River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-02-08

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Roman Fait, who attends st. Thotn-
as college, was home over Sunday.
Mrs. Frank w. Finn and Miss Mae
Symes spent Monday in the Twin
Cities.
Spring Valley is already talking of
organizing a baseball team for next
season.
Wanted - Washing, ironing and
cleaning to do. Mrs. Thoen, phone
5S1.-adv.
Miss Ragna Jensen Of Martell visit
ed relatives in the city Tuesday and
yesterday.
Otto Stauffacher of Kinnickinnic
collected bounty on two foxes last
week at Hudson.
Do it now! Get that broken chair
or rocker repaired at once at New
combs Furniture Store.-adv.
The Plattevilie Normal school quint,
defeated by River Falls Normal here
early in the season, won from Mil
waukee Friday, 80 to Is.
Mrs. H. N. Segerstrom and two
children, of East Farm, Wash, were
guests at the home of Atty. and Mrs.
j. H. Grimm from Saturday until yes
terday.
A. B. Ryan of Roberts was bust
ness visitor in the city Monday. He
is to hold an auction at his farm near
Roberts, Feb. 81, full notice of which
wall appear in an advertisement in this
paper next Thursday.
Casey is back! After being A. w.
o. l.. so long that he had been charg-
ed with desertion, Casey, jim Aliens
bull terrier, was found along the road
near Northline by his owner and
brought home last week.
The billiards. of the past two days
have forced a discontinuance of the
inter-city bus service until the roads
are opened again. Today the Purity
bread delivery truck missed its trip
to this city for the first time during
the winter.
Professor and Mrs. Johnson, b. +.
Rusy and the Misses Jones, Levelich,
Free, and Eichorn enjoyed sleigh
ride to the hoIme of Miss Jorstad at
River Falls last Sunday afternoon and
were entertained at supper.-Pierce
County Herald.
F. l.. Lockerby, for several years
manager of the Midland lumber yards
at Ellsworth, has been promoted to
the position of superintendent OF 10
of the company's yards. H. Erickson
of Hibbing, Mimi, will succeed Mr..
Lockerby at Ellsworth.
A basketball team from the Normal
school, having scheduled game at
Saltwater for last evening, tried to
make the trip by auto, but the drifts
proved to be impossible and after
proceeding few miles into the coun-
try the cars turned back.
BLAUGAS is used in hundreds of
Homes, Schools, Restaurants, Hotels,
Printing Shops, Village Streets, Halls,
Laboratories, Milk Condensories, etc.
See demonstration at A. c. Laue's
store (next to Gladstone HOteD be-
ginning Feb. 12th.-adv.
Fifteen ex-service men have been
enrolled in the Spring Valley band,
which entities them to free instruction
by the state under the soldiers bonus
law. They will employ Mr.. Walters,
the present instructor, and practice
with the rest of the handspring
Valley Sun.
Despite the fact that Germany has
only 80 telephones per 100 popula-
ton, it ranks ahead of Great Britain
with 81 and France with IL. Italy
has only O.3 telephones for eeach 100
of its inhabitants, figure which as
equalled by Poland and exceeded by
Czecho- Slovakia.
Editor H. F. DoolittIe has a radio
receiving set at his home in Ellis
worth. He can now sit in his big arm
chair at home and enjoy the news
and other features with all the effort
less ease which most people apparent
ly associate with the publishing of the
news and other features of country
weekly.
B. J. Thompson of Waverly and Ole
Halverson of Gilman saw a meadow
lark near Spring Valley one day last
week. Jack Frost evidently don't be-
lieve in these early bird reports, or
else he's too mean to follow their sug-
gestion of Spring. Temperatures of
from % to 35 below were announced
here Saturday and Sunday.
Last Thursday twenty-five MEM
bers of the Odd Fellows lodge at
Prescott came here to witness third
degree work put on by the local order.
After lodge session musical pro-
gram was given by talent from the