River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-01-06
Oranges fifty cents a peck, al


ness caller in the city today.
Another shipment of those special
crackers in cans at Allard's.
Chas. Gustafson visited friends in
st. Paul the first of the week.
+ Dennis Deneen spent New Years
with his parents in Hammond.
st. Paul is said to have 1874 sa,
looms; within eight of the limit.
Closing out at cost-skirts and
cloaks, at R. N. Jenson & Sons.
Ole Gunderson spent New Years
with friends in the Twin Cities.
Services in the Ezekiel Lutheran
church next Sunday at 1880 a. m.
The Minnesota state prison at
Saltwater has population of 1872
prisoners.
Mrs. H. j. Mcmahon entertained
a party of Hudson friends last Sun
day afternoon.
Chas. Griffin of Mann Valley is
visiting his brother Clarence in
Muscatine, Iowa.
Mrs. Lille Farnsworth Hubbell
will read from the Melting Pot"
Feb. 4, for the w. R. c.
Mrs. Bernie Haling entertained a
few of her friends and neighbors at
her home Monday evening.
Harry Brown and Miss Nellie
O'Keefe of Hudson were guests of
their cousin, Miss Lora Mcmahon,
Tuesday.
Daniel Snow and family returned
Saturday from two weeks visit
with relatives and friends in Taylors
Falls, Mimi.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mandus Halvorson
of Gertrude entertained a large
number of relatives and friends
Tuesday at dinner.
A number of the friends of Miss
Thelma Thulin gave surprise party
for her on Wednesday evening of
last week, at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. H Younggren.
Prof. George Snodgrass and wife
of Neillsville visited DR.. and Mrs.
E. A. Toby last week. Last Thurs
day they went to Galesville to visit
his mother, who is spending the
winter there at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Hugh Almy.
Some people are blest with abund-
ance left them by their ancestors,
and are not compelled to battle for
the necessaries of life, which may be
a happy state, but after all it's
little thing to boast of, and really
impertinent to go about expressing
the idea j don't have to work. F"
It's a God-send that all are not so
"blest," for if none had TO shift for
themselves the old world would
soon become as stagnant as cess
pool. Necessity, it is said is the
mother of invention, and those who
"have to work" are the ones that
keep the wheels of progress moving,
and not those that are resting at
ease in the plenty which others
have earned and bequeathed to
them.
Oranges fifty cents peck at
Allard's.
During the past $50 years the
United States government has been
in the business of carrying the
mails and during the first thirty
years business was done each year
at profit with the exception of a
single year, 1t is not the policy of
the government, however, to seek a
profit from the postals department
but on the contrary to supply at a
medium of cost a wide range of
service. AS a result of the widen
ing Of the scope of the service and
the minimizing ofthe cost there has
resulted in recent years deficits that
have grown continuously larger. The
report of the Postmaster General
covering the operations of his de-
partment deals particularly with
this annual deficit problem. 1t
also undertakes TO explain in just
what branches of the postal bust
ness the government is furnishing
service at actual cost. The deficit
arises from the low rates on a par
ticular class of Secondrate mail
matter and upon the rural delivery
service. 1t is pointed out that mag
azines and other periodicals, eX-
elusive of the daily newspapers
comprise about go per cent of the
second class mail. The average
carriage distance of maya
zines is about 1000 miles and the
average cost to the government for
hauling alone is five cents a pound