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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-10

Saturday evening, Jan. S, River
Falls Lodge, l. o. o. F. installed
officers elect for the ensuing term.
A large number of Odd Fellows and
Rebekahs and their families were
present. An oyster supper was
served during the evening, followed
by songs and instrumental music.
Following are the officers for the en-
suing half year:
RIVER FALLS LODGE, NO. 1919. Lo.o.F.
N. G.-L. p. Peterson
V. Cavalier Campbell
SEGA. V. Lovely
p. S.-P. f. Lowell
r. s. N. G.-Geo. Theo. Smith
L. S. N. GA l.. Smith
W.-Walter Patterson
Con. f. A. Howe
o. G-Henry Brown
r. S. V. &C. G. Knowes
L. s. V. G.-Fred Erman.
H. 8. S.-Andrew Cederberg
l.. S, S.-Arthur Chapman
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-10

This office has on file bound cop
les of every issue of the JOURNAL
since 1872. These record every
event of the community that has &C.
Cured in the past "a years-a gener-
alton. These files are great con-
ven;ence in defining important hap
penings. The record in the JOUR-
nal is proof positive of local
history. If your memory fails to
locate a past event, consult our
files.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-10

Remember the canned goods sale.
1Oc corn we will sell at. ..06
Pears, lb. can. .12H
Peaches, 3 Id. can, heavy syrup. 20
A nice pink salmon, q for 25c
At NoRsENGs'.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-10

Nels Shambo of Lucas recently
cut pine tree on section II in that
town, that scaled 5000 feet and sold
for 5000. II made eight 12-foot logs.
This was the largest tree in Dunn
county. Dunn Co. News.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-10
Advertised Letters.

List of unclaimed letters in the
Postofice at River Falls for the
week ending Jan. 5, 1907:
Mrs. Edward Gehrle.
Mrs. w. Hall.
Tom Hamilton.
c. c. GLASS, P. M.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-10

The Ladies Aid Society of the
Congregational church will meet
with Mrs. o. w. Newcomb on Thurs :
day P. M. Jan. IL at half past two
o'clock. MRS. KNIGHT, sec.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-10

blllS dllOWeu, all Young aye.
J. R. Berkey appeared in behalf of the N. w .
Telephone Exchange Co. and requested that
the company be allowed to set poles on
certain streets designated by plat fled.
After examination of the plat and making
some changes on motion the petition was
granted.
Bid of Milton Savage for trees in love- mill
pond opened and on motion accepted.
On motion voted. that the superintendent
of the electrict light plant prepare and submit
to the Council rules to govern the employees
in his department.
On motion voted that the wages to be paid
to the regular employees in the electric light
department for the ensuing year be as follows;
To the LIST Asst in Powerhouse. $50 per no.
I'd 1913 6
Assistant Electrician $50 "
On motion adjourned.
] ALLEN p. WELD, City Clerk,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-10
Butter Wanted.

All the FIRsT-CLAss dairy butter
we can get for our Hudson store.
Top price paid.
STEWART & GRIMM.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-10
The Weather Record

Noted at 6 o'clock a. m. at the
Normal School by. F. A. Thayer.
Friday, Jan. q. 6 degrees above @
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-10
Council Proceedings.

COUNCIL CHAMBER, CITY OF RIVER FALLS,
January 4th, 1907.
Regular meeting of the Common Council.
Council convened at o'clock p m. Pres.
Pratt in the chair, Mayor White being absent.
Aldermen present, Williams, Elliott Pratt
and Freeman.
Minutes of meeting of Dec. 81 read and app
proved.
Finance committee reported the following
claims approved:
City Treasurer amount paid for principal
and int due Iar 1cf IN n Tor mon
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-10
DR.. c. E. ROBERTS,
OPTOMETRIST


Will make his next regular visit
to River Falls Jan. 22-23, Office at
City Hotel.
EYESTRAIN AND HEADACHES.
If you are subject to headaches
and nervousness good optical ad-
vice should be taken at once. Many
persons have eyes which differ
slightly in strength, and the small
but constant strain causes head
aches, nervousness and irritability.
Half the pleasure of life is lost,
and the earning power diminished
by defective eyesight. The man
with spectacles is often better
workman than the man without.
Spectacles had ought to be worn
whenever the eyes are weak and
easily tired. Whenever the eyes are
odd. Whenever objects at dis
lance are not seen clearly.
WANTED-To trade for Is cords
&c 1@f0ol~ -, q y11o mood
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-10
LOCAL ITEMS.

Jenson's.
Norman Forsyth left Friday for
Havre, Montana.
Capt. H.. C. Doughty was over
from Prescott Saturday.
Mrs. l. H. Smith is visiting
friends at Braham, Mimi.
Hans Olson returned from the
pineries Tuesday evening.
Miss Anna Nachaze1 is visiting
her sister, Mrs. Frank Beers.
N. ]. Johnson of North Yakima,
Wash, is visiting friends here.
Bernard Simon returned Monday
from two weeks visit at Marshheld.
Albert Cederberg of Dawson,
Mimi, is visiting with August Beorn.
Next Meeting of Trinity Guild will
be Wednesday Jan. 80 at A. Symes ;,
The Normal girls give dance in
Odd Fellows hall tomorrow night.
Herm an Scheik was recently ap-
pointed postmaster at Shafer, N.
D.
Otto Anderson of Menomonie was
a business visitor in the city Tues
day.
Mrs. Agnes Devine of Mason is
here on visit to her mother, Mrs.
Morrow.
President Brier returned from his
vacation trip to the Pacific coast
Monday.
Mark Hammond was oyer from
St. Paul last week on visit to his
mother.
Mrs. o. w. Newcomb entertained
company of friends at luncheon
last Thursday.
Miss Alice Hemenway returned
last week to her teaching at Living
stone, Montana.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Shella of Ger
trude spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. K. L. Lien.
Miss Claire Chalupsky is one of
the OPP orators of the Twin City Tel
ephone Co. here.
The Misses Isabel and Beatrice
Utman of Hudson visited friends
here over Sunday.
| Miss E. v. Ames of the high
school faculty spent the vacation at
her home at Appleton.
The annual meeting of the Con-
gregational church society will be
held Saturday, Jan. II.
Elmer Lowell of Coggswell, N.
D., is here on visit to his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. P. F. Lowell.
Geo. ]. Dodge and wife spent
Sunday with Mr.. Dodge's brother,
w. S. Dodge, in Ellsworth.
Joseph Adams was in Minneapo-
lis during the holiday week, assist
ing A. F. Morgan in his store.
VIM. Shella went up to Mime
apolis Saturday for short visit
with his friend, Jas. Tanning.
John Reynolds returned Friday
from months visit to relatives in
the southern part of the state.
Lutte Musser, Lewis Nelson and
Louis Henry transacted business in
Hudson last Tuesday afternoon.
You can have your eyes examined
at Hotel Parker Jan. 22d, 23d, and
oath, by c. H. Todd, Optometrist.
Waite H. Squire of Duluth, MINI.
was in the city Monday in the inter
est of the New York Life ms. Co.
| $500 per day guaranteed to lady
solicitor for spices and extracts
Address G. G. E., River Falls, Wis
Miss Vida Woodbury. of Seattle
Wash, is visiting relatives in thu
city, guest of Mrs. Mary D. Morse
The grip is said to be about
Haye you got it? Or has it got you
1t is good thing not to be in it
grip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Malberg o
Coggswell, N. D., are guests OF
Mr.. Malberg's brother, Chas. Nal
. berg.
Miss Ella Mangan of Bay City Wis
tied in the city Friday and Saturda,
while on her way to her school a
Olivet.
DR.. Stephen Williams is at New
Richmond attending the patients o
DR.. F. S. Wade, who is Temporarily
out west.
Ernest Grossert and wife have re
S turned from a two weeks visit wit
d friends at WATERFOWL and James
J vile, Wis.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-10

WANTED-To trade for Is cord:
of block maple wood.
A T. CARROLL,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-10

The official figures on the vote in
the state, now complete, gives Gov
ernor Davidson a plurality of 1924
votes. Connor's plurality for lieu
tenant governor was 1854; Frear's
for secretary of state, 78,425; Dahl's
for treasurer, 1881; Gilbert's for
attorney general. 79,029 and Bea-
dies for insurance commissioner,
1906. Congressman Jenkins had
a plurality of 1856.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-10
Tuesday Club.
PROGRAM, Jan. Is.

PROGRAM, Jan. Is.
Agriculture and Horticulture of Holland
Mrs. E. Van Voorhis
The North Sea Mrs. A. p Weld
Amsterdam Mrs. Lucy knight
Rhyks Art Museum Miss Alice n. Shultes
Hostess Mrs. Z. Van Voorhis
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-08-08
Thanks, Brother DucklDOrfh !

In the course of his fine address to the recent
State Convention of the Farmers Union of
Georgia, President R. F. Duckworth was gen..
erous enough to say:
eve have been greatly assisted in the last
few months by other publications some of
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-08-08

them running Farmers Union departments
We appreciate all such assistance. It would
not be out of place here to make special men
ton of the assistance rendered us by Hon.
Thomas E. Watson through his publications,
which is greatly appreciated by the members
throughout the state"
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-08-08
Clark HOheH'S Editorial.

a
In Sundays Constitution, the leading edi-
torial, The Late Georgia Democracy" is an
epoch mark.
In frank recognition of actual facts, in broad
ness of view, in magnanimity Of temper, this
editorial does honor to the head and the heart
of Clark Howell.
For his generous illusions to myself | sit-
Cerely thank him.
There is just one thought that [ would sug
gest to him. His headline should have been:
"Sham Democracy dead in Georgia, and real
Democracy triumphant"
have never made war upon organized Dem
ocracy because it was Democratic. Oh, no.
My fight was against those who took the grand
old historic name, and used it as branding
iron for policies and principles which were the
reverse of Democratic.
In other words, my long fight has been made
for Democracy-not against it. Always I have
claimed to be Jeffersonan Democrat
| am nothing else, now.
And I am ready now, as l have ever been, to
march side by side, and fight shoulder to shou1-
der with those who think more of the true prin-
ciples of Democracy than they do of party
names
Let all of us quit bothering ourselves about
the tag and the brand, and the label. Let us
concern ourselves with the genuineness of the
goods. Let all of us cease to worry over party
names and party success Let us study public
questions on their merits, AND VOTE, AS
REASON DICTATES, FOR THE BEST IN
TERESTS OF OUR COUNTRY.
Heretofore, the great question with the aver
age organized Democrat has been,
Have we got the right branding iron?
Hereafter, let us take some pains to have the
right cow
The branding iron may be yours all right
enough but if you've gone and corralled the
other fellows cow-look out for trouble.
THE LATE GEORGIA DEMocRAcYI
There are few things so strange that they may not
be surpassed in strangeness. Accustomed to this
character Of events these days. Injured to them by
their slow processes of evolution, almost cease to
wonder until hauled up short by simple refer
ence or incident and brought face to face with bald
protrudng truth. Ten years ago the wreck of
ganized Democracy would have been viewed with
horror in Georgia. Today it is accomplished without
a ripple of excitement. Not that any has ground
OF complaint on the contrary, only the people
concerned and 1t is the popular will that makes 1t
The people are the supreme arbiters of their tenn
poral destiny, and their demands must find
departments which they have created.
But 1t is not so many years ago that the call Of
Democracy or of the Democratic party superior
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-08-08
Food For Thought.

The pack is in full cry after the railroads
So be it. The railroads deserve every jolt
they get. Their management has been high
headed, arrogant, arbitrary, tyrannica1,
scornfu of public opinion, contemptuous
of private censure, disregardful of indi-
viduai and public rights.
They have squandered their money fighting
the laws which they ought to have obeyed
Thev have wasted on lobbyists, newspapers,
and special COUNSEL the money which ought
to have been spent in the improvement of the
service To earn dividends on watered stock,
they have shed blood like water.
Such management deserves to be made ito
smell helP'-a1d from the looks of their noses,
they are getting few whiffs.
But this railroad question has a good many
other questions coupled up with it. and we
must study these, also, as we go along
Why is it that the Chambers of Commerce
and The Freight Bureaux and the Labor Unions
refuse to help the people secure fat two
cent passenger rate?
Here is food for thought my son. YOU don't
need to be told that when railroad is made
to lower it's passenger rate, everybody gets the
benefit Rich and poor, black and white,
country and town, they all 'share, and
share alike" Whosoevevr rides on rail
road, pays less. The manufacturer,
the merchant, the laborer, the farmer-each
saves one cent a mile when passenger fares
drop from three cents to two cents per mile.
That's plain proposition, isn't it, son?
To be sure.
Well, then why should the Chambers of
Commerce and the Freight Bureaus of the
cities be Indifferent to the reduction; and why
should the Labor Unions oppose it?
Chew on this, my son.
Listen: With all of it's shortcomings our
Railroad Commission has reduced freight rates
about 100000 during the last few years.
Consequently, the consumers of manufactured
goods ought to be able to buy those goods at
least as cheaply they did few years ago.
But can they do SO? Not at all. In spite
of freight rate reductions, the farmers and 9th
er consumers are paying more than ever.
How is that?
Why, the manufacturer and the city jobber
have simply pocketed the 100000! And
more besides.
Just as soon as our Supreme Court decided
that the order of the Railroad Commission, re-
ducing the freight on stoves, must be obeyed
the price of stoves Immediately advanced.
The stove which was costing you $Io in
1905, was costing you $I3 in May, 1907. Then
came the Supreme Court Decision in favor
of the lower freight rate.
And the jobbers of the cities at once put a
five per cent increase to the price of the stove
making the $I3 stove of May, 1907, cost
you $I3.65, in June, 1907
These are facts, my son. Chew on them.
Tn 1905 freight rates from New York and
Boston to Atlanta were reduced 9 cents per
100 pounds, or $27 per carload of 10000
pounds on hats, mems clothing, blankets, dry
goods, etc. On iron ware, -four, bedsteads,
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-08-08

and many other articles, material reductions in
freight were made.
Yet what farmer, or aborer, or other con-
sumner, can buy hat cheaper than before the
freight reductions of 1905? Who can buy
suit of clothes cheaper; or calico dress or
pair of shoes or pair of blankets; or plow
ak, set of harness, bedstead, chair, or barrel
of flour?
The manufacturers and jobbers made the
railroads reduce freights on these goods to the
amount of two million dollars.
How much of this saving did the farmers
and other consumers get?
Not red cent!
Think it over, my son.
Shoes are classed among 'the necessaries
of life The manufacturer of shoes has always
been governmental pet. Special Privilege
extended it's protecting to the shoe-mak
5 ers of Lynn, Mass, before it did to anybody
else.
For more than a hundred years, this indus
try has been built up at the expense of others.
Foreign competition has been made pract-
cally impossible. Therefore, the trust was
easily organized. In 1905 the freight on shoes
coming into Georgia was reduced $87 per car
load
The manufacturers and jobbers advanced
the price $3,375 per car!
Hence, the people who buy shoes not only
failed to get one cents benefit from the reduc-
ton in freight, but are having to pay nearly
three thousand dollars per carload more for
boots and shoes.
Tough on the shoe-buyers-isn't it, son?
Similar showings can be made as to other
"necessares of life
Farmers are congratulating themselves up
on having forced the spinners to pay higher
price for raw cotton. Don't crow too soon,
dear friends.
Watch the price of all the manufactured ar
tcles which you are necessarily compelled to
buy. Study the price list of cotton goods!
WHAT THE SPINNERS ARE GIVING
YOU WITH ONE HAND, THEY ARE
TAKING AWAY WITH THE OTHER.
All of this is food for thought, my son.
The leaders of the great Farmers Union
will see to it that we have reduction in pas
senger rates which benefits all classes alike
and will see to it, also, that the purchasers of
manufactured goods get fair share in the
millions of dollars saved in freight rates.
In this great national fight for just trans
portation charges, we would be silly, indeed,
to do nothing more than to rake chestnuts out
of the fire for the manufacturers and jobbers.
Thanks, Brother DHckpOrth!
In the course of his fine address to the recent
State Convention of the Farmers Union of
ID
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-11-30

A recent visitor to Joaquin Millers
abode. mp among the mountains. found
the poet Of the Sicrras clad IN cordu-
roys, high boots, n big sombrero hat
and flowing locks you've barely
managed to catch me- he said Tn
only Just in from Oregon, where I'm
running for United States senator.
I'm going to win, too ! can't help it.
I'm the biggest and best 12a. TINS
recalls the earlier tribute TO himself
which he wrote to Walt Whitman:
You and are over the heads of the
rabble We know we are great, and
if other people don't know it, It Is
their own fault" Nevertheless. for
eloquent and pungent appreciation of
ones merits. few utterances have
eoualed George Francis Trains mem
orable remark that in mixing with MS
fellow men he always felt like CO.
coanut in bag of peanuts.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-11-30
Bible Recovered from sea.

A remarkable find was made by a
Shields (Eng) trawler while fish, 80
miles from the Tyne When the net
was hauled on deck Bible was re-
covered from the load Of fish. Inside
the book was a ticket of membership
of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and
Mariners Royal Benevolent society,
bearing the name of Martin Jensen. SO
Maxwell street, South Shields. and
dated January 80, 1907.
The Bible and shipwrecked mari
per's ticket were taken to the address
indicated, when Mrs. Jensen at once
claimed the Bible and ticket as the
property of her husband, who was
drowned nearly seven months ago by
the laundering Of the Tyne collier
Stag. The Bible and ticket we're In
an excellent state of preservation.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-11-30
WATER FROM SAND DUNES.
source OF Part OF the Netherlands
Drinking Supply.

The supply of water for Amsterdam
and The Hague is collected from sand
dunes bordering on the. sea. In the
dunes near Harlem, where they have
a width Of nearly two and half miles,
the SUBMITS are 20 to 20 feet above
the sea level. The quantity of rain
water percolating to the ground.water
streams Is estimated at 1.19 inches
per annum. From Amsterdam the
water is collected in open canals.
which are never excavated below sea
level. For The Hague 1t is collected
in stoneware pipes in bed of shells
laid at depth of 13 feet below sea
level. Harlem is beginning to build
wells so to 60 feet below sea level to
collect water. AS fresh water is found
lat such depth under the dunes. while
the water at the same depth in the
immediate neiAhborhood is salt. il is
thought that the hydraulic pressure of
the dune water prevents sea lmpres.
nation The water contains much iron
In solution and for this reason, as we'll
AS for other reasons, is filtered at the
three places mentioned before being
pumped into the mains, When the
water is collected in wells or pipes
II must be aeratod before being fiji.
tered
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-11-30
TRIED TO DElve oUr DEVIL.
Filipino Witch Doctor May Have
Caused Death OF Girl.

A Filipino girl, rs years Of age, was
beaten and tortured until hcr life IS
now In danger IN an attcmpt ia con-.
pei devil to leave her BODY The
operation was performed by one tseo-
lasticos Ramos, the husband of her
mother. and Tuburio Mahles. a witch
doctor The girl has been subject to
convulsions and these according TO
the doc or, were caused by a devil
who had taken abode ia he" body
At his suggestion it was decided TO
iiltreat the girl until the devil should
become uncomfortable and leave her.
Talting the gin into side room they
knocked her down and commenced TO
beat her with fists As the devil did
not seem TO leave It was decided that
the girl was not suffering enough rain.
Securing a large stiugaree whip they
beat her with this aud also used It to
scrape the skin from her face, arms
and body The girl is now al her
home in a serious condition, while the
two men are III custody. Manila
American
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-11-30
DUCKS ON A SPREE.
Trick Of Young Girl Yields Good Finan
cial Returns.

The 15-year-old daughter of a farm
er living on the shores of Chesapeake
bay, where wild ducks are found IN
greater numbers than anywhere else
In the United States, has proved her.
self better hunter than any of the
men who make living by it. She no.
ticed that at one spot hundreds Of
ducks came ashore to eat the sorrel
plant. She got a peck of corn, soaked
1t for two days in whisky, and then
at night scattered 1t on the ground
Her father laughed at the idea, but
he laughed too soon. The next morn
ing large number Of the ducks came
ashore for the sorrel. but took the
corn instead The result was that
over so of them were made so drunk
that they were easily captured on the
shore or by a boat, and the girl made
over $25 at one haul. Perhaps ducks
shouldn't be tempted to become
drunkards, but 1t is certainly an easy
and profitable way to gather them
in for the market. The wonder is
II the people who eat them will also
become hilarious?
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-11-30
EXPERIMENT WAS A FAILURE.
And Now Uncle Hezekiah Is Down on
Washington Officials.

by gosh, but Uncle HeZekiah Is
down on them Washington officials"
said the old farmer with the big
scythe. What is the trouble?" in
quired the windmill repairer. why,
you see, them Washington folks sent
out circular saying that 'skeeters'
could be killed with kerosene"
What happened them" "'Most ev-
erything happened, stranger; most
everything. You see, Uncle Hezekiah
tried the experiment He hunted
around half the morning and broke his
suspenders before he could ketch a
live 'skeeter. Then when he did ketch
one he took him out in the yard and
ducked his head down in a big can OF
kerosene While Uncle Hezekiah was
bending over the sun reflected
through the corner Of his spectacles
and set fire to the oil. Before Uncle
Hezekiah could get away Is burned OF
half his whiskers and exploded his eel
luliod collar. And worst of all, Uncle
Hezekiah isn't sure whether the
'skeeter was killed or not"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-11-30
Already Crowned.

THE late Paul Laurence Dunbar.
the negro poet" said an editor, "once
addresse.. a Sunday school in New
York An incident happened at its
end tha. Dunbar laughed at as heart
ily MS the rest Of us Dunbar, towards
the close Of his remarks. said: And,
nv little friends. II You do all these
things some day you will wear gold
crown. Yes, each OF you some day
will wear a gold crown A lille chap
in the front row. catching the poets
friendly eye. piped; My fader wears
one now MOI said the poet. Yes,
he does--on his toof.' said the little
hap."--Home Magazine.