River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-07-13

agent to st. CrOix county to make
investigation with reference to the
establishing of county system of
rural mail delivery.
In addition to the subjects an
nounced to be taught at the Els
worth Teachers Institute Arithme-
tic and Geography will be added.
Teachers are requested by the man
ayers to bring text books on these
branches.
The new cigarette law, it seems,
does not forbid the smoking of
cigarettes, but only the manufacture
and sale. Any fellow who wishes
may smoke them with impunity, as
far as the law is concerned. His
punishment will come later on
through natural laws. The legis-
lators assumed that if the boys
couldn't get cigarettes they couldn't
smoke them.
People who have occasion to trav-
ell on the country roads say the
roads are in horrible condition,
In many places the roads. are worked
In June which with us is generally
the rainest part of the year. AS a
matter of course when the road bed
has been disturbed by blowing or
scraping the ground is soft and adj
mits of the ready absorption of wa
ter. SO the roads will be soft. 1t
seems to us better roads would be
had if they were worked in the fall
when it is ordinarily the driest.
From the Osakis (Minn.) Review
we learn of the death of Gardner
M. Lowell, a man we'll known to
many people here. Mr.. Lowell
died at his home in Osakis June 80,
aged 70 years. His wife died two
years ago. Mr.. Lowell came to
this county in 1854 and lived here
for some time on a farm southwest
of this city and afterwards in town,
until about rs years ago when he
moved to Minnesota. He is sur
vived by four children-Mrs. Eliza
Mckay, Mrs. H. H. Day, Mrs. c. R.
Martin and Norman Lowell.
M. w. Odland in assuming his
duties as editor of the Hudson Star
Times, among other pertinent
things says:
1t is a matter of grave impor-
lance and responsibility to edit a
paper like the STAR Times. 1t is
spread before the fresides of many
hundred homes and is in measure
the intellectual nourishment of
thousands. 1t influences the Ian
guage, the thoughts, the morals of
its readers. 1t is a teacher as we'll
as news messenger. Hence frivo-
lous, il1-trained person is as much
out of place in the editorial chair as
in the pulpit or at the head of a
school,"
There is danger that many boys
will become web-footed this summer.
They stay in the water a good deal
of the time. The water in the mill
pond is dangerously cold for long
stay in it. 1t seems to us it would
be better for the boys TO swim in the
lower pond-by the city park. The
water is shallower here and further
away from it's original springs and
so gets warmer than that in the
mill pond. Nor is there SO much
danger from drowning in the lower
pond. The water is not SO deep
there, but deep enough for swim
ming.
Trinity Guild will meet with Mrs.
Arthur Symes Wednesday, July 10,
at 2:30 o'clock p. m. All who have
their dollar earned, or who can earn
it by that date conveniently, will be
comforting a great favor to the presi-
dent if they will kindly hand it in
at this meeting as the church will
be papered, cleaned and wired, and
she wishes to meet the expenses as
fully as possible. All who wish to
help defray expenses are cordially
| invited to meet with us to enjoy the
afternoon and hear the different
ways in which each dollar has been
obtained and any contributions
throughout the summer will be
thankfully received.
The Normal schools of Wis. are
expected soon to adopt for use in the
English departments text book
written by former Wisconsin WON
an, Mrs. A. w. Rankin, now of Min
neapolis, but formerly student al
Ripon College, from which schoo
she graduated in the spring of 1875
During her college course she made
a specially of English, and since
her graduation has kept up he1
work in English. Recently she com
pleted her text book, which is
unique, touching as it does on the