River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-08-12


breakwater just east of the harbor dur.
ing storm. The boy was making his
way toward shore when the accident
occurred. Capt. Frank Fountain of the
life saving station said chat the gale.
was sufficiently strong to have blown
a grown person from the pier
While 500 persons from all
parts of the state, including speakers
from the state dairy school at Madi-
son, were enjoying themselves at the
annual picnic of the Brown Swiss Cat
tie Breeders association on the N. S.
Schmidt farm, west of Monroe. John
Fiechter, 20, an employe of Schmidt,
climbed to the haymow OF the large
barn on the place and hanged himself
to a beam. Fiechter was an ex-army
man and married. The motive of the
act is a mystery.
Kenosha-Official circles of Kenoshs
were stirred by the announcement by
Judge James E. Tully that he would
ask the county board for the removal
of Miss Laura Hahn, county probation
officer. Lack of cooperation between
the court and the Office are given as
the cause for the request. Miss Hahn
declares that all the misunderstand-
ing has arisen because she insists on
the right to employ and discharge the
persons working in her own office.
Eau Claire-Two horses, freed of
their wagon raced into an automobile
driven by Paul Schlieve. One horse
leaped on top of the car. smashing the
windshield and utterly demolishing the
front of the machine. The flying glass
cut one hand and ear of Mrs. Paine of
Bloomer, whom Mr.. Schlieve was TAX
ing to the Sacred Heart hospital. AS
the horse leaped from the wrecked car
a loop in the harness dragged the
machine across the street.
Merrill - Despite notice given the
Constitutional league at Wausau that
the meeting at which Ole Hanson, for
mer mayor of Seattle, would speak,
would be broken up, the first annual
picnic of the Edward Burns post.
American legion, at Riverside park.
was attended by nearly 5000 persons.
The address of Mr.. Hanson was di-
rected at both capital and labor, urg-
ing them to be fair for the best pros
perity of the city.
Rhinelander to the Wis
consin Potato Growers association and
the state agricultural college, the
largest field of certified seed potatoes
in Wisconsin is that on Sunset farm,
near Clearwater lake in Oneida coun-
ty. The field is the property of Clark
G.. Kinney of Three Lakes. 1t COM
prises 300 acres. According to infor-
nation from Madison this is also the
largest certified potato field in the
world
Menasha The destruction of the
Episcopal church at Oneida at re-
ported loss of $4,000 had a strange
effect upon the Indians at the reserva-
ton They danced about the ruins
and performed strange rites, thinking
that the Great Spirit was angry with
them. They held council and raised
1000 toward the building of new
church. The building was destroyed
by lightning.
Eau Claire-On account of the poor
water supply, fire which broke out in
the yards of the John Fl. Kaiser Lum-
Der Co. for a time threatened the
whole district. The water pressure
was not sufficient to combat the flames
and only change in the wind saved
the large saw mill of the company and
adjacent buildings. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000.
DarIington-Th Georgetown post
office, just over the line in Grant coun-
ty, in existence for over half CEN
fury, has been discontinued. James
Jeffry, postmaster for thirty years and
now an old man, has gone to Water
loo, Ia, to make his home with son.
The patrons of the office will hereafter
Platteville.
Brentwood long run in
an attempt to catch train, A Wise,
prominent throughout the northwest
as a real estate broker and banker,
died of overexertion. Mr.. Wise was a
pioneer of the west, making trip
from North Dakota to the Pacific ocean
by team before railroads were built
Sheboygan-Th keen nose of po-
liceman of Sheboygan resulted in the
arrest of T. H. Belling and HI. T. Bel
ling, the confiscation of 120 quarts of
whisky and an automobile. The men
asked the policeman how to find a
certain address. The officer smelled
liquor and made the arrest.
Kenosha = Five negroes who were
making their way from Chicago to