River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-03-08
Ross Bennett was out from Hud-

teach at Maiden Rock.
Miss Helen Scroggie visited rela-
tives in Hudson Sunday.
DR.. and Mrs. T. w. Ashley enter
tanned last Tuesday evening.
Miss Alma Elertson visited rela-
tives at ST. Paul Park Sunday.
F. D. Ensign returned home Sat-
urday from trip to Brooklyn, n.
Y.
Tony Moline was over from Elm
wood a few days the first of the
week.
E. N. McIlroy of White Bear,
Mimi, visited with L. J. Oakley last
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. O. Junkman and
daughter, Miss Ruth, visited in Ellis
worth yesterday.
Miss Mollie Lowe, who has been
studying music in Minneapolis, has
organized a class here.
Chas. Harlem shipped his house,
hold goods to his new home at Chin
ook, Mont, the first of the week.
Andy Nelson of Eskeline. S. D.,
visited his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Sven Nelson, the first of the week.
Joe Rupert has returned home
from Charles City, Ia, where he had
been employed the past three
months.
J. c.. Bergeron of Rice Lake
made" this territory in the inter-
ests of the Wisconsin Casualty Co.
the first of the week.
Pratt's orchestra Of this city has
been engaged to play for series Of
ten dances to be given in the pavilion
at Bass Lake during the coming sea-
son.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Mis-
sion church meets with Mrs. C. A.
Upgren one week from next Thurs
day, March Is. Everybody cordial
ly invited.
The Dougherty Stock Co., after an
enforced vacation of three weeks,
will return to this circuit this week,
and will appear at the opera house
tomorrow night.
Rod McGregor left Monday on a
business trip to Montana. Mrs. Nc
Oregon is visiting at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Jack Nederhauser,
near Roberts, during her husbands
absence.
Heman Hutchins has been laid up
the past few days with an attack of
la grippe. Although "Heam" is So
years old he has a record Of steady
and strenuous work that would stag
ger many younger man.
The New Richmond News reports
that Supt. P. +. Neverman of that
city has been elected to the superin-
tendency Of the schools at Monroe,
to succeed Prjn. J. W. T. Ames. The
News adds that Mr.. Neverman has
not as yet accepted the offer.
The weather of the past three days
has put country roads in bad shape.
In places where travel has gone over
drifts four or five feet high the snow
is now too soft to sustain much
weight, and it is necessary to pillow
or shovel to the bottom of these
huge drifts to reach more solid foun-
dalton.
Coach r. A. Peterson brought out
his Ellsworth high school basket ball
players to the River Falls-Stevens
Point game Thursday, and needless
to say they enjoyed every minute of
i. Two of his own former stars,
Peterson and Rice, were largely re-
sponsible for the local victory, and
tAe Hub boys were pulling strong
for the Red & White from start to
finish.
The Rockwell's Sunny South Mir
strels band delayed their concert, ad-
vertised for noon Saturday, to 3 z.
m, giving the farmers who came in
to do shopping an opportunity to
hear the music. This is a new de-
parture and met with general APP
prevail. The concert was of short
duration, owing to the severe cold,
but what there was of it was very
good The play in the evening drew
fair-sized crowd. The perform
ance was clean, and parts of it were