River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-22
Insect Powder
at
Freeman's Drug Store.

We had no mail at this place from
Saturday evening to Tuesday noon.
Bridges were out between here and
Ellsworth.
A disastrous fire occurred on the
farm of Albert Roemley in Troy a
week ago last night. The fire des-
troyed large barn of Mr.. Roemley
with its contents of hay together
with seven horses and several head
of young cattle. The property was
insured in the River Falls Farmers
Mutual. "A further misfortune over
took Mr.. Roemlev Sunday night,
when a horse he had Just purchased
was killed by lightning.
The following named graded
schools in this county are accredit-
ed by the action of the Board of Re
gents of Normal Schools to the
Normal Schools of the state, and
graduates of these schools will be
admitted without examination to
the first years work in the State
Normal Schools: Glenwood, Maid
en- Rock, Plum City. High School
graduates are admitted to the third
years work.
The birthday picnic of the I'm
provement League for August and 4
September will be held in the park
on next Friday afternoon-Aug. %.
This picnic is planned to be the
largest, the best and the jolliest we
have yet held, as the husbands Of
the ladies are cordially invited to be
present and share the fun and en-
JOY the good supper. It is hoped
that every lady in the league will be
on hand with her eatables, her dish
es and an extra nickel for her hus-
band. If none of the birthday
ladies forget their age pennies, the
sum total will add goodly amount
to our treasury.
The only instance of personal in
jury resulting from Sunday nights
storm here that we have heard Of
was that to Eddie Fillbach. He
came to the city from his home two
miles west and hitched his horse in
front of the Delmonico restaurant.
About ten o'clock the rain suggest
ed to him that he put his horse in
the livery barn. He was unhitCh
ing him when he was struck down
by the upper part Of the front of
the Ritchey hardware building that
had been blown off When the lum-
Der was removed from his body he
was found unconscious. He was
first taken into the restaurant where
he was found to be badly injured.
He was carried over to Lords livery
and DR.. Cairns called to his assist
ance. The doctor attended him
through the night. The next day
he was taken to the home of Jose
plus Bailey near the public school
house. All day Monday he was in a
precarious condition and it was
feared his spine was injured. Tues
day he rallied and an examination
showed that no injury had occurred
to the spine. Tuesday afternoon
he was taken home, and is reported
as making good progress toward
recovery.
There is probably no word in the
language that does not have mean
ing, inherent in itself. Even the
connectiyes possibly were construct
ed upon intelligent lines. We never
stop to think that all personal
names are the result of circumstan-
ces or qualities. All these names
were given men because of some
thing attaching to them-as Baker,
Tyler, Smith, etc. The Smith is
one who "smites upon the iron
on the anvil with a hammer. Tyler
was the tyle-layer. This distin-
guished the man as to his sir name
the family name. The Christian
name was supposed to be given the
baby on account of some reason APP
parent or suggested from the indi-
viduality = popularity - personal
quality. Names given the female
children are supposed to distin-
guish them in accordance with the
name-Grace, Flora, Amy (beloved)
Augusta, Beatrice, Edith (happi-
nes) Belle (the beautifully, Vivian
(livery), Rosa, Sarah "a princess),
Margaret IA PEARL, and SO on, ct
cetera.