River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-08-20


visiting relatives in the city this
week.
w. P. Peckham arrived in the
city Tuesday from Bruster, Wash,
for three weeks visit.
Charles Little Orchestra, of this
city, played for a dancing party at
llwaco Springs last Friday even
ing.
The state railroad commission
has ordered the Grange III Tall
Farmers Telephone Co. of Rock
Elm, Pierce county, to discontinue
service on the new line built by
the company in the town of Rock
Elm because it parallels line of
the Highland Telephone company
of Elmwood. The Grange H all
company built the lines without
authority from the railroad COM
mission Milwaukee Sentinel.
Motor vehicle licenses for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1914,
amounted to $275,976 in Wisconsin.
Of this amount $21,7 1913 were spent
in administering the law. t h e
figures for Pierce county have not
been compiled yet, and will not be
until just before the meeting of
the County Board. About 80 per
cent of the money paid by Pierce
county motorists will be returned
to the county for the highway
fund.
A. E. Reese, formerly publisher Of
the Hudson Star-Observer, the
Osceola Sun and the Maiden Rock
Press, and for the past few
months, the Macintosh (MinnA
Times, sold his interest in that
paper this week TO a syndicate OF
Macintosh business men. Mr..
Reese will assist his son, H. E .
Reese, in the management of an
automobile business there until he
decides upon another newspaper
location.
The motor vehicle owners of this
city and vicinity shared half the
expenses of riprapping the state
road north of the Phineas POme-
roy farm, in accordance with their
promise to the town of Troy. The
riprapping was necessary to keep
the road at this point from being
washed away in case of high wat
er. The state aid fund was not
sufficient to complete this portion
of the work.
B. w. Utman's gubernatorial cam
paign received bit of free adj
vertising in a McGovern-Utman
daily of Milwaukee which featured
a sensational story Of
the Hudson mans arrest in Keno
sha last week. Utman, according
to the item, was addressing
large crowd which blockaded traf-
fic in front of a Kenosha manu-
featuring plant, and refused to
stop talking or to move unless ar
rested. He was arrested by an
obliging policeman, but the judge
discharged the case. The tie m
goes on to relate that the police
man and judge both promised to
vote for Utman.
s'It's the truth that hurts" Ye
editor was in hot polling
hot at that-after the publication
of the Business Mems League bat
ing records last week, because some
of the players claimed that their
ability and value to their respect
i've teams was not properly re-
corded. One player, who was not
credited with a score nor a hit,
claimed to have made home run
in one of the games, but investi-
cation proved that his marvellous
fete was performed in a practice
game. With the exception of the
omission of the name of f. KnObel
from the White Crest lineup and
batting record, all records as given
in last Thursdays Journal have
been attested correct by Off
Gals of the League.
'Don't Lie to Your Wife," h e
musical comedy scream which will
be seen at the Auditorium August
% is in three acts and is by a r
the funniest play Mr.. Primrose
was ever connected with. 1t is up
to the minute in every particular
and contains many extremely ludi-
crous situations. The compiled
tions which have been gathered up
by the author, Campbell B. Casad,
during his experience as journal
ist on the New York Herald e
alike, numerous and numerous, and
the different characters embrioled