River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-02-19
Big Happenings of the Week
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Northwest

has been settled.
Sportsmen near Presho, S. D., are
arranging wolf hunt
Three Ignite mines in North Dakota
have been ordered closed by the state
mine inspector.
Hog cholera has broken out in the
vicinity of Arcadia, Wis. # Widespread
vaccination is in progress
Two hundred and thirty pieces of
land in Standing Rock Indian reserva-
ton will be sold March 20 and April
90 va
b The Long Pine district in Harding
county, South Dakota, north of Camp
Crook, may be the scene of an oil
boom" n 4FFvs
A campaign to raise 100000 for the
construction Of Y NJ. C. A. building
at Aberdeen, s. D., will open the first
of April.
+ Mrs. w. E. Morrow has been sap.
pointed auditor of Hand county, S, d.,
to succeed her husband, who died
week ago.
Sheepmen of the western part of
South Dakota expect to get Is cents
a pound for the spring clip. which will
be unusually heavy.
Tax payers residing in the central
and eastern portions OF Meade county.
South Dakota, have started move
inent for division of the couI ty
A general conference of pastors of
the North Dakota district of the Nor
wegian Lutheran Church Of America,
will be conducted, in Fargo, Feb 20
o24.
The Mobridge, S. D., Commercial
clrb has taken up the campaign start
ed by the Yellowstone Trail associa-
ton lof South Dakota to obtain a state.
bridge over he Missouri river at that
point.
TO provide for the constantly in
creasing number, of tourists who use,
1.-THE Red Trail, the Dickinson, n. D.,
commissioners have voted to prepare
Ia camp site near the city limits this
spring. 4
Mayor L. X. Larson. ofHDell Rapids,
South Dakota, has vetoed the curfew
ordinance recently passed by the city
council, because he believes that the
matter of keeping children home is a
subject of parental control,
Neil r. and Carl Gire, brothers, SO
and &c years old respectively, were
found dead in a rooming house at Far
go, victims of fumes arising from fumi-
CATION pots. They were the sons of
G. O. Gre of Fosston, Minnesota.
The threatened increase in freight
rates on hogs from South Dakota,
North Dakotaand Minnesota to Pacific
coast points will not be put into effect,
according to word received by the Nit.
chell, S. D., Chamber of Commerce.
Twenty-one conventions and meet
ings of varying importance are sched-
uled to be held at Grand Forks, N. d.,
during the balance. of 1920, according
to schedule made out by Z: w. 1AIeys
ers, secretary of the Grand Forks
Commercial club.
Dates for the annual North Dakota
high school conference at the state
university were Announced las May
Is, II and Is. The high, school con-
ference, high school. debate, high
school oratoricai contest and high.
school field and track emeets are on
the program.
Sure, proposed to him. said Mrs;
Minnie Kruger, as she applied for the
|. free marriage license offered by
County Clerk Schulze of Manitowoc,
wis, for the first leap year marriage.
The bridegroom in the case is August
Krevis. 67, and.this In his second mar
riage. The bride is So years old and
is plunging into matrimony for the
third time
= On account of the. light demand for
horses, state officials are receiving
complaints that ranches are permit.
ting their animals to roam unchecked
west of the Missouri river and it lis
claimed that considerable damage has
been done by hungry horses searching
for food. Correspondence with state
officials in Montana indicates condi-
lions are even worse in that state.
Mrs Stanley Blomsd, mother of Al
ban Blomski, 6-year-old boy who was
found dead several weeks ago at the
Blomski farmhouse at Sugar Camp,
Wis, has confessed to beating the boy
with heavy poker and razor strap,
according to District Attorney A. J.
Omelia's office. The husband, who has
stoutly maintained bis innocence
throughout, was exonerated by Mrs.
Blomski, it is said.
To Mrs. Frank Chairman of Fond
du Lac Wis. belongs the double dis
tinction of becoming grandmother and
great grandmother within twenty-four
hours. Her daughter, Mrs. E. e. Thew,
Ashland, Wis, and her granddaughter.
Mrs. Clarence AIcorn, both. giving
birth to daughters. Both were born
at the Thew home. N ~ ~5H'
Six hundred Sioux Indians of the
Standing Rock reservation will be-
come members of an organization
which hopes to accomplish division
among citizen Indians Of trust funds
hold fo thar oradil in fha TTnifad