River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-04-12
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Andrew Lem left Sunday to visit
relatives in Madison.
George Mallory was down from
Minneapolis over Sunday.
Miss Dorothy Taggart spent last
week with friends in St. Paul.
Mrs. Chas. Stiles Of Prescott
Roads visited in the city yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Bliss went to
St. Paul yesterday for short visit.
Nels Younggren and VIM. Finley
were business visitors in Hudson
yesterday.
David Huddleson left Yesterday to
visit relatives in St. Paul, Lake City
and Chicago.
Master Rupert Van Kirk Of ST..
Paul spent his Easter vacation at
the C. R. Taggart home.
Strawberry and Raspberry plants
for sale, 75c per hundred. Coley
Krauth, River Falls, Wis.-adv.
Fred Short is here for weeks va
cation. He will return to his
school at RhineIander Saturday.
Mrs. Eva Shepard spent Sunday
and Monday in Minneapolis, guest of
her sister, Mrs. Wallace Shepard.
Mrs. Howard Pratt returned
home Tuesday from a visit of sever
al days with relatives in St Paul.
Mrs. VIM. Mclaughlin spent the
latter part of last week with rela-
tives and friends at Knapp and Bald
win.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Chinook leave
Friday to take mud bath treatments
for rheumatism at Mt. Clemens,
Mich.
Miss Rose Cheney returned to her
school at Manitowoc Sunday after
spending a two weeks vacation at
| nome.
The Young Peoples Society Of the
Ezekiel Lutheran church will meet
at the home Of Misses Tossing Wed
nesday, April 18th, at 8 o'clock.
Place? Cong. basement.
Date? 2o'clock p. m. on Sat, May
5.
What? Annual May sale by Cong.
Ladies Aid.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Ford arriv-
ed in the city Saturday for weeks
visit at the home of the latter's
mother, Mrs. Lena Hammond. Mr..
Ford is principal Of schools at New
London, this state.
Misses E. E. and H. L. Levings,
who have been spending the winter
at Sorrento, Fla, have written to
have their Journal sent to Seneca,
Kans., where they expect to stay for
some time, after April 10.
The upper floor of the Stewart
block is being finished up for office
suites and tenements. There are to
be four office suites on the west side,
and in the remainder Of the space
two flats of four rooms each, one
fiat of three rooms, with bathrooms
and toilets to accommodate all ten
ants.
C. R. Taggart returned home this
morning from Grand Rapids, this
state, where he had been in attend
ance at the Head Camp convention
of the Wisconsin Woodmen Of the
World. of which society he is head
clerk. There were about $50 dele.
gates present and very successful
convention was held. These meet.
ings are held every two years, and it
was decided to hold the next one at
Superior, in 1919.
The Omaha bridge at Hudson, the
Burlington bridge at Prescott, the
500 line bridge near Somerset. the
Burlington and Milwaukee bridges
at Pepin each has detachment of
soldiers from the state militia on
guard and all of our exchanges from
these localities have amusing items
relating the experiences Of W. k.
citizens who have tried to pass by
the guards without proper creden-
tials. Earl Currier, of this city, on
guard duty at the Hudson bridge,
it is reported, was forced to explain
the situation to the Sheriff of st.
Croix county recently.