River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-07-14
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Miss Ella Getchell of Valley City,
N D., is visiting her nieces, Misses
Mabel and Lucy Wadswortn.
The village of Pepin is soon to be
Furnished with light and power from
the Wisconsin, Minnesota Cos line.
A golf links was opened at Bass
Lake last Thursday. Most of the
members of the Club are from New
Richmond.
Stores will close at A o'clock next
Thursday, July 81, for the Hospital
Benefit ball game. Plan your shop
Iing accordingly.
Harvey Chapman has moved to
Lake Elmo, Mimi. He has posi-
ton as travelling salesman for a luo-
ricating oil firm.
Rev. and Mrs. j. 0. Thrush and
Mrs. Ida Lord left Monday for two
weeks outing at Isle Royal, near the
north shores of Lake Superior.
Orson Pratt has resigned his po-
sition at the Farmers & Merchants
bank to accept position as account
ant in the Y. M. C. A. at Appleton.
Pitching horseshoes has become a
popular sport here, and every after
noon and evening teams may be
found in keen competition at the
stakes over in Glen Park.
| Mrs. Caeser Spillcke and daughter,
Miss Maxine, visited in the Twin
Cities Saturday and Sunday. Miss
Beatrice Spillcke, who had been vi
| sitting relatives there, accompanied
Mrs. Spillcke home.
Take vacation if you can possibly
afford it, says the state board of
health. Not only will your physical
health be improved, but your business
will be better off following your re-
juvenation in the great outdoors.
The River Falls Commercial Club
team drove to New Richmond this
afternoon to play the Kiwanis Club
of that city. The stores at New
Richmond close every Thursday af-
ternoon during the summer months
for half-holiday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Dunnavan, Mr..
and Mrs. Harold Dunnavan and c.
HI. Merritt of st. Paul, spent Sunday
at the home of the Misses Mabel and
Lucy Wadsworth. Mrs. Merritt, who
had been visiting here several weeks,
returned with them
Ed. Parrish, mail carrier on route
No. / out of Ellsworth, came into
town last Wednesday morning with
rattlesnake, over four feet long
strung across the back of his car.
He had killed the reptile in the vicin-
ity of Jackson Bluff-Pierce County
Herald
Mr.. and Mrs. George Searle will
leave the first of next week for Cor
wallis, Ore, where Mr.. Searle plans
to conduct a jewelry store. H. w.
Helmer, of Waite Park, st. Cloud,
Mimi, has Mr.. Searle's place at the
C. F. Winter store here. Mrs. Hell
mer is also employed in the store.
The new law affecting the licensing
of embalmers has gone into effect.
One change increases the renewal fee
from 81 to 50. At the state board
meeting last week, the appointment
| vi examiners for the licensing of enr
balmers was made under this law,
and F. H. Pratt, Richland Center, c.
j. Gibson, Blair, and Everett Voth,
Milwaukee, were continued in service.
Many coal men and scientific stu
dents of the fuel situation in Wiscon-
sin are of the opinion that within ten
years Wisconsin will be limited to
the soft coal mines of Illinois, Indiana
and Ohio for its fuel supply. The
growing scarcity of anthracite, the
high cost of transportation, as well as
the high cost at the mines, will, it is
believed, ultimately eliminate anthra-
cite from the middle west, as COM
monty used fuel.
One of the misfortunes which will
result from the failure of the Hirst
automobile tax bill, is that the effort
which has been organized to find loo
ally materials for road construction
must be abandoned. The Highway