River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-12-08


Mr.. and Mrs. Ii. Jacobs were guests
at the ]. d. Sims home over the Week
end.
Mrs. M. b Kruger and daughter.
of Wells, Mimi, is guest at the w.
r. Churchill home.
Mrs. Ella Wright and family, of
Hammond, were guests OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Guy Wright Tuesday.
Miss Days home made candies. soc
Der lib. Phone 111-U.-adv.
We have an EXIDE Battery for ev-
cry car made. Get our prices before
buying elsewhere. c. Carisch 4 Son.
adv.
Clyde Dopkins left last Friday for
Tracy, Mimi, where ne has accepted
position in the faculty of the city
schools.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Baldwin and
daughter, Miss Betty visited over
Sunday at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
E. f. Buck.
Dir. M. Claflin of Chippewa Falls
spent Tuesday in the city with his
brother, Foster, who is attending the
Normal School
Mrs. Lillian Meacham and Chas.
Heckel of Prescott were here yester-
day to attend the funeral of Mrs.
Augusta E. Bliss.
DIR. Clough will be at the Gladstone
Dec. IL after the morning train ar
rives. See him for eye troubles. Ask
his patients.-adv.
Mrs. Ellen Thompson, who had been
visiting in Miles City, Mont, writes
to have her Journal sent to Pendleton,
Ore, where she is visiting at the home
of Earl H. Thompson.
Stevens Colored Jazz Orchestra of
Minneapolis, has been engaged to play
for a dance at the Armory, River
Falls, Wis.,, Friday, Dec. 8. Tickets
$1.1O. You are invited.-adv
The Gallagher Grain Co. elevator
at New Richmond was recently de-
stroyed by fire which is supposed to
have started either by spontaneous
combustion or through defective wiz
ing.
Fred Cafferey, Geo. Mason and
Peter Rasmussen drove the county
trucks to st. Paul Wednesday where
they will be overhauled and put in
shape for next summer.-Hammond
News.
Hemstitching is now done at the
Gladstone. Call 1923 from the hotel
lobby and | will come down and see
you. Will also weave your rags into
rugs. SC save them and bring them to
the Gladstone. Phone 323.-adv.
From items in the Journal files OF
twenty-five years ago this winters
weather appears to be similar to that
of corresponding weeks in 1896, when
there was an early snow, sho" per-
iod of zero weather and then some
warm weather.
Scaled bids Wanted For sale OF
Buttermilk for years 1922-1923, begin
ming April /, 1922; ending March 81,
1923. All bids to be in by December
Ia, 1921, IL .. m. The board reserves
the right to reject any or all bids.
River Falls COOPERATIVE Cry.
Percy Clapp of Roberts, having
finished his course at the local Nor
NAL school, has enrolled at Minnesota
university. By enrolling now Percy,
who has been star on the Red q
White team the past three seasons.
will be eligible for football at the
university next Fall.
Candidates for the Postmastership
at Prescott will take their merit sys-
tenn examination Saturday. Three
candidates will write: Miss Barbara
Sommers, R. H. Price and Edwin
Wehrman. Miss Sommers and Mr..
Wehrman will take their examination
at Red Wing. Mr. Price will go to
La Crosse for his exam.
The third number of the Peoples
Lecture course will be given tomorrow
| friday evening in the Normal school
l4auditorium. Sarah Mildred Wilmer,
reader, has appeared here twice before
and the fine impression she made on
those visits will insure her of hearty
welcome tomorrow. She will give a
matinee at p. m. at the high school.
Admission 10c.
Soren j. Rasmussen, formerly of
this city, has been chosen as chairman
of Minot, N. D., Chamber of Com
merce committee which has charge OF
the annual drive for funds to fill
Minot's Community Chest. The COM
mittee plans to raise $11, 900 this year.
This fund is spent in donations to
worthy causes, such as the Associated
| Charities, Red Cross and the hospitals
of the city.
| The county boards of Columbia.
| Dodge and ST. Croix counties adjourn
| ed their annual session without max
ing appropriations required by law
| for the maintenance of the county
public health nurse The law is ex-
| plicit that the board shall provide
such a nurse but it fails to provide
penalty. However. the attorney
general in an official opinion to the
State Board of Health, declares that
any citizen of county may manda-
mus the board to carry out the pro-
visions of the law and such proceed
ings have been instituted in Columbia
county and will be started in DODGE
| and st. Croix counties.
Station Agent w. S. Davis had an
unusual experience at the Hudson
Junction Depot last Thursday when an
operative from the Burns Detective
Agency requested him to hold in Gus
tody two trunks which, according to
the sleuth were thought to contain
| $4,000 in currency, stolen from a
steamer. The trunks were identified
IS belonging to Mr.. Wallace of Hud-
son. who had just returned from a