River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-05-21
Local News

Hu2n MORROW returned OunQay
evening from trip to Alberta.
Miss Eva White was home from
Baldwin Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Fern Hoffman of Ellsworth
visited friends in the city Sunday
Miss Gwen APP Roberts was home
from Menomonie Saturday and Sun
day.
Herbert Welker landed a seven
pound German Brown trout early in
the week.
w. S. Davis and family spent Sat
urday and Sunday with relatives at
Boardman.
Wellington Vannatta returned
Thursday from his winters sojourn
in the west.
Gwyln APP Roberts came home
from Winnipeg Saturday for a two
weeks visit.
Lewis Ramberg returned last week
from Bina, Mimi, where he has filed
on homestead.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Haddow of
Hudson visited relatives here the
first of the week.
Joseph M. Smith, who suffered a
stroke of paralysis last week, is
slowly recovering.
Rev. D. B. Spencer exchanged
pulpits with ReY. John Black of
Baldwin last Sunday.
Ed. Pratt left Tuesday morning
for Williston, N. D., where he has
taken government land.
Mrs. George Griffin of Amery is
spending a couple of weeks here
with her sister, Mrs. Craig Randall.
Albert Anderson of the law firm
OF Varnum & Anderson of Hudson
was in town last Friday on legal
business.
Rev. James Evans arrived in the
city Monday evening and is visiting
at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
Geo. Dodge.
Mrs. E. G. Farnsworth came down
from Minneapolis Saturday evening
to spend a few days with friends
and relatives.
The Stewart Mercantile Co. give
special bargains every Friday and
Saturday. This week it is ginghams
and soiled shirt waists.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Little of Eau
Claire and Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Christofferson of St. Paul spent
Sunday here with their parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Geo. Fortune.
Mrs. Mary Ferguson, who has
made her home at Frank Bakers
during the past eight years, left last
Monday for Havre, Montana, where
her two daughters reside.
Mrs. c. A. Smith and Mrs. Edm.
Nicholson were called to Eau Claire
last Saturday on account of the
serious illness of their mother, who
is suffering from a paralytic stroke.
Mrs. C. A. Newman arrived from
South Tacoma, Wash, Monday eve
ming on visit to her cousin Mrs.
C. H. George. Mr.. Newman is visit
ing a brother in the northern part
of the state.
Mrs. Craig Randall is able to be
out again, after her long and severe
sickness. The trained nurse, Miss
Mary Morrison, who stood faithfully
by her during the past twenty weeks,
returned to ST. Paul last Thursday.
Geo. w. Dickinson of Faribault,
Mimi, visited his old-time friends,
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Finley, the first
of the week. Mr.. Dickinson was
one of the early residents of Pres
colt, and was sheriff of Pierce
county in 1901.
We haye received from c. P.
Cary, the State Supt. of Schools, a
copy of the Wisconsin Memorial
Day Annual" book replete with
material Cor use on the day set apart
in memory of those who fought and
died for our country's sake.
The annual catalogue of Ripon
College came TO US this week and
we would be glad to let any one take
it who is interested. The College
began its work in 1851 and has an
enviable reputation among the small
colleges of the State and the West
Henry Jensen, Ordinance Officer
of the Pacific fleet of warships, ar.
rived home last Friday evening
His headquarters are now on the
ship, West Virginia, which with
nineteen other gunboats comprise
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