River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-12-17

babyS, at TaggarI 5 DEug Store.
The 500 club met with Mrs.
Stella Deneen yesterday afternoon.
Miss Lucille Grimm, who is teach
ing school at Oscar, N. D., where
her parents reside, arrived in the
city Monday and will spend the hol-
iday vacation with relatives and
friends here.
Prof. Vim. N. Mackin of Lady
smith, School Superintendent of
Rush county, spent a couple of
days in the city the first of the week.
He graduated from the Normal
School here with the eclass of '95,
and is now one of the official visitors
of the school.
Several days of July weather end
ed Tuesday evening with slight
snowfall whichSseemed about to de-
part when a heavy fall of nearly
eight inches arrived Wednesday
night and clinched the job. 1t has
showed steadily since and the snow
shovels are busy.
]. E. Wadsworth left Tuesday for
New Orleans in the interest of the
real estate concern with which he is
associated. With him went Mrs.
Emory Hill and her daughter Mar
gle who will join Mr.. Hill in Louis
lana where they intend to make
their future home.
The promoters of the wrestling
match to be held at Opera Hall next
Monday night have been exceeding
1y fortunate in securing the best
talent in the Northwest. The most
skeptical will have to acknowledge
that neither of these wrestlers is
tainted with a streak of yellow.
The Prescott Tribune gives the
following statistics in regard to the
Burlington Ry. Co.'s draw bridge,
over the mouth Of Lake St. Croix,
the past season: Boats up stream,
1872; boats down stream, 799 First
boat down, April II. Last boat up,
Nov. %. The bridge closed Nov. %
this year; last year, Nov. 20. Opened
this year April 8; last year, April g.
About one hundred members of
the congregation under the charge
of the Reverend John Peterson sur
prised him at his home on the
West side Tuesday evening. The
cause of the assemblage was the
celebration of Reverend and Mrs.
Peterson's twenty-ifth wedding an
niversary. A very pleasant even
ing of merrymaking and congratu-
lations was passed, and when the
visitors left they presented to their
pastor as tokens of their esteem and
regard, many beautiful gifts and
also a handsome purse of money.
"The San Diego Union recently
gave an account of merry reunion
held by the residents of the old Bad
ger State who form quite a colony
there. Mr.. w. P. Marshall, former
ly of this city, is president of the
Badger association and presided at
the reunion, and Mrs. Marshall was
the acting secretary. A we'll chosen
program was rendered consisting OF
solos, the reading of poems on Wis
consin, and an address by w. w.
Bowes. Several people from this
vicinity are numbered among the
residents Of San Diego and if their
loyalty to the land of their adoption
in any way equals that to their ma
tive state, the city has another rea-
son to congratulate itself.
Mr.. Frank ]. Mead, father of Mrs.
E. Van Voorhis, whose death was
announced in these columns two
weeks ago, has been prominent in
newspaper affairs since the time of
the Civil War before which he was
for a time editor of the Pioneer Press.
After his discharge he served as re-
porter on the Pioneer and then went
west establishing papers at Farm
ingham and Spokane. He returned
to the Twin Cities and was engaged
in editorial work on the Minneapo-
| lis Tribune and also on the Evening
Telegram which he was instrument
al in starting. He was also at times
on the staff of the Times and Journ-
al. The past few years he has work
ed on several of the larger papers OF
the east, among them the Boston
Herald and the New York Journal.
"Mr. Mead was an ideal reporter,
genial, suave, possessed of a large
acquaintance with the leading men
of the northwest, and was among
the last of the old guard in the twin
cities"