River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-07

| +. w. Laughnan of Beldenvillt
was in the city Saturday on bust
ness.
The 500 Club will meet with Mrs
Everett Fuller next Wednesday
Jan. ID.
Miss Agnes Foley returned to hel
school at Iron Belt, Iron county
yesterday.
c. F. Gilman and F. Thurber OF
Ellsworth were in the city Monday
and Tuesday.
Mrs. VIM. Hodge spent from Sat
urday to Monday with Mrs. o. c.
Ford in St. Paul.
Miss Pearl Miller and Miss Ethel
Sanderson visited in the Twin Cities
the first of the week.
Mrs. K. Garlid of Ellsworth was
the guest of Mrs. A. T. Carroll from
Wednesday till Monday.
Miss Theresa Armbruster left yes.
terday afternoon for her school at
Athens, Marathon county.
Miss Louise Everett of st. Paul
visited friends in the city yesterday,
guest of Mrs, Geo. BroWell.
H. w. Thomson, Hugh Morrow
and Pete Weidenfelt left Monday
morning on trip to Texas.
Miss Lottie Burns of Saltwater
was the guest of Misses Lila Dun
bar and Bessie Elliott, Sunday.
Miss Elinor Burnett leaves this
afternoon for Kewaunee, ILL.,, where
she has position as teacher in the
schools of that city.
At the Normal next Saturday
evening there will be a basket ball
contest between the Pepin High
school and Normal teams.
Howard E. Wickersham, timer
for F. w. Sturtevant & Co., returned
Monday evening from a two. weeks
visit to his parents at Lavelle, Wis,
and his sister at Fairchild.
Mrs. Edna Swartz and her sisters,
Misses Mildred and Gladys Hubbard
of st. Paul, with Messrs. Miller and
Stegner of that city, made up
house party at the home of F. W.
Sturtevant on New Years.
The Winter Tournament of the
Wisconsin Skat League will be
held in Milwaukee, January 31st,
1909. The sum of $1,000 will be
given in prizes to the winners in the
fourteen series to be played.
With the thermometer down so
low that mercury is we'll nigh oozing
out of the bulb, and a red nose that
can prove an alibi even in dry"
town, we do not feel particularly in
clined to discuss the weather. Ask
the ice-man.
The Rev. DR.. Newell Dwight Hill
is who was scheduled to speak in
the Methodist church last evening
notified the lecture bureau which
has charge of his engagements that
he could not fill his western dates
until late in January. The date
of his lecture in River Falls will
be January 20.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emil Carisch enter
tanned a number of their relatives
during the holiday season. Mr..
Carisch's father and mother, Mr..
and Mrs. C. Carisch, and sister Alice
and brother Fred Of Alma, and his
sisters, Mrs. F. Maloney and Miss
Lena of ST. Paul, and Mrs. Carisch's
brother, Will Anderson Of Osseo.
January the first celebrated the
fifty-fifth anniversary of the mar
rage of Mr.. and Mrs. S. D. Dodge,
who were united in wedlock at South
Weymouth, Massachusetts, in 1854.
They came to this city in 1856
and their many friends extend con-
CALCULATIONS and the hopes that
their diamond anniversary may see
them hale, hearty and happy.
Everybody uses the telephone
now, it is handler than anything
else invented. And the rural tele-
phone line is one of the best things
ever raised on the farm. What if it
is used for gossip, and what if the
neighbors do rubber! That's most
ly what it is for. So get a phone,
if you haven't one already, and
make the woman happy.-Spring
Valley Sun.
The Leap Year Dance given by
the ladies at Opera Hall the last
evening of 1908 was very pleasant
affair and one long to be remember
ed by the boys" The girls had
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