River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-05

Perry H1ckerSon is down from
North Dakota.
Smoked Salmon, and smoked
bloaters at Norseng's.
Mrs. Matt E1ertson entertained al
cards Tuesday evening.
". H. Currier returned Tuesday
evening from trip through southern
Minnesota.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Burgett of Orr,
N. D., were guests of Mr.. and Mrs,
]. L. WATSON Tuesday.
Mrs. Nida Fitzsimmons enter
tanned a surprise party" at her
home Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. A. Smith went to
Minneapolis yesterday on visit to
their friends, Mr.. and Mrs. Peter
Peterson.
Miss Katherine Murphy will open
a dressmaking shop at the home of
Mrs. Dena Perkins, south Main St.,
next Monday. N. w. Phone II.
John OKeeffe left last Saturday
for northern Minnesota with an
other squad of "stone and timber
claim" prospectors. Those from
here who accompanied him were, l.
I. Lusk, Abel Enquist and John
Kelley.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Erickson returned
yesterday from their winters visit
TO their children in St. Paul and
Hudson. Their daughter, Mrs. Bes-
sic Nelson of Hudson, accompanied
them home and will remain here a
few days.
John Erickson of Saltwater, &C
companied by his uncle, Ole Erick-
son, visited friends here from Fri
day until Tuesday. Mr.. Ole Erick-
son is an "old timer" in this section,
and formed acquaintance here
forty years ago.
A. A. Reel, state organizer for the
United Order of Foresters, was in
the city from Saturday till Tuesday,
He assisted in the initiation of
twelve new members into the lodge
here Tuesday evening. A banquet
e. 4l.o
Eggs for Matching, from standard
bred winter layers, barred Plymouth
Rocks. Special price on incubator
eggs. Also few bushels of extra
Early York seed potatoes-ea earlier
than the Early Ohio and four times
the yield. G. w. FARNswoRTH.
Every postmaster in Wisconsin
has been granted five-day leave of
absence by First Assistant Postmas-
ter General F. H. Hitchcock that he
may attend the sixth annual conven-
ton of the Wisconsin Association of
Postmasters az Oshkosh, Aug. 10,
20 and Fl.
N. G. Nicholson has sold his 100
acre farm two miles west of town,
to Gust and Bennett Sampson, who
will take possession Oct. 1st. The
price paid was $4,000. The Samp-
son brothers own land adjoining
this farm on the south. Mr.. Nichol-
son will move to the city in the fall.
John Till, the Somerset healer,
was tried at G1enwood last week on
the charge of practicing medicine
without a license and was found
guilty. He was fined $500 and
sentenced to three months in the
county jail. An appeal to the cir
cult court was taken and Till was
released on $500 bail.
The Tuesday Club is fortunate in
securing the services of Mrs. Ida
Dearborn, of ST. Paul, a reader of
note, for Monday evening, March %.
Mrs. Dearborn's speciality is Ibsen's
dramas, and on this evening she
will give readings from "A Dolls
House" Further announcements
will be made later.
A delegation of Odd Fellows,
members of the Encampment, con-
sisting of Thomas TAFT, Henry
Brown, A. V. Lovely, Fred Erman
and Andrew Cedarber2, went to
New Richmond last evening to at
tend the annual round up" of the
Encampment there. Oyer thirty
new members were initiated.
Saltwater 1oggers are not only
making special efforts to keep their
crews in the pineries, but are pick
ing up men who have come to town
and sending them to the camps to
keep up the output of logs. The
roads are a little soft during the
days but are good at night, and log
hauling is carried on all through the
night. The indications are that the
log cut and banking will even sur
pass the plans made last fall