River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-10-18
Local News


Vino Fait and family visited with
friends at Erin Prairie Sunday.
George Cook of Prescott was
business caller in the city Tuesday. -
Mrs. Gertie Lee spent the latter
part of the week with friends at ST.
Paul.
Students should consult DR..
Glough if in need of rest glasses. At
Gladstone Oct. 20.-adv.
Comfort and economy make hap
Ply homes. You get both by using
Coles Hot Blast Heaters.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Newman and
four children of Watford, N. D.,
are visitors at C. r. Taggart's.
Avoid chilly rooms in the morning
by using Coles Hot Blast Heaters.
They prevent colds and sickness.
Miss Leora Elliott departed Sun
day for Chetek, where she will teach
history and music in the high school.
George and Irwin Stewart and
Fred Williams were away this week
on a hunting trip through Polk coun-
ty.
Harry VIM h purchased the
forty acres of land in Oak Grove,
known as the Barrett forty. from J.
F. Kordorsky.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. D. Lord and so n
Frederick and Miss Gladys Doolittle
were visitors at the H. F. Doolittle
home Sunday.
Miss Jennie Johnson, who has been
spending the summer at the John
Joplin home, returned to her home
in Beldenville Monday.
The next dance at the Ellsworth
Park Pavilion takes place Friday
night of this week. Fink's orches-
ira will furnish music.
Mrs. Bieber (nee Marjorie Was
SOM and son of Walden, COL, arriv-
ed here Friday on a two weeks visit
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. S.
III. WATSON.
| have an Odell automatic safety
razor b a d e sharpening machine.
Makes old bladers G o. as new.
Please give me a trial. Sam Hoff-
man, opposite Carisch 's.-adv.
Harry Stewart and Warren dig
ney drove to Elmwood Monday after
noon in the latter's truck and
brought back a load of apples for
the Stewart Mercantile Co.
M. M Walters made shipment of
poultry to st. Paul last Monday
morning and it was quite some ship
ment, too-a ton and a half of chick
ems purchased at this point. The
Oligney truck was used to take the
shipment over to st. Paul.
The annual Washington County
Fair, held at Saltwater last week,
"bucked' the weather man f r O m
start to finish. The fair was not
even blessed with one good day, the
weather being more favorable for a
winter carnival than anything else.
The exhibits are said to have been
unusually large and the attractions
of a high-cass order.
Chas. Phillips, Earl Hunter and
John Knapp made a trip through
Polk county last week in search of
the willy duck and returned with a
nice bag of game. They report that
the ground in that neck Of the
woods was covered with snow Fri
day and that spending the night in
we'll ventilated hay barn and early
morning shooting from an ice COW
cred slough is surely the life
Mr.. and Mrs. A. W. Andrus land
Miss Lizzie Mcmillan returned Mon
day morning from Thompson, N. D.,
where they attended the funeral of
the late T. F. Mcmillan, who was
killed by train on Oct. 9th. The
deceased is a brother of Mrs. Andrus
and Miss Mcmillan. Mr.. Mcmillan
was in the general merchandise bust
ness at Thompson. On the evening
of Oct. 9th he left his place of bust
ness to go to the depot and see some
friends off on a train. He was seen
to cross the track in safety, just
ahead of a locomotive, but evidently
the side of the cab struck him, for he
was picked up later with his face