River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-08-10


A large line of sample gloves al
r. N. Jenson's.
Miss Gertrude Fogerty of Roberts
is guest of her aunt, Mrs. H. j
Mcmahon.
Miss Hattie Eaton of Ellsworth
has been spending few days with
relatives and friends here.
Miss Ethel Matteson of Spring
Valley has been visiting her cousin,
Miss Eliza VIM, the past few days.
Those wishing small cucumbers
for pickles and also oil pickles, in
quire of Mrs. Frank Thayer at the
Normal.
Prof. Sims lectured to the Chip
pewa Falls teacher students at the
institute Friday evening on 1.-The
School and Home"
l shall be at the City Hotel again
Aug. Is and 16. If you are suffer
ing from Eye Strain call and see
me. c. H. TODD, Optometrist.
S. Shella has bought of Thomas
Foster the tract of land west of the
public school building. The land
is plated and consists of IL lots.
Tickets for the steamboat excur-
sion will be on sale at the banks.
Get your tickets early-the day be-
fore the excursion. If you get your
railroad tickets to Hudson the day
before it will be more convenient
for you.
C. S. Dodge has sold his paper,
the Kendall Keystone, which he
started about two years ago. The
new proprietor is A. R. McClene-
CHAN. We suspect Cad is too
strongly welded to the newspaper
business to leave it altogether. He
will probably go into the business
again further west.
Mrs. George Griffin and Mrs. Sid
ney Pennington came down from
Amery Friday on visit to their
sister, Mrs. Craig Randall. Messrs.
Griffin and Pennington came oyer
Sunday on the latter's auto, return
ing the same day. Mrs. Penning-
ton returned Tuesday. Mrs. Griffin
remains for longer visit.
A line from the Curriers' who are
located at San Jose, California,
says: eve were pleased TO well
come w. P. Knowles and r. W..
Freeman last week and Mr.. and
Mrs. Theodore Nichols and son
Roy this week. That's right, send
the River Falls people to California.
The San Joseans are proud of their
city and the Santa Clara valley.
They are sure this locality will bear
inspection.
From the government year book
of 1904 we find the crop of corn for
that year to have been 2,467 ,480, 1884
bushels, valued at 81 ,O87461 ,440.
The amount of land planted to corn
was 1921 ,581 acres. The average
per acre throughout the country
was 1878 bushels. The highest aver
age per acre for any state was SO
bushels for Maine, while Illinois
averaged 81, Missouri SO, Iowa IS,
and Wisconsin 81.
The Congregational Sunday school
will have an excursion next Wednes-
day, Aug. 16. The excursion will
be by steam boat, some 100 miles
on Lakes St. Croix and Pepin and
the Mississippi river. Everybody
is invited. A basket picnic affair,
but coffee, ice cream and lemonade
will be served on the boat. The
fare will be low and the occasion
will furnish day of rare enjoyment.
Steamboat tickers will be on sale al
the banks.
The Omaha road is to change its
track near the village of Ham
mond. West of the village the line
will run three miles north of the
track now used. Commissioners
to set a price on the land condemn
ed for the new right of way were ap-
pointed by the judge of the circuit
court, Cotton Whitcomb, E. H.
MILFORD and w. C. Bradley being
named. The commissioners met
at Hammond last week and effected
a satisfactory deal with the land
owners interested.
The Barron Shield tells of a resi-
dent of Barron who, having written
an order for a bill of goods from
Montgomery, Ward & Co., called up
a local merchant and asked him II
he would like to figure on the bill.
The merchant answered in the af-
firmative. This merchant would
fiji fhe order for 500 95 The WON