River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-08-11
Mr.. and Mrs. Rash of Cleveland

Mr.. and Mrs. Ka1Sh of Cleveland
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. v.
McNally on Wednesday and Thurs
day. Mrs. Rash (nee Blanche
Langdon of River Falls) is form
er schoolmate of Mrs. McNally.
Mr.. Rash is the principal of a
Cleveland high school.-New Rich
mond Republican-Voice.
The Woodmen, while initiating
and engineering the idea of assist
ing Will Richardson so far as to
house his hay, do not claim they
did all the work, nor was it intend
ed so to assert. Neighbors and
friends of Mr.. Richardson, regard
less of the fact of whether they did
or did not belong to the NJ. w. A,
rendered assistance in that COM
mendable job of getting in the hay.
The Spooner Register has sus-
pended publication, or rather has
been incorporated with the Spooner
Advocate. J. G. Adams, the pub
Usher of the Register, is county
superintendent of schools and his
time was pretty we'll taken up with
the duties of the Office, and as Mr..
Hammill, publisher of the Advocate,
was willing to buy the Register the
trade was consummated. Spooner
can better support one paper than
two.
Buildings have been constructed
larger than Solomon's temple, but
none that cost so much. 1t is esti-
mated that the gold and silver used
in the concentrations of this struc-
ture amounted to $35, 200, 000,0 900
while the Jewels cost as much more.
The vestments of the singers cost
$40, 900. There were 10000 men
engaged at Lebanon hewing timber,
while there were 10000 hewers of
stone and 10000 bearers of burdens
preparing and carrying material.
Now there is great exodus of
land-crazy people to Devils Lake, N.
D., where some 100000 acres of the
Devils Lake Indian reservation is to
be opened for settlement. There
were over 100000 registrations for
lands in the Rosebud reservation
and about $500 opportunities for
filing. The Devils Lake region is
in the arid belt-above longitude
81. Concerning lands between Ion
gitude 81 and the Rocky Mountains
the Secretary of Agriculture, in his
year book for 1899, page 602, says
the climate is so dry that crops are
uncertain and warns people to this
effect.
During the thunder storm of Fri
day night-a week ago-many peo-
pie were aware of flash of light
ming, the defamation of which indi-
Gated that the electricity brought
up suddenly against something
hard. The result was a shock to
those who heard it. 1t was gener-
ally remarked that the lightning
"struck. A. T. Carroll found that
it had invaded his house, making a
mark across the ceiling of cham
Der, as if some one had made a
scratch across the plastering with
nail. The lightning also occa-
stoned considerable disturbance
about the yard. 1t was said also
that the lightning struck over near
Mr.. Harrison s-beyond the mill
pond.
Onions are raised in southwest
ern Texas with large profits. T..
C. Nye at Laredo raised $4,000
pounds of onions this summer from
81 acres and sold the crop for two
cents a pound, netting him over
1000 per acre. Two young men,
the Alexander Bros, had in 40 acres
of onions, the crop bringing them
$4,000. The expense Of raising
and marketing was about 81 900.
Raw land sells for S. to SIS an
acre and the cost of fitting it for a
crop is about 81 an acre. The
ground must be irrigated. This is
done either by pumping the water
from the river or watering from
artesian wells which are drilled
from 400 to 600 feet deep and cost
about one dollar foot in depth.
Ordinarily the expense of cultiva-
ting and marketing an acre of
onions is about $500.
We are in receipt of the last re-
port of the board of Normal regents
The report includes the transactions
of the board for the semi-annual
period, from Feb. l to June 80,
1904. The expenditures for the
seven schools during this period
amount to the sum of $139, $685.