River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-09-21
Local News

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David Gleason was down from St.
Paul Sunday.
Miss Lucy Thomas was down from
Minneapolis Sunday.
Percy Ap Roberts was a business
visitor in Madison Friday.
VIM Keith visited his brother
George in Ellsworth Friday.
Miss Irma Armstrong visited rela-
tives in Waukesha last week.
Geo. Mallory Of Minneapolis spent
Sunday here with his parents.
Miss Eva White left Saturday to
teach in the Eau Claire normal
school.
Miss Ruth Ewing is teaching in
the state normal school at Ellens-
burgh, N. Y.
Senator Geo. B. Skogmo was a
business visitor in Madison the latter
part of the week.
Mrs. C. w. Ensign is making her
home with her daughter, Mrs Frank
Monroe, at Ladysmith.
Judge w. P. Knowles and Atty.
j. H. Grimm left Friday for weeks
hunting near Wheaton, MINI.
Chas. Nelson of the firm of Nelson
Bros, has purchased Mrs. H. O.
Wenzel's house on the East Side.
Nels Victor, former resident of
this city, was killed last week in a
runaway accident at Missoula,
Mont.
Professor B. E. SWenson and fam
lily returned home Friday from a
couple of weeks visit with relatives
in Nebraska.
Keep watch for DR.. Coughs
dates. He is the man who fits you
with lenses that are right at prices
that are right. adv.
Mrs. L E. Wilkinson of Salt Lake
City, Utah, and Mrs. H. 0. Burke of
st. Paul visited their mother, Mrs.
E. McKenny, here recently.
A steam laundry will be opened in
New Richmond next month by Mr..
and Mrs. C. J. Fisher Of Minneapo-
lis, formerly of Sandstone, MINI.
Plum City is to have new $13, 900
school building, and the present
structure will also be remodeled and
used in connection with the new
one.
Joseph Falteisek, who had been
spending the past three years at Sc
quinn, Wash, returned to his home
in the town of River Falls last
Thursday.
Miss Lizzie Mcmillan, accompa-
MED by her niece, Mrs. c. E. White
and little daughter Ophelia left Sat
urday for weeks visit at the home
of Mrs Whites brother, r. B. An
drus, at Chetek.
We note in the Osceola Sun that
hunters from River Falls and Eau
Claire returned from that region
without game, while two Osceola
nimrods, Jean Sleeper and Oliver
Blevins, KILLED their limit of birds
the opening day before breakfast. "
On, another page of this paper ap-
pears an ad. for the firm of Yates &
Bailey, in which dates and prices are
given for poultry delivered here and
at Ellsworth next week. This firm
enjoys an enviable reputation for
honorable dealing and they merit
confidence.
1t appears very likely that the bas-
ketball tournaments for the state
high school championship will in the
future be held at Stout institute, the
majority of high school athletic meE-
tors appearing to favor the normal
school conference rules, over those
under which the Lawrence meet is
held, and the normal conference has,
it is claimed, offered the meet to
Menomonie.
Frank FREEZER of Iawton died of
blood poisoning Friday in a St. Paul
hospital. A few days before his
death he had been thrown from a
horse on the main street of Ellis
worth, and, with one leg broken he
had walked considerable distance to
a livery barn, not realizing that he
was so badly injured. The fatal
blood poisoning was the result of US