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

Paul over Sunday.
Dick Hagg of Ellsworth has a new
sport model Studebaker car.
DR.. T. w. Ashley was in St. Paul
Tuesday attending medical meeting.
Order your pillow shares NOW and
YOU will save money. II. w. Thomson.
adv.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Webster OF
Amery visited at the L. J. Webster
home recently.
Mrs. f. G. Fletcher and daughter,
Mrs. Floyd Keith, of Menomonie Wis
tied in the city Saturday.
Nj. Goldberg & Son have moved
their clothing store into the new
Nicholson building in Hudson.
Miss Helen Haessly has succeeded
Miss Anna Wusler as operator at the
Ellsworth telephone exchange.
Mrs. John BEDFORD of Milwaukee
arrived in the city yesterday to visit
her mother, Mrs. C. G. Knowles.
DIR. Clough Occulist and Opticiar at
the Gladstone Rotei, June IS. Eau
Claire offica, Drummond Building.
adv.
LAST ARMORY DANCE OF THE
SEASON, TO BE HELD IN RIVER
FALLS THURSDAY EVENING.
MAY 24.--adv.
Misses Pearl Culrier end Grace Will
lard, of St. Paul, spent the weekend
at the home of the formers sister,
Mrs. Roy Hyatt.
Henry Iverson of Gilman recently
had a narrow escape from beng
killed by bull. He had several ribs
broken, and was badly bruised.
Fire, which is thought to have
started from defective chimney, did
considerable damage to the st. Leon
Hotel building in Prescott last Thurs
day.
Mrs. Brown, who had been spending
the winter in st. Petersburg, Florida,
returned Monday and is visiting at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. o..
Thrush.
H. A. Aune, defeated for reelection
as st. Croix county Superintendent
of Schools, has accepted position as
principal Of schools at Osseo for the
coming year.
These new Goats we received last
week at $1,000 and $3.50 are design
ed for women who are clever enough
to make fashion and economy har-
monte. Stewart Mercantile Co..
adv.
Will Keith is said to have brought
in one of the finest strings OF trout
caught here this season. One weigh
ed about pc pounds, and he had e!"ht
others none of which weighed less
than a pound and half.
Mrs. O. C. O'Hearn of Melrose
who recently suffered stroke CT
paralysis, is reported by the Black
River Falls Journal to be making
slow progress toward recovery. Mrs.
O'Hearn is niece of Mrs. w. S. Arm
strong of this city.
Mrs. J. @. Emery, whose death oc-
Cured May II, at Madison, was the
organizer of the Tuesday Club in
River Falls. She came to this city
| in 1889, when her husband was cleo
ted president of the local Normal
school. They resided here untli in
1898.
Court verdicts in auto mishap cases
support our contention, published in
this paper several years ago, that
motorisit should use common sense
| more and the road rules les in re-
| gulating their driving. Zones was
! right, the law-book said; BUT, here
lies Jones, the tombstone read"
The Citizens State Bank is install
ling a relocking device on its vault
doors. and also q number OF gas
bombs. If anyone succeeds in get
ting access to the vault after it has
been locked for the night these
bombs will explode and fill the air
with a gas that will drive anyone
away from that immediate vicinity
| at Ellsworth Record.
The Fire Department was called tC
| the Prairie Mills electric power stat
ion about 1880 Saturday night wher
a blaze started in the generator
causing about $1,000 worth of damage
The Prairie Mills plant has beer
hooked on with the city plant as ar
auxiliary urit. In some way the Mills
| generator was stopped and the
'juice" from the city plant came bach
into it and caused the fire. The blaze
was extinguished with the chemicals
after the city power had been dis.
connected. The Mills generator vii
! have to be taken to the Twin City es-