River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-04-30

son Saturday and spent few days
with his father, sister and uncle.
Misses Sadie and Clara Conway
Of Saltwater, and Miss Agnes Col
vim of Plainville, Mimi, were the
guests to-day of Miss Lovila M.
Mosher of the Normal.
The Normal is planning to attend
the district contests next week in a
body. Of course the high school
will do so. Now let the public At
tend in body, and the deed is done.
Wanted, FIVE hundred people to
buy tickets to the district contests
next week. The expenses are ire
mendous, and River Falls wants to
meet them in full. Buy ticket and
| help.
Mrs. Ida Barney and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. E. Lagerstadt, arrived
from Gettysburg, S. D., last Thurs
day. Mrs. Barney will again take
up her residence in her house on
9th street.
The Ladies Aid Society of the
Methodist church will give six
O'Clock dinner in the parlors of the
church tomorrow (Friday) in the
afternoon. Everybody is cordially
invited. Twenty-Five cents per plate
is the price.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Pratt will go to
Ilwaco Springs Saturday to take
charge of the grounds and business
there for a month, or more. App1i-
cations for cottages can be addressed
to them. Special rates for the
month of May.
There have been many requests
that the music sung at Holy Trinity
Church on Easter Day might be re-
peated and this will be done on this
coming Sunday, when Cruickshank's
Mass in E Flat and other musical
selections will be rendered.
The District Contests next week,
Friday, at M. E. church. All
speakers in this contest have won
both local and league contests, and
the winner will represent this dis
trict in the state contest. River
Falls will be in it. Buy your ticket,
reserved seat, for quarter, and be
on hand to watch the winner.
Two contests for the price Of one.
Interlude between the contests to
give opportunity for change of pro-
gram. New plan and program for
music. Nothing just like it ever
presented here before. A ticket to
the district contests on May 8 will
explain everything, Only twenty
five cents, and seats will be on sale
at Taggart' after Wednesday.
May 9Th is the date Of the district
contests. There are two. One is
oratorical, the other declamatory.
River Falls represents this league
in the declamatory, Glenwood in the
oratorical. In all, ten speakers,
five in each division, representing
five leagues and twenty-five schools.
To win this is big honor. If you
want to know whether River Falls
can do it, buy your ticket for a
quarter, reserve it, and listen.
Through no fault of ours the
Journal last week published the
obituary of a man who has since
been found to be alive. We refer to
that of George D. Ellsworth, at one
time an inmate of the National
Home at Milwaukee but now living
in the one at Washington. The mis-
take arose from the fact that the
copy of the Journal sent to him at the
Milwaukee institution remained un-
delivered and the reason for the
non-delivery of the paper was re-
ported on the official card sent to
us, dead" and an obituary was at
once prepared. 1t since devolved
that Mr.. Ellsworth had been trans
ferred to the National Home at the
nations capital. We are glad to
make the correction. 1t is a rare
pleasure for a man to be able to
read his own obituary.
No one was wise" to the weather
last week and so we joined arms
with Micawber and waited for
things to turn up. They turned.
The leaden sky of Thursday loosen
ed up it's draw-string and dumped
out magnificent quantity of cold
atmosphere which hung around till
early Monday morning and then
ushered in a nor'easter and snowy
gale to take it's place. 1t showed
all day and it not only showed, it
thawed, too, but the snow had the