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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-12-28

Wakefield, Mich.
Miss Edith Tubbs is home from
her school at Stanley.
Harvey Brown returned home last
week from Grantsburg.
Miss Clara Lem of Minneapolis is
spending her vacation here.
Miss Dorothy Oligney is home
from Elmwood for the holidays.
Miss Cassie WEIGH is spending the
vacation at her home in ST. Paul.
Henry Goetske. who is employed
at Lund's, spent Christmas in Lake
City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Forsythof Cy-
lon spent few days in the city this
week.
Misses Margaret and Lenore Line
han are home from st. Paul during
vacation
Bernard McCrary of MINNEAPOLIS
was guest at the Vine. Fait home
Christmas.
Prof. A. L. Ewing is home from
Minnesota Agricultural college for
the holidays.
Tom Larson and VIM. Dawson,
who teach at Mott, N. D., are home
for the holidays.
We will take care of your freeze
ups day or night. Carl Pearson,
Phone 490-caII-2.--adv.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. E Severance of
Minneapo 1--we e guests Of Prin. and
Mrs. H. c. Amy this week.
Miss Elizabeth Ap Roberts has
gone to Sea Breeze, CAL, to spend
the remainder Of the winter.
Paul Taggart, who is9mployed by
railway company at Glendive, Mont ,
is spending the holidays at home.
At Taggart's close out sale a new
dime of the latest design will be Civ
en- to each purchaser in change. =
adv.
I Mr.. and Mrs Theo. Moline of st.
Paul spent Christmas at the home OF
the formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Victor Moline.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Graves return
ed home Saturday from two weeks
visit in Chicago. They expect to
make their home in Montana.
X
DANCE Tuesday evening,
in Syndicate hall. You will be we'll
come, and good time assured. Four
pieces Of Pratt's orchestra will fur
nish the music.
DR.. Thomas Snodgrass of Mime
apolis is spending the holidays here.
He will go into the offices of Drs.
Pember & Nuzum at GAINESVILLE the
first of the year.
Judge and Mrs. w. P. Knowles
and sons, Masters Warren and Rob
ert Pierce, spent Christmas at the
home Of Atty. and Mrs. w. T. Doar
in New Richmond.
Howard Crawford, district man
ager for the du Pont Powder Co. at
Louisville, KY, visited in the city
from Friday to Tuesday. From here
he went to New York City, to at
tend meeting of the company's
district managers.
+
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Young and
children, Lonaverne and Marjorie, of
Abbottsford, are spending a couple
Of weeks here with Mrs. Young's pa
rents, Rev. and Mrs. E. P. Sander
son. Mrs. R. C. Olson, who had
been visiting with Mr.. and Mrs.
Young at Abbotsford, returned here
with them.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-12-28


Kenneth White is home from
Minnesota gu"
Miss Edna Foley is home from
Columbus this week.
Miss Lucy Thomas is home from
her school at Minneapolis.
Miss Nora Linger is home from
her school at Virginia. Mimi.
Miss Helen Schlager is spending
the holidays at New Haven, Con.
Fred Moser and Harry Wears are
home from their schools at Somer-
set.
Guy Wright and family spent
Christmas with relatives in Ham
mond.
Ganus Fait is home from Campion
College, Prairie du Chem, for the
holidays
Walter Neal, who is employed at
Lund's shops, spent Christmas in
Minneapolis.
Harry Brooks of Maiden Rock was
killed while operating power saw
last Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Knowlton and
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Fuller spent
Christmas in Ellsworth.
Miss Emma Mosher Of Duluth is a
guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. Heman Hut
chins during the holidays.
Miss Jessie and Douglas Smith are
home from their schools at Wausau
and Bookings, respectively.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Miller Of
Fairchild are visiting with the lat
ter's mother, Mrs. Ella Taggart.
DR.. Otto Louis Winter Of Minnea-
polls spent Christmas here with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. C. F. Winter.
The johnson & Cranmer store pre-
sented Chief Of Police AL. Ramberg
with turkey for his Christmas dir
ner.
Ben Spalding and family arrived
here from Ingram last week for a
visit at the home of Mrs. Luther
Spalding.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas WOODBURY.
spent Christmas at the home of their
daughter, Mrs. Geo. Burroughs, in
Minneapolis.
Miss Belle Deans Of the Moorhead
normal school faculty is spending
the holidays here with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. t. Deans.
January 2, Doctor Clough will be
at his office, Hotel Gladstone, ready
to examine your eyes and fit them
with lenses that will keep your eyes
stron. adv.
Among the university students
home for the holidays are Miss 1nez
and Arthur Upgren, Harry PIERCE,
Miss May Smith, Ed. Thomas and
Leveret Farley.
Frank Moser, for several years
employed by the Prairie Roller Mills
Co has resigned his position there
to take the local agency for the
Bankers Life Insurance Co. Frank
is hustler and will make good in
his new venture.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. A. Smith and
daughter, Miss Marie, of this city,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Nicholson of
Saltwater went to Eau Claire to at
tend the wedding of Mrs. Smiths
and Mrs. Michelson's sister, Miss
Clara Peterson, to Dan Pearson,
which took place in that city Sun
day.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-12-28

Mrs. j. P. Carroll was summoned
to Renville, Mimi, last Friday by
the sudden death Of her nephew,
Julian Dale. The boy, Is years old,
a senior in the Renville high school,
was stricken with pneumonia on
Sunday and died last Thursday. His
father is one of the leading business
men of that city, and owner of a
large general store there. Mrs. Dale
was formerly a resilient of River
Falls.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-12-28

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Johnson and
son Lorimer left Sunday to attend
the funeral of the formers step
father, J. N Sjoholm, held at Don
aldson, Mimi, Tuesday. Mr.. and
Mrs. Sjoholm left River Falls about
three weeks ago, after short visit,
TO spend the winter in Poulsbo.
Wash. Upon their arrival in Seattle
Mr.. Sjoholm was taken suddenly i'll,
and died in a hospital Dec. 20. The
remains were brought back to the
old home at Donaldson for burial.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-02

could be, y'understand, if he would
sit down and tell lady how he was
up till three in the morning figuring
the costs on a big shipment of enamel
ware wash tubs, aud how by reap
portioning the overhead, he cut the in
dependent manufacturers price ten
per cent, Zapp, is it any wonder that
the daughters of our best families
prefers q marriage match with for
eign noble feller2 Am 1 right or
wrong?"
eyes and no." Zapp said, because
while your idee is a good talking
point for the president of the Airy-O
Club, Birsky, suppOsing he does prom
ise a feller that if he becomes an airy
Onaut, he stands a chance to leave
rich widder provided the wedding
takes place before the accident, y
understand, where is the inducement?
The fact of the matter is, Birsky, that
the members Of the Airy-o Club of
America is starting in from the wrong
end. What them fellers should ought
to do is to get after the manufacture
ers to make up q line of semi-safe
airy-Oplanes, where if you fly in 'em,
understand, you will stand a show
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-02

dOtte varieties for real business stock.
He said, "You can tell all inQuirers
that these two breeds are still at the
top, and there are enough varieties of
them to please any sensible person"
Complain Of Nests.
If q hen could speak, the first thing
she would complain Of would be the
nests. The first complaint would prob
ably be in regard to their size and the
meager amount Of nesting material al
lowed her. Then we should hear about
the location being so public, and not
O bit of whitewash there to kill the
mites. Some of the nests are low
down; of course it is easy for the hen
to reach them, but they are also handy
for the pup you set such store by. Oh,
no; the eggs won't hurt the dog, but
eggs at 25 cents per dozen make a
pretty expensive diet for growing dogs.
There are remedies for most of the
diseases that afflict poultry, but sick
hen or cock is about as hopeless an in
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-02
Home I0Un|
| 7FHelpS Y |
THAT HOMETOWN FEELING
Something That Is Never Forgotten,
No Matter How Far Wanderings
May Carry One.

Most people grow up with the home
town feeling for the old town, the town
where they were youngsters, where
they knew every kitten and puppy,
every street and every alley, every
cracker barrel and every candy cOun-
ter, everybody and everything at least
for many a block around. It was not
Of course feeling of which you were
uncOmfOrtably conscious. As likely as
not you never knew that you had it un-
til you came buck after the summer. in
the country or perhaps came home from
school for the holidays. It was then
that the hometown feeling grew large
within you, q fine, big, warm spot Of
feeling. If it happNned that you lived
in q medium-sized town in those days,
the sight Of the station was deeply
satisfying thing. It seemed as you rat
tied along in the little old hack, past
the courthouse square and across the
one street car line, that you had come
back to yourself, very comfortable
sort of feeling indeed. Perhaps you
lived in or near much smaller village,
but it was the same hometown feeling
you had as you climbed under the
heavy, horsey-smelling robe into the
buggy and rode down the street. The
general store, the white church, the
brick house where the one rich family
lived and the patched-up cabin where
the one poor family lived were so IA
miliar to you that you were Immediate
ly conscious Of every new sign in the
store window and every new patch
in the cabin roof. And if, perhaps, you
lived in much larger town, the distant
smoke, the insistent clamor, the
crowds and the rush of traffic were the
things you were locking for and the
things that satisfied the hometown
feeling.
The hometown feeling for the new
town, the town where you go after you
are grown up, the town where you
work, the town that adopts you or that
you adopt, is, Of course, not SO natural
or easy thing. At least it is not
thing which can be deliberately ac-
quired along with new job or even
with the actual purchase of a new
house. 1t is not thing that comes
with friends or with pleasant assOcia-
tions. 1t seems to come just of itself
and it comes, some day, all Of sud-
den. You may be standing in crowd
ed street car, you may be pushing your
way through the market, you may be
sitting on your own back step while
supper is cooking. 1t is certain to come
when you are not thinking or caring
particularly about it, and when it
comes it has come to stay.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-02
EGGS DURING WINTER
early HatChed PuIIets Must Be
Given Best of Care.
Select Most Desirable Fowls for Breed
ing Purposes and Keep Only Few
of Choicest cockerels-Fur-
nish Green Feed.

There is no need of farmers carry
Ing a flock of poultry all through the
winter without getting eggs. To Sc
cure plenty Of eggs in winter the early
hatched pullets must have the best of
care from the beginning. That is,
they must be kept growing from the
time of Matching until fully matured,
which should be about the first of
November.
So far as facilities are concerned
the farmer has everything coming
his way" and there is no reason why
his flock of pullets should not produce
an abundance Of eggs during the win
ter season. With but little attention
pullets which have free range where
they may CLEAN an endless variety Of
seeds, bugs, worms and grain, sun
shine and fresh air, shade and pure
water than can be so easily provided,
will, without a doubt, make very rapid
development and mature much earlier
than pullets kept where these natural
surroundings are not to be had.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-02

for your life somewheres between a
feller working in a powder mill and
feller in a submarine-in other
words, not so safe that it wouldn't be
considered a good trOpic Of conversa-
ton with ladies, y'understand."
'For my part, Zapp, am content to
stay out of airy-opIanes till they get
so common that talking about flying
in 'em will be so much a tropic of con-
versation as saying amt it a rotten
weather we are having" Birsky de-
clared. "At the same time, Zapp,
think that time is coming fast, on ac-
count 1 seen it In the papers where
over in Europe they they are learning 4
great deal from airy-oplanes, and that
after the war is over, Zapp, they will
make big improvements in 'en."
'The idea Of Airy-o Club of Ameri-
ca" Zapp said, sis that we shouldn't
wait till the war is over but we should
go right ahead experimenting on our
own account NIT airy-oplanes, and
learn from one accident to another
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-02

One of the greatest mistakes poul-
try raiser can make is to allow sick
and ailing birds to run with the rest of
the stock. In this way the sick bird
drinks from the same pan that the 9TH
ers use, and the disease spreads most
rapidly. Chickens with the gapes or
any other trouble will easily transmit
the disease through the medium of the
drinking-pan. The safest way is to
take the sick bird out and keep it away
from the rest of the stock until it has
entirely recovered.
An old farmer who is now off the
active list, but still lives on the farm
and raises poultry as a diversion, says
he visited many Of the largest poultry
shows in the country just to inspect
some Of the best birds Of the new va
rieties, and he declares emphatically
that he has never seen anything better
than the Plymouth Rock and Wyan-
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-02
PLEA FOR BETTER SCHOOLS
improved Methods of Education and
Hygiene Are Urged Upon Count
try's Smaller Communities.

The federal school extension agent,
Mr.. McBrien, wrote recently in a spe-
ciaI statement: 'In educational Oppor-
tunity the city boy and girl have priv
ileges far superior to those Of the farm
boy and farm girl. In funds, in length
of term, in equipment, in buildings, in
administration and supervision, in
courses of study, in efficiency of the
teaching force, and in salaries paid,
the superiority Of the city schools is so
far above that Of the rural schools as
to make the situation in many sections
of the county deplorable. 1t has been
so desperate in many instances during
the past % years, when cOntrasted with
the splendid opportunities of the city
school, that it is given more times than
any other reason by fathers and moth
ers for moving from the farm to the
city"
Other critics are laying stress on
'ural sanitation and hygiene. Senator
Ransdell, chairman Of the senate COM
mittee on health and quarantine, has
been urging a special inquiry into the
methods of preventing disease in rural
America, particularly such diseases as
malaria and typhoid, which are wholly
preyentable. The senator's measure
proposes systematic cooperation be-
tween local and national authorities,
and is based on the idea that ''the prob
lem of rural sanitation is not a local
problem, but one which concerns the
health and physical integrity of our
entire nation" The two diseases
named, it is estimated, cost the coun.
try $SOO,OOO,OO0 year.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-02

years subscription to any two Of the
monthly magazines. It's too bad that
the North Pole was discovered before
this here member of the Airy-o Club
started in to offer prizes, Zapp. He
might Of loosened up to Admiral
Peary for a cut glass olive dish or
something"
81 guess the president Of the Airy
o Club thought the same thing as
you, Birsky," Zapp said, because so
soon as he got the letter from the
member who offered the trophy he
comes right back with an offer of
$4,000 for first prize, $4,000 second
prize, $4,000 for third prize, $500
for fourth prize, and so by degrees
down to You done noble for the ninth
prize, Fine work for the tenth prize
and What detained your for the 18th.
18th and 18th prizes"
"Sure, I know" Birsky commented,
''but twenty thousand dollars amt 10
be shifted at, neither"
Listen, Birsky," Zapp said. ''There
Is tilFeduH C1I0EeQ III tic AlIy-O OIuD .
contest thirteen concerns which manu-
factures airy-oplanes in the United
States, and, so far as heard it, they
amt in business for the benefit they
will get from the systematic exercise
of making up a weekly payroll exact
ly. So you can trust them fellers to
see to it that enough young billion
aires learns to fly to net the manufac-
turer anyhow ten per cent on his in
vestment, and that is the secret of
airy -oplane preparedness, Birsky. To
the members Of the Airy-o Club of
America an airy-Onaut is only an airy
Onaut, but to a feller in the airy-O-
plane business an airy-Onaut is some
thing more than that. He is a GUS
toner, Birsky. So, therefore, Birsky,
what the Airy-o Club of America must
do is to train travelling statesmen for
the manufacturers of airy-Oplanes, and
in case Of war, Birsky, the air would
be black with customers"
Copyright, New York Tribune)
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-02

H<Y SEE where the president OF the
Airy-O Club of America has got
a new plan to encourage young
fellers to learn how to fly" said Louis
BirSky the real estater as he laid down
the morning paper in Wasserbauer' S
Restaurant.
"What was the old planT Barnet
Zapp the waist manufacturer asked.
"Well," Birsky replied, II suppose
ne took the young feller to one side
and said: Listen, be a sport. You
got to die some time, and a long, ex-
pensiVe sickness amt so pleasant
neither. Get it over quick. Learn to
fy.'"
"And naturally the young feller
wasn't encouraged" Barnet Zapp sug-
gested.
Naturally" Birsky said. $50 now
the president of the Airy-O Club says:
LoOky here, why don't you learn it
flying in an airy-Oplane and after you
graduate 1 would get you and two
thousand Of your classmates to fly
from here to San Francisco, and who
arrives first gets $20,O00Y
"Aber suppOsing the feller don't ar
rive first?" Zapp inquired.
"Then that's his funeral" Birsky
said.
"Well then where does the encOur-
agement come in?" Zapp commented.
Furthermore, Birsky, this here pres
ident of the Airy-o Club Of America
has got it wrong. The thing to do is
not to encourage young fellers to learn
1t flying in an airy-Oplane but to DIS
courage 'em."
"Well, what he said in the first
place didn't sound so encouraging to
me-" Birsky said.
"What he said was all right" Zapp
admitted, "but he didn't lay no pipes
for it. For instance, if would be the
president of the Airy-o Club of Amer
lea and 1 wanted a young feller he
should be an airy-onaut y'understand
1 would find out where the young fel-
Ter is working and get him fired. 1
would then fix things so that the girl
he is going to marry wouldn't got
nothing to do with him no more.
H'afterwards l would use all this as
evidence why his father should throw
him out of the house, and when l got
the young feller absolutely in despair,
y'understand, would lay for him at
the drug store and just when he is
going to buy the poison he is figuring
on taking, would say to him: Lis
ten.-since the war has stopped Ger
many shipping drugs to America, you
couldn't rely on pOisons no more.
Save your money and try something
certain. Learn to fly"
"Aber not considering the funny
side Of this thing, Zapp, why is it we
amt got more as one airy-oplane flyer
to EurOpe's twenty?" Birsky asked.
"It's a question from etiquette"
Zapp replied. "Over in Europe if a
young feller has got father with a
rating anywheres about D to T credit
fair, for such a young feller to work
for living is considered like eating
with his knife or wearing tan shoes
with q full dress suit. So what is a
feIler like that to do? Cards he soon
gets tired of, because you've got to
use your head to play cards, and in
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-02

ployment to thousands of operators, y
understand, they got over in Europe
a son of millionaire who is learning
to fly in an airy-oplane and has work
ing for him steady two mechanics, a
surgeon and a trained nurse.
"WeH, you couldn't blame such a
young feller in especially if he is
going out a good deal into society"
Birsky said. 'The fact that a feller
is learning to fly in an airy-oplane
and so to speak could never tell which
moment is going to be his next, Zapp,
makes him in a way very interesting
to meet, especially for ladies, Zapp,
which they could say h'afterwards
Only yesterday he was talking to me
the same like you are nOw.' Also an
airy-oplane flyer has got a trOpic of
conversation more attractive to ladies,
Zapp, which 1 don't care how good
looking q young American millionaire
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-02

Europe up to the present war using
your head wasn't considered becoming
neither. Gollef and tennis is all right
once in a while, Birsky, but if feller
is hitting q ball NIT club day in day
out, understand, he might just so
well be hitting a nail NIT q hammer
and become a carpenter. The cOnse-
Cuences was that until airy-Oplanes
was invented, all such young feller
could do to get any excitement out Of
life was to climb mountains NIT SNOW
on 'em or go to Africa and kill once in
a while menagerie animal like q lion
or a tiger. However, Birsky, after
afry-oplanes was invented, flying be-
came more fashionable than mountain
climbing and killing menagerie ami
mails, as it was found out to be just
as dangerous, but with less travelling
expenses and more convenient to a
hospital. So therefore, Zapp, for
every son of a millionaire in this eoun-
try which is working hard to carry on
the old mans business and give en-
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-02
To Initiate rhateh Roof.

OF the various attractive roof eft.
fects which can be achieved with
either the asphalt or the wood shingle,
none are more popular at present than
that of the imitation Of the old English
thatch.
This effect is obtained by what is
known as the woven shingle method,
whereby the shingles are laid in
courses varying in width from one iocb
to seven inches.
While undoubtedly a roof Of this
sort lends charm and distinction to
houses OF q certain style Of archi-
lecture, from the nature Of the work
lnanship required in its construction,
the roof cannot be considered a cheap
one.
To those who do not have to con.
slider expense closely, the soft finish of
the imitation thatch must make a
strong appeal.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-02

Another important point is the Gull
ing Of the flock. The early Matched
chicks, when sufficiently developed to
distinguish the sex, should, if possible,
be separated, as the pullets will grow
and thrive much better by themselves.
Select the most desirable pullets for
breeding purposes and keep only a
few of the choicest cockerels. The pull
lets are placed in their winter quarters
and fed as great variety of food as the
farm usually produces to get them in
laying condition as soon as possible
Feed them plenty Of green food, such
as cabbage leaves, all small apples and
potatoes, turnip tops, in fact, ANYTHING
to make a variety, which is greatly
relished by the flock. Milk, either
sweet or sour, is fed to them, all that
they will drink every day. Fresh wa
ter is kept constantly before them. It
never pays to compel poultry to drink
impure water and this can easily be
avoided by cleaning their drinking YES
sells each day. Success in getting eggs
In winter is due to keeping the flock
healthy and in a good thrifty condi-
ton. The poultry house and yards are
Kept in a sanitary condition, as this is
the first requisite of successful nouItrv
keeping.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-02
PRODUCTION OF BIGGER EGGS
purdue Experiment Station Thinks 1t
Possible to Produce Eggs of Bet
ter Color and Shape.

Is it possible to produce bigger
eggs, or more uniformly colOred eggs,
or eggs with firmer white or yellower
yOlk than we are at present prOduc-
ing? The Purdue experiment station
thinks it is, and the eighth annual
Purdue egg show last May had on
display $40 dozen eggs. There were
represented the commercial class, the
fanciers' class, the experiment station
class, the students class, the high
school class, the freak egg class, be-
sides several others. The object of the
show is to encourage the production of
more and better eggs.