River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-03
John A. Chinook was out from

Thompson orchestra at the New
Years ball at Martell.
Harris Olson and sister Miss
Clara, are visiting relatives here
during the holiday week.
Miss Frances Wyman of North
field, Mimi, is the guest of her
friend, Mrs. w. G. Spence.
Albion Fuller>went to Menomonie
Tuesday where he will attend the
Dunn County Agricultural school.
H. c. Almy and wife of Gales
vile are visitors at the home of Mrs.
Almy's mother, Mrs. T. ]. Snod-
grass.
Henry billiard, the barber, has
moved from the Strah1 house on the
west side to the Oakley house on
Pearl street.
Frank Beers has moved from the
house near sthe Junction bridge to
the Hastert house on Elm street, on
the west side.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. c. Scribner of
Minneapolis were visitors at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Tubbs
last Thursday.
Trinity Guild will hold a special
meeting Wednesday, Jan. 9, at the
home of Mrs. F. w. Sturteyant. A
full attendance is desired.
A telegram just received from
Pierre, S. D., announces the death
of Charles A. Hutchinson, and fur
ther stating that the remains will
be brought here Saturday for burial.
Simon & Ka1er have closed out
| their meat-market business here.
They have planned to go west and
| locate at some point in North Da-
koto with view to conducting the
market business there.
Joseph Siragusa, one of the men
recently acquitted of the murder of
John Isaac at Prescott last summer,
was taken to New York yesterday
by detective. He is charged. with
numbering an Italian girl, a crime
which he is accused of having COM
mitted in New York City and to
which he is said to have confessed
to the sheriff of this county.
We commence in this issue re-
cord of the winter temperature as
kept by Frank Thayer at the Nor
NAL. 1t will be understood that Mr..
Thayer notes and records the tenn
perature at 6 a. M, when as a rule
the weather is the coolest of the "a
hours. Ordinarily the temperature
rises with the sun and the average
would be much higher than that
shown in the table.
Mrs. Nathan Riggs, widow of the
railway conductor who murdered
Miss Mile Ellison and subse-
quently- committed suicide, has re-
linquished all claim to the money
and other yaluables Riggs took
from the person of the murdered
girl. There was sum of $1,000 in
money, a watch and other articles
of jewe1ry. The money and other
valuables have been turned over TO
ELAN Ellison of Ellsworth, father
of the dead woman.
The historic Long Bridge" over
| the Potomac leading from Washing
| ton to Virginia, was wrecked"
last week, upon the completion of a
new steel bridge. This old wooden
bridge was built in 1909 and was
over a mile long. Over it during
the civil war streamed million of
men and when the front of a regi-
ment reached the bridge the order
ran up the line, break STEP" to
prevent the wrecking of the bridge.
Among those teachers from here
who attended the State Teachers
meeting at Milwaukee last week
were Profs. Wilson, Jack and Hoag
and Miss Belle Schofeld of the Nor
NAL faculty, Prof. Ames of the High
School, Miss Theresa Armbruster
and Edwin Green, while those at
tending the Minnesota State Teach
ers' meeting at Minneapolis were
Prof. L. H. Clark of the Normal and
Prof. Warren Clark of the Hammond
schools and Profs. E. T. Reed and
R. r. Reed.
A new word is seeking legal recog-
nition-' unthinkable." Inasmuch
as the word is "unthinkable" it is a
mystery how it was ever "thunk. "
| 1t is a wonder that the inception of
the word did not burst the think
tank of the inventor. A new edi-
ton of the great dictionaries must
be published to incorporate this
| "t1nthin kab1eo word. The publish