River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-02

The maple sugar crop was much
better than had been expected at the
beginning of the season. Frequent
freezing nights kept the sap run
ming for weeks.
Mr.. Hartman says that he would
rather go to the penitentiary than to
the poorhouse. He seems to be
making strong efforts to keep out of
the one by qualifying for the other.
The Board of Supervisors of
Pierce county in 1900 fixed the aver
age price of farm lands in the coun-
ty at S. an acre. The Board of
1906 valued the same land at $24.22
an acre.
The Somerset doctor still seems
to draw as we'll as his plasters; there
were about twenty-five people in
town Yesterday on their way to con-
suit him.-New Richmond Republi-
can Voice.
Mrs. L. P. Whitcomb, who had
spent the winter with her daughter,
Mrs. E. T. Morley, at Jordan, Mimi,
has returned and will resume house
keeping in her own residence in the
city after a short visit with her son
Cotton in Kinnickinnic.
Auction.
H. C. Walker will sell his house
and lots and household goods, cor
ner of Main street and Cascade ave.,
at public auction, Saturday, May IL.
An Oklahoma girl advertised for
husband and got him. The total
expense for advertising, wedding
outfit, etc., was $11.0O. The hus-
band died within year, leaving
his widow an insurance policy of
$40, OOO-and some claim that it
doesn't pay to advertise.
The hearing of Ed. Rodewald,
who shot Briggs about a year ago,
is held at Ellsworth to-day, prepar-
atory to getting the case on the
docket at the spring term of court.
Rodewald has been held pending the
result of the injury to Briggs, who
is now able to be up and about.
H. w. Morrow of this city and
VIM. Morrow of Ellsworth went to
Thompson, N. D., Tuesday to at
tend the funeral of their brother,
Robert Morrow, who died at Edge
water, Colorado, Monday, as the
result of a cold contracted on a
railway train stalled in blizzard
the past winter.
The Choral Union, which has
been drilled through the winter by
Prof. F. M. Jack, will give concert
in the Methodist church May 16.
The Union comprises the majority
of the singers of the community and
the excellent drill and practice they
have received under Professor Jack
in ensemble singing prepares them
to give one of the finest musical en-
tertainments the city has ever known.
Alvin Davies, the famous tenor So
loist Of Westminster church, Min
neapolis, will assist the Union in
this concert. Thursday evening,
May l6, M. E. church.
Court Kinnickinnic No. 80, Unit
ed Order of Foresters, had an uuus-
ual stunt Mon day evening when a
large class of neophytes were init
ated. Some twenty-five Foresters
from St. Paul were present, a de-
gree team from that city perform
ing the degree work. A. A. Riel,
state organizer for Wisconsin, has
been here for two weeks, the result
of Monday evening showing the eff
ficiency of his labors. A banquet
was served at the conclusion of the
ceremonies.
The Milton Dairy Company receiv-
ed it's electric motor Tuesday and
City Electrician Buck set it up yes
terday. The motor is IL horse
power. This runs the agitators
and the churn. A steam boiler is
used to heat water for pasteurizing
and cleaning. The Company is
now all ready to make butter. Here
tofore the cream gathered about
here has been sent to ST. Paul to be
churned. 1t is an advantage to
both the Dairy Co. and its patrons
that the cream should be churned
here rather than at st. Paul.
The "Trip Around the World" an
entertainment given by the Young
Mems and Young Women's Chris
tian Association of the Normal
school in the gymnasium last Sat
urday night, was fairly we'll attend
"a - co;+a of +ba blizzard that WAS