night to full house.
Miss Esther Wales of River Falls
arrived here Monday night to take
charge of the school room formerly
taught by Miss Pease.-Washburn
| News.
Extremely cold weather is causing
exceptionally great hardships in
view of the scarcity of fuel and the
difficulty of obtaining it in sufficient
quantities.
The Normal basket ball team
play the Medics of the University
of Minnesota at Opera Hall next
Saturday evening, Jan. II. Admis-
sion Is cents. Game called at $3.50.
The United Order of Foresters
held installation of officers the 5th
instant, the ceremonies being fol-
lowed by banquet. A dozen visi-
tors from the lodge at Hudson were
present.
The w. C. T. u. meet at the
Reading Room tomorrow afternoon
at 2:30. The meeting will be in the
nature of social and all friends
are invited. Light refreshments
will be served.
A letter from Mrs. c.. Walters,
Ballard, Washington, reports the
family we'll with pleasant memories
of the people of River Falls. She
says they cannot keep house with
out the River Falls JOURNAL.
DR.. McKeon found five severe
cases of smallpox in the town of
Erin, ST. Croix county, last week.
The school in the district in which
the family lived was closed and the
family quarantined.
Miss Bessie Nelson returned
Saturday night from River Falls
where she had spent her holiday
vacation, accompanied by her moth
err, Mrs. Caroline Nelson, who will
visit here several weeks, the guest
of her daughter, Mrs. O. H. Ingram
Jr.-Rice Lake Leader.
Irving Winsor who was here in
November with car load of apples
from Rhode Island and who went
| back with several cars of potatoes
is here again buying up more pota-
toes to ship east. He says potatoes
retail in Providence at Is cents a
peck but car loads bring about IS
cents bushe1.
DR.. E. C. Roberts, refractionist,
of Red Wing, Mimi, will be in Riv-
er Falls Jan. % and % at City Hotel
with full line of fine crystalline
spectacles and eye glasses. Eyes
examined by the latest approved
scientific methods. Glasses ground
to order to correct weak eyes, etc.
Office hours, II to and TO p. m.
Consultation free, charges reason
able.
At the annual meeting of the
Pierce County Telephone Company
held at Ellsworth last Monday F. A.
Severance, ]. L. Moody and G. For
seth were elected to the board of
directors. The directors elected
officers for the year as fol1ows:-
President, F. M. White; Vice Presi-
dent, F. A. Severance; Secretary
and Superintendent, A. Combacker;
Treasurer, ]. L. Moody.
Somewhere between the copy and
the press last week a couple of
items dropped out of the notice of
new buildings put up here last year.
Instead of nine new houses as the
notice read it should be eleven.
New houses were built by A. P.
Weld, John Vim, G.. w. Chinook,
E. Van Voorhis, H. T. Cornish,
Mrs. Sarah Tozer, Will Russ, Henry
Smith, D. w. Kline, David Green