River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-02-16
LOCAL ITEMS.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
c. A. Nc Kinnon was over from
Spring Valley Saturday.
Miss Anna Weberg is visiting her
sister, Mrs. A. E. Smith, at New
Richmond.
Telephone communication has
been established between this city
and Hammond.
The Cascade Mills-W. H. Put
nam-has fresh buckwheat flour
for sale. Phone 3.
The Schwamb Bros, on the ]. K.
Currier farm, have several hun
dred white-oak posts for sale.
1t behooves people to take extra
precautions in regard to their stoves
this excessively cold weather.
You can have your eyes scientif-
cal1y tested at the City Hotel Feb.
81 or % by c. H. Todd, Optometrist.
J.R. Henderson was at Glenwood
for couple of weeks assisting his
brother-in-1aw, H. M. Johnson, in
the store.
John Haddow returned Tuesday
from St. Paul where in St. Joseph's
hospital he was operated upon for
an abscess in the head.
President Eliot Of Harvard Uni
versity expresses himself strongly
against football. The game is too
strenuous and dangerous.
More than thirty students of the
Hudson high school will contend
for the honor of representing the
school in the league contest to be
held here in April.
The Farmers starch factory at
Grantsburg at recent meeting de-
clared a dividend of 10 per cent,
paid $500 indebtedness and has
$500 LETT IN its treasury.
Wolves seem to be in bad straits
for provender this winter. A pack
recently invaded Erin Prairie in St.
Croix county. The township is ex-
clusively prairie country.
Don't throw away your old um-
brella frame but get a new cover
for it at Cecil S. Dodge's. Full
line of samples to show you. do
all kinds of umbrella repairing
Of the 581 prisoners in the Mime
sofa State prison at Saltwater 346
are men who were never married.
Only % are total abstainers while
319 are moderate drinkers and 234
Incorporate.
Miss Estelle Clough wishes schol-
ars in Piano and Organ Music. Pri-
vate scholars and classes in the
Fletcher Method, which is the origi-
nal kindergarten method. Terms
given on inquiry at the Methodist
parsonage.
Mrs. Arthur Young of Prescott
was among the attendants at the
celebration of the fiftieth anniver-
sary of the Congregational church.
Mrs. Young was at one time resi-
dent of this city and member of
the choir of the church.
Ringing Brothers will show with
a new attraction in their circus next
summer-a monster pipe organ, the
largest ever built. The instrument
is eleven feet high, twenty feet long
and nine feet wide. A special wag-
on is being constructed to hold it.
Among those present from abroad
at the semi-centennial of the Con-
gregational church the Sd instant
was Mr.. Cole of Boston who was in
the vicinity at the time. Mr.. Cole
is a son-in-law of the Rev. w. r.
Stevens, the first pastor of the Con-
gregational church.
During the recent blizzard in New
York the mayor of Bismark, N. D.,
wired the mayor of New York city:
81 deeply sympathize with you in
your discomfort. Can l do anything
for your" Mayor Mcclellan prompt
ly replied: Eyes! come and take
your damned old blizzard home"
| Andy Brown says that if the Chip
tpewa Falls sugar company, which
is trying to interest New Richmond
farmers to raise sugar beets, would
manufactureIdead beats it would be
big success. New Richmond
News. Make sugar of them? They
could get more out of cucumber,
In this issue is published list of
books purchased with donation of
: $4,000 made by Mr.. H. c. Baker to
the public library. 1t comes very
timely as the books were in demand.
One hundred and eleven books were
taken from the library last Satur-