River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-10-20

/ Mr.. and Mrs. Wendell Dodge Of
Ellsworth visited relatives in the
city Sunday.
Mrs. ]. A, Hall went to Ellsworth
this morning to visit at the home
other son Neil.
| Ladies and Children's aprons
and all sorts of fancy articles for
sale at the Fair, Oct. %.
Mr.. and Mrs. Levi Garrett of
Kingsburgh, CAL, arrived this
morning and are guests of the
formers nephew, c. R. Taggart.
Mrs. VIM. ]. Gray arrived this
morning from St. Paul. Rev. and
Mrs. Gray have commenced house
keeping in the Congregational par
sonage.
The fire department was called
out Monday morning. A chimney
fire at the home of Mrs. Dena Per-
kins caused the alarm, but the
fire was extinguished without the
assistance of the fire company.
Mrs. Annie Hooking Smith, who
is directing, the rehersals for "The
Kirmess of Pan," arrived here last
Thursday evening from La Crosse,
where she also arranged for the
production of an entertainment.
r w. Freeman, Fred Williams,
Hugh Morrow, DR.. w. G. Fortune
and Ben Rosenberg drove down to
lake St. Croix in Mr.. Freeman car
Monday and seined out good mess
of sand pike at the mouth of the
Kinnickinnic.
Peter Lerum, on the old C. E.
Davies farm in Kinnickinnic, will Of
fer a fine lot of farm machinery,
live stock and household goods
for sale at auction next Tuesday
afternoon, commencing at one
o'clock. Peter Lerum, owner; Robt.
Reynolds, auctioneer and c. N.
Wiger, cashier.
Commencing this Thursday
evening the management of the
Gem Theatre will exhibit a series
of pictures Of the great forest fires
which destroyed the towns of Bau-
dette and Spooner in northern Min
nesota. The pictures will be on ex-
hibition at every performance for
the balance of the week.
There will be an auction sale of
live stock, farm machinery and
household goods at E. j. John
sons on the Cotton Whitcomb farm,
in Kinnickinnic next Thursday, Oct.
27, commencing at 9 o'clock a. m.
R. w. Reynolds will oficiate as
auctioneer and c. N. Wiger as cash
Ter. A free lunch will be served at
noon.
Vernon Reynolds, out in Ed
mond, Oklahoma, states in recent
letter that it has been unusually
dry there the past Summer, espec-
tally on the prairies, where many
cfops have been a failure. He is
located on bottom land, however,
and crops are very good, his cotton
bringing 40 dollars an acre and his
corn fine, bringing IS cents a
bushel.
A party of twenty ladies pleasant
ly surprised Mrs. Irwin Eaton yes
terday afternoon at her home on
Cascade avenue. Although a few
days late, the party was given as a
birthday celebration, and to com
memorate the event Mrs. Eaton was
presented with three pieces of sill
yer with her initial engraved on
each and also a beautiful piece of
china. An excellent lunch was
served from we'll filled baskets
brought by the ladies.
According to reports reaching
The N. & R. ", Dennis Deneen,
one of the best known business
men of Hammond, expects to go to
Milwaukee to live about the first of
the year; that he is to become state
secretary of the Catholic Knights of
Wisconsin, an organization that he
has long been Unidentified with. He
is now its state president. Mr..
lDeneen has been chairman of the
democratic county committee and
has taken an active part in the af-
fairs of the party in this section for
a number of years. In fact, he is
one of the old war horses of the
party. 1t is understood that when
Mr.. Deneen goes to Milwaukee,
Mr.. Callahan, now state secretary of
the C. K. W., will retire from that
office, and devote himself to field
work in promoting and advancing
the interests of the organization
throughout the state.-New Rich
mond News & R.-V.
The balmy Indian summer wealth
er of the past three weeks was
rudely interrupted Tuesday evening