River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-17
D. D. Day and wife are visiting

i D. D. Day and wife are visiting
friends in st. Cloud, MINI.
| Don't fail to see the slide for
| life" at the Ellsworth fair next week.
! F. A. Haling has bought the John
Reed house beyond the Junction
bridge.
| See the trick horse and mule and
the high-diving dog at the Ellis
worth fair next week.
Mrs. George Kesten of Milwaukee
came to the city to-day to attend
the burial of the remains of her
sister, Mrs. G. E. Stowe.
| Albert label of Pittsburg, Pa,
and Mrs. John Wolf of Mt. Clemens,
Mich, are guests at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Muckenhausen
Mr.. label is a brother, and Mrs.
Wolf sister of Mrs. Muckenhaus-
en-. They had been up to the fun
eral of their father, which occurred
at South Saltwater the 9th.
Mrs. B. E. Vannatta'was surprised
by the unannounced arrival at her
home Saturday of number of her
| neighbors, lady friends. who had in
view the fact of her birthday ami
versary. Afterwards the visitors,
in company with Mrs. Vannatta, re-
| paired to the park where they had
a picnic and enjoyed themselves in
friendly converse.
The heavy rains of the past week
have not only Inconvenience the
workers on the new dam in prevent
ing the progress of the work but
have put the work back by necessi-
tating the repetition of a part.
While no damage was done to the
structure already up the force of
the waters broke through the Golfer
dam making gap that must be
filled before any further work can
be done on the dam proper.
English sparrows have become
such nuisance that in some states
bounty is given for their destruc-
ton. In Illinois two cents apiece
is given for their heads in Decem-
Der and January of each year. In
Michigan two cents apiece is given
for their destruction from Novem-
Der to March. In Ohio 20 cents
dozen is paid. In Utah a cent
apiece and five cents a dozen for
eggs. These pests were brought
from England in 1850 and are now
found in every state in the Union.
Edward w. Canning of Spring
| Valley died at the hospital in Far
go, N. D., the 10th instant. He
had been running threshing ma
chine near Daisy, n. D., and being
taken with. appendicitis, went to
Fargo to be operated upon. He
died Immediately, succeeding the
operation. His remains were taken
to Centervi11e where the funeral
was held last Sunday under the di-
rection of the lodge of M. w. A. of
that place of which he was mem
Der. He was a student here at one
time. He was we'll liked wherever
he was known. !
Saur kraut will be numerous this
year. 1t will be SO easily obtained
that people (who like it) may live
on it. 1t has been just the right
season for the growth of cabbages.
Cabbages like water and they have
had more than they could absorb
this summer. With pot of saur
kraut enthusiastically and dish
of onions between times domiciles
will be kept we'll fumigated without
the Interpolation of limburger
cheese or formaldehyde. And a
fellow who lives on this kind of
pabulum needn't eat cloves. On
ions and saur kraut will smother
the breath of GHOSTS
1t would seem to a casual observ-
er that a good deal of water has
run to waste this season. The
ocean doesn't need it. The under
standing is that water, to subserve
vegetation, should settle into the
ground, not run off the surface, and
carry a good deal of the surface
with it. Dead loads of the best
soil of ST. Croix and Pierce coun-
ties have gone down the river to
broaden the delta of the Mississippi
this summer. This means less
ening of the fertility of the land.
Many farms with sloping surface
have been badly damaged by wash
outs. Great cutters, gullies, have
been cut out across the land by the
heavy rains.
Until within the last ten years