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The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1925-11-01
By III. G. SEYFORTH
Pierce County Agricultural Agent

Having SOJourned IN a county IN the west
ern part of Wisconsin for the past five years, |
have noticed much that the residents of this
county may well feel proud of. It's location is
almost ideal. 1t is only fifty miles from two of
the largest cities in the NorthWest.s These
cities are easily accessible by auto and truck
over good graveled highways The Burlington
and Omaha Railways furnish good shipping
facilities. Lake Pepin, the Mississippi River
and Lake st. CrOiX furnish good water trans
portation. Therefore the products raised in
this part of the state are easily and quickly
marketed on good markets, furnished by the
Twin Cities
High Per Centage Owners
Pierce County has 300 farms which vary
in size from to 1000 acres. There are seven
farms containing over 1000 acres, 116 farms
over 500 acres and the average for the county
is lib acres. Sixty per cent of the farm land
in the county is improved Probably 10 to Is
per cent never will be titled on account of the
steep hisides and valleys cut by the rivers and
creeks flowing across the county, However,
these hillsides are covered with good hardwood
timber and grasses so that they are used for
numbering and grazing. The tenant farming
has never been very large as 81 per cent of
the farms in the county are operatd by owners:
This makes the population more stable and
builds a more permanent agriculture.
This county is covered by three different
glacial drifts and has about 80 types of soil.
The Knox and Lindley silt loans make up the
big bulk of soils in the county. The Knox silt
loan is from brown to buff colored SOIL The
subsoil is heavy yellow silt loan. The under
lying rock is lower Magnetism limestone This
Knox silt loan is largely of Loessial origin,
that is material carried by the wind from west
ern sections. This soil shows a slightly acid
reaction. The soil in townships along the east
ern part of the county are reasonably high in
nitrogen and phosphorus. The section along
the river shows a lower content of phosphorus
and nitrogen, this fact being so on account OF a
longer period. of cropping, principally grains,
as this was tie first part of tlfecodaty settled
along the river. The sections high in plant
food were developed later and grain raising
was less important. More live stock was raised
on these later settled farm lands.
Gently Rolling Surface
The Lindley silt loan consists of silt loan,
loan, fine sandy loan, and gravelly loan. This
type of soil occurs mainly in the northern part
of the county and some in the southern part.
This Lindley silt loan is largely a glacial soil
being derived from glaciated material of pre-
Wisconsin age. The surface of the Lindley silt
loan is brown in color. The subsoil is a gray
ish brown silt. Some stones and pebbles are
found in this SOIL The surface is generally
gently rolling to rolling.
The other types of soil are found in only
small areas in the county.
The soils in Pierce show very little need of
potash only where truck farming is a special
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1925-11-01

protection does gentleman have if he is to be,
kicked and cuffed about by Tom, Dick and Har-
ry, claiming they own the whole State. Get
out! Avaunt! If you don't avaunt pretty
quick, I'll scalp you and sell you to a medical
college,"
He stood in dumb amazement moment,
then he said he would go and get his deed and
his shot gun. l said shotguns suited me ex-
actly, and told him to bring two of them
loaded with giant powder and barbed wire. |
would not live always. | asked not to stay.
When he got behind the corn-crib | climbed
the fence with my ill-gotten gains.
The blacksmith in his prime may lick the
small boy, but twenty years changes their rela-
tive positions. Possibly Tdd could tear up the
ground with me now, but in ten more years,
if I improve as fast as he fails, I shall fish in
that same old stream again.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1925-11-01
RIVER FALLS GREW
FROM TINY VILLAGE
(Continued from page 5, Section n

Continued from page s. Section p
It is related of Deacon Powell that in the
fall Of 1849, at which time he was IS years old,
he missed the last steamboat of the season
down the Mississippi river This did not stop
Deacon Powell. He had business to attend to
down the river. So he bought rowboat at
Prescott, and, accompanied by his son, Oliver,
he rowed from Prescott to Keokuk, Iowa,
through practically unsettled country.
Present day residents of River Falls are
indebted largely to the Powell family for beau
tiful Glen Park. This property was part of
Oliver S. Powells original holdings along the
Kinnickinnic. In 1898, ten years after Oliver
Powell's death, his sons offered the property
to the city at low price, on condition that the
tract be used as public park. Twenty acres
were first purchased. The park was extended
in 1903, with the purchase of additional ground
by the city. This park is one of the finest in
this section of the country.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1925-11-01
BY Bill Nye

fixed myself and went out trout fishing
on the only original Kinnickinnic river last week;
1t was a kind of Rip Van Wrinkle picnic and
farewell moonlight excursion home. | believe
that l Rip Van Wrinkle however, confined him
self to hunting mostly with an old musket that
was on the retired list when Rip took his
sleepy drink on the Catskills If he could have
gone with me fishing last week over the old
trail, digging angle-worms at the same ola
place where | left the spade sticking in the
grim soil twenty years ago-if we could have
waded down the Kinnickinnic together with
high rubber boots on, and got nibbles and bites
at the same places, and found the same old
farmers with nearly quarter of a century
added to their lives and glistening in their hair,
we would have had fun no doubt on that day,
and a headache on the day following. This af-
fords me an opportunity to say that trout may
be caught successfully without corkscrew. |
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1925-11-01
BILL NYE FISHES
IN KINNICKINNIC

Forty Years Ago, the Late
Bill Nye, Famous American HUI
mOrist, returned to his bOyhOOd
haunts and went on a fishing
expedition near the old home.
He then wrote the following
description of that trip.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1925-11-01

have tried it. I've about decided that the main
reason why so many large lies are told about
the number of trout caught all over the coun-
try is that at the moment the sportsman pulls
his game out of the water he labors under
some kind of an optical illusion, by reason of
which he sees about nine trout where he ought
to see only one.
I wish had as many dollars as | have
soaked deceased angle-worms in that same beau
tiful Kinnickinnic. There was a little stream
made into it that we called Tidd's creek. 1t is
still there This stream runs across Iidds
farm, and Tidd twenty years ago wouldn't al
low anybody to fish in the creek. can still re
member how his large hand used to feel, as he
caught me by the nap of the neck and threw
me over the fence with my amateur fishing
tackle and a willow 'stringer" with eleven
dried, stiff trout on it. Last week I thought
would try Tidd's creek again. It was always a
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1925-11-01

Photo shows the boyhood
home of celebrity. The Nye
farm house in Kinnickinnic,
where Bill Nye was raised.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1925-06-11
INDIAN FOLK SONG :. WILL BE TRANSLATED

BERKELEY, Calif-The folk songs of the Yosemite Valley In dians, chanted by the tribe when the white man knew no music have been transcribed to the mod ern score and translated into Eng fish by Professor Derrick N. Leh- mer, of the mathematics depart ment of the University of California
 Professor Lehmer has arranged a group of seven Indian songs in book form for concert performance
 "The music of the Yosemite tribe of Indians was highly developed be- fore the white man had developed the art of music" says Professor Lehmer.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1925-06-11
Annual Sunday-School
 Picnic

Yes, all the Sunday Schools are invited and expected. The Guild, the Altar Society and the Aid Society, together with officers teachers and parents, are all con- spring to make the affair an en- joyable one. PICNIC BEACH is a nice place, safe place, and a con venient place. Each of the three main groups will attend to their own transportation of "eats" and ''walkables." (That last word has no reference to anything liquid though there will be abundance of good things to drink such as lemon ade and coffee, both made just right. The strange word really means small children, and such older people as are unable to walk out to the beach.) Bells for as- sembly will ring at 10:00. Hus- bands who must stay in stores and other unhappy places all forenoon are urged to heed the noon whistle for at fifteen minutes after it blows there will be something interesting doing on the beach. Single ladies, and gentlemen, too, homely or otherwise, and the homelier the better, are also invited to keep an ear open for that whistle and come It is a good place to get acquainted, even if lunch hour is very short for employees.
 "D."
The Wrangell sentinel., 1925-06-11
Siberia No Place
 For Gold Seekers

SEATTLE,-The present policy of the Russian government has ended foreign gold exploration work and prospecting in Kamchatka, and in the district of the Amur river of Siberia, Carl A. Anderson, old Al aska gold hunter, said on return ing to Seattle after a five year stay in that region.
 T do not believe there are more than six foreign prospectors in the entire Kamchatka and Amur regions" MT. Anderson declared Tt is a good place for foreign gold hunters to keep away from"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1925-06-11

IN THE UNITED STATES CON- MISSIONER COURT. WRAN- CELL PRECINCT. FIRST DIVI- SION OF ALASKA. IN PROBATE In the Matter of the Estate of Adolph Falt, Deceased
 NOTICE TO CREDITORS
 Notice is hereby given, That I, L. M. Churchill was on the 2nd day of June, 1925, duly appointed Administrator of the above named estate of Adolph Falt, Deceased. All persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified and required to present same to me, duly verified at Wrangell, Alaska, within six months from the date of this notice.
 Dated at Wrangell, Alaska this 2nd day of June, 1925.
 L. M. Churchill,
 Administrator aforesaid. First Publication June II, 1925. Last publication July g, 1925.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1925-06-11
LECTURE BY DR. YOUNG
Pioneer of Pioneers Talk to Chapt- CT B, Missionary Society of First Presbyterian Church

Dr. S. Hall Young, pioneer of pioneers of the Northland, having gone to Alaska in 1867, where he has been identified with the Pres byterian church work in the estab- lishment of missions and hospitals since that early date, gave very interesting and informing illustrat- ed lecture before Chapter B, mis- sionary society of the First Presby- terian church in Seattle, Wednes- day night.
 Dr. Young is a powerful speaker, knows the Northland as few know that great country, and the meet ing, largely attended by the young women composing the Chapter, proved an entertaining and instruc- tive one-Alaska Weekly.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1925-06-11
A Good Thing DON'T MISS TIT

Send your name and address plainly written, together with 10 cents, stamps or coin (and this slip) to Chamberlain Medicine Co.,. Des Moines, Iowa, and re- eeive in return trial package containing CHAMBERLAIN'S TABLETS for stomach troubles, indigestion, gassy pains that crowd the heart, biliousness and constipa- tion; CHAMBERLAIN'S COLO AND DlARRHOEA REMEDY for pain in sto- mach and bowels, intestinal cramp, collie and ddiarrhoea; CHAMBERLAIN SALVE. needed in every family for burns, scalds, wounds, piles and skin affections. Trv these valued family medicines for only 10 cents. Don't miss it
The Wrangell sentinel., 1925-06-11
GOVERNOR BYNG TO
 MAKE RIVER TRIP

CALGARY Byng, gover. nor-general of Canada, will make tour down the Mackenzie river this summer, sojourning at Fort Normal, where the Imeperial Co
 has the furthest north oil camI in the world. The party will in clude Premier Greenfield of Alberta
The Wrangell sentinel., 1925-06-11

IN THE UNITED STATES COM MISSIONER'S COURT, WRAN- CELL PRECINCT. FIRST DIvI- SION OF ALASKA; IN PROBATE. In the Matter of the Estate of Ga- brief Olson, Deceased.
 NOTICE TO CREDITORS
 Notice is hereby given, that I, L. M. Churchill, was on the 3Oth day of April, 1925, duly appointed Administrator of the above named Estate of Gabriel Olson, Deceased. All persons having claims aginst said Estate are hereby notified and required to present same to me, duly verified at Wrangell, Alaska, within six months from the date of this notice.
 Dated at Wrangell, Alaska. this 30th day of April, 1925.
 L. M. CHURCHILL,
 Administrator Aforesaid
The Wrangell sentinel., 1925-06-11
HOW'S THIS7

HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE will do what we claim for it-rid your system of Catarrh or Deafness caused by Catarrh.
 HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE con- sists of an Ointment which Quickly Relieves the catarrhal inflammation, and the Internal Medicine, a Tonic, which acts through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces. thus assisting to restore nor. nal conditions.
 F. J. Cheney & Co.,, Toledo, O.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-20

this direction. People should be
on the lookout for them, as they
are liable to do lot of damage
to live stock as well as the dan
ger to people themselves. 1t is
reported one farmer lost a COW
and young calf near Lehy from
being infected with rabies.
The roads in our district are
awful bad. 1t is difficult travel
ing with a team or by auto.
V. M. Pitts completed moving
his. family and household goods
to Lehy Monday, he having re-
Gently leased the Daniel Lehy
ranch.
A number of people young and
old, gathered at the S. S. Edge
mon home and spent the day
Sunday.
J. A.. Herbert, an old pioneer
of this section, writes from Ev-
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-20
Gas on Stomach Won't Let
You Sleep

Gas pressing on heart and other or
gans sometimes causes restless, ner-
vous feeling and prevents sleep.
Adlerka helps any case of gas on the
stomach, unless due to deep-seated
causes. The QUICK action will supr!se
you. Because Adlerika is such an exec
llent intestinal evacuant it is wonderful
Tor constipation often works in one
hour and never gripes.
CD. Neihart.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-20

REDUCED-Prices on coal: Ros-
lynCascade. Egg Lump, $40. so;
Smith (Bear Creek big Jumps,
$12. so; Genuine Owl Creek lump
coal, $3.50. Potlatch Lumber
Company.
FOR SALE 4 pure bred S. C.
r.. +, Red Cockerels. Good Ones.
Albion G.. Wilson.
Call and see our Samples of
Wall Paper. F. w. Mccain
WOOD-Slab and Mill wood, So.
so per rick; Big Heavy Block
wood $2.75. Potlatch Lumber
Co.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-20

erett that he expects to return
home to his ranch soon.
G. P. Pitts sold a bunch of
mules to some farmers near Co.
van last week.
The young people from this
district. who attended the M. w.
A. dance in Coulee Friday night,
report an enjoyable time.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-20

Max Garrett left Sunday f s
Deer Park, where he is teaching
school.
Everett Burris returned from
a trip to Spokane Sunday.
LeoLavin left Monday for the
Yakima country, where he has a
road contract. He was accom-
panied by Evert Burris.
Miss Gertrude Gilley arrived
Saturday evening from Cheney
normal, returning Tuesday moru-
ing.
E. Davis. of Davis Clothing
store, was at Spokane Monday
on business.
Mrs. G. A. Cutler and little
daughter, Majorie, were passen-
gers to Spokane Tuesday.
Mike Closing was a passen-
ger to Spokane Friday morning,
on a several days business trip.
FOR SALES Dozen Brown
Leghorn Pullets at 81. each.
Mrs. w. l.. Box.
Mrs. ". L. Box returned Fri.
day evening. after weeks visit
with her parents at Cheney
leaving them very much improv
;, ed in health, after being i'll with
pneumonia and the flu.
]. R. Hayden arrived Monday
from Usk, where he has employ
ment in merchandise store. Ht
had the misfortune to. get hls
foot crushed and came home fol
a few days rest.
Mr.. and Mrs. Durkee and fam
lily Of Hartline, were Sunday
guests in the C. A. Cutler home.
Mr.. Durkee is Northern Pacific
station agent at Hartline.s
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-20
Query and Answer

HIS, Coulee, Did John Brown
hold any commission in the Civil
War?
Ans. No John Brown was cap
tured and hanged in 1859. This
was before war was declared.
R. T., Bacon, was born on
Jan. A, 1854, Will you please
tell me what day that was?
Ans. You were born on We'd
nesday.
Question-Hartline, DO the
people on tbs Island of Korea
speak Chinese or Japanese?
Ans. The Korean language
belongs to the Mongol-Tartar
Japanese and Chinese. 1t has
words borrowed from the Chin
csc, but in sound it differs wide
ly from their language. In gra-
mmea it is nealy identical with
Japanese.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-20
Business Locals
Fuel

When in need of Coal, Wood
Hay, Mill Feed, or Chicken Feed,
Phone the Mcdonald Lumber Co.
They deliver pr6mptl;;.; ~. Il
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-20
Farmers Corpo-
ration Suspends
Business

One of the hardest financial
jolts that ever hit this country
was the failure of the Farmers
Corporation, a CO. operative con-
Germ that has been buying wheat
and handling farm implements,
fuel, feed, etc., and announced
Tuesday evening by the officers
and stockholders they decided to
file voluntary bankruptcy pro-
ceedings.
The amount involved in the
financial disaster will run up to
about 500, 600, and it drives d.
rect TO our most prosperous and
best farmers who have been the
backing of the Coulee district.
No blame has been placed on
any one. An accountant, an ex-
pert bookkeepe, arrived Wednes-
day evening to check up the
books, and not until his work Is
completed will any statement be
made.
The corporation was organized
in 1919 by the farmers of this dis
trict. The concern owns two
warehouses. capabls of storing
125, 900 bushels of sacked wheat
and an elevator of Is, 900 bushels
of bulk grain.
The presiden of the cooperation
is M. E. Jolly, the secretary is
O. O: Stoner and the directors
are Carl Lason. w. T. Jenkir
and ]. w. Boub.
Vern Gill was up from Adrair
Wednesday having his arm which
was broken some time ago dress.
ed by DR.. Gregg.
Mrs. Anna Gill was a passen
ger to Spokane Thursday morn.
ing.
Mrs. O. A. Martin and little
son visited with her husband at
the Lincoln Stock farm this
week, returning to Spokane yes
terday.
Sign of spring is here. The
small and some of the older ones
are playing marbles on the street
Have you Paid your subscript-
ion to the Dispatch? #
80 :'r'"ETTgysss--..ss.s
F. R. Anderson, field mana
ger tor the +. w, Anderson
Mortgage Co., is here looking
after the company's holdings
and we see that the renters on
their lands get Seed wheat. Mr..
Anderson says there is ever
prospeat at present of a good
crop This year.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. S. Rinke1
were visiting at Lind Sunday
Job printing, promptly done
i Of tho Dicnotoh
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-20
Mold

Word was received here Sun
day that two dogs near Lehy had
gone mad and were headed in
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-20
Local e2a Personal

Max Garrett left Sunday f 5
Deer Park, where he is teaching
school.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-20

Mr.. and Mrs. Durkee and fam
lily of Hartline, were Sunday
guests in the G. A. Cutler home.
Mr.. Durkee is Northern Pacific
station agent at Hartline.s
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-20

Everett Burris returned from
a trip to Spokane Sunday.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-20

LeoLavin left Monday for the
Yakima country, where he has a
road contract. He was accom-
panied by Evert Burris. !.
The Coconino sun., 1925-02-13
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Born on the 18th day of February, 1909, ir
Hardin county, Kentucky, of poor struggling par
ents, Abraham Lincoln has taken his place among
the worlds immortals and few are the corners OF
the earth where his birthday is not known and
celebrated
The life history of Lincoln has filled thousands
IF volumes and its general features are. familiar
Or should be, with every American citizen, and
every boy and girl.
Lincoln was man of the common people, He
derived most of his goodness and greatness from
nis mother to whose memory he was devoted He
ose out of the wilderness of the continent like G
giant compounded of its elemental rock and soil
md time. He put his shoulder under the most
Stupenduous burden this country has ever called
upon one of its sons to bear, and the masterful
ability and patience and wisdom with which he
carried that burden to the summit of a victory
which became the altar of his sacrifice is story
that ages will tell.
The infinite tragedy of his life was that, after
leading the people to the border of the promised
land of a restored union he was not permitted t.
enter in.
We live under his shadow today. The touch OF
his immortal hand is upon us, and we thank God
that He gave us this man of faith and prayer and
wisdom at time when the nation was in deepest
distress
The Coconino sun., 1925-02-13
SPECIAL PRIVILEGE ON EQUAL TAXATION


An eastern bond house specializing in govern
ment bonds has issued an exhaustive statement
showing why this type of bonds should be tax
free After reading it all over one is impressed
with the fact that the arguments presented are
largely in the interest of the holders of tax
exempt bonds and not in the interest Of the tax
payer who must dig up exhorbitant taxes in or
der that the income from billions of these bonds
outstanding may go absolutely tax free.
The statement claims that taxation of the in
come derived from public bonds would cause a
higher interest rate that would have to be paid
by every one.
At the present time the difference in the in
terest rate between taX-eXempt bonds and tax
able bonds of standard issues is stated by "The
Bond Buyer" to be only about one-haf of one per
cent. Public bonds could always demand a lower
rate of interest than private bonds because public
oonds are the safest form of investment and stand
as mortgage against all the property in the dis
trict where they are issued.
Which is the worst: To have a possible slight
addition in interest rate divided up among no.,
100000 people or having nearly 110,000,000 people
paying millions in increased taxes in order that
a small minority which owns billions of public
oonds the income from which is-tax-exempt, may
escape tax free. A democracy will survive on a
basis of equality and equal taxation, not by build
ing UP special privileges and tax exemptions for a
few.