River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-04

! Miss Effie Olson left Sunday
for Cheyenne, N. D. to visit her
parents.
| Miss Lottie Thayer of New Rich
mond is visiting her sisters, Mrs.
Williams and Mrs. Collins.
A census of the Indian population
of the La Pointe agency shows that
! there are at present 5,081 people in
the agency.
Rev. T. H. Haugen will preach
next Sunday evening in the First
Lutheran church. Services COM
mence at o'clock.
The Fern Club will hold a picnic
in Glen Park on the afternoon of
Wednesday, July 10. Each member
is requested to bring supper and a
gift.
DR.. and Mrs. Rupert Parker re-
turned to their home in Chicago
Tuesday, after a weeks visit at the
home of the Doctors parents, Hon.
and Mrs. c. d. Parker.
Miss Minnie Olson of Chicago
was in the city commencement week.
guest of her uncle and aunt, Mr..
and Mrs. Albert Olson. She came
up to attend the graduation of her
sister, Miss Effie Olson.
Ordinarily a plain drunk is
not very expensive in Ellsworth, but
when the "drunkee" gets funny and
calls out the fire department he is
required to atone to the offended
law by putting up ten dollars and
costs.
Gov. Davidson has appointed
Judge Ray S. Reid Of La Crosse,
formerly of Hudson, commm ission-
er of waterways of Wisconsin under
the terms of the new law creating
that office. Judge Reid will have
charge of the betterment of the
rivers of the state for the purposes
of navigation and will receive sal
airy of $4,000 a year, the same as
the railroad commissioners receive.
The landscape, which couple of
| weeks ago was Respondent with the
| gold of the dandelion, is now every
where deep green, except where
flowers of a feryid hue form in it
beautiful settings. Roses are now
in the flush of their bloom and peo-
MES redden the lawns. 1t is notice
able that the earliest and latest
| flowers of the season are yellow
while those of midsummer are red,
partaking of the qualities given
them by the sun.
| A Milwaukee paper cartoons the
state legislature with its unfinished
business envying the school boy
who has finished his years work
and gone fishing" There are a
whole lot of people in Wisconsin
who believe that the Legislature
ought to have taken to the trout
streams just as soon as the trout
season opened. 1t will not take
many sessions like the present one
to set the tax payers clamoring for
the 90-day restriction which applies
to Legislative sessions in Minnesota.
| Everybody is busy these days
the most of people at work with
their hands. Farmers and mechan.
les have more work in view than
/ they can perform and they are hur'
rying to catch up. Painters and
/ paper-hangers are especially busy
so busy they are worried, as many
having such work they wish done
harry the workers with persistent
appeals to come and do the job
That there is so much TO do is g
good sign. Work in its design and
effect improves conditions. There
are exceptions to all rules. The
lazy bug whose work consists in
criticising the work of the useful
worker is ba ckset to advancement
| We frequently see published ar
! off hand statement to the effect that
infdelity is on the increase among
men. Not long ago newspaper OF
large circulation discussed the ques
ton, Is the United States Chris
tian Nation?" and concluded that il
is not because majority of the peo
pie do not subscribe to the doctrines
of the church, are not church
| members. In Fort Wayne, Indiana
| recently, committee of $50 people
church members, called one day up.
4 on $4,000 of the inhabitants of the
city, to ascertain their religious
views. Of all this number not one
was willing to confess that he was
an atheist or an infidel and only n
refused to give the desired informa
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