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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-09-03
BeMenOiNe

Mrs. Cora Cursliff of Detroit,
Mich, a former teacher of this
county was here the last OF the week
calling on friends and visiting her
cousin, Mrs. Oscar Gilbertson.
Coyd Marsh, oldest son of John
Marsh, broke his arm Sunday while
cranking his car.
Geo. Nyeggen has moved into the
Ottman house across from the toss
store.
Our school opened Monday with
Mr.. Bristle and Mrs. Mcconnell as
teachers.
Mrs. Edwin Eslandson, who has
been at sanitorium in Eau Claire
for several months, died there Mon
day.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
v. Gilbertson Aug. 20.
The Misses Agnes and Mable
Heacox spent Sunday at their home
here.
Mrs. Maggie Fenton is visiting
her sister, Mrs. F. Severance.
Mrs. c. A. Goldsmith spent Mon
day in River Falls.
Miss Elizabeth Haberstich is stay
ing at the j. A. Fenton home.
Mrs. Floyd Baker spent several
days the last of the week at the home
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H.
Clonts.
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South MdrteH

John Hagestad, who has beer
hauling cream on two routes for over
eight years, sold his truck to Palmer
Barg, who took possession this week
Mr.. and Mrs. George Nyhagen Of
st. Paul spent Sunday at the n. A
Baardson home. Miss Blanche anc
her brother, George, who had beer
spending the week with friends here
returned home with them.
Miss Evelyn Thorsen from near
Superior is visiting her sister, Mis-
Neil Hoseid.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jasper Swensor
were in Rochester Sunday.
The Ladies' Aid will meet at the
q. F. Moen home Thursday.
Mr.. Tosterud from the town OF
River Falls opened up school this
week and is boarding at Paul
Bierkeng's.
Misses Alice and Ruth Evenson
have been entertaining their friend,
Mass Selvig, Of Little Falls, this
state.
Miss Alpha Iverson, who had been
helping her sister, Mrs. Ray Wood,
at Minneapolis this summer, return
ed home Sunday.
Bud Owens and family from
Haver, Mont, and Miss Teusaw from
the town Of Ellsworth, called on Mrs.
George Smith at the Charley Hedge
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-09-03

son home Saturday.
Mrs. Anderson of Wildwood IS
spending a few days at B. A. Iver-
sons.
Miss Hannah Bjerkeng has the
treasurer job on the school board in
place of Oscar Peterson who has re-
signed.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-09-03

Solicitors who visit Spring Valley
must first secure authorization from
the Committee of Charities before
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-09-03

the card. ]. A. Wolf, P. L. Lille,
J. R. Armstrong, r. Gavic and Ed.
MECardle constitute the committee.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-09-03

their cause will be recognized in that
village. Citizens are warned not to
donate to anyone who does not have
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-14

out a s1cond thought she walke<
straight down the street to a pawn
shop four blocks away.
1t was not her first visit to the
pawnshop. She had been there once
before, and had walked out, highly
insulted because the proprietor had
offered her only twenty dollars for
a pin that was worth at least a
hundred.
But she took the twenty dollar
bill today, without a word of pro-
test, and went out.
Back in the rich lobby of the
! Alexandria, she asked the cashier
for her bill. Small as it was, it
staggered her. Fifty-seven dollars
and fifty cents!. And all she in
the world was a single twenty dollar
bill.
We'll, right here is where I be-
come deadbeat" May decided
grimly, as she Walked out of the
lobby. the bill clutched tightly In
her hand.
A deadbeat! The ugly word
brought a flush to her cheeks as she
walked along toward the region of
cheap boarding houses, where
"Rooms for Rent, signs were tackled
on every other building.
May chose one of the most disrep-
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andria Hotel in Los Angeles.
May was always alone these da

May was always alone these days.
Alone she breakfasted on crackers
and ice water in her cheap little
room up under the roof.
Alone she tramped the streets,
looking for a job.
There seemed to be no jobs. They
were all filled, it seemed, by the
thousands of girls who had come to
Los Angeles to go into the movies
/. and had failed.
Everywhere May looked, she saw
beautiful girls. girls who had
dreamed of being movie stars, and
had taken jobs at soda fountains, in
real estate offices, behind ribbon
counters, any place where they
could earn a living. Any place
where they could earn enough mon
.ey to buy a railroad ticket back to
the Iowa farms and the Ohio vii
lagos where they had come from!
Los Angeles was filled with ambit-
ious beauty.
The very charming chambermaid
who daily tidied Mays bedroom had
come to Los Angeles to "break into
the movies. A beautiful thing she
was, with red-gold hair and misty
blue eyes that looked ready to cry
at anv moment.
That morning May had given the
chambermaid the last quarter shs
had in the world for a-tip. And SO
she was sitting now in the lobby
of the Alexandria staring into her
empty hand bag. wondering
where her Thanksgiving dinner was
coming from!
And not only her Thanksgiving
dinner, but her dinner tonight, and
her breakfast tomorrow! To nothing
of a roof over her head when the
hotel people should discover that
she hadn't cent in the world with
which to pay her bill!
"Well, I'll sell my pin. That'll
help some," May decided, and with
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real labor she had known since her
wedding back in 1915.

real laDor she mad known since her
wedding back in 1915.
Maybe it's just batting around,
doing nothing, that makes me feel
this way" she decided YEARLY at
last. That must be it. having
no real purpose in living, no incen-
tive, no reason for being alive!
"If only I had something of my
own. a child or a husband
Someone. somewhere, who belonged
to mew she cried silently into the
darkness.
For the first time in her life she
longed Tor motherhood. for the
feel of a warm little head against
her shoulder. tiny hand flutter-
ing on her breast.
She stood at the window and look.
ed down into the street. All these
little homes with their tiny, lighted
windows. there were people ir
them who cared for each other
People who could face poverty anC
sordidness because they cared fol
each other!
May laid her head against tht
window frame, and as she stoot
there she remembered a night no
so long ago, when she had laid he
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head on the rough shoulder Of

head on the rough shoulder Of
Ulysses FOrgan's overcOat and cried.
She remembered the sense Of
comfort that had stolen over her al
the touch Of his coat. the sense
of peace that had come to her with
his letter.
81 wish I could see him now. ,
tonight. for just a secondp she
sobbed aloud. "For a second"
The tears brought her relief as
tears do. The despair that had been
damned up in her soul flowed away
like water. Presently she went to
bed and slept dreamlessly.
CONTINUED.
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utable looking Of them. She knew
that only that kind would take her
in, coming as she did with no bag
gage.
And when she was alone in dark
little room on the third floor she
sat down to think.
GIVE got to get enough money to
go home" she made up her mind.
"And enough money to pay the no.
tel bill, and get my trunkw
Then a chilling thought struck
her. In the bottom of that trunk
was Ulysses Forgan's letter to her!
Suppose they should write to him
-, these hotel people. and
tell him that she had walked out Of
the Alenxandia without paying her
BILL. What would he think of her
then, this man who loved her?
In an instant Mays mind was
made up. She would go West
ern Union office, and wire Ulysses
for some money!
"After all, he's my good friend, ="
she thought. ITO whom should we
60 in time of trouble except to our
friends?"
After she had sent her wire and
was on her way back to the board
ing house, it suddenly occurred TO
May that she might have asked the
Gregory's to send her the money. AS
matter of fact, they were the old
est friends she had. :.
"I should have asked them for the
money" she told herself.
And yet, somehow, she was glad
she had asked Ulysses for it. Why
she didn't know.
Alone in her room that night at
ter the boarding house supper of
meat balls and boiled potatoes, May
sat down to write to Ulysses.
She thanked him for the money
so sure she was that he would
send it at once. and told him
that she was in need of work.
"Once upon a time, I was a very
good private secretary she wrote.
"I'm sure that, with a little prac'
tice, I could be very good one
again. So if you're in need of such
a person as myself. :"
Then she raised her pen from the
cheap tablet paper, and looked out
into the darkness beyond her win
dow. Goodness! she couldn't
ask a man for job, when she hat
refused to be his wife, the mistress
of his home, and his heart! Anc
yet why not?.
May could imagine nothing more
interesting than to be Ulysses secre
tary. that is, so long as sh'
had to work for someone! Wher
it came to that no work was inter
esting.
'T hate the thought of it" May
said truthfully to herself.
Finally she tore up the letter, anC
threw the scraps into the waste
paper basket. Then with her pat
F, on her kfee, she wrote to Gloria
Gregory and asked her if she might
come to visit her for a few weeks.
"I'm so desperately tired" she
finished the letter. "I didn't know
that anyone could be so tired as
am"
And yet she had done nothing tc
make her tired.
In ten years, she had worked
very little. The few days she had
spent in Harker and Harker's real
iestate office represented the only
/ ~
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"Well, where do we go from
here?"
May asked the question of her
own reflection in the mirror the
next morning, standing before the
oak dresser in her shabby little no.
tel bedroom.
It was dim old mirror. But it
was not too dim to show May the
two lines that were beginning to
mar the smooth, white beauty of her
forehead, and the shadows at the
dropping corners of her mouth.
Good heavens, was she getting
old? She leaned over and studied
her face with that cold and panicky
terror that comes to the heart of
every woman when she sees her
f st wrinkle.
Then suddenly she remembered.
. Today was the nineteenth of
November, her birthday! She was
twenty-eight years old!
"And you can't expect woman
of twenty-eight to look like flap
peri" May told herself, trying to be
cheerful and philosophical about it.
But gloom settled down over her
in spite of her effort to keep the
stiffest sort Of upper lip.
At her age most women were
comfortably married and had homes
of their own-a husband to wait for
at nightfall, a child or two to cuddle
Or else they had jobs, and were well
on their way to success.
"But I have nothing. nothing
at alp May thought bitterly.
Her past seemed to pass before
her eyes in the dim, silvery depths
of the old mirror - her unhappy
marriage ending in her husbands
suicide, the scandal of it all, the
lovers who had deserted her, cheat
ed her
ct must be hoodooed" May went
on thinking bitterly. ST don't have
any luck at ALL"
The ringing of the telephone on
the wall startled her. brought
her back to the hopeless present.
Carlotta's voice, still thick and
shaky, greeted her when she an
swered it.
''May darling" it said so rapidly
that all the words seemed to run
together like one long word, "I'm so
sorry about last night. I must have
been awfully, awfully slanted to let
you go out of this house in the
middle of the night, the way did!
Won't you forgive me and come
back?"
All the time she was listening,
May was shaking her head as if she
Thought Carlotta could see her.
''No," she answered with cold de-
cision, when Carlotta had finished.
@No. I can't come back and eat
your bread and butter without pay
ing for it! And I haven't enough
money to do that. No thanks. Car
lotta. I won't be coming back. {.
But thanks for being so nice to me
these ten or eleven days. Goodby."
Without waiting for Carlotta to
answer her, she hung up the re-
ceiver.
As if the telephone call had fill
ed her with sudden life and courage
she dressed quickly and went down
stairs.
"I'm checking out" she told the
clerk in the lobby. evil you please
give me my bill, and send my trunk
down to the station?. And when
is there a train for Los Angeles?"
On the afternoon before Thanks
giving Day, May Seymour sat alone
in another hotel lobby. , the
wide and ornage lobby of the Alex
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II you are down now, it affords
you a chance to be proud Of the
way you get up again.
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Summers about gone. That5s ~
right. Picknickers have done eaOaaA
damage to last several months.
The Chilkoot post., 1925-07-10
A BIT OF .ADW CE.

talking and that
much
There O as so good
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good O
O
be to look ide an
out to for the
you find To- o. good
ese mayb e many
do not &C dea that
The Chilkoot post., 1925-07-10
A USE Full TOOL.

Mrs. Anderson: VI want q shi TT for my husband.
Sa Ike sman: WIS he q bi g man?
Mrs. Aade rson Vie is going to be day, but
a sergeant now".
New Britain herald., 1925-05-16

seems remarkable that clectrihca- ton would he regarded as a de sideratum in railroad development elsewhere, The third rail system remains loo dangerous for use through cities at grade; its usr where railroads do not cross streets at grade, but under or above them, and where their rights of way arc below or above the street levels. has hecn successful Us is evidenced upon tho Pennsylvania system The trou- hlc with the elcctrincaton of the Hartford Bristol line was not the third rail m itScIf. but that the railroad crossed too many streets amt roads at grade and the right Of way through cities, notably New Hrtaiu was not isolated from the pUblic The overhead olectrincation nf the Now Haven on the main line out Of Sew York Is not open to such objections, l. will only be a ques- ton Of years when the remainder of the main line of inc New Haven is similarly electrified.
New Britain herald., 1925-05-16
CONNIE MACK AND HIS ATHLETES

'Rah for Connie Mack Everyone knows the reason, The "rejuvenat- cd" Philadelphia Athletics arc way mp in front in Inc American league and it looks Rs If they will remain there for some timo. Every game won now won't hayo to be won later in the season, and will como In very handy when the other strong teams begin really contcnding for the an nual honors,
 Mr. McGillicuddN better known as Connie Mack, has been patient and long suffering. Since the wreck of his famous world champions in 1914 ho has known the qualms Of residence in the rathskclIcr where Detroit is at present, Steadily he added to tho strength of his misiits, until today he has an aggregation Of champion calibcr.
New Britain herald., 1925-05-16
.ATH ENDS CAREER or DIR. ANDREW |. BAKkER

Now Brt'ar professional men were gn'r-stricA"u yesterday when they }oarncI of the death of Dr. Andrew J. Barker, who had prac- acel dentistry in this, his native rnv for moro than three decades.
 Those who knew him wol arprc- rJato1 his sterling worth, He was a cnzon cf whom the community well might be proul. upright in charac- fer. faithful to his civic rcsponslbili- ties and true 10 his friends in fair weather or fou, Add 10 this d genial personality rrfrct"d in his foudness for sociahlity and you have Q faithful picture of the man. His happlcst momcnts were spent at his home, surrounded hy friends who were always welcome under his rooflrce. His home life was idcal and he carod more for the comforts found at his own fr"side than in artificial outside pleasures which make of the average modern home only an address to which mail is dj- roc.nd.
 Dr. Barhor stood high among his professional coUoagucs in tho city and the state. He adhered strictly 10 The ethics of hls calling and won tho admiration and respect Of others who loborcd in rha same field for tho purpose of rcncting human dis ,srss. Ills passing has shocked hundreds, who cannot realize that his cheerful smile will he seen nc moro, that his warm greeting wIlI uc heard no morc.
New Britain herald., 1925-05-16
Observations On The Weather

Washington, May l5.- For western New York - Fer and slightly warm.r San1ria>; SuaIa% showers; cooler at Echt in Holth and west portions. For rolth.w. New Eng s~a 2uI S.Nthoru N,y EnRIand- Fair Saturday; yiuht1y warner in interior; Sunday ircr @sing cloudi- ness.
 rhe di-,Grhauno t.a' WAS over tho southern Rocky woy lain region Tuursday m-N au' advanced 10 rast4!u kansas I'r. s~nro is high oycr tIo northrutorD states and over tho Canadian mnrum" rrTucos.
 During 'ho last twanty-four hours. general slov-rs l1.c nrrwr'l at scattered NNu's a'u.g = | North At fantic coas'. I' las -r.one decidedly cooler otor tho uHdI'c ard northern p'afn states. whiie temperatures have risen in tho upper lake region,
 The outlook is for shower or Sun day in the tower lake region. 'h" Ohio valley and n" Nill." Atlantic states and cooler Sunday in tho 'al- 1av and lower lake Gzlon.
 Winds: North Of Sandy Hook. Moderate to fresh north east and weather partly overcast with show "rs Saturday.
 sandy Hook to Ha'tcras: Fresh southeast and east and weather partly overcast Saturday.
New Britain herald., 1925-05-16
HUGE INCREASE IN CIGARET INDJ STRI

Anti-cigarot forces have made no noa4way tho past few years. That the cigarot output in the United s.atos quadruplod in the last dec ad4, having reached ,hc enormous total Of 7& billion cirare,s, was modo rublc ny tho commissioner of internal r.g.nue in Washington this woeN.
 The tobacco industry furnishes tt. sm,ws Of financial income 10 'as 2o,.romcnt 10 a remarkable eH- r.r.. a ro,aI of s345.ooo,ooo in in r:nar 'a<~s having boon rHacFed from .t during Il" var. The in- t,-ost O. inc tobacco industry and na' If Ir government is closely aa.a. rmuEed David II, Rlair thc 'u,cr.Y ...;,I: anything that brings in ss..a hicb sum or money 10 tho go,.ram."' certainly can he ro- r.rLH as uuiug "ctoa.ly aihcd' 10
 ~a.= tar money mans that on an avmg. .,'ry man, woman and ,.il r;,s uo,. 'han s3 10 'he gov ,wraut M tobacco ttAes cscry var Considering hat women and cr,.lrou may well he kept out of tho reckoning in rohaooo ta>os. it is arparu, 'ha, every ,nan dtshIrsos from &15 10 seo year 10 the go>- .rnmon' ia toba.co 'axcs. As a matter of fact. those that do the ! smoking pay all Of Tho tax and ,hay can figure out their share ch,msoyrs; it may bc as interest ing and uplifting as a cross word 1 puzzle.
 The large incrrasr in the usc Of clgarcrs. however, is d serious mn ace to inc cigar industry. This af- f,crs the Connecticut tobacco jn- dustry considerably because our lo- oarco is lscd in tho 1uannfar'4u Of ,1car,. on. SIS at lcH~' -l"F r makt.- ,ic.r.'~ lo ono smnl.
 ing d cigar. ncu m Connectlcut.
New Britain herald., 1925-05-16

"head Of tho American army" the popular designation for the position held so eonspicuousIy by General Porshng in moro recent times; and there was not man In the nation who did not rrgard General Niles >us the worlds greatest general al that time, so unboundcd was the confidence in his ability,
 The general had tho uDquc yN- p,rIrntr lat. in 'trc Of meeting the man who shot utm u, the I@ul. og Ann,um thy bullet penetrating the abdomen. "l ahmed at the heart, but tho moN,mcu' of your horso saved your ufr and alter what has h,p- p,ord srro am glad you lived, " .uo Confederate veteran told thr general
 when G'uIW MI.ys enlisted in EuNbnry, Mass. 'o light in the CNu war. t1" town lwjcd 10 make good promls, to pay bonus of $2o .ach for every man puIjsting, so the '9lurc general borrowed the nrcos- Sary funds and made the payment nimsn1C This was a fair indication o' ms m,t,nuloUs d'auogs with mankind; what h" .hougU ol The town Of Eo\mry however, has never sccn prtnt,
 The nation wilt mourn 'h" pass ing of a great Am.rrrm Sodior,
New Britain herald., 1925-05-16
MORE ELECTRIFIC ATION
 OF RAILROADS

The American nation has ono has tHc total railroad mileage of tho entire world; but il has only our-courth os the worlds total of rajlroad clec'riGcation.
 There las been loggiug about olertrifcauon that is only explained us having been due to hesitancy tol- lowing the collapse Of the war boom. But the pendulum is swing mr he otn0r way. The Great Northern announced t would cleo triCy the Cascade mounran grade, tho Nirginian Railway will oJoctrlfg 1$3 mics of route and 2I@ miles of track bo'wecn MuUens, W. Va and Roankokc, Va, at a cost Of $15.- ooo. .n0o; tNg Norfolk X Western is dong some e."e'utyu2, st is Inc I.ansy .yani3; tha New Hav,n's .aotrifei line between Now York and Now HG'm 5e quit, notable: ,a. St. Pants s'r-'cs is famous.
 wuc mos, important e'"cfr1ca) de- >=ormenr on rdroods l1s- Dow is rsGn~ Isuo. on tho VtrEjnian, and is ,..r.t,s.1I.y ro.4BIe through 'he lropoS l usa of the vor.d's mca''s' .t.r'mcaJ locomotives, the first ot which has lc~u completed, When i, IS cons,I.rnd that these locomo- .l..s ,.i. u- 1.2 c.s. long, iu three s....oa~ SD IS .o be ah'r 10 gst armu4 .ur.s. ni' aigh o@7 tons, lave 7I25 horsepower, and will be able 10 pull a ,rrign. 'ra'o more ,,an too ui.,s .onS, '],. sIp'rtonty oe saah ar o,r'nc engine over any ,sp~ ot s,ram locomotive IS apiar- ort cl.a 10 a lymun.
 w. Lar >rry i.tu. o' '.. N'r- efnIm Railway m Nrw Eugmj a4, vo rrou4o.y a~~ r'oIa"s 'ho' ramcs a>sr IS uu.s -naaoNv roa rom r.. W.s' Ni~ct""a "..,ds u.sa .s ,.l,a to. j4.8af.r r..~ ''' .7,s to Nor.o,b arI 'A,uy. ship m.a ID NoN Eu@.~oJ and o'roa points. nI,oI h. mtu rasor for constructing 're VIrc''nn was ,a pro,ilo a short tj.l"va.'r '".o.
 S4ah m,c.,.sr.r enterprise as ]: being show Iy this line is com. mcndaH.. EaH~oal men from al . o.or tue country were at the 'cs' I2 rho Westinghouse interests al Pits lureh of tb, first Virginian electric locomotive. ,ho test made railroa' history
 Wh.n 1t 1s l.aiz~d that on" 0 la hrs, ruraI e..ctnocaIoI projects n N-w England, If not il tho couu'ry, was on 'he Nrw Ha<ol railroad branch w-'w0"n IIar'.or and Bristol running through N.T
 ltriian. aul tr. ronsrourn' .'t oG trr r.ar ... '. 'a. lrvg ~ ". 'a third Eall system then in l-s