River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-07-20

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Miss Alphina Bergman leaves to-
morrow for Seattle, WASH, to visit
her brother Albert who resides
there.
Many deaths and more prostra-
tions have occurred in the city of
New York recently as the result of
the intense heat.
/ Miss Inga Simonson and little
nephew, Earl Nelson, are spending
the week with her mother, Mrs.
Dotty Simonson, in Martell.
Will Mccoy and Chas. Lawrence
of Spring Valley were in the city
Monday and Tuesday. Mr.. Mccoy
is in the stock-buying business.
In the brief thunder storm of
Monday morning lightning struck
on the place of Julius Reeck in Oak
Grove, killing three of his hogs.
Mrs. Mary ]. Gilbert of Milwau-
kee was in the city the first of the
week in the interests of the Wis
consin Children's Home-Finder. +"
Get one of the Alfred Peats' Book
| lets on Home Decoration free from
w. r. Kohn, Agent for Peats Prize
Wall Paper. Estimates furnished.
Atty. Chas. Houston and wife of
Wheaton, MINI, are visitors here,
guests al the home of the former S
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Hous-
ton.
Jens Pagh, living near the brick
yard, has bought of Geo. Theo.
Smith the Geo. Coon 40 and the
Chas. Hanson 40, 3H miles south
east.
Bernard and Joseph Kremmel
were over from st. Paul over Sun
day on a visit to their father, August
Kremmel, the baker at the White
Front.
Miss Lillian Langdon of Parker,
S. D., is visiting at the home of her
uncle, ]. H. Langdon. She had
been attending school in Mime
apolis.
Peter Lundberg is home from
Bibon on a weeks vacation.
He left Monday for a few-days visit
with friends at Minneapolis and
Chicago.
We struck this somewhere in our
research among exchanges: The
principle objection most people
have TO tainted money is faint
enough"
Miss Mabel Hutchinson of Pierre,
S. D., arrived here Friday on
a visit to her grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. M. Fitzsimmons, and other
relatives.
According to the recent census
La Crosse has not as many inhabi-
tants as it had in 1900. There are
more families but not SO many chill
dren in family.
They are laying cement sidewalk
on Main street in the first Wards
or 80 rods along the front of Sam
Hoffman D. D. Days and Mrs.
Alma Goods lots.
Miss Abbie Flint was with the
company that left here for Portland
Thursday. She will spend the sum-
mer with her brother, C. E. Flint,
in the state of Washington.
D, A. Blakney was down from
Duluth over Sunday, visitor at the
home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. w.
P. Knowles. Mrs. B1akney had
been here for a week or more.
Hammond-the village on the
hill-has population of 448. Cum
| berland's recent count of noses
shows an aggregate of l 1892, a gain
of 100 over the census of 1900.
Socialism as a theory is very
pleasant. In practice it is destruct-
i've of individual effort. When indi-
vidual effort ceases there will be no
more inventions, no further pro-
gress.
Frank Moore, foreman in the Pho
neer Press Printing Co.'s Office Of
St. Paul, accompanied by his wife,
visited here a couple of days this
week, guests of Mr.. and Mrs. J.. S.
Wadsworth.
Down in Kansas they think the
way to down the saloon is to blow
it up-a paradoxica1 method. Last
week 100000 worth of saloon
property was blown up in that
state by dynamite.
The Japanese peace commission
ers, headed by Baron Komura
reached Seattle on the Minnesota
to-day. The Great Northern will
handle" the Jap peace outfit, Pres