River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-09

Ilwaco Springs water is lust The
drink for this season as it is for al
seasons,
| r. S. Robson, at one time sheriff
and again candidate for the office
was in the city Monday.
There are seven avowed candi
dates for sheriff in this county
The office is considered one of the
best in the county.
Rev. D. B. Spencer and family
are located at Shell Lake in g
summer cottage. They will be
gone all this month.
There were 81 applicants writing
for certificates at the institute ex-
aminations for teachers at Els
worth last Thursday.
Prof. H. L. Wilson is holding a
teachers institute at Shell Lake
this week. His family went up
Monday to stay for time.
Adolph Johnson, the present
sheriff of St. Croix county, will be a
candidate for member of the assem-
bly, for that county this fall.
Mrs. F. D. Harding who died at
her home in Hudson July 81 was
said to have been the first white
child born in the ST. Croix Valley.
She was born in May, 1847.
The Insane Asylum at Menom-
onie was damaged to the extent of
81, 900 by lightning on Wednesday
of last week and the Asylum al
New Richmond was struck the same
afternoon.
There are three candidates for
sheriff of St. Croix county, all OF
them former candidates for the
office, but who have heretofore fail
ed of the nomination-Sonju, Hal
vorsop and Kealey.
The Dunn County Fair will be
held in Menomonie Sept. IL, II, 19
and IA, this year. A new half-mile
race track has been laid, new stables
erected and a large addition to the
grandstand has been built.
Louis, Turnquist is working on
the sheriff's quarters and jail at
Ellsworth. The building hereto
fore used by the county officers is
being converted into a dwelling
house with a jail fitted up in the
north end of the building.
Mrs. A. L. Balding and children,
Fred, Albert and Mary, and Mrs.
M. A. Huntress returned to their
homes in Minneapolis last Thurs
day after a weeks sojourn at
Spring Dale Farm with Mr.. and
Mrs. E. B. Armstrong.
The north part of'the state will
have a short crop of potatoes but
through this section the crop is a
promising one, SO far, and it seems
that no serious damage can now
come to them unless this month
should be excessively hot and wet
to cause rotting.
The city authorities have trim
med up the trees along the streets.
The foliage of trees is very dense
this summer and trees have made
remarkable growth. Limbs of trees
were looping over the sidewalks SO
as to interfere with electric light
and telephone wires and to some ex-
tent interfering with travel.
Hon. ]. J. jenkins has been in
vited to speak at the meeting of the
American Bar Association at ST.
Paul Aug. 29-31. AS chairman OF
the house committee on the Judi.
ciary Congressman Jenkins can
give the lawyers much information
on the Legislative processes of the
| National Congress.
There is. a great cry for reform in
politics and business methods and
it is generally conceded that con
ditions may be made better but a
great deal of this demand for re.
form is simply and solely to get an
office. That much of it has been
so in this state is patent to any but
those who are blind from choice.
Thomas Armstrong and Miss
Josephine Armstrong of Minneapo
lis arrived last Friday evening tc
spend a few weeks with Mr.. and
Mrs. E. B. Armstrong at Spring
Dale Farm, after which Thomas
Armstrong leaves for Iowa City
University where he is engaged to
teach Mechanical and Civil .Engi.
neering.
The teachers institute came to g
close yesterday, after the most sue.
cessfu1 session in the history of the
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