River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-24
We had a peculiar storm SUNDAY

| common furtner south and east.
The storm, of sleet-or rain and
snow mixed-Was not accompanied
with much wind. Monday the side
walks were very slippery, the ce-
ment walks most especially so.
News was received few days ago
by C. G.. Knowles that his uncle,
Luther S. Knowles, youngest broth
er of the late Perley Knowles, had
died at Camp Verd, Arizona. He
was SO years old. The deceased
will be remembered as having visit
ed his relatives here about four
years ago.
The members of the Peoples
Lecture Course Association held
their annual meeting at the M. E.
church Monday evening. The COM
mittee for the coming year were
elected. w. T. Ames, president;
H. L. Wilson, secretary; c. N. Wig
er, treasurer; and A. H. Fletcher
and Mrs. F. D. Ensign.
The United States is big country
with varied resources. The past
week has been marked by billiards
in one portion and tornadoes in
another. In Florida they are re-
calling themselves on strawberries,
fresh onions and string beans. In
Oklahoma the1apple and peach trees
are in bloom. In Wisconsin they
are putting up ice.
Patrick Mcmahon, who was sum-
moned by telegraph to the sick bed
of his son Peter at Dubuque, Iowa,
last week, failed to arrive there be-
fore the boy expired. Mr.. and Mrs.
Mcmahon have the deepest sympa-
thy of the community in this their
grievous bereavement. All who
knew Peter Mcmahon cherished and
respected him as young gentle
man of manly qualities and good
conduct.
Good vision is not the only thing
to consider when having glasses
fitted to your eyes. The science of
optometry, as developed in the last
fifty years,zis a great blessing to
humanity, as it has proven that re-
lief from all nervous and functional
arrangements, which are caused by
loss of moter nerve force through
errors of refraction can be had by
wearing glasses which correct the
defects of the eye and thus stop the
waste of vital energy. Consult DR..
E. C. Roberts at City Hotel, River
Falls, March 30-31 and April 1st.
The school of instruction held at
the Plankinton house by Mrs. Alice
M. Bashford, grand matron of the
Order of the Eastern Star, closed
Monday night, the ten directors
leaving for variousl parts of the
state. The order has about 10000
members in the 148 chapters. The
grand chapter is fourteen years old.
The school Of instruction called by
Mrs. Bashford was for the purpose
of making work throughout the
state uniform. The grand matron
has heretofore had to give personal
supervision and visits to every
chapter of the state.-St. Croix OBJ
server.
10. Jensen, formerly timer with
John Klein and later with Dunn
Bros, is now located in the Haven
building, formerly occupied as a
furniture store, where he is prepar-
ed to do sheet-iron work of all kinds
the manufacture of tanks of all
misunderstanding, wagon, oil
and gasoline and feeding troughs,
sap pans and sap buckets. He is
always prepared to do general job
work in his line such as caves
troughing, roofing, furnace work,
and everything pertaining to the
timers trade. All work done with
neatness and dispatch and at reas-
enable prices.
Last Saturday was the 65th birth
day anniversary Of Ezra Healy, an
| honored veteran of the civil war,
and as his comrades thought it would
be a fitting occasion for reminis-
cences an invitation was passed
quietly along the line to muster at
the Hea1y home, at eight o'clock on
that evening. Now there hasn't
been any great change in the
soldiers disposition to answer the
ration call with alacrity, whether
he was Is or IS, and while nothing
was said about rations, knowing the
proximity to chicken coops and pig
pen and such like and the affinity
| of the veteran therefor, there were
very few who went to the surgeon
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