River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-02-25

use the cutter. have secured the
services of E. S. Nixon of ST. Paul,
a first class carriage painter, and
can do you good guaranteed job.
Yours for business, A. w. LUND.
Iowa county was one of the
strongest strongholds of La Toilette
while he was candidate for COVER
nor in 1900 and 1902, but at the
county convention recently held
there a resolution commencing the
La Toilette administration was vot-
ed down, showing radical change
of sentiment.
Genuine goodness is rare virtue
that is always recognized, whether
in folks, merchandise or soap.
Maple City Self-Washing Soap pos
sesses this virtue as does no other
soap on the market. To try it once
is to use it always. Get it at your
grocer's.
The Rosebud Indian Reservation
in South Dakota is to be opened to
settlement under the homestead
laws but filers on these lands will
be obliged to pay $500 an acre for
them. The lands are west of the
Missouri river in the dry belt and
decided lands adjoining can be
bought for $3.50 an acre.
Many people suffer daily with
headache, caused by eye-strain.
That can be entirely relieved with
properly ground spectacles. If
your eyes trouble you call on DR..
Muedeking who makes the fitting
of the eyes a speciality. At the
Gladstone Hotel the 1st and End of
March. Office hours from II m. to
p. m.
Only last week one of our half
breed exchanges, with the positive
ness of conviction, asserted: Gov
ernor La Toilette is stronger with
the people to-day than he has ever
been before" Perhaps after hear
ing the report from the Third Con-
| gressional District the paper will
have the raShness TO reiterate the
statement.
A letter from w. P. Marshall, who
with his wife is passing the winter
at San Diego, California, condoles
with the people of River Falls
in their being subjected to incon-
veniences incident to so much sub
zero weather. They have little oc-
casion at San Diego for fires. Mr..
Marshall says they have used fuel
only to the amount of SIPS in two
months and half.
Rev. Snodgrass OF River Falls
has been engaged by the M. E.
church society of this city to-fill the
position of pastor. He is well
known in this city and in New
Richmond where he formerly
preached. Mr. Snodgrass is very
able minister and pleasant gentle
man socially, who with his family
will be welcome addition to Hud-
son society.-St. Croix Observer.
The 1ong-expected switch board
has finally arrived and been install
ed in the electric power house at the
lower falls. 1t was ordered in No
vember. 1t happens, however, that
it's failure to arrive has rot been of
great inconvenience as the mer-
chants had agreed upon closing
their stores at 600 O'Clock p. m.
This fact permitted of the lighting
of the street lamps at 600 every
night except Saturday, the works
at the upper dam furnishing suffi-
cient power to this end when the
lights in the stores are not in use.
Professor and Mrs. Fletcher in
vited the members of the Normal
school faculty TO Colonial Party
given at their home on Monday
evening. 1t being the occasion of
the anniversary of Washington
birth, the rooms were tastefully
decorated with flags, bunting and
other patriotic emblems, even to
the historic Ratchet. During the
progress of the meal, in which trim
colonial dishes were served in
courses, the guests were made hap
py by the telling of stories by diff
ferent members of the faculty.
Later, the evenings entertainment
consisted of the singing of college
songs, recitations of the "Bobolink"
and I'm a Lunkhead" by Mrs.
Truesde1l at her best, and the sing
ing by members of the faculty of
the Normal school song recently
composed by Miss Shu1tes.
From the Plymouth Review.
The presentation of "Jedediah