River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-05-07

West Superior is on its ear be.
cause the legislature failed to pass
the grain-inspection bill.
For sale at once, lots l and 2,
block II, corner of Main and Wal.
nut streets, inquire of owners.
The Grantsburg Journal is pub.
fishing biographical sketches of the
inhabitants of Burnett county.
Pil1sbury's Best -four, $105 and
White Lily at 95 cents, saves you
40 cents a barrel-at Carroll's.
Hammond village will vote on the
18th upon bonding to raise $4,000
for a gas plant for street lighting.
Choice Seed Potatoes, early and
late. Also No. l Flax Seed for sale.
L. SPALDING.
James A.. Wilson a prominent
lumberman of Wilson and Menomo-
ME, died at the latter place April
"a.
The Glenwood Tribune threatens
TO publish the local news in rhyme,
in which truth and poetry will get
mixed.
Grantsburg votes the 18th instant
upon the question of bonding the
village for $4,000 for the purpose of
an electric light plant.
For RENT-The store room cor
ner east Main and Maple streets, by
July l, 1908. Inquire of owner, Mrs.
Lena Drewke, River Falls, Wis.
P. E. DeMil1e, Doctor of Dental
Surgery, will make his next regular
visit here, with Office at the Glad
stone, the week beginning May Is.
Heretofore it has been question
of getting pillow land, either prairie
or land denuded of timber. Now
the question is of getting near or
into the timber. We begin to ap-
preciate the value of trees.
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.
Owing to some changes in my
plans l will not use the SO cords Of
rock which I have accumulated. l
therefore offer to sell choice build
ing stone, delivered to any part Of
the city, at current values.
w. H. PUTNAM.
Miss Marian Li1jens, a student at
Rush Medical college, proposes TO
dive from the highest point of the
Brooklyn bridge-103 feet-into the
river. Marian should wait until the
water gets warmer. If she would
wait about sixty-five years she would
show better sense.
The Menomonie Board of Educa-
ton has elected Hon. L. d. Harvey,
former state superintendent of pub
lie instruction, to the position of
superintendent of the Menomonie
city schools. Mr.. Harvey will also
exercise a supervision of the Dunn
county school of agriculture and
the Dunn county teachers training
school.
That was curious catastrophe at
Frank, British America, last Friday,
in which nearly one hundred people
lost their lives. Thunder mountain
fell upon this mining town, but the
cause of the catastrophe does not
seem to be definitely known. It is
to an earthquake, to vol
canic action and to an accumulation
and explosion of gas. The noun
tain of limestone split open, part
of the top being thrown onto the
village al it's base.
Wonderful isn't it to think of
getting flour from Minneapolis
made from No. l hard wheat, when
the fact is less than 4 per cent. of
the wheat in store at Minneapolis is
No. l hard and less than 2 per cent.
of the receipts grade No. l
hard in the past month and a large
part of this goes to country mills.
White Crest flour contains ten times
more No. l hard wheat than any
brand of flour made in Minneapolis.
For sale by up-to-date grocers or at
Prairie Mills at $1.05 per a Dbl.
sack.
The new city council reappointed
the old officers to continue their
iobs-A. P. Weld, city clerk; F. J.
Savage, street commissioner; R. A.
McKeen, city marshal. At the regu-
lar meeting, May l, the bonds OF
these officials were accepted. AT