River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-03-26

It looks as if farm help would be
scarce this summer, which also
means that wages will be higher fol
the man with the hoe.
For SALE.-Seven cows, all kinds
of farm machinery; timothy and
clover seed; seed wheat; seed corn;
hay and corn. Enquire of Mrs. ].
Knight.
Only twenty days before fishing.
Get your tackle ready. Dunn Bros.
have a good line-of lines, and
everything. See their ad. in anoth-
er column.
The legislature of New Hamp-
shire, which has been a prohibition
state for fifty years, has passed a
local option law. The new law will
be in effect in such towns as may
adopt it on the 1st of May.
Last week was the rainy season"
of the year here, followed the first
of this week with the tail end of a
blizzard from North Dakota. Suf-
fcient snow fell for the running of
sleighs. 1t has mostly disappeared
at this time.
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 sporting editors of the big
dai1ies observe bright outlook for
baseball and football the coming
season. The supposition is that
the players" will fight behind
breastworks. The casualties will
not be SO great as if they fight in
the open.
Rabbi Hirsch at the M. E. church
April 7, the last number in the
Peoples Lecture course of the
season. Rabbi Hirsch is a scholar
and an orator. AS a public speaker
he is in popular demand and will
undoubtedly give US an entertain
ing and instructive lecture.
Christendom, the new American
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theological. AS the name implies,
it's scope will not be limited to any
section, or to any country.
J. w. Rawson of River Falls, who
was in the city last week, entertain
ed the members of Rice Lake Lodge
249, I. O. o. F., very ably. He is an
able speaker, we'll up in the work,
Mr.. Rawson will always be welcome
when he visits Rice Lake He was
representing the Sitterly Novelty
Works and found business good
here.-Rice Lake Chronotype.
The mail carriers on the rural
routes do a registered mail and
money-order business for the bene-
fit and convenience of the people on
their routes. They also sell stamps,
either singly, in quantities in books
of "a stamps, or as many as party
desires to buy They also have
stamped envelopes which they fur
nish TO the people.
If any of the JOURNAL. readers
want true, conservative descrip-
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and of the great lumber center, the
western terminus of the Great
Northern Railway, the city of
Everett, he cannot do better than to
write for the 50-page, finely illus
trated booklet treating on the sub
jects, now being distributed free by
the Chamber of Commerce, Everett,
Washington.
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gent, broad-minded men and women
of to-day.
Some boys in their teens had
built winter palace on the further
side of the mill pond 1t was stu
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