River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-06-20

The Normal commencement eX-
ercies are being held this week.
The school graduates 70 this year
so in the full course and 20 in the
Elementary.
The managers of the Northwest
ern Railway system have arranged
for a Sunday train on the River
Falls and Ellsworth branch-begin-
ming next Sunday and continuing
through the summer.
Carl Lien returned the last of last
week from Beloit where he had
been attending college. He has an
engagement to play ball with a
team at Devils Lake, N D., for
which point he left Monday.
Pearl Miller and Ethel Chapman
of the Epworth League of the M, E.
church were elected delegates of
the society to the Epworth League
convention of the Eau Claire dis.
trict held at Glenwood June 20-23.
Martin Stenerson of the Normal
school goes to Lake Geneva to-day
as delegate of the Y. M. c. A. soci-
ETY. of the Normal to the convention
of the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation in session there June 1925.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wellesley Vannatta
attended the commencement exer-
cises of the University of Minnesota
at Minneapolis last week. Miss
Pansy Cograye, niece of Mr.. Van
malta, was graduate in the senior
class of this year.
M. E. Culhane and wife of Brook
ings, S. D., are guests at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Langdon.
Mrs. Culhane is niece of Mr.. Lang
don. Mr.. Culhane recently gradu-
ated from the law school of the Uni
versity Of Minnesota.
Speaking of trout fishing-the
Menomonie Times of last week tells
of an angler at Menomonie who
caught three trout on June 8
that weighed IA pounds. One
weighed eight pounds, one four
pounds and one two.
Ned Hardy and wife of Mime
apolis were called here the first of the
week by the death of his father, D.
F. Hardy. They returned to their
home yesterday. Miss Lillian Mel
son accompanied them and will re-
main with them several weeks.
Fred Carisch, brother of E. B.
Carisch of this city, and Miss Helen
Heslin of Maiden Rock, were mar
ried the 18th instant. The we'd
ding took place at Spokane. Wash
ington, and the young people are
now located at Pullman, Washing
ton.
"Galahad, the school for boys
at Hudson, closed it's third year last
week. The number of students en-
rolled was thirty, all the school
could accommodate. All the stu
dents but four were from abroad.
River Falls furnished one-Herbert
Schiek.
The Osceola Sun has been enlarg-
ed from a five to six-column
quarto and ornamented with a new
head. The Sun is one of the best
newspapers in this part of the state
and it's enlargement indicates that
the people of Polk county appreci-
ate it's worth.
Misses Adeline Cornish, and Ma
tilda and Hermione Smith returned
Saturday from Madison. Miss
Cornish and Miss Matilda Smith
have been teaching in the public
schools of Madison and Miss Her
mione Smith has been a student in
the state university.
Miss Belle Deans of the Moorhead
(Minn.) Normal school came home
Saturday for a visit with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Deans.
She goes back to Moorhead next
week to teach in the summer school
for teachers. Prof. Robt. Reed
will also teach in the summer school
there for a few weeks.
The postmaster at this place has
recently received raise of $500 in
his salary, as have also the post
masters at Ellsworth and Spring
Valley. AS the salaries of the post
masters depend upon the business
of the offices, and as the offices in
dictate the condition of business
generally, the raise shows that bus
mess is good-better.
The Y. M. C. A. and Y. w. c. A.
Bible class of the Normal School
honored Professor Packard Thurs
day evening by presenting him with