River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-03-09

$350.OO buys a pair of frst-class
Brunswick Bowling Alleys. Inquire
at this Office.
Special sale on Saturday of Bed
Spreads, Lace Curtains and Ladies'
Shirts at Alfard-Stewart Co.'s.
If you want your eyes examined,
/ shall be at the City Hotel again
Tuesday, March Il, to remain until
Thursday noon, March 23rd. c. H.
Todd, Optometrist.
Our advertisements from week to
week contain much sound, sensible
advice as to your future. Read
them. The First National Bank re-
quests your business. 1t is to your
advantage as well as ours.
A. A. Johnson of the Aitlin, B.
c., Mining Co., was in the city the
first of the week on visit to rela-
tives. He has been located in Chi
cago for some time past in the in
terest of the mining company, but
will go to the coast in the course of
a month.
Members of the Yeomen lodge
to the number of thirty sprung a
surprise on Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin
Eaton at their home Saturday even
ing. Hosts and guests enjoyed
most pleasant evening in games
and social converse. Refreshments
were served.
Revival meetings continue at the
Baptist church. The pastor is the
evangelist this week. Next week,
beginning with Sunday, Rev. E. R.
Mckinney of ST. Paul, Mimi, will
assist, delivering the sermon each
evening, except Saturday. Rev.
Mckinney will stay over the 10Th.
The primary election this spring,
to be held the 21st instant, applies
only to city officers. The candi-
dates for the Office of county, and
supreme judge, State and county
superintendent, will have their
names put on the ballot through
papers circulated for names of vot-.
ers.
Prof. D. M. Ryan, Principal of the
Plum City high school and candi-
date for county superintendent, was
a visitor in the city the first of the
week. Mr.. Ryan was a comparative
stranger to the people in this part
of the county. He made very
pleasing impression upon his new
acquaintance.
The men of the Congregational
church will give an oyster supper
social at the parlors of the church
on Friday, March II. This affair
will be manipulated exclusively by
men, though ladies and everybody
else are invited to the feast. Sup
per will be served from $50 to 7
o'clock. p. m.
DR.. Muedeking will make his reg
ular professional visit to River Falls
the 10th and 18th of March and take
orders for his splendid white flint
spectacles. The price of these
highly polished lenses is no greater
than for common glasses. Office
hours at the Gladstone Hotel from
IL m. to p. m. No charges for
testing the eyes.
Mrs. Levi Mackin of Boardman,
St. Croix county, formerly resi-
dent here for several years, died at
her home last Saturday and was
buried Monday. Mrs. Mackin was
a sister of N. N. Fuller, for a
long time resident of ST. Croix
county and now a resident of Lari-
more, N. D. Mrs. Mackin was an
aunt of Chas., Frank and George
Fuller of Kinnickinnic.
The New Richmond News came
out last week reduced from a six
to fve-colum quarto. The man.
agement gives as a reason for it's
reduced size the fact that the paper,
as a five-column, can all be printed
on the press in use at one impress
sion, whereas the six-column had to
be partly printed at one impression
and finished at second, but the
paper as reduced in size will con-
tain as much local news as would
or did the six-column.
We to-day received letter from
Hiram w. Judd, ST. John, Washing
ton, (near Spokane) with a remit
lance for continuance of his sub
scription to the JOURNAL and saying
that they cannot keep house with
out the paper from their former
home. He sends us some butter
cup blossoms--we guess they are,
but they are of much larger size
than GROW here. He calls them