River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-04-08
the Beavers, Dance.

Remember the Beavers Dance.
Peter Lappan of Hudson spent
Wednesday in the city.
Anything you want in the Paint
and Varnish line at Lund's.
The Altar Guild of Trinity church
will hold candy sale at Johnson s
store Tuesday afternoon, April 10.
! New Richmond went dry by a
majority of seven votes Tuesday.
The temperance people were also
victorious at Baldwin.
Mrs. L. L. Kidder of Star Prairie,
resident of this place in the early
days, is visitor in the city, guest
of Mrs. John Merrihew.
Frank Spalding is in the city to-
day. He has quit the railroad and
moved from St. Paul to his farm
four miles northwest of Saltwater.
A. E. Reese of the Osceola Sun
is guest of his brother-in-law,
Richard Hagg. Mrs. Reese and
two children will arrive tomorrow
for a short visit.
Plans are being projected to estab-
lish a Cooperative Creamery in
River Falls. All that is necessary
at present is that the farmers sub
scribe" the number of COWS from
which they will furnish cream. Pap
ers for this purpose are at both
banks and at Allard' S Store.
Miss Alice Hutchinson left Mon
day morning for Haugen, N. D.,
where she has been employed to
teach the remaining term in the
position formerly filled by Chas.
VIM. Mr.. VIM resigned at the
end of the last term to accept a
position with railway company.
Miss Sarah B. Morrow of River
Falls, who recently took part in the
Educational Scholarship Contest,
given by the Williams Business
College of Milwaukee, has been
named by the judges as prize
winner, and no doubt she will be
entering that institution in the near
future.
In connection with the three north
ern sub-stations at Ashland, Super
ior and Iron River, the University
of Wisconsin Agricultural Expert
ment Station is working out agri-
cultural problems peculiar to that
part of the state, and the results of
this work are being given directly
to the farmers in those sections.
Ex-sheriff Halls and several Red
Wing gentlemen, representing the
owners of the island property in
Pierce county on the Mississippi OPP
posite Red Wing, recently ousted
the famous Cook family and re-
tainers and tore down the buildings
which had been the scene of con-
tinuous 1awlessness and debauchery
for many years past.
The department of pharmacy at
the University of Wisconsin, in CO.
operation with the United States
Bureau of Plant Industry, is plan
ming to raise medicinal plants on a
plot Of ground on the university ex-
perimental farm. Research work is
to be carried on in connection with
the growing of those plants used in
the preparation of drugs and medi-
cines.
Through the organization of CO.
operative live stock breeders asso-
Citations, the animal husbandry de-
partment of the Wisconsin Station
has promoted community effort in
the improvement of animals. JEFF
ferson county last year sold $780,
| 900 worth of dairy stock of recog-
nized excellence, and has made for
itself a name as the leading Dairy
Breeding centre of America. Some
16 of these organizations have been
formed for the development of dairy
cattle, and a movement started for
similar organizations for the i'm
provement of horses and swine.
Representative Tawney of Mime
sofa, and chairman of the House
Appropriation Committee, was
blacksmith before he was called
to represent his district in Congress
and is of a mechanical turn of mind.
Owing to this fact the United States
government will save about $780,
900 annually. Mr.. Tawney is re-
sponsible for the invention and in
stallation in the bureau of engrav-
ing and printing, of an improved
bank-note printing machine which
by one operation will do the work
heretofore performed by three ma