River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-04-26

4 Try that Lily Flour at J. P. Car
rolls.
| See R. N. Jenson's ad. en- oppo-
site page.
| Arthur Afdahl spent last Sunday
at his home in Pleasant Valley.
| Every sack of White Lily Flour
will satisfy or money refunded.
| Atty. Jay Grimm is suffering from
threatened attack of pneumonia.
Miss Annie Baur visited her
friend Katie Fitzsimmons Wednes-
day.
Mrs. VIM. Huff of Hudson spent
Wednesday with Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
Hyatt.
If you want a good safe invest
ment buy lot in the West Side Ad-
dition.
Oluff Halls of Ellsworth, Com
mercial traveller, was in the city
yesterday.
The River Falls Cadet Band is
arranging to give Concert in
Opera Hall May Is.
Miss Sadie Johnson went to Els
worth Saturday for visit with
friends, returning yesterday.
w. H. Sanderson has moved his
Office in with Geo. Theo. Smith over
the j. H. Johnson notion store.
Ernie Lagerstedt and Joe Adams
returned Monday from Fort Col
Inns, Colorado, where they went in
search of homestead land.
Menomonie had a serious fire
Tuesday that destroyed five bust
ness houses with a money loss
amounting to $4,000.
G. P. Burnett, who had been at
San Antonio, Texas, through the
winter is now visiting his brother,
Atty. H. P. Burnett at Sutton,
Nebraska.
| Barney McCabe died at Hammond
April l3. He was SO years old, the
oldest and the last survivor Of the
McCabe brothers, five in number,
who were among the first settlers of
the town.
The supreme court of Wisconsin
rules that women have the right to
vote in the state in all matters re-
lating to schools, even as to the is
suing of bonds. This decision is
the result of suit brought by citi-
zens of Madison to test the validity
of the election in that city last year
of bonding the municipality for
$1,000 for high school purposes,
question upon which the women
voted.
The high school will go to Els
worth tomorrow night for the girls
League Declamatory Contest. 1t is
expected that the students will be
| accompanied by many friends and
| patrons Of the school interested in
| the success of these contests. En-
enlargement is a great incentive
for the young to put forth their best
efforts and is in fact strong support.
A special train will take the party
from here at 7 o'clock, returning
after the contest.
The sluice gates of the Prairie
Mill dam were opened Friday and
the waters of the pond let out pre-
paratory to repairs on the dam.
| Vast quantities of mud go out with
the water to enlarge the delta of the
Mississippi. The water below the
dam looks as if it needed washing.
"The River Rhine it is we'll known
! Washes the city of Cologne,
: But oh ye gods, what power divine
Can ever wash the River Rhine?"
John Thrill, doctor of Somer-
set, St. Croix county, was tried be-
fore the circuit court at Hudson
last week on the accusation of prac-
ticing medicine" without IL
cense 1t was shown that his prac-
tice c0nsisted mostly in applying a
plaster to the back of a patient.
The trial resulted in a disagreement
of the jury and he was allowed to
go and plaster all who desired his
aid, the district attorney asserting
that he would not be further prose
cuted as no jury could be found
that would convict him.
The mayor of New Richmond an
nounces that profanity is so preva-
lent in that city as to call for Wig
orous campaign for its suppression.
The mayor in his message to his
council among other things says of
profane swearing: It is useless,
sinful and abominable practice of