River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-06-22

Come in and see our children:
IN" Waists. R. N. Jensen.
| Get brick of Vanderbie's Ic,
Cream at Freemans drug store.
| VIM. Finley has had the city wat
er service put into his residence.
Miss Lucinda Foster is spending
the week with her sister at Ham
mond.
Masters Ray and Earl Allen Of
Minneapolis are visitors at B. R
Eaton's.
Mr.. Simpson and family of Whea,
ton, Mimi, have been visiting al
Mr.. Gray's.
o. T. Bergseng and daughter Ida
went to St. Paul to-day on a visit
to relatives.
| Mrs. A. L.. Lamson of Roberts
was a guest of Mrs. Wilbur White
last Tuesday. a
Rev. Burnley of Hudson preached
at the Congregational church last
Sunday evening.
Trinity Guild will meet with Mrs.
William Scroggie next Wednesday,
June %, at 2:30 o'clock p. m. Bust
ness, quilting.
S. L. Beebe, one of the earliest
settlers, of St. Croix county, died at
his home in Boardman June IA,
1905, aged IS years.
Josephus Bailey has moved his
family back to the farm in Troy.
The family had lived in the Butler
Parker house since the beginning
of school last fall, the children at
tending the sessions.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. P. Baker of Of
tumwa, Iowa, visited with their
cousins, Misses Susie Pierce and
Sadie Johnson, from Thursday to
Monday morning. They are on a
pleasure trip to the Pacific coast.
Mr.. Spillcke moved to Roberts the
10th instant. The family had lived
here for several years that the chill
dren might have the advantage of
the schools. These having gradu-
ated, Mr.. Spillcke returns to his old
home al Roberts.
John Moody of Ellsworth was
called to Bethel, VT, last week by
the announcement of the serious
illness of his sister, Mrs. Lucinda
Bingham. News was received at
this Office Tuesday that the sister
died Sunday of pneumonia.
The G. A. R. have cut down their
old flag staff at the southeast corner
of Main and Elm streets. 1t was
getting decayed and fears were en-
tertained that the wind might blow
it down and occasion injury in its
fall. 1t is proposed to put up new
one near the bandstand.
A hens egg was exhibited in this
office the last of last week that from
it's dimensions might have done
credit TO the authorship Of goose.
It measured rs inches around the
longer direction and 67s the shorter.
The egg was laid by buff cochin
belonging to John Reynold DIS.
The city bought carload of faced
stone while ago which is now be-
ing laid on the street crossings.
The stone is about Is inches wide.
Two strings of this stone are laid
Is inches apart, the intervening
space being filled with cement even
with the surface of the stone.
Baraboo has caught the improve
ment infection from the work of the
River Falls Improvement League.
Phil Cheek and wife of Baraboo offer
six prizes, from six to ten dollars
each, for the first and second best
kept lawn, and also the same prizes
for the most neatly kept back yards
and gardens.
Miss Lottie tombstone was most
pleasantly surprised last Saturday
by the sudden eruption of bevy of
her young lady friends from Roberts
the Misses Pearl and Bernice
Whitcomb, Agnes and May Turner,
Mabel Imrie, Carrie Cannon, Mar
garet Sutherland and Nettie Tenn
pleman. The girls brought con-
CALCULATIONS and more substantial
evidences of their good will in a
shower of parcels, many of which
were elegant and useful in contem-
plation of the housekeeper's art.
E. c. Roberts, Oph. D., Optome-
trist, will be at River Falls June 29
and 80, Office at the Gladstone Ho-
tel. Glasses fitted to relieve Head
ache, Migraime, and all nervous