River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-09-13

Oct. IL.
Floyd Armstrong is working fol
the Twin City Telephone Co. in
Minneapolis.
D. w. Crandall of Prescott has
moved into the o. Strahl house on
the west side.
Miss Margaret Brown went to
Hammond Saturday to commence
school Monday.
Messrs. Bern and Beorn are kali
somining the inside walls of the
Methodist church.
H. w. Morrow has;sold his dray
and baggage business to Frank L.
Baker of Ellsworth.
Mrs. N. D. Northrop returned
home Tuesday from visit with
friends at Star Prairie.
Mrs. w. G. Spence went to NADIA
line Island Tuesday to spend a few
weeks with Mrs. L. H. Clark.
Miss Grace Scroggie left yester-
day to resume her studies at Della
van in the School for the Deaf.
Miss Annie Smith goes to-day to
Appleton where she commences her
second years work in Lawrence
university.
Rev. VIM. Ward preached in the
Baptist church last Sunday and
E. P. Sanderson preached in the M.
E. church.
Atty. Lyman Weld left yesterday
for Longmont, Colorado, where he
has the management of the Long
mont Abstract Co.
Geo. Fortune has put in new
cob-grinding machine in his mill
and can now grind corn in the ear
cob and all-into meal.
For last week SIS tickets were
sold by the agents at thelo railway
station, mostly to those proposing
to attend the Minnesota State fair.
T. H. Daniels and Nick Wiger ar
rived here from Seattle last week.
They left Monday for Chicago,
where Mr.. Daniels visits his daugh-
ter, Mrs. John S. Keller.
c. R. Taggart, accompanied by
Roy Wilhelm, left Tuesday for
Shaffer, N. D., where they will
build a cabin on Mr.. Taggart' S
homestead claim.
AS the interior walls of the M
E. church auditorium are being
-kalsomined the church services
next Sunday will be held in. the
basement parlors.
Miss Cecilia Vaughn of Roches-
ter, Mimi, visited here last week
with her sister, Mrs. r. S. Williams.
She left Saturday for Duluth, where
she teaches in the public schools.
Fred Peterson of Mellen, formerly
of this place, was nominated for
register of deeds for Ashland coun-
ty on the Republican ticket at the
primary election on the 4th instant.
A reception was given to the
students of the schools Friday eve
ming by the young peoples societies
of the Baptist, Congregational and
Methodist churches. The reception
was held in the parlors of the M.
E. church. A great number were
present and the nonresident stu
dents were welcomed with cordial
greetings.
We have thus far had no frost to
damage vegetation. The tempera-
ture for most of the past week has
been exceptionally high-for sever
al days the mercury was away up in
the nineties with nights uncoinfort-
ably warm. In consequence of the
great heat with the absence of rain
the roads were dusty and the
ground hard until Tuesday after
noon when a good, sharp shower
laid the dust and cooled the air.
Lawrence Barrett, who assumed
the management of the Prescott
Tribune last week, asserts that he
will conduct the Tribune as a Re-
publican paper but in the interest
of no faction. Coming from out
side the state he can do this con
scientiously and to advantage be
cause he is mot influenced by the
interests of eitber of the Republi.
can factions that have been after
each other with a razor for the past
three years.
Threshing is being vigorously
prosecuted with fair weather. The
yield of grains as reported varies
greatly from different fields, and is
probably not SO large as the stand
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