River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-10
L.L. Mullen of Seattle. wash. is

]. L. Mullen of Seattle, WASH, is
visiting his mother, Mrs. M. ]. Null
len. Mr.. Mullen is President of the
Banking and Stock Brokerage firm
of ]. L. Mullen & Co., doing the lar
gest business of the kind in the
Northwest. He considers Seattle
the New York of the West and looks
for the city to have 100000 inhabit-
ants BEFORE the Alaska-Pacifc-Yu-
con exposition of 1909, fair which
he thinks will be a grand success.
The Dunn County School of Agri-
culture is now free to students of
any part of the state so long as
there is room for them at the institu-
ton. AS there is room for more stu
dents than Dunn county furnishes
the privileges of the school are ex-
tended and adjoining counties will
undoubtedly take advantage of
them and fill up the school. The
winter term began the Sd instant
and closes March %.
A statement to the effect that ].
A. Frear, the Secretary of State
elect, had appointed N. B. Nagler
of the ST. Croix Observer as his
chief clerk at salary of $1,000 a
year, appears in a number of ex-
changes. Mr.. Nagler says the re-
port is all wrong. He has not been
and is not candidate for the Office
mentioned and Mr.. Frear could
not appoint clerk if he would as
the position is under the civil SER
vice law. Mr.. Nagler is a candi-
date for the chief clerkship of the
assembly.
There are more than a score of
organized societies in this city.
These hold meetings at stated inter
walls. Some of them meet once a
week, some meet semi-monthly and
some perhaps only once month.
Each of these societies has occa-
sional social functions which the
members would undoubtedly be
pleased to have published. If the
secretaries of these societies will
make record of these events and
such other items as would be of
general puplic interest and hand it
in at this office we shall be pleased
to give it publicity through this
paper.
At the annual meeting o. the
stockholders of the Farmers and
Merchants State Bank, held last
Tuesday evening, the following di-
rectors were elected: G. w. Chin
mock, G.. N. Wiger, Allen P. Weld,
R. N. Jensen, G. ]. Dodge, c. R.
Morse. r. McGregor, ]. M. Smith,
and w. P. Knowles. A meeting of
the directors was convened imme-
diately after the adjournment of the
stockholders meeting and bank
officers for the ensuing year were
elected as follows: G. w. Chinook,
President; C. R. Morse, Vice Presi-
dent; C. N. Wiger, Cashier; R. Nc.
Oregon, Assistant Cashier.
Judge E. w. Helms, at the session
of the circuit court at Hudson the
past week, announced his decision in
the New Richmond police court case.
He sustains the decision of County
Judge Otto w. Arnquist who ruled
that the court did not legally exist.
This sweeping of Mayor Hawkin' S
court out of existence makes the
situation in New Richmond un-
pleasant for the mayor, the police
Judge and the marshal who served
the papers for illegal arrests. Suits
against these gentlemen aggregat-
ing several thousand dollars for il
legal arrests, fines and imprison-
ment have been commenced.
AS the time draws near for Con-
gress to pass the appropriation
bills the House committee on these
bills are besieged as usual by lob
by in the interest of the commercial
seedsmen. Of course these men
don't want Congress to distribute
seeds free to farmers. The agri-
cultural papers, which publish the
| advertisements for seedsmen, are a
part of this lobby. The government
maintains corps of high-salaried
scientists to hunt all over the world
for seeds of plants adapted to the
varied climatic conditions of this
country with view to the improve
ment of agricultural conditions here.
How much will the commercial
seedsmen give to improve these con-
ditions? The answer would depend
on what they were to make of the
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