River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-02-23

Mrs. Ada Miller and children Wis
tied relatives in ST. Paul from
Thursday until Monday.
The city schools will be closed to-
morrow to allow the teachers day
in which to visit other schools.
The Married Folks danceI at
Opera Hall last evening was well
patronized and much enjoyed by all
who attended.
Miss Minnie \rause returned to
her home at Elmwood Tuesday aft
er months visit here with her sis
ter, Mrs. Hans Olson.
Miss Myrtes E. Clark, formerly a
member of the River Falls Normal
faculty, is now teaching in the Nor
NAL at Moorhead, Mimi.
The Ladies Aid society of the M.
E. church will meet in the church
parlors next Thursday, March 2.
Everyone is cordially invited.
Jack Kelly was the first of the To-
cal autoists to take his machine out
of it's winter quarters. He made
trial spin around the city streets
Monday afternoon.
Five classes of the Senior depart
ment and the intermediate depart
ment of the Congregational Sunday
school entertained the younger class
es of the school at supper in the
church parlors yesterday afternoon.
Rev. and Mrs. John Wright, mis-
sionaries under the Presbyterian
Board, left Monday to return to their
field in the North Congo region
of Africa. They have been on a
years furlough and had spent the
past week here at the home of Mr..
Wright's father, Alexander Wright.
In twenty of the twenty-four lead
ing cities of the United States the
increase in teachers salaries the
past FIVE years has averaged twenty
two per cent. The increase ranges
from six per cent for Philadelphia
to forty-one per cent for Toledo.
The increase for Milwaukee is twen-
ty-five per cent.
Peter A. Peterson died at his home
in the town of Troy last Thursday,
Febru airy 16, at the age of So years,
10 months and 20 days. He was
born in Sweden and came to this
country several years ago and has
been a well-known and highly re-
spected resident in this vicinity for
some time. He was not married.
Mrs. Wallace Shepard, who had
been spending the month here with
relatives, returned this afternoon to
her home in Minneapolis. She was
accompanied home by her sister,
Mrs. A. D. Shepard, and her brother,
L. H. Duby of Mentor, Mimi, who
has been visiting here for the past
three weeks. Mrs. Shepard and
Mr.. Duby will make a weeks visit
in Minneapolis.
The opinion in regard to Presi
dent Taft as a politician and
statesman has risen considerably
since the beginning of the present
session. 1t is conceded that he is
in the main master of the situation
and when reciprocity with Canada
is established, as the better minds
of the country think it will be, there
is prospect of reciprocal trade re-
lations between the United States
and Mexico and with the Central
and South American republics.
With these ends accomplished close
on to the completion of the Panama
Canal, the administration is sure to
finish with ec1at, if not with another
term for President Taft.
There is no opposing vote in the
Senate to Senator Cullom's project
authorizing Lincoln Memorial
worthy of the great President and
in keeping with high ideals of arch
itectural grandeur. The form of
the memorial has not been decided
upon. 1t is left to the judgment
and taste of commission who it is
hoped will make a wide and appro-
pirate selection. There have been
suggestions of a boulevard connect
ing Washington and Gettysburg,
also project for a triumphal arch
like the Arch Of Triumph in Paris
or its prototype in Rome. There is
also a project to have the memorial
occupy the center of the great plaza
stretching from the Capitol to the
Union Station. The appropriation
for this monument is two millions,
but it is possible that this sum will
be added to before the memorial is
completed.