River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-12-17
Business Men Give
Pure Bred Heifers To
Twenty Local Boys

River Falls businessmen went into
partnerships Tuesday with the COM
munity's boys and girls.
To two girls and to % boys living
within a radius of some 10 or 10
miles of River Falls in the counties
of Pierce and St. Croix the business
men advanced capital for a new
business enterprise.
The capital furnished to each
youngster was one pure bred HoJ-
stein heifer.
The boys and girls for three years
are to have active management OF
the business, keeping accurate ac-
counts of receipts and disbursements,
taking care themselves of the heifers
and their offspring while the bust
ness men are to remain as silent
partners. At the end of the three
year period there will be a share and
hare alike division of the profits.
1t was in accordance with this plan
tkat the businessmen of River Falls
accomplished two objects, Tong
sought by the merchants of every
mediumsized town in the Northwest,
better understanding with the
farm families who are their patrons,
and offered substantial inducement
to the boys of the community to stay
on the farms.
They made the occasion of the in
itiation of the partnership a gala oc-
casion Tuesday. The boys and girls
who were to receive the heifers came
with fathers, mothers, all the folks
Tho could leave for the day. There
was big meeting at the River Falls
city hall in the forenoon at which J.
Branson, who promoted the plan
as step in the furtherance of a
unified dairy exchange movement in
Western Wisconsin, and II. G. Sey
forth, Pierce county agent, spoke.
While this brief speaking program
vas going on the heifers, stabbed in
a barn back of the hotel, were tagged
with the name Of the boy or girl
owner. The moment the city hall pro
gram was concluded, the Juvenile
stockmen and women made rush to
the livery barn to bestow admiring
ownership on their four-footed pro-
| teges.
They had but a few moments for
the task before they were escorted
back to the hotel to be guests of
their businessmen partners at lunch
con. There were brief talks by Mr..
Seyforth, Professor A. N. Johnson of
the River Falls normal husbandry de
partment, and then Professor T. A.
Erickson of the University of Mime
sofa Farm School addressed the
youngsters, their parents and bust
nessmen associates.
Names of the youngsters who re-
ceived heifers Tuesday are: Mildred
Webster, Helen Drummer; Gilmore
Solberg, Edmund Kusilck, Edwin
Dorgan, Harry and John Dunbar,
Leroy Morrow, Virgil Russell, Har
old Hunter, Raphael Farrell, Ray
mond Kurtz, Ronald Kruger. Holly
and Quentin Stauffacher, Marvin
Dahlquist, Floyd Mclaughlin,
Arthur Smith, Elmer Watkins, My
ron Hugo, Harold Clifford, Roy Ham
ilton, Clarence Kuschel and Clifton
Benedict. The two qualifications for
receiving the animals were that the
boy or girl should be active in club
work and that there should have
been heretofore no blooded stock or
their fathers farm.
Names of the business and profes-
s.ional men who donated the stock
are: Chris. N. Wiger, E. B.
Carisch, Normal School farm, L. NJ.
Nauth, J. S. Wadsworth, Kulstad
Brothers, Vincent Fait, Jay II.
Grimm, j. w. Hunter, w. z,
Knowles, Bjerstedt & Benson, J. F.
Smith, Dr. G. D. Gallup, River Fall
Motor company Consolidated Lum-
Der company, A. w. Lund company,
James Peterson, Pure Oil company,
High Grade Oil company, William
Fuller, Prairie Roller Mills company.
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