River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-31

Andrew Elliffson returned form
Mott, Hettinger county, N. D., last
week to spend the winter.
Mrs. John Lundquist went to Min
neapolis Tuesday on visit to her
sister, Mrs. Title Johnson.
Fred Briggs expects to move to
Washington soon, with the inten-
tion of locating near Wanatchee.
The Ladies Aid Society of the M.
E. church will meet in the church
parlors next Thursday afternoon,
Nov. 7.
The high school foot ball teams of
River Falls and Ellsworth play at
Ellsworth next Saturday between
trains.
Mrs. E. G. Farnsworth is down
from Minneapolis attending her
sister-in-law, Mrs. Olmstead, and
daughter, who are both quite ill.,
Mrs. Walter Glass has returned
from Truro, N. D., where she had
been with her husband on the farm
since last spring. Mr.. Glass will
return later.
Miss M. Louise Foster of SILVIA
ter, representing the Bay City Knit
ting Co. of Bay City, Mich, will be
in River Falls the first week in No
vember to deliver goods ordered.
C. ]. Augustine, who sold the
Glenwood Tribune to Yates & Hull,
has bourht it back. Mr.. Augustine
has been recognized as one of the
best editorial writer's in this part OF
the state.
Mrs. Edmund Nicholson returned
last night from Eau Claire, where
she had spent a week with her
mother, Mrs. Carrie Peterson. Her
sister, Mrs. Hilda Sather of Monde
vi, came up with her to visit her
sister, Mrs. G. A. Smith.
A military highway, s feet wide
and 1880 miles long, has been
opened the past summer from Ed
monitor, Alberta, N. w. T., to Daw-
son on the Yukon river in Alaska,
New discoveries of gold, iron ore,
copper, oil, coal, asphaltum, silver
and many other minerals were found
on the route through the Rocky
mountains.
Fred Chinook and family, for
merly of River Falls, are now resi-
dents of Wabena, Wisconsin. Mr..
Chinook has charge of the Office
and yard of the Jones Lumber Co.
They are among the largest hard
wood manufacturing concerns in
the country. They also do business
in other lumber, They ship hard
wood lumber to the Pacific coast,
They are exclusively wholesalers.
Six states Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, New Jersey, Maryland, Mis-
sissippi and Kentucky-each elect
a governor and state legislature
next Tuesday, November S. The
cities of New York and Cleveland
hold election for municipal officers
and both factions in these cities are
exerting themselves to secure the
advantage. But two states, Massa-
chusets and Rhode Island, hold
annual elections for state officers
and legislatures. Twenty states
elect a governor for two-year
term, the remainder, except Mas
sachusetts and Rhode Island elect
for a four-year term.
There has been considerable eX-
element in financial and business
circles the past week on account of
the EXCEPTIONAL stringency manifested
in the money market. The move
ment of the vast amount of crops
raised in the west this year demand
ed more money than could be Sc
cured on the instant. Banking in
stitutions are holding the situation
conservatively and safeguarding
their reserves by paying upon pre-
sented checks sparingly and there
is no probability of panic. The
banks are abundantly able to cope
with conditions providing deposit
tors do not lose their heads and
make run on these institutions,
Mrs. Chinook, nee Chase of Riv-
er Falls, is like Dorcas of old, full
of good works, being superintendent
of the Presbyterian and Union Sun
day school in Wabena, which includes
in it's membership all evangelical
Christians. Mr.. Chinook is the
very efficient teacher of the bible
class. He is also and has been ac-
tive in Odd Fellowship and was
member of the Grand Lodge when
it met at Appleton. One daughter