River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-12-23
Eat more of Shepard's honey.

Platteville for the holidays.
Leave orders for Pritchett's milk
and cream at Stewards .-adv.
Miss Gladys WOODBURY. is home
from her school at Columbus.
Dec. 28th the reliable physician,
eye and nerve specialist, DR.. Clough,
will be at the Gladstone. adv.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Somke, of ST.
Paul, spent Sunday at the home of
the latter's sister, Mrs. Floyd Bail
ey, near Prescott.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Kay, of Su-
perior, are spending the holidays at
the home of the formers parents,
Hon. and Mrs. Vim. A. Kay.
Mrs. Geo. Nelson returned to her
home at Kensel, N. D., Saturday,
after a three months visit here with
her mother, Mrs. Jacob Johnson.
Spain may join the Germauic al
lies, according to Yesterdays press
dispatches. She would like TO re-
take Gibralter and annex Portugal.
H. ]. Forsyth will leave tomorrow
to spend Christmas with relatives
in Milwaukee. His daughter, Miss
Ella, who teaches at Wauwatosa,
will join him there.
LOST-A solid gold crescent pin
about 2 inches long. set with five
large moonstones. Finder please
leave same at the Post Office or at
o. w. Newcomb's store and receive
reward adv.
Thomas Lauder, of the Fargo
district, has regained his eyesight
after twenty years of almost total
blindness. He returned last week
from Minneapolis where he had
been taking treatment in hospital.
Miss Nealie Knowles, in charge
of the domestic science department
of the Ames Ga. college extension
division, arrived in the city Satur-
day to spend the holidays with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. G. Know
les.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Cone and
daughter, Miss Pearl, arrived here
last Thursday from Maxwell, N.
D., for a visit with relatives. Mr..
Cone returned home Sunday, his
wife and daughter remaining until
after the holidays.
C. N. Wiger and Chas. Beschta
were pail bearers at the funeral Of
Henry O'Brien which took place at
Hammond on Tuesday of last week
Mr.. O'Brien died at his home in
Pleasant Valley the 11th inst, at
the age of So years.
German H. McEldowney, who is
charged with white slavery, forgery
and the theft of an automobile, was
arrested last week after a long
chase by officers of Polk and St.
Croix counties. He is held in the
county Jail at Balsam Lake.
The nine physicians of Rice Lake
have announced evening office hours
for Mondays, Wednesdays and SAT-
urdays of each week. They have
also consented to be at their offices
on the evenings of the 5th and goth
of each month, known in Rice Lake
as pay days"
Fred Smith of the town of River
Falls won second prize in the Sc
cond Wisconsin district in the corn
show recently conducted by the
First National bank of ST. Paul. A
La Crosse exhibitor won first in
this district. Thirty three districts
in eight states were represented.
DR.. L. L. Knapp, who had prac-
ticed medicine in New Richmond
since 1872, died in ST. Luke's hos
pital, St. Paul, on Tuesday of last
week. He is survived by a sister
and two brothers. Mrs. Knapp
died three years ago. Dr.. Knapp
was 64 years of age at the time of
his death.
Arrangements are being made for
a series of Rayburn revivalist meet
ings to be held IN Prescott and Ellis
worth early in the Spring. Mr..
Reyburn, in company with Prof
essor Wickland and F. L. Baker
motored to those cities early last
week, also visiting at the farm
houses enroute.