River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-02-07

Investigate, and you will be con.
vinced that every article Rasmussen
offers for sale is a bargain. Don't
miss the sacrifice sale.
| Carrie Schmidt and Adam Hug
married at Addison last week.
Spring Valley girls can get a hug
without marrying for it.-Spring
Valley Sun.
The tramp was Intercepted with
this impertinent question: What
makes your nose SO redf" His an
swer was pertinent: Madam, it is
blushing with pride because it is
never stuck into other peoples bust
ness
DR.. w. G Fortune is now conven-
iently located for business in the
building south of the Office of Geo.
Fortune & Co. DR.. Fortune has
had successful experience as Den
fist, his work giving excellent salts
faction.
Craig Randall has rented his farm
to Chas. Leavitt. of this city who
takes immediate possession. Mr..
Randall has leased the F. D Ensign
house, just north of Prof. E. L.
Ewing's, into which he will move
his family next Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pete Conradson of
Baldwin came to the city Friday and
visited over Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Matt. Elertson. Mr.. Conradson
is brother of Mrs. Elertson. They
went from here to South St. Paul to
visit another sister of Mr.. Conrad
son.
A bill has been introduced in the
state senate referring to the form
of the official ballot. 1t proposes
that the circle under party 6esigna-
tons be removed and requiring that
a cross he placed in front of each
name voted for. The bill should be-
come law.
E. E. Finch, who has been in the
employment of w. ]. Dyer & Broth
er, piano dealers, ST. Paul, has Sc
cured position with a Cincinnati
manufacturing firm as superintend-
ent of their advertising department.
Mr.. and Mrs. Finch will move to
Cincinnati soon.
Mr.. and Mrs. V. E. Bailey enter
tanned the young people of the Con-
gregational church at their home
Friday evening. The members of
the Christian Endeavor society join
ed the gathering after the close of
their business meeting held at the
home of Miss Irma Armstrong.
A law has recently been enacted
granting homestead settlers in the
northwest three-months' leave of
absence from their homestead
claims in consequence of the severe
weather conditions Reports come
from North Dakota that whole fam
lilies had frozen toSdeath before this
relief was passed.
Ole Void lived in Spring Valley.
He had a wife, one son and four
daughters. Void died of consump-
ton. Then one after another of the
family expired, after lingering i'll
ness with the disease. The last to
succumb to the insidious disease
was the youngest daughter who ex-
pired the 9th ult, aged IA years.
A. E. Jefferson, who had been con-
nected with the First National Bank
of Hudson for nearly forty years,
and its president for the past fifteen
years, has resigned the presidency
on account of advanced age and To-
Gates in California. He is still one
of the directors of the bank. w. H.
Phipps has been elected president.
The daily papers are SO anxious
to get news that they must necessa-
rily manufacture some out of whole
cloth. In the same daily last week
might have been noticed two items,
one of which being true the other
could not. Roosevelt fears war
with Japan, which is sure to come. ;"
THE trouble between the United
States and Japan has been settled"
March 81, 1906, there were 216,973
miles of railroad in operation in the
United States. For the year end
| ing on that date the railway trains
carried 38,834, 667 passengers.
The number of employees of these
roads was 1882, 1876. During the
year 3,71S employees were killed in
accidents and 1872 passengers per-
ished in collisions or derailments.
There are bills before the legis1a-
lures of several states for taxing