River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-08-11

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Mrs. E. Van .Yoorhis goes to
Massachusetts this week to visit
relatives and attend a reunion of
the Fairbanks family of America,
which meets at the old homestead
at Dedham, Aug. Is.
Miss Mae Purves returned home
Monday from visit to her sister,
Mrs. Tucker, and the Exposition at
St. Louis. Returning, she stopped
over at Menomonie for short visit
with her sister, Mrs. Stone.
Miss Ensign says she killed the
snake at the Catfish Bar, two miles
above Ilwaco Springs. Conse-
quently no one need be afraid of
rattlesnakes at the Lake. There
are none at Ilwaco Springs and the
one that lived at Catfish Bar is now
dead.
]. E. Hendrix, Sen. Sycamore and
H. E. Pratt, Jun. Sycamore of the
Winnebago Tribe, No. "a, of the
Order of Red Men, went to Prescott
Tuesday and thence to La Crosse,
to attend the Great Council of the
order as representatives from their
Tribe.
1t looks much like chaos over at
the public school building. Things
are all torn up" preparatory to
remodeling and the new addition, to
which the basement walls only are
completed. The chimneys are be-
ing enlarged to a considerable ex-
tent-fues for hot air, etc. The
veneer work of the east end of the
old building has been taken down,
partitions run across the two rooms
of the first floor on the east side
and great holes cut in the north
and south walls for double windows
to these rooms included by the par
titions. These cutoff rooms-two
will be used for recitation rooms,
while the east portions of the two
old rooms will be continued east to
take in the 28-foot new addition,
making the new school rooms 40
feet long. The upper story addition
is to be included in the High School
room. The school will begin the
first or second Monday in Septem-
Der. In the mean time order will
be evolved from the present appar-
ent chaos. But the beginning of
school will not depend entirely on
whether the work on the new addi-
ton is entirely completed or not.
The bridge over the South Fork
in the Glen is finished and passable.
1t pleases some people while others
are sure they could have arranged
things for the better convenience of
the people in their attempts to get
into the park from the north. Some
people, having an eye to the artistic
from the side of nature, think an
artificial bridge in this romantic
spot a dissertation. Some think
the bridge a superfuity as they
could have got over the creek on a
log or waded it. Some think 1t
waste of energy and time to have to
go down to the creek before cross
ing it. They would have had the
bridge thrown across from the level
of the banks, furnishing the quick
est way of getting over. Some
would have had tunnel under the
creek while others would as soon
go over in balloon. A few want
ed the bridge over Putnam's dam.
They argued from the standpoint
of economy as we'll as that of con-
venience. The Improvement League
which promoted the bridging of
the creek-was stuck" on a bridge
across at Vine street but the lack
of sufficient funds stuck" it in
another sense-to such an extent as
to suggest an alternative-which it
struck as effected in this bridge in
the Glen. All this only illustrates
with emphasis the old saw, origi-
mated by Solomon, or Mother Goose,
and extensively copied-in writing
books:
MANY Men of Many Minds
We have stood a1oof ON this
bridge QUESTIONABLE viewed the
conflict from up tree, but since
everybody else has had his say it
just occurs to us-too late to be eff
fective-that a grapevine bridge
would have been the most artistic
and wouldn't have cost half as
much as any of the others suggest
ed, especially if left to nature to
build.
Wisconsin, Great Fair.