River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-02-11

The 500 Club met with Mrs. H. J
Forsythe yesterday afternoon.
Friday, March 5, high school
oratorical contest. Remember it.
One hundred new walking skirts,
just in, at Stewart Mercantile Co. S.
Trinity Guild will meet with Mrs.
S. Symes next Wednesday, Feb. II.
Emil Carisch and family are
spending few days with friends in
st. Paul.
The Swedish Ladies Aid Society
will meet at Mrs. V. Moline's next
Thursday, Feb. Is.
Spring styles in ladies' tailor
made suits are beginning to arrive
at Stewart Mercantile Co.'s.
Rey. J. S. Montgomery of Min
neapolis will lecture at the Methodist
church Friday evening, March II.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Kelly of
Grand Forks, N. D., arrived in the
city Monday on visit. They are
guests at the home of Mrs. Kelly's
brother, James Dunn.
Twice before we have published a
date for the high school oratorica1
contest. This one, March 5, makes
three times and out. Remember it,
March 5, and prepare to attend.
The grades of the public school
have prepared a Lincoln program
which will be given in the assembly
room of the school building to-mor.
row afternoon, beginning at 2:15
o'clock.
The local office has received 1000
copies of the Lincoln Centenary
memorial stamp and they will be
placed on sale tomorrow and 1imi-
ted number allowed to each person
until the supply is exhausted.
A letter received from H. w. Judd
of St. John, Washington, shows a
remarkable change in weather con-
ditions. On the 10th of January it
was twenty two below zero. Aweek
after rain and wind had carried off
all the snow, streams were out of
bounds, towns were flooded and
many bridges taken out. The water
in the streams was higher than it
had been for years past.
j. Weller Long, national lecturer
of the A. S. of E., will deliver a
lecture in Opera Hall, in this city,
next Monday, Feb. IS, at 200 p. m.
This lecture will be of utmost inter-
est to the people of this community
and especially to the members of
the local branch of the A. S. of E.,
and should be largely attended.
Mr.. Long will speak at Prescott Feb.
16, at Diamond Bluff Feb. II, and
at Ellsworth Feb. IS.
Fred Carisch has signed with the
st. Paul base ball club of the Amer
lean Association for the coming sea-
son. President Lennon and Man
ager Kelley are securing the country
for a team of winners as repetition
Of last years disastrous picking
would probably be fatal 10 ST. Paul's
interests as league baseball team.
Their choice of Mr.. Carisch there
fore argues well for his ability aud
reputation on the diamond.
In the morning it rains; toward
night it SHOWS; what twill do to-
morrow no one knows. The vacilla-
lions of weather conditions seem
likely to infect the populace with
like Indifference to habit and estab-
lished custom. We prosy scribe, for
instance, is inspired to pen the
above attempt at rhyme, but most
phenomenal of all, we read in an ex-
change of a bridal couple following
a creamery" to Chicago. Hold!
Enough!
The Ellsworth basket ball organ
ization recently made tour of cen
trail Wisconsin, playing a. Baldwin,
Neillsville, Kilbourn, Stanley and
Westfeld, winning the first two and
tieing with the Stanley team. The
good showing made by the team
and the gentlemanly department Of
the whole party as unanimously re-
marked upon by the exchanges from
the points visited reflects great
credit on the Ellsworth high school
and therefore upon the village of
Ellsworth also.
The Married Peoples dance at
Opera Hall last Friday evening
proved one of the most successful
social functions of that nature ever
held here. The committee is to be
complimented upon the perfect
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