River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-10-18

F. D. Lord and wife of Ellsworth
visited relatives in the city Satur-
day and Sunday.
Mrs. Ingry Carlson, aged about
"a years, died at her home in the
town of Troy on Sunday last.
/ Robert Johnston returned yester-
day from Larimore, N. D., in the
vicinity of which place he had been
at work in building elevators the
last two months.
Quite number of people of this
city and vicinity had become af1ict-
ed with the land-g getting disease
and have gone west to take home
steads or buy cheap lands.
Peter Hawkins, a pioneer farmer
of Roberts, was found dead in the
barnyard of his home Monday.
Heart disease is the supposed
cause of his sudden demise.
Joseph F. Glidden, the man who
| invented barbed- wire fencing, is
dead at De Ka1b, Ill. If he had
died before he invented barbed-
wire fencing it would have been
we'll.
In the primary election Hon. ].
H. Stout, State Senator from the
goth senatorial district, which com
prises the counties of Dunn, Buffa-
10, Barron and Pepin, received
every Republican vote cast for the
office.
The Teachers Central Associa-
tion held we'll attended and profit
able meeting at Ellsworth last Sat
urday. Prof. F. M. Jack and Miss
Pardee of the Normal and Supt. ].
w. T. Ames delivered addresses.
The street commissioner with a
force of men commenced the dig
ging of trench on Union street
yesterday for the laying of 4-inch
water mains. The main will ex-
tend the whole length of Union
street, from Main to 18th street.
The ladies of the M. E. church
hold their annual fair in the church
parlors Friday, Oct. 26. All kinds
of articles on sale at prices to suit.
Dinner served from 1870 to 1880;
supper from $50 to 8. You are
cordially invited to be present.
Mrs. E. L. Rash, who has been
spending the most of the summer
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J.
H. Langdon, will return the latter
part of the month to her home at
Cleveland, Ohio, where her husband
is teaching. Her sister, Miss Ma
mie, will accompany her and will
perfect herself in music by taking
the two year course at a conserva-
tory.
VIM. Hearst, the nominee of the
Democratic party of New York for
governor, owns seven newspapers,
some of which have an enormous
circulation. These newspapers are
in the big cities-the San Fran
cisco Examiner, the Los Angeles
Examiner, the Boston American,
the Chicago American, the Chicago
Examiner, the New York American
and the New York Evening Journal.
The new lake in the Salton Sink,
California, now covers 400 square
miles and is at some points 80 feet
deep and still rising. This sink is
282 feet below sea level. The Col
orado river in the freshet of the
spring of 1905 cut its banks at Yu-
ma, in the southwest part of Ari-
IONA, and all the waters run into
this sink, sleaving the bed of the
river dry clear to the Gulf of Cali
fornia. Efforts are being made to
return the river to it's former bed.
We are pleased to hear of the
continued good fortune of Harry N.
Pratt, late of this city. We learn
from the Umpqua Valley (Oregon)
News of recent date that the bank
of which Harry is cashier had just
taken up quarters in new build
ing. The Glendale National Bank
have put up building of brick and
stone construction, 50x7O feet, two
stories high. The banking rooms
are said to be the most convenient
and elegantly finished bank rooms
in southern Oregon. These rooms
were designed by Mr.. Pratt.
Members of the Normal School
faculty in attendance at the Teach
ers' Association in Ellsworth last
Saturday were; President and Mrs.
Brier. Professor and Mrs. Jack,