River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-09-20
LOCAL \
HAPPENINGS

the attainment of its fortieth year of
usefulness in that community.
A 400-pound Swiss cheese, made
by C. M. Gere aid c. A. Eckberg,
will be the feature exhibit at the
food show in Monroe Oct. 2. Four
thousand five hundred pounds of
milk were used in its manufacture.
Fred Miller left Tuesday evening
for Albany, Oregon, where he will
spend the winter looking after his
| business interests. He was accom-
panied on the trip by Mrs. Christine
Miller of River Falls.-Prescott
Tribune.
The Hammond News declares that
| it is not good advertisement for
| Hammond's ball team to be accom-
! panied at out-of-town games by
gang of hootch-hounds, and regrets
that the police of towns where these
hoodlums have caused annoyance
were not on the job to run them in.
! The resignation of F. E. Jaasted,
several years principal of the teach
ers college at Eau Claire, has been
accepted by the county training
school board, which will name his sue
cessor this week. Prof. Jaastad, one
of the most widely known educators
in the state, resigned his post to be-
come Wisconsin representative of
school textbook concern.
Three carloads, approximately
| forty head of Wisconsin Holsteins,
| all prize winners at the recent Wis
consin State Fair are now en- route
to Springfield, Illinois, where they
will compete for honors in the State
Fair. From there they go on to
Waterloo, Iowa for competition in
the National Dairy Cattle Congress
and from there on to the National
Dairy Show at Syracuse in New
York State.
J. A. Craig, president of the Rock
County Holstein Association was re-
Gently elected Treasurer of Wiscon-
sin Holstein Associations. His cleo
ton fills the vacancy existing because
of the death of w. C. LeitSch and the
ovortaxing work of M. F. Hall, now
acting. Mr.. Craig owns Craighurst
Farm in Rock County. He is also
identified with the GAINESVILLE Plow
CO., Sampson Tractors and the
Chevrolet Auto Company. He is
well known to the breeders of Hol-
stems everywhere.
The Journal received this week an
announcement that the Ku Klux Khan
of Wisconsin will be host to thous-
ands of Klansmen, their families and
friends from throughout this and
neighboring states at a harvest
festival, barbecue, entertainment
ceremonial and naturalization to be
held in Pleasant Valley Park, Mil
waukee, Saturday, Sept. 20. One
thousand new Klansmen are to be
initiated at ceremony under the
flaming crosses, conducted by the
Racine Klan. The public, according
to the announcement, is cordially in
vited
Although the attendance at the
Stevens Point normal is being affect
ed by the dropping of the college
course and higher requirements de-
manded of rural department students,
the registration is already above 500
with many still coming in. 1t is ex-
pected the record set last year of |
nearly 700 will be approached, ac-
cording to President John F. Sims.
This year only students qualified for
the tenth grade may enter the rural
department. Next year only high |
school graduates will be taken, a
standard which will become perma-
nent.
A. P. Kaye of Walworth, widely
known in Holstein circles as the
owner of the Kayewood Herd of
Holsteins was recently again elected
to the Board of Directors of the Wis
consin Holstein Associations. His
appointment fills the vacancy caused
by the death last spring of w. C.
Leitch of Columbus. Mr.. Kaye is
one of the old time breeders and has
been identified with Wisconsin Hol-
stein affairs for more than twenty
years. Breeders everywhere will re-
joice in his appointment again TO
serve their interests in Wisconsin
and elsewhere.
The Star-Observcr give the Twin
Cities the benefit of all doubts
whenever robbery is pulled off at
any point this side Of the st. Croix.
In concluding its writo-up of the hold
up of Chas. Rietdorff, toll collector
at the Interstate bridge, the Observer
states that "the men were evidently
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