River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-11-11
The barber shops of the city will
be closed Thanksgiving Day.

The County Board convened at
Ellsworth last Tuesday. F. A.
Severance was elected chairman.
The next meeting of Trinity Guild
will be held at the home of Mrs. F.
M. Jack next Wednesday afternoon
at 2:30.
Mrs. Thomas Ryan of New Rich
mond visited in the city Tuesday
and Wednesday, guest of Mrs. Sarah
Gleason.
Barney Carolan, Joe Foster and
Angus Dunn took to the woods
Tuesday afternoon for a couple of
weeks hunting.
The young ladies of the Normal
senior class entertained the foot
ball team in the gymnasium last
Friday evening.
o. w. Mosher, Harry Williams,
Mark Casey and Fred Winter came
down from New Richmond Tuesday
in Mr.. Mosher's auto.
Jesse White went to Minneapolis
Tuesday where he will play baritone
with John Christianson's orchestra
at the Nicolett Skating Rink this
season.
Chas. Sweet came over from Or
tonville, Mimi, last evening for a
few days visit with relatives and
friends. He will go from here to
Duluth to visit his daughter.
The Beavers and Beaver Queens
will hold a sociable in connection
with their regular meeting to-mor-
row (Friday) evening. All mem
bers are requested to be present.
For SALE OR RENT-A 320-acre
farm 4 Il miles from this city in the
town of Clifton. Good land. Good
buildings. Inquire of ]. S. Manion,
on premises. Postoff1ce address
River Falls, Wis, Route 6.
Second number of the Peoples
Lecture Course-W. M. R. French,
art lecturer-at M. E. church next
Tuesday evening. Seats on sale at
Taggart's drug store Saturday morn
ing, commencing at s o'clock.
Wisconsin is the third state in the
union in the number Of gallons of
mineral waters sold in the past year,
according to the report of the .. S.
Geological Survey, with which Presi-
dent Van Hise of the University of
Wisconsin has been connected for
twenty-six years.
Percy Kyllo of Goodhue, Mimi,
has been visiting relatives in the
city this week, guest of his grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Horstad.
He leaves to-day for Louisville, KY,
to resume his studies in the medical
college there where he has spent the
past two years.
Trinity Guild will hold a Bazaar
on Saturday, November 20, in the
building next to Dunn Bros. Hard
ware Store. Fancy articles of all
kinds will be on sale. Also choice
line of plants, potted and cut, ferns,
etc. Warm lunches will be served
all day. Don't forget the date,
November 20
Rural government will be taught
in a new course at the University of
Wisconsin this year by W. L, Bailey,
recently appointed instructor in
political science in place of Walter
J. Shepard, resigned. Mr. Bailey
will also teach colonial politics, and
government and politics in the
United States.
r. S. Freeman, r. w. Freeman,
Fred Williams, Irwin Stewart and
Lyman Chinook left Tuesday morn
ing for their camp near Bibon,
Wis, on their annual deer hunting
trip. Bert Symes and j. M. Chin
mock of this city and Judge Arm
quist Of Hudson will join the party
the last of the week. They will be
gone about two weeks.
N. M Kohl's dams in Clifton Hol-
low, built to furnish power for the
operation of an electric plant for
Prescott, washed out last Thursday
and is a complete wreck. Placing
the foundation piling too far apart
is said to have been the cause.
This is the second time the dam has
been completely wrecked, the first
washout occurring when the Kinnic-
kinnic was at its highest as the re-
suit of heavy storms in July, 1908.
The Annual Report of the State
Horticultural Society just received
consists of 200 pages of papers and