River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-03-01

Turtle Lake over Sunday.
| Mrs. Alfred Day of Hudson is
visiting at the Healy home.
Ten per cent off for cash at Ebert
son Bros. Everything in hardware.
Walter Glass left this afternoon
with two carloads of horses for Mo-
hall, N. D.
Prof. and Mrs. Sims, and Prof.
and Mrs. Clark gave a large party
Tuesday evening at the home of
Prof. Sims.
Chas. Eastman, Supervisor of
Assessment of Pierce cou nty, went
to Madison last week to attend
meeting of the Supervisors of the
several counties of the state.
In the month of March all the
planets except Saturn and Uranus
will be evening stars. Venus, Ju-
piter, Mercury and Mars are now
down near the western horizon at
sunset while Neptune is in the me-
ridian-directly overhead.
Mrs. May E. Southworth, who
has been visiting relatives in the
city, will leave for Grand Rapids,
Mich, Friday morning TO COM
mence course of lectures which
will extend to several of the cities
of Michigan, Illinois and other
states.
A couple of rambling itinerants,
survival of the unfitest, from the
fotsam of travelling show wreck,
were perambulating the city much
Of last week, looking for suckers,
but they found closed season"
They wanted some one of the differ
ent societies to employ them in
home talent play for about all there
would be in it.
Twenty years ago the first of
March, w. o. Wright. President of
the Freeport & Northern Railroad,
wrote the mayor of this city: "The
prospects for the building of our
road from Freeport, ILL.,, to Supe-
rior through River Falls were never
brighter than now. We shall COM
mence work just as soon as the
condition of the ground will permit
and push it with vigor."
The Hon. Geo. McKerrow, Super
intendent of Farmers Institutes has
our thanks for bound copy of Bull
letin No. 10, of Wisconsin Farmers
Institutes. The Bulletin is a tran
script of the proceedings of the fl
nal institute of last year. 1t con-
tains much of interest to farmers as
to methods of farming, dairying,
stock raising, etc., and lectures on
cooking for the information of
housewives.
Miss Minnie Olson visited here
between trains last Friday with rel
atives-her sister Fife, and her un-
Gle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Olson and cousins, Misses Clara and
Alma Olson. She is engaged with
the Lew Fields Opera Co.. of New
York which played in ST. Paul last
week. Miss Olson, it will be re-
membered, has fine voice, which
has been cultivated to perfection.
She is a "star" in the opera and
goes under the name of Minnie
Martrit.
In Pennsylvania county teach
ers' association meeting few weeks
ago the $50 teachers present were
subjected to a test in spelling.
Thirteen words were given out, all
words in common use-auxiliary,
Tennessee, beefsteak, proceed, su-
persede, precede, picnicking, sieve,
seize, siege, cylinder, succotash and
desiccated. Only one of the $50
spelled all the words correctly.
Perhaps the $40 who failed attribu-
ted their failure to the unlucky num-
Der IS.
Commissioner Emery, in discuss
ing impure foods, was arguing a
vital (victuaD question. Some of his
facts would seem rather distasteful,
and when swallowed indigestible,
barring a cast-iron gizzard. The
idea of making a fellows stomach
a receptacle for formaldehyde, bo-
rax, salicylic and sulphuric acid,
creosote, verdigris and other pois-
onous denominations is suggestive
of involuntary suicide. Victuals
so treated would invalid ones Wit
ais, so that his vitals would no
longer be vital vitals. But sawdust
don't make pa1atable victuals un-
less chemically treated. Suppose
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