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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-08-26

And we, again, along life's lane
Will walk with schoolmates smil-
ing.
We've worked and played in shine
and shade,
Through fair and stormy weather,
And side by side we've laughed and
cried,
Along through life together;
And now, in truth, some share in
youth
Old Time does back surrender.
When we meet here, one day each
year,
Renewing old ties tender.
Full soon Times wide resistless tide
Through void, unmeasured spaces,
Will bear us far across the bar"
Unto our destined places;
But why, O pray! at natures way
Should we be sad, complaining
When well we know our friends must
go.
Who, lone, would be remaining?
Old friends! Old friends: though for
tune sends
Some times too much of sorrow,
Well laugh today, let come what may
Of good or i'll tomorrow.
o, days seem sweet when old friends
meet,
In storm or sunny weather,
Who side by side have laughed and
cried
Along through life together.
Effie Griffin Haddow, Sec.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-08-26
COMPANY "A NOTES

A Rifle Range has been leased on
the knight farm, west of this city,
and work will be started at an early
date to construct a concrete target
pit and get the range in shape for
immediate use. With the Government
furnishing the ammunition for range
shooting, it will undoubtedly be more
popular than rabbit hunting this fall
with members of the company. The
State is preparing to expend over
$500 in laying out and equipping our
Rifle Range.
The War Department is prepared
to furnish rifles and ammunition to
civilian rifle clubs who desire to use
Natioal Guard Rifle Ranges, and an
opportunity will thus be given the
sportsmen of River Falls to perfect
their hunting eye on our range before
going up deer hunting this fall.
Attendance at drill Monday night
was still rather slim on account of
so many of the boys being in the
country threshing. A re-rating of
the company is scheduled for the first
of September, and any non-com with
a string of A. w. 0. LIS after his
name is liable to find that he is a
"Buck" on his return. If you are
going to be absent, phone Lieutenant
Dawson beforehand and get excused.
Safety First.
Don't forget to turn out next Mon
day night for the business meeting
If you can't stay all evening, at least
be present at roll call. We have to
have at least half of the company
present to have quorum to transact
business.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-08-26
Senator Harding at
Hamline Sept. 9Th

Senator Warren G. Harding, Re-
publican candidate for president, is
to speak at the Minnesota State Fair,
Wednesday, September s. 1t is the
only fair in America at which Hard
ing will speak this year.
His address at the Minnesota State
Fair will be a keynote speech on the
attitude of the Republican party to-
wards the American farmer, 1t has
been Mr.. Harding's belief that a
speech on agriculture in a technical
way should be given in an official
manner early in the campaign, and
that this address should be delivered
at some place in the west where agri-
culture is paramount Both Mr..
Harding and the Republican National
Committee are of the opinion that no
better place could be chosen for this
address than the Minnesota State
Fair.
The official record for daily attend
aNce at Cne MINNESOTA Iotdte diI Weio
established on Labor Day in 1919,
when 1877, 1000 persons passed thru the
turnstiles. 1t is believed that fully
that number of people will avail
themselves of their only chance to
see and hear the Republican candi-
date for president. Mr.. Harding will
leave Marion, O., for the Twin Cities
Tuesday, Sept. 7, arriving Wednesday
morning. He will be the guest of the
state fair the entire day, and deliver
his important address on the fair
grounds. He will leave the same
evening for his home, arriving at
Marion on Thursday
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-08-26
TEAM RUNS AWAY

Jas. O'Malley's team, hauling a
wagon half loaded with coal, ran
from the Consolidated Lumber Cos.
coal sheds, out onto Main street and
North to Melgard Monument Works.
Here they crashed into monument,
which was set up at the corner. The
massive stone was knocked off its
pedestal and Clipped.
Both horses were thrown, one fall
ing on top of the other, but neither
was injured. The O'Malley boy, who
was in charge of the team, was not In
the wagon when they ran away. The
wagon was somewhat damaged, and
the harnesses broken in few places.
The runaway occurred about one
o'clock Saturday afternoon.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-08-26
BUYS FAMOUS BULL

H. E. Bailey returned home from a
recent trip into Minnesota, where he
purchased, at Randolph, a pure-bred
Shorthorn bull to add to his fine herd.
This bull is the largest, we believe,
that has ever been seen in this terri
tory. He has been around the show
circuit, and although placed along
side the best stock in the Northwest,
still. has an undefeated record. Mr..
Bailey will show him at Fairs in this
neighborhood. We understand that
Mr.. Bailey paid long price to secure
him for his herd. He made the pur-
chase at Randolph, MINI.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-08-26
Notice To Beginners

There will be no kindergarten this
year, and it will be impossible for the
school to admit children in the first
grade who are under six years old.
Parents who expect to send children
to the first grade in either school
should see that they enter at the very
beginning of the school year. Some
parents neglect this and then wonder
why their children cannot enter later.
There is always place where chill
dren who have been in school one or
more years can fit, but it is different
with beginners. They must enter
early in order to get the beginning
work, which is given but once each
year, at the beginning of the year.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-08-26

time.
And the training of the past three
weeks is showing splendid results
Some of the horses that were usually
outclassed during the early summer
are rounding into top form and show
ing speed that the average track fan
never suspected was in them. AS we
stated heretofore, the River Falls
horses will make strong bid for the
money wherever they may go this
Fall, and they will be followed by a
big bunch Of fans at every race.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-08-26
SECOND ARTESIAN WELL
AT COOPERATIVE CREAMERY

A second artesian well was discov-
cred last week at the River Falls Co
operative Creamery Co.'S. plant OPP
posite the freight depot. The drilling
had gone to depth of forty feet.
when the water came up to ground
level. 1t is evidently from the same
vein as that from which the old well
at the creamery is supplied, as pump
ing from the old well affects the stand
in the new pipe.
The new we'll was drilled to furnish
water for the addition which is to be
built onto the north side of the
creamery. The new section will be
22x2S feet, and is to house the ice
cream department. 1t had been
planned to erect the addition this
summer or fall, but the inability to
secure cement and other material has
delayed the start indefinitely.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-08-26
TO TEACH IN JAPAN

Miss Eleanore Burnett, who has
been visiting here at the home of her
uncle, Ben Burnett, left Saturday for
Vancouver, B. c., from which place
she sails today for Japan, where she
will teach in Kobi college. Her con-
tract is for term of five years.
Miss Burnett was accompanied to
Vancouver by her brother, Earl, and
their cousin, Philip Thurston, both
of New York City.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-08-26
THE PIERCE COUNTY
WAR HISTORY

The Red Wing Printing Co., which
has been working on the publication
of a World War History of Pierce
County, and to which many ex-service
mems photos have been sent, was
greatly delayed in the work on ac-
count of the paper and labor short
age.
They are now making good pro-
gress, however, and will very soon
have the books ready for distribution.
The photographs which were sent
in for this publication win be return
ed at the very earliest opportunity.
Use the CLASSIFIED ad. Column.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-08-26
Old Academy
Girls Picnic

Another year has come ana gone
bringing the goth anniversary of the
organizing of the "Old Academy
Girls" and on the third Tuesday of
August, 1920, the annual picnic was
held in Glen Park.
The day was cool and the sky was
covered from morning until evening
with beautiful gray cloud softening
the light which seemed appropriate
for the many "Girls" who are grow
ing older.
A pleasant hour or more was spent
IL greeting old friends and reviewing
the happenings of the past year. Then
dinner was announced, which had
beer prepared by Frank Williams
Baker,, and was pronounced a
great success. She was assisted by
Sarah Nichols (Tozer), and many
daughters of the "girls" in arranging
tables, flowers, and serving the food.
After the dinner hour the "Girls"
were called to order by the president,
Fida Carleton armstrong;, who
made many witty references to the
former president and her twin"
Sarah Nichols (Tozer) who replied in
like manner causing much merriment.
The roll was next called, to which
only 40 of the whole enrolment (15l)
answered present" Many were alb
sent because of illness and were MISS
ed. Two Of the loved members, Abbie
Reed Bliss and Charlotte Rosenquist
Stiles answered the last Roll Call the
past year. A1nessage of thanks for
flowers from Charlotte's family came
too late to be read at the meeting.
Greetings were read from Mary
Cnrrier Bailey, Hattie Gibbs lang
we'll, Nellie Nelson (Knott), Sarah
Wadsworth (GetchelD, Mercie Rob-
erts (Young), Nellie Cooper SACK
ett), Waite Thayer (Allen), and Lot
tie Thayer Tin rhyme), Nellie East
man (Weiland), Ida Powell (Gould),
Ada Powell (Stone), Fannie Stevens
(Gulick), Maria Loring (Fields), and
Sarah Stone (Nelson). Some OF the
greetings were so characteristic of
the writers that the Secretary found
herself marking them present!
A message from Eva Burnett
tCurtis) came too late to be read.
It was suggested that copies of the
local papers containing the account
Of the picnic be sent to the members
from whom we have received greet
ings.
The election of officers resulted as
follows: President, Helen Healey
BROWN; Vice president, Cora Rosen-
quist (Stiles); Sec. and Treas, Minnie
Holmes (Reynolds); Food Conn.,,
Amelia Reed (HalD; Flower Com,
Lucy Powell (Currier).
Eunice Foster (Thompson) made
the gratifying statement that the
36th state, Tennessee, had ratified the
10Th amendment.
The members at the picnic from out
Of town were: Emma Flint (Nichols),
Della Gorsuch, Alice Getchell Merritt,
Nellie Halves (Gardener) and daugh-
ter, Eunice Oakley (McKeen), Maggie
Travis (Fenton), Minnie Knowles
(Redford), Ida Wescott (Bushneli)
and Sarah Stone (Nelson).
At the close of the business meet
ing the President read selection
from one of the state papers entitled
"Old Friends" (by A. H. Perkins)
which might have been written for
the o. A. Gs' day and by request it
Il; embodied in these minutes.
In closing our very enjoyable after
noon, voices joined in singing Aud
Lang Syne, after which good byes
were said and many wishes expressed
that all meet again next year.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-08-26
Old Friends
(By A. H. Perkins)

Old friends! Old friends! though for
tune sends
Sometimes too much of sorrow.
Well all be gay homecoming day
Let come what may tomorrow.
Today let age turn back a page
At fancy's fond beguiiing,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-08-26
SCHOOL NOTES

All High School Students Should
Register Next Week
The High school principal, Mr..
Mewaldt, will be in the High school
office every afternoon next week for
the purpose of registering high school
students. It is hoped that practically
all students will see the principal
and get their course and program ar
ranged before the opening day of
school.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-08-26

The annual meeting for the Ezekiel
Lutheran congregation will be held in
the church Thursday, September End,
1920, at s o'clock p. m.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-08-26

I announce that / am a candidate
for nomination for sheriff of Pierce
county on the Republican ticket at
the Primary election to be held on
Tuesday, September Z, 1920.
Oluff o. Halls, Ellsworth, Wis.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-08-26
HOME CULTURE CLUB
September LIST.

Good Citizenship, Continued.
Mrs. Helen Brown
Ceylon,
Mrs. Bel tina Dunbar
Hostess, Mrs. Grace Pratt.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-08-26
PAID ADVERTISEMENT

prepared and to be paid for by
duff o. Halls, of Ellsworth, Wis.,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-08-26
w. r. C.

w. II. C.
Regular meeting of the w. R. c.
Saturday, August %.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-20

on the ladder had the craft in their
| clutches.
The famished occupant, delicious
from privation. reused himself, and,
grasping piece of dirty, heavy sail
cloth, waved it frantically, as it his
rescuers were speeding by him miles
away.
He tried to speak, but lacked
strength. His eyes had the glare of a
dead man.
This was Rafael Goger, twenty-three
years old, a French fisherman, who had
gone out with the fishing schooner
Glycme from the port Of ST. Servain, in
France, and had been drifting in the
dory for twelve days.
At his feet lay Thomas Constant, his
mate, barely alive.
BY this time six men from the
Mazama were on the ladder, and care
fully they passed up the unconscious
fishermen to the deck Then they
hauled up the dory, rcekng with sea-
weed, upon which the men had sub
sisted for five days.
First Aid Administered
Captain Zechel had the men taken
Thomas Kennedy, the cook, gave them
first aid. Constant and Goger were
stripped and put to bed. An hour later,
when consciousness returned, they
cried for food and water, but only a
few spoonfuls of barley water was adj
ministered. The skipper kept them on
this diet for day. Later he gave them
each poached egg, and by degrees in
creased their diet until they were able
safely to digest good meal
The Mazama was then $50 miles from
-,
yesterday the shippers patients were
able to walk about the deck.
No one aboard the Mazama spoke
French except the skipper, who had
learned little when he was q school
boy.
The Frenchmen said that they had
gone out on the Glycme to fish off the
banks of Newfoundland and while
setting nets in a dory were caught in
a storm that drove them far from
their schooner. Another dory dashed
to them was upset on the third day of
their drift and two men were drowned.
The Frenchmen said that their provi-
sions and water were gone after the
seventh day.
Captain Zechel who is naturalized
American, severed his connections
with Germany soon after he was
twenty years old, and throughout the
war was master of American vessels
operating through the submarine zone
between New York, Norfolk and Great
Britain. He brought the Mazama, Of
the French American Line, over from
London with a cargo of chalk in fif-
teen days and fifteen hours, which, he
says, is a record passage for wooden
ship.
He went far to the north to shorten
his course and was far off the west
bound lanes. Had he taken the regu-
lar track he would not have found the
fishermen, who had drifted some 600
miles during their twelve days in the
dory.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-20
Dixie Declines D. X. of Drys
Supreme Court Candi d alt e
Stands on Official Fitness

County Judge Norman S. Dixie, Of
Brooklyn, who is one of the candidates
for Supreme Court Justice on the Re-
publican ticket at the coming primary,
yesterday declined the Endorsement Of
the Prohibition party. In a letter to
John Mckee, leader of the Prohibition
party in Brooklyn, Judge Dixie wrote:
THE newspapers informed me last
night of the very courteous action by
the committee of the Prohibition party
in designating me as one of the can
didates for Justice of the Supreme
Court.
Il appreciate the compliment Of your
designation, but as | do rot wish to
have any issue injected into the com
ing primary except as to my judicial
fitness, have this day sent my declin-
alton to the Secretary of State
please accept my thanks and please
convey my thanks to your committee.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-20
Prisoners Call Robbery
Of Young " oman a Joke
Two Former Army Officers
Held in $1,000 Bail Ac-
cused of Hold-Up

Harry f. Diamond, of 3O99 Broadway,
and Donovan L. Shaw. of S22 West End
Avenue, declared it was all a joke yes
terday when they were arraigned in
West Side Police Court on complaint of
Susan Duval, of SO West Ninety-ffth
Street, who accused them of stealing
two diamond bracelets, diamond bar
pin, a diamond clasp pin and string
of pearls. They we're held in $4,000 bail
each for examination Monday on a
charge of robbery.
Miss Ruvan did not so much as smile
however. as she told how she was held
had been to the theater, she haid. On
the way home Shaw excused himself
saying he had to see if any mail had
arrived for him during his absence. AS
she and Diamond entered her apart
ment, she said, masked man con
fronted them with leveled revolver and
ordered them to put UP their hands.
Diamond, she declared, did SO with
alaerity and adviseh rer to do the same
The masked man, Miss Duval said, took
her Jewels and locked her and Diamond
in a closet. Recalling Shaws absence
and that she had noticed a man follow
ing them to her apartment Immediately
after he left them, she had her two
friends arrested yesterday morning, and
her jewelry was found, it is alleged, in
Diamonds apartment.
Shaw said he often had told Miss
Duval that it was dangerous for her
to have so much jewelry in her apart
ment withiut insuring it, and that he
had decided to play this ''joke" on her
with toy pistol to drive home his re-
marks. Both he and Diaomnd formerly
were army officers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-20
F1eightey' Rescues 7iu0 Men
Ad1!H IL Days in Do,.y
French Fishermen Picked Up in Unconscious Con
dition After Drifting Six Hundred Miles From
Banks of Newfoundland; Five Days Without Food

The chief engineer of the American
frelghter Mazama has a keen eve. HI
also has habit in the summer tim,
OF spending much of the forenoon or
deck. Perhaps were it not for these
attributes the bodies Of two fishermen
from st. Servan, France, might nov
be drifting in a dory on the Atlantic
Tar from the transatlantic lanes.
At 10 o'clock Friday morning. AN.
gust IL, the chief came up from the
engine room and stretched out on the
deck aft.
lie clasped his hands under his head
and looked toward the south over an
exceedingly smooth sea.
There was a speck out there on the
water just about where the sky meets
ocean. Sometimes he didn't see it at
all. AT any rate, it was too small for
a Snip, and was perhaps nothing more
than a log.
Sleeping Wasn't Good
The chief rolled over for a doze
out somehow the sleeping wasn't as
good as usual. There was something
on his mind-that speck on the horizon
he had seen off the port. He had had
forty winks and the Mazama had
logged perhaps two miles in the in
terval.
Presently the chief reused himself
went up on the bridge and looked into
me chart room, where Captain Walter
3. Zechel was checking up his log
book Oe
The skipper, the first officer and the
quartermaster had seen nothing,
couldn't see anything even then, but
1t wasn't long before Captain Zechel
mad powerful glass riveted upon the
speck to the southwest.
Looks like it might be SPAR" re-
marked the skipper. "Won't do any
harm to work IN closer and see"
He took the helm himself and
changed the course of the Mazama to
west-southwest. Some twenty minutes
later the shippers glass revealed a
dory-the kind used for setting nets
oft the Banks-and there was some
thing upright in it.
The chief went below and the
frelghter moved faster. 1t wasn't LONG
before she was bearing head-on for the
dory. |''N
The glass now revealed to CAPTAIN
Aechel the figure of a man. half
crouched in the small boat He made
efforts to rise, but each time fell over,
sometimes backward sometimes on his
knees. The last time he Topped the
-aaZama was about half mile away.
The poor fellow is dead" said Cap
tam Lechel to the chief officer. "We've
come too late. He's pegged himself out
trying to signal u.s.
French Fisherman Rescued
MEANWHILE the skipper had a rope
ladder dangling over his port quarter,
and hanging to it We're two of the
husklest men of his crew. With skill
he dropped down on the frail dorv
moving gently alongside until the men
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-20
Bedtime Stories
The Little Rabbit Gets Shock
BY Thornton W. Burgess
"A handsome coat may hide sinner
Whose only thought is of his dinner.
Peter Rabbit
'y Thornton w. BURGESS

For a long time after the PASSING
OF Old Man Coyote the little son Of
Peter Rabbit, the willful, lost little
son, remained hidden under the stones
OF the old wall and wondered who the
stranger with the great teeth was, and
urea 10 remember what his mother had
S So!o MN OF his enemies in the Great
"oiiu. somehow those teeth made him
1eel sure that this was an enemy hc
MAD seen. Somehow he couldn't think
or friend as having teeth like those.
,s.. m glad he grinned," thought the
little Rabbit. of he hadn't grinnod
wouldn't have seen those teeth and
Al hadn't seen those teeth I wonldn,t
nave been afraid, and if hadn't been
AFRAID might have gone right out
ana "ithout meaning to at all nut NV
' Ecu iighI IN among those teeth. Ugh.
omeS were long and sharp" He shiv-
ereu at me memory Of them. "Wel,
;anyway, shall know enough now to-
Keep out CT sight of the gentleman
'n gray If | sec him first" he added
when he was quite SIZE tina. the
gentleman III graz, Old Man Covote
you Know, had gene on about his bust
ness, the little RABBIT pokeG his head
up IRON between the stones of the old
Waii as before. He felt quite safe
mere and he Just had to know if there
''S any siiiHe more 10 be seen. You see
ne was Peter Rabbits own son. full of
curiosity. -
Pretty soon he heard light steps COM
!.ng from the right and light steps COM
ing from the left Just outside the
hne of friendly bushes. Then. rjght
IN front of the tiny opening throuch
which he was looking, two people met
hey were not quite as large as the
gentleman IN gray, but they were hand
soiner Tor they were dressed in red
3ahc their tails were very thick and
BEAUTIFUL Never had he seen such hand
some people and he was quite lost in
admiration -
Such handsome folks must be very
me and worth knowing" thought the
ilttie Rabbit, and began to wonder how
he could introduce himself and 50 make
their acquaintance.
They sat down with their backs TO-
ward him. What luck?" asked the
elder of the two.
None at all replied the other. "but
the evening is young yet. That silly
young Rabbit hasn't sense enough to
cover up his tracks for long. | hear
Peter spent all day looking for him
but didn't find a trace of him. Redtail
the Hawk hasn't caught him, for Red.
tail has been watching the Old Brian
patch all day. OF course, Hooty the
Owl may have picked him up last night.