River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-10-11

! week at AllaTQ-OteWart 20 S.
P. w. Ramer left Tuesday on his
return to South Africa. He had
been here since about the middle of
/ August.
H. P. Hurlburt has bought the
| John Eaton house on Cascade ave-
nue., where he has resided for the
past season.
Abel Enquist returned Friday
from Minot, N. D., where he had
been at work at his trade as a ma
son for sometime.
David Huddleson is visiting rela-
tives at Herman, Mimi, and in
the meanwhile ]. w. Reynolds is
managing the billiard hall.
Judging from reports in exchan-
ges the primary election was not
satisfactory to everybody. In many
localities independent candidates
are getting into the game to run
against the regular nominees. Just
what was to be expected from pri-
mary of plurality requirement and
multiplicity of candidates. If the
primary law required majority to
nominate there would be little dis
satisfaction at the result and the
disgruntled and disappointed Office
seeker would be dissuaded from an
independent candidacy with the
knowledge that a majority of his
party had expressed their prefer
| ence for another man.
Nice, sound, lockwood for sale.
C. Carisch & Son.
Corn is for the most part in shock
and the pumpkin is ready for the
frost. The farmers are now en-
gagged in gathering in potatoes.
The potato crop is not SO difficult
to raise and harvest as it was be-
fore the potato planting machine,
the sprayer and digger were invent
ed. The picking up of the tubers
is yet done by hand" and a big
field requires good many hands"
to effect the gathering. Boys about
Is years old are usually the best
equipped for this business. They
have india-rubber backs and MIN
BILE fingers. AS far as we have
learned of the harvest of potatoes
they are good crop and generally
of good quality-so und-free from
rot.
A car load bulk apples at Allard-
Stewart Co.'S; must be moved be-
fore Saturday night.
The article in last weeks Jour-
NAL on the Pierce County Fair was
written and put in type by M. B.
Kimball of Ellsworth. AS is gener-.
ally known, Mr.. sKimball is totally
blind, an affection which overlook
him twelve or fifteen years ago.
Notwithstanding the fact that he is
seriously handicapped in facility of
work by his aff1i ct1on he has done
considerable writing in the mean
time and has recently taken up
type setting as an amusement. Mr..
Kimball was long engaged in news
paper work before his aff1icton came
upon him. He founded the Pierce
County Herald nearly 40 years ago
and subsequently established sew
eral other newspapers, all of which
he conducted withsrecognized abili-
ty and was considered one of the
best editorial writer's in the North
west.
Black Cat Hosiery at R. N. Jen-
sons.
Thrashing gives disappointing
conclusion to previous estimates of
the yield of grains. This is the us
ual condition in wet seasons. The
prospect is excellent for straw is
big and gives promise of big yield
of grain but when the warm, wet
weather continues to the ripening
the growth of the straw keeps on
while the heads are deficient in the
number of grains and what there
are are not as solid as they would
be under favorable ripening condi-
tons. Wet weather produces an
abundance of vegetation but the
vegetation is mostly water. Dairy
men notice that grass in these wet
summers does not produce the re-
suit in milk observed in drier, sun
nier seasons. This feature of the
weather prompted an old settler to
this conclusion: In dry, season
the farmer is scared to death; in a
wet season he starves to death. =
A Car load bulk apples at Allard-
Stewart Co.'S; must be moved be-
fore Saturday night.