River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-07-28


There will be no dinner served at
the River Falls Hotel Sunday, July ST..
adv.
E. C. Melgard and family motored
to Barron Sunday for visit with rel
atives.
The Ell1's Lodge Of Red Wing will
hold its annual picnic there Sunday,
August 7th.
Miss Alice Forbes OF Minneapolis
spent Monday at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. L. WATSON.
Mrs. G.. w. Heidbrink is spending a
week in Ellsworth at the home of her
father, c. j. Baker.
Mrs. j. p. Postweiler and children
returned to Chicago last wednesday
after a visit with relatives here.
Arthur Skogmo, Of Martin, N. d.,
visited at the home of his brother,
Senator Geo. 3. Skogmo, yesterday.
Mrs. j. F. Mack and children are
guests at the home Of Mr.. ard Mrs.
Kenneth May at Marine-on7t he-St.
Croix.
Mrs. w. H. Dawson returned to
Minneapolis tuesday after a few days
visit at the home of her son, DR.. G. A.
Dawson.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. w. Curtis Of CHI
cage arrived here Saturday for visit
at the home Of Mrs Curtis uncle, B.
R. Burnett.
Mr. and Mrs. R. ]. Jung and Mrs. e.
Buck motored to Minneapolis Tuesday.
They returned yesterday, accompanied
by Mr.. and Mrs. B. S. Potter, who will
visit here.
Atty. and Mrs. John Foley and
daughter, Miss Marjorie, and Mrs.
Frank Sexton, of Ellsworth, visited at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Foley Saturday.
R. P. Rrtney of Black River Falls
visited here Tuesday, coming here
with his daughter, Mrs. Leverett Far
ley. Captain and Mrs. Farley left to-
day of Honolulu.
G. M. Stewart, of New York City,
arrived here Sunday from Chicago,
where he had been attending the R.
C. U. convention. He remained here
for few days. visit.
Mayor Geo. Theo. Smith is to have
the building occupied by Carl Pear
sons plumbing shop torn down. 1t
will probably be replaced by a more
substantial structure.
Mrs. A. E. Reese and daughter, Miss
Nellie, are SPENDING the week with the
r. Hagg family of Ellsworth and the
DR.. HI. Bowers family Of Lake City on
an outing in Polk county.
Professor and Mrs. w. H. Hunt and
children, Miss Lois and William, left
Saturday on motor trip to Scion
Springs. From there they will drive
to Stevens Point and Reedsburg.
Because numerous journal readers
have confused items from our old
files with the news of the day, we are
now using dash with the mineral
'25" after each item copied from the
old files.
DR.. and Mrs. E. o. Kalk are enter
tanning Mrs. Kalk's mother and sist
ers, Mrs. Frank Pooler of Colfax, Mrs.
Frank Lowry of Eldorado, Kan, and
Mrs. Mabel johnson of Minneapolis,
at Ilwaco Springs.
The outstanding feature of the live
stock situation in Wisconsin today is
the large increases in the number of
dairy heifers. Apparently the present
relatively low prices of dairy products
has not caused Wisconsin farmers to
stop building up their dairy herds.
The Ellsworth papers today report
that a barn, granery, machine shed
and chicken house on the B. B. Fitz-
patrick farm near that village were
destroyed by fire Tuesday night. The
loss is we'll covered by insurance. The
blaze is supposed to have started by a
bolt of lightning.
Prior to 1892 when Democrats in
stituted the treasury suits in Wiscon-
sin and put an end to the practice of
the State Treasures loaning state
funds for their own profit, the highest
return any State Treasurer realized
in a year was about $4,000. During
the fiscal year which closed on June
80 last State Treasurer johnson col
lected from state repositories, inter-
est tosthe amount of $297,038. The
scandal in Illinois which has resulted
in the Indictment of Gov. Small in that
state and another former State Treas
urer for misapplication of public funds
recalls the Wisconsin episode. In the
case of the Wisconsin Treasurers,
however, there was never any sugges-
tion of dishonesty or malfeance in Of