River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-22

Mary-Sponge the pinples with
warm water. You need a blood
tonic, would advise you to take
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea.
II drives away all eruptions. IS
cents. Tea or tablet form. C.R.
Taggart.
Howard Strahl and family were
in the city Monday to visit relatives.
They are moving back TO Daven-
port, Iowa, from Seattle, Washing
ton. Mr.. Strahl will travel for the
Geo. H. Morrill, Ink Co. of New
York, the company he represented
previous to his going to Seattle.
The great Eau Claire Agricultur-
al Street Fair and Carnival will be
held this year Oct. 4, 5, 6, 7, and s,
1904. The Omaha line has made a
rate of one fare and third for the
entire week and on Oct. 5th will
make an excursion rate of one fare
for the round trip, good for return
the following day.
St. Croix county cast $3.50 Re-
publican votes in 1900 while Pierce
county cast 3,438. But in 1902 St.
Croix cast 2,4O8 Republican votes
to 1886 Republican votes cast in
Pierce county. The delegation of
the two counties to the senatorial
convention, for ST. Croix to for
Pierce, is based on the vote of 1902.
Miss Lottie tombstone goes to
Roberts to-day, Thursday, to be
ready for the opening of school
next Monday. She will teach the
intermediate grade. The opening
of school was deferred in conse-
quence of the unfinished state of
the school house. The building
has been undergoing remodeling
process this summer-an additional
story being added to accommodate
a new department.
Among the words of peculiar orr
gin, formation and application is
"supercilious. The first part of
the word, super" is very common
in the composition of words of Latin
origin, meaning over" The sec
ond part, "ci1ious," is from "ci1i-
um,' an Eyebrow" The word
means naughty" an application
that suggests itself Immediately
from seeing a person pulled with
pride, his eyebrows raised, his
vision above the common" herd.
We notice that horses in the city
have become pretty we'll accustom-
ed to the automobile and few of
them shy as it passes them unless
it goes fast enough to look like
something flying. But many horses
from the country, not so much &C
customed to see it, are pretty
nervous al he sight of one as it
passes. Now we seldom eyer see
horse seem to take any notice of
the passing bicycle, but when it
was introduced horses were afraid
of it.
DIR. E. c. Roberts, optometrist,
will make his next regular visit to
River Falls Sept. % and "a, with Of
flee at City Hotel. The science of
optometry not only treats of light
and vision, but also of Physiology
and the functions of the nervous
system. Relief from all nervous
and functional arrangements which
are caused by loss of motor 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.
While there has been no frost of
consequence it behooves farmers to
cut their corn Immediately if they
intend to save the fodder. Frost
will be here soon, judging from past
experience. The farmers desired to
put off cutting the corn as long as
there was no immediate danger of
frost so as to give it time to mature
and harden the ears. Corn is back
ward. The foliage is profuse, the
stalks big, but the ears are late in
maturing in consequence of the
wet weather that kept the stalks in
constant growth.
In last weeks paper we an
nounced that as we were going to
press news came of the collapse of
the Saltwater bridge with fatal in
jury to several people. By some
unexplained means the longest of
the sixteen spans of the bridge took
fire. When the fire company rush
en- onto the bridge to extinguish the
flames thirty or forty people follow
ed and this span of the bridge fell
carrying all the people down. Two