River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-07-15
Big Happenings Of the Week
Condensed for Benefit Of
Busy Readers.
TOLD IN A few WORDS
Kernels Culed From News Of Moment
In All Parts of the World
OF Interest to All the Pec-
pie Everywhere.
Northwest

Northwest
Flandreau, S. Dat a special cleo
tion here by vote of 304 to ass Sun
day moving picture shows were au-
thorized in Flandreau.
Pierre, S. D.-By a decided major
ity the house indicated it does not de-
sire In any way to attempt to change
the present Richards primary law OF
the state.
Redfield, S. D.-AThe survey of the
storm which swept southwestern
Sphinx county indicate losses exceed
ing $10,000,00O Many of the cottages
were destroyed.
Des Laos, N. D.-Drillers on an oil
| test well here struck solid rock at
depth of $3.50 feet Whether this in
Dictated oil pockets or blocking of fur
Their drilling is uncertain.
Grafton, N. D.-Grasshoppers are
appearing in great numbers in parts
of Walsh county, according to County
| Agent A. G. Hathaway, who uiges use
| of poison to curb the pests.
Duluth, Minn.-Shipments of iron
ore from the lakes included Duluth,
Two Harbors, Superior and Ashland
for June aggregated 7,533,063 tons,
an increase of 545,444 tons over the
same month last year.
| Sioux Falls, S. D.-Claude Lowe
state manager for the Orpheum thea
| ter, was killed and Mrs. Claude Lowe
| and Mrs. Fred Payne seriously injur.
| ed while crossing the Omaha railroad
tracks at Worthington, MINI.
Butte, Mont.-Fred Dutch" Mol
then, former Montana university all
around athlete star, and member OF
| the famous Mare Island Marine foot
ball team of 1917, was killed in an air
plane accident at Paris Island, S. c.
| Deadwood, S. D.-A tornado which
swept Lawrence county, near Strongs,
did considerable damage to crops, but
| no one was injured. Some loss OF
property is also reported. The twist
er was followed by heavy hail storm.
| Aberdeen, S. D.-The 8 year old son
| of George Kormedy of Java, near here,
was killed in runaway when farm
| wagon, with two horses hitched to it,
| was overturned. The horses became
| frightened at a cow grazing alongside
| the road.
| La Crosse, Wis.-Employing all the
articles and wiles of olden-time SNUG
| glers, shippers of swift Lake Superb
| or craft are transporting whisky
from Canada to upper Wisconsin
| ports, according to United States Dis
| trict Attorney A. G. Wolfe.
Fargo, N. D.-A picture of Fargo
young man and twenty-eight ducks he
shot last fall was evidence against
him when he was arraigned in Fed
eral court on a charge of having kill
ed more than twenty-five migratory
birds He paid fine of SIS.
Winnipeg, Man - Fifty thousand
| farm laborers will be required to har-
vest the 1920 crop of provinces. it
was estimated by ]. A. Bowman, pro-
vincial commissioner of colonization.
Indications were for bumper crops In
all three provinces, Bowman said.
Sioux Falls, S. ID. Harry Sleep, aged
z, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sleep,
who reside on a ranch in the Crow
Creek region north of the Black Hills,
died from injuries received when he
was kicked by one of his fathers
horses. He died on the way to hos
pital.
Pierre, S. D.-When little son OF
Lyle Moulton who lives on Willow
Creek in Stanley county, fell into that
stream, the father, though ill in bed
with smallpox, rushed from the house
and dived into the deep pool, recover
ing the body. All efforts to restore
life failed
Helena, Mont.-State officials of the
bureau of animal industry report
larZe shipments back into the state
| of cattle sent out during the dry years.
| About 10000 have also been sent in
| to Montana by Washington and Ore
| gon stockmen, to take advantage OF
| the unusually luxuriant rains this
year.
Hetland, S. D.-While preparing to
return home after attending show
| here cattle buyer had an experience
with a runaway automobile. He
cranked up the car and left the en-
CINE running while he went after his
coat. He returned to find his auto
'beating it" toward the owners home
at Arlington, and fracturing all the
| traffic laws of the town and state.
| The wild car crashed through two
fences and then jumped into lake.
Two-thirds of the men in town, all the
small boys and team of horses were
rochiffzad RI fow tho gar Tn drV land
Dupree, S. D.--A general Indian
council, meeting at LaPlant recently
voted not to open the remaining part