River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-18

!. Miss Eva Ames visited at Els
worth Saturday, guest of Miss
: Grace Atkinson.
Mrs. Arthur Christopherson and
children of ST. Paul are visiting in
the city, guests of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. George Fortune
, Winter apples are worth $3.50 to
$5.0 in car lots. We offer our en-
tire stock while they last at $3.75
per barrel.-Allard Stewart Co.
But little wood has been brought
in this week because of the bad
roads. The weather has been so
mild thus far this winter, added to
the fact of the more general use of
coal, as 10 make sales of wood rath-
er slow.
When the present supply of Hook
ing Valley coal here is exhausted
there will probably be no more in
this winter. There is none at the
head of the Lakes and if more is
brought here it must be shipped
from Chicago which will add about
40 cents more ton to the freight
over the cost when brought from
Superior. Plenty of hard coal avail
able.
The Joint installation and ban
quet by the G. A. r. and w. R. c..
of 1. N. Nichols Post last Saturday
afternoon was attended by nearly
one hundred members of the two
orders. The installation ceremonies
were excellently and impressively
rendered and the banquet, gotten
up and served by the old soldiers,
was fine, as the generous commend
alton of the ladies of the w. R. c..
attested.
Last Sunday the Methodist Sun
day school elected officers for 1906:
C. T. Ritchey, Superintendent;
Rev. E. P. Sanderson, Assistant
Superintendent; Dorothy Rogers,
Secretary; Mrs. j. S. Wadsworth,
Treasurer; Violet Sanderson and
Myrtle Hanson, Librarians; Mary
Richards, Pearl Miller and Eta
Chapman, Organists; Walter Chap
man, Leader. The school is now
larger than ever before and very
prosperous.
There is quite an open pond
where the Kinnickinnic Ice Co. has
taken out ice. II will take quite a
number of cold nights to make this
area safe for skaters. Teachers
and parents should warn the kids
to keep off until it is demonstrated
that the ice is sufficiently strong to
support a crowd, and if the City
Marshal should keep an eye on the
situation he might prevent disas-
ter. The pond is deep where this
open water appears.
There will be a necktie sociable
and auction sale at Odd Fellows
Hall, Friday evening, Jan. rs. 9th
er entertainment. is being arranged
for by the committee. Every lady,
young or old, who comes will please
bring a box containing ample lunch
for two, and a necktie made of any
desirable material to match a bow
she will wear. Gents purchasing
boxes will find partners by match
making. Hall open at 7:30. No
admission fee. COMMITTEE.
The mild weather has been ad-
vantageous to potato shippers and
a number of cars have been lately
shipped out. Shippers paid 40
cents a bushel here last week.
There are lots of potatoes and those
who are holding for $1.00 a bushel
in the spring are likely to be disap-
pointed. Of course there is more
expense to shipping now than there
will be in the spring, as extra pre-
cautions have to be taken to keep
from freezing and large risk assum-
ed from the danger of freezing.
The fire. alarm bell reused up and
routed out the firemen Tuesday at
1870 p. m. by an alarm of fire in
Mrs. Sarah Tozer's house on 4th
street. The damage occasioned by
the fire was slight and the fire was
extinguished without bringing the
hose into use. The cause of the
alarm was the separation of the
pipe from the furnace in the base
ment. The woodwork near the pipe
took fire but the fire was put out
before gaining much Roadway.
Smoke caused the most annoyance.
A young man of this city has been
elevated to sudden prominence and
popularity by the rurnor that, as the
heir of a rich uncle, he had come in