River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-05-27
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Northwest

Wisconsin will hold its forty-seventh
annual session here October 5, 8, 10
and IL
Spokane. of three mills of the
Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining COM
pany of kellogg, Idaho was practically
destroyed by fire, entailing loss es-
timated at 100000
Rapid City, S. D.-Edward Wake
field. AZ years old. employed by local
lumber company, was electrocuted
when he tried to learn the cause OF the
sudden extinguishment of lights.
Webster, S. D.-Crows have become
so numerous in parts of Day county
that the county commissioners have
started campaign for determination
of them by offering a bounty of cents
per head for the birds.
Neenah, Wis.--Rox River Valley pa
per mill men have completed organiza-
tion of a $1,000,00O corporation which
has started construction of two ma
chine paper mill and converting plant
at Niagara Falls, N "
Madison, Wis.-Herman B. Dahle,
former member of congress from the
third Wisconsin district, is dead at his
home in Mount Horeb. He was born
in Perry, Wis, in 1855. He served in
the seth and 57th congresses.
Fargo, N. D.--A minimum wage OF
$17.5O for women employed in hotels.
cafeterias and soda fountains was ten
tatively adopted by the conference rep.
resenting the employers, the workers
and the public. conducted in Fargo.
velva, N. D--Mrs. Emil Roulier,
self by poison after she had admins
tered dose to her year old daugh
ter, Lea. Worry and i'll health is be-
lieved by officials to have unbalanced
her mind
Bismarck, N. D.-William Mills Of
Bismarck, former police commissioner
Of Fargo, died here following an opera.
ton for stomach trouble. He was Sc
years old and had resided in Fargo Is
years, coming to Bismarck only few
weeks ago.
Pembina, N. D.-Judge E. w. Con-
my of Pembina, resident of the state
since 1885, county Judge of Pembina
county for ten years, died here. He
had been i'll eighteen months. Judge
Conmy was a member of the Demo.
cratic state central committee.
Bismarck. Jacob Wolf, a farmer
living near Turtle Lake, McLain coun.
ty, NJ D., and his family Of six have
been murdered. Their bodies and tnat
of the hired man we're found in the
house and barn. The crime is be.
lieved to be the work of maniac.
Bozeman, Mont Miss Alice CHS.
holm of Bozeman, has been called into
service for the Y. NJ C. A. overseas
for entertainment work with the Amer.
lean forces in the army of occupation
at Coblenz, Germany. She expects to
sail on the New York, an American
line steamer.
Bismarck, N. D-The state automo
bile registry department is out of tags
and shipments long since expected
have become lost in transit. AS re-.
suit, applications for licenses have
piled up, but this does not exempt
owner from sending in their applica.
tions for tags.
Redfield, S. D.-While cleaning a
chicken for dinner, Miss Blanch Forth
of Turton discovered what had become
of the So goldpiece she had received
as Christmas present last year. On
o,,opipo tba chiclyapso 0:11ard fivo
coins were discovered Four were
pennies and the fifth was the missing
goldpiece.
Duluth.-A complete counterfeiting
plant in Duluth, capable of flooding
the northwest with Federal Reserve
bank notes was seized by Frank w.
Sommer, United States secret service
agent, and local police The federal
agent and police raided house, con.
fiscated a small trunkload of counter.
feiting equipment and arrested Joseph
S. Schab, age 40, and John Korba, age
80.
Ashland, Wis-Considerabl guam.
titles Of potatoes, buried in root eel.
lars all winter, are coming to the mar
ket. Thousands of bushels in North
ern Wisconsin were held up all win
ter by the unprecedented depth Of
snow and the condition of country
roads, which were impossible for
weeks. For a time no teams were
able to get through on some country
roads
Minneapolis. Bank deposits in Min
nesota have increased from $76, 900
in 1900 to $685.. $4,000 in 1920, accord
ing to a statement of comparative
bank deposits of the northwest, issued
by the First National bank of Mime
apolis. In North Dakota the deposits
have increased from s11, 222, 900 in 1900
to $210,S6S,000 in 1919, and in Mon
tana the deposits have increased from
11E nm ~, 700n - Q1Q0zoon mn ~,