River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-01

The Fern Club will meet mex,
Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. M
Bergman.
Miss Irene Wilde of Minneapolis
spent last week with Miss Nettie
Rockstad.
Mrs. c. A. Smith and three chill
dren returned from Eau Claire
Tuesday evening.
George Chinook of Gettysburg,
S. D., is visiting bis parents, Mr.
and Mrs. c. o. Chinook.
Guy Whipple was over from Min.
neapolis Friday and Saturday on a
visit 10 friends in this city.
Miss Ada Taylor returned Satur-
day from a three weeks visit with
friends at Pennington, Mimi.
Mrs. Nick Rottier of Dodgeville
is visiting in the city, guest at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Belden Eaton.
Mrs. ]. Lorraine Truesdell has
rented the Dresser house, corner of
Third and Spring streets, for resi-
dence.
Mrs. Craig Randall and children,
who had spent month at Amery
returned to their home in this city
yesterday.
Miss Gertrude Stone of Crooks
ton, Mimi, is the guest of her
aunts, Mrs. A. P. Weld and Mrs. F.
D. Ensign.
The Improvement League holds
it's next regular meeting next Mon
day afternoon at the English Luth-
eran church at $3.50.
Miss Ella Dodge is attending the
central telephone station of the
Northwestern in the absence OF
Miss Myrtle Hendrix.
Herman Bohnert was out in pleas
ant Valley last week building stone
abutments for bridges on the roads.
He put up the stone work for the
bridge near Chris Nelson's.
The w. c. T. u. will meet in the
parlors of the Methodist church
Friday afternoon, Aug. 2, at 2:3O
o'clock. Subject of meeting, Fran
els Murphy-His Life and Work"
Members of Rebekah staff and all
others of the lodge interested in the
work are kindly requested to meet
at the hall Monday evening, Aug. 5,
for the purpose of degree practice.
Admiral Yamomoto in speaking of
reporters said with difficulty, Much
lies with the pen." If he had
understood English better he would
have used the word many" instead
of much"
Miss Lillian Phelps of St. Gather
ines, Ontario, who gave the lecture,
1.-THE Eternal City," at the Chau
tauqua assembly in the M. E. church
last week, was the guest of Mrs. w.
D. Parker while in the city.
The women of Hudson organized
a society last week similar to the
Improvement League of this city.
The object of the Hudson women in
organizing is to improve the appear
ance of the streets and the lake
front.
The following item from the st.
Paul Dispatch, under the heading,
pitcher Was It." gives great credit
to pitcher Carl Lien of this city:
Devils Lake defeated Leeds in a
fifteen-inning game. The feature of
the game was the pitching and bat
ting of Lien. In the ninth he tied
the score with a two-baSe hit, and
won his own game in the fifteenth
with a home run"
Rev. F. w. Harris and wife, who
had been visiting in Grant and La
Fayette counties, are attending the
Monona Lake Assembly at Madison.
They are expected home next
Wednesday. Services will be held in
the M. E. church next Sunday as
usual, Rev. James Evans preach
ing in the morning, and Rev. E. P.
Sauderson in the evening.
A party of tramp horse traders
were loafng around here the first
of the week. 1t is strange that
two parties can trade horses with
each other and both make money by
the transaction. We heard a man
say he had traded horses, starting
with a saw horse, until he owned a
good team and had not paid out a
dollar. We had always supposed
in such cases that what one party
made the other lost.
Certain kinds of indigenous vege-
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