River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-05-24
LOCAL
HAPPENINGS

4
line of printed work, remember we
can satisfy you.
The will Of the late w. F. Mentally,
New Richmond, was filed for probate
at Hudson by Atty. Doar, for many
years Mr.. McNally's law partner.
The will leaves all his property,
about 100000 in personal property
and $4,000 in real estate, to his wife.
Verne Horak, alias Lane, last
| Wednesday commenced life term in
the penitentiary at Saltwater for the
murder of Orville Walby, son of
Postmaster and Mrs. t. A. Waihy of
Hudson. The murder took place two
| days before last Christmas, in Mr..
Walby's grocery store in Minneapolis.
| Horak, or Lane, was convicted upon
testimony of several children who
were peeping in the window when the
crime was committed.
| The Davenport, Ia, Democrat and
| Leader recently contained very in
teresting interview with Mr.. S. w.
Campbell, 80-year-old Civil War
veteran of Hudson. Mr. Campbell,
when an officer in the Union Army,
had the honor to shake hands with
President Lincoln, and saw the great
Emancipation enroute to the APP
poemattox court house to sign the
articles of Lees surrender on the
morning of that memorial day.
On April II, A. J. Gardner celeb
rated his 10th birthday anniversary.
Mr.. Gardner is knife forger at An
deres. On his birthday he forged
over 600 knives At one time dur
ing the day he forged 70 in an hour.
Mr.. Gardner is hale and hearty and
claims he can out-forge most of the
young men of half his age. His
daughter, Mrs. We're Saunders, gave
him a $50 birthday dinner, cake,
candles and all, at family roundup
at her home in the evening.-Albert
Lea, (Minn.) Tribune.
| 1t would seem that it should be pos
sible for the legislature to interpret
the platform pledges as the elector-
ate of the state apparently under
stood them and to enact a tax meas
ure that would fit the platform on
which they were given such an over
whelming vote of confidence.-The
Wisconsin Farmer. The only zoos
sible way of redeeming platform
promises made last year would be to
discover gold mine under Capitol
Square and protect its output from
machine graft sufficiently to finance
the state without further taxation.
Out in Gilby, Mont, thousands of
dollars are being spent to accommodate
crowds of fans who are coming from
| all over North America to witness an
exhibition of a skillful manipulation
of strength. In New York the other
day professional strong men exerted
all their skill to make their best show
ing on power-registering machine,
and the best registered was about
500 pounds. A little 135-pound
chimpanzee gave the thing careless,
playful tug-and registered 1850
pounds. Dempsy, the two Gibbons.
Willard, Johnson, McTigue, Ski,
Firpo, Martin, and Miske, and with
Fulton welding a club, wouldn't
last the duration of the starting
gong ssNibrations if all were thrown
| together in the ring against that
! 135-pound chimanzee. Yet some
people will insist that advertising
don't pay.
J. d. Linehan chaparoned a brace
of local minister's on a trip to Eau
Claire Friday, where they appeared
| in the prelims of fistic program
that evening. Fred Harris of Kim
nickinnic, matched against Young
Lowry of Milwaukee, was counted out
just at the close of the fourth or
final round. Dan says Fred was go
ing good, but met his Waterloo try
ing to windmill his opponent in the
closing stanza. Danny WEIGH of this
city had all the best of it with Sever
son of Eau Claire. Welch scored a
knock-down in the frst, and earned a
lead in every round. The main bout
was between Kennedy CT st. Paul
and McCune of Augusta, the former
winning a popular decision on points.
Welch and Severson made such
good showing that they have been
signed to appear in card at Augusta
Juune 8.