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River Falls Journal
Eattred at the Poat-Office. River Falla.
AVisconaia, aa Second Claaa Matter
S. R. MORSE, Editor
Subscription Price, SlJOper Year.
A few days ago we had an op
portunity of hearing .a lengthy and
rather heated discussion oi t>e
question of closing stores in the
evening. One or two remarks
made by, farmers might interest
our merchants! One farmer said
that the closing of the soloons
would not drive away on dollar’s
worth of trade where the evening
closing of the stores had caused
an inestimable amount to go else
wherei He said that at this time
of the year, w’hen farmers are
putting in the entire day/working
on the farm, whatever trading
they want to do must be done in
the evening. And they all do not
want to wait until Saturday eve
ning to do it. “Why,” he said, “ If
my hired man wants to replace
an old pair of overalls during the
week he must either take the long-,
er trip to Prescott in the evening
or take a half-day off to get
them in River Falls.” Now that
■so many farmers have autos they
would make a pleasure and bus
iness trip to the city most 'every
evening, and undoubtedly every
trip would mean something tP
River Falls merchants—if theyh-id
iheir places of business open. .In
the group* discussing this qeution
were also a couple or more me;n
who labor right here in the city,
and they too appeared to find it
inconvenient to do all of their
ft hop ping in [working hours.
Now ths discussion might have
been ,p a r 11| ci pki t e iff in
by a group of men who’ did
not represent? the majority opin
ion, an the merchants may know
irom experience that the evening
closing is more profitable. But
it furnished a suggestion which
River Falls merchants might d o
well to look into.
Last winter, when the road laws
were under discussion, we heard
loud complaints of the cost of ex
pert supervision in the construction
of modern highways.
Now we hear louder complaints of
the poor quality of the road work
done without such supervision. It
seems that where the work is done
by the township authorities without
the advice of competent engineers,
the process consists simply of heap
ing a high ridge of loose dirt and
chunks of sod in the middle of the
road and leaving nature and traffic
to do the rest. Nature has soaked
the newly repaired roads with heavy
rains, making travel not only diffi
cult, but dangerous as well. The
sides of the roads are slippery, and
the mushy character of the soil in
tie middle makes that part almost,
if not impassable.
Most serious accidents have oc
curred on these roads constructed
by novices, while on those built
under the supervision of compe
tent engineers there have been no
accidents at all that could be ’
Little Trained Nurse
Brings Prescriptions
to us—we fill them v WSML
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A competent registered pharmacist will fill
your prescriptions with fresh, pure drugs of
tested strength, when you bring them to us.
We consider it criminal to use adulterated
drugs and will not do so to save a little money.
We want your drug business because we
DESERVE it. Give us your drug trade for one
year; then you will do so for life.
FREEMAN’S DRUG STORE
WE TAKE CARE
charged to the roadway. The
money expended in the careless
or inefficient repairs is worse than
wasted, it results in actual damage.
Farihers and teamsters may be
good workers, but they are not
road experts, and they, as well
as others, are losing good money,
every time they try -tp do ft h e
work of the expert, just
Ily as they would lose money if
they hired a road engineer to do
their farming.
Every{manto his trade.—St. Paul
Pioneer Press.
SERIOUS AUTO ACCIDENT
A serious automobile accident
occurred at about 9 o’clock Sunday
evening at Clay Corners in the town
of Martell.
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Larson and
son Cyrus, in company with Mr.
and Mrs. Anton Larson and child,
were out riding in the former’s
Oakland car. After crossing a
bridge Mr. Larson steered the ma
chine to the left to avoid a mud
puddle. The road, which had re
cently been worked, gave way at
the edge, throwing the car and its
occupants into the ditch and turn
ing completely over.
Luckily several men were talking
tegether near the scene of the acci
dent and these hurried to the over
turned car and dragged the people
from under it.
Although all in the party were
badly shaken up, L. A. Larson ap
peared badly injured and he was
hurried to his home where medical
aid was summoned. It was found
that three ribs had been broken, his
chest badly bruised and a gash cut
in his leg by the windshield. Mrs.
Larsan sustained a cut upon her
forehead.
Mr. Larson is at present in a very
serious conpition and is suffering
great pain. It is feared there are
internal injuries.-Ellsworth Herald,
Our Medal of Honor.
The medal of honor, which congress
awards for unusual bravery, is a five ’
pointed star that bears a medallion of
Minerva. the inscription. “United
States of America,” and a laurel wreath
surmounted by the single word,
“Valor.” The order dates from the
time of the war between the states. It
is given sparingly and is one of the
most highly prized of military decora
tions.—. Youth’s Companion.
A Dose of Iron.
Anxious Mother—lt was after nine
o’clock when Clara came down to
breakfast this morning, and the poor
girl didn’t look well at all. Her system
needs toning up. What do you think
of iron? Father—Good idea. Anxious
Mother—What kind of iron had she
better take? Father—She had better
take a flatiron.—New York Sun.
Admiral Mahan Left $14,028.
The New Y’ork state tax appraisal of
the estate of the late Rear Admiral
Alfred T. Mahan, U. S. N., who died at
Washington a few months ago, shows
that he left a net estate of $14,028.38.
Admiral Mahan’s home was at Quogue,
N. Y., where he lived during the sum
mer. The estate goes to the wi(?z>w.
Msw. Ellen Lyle Mahan.
PRECOCIOUS PAINTERS. '
Some Fcmous Pictures That Were
Produced by Mere Boys.
Sir David Wilkie was probably the
most popular painter of his time and
one of the most deservedly so, and his
pictures today are almost all in the
great national collections or in the pos
session of the king. He was extreme
ly precocious and might be said to
have been born with a palette in his
band.
Wilkie painted his famous and very
characteristic picture, “Pitlessie Fair,”
when he was a mere lad. It was
local scene which he knew well, and
the 140 figures which it contains were
all sketched from his father’s parish
ioners, for Wilkie was a “son of the
manse.” As his father would have
been very angry to think his boy was
doing such a wrong thing as to ridi
cule his dear flock, David had to use
his models quite “unbeknown” to them
—in fact, during service. The young
artist got them all “under the book
board” and transferred them to can
vas at his leisure.
Everybody knows that Millais was
an “infant prodigy.” Did he not win
the gold medal of the Royal aoademy
when he was nine?
At South Kensington hangs a glow
ing and masterly canvas entitled “Pi
zarro Seizing the Inca of Pern.” How
many boys of fifteen know anything
of Pizarro or the Incas even if they
happen to know the whereabouts of
Peru? Yet Millais was only that age
when ne not only knew these things,
but could realize them in splendid
power in paint and get his picture on
the line at the academy, and he was
only nineteen when he painted one of
his supreme masterpieces, judged by
some to be the greatest thing he ever
did, “Lorenzo and Isabella,” which is
one of the treasures of the Walker
Art Gallery of Liverpool.
Holman Hunt was only twenty when
he painted his famous “Eve of St. Ag
nes” and still little more than a boy
when he painted his remarkable pic
ture which be called “Behold I Stand
at the Door and Knock,” but which is
known to the world today as “The
Light of the World,” a replica of which
can be seen in St. Paul’s cathedral.
Rossetti painted his lovely picture,
“Girlhood of Mary Virgin,” when he
was twenty and his famous “Ecce Au
cilla Domini” the year following.
Landseer was amazingly precocious.
He exhibited his first academy picture
when be was fifteen. —Exchange.
Judging by Appearances.
The tired father of a restless boy
orated as follow’s, not speaking to the
boy directly, but doing it in his pres
ence:
“How true it is that it is never safe
to judge by appearances!”
“Yes,” replied the boy’s mother, see
ing that it was her cue and answering
with another version of the cliche, “ap
pearances are often awfully decep
tive.”
“And so are inanimate objects,” con
tinued the paterfamilias with marked
emphasis. “You would think, for in
stance, if you judgefl by appearances,
that the heavy pair of school shoes I
bought for James the other day was
going to last for more than three
weeks, wouldn’t you? And you would
never think that the fragile looking
arithmetic I bought him at the begin
ning of the term would bid fair to last
forever. But look at ’em!”—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
A Carlyle Retort.
An empty headed duke once said to
Thomas Carlyle at a dinner:
“The British people, sir, can afford
to laugh at theories.”
Carlyle, scowling, replied:
“The French nobility of a hundred
years ago thought that they could af
ford to laugh at theorists too. But a
man came and- wrote a book called
‘The Social Contract.’ This man was
Jean Jacques Rousseau, and his book
was a theory and nothing but a theory.
The nobles could laugh at his theory,
but their skins went to bind the sec
ond edition of the book.”
Aramaic.
Aramaic, one of the languages which
are used in the Old Testament, was the
Semitic dialect v spoken by the people
north of Canaan when the Israelites
took that country. From the days of
the Babylonian exile Aramaic was used
as the medium of communication be
tween Jews and other Semitic people
and gradually supplanted Hebrew even
in Palestine, where it became the com
mon language about B. C. 200.
Rare Attainment.
“What makes you think Miss Tril
ler na« such a marvelous musical edu
cation?”
“She actually knows how to pro
nounce correctly the names of all the
classical selections she plays.”—Wash
ington Star.
Authoritative.
“Does your wife ever go through
your pockets while you are asleep?”
“No, she does it openly. Maintains
firmly her right of search and seizure.”
—Kansas City Journal.
Not His Business.
“Conductor, this man is stepping on
my feet,” said the lady passenger.
"I have nothing to do with the traffic
regulations, madam,” was the reply.—
Yonkers Statesman.
Very Careful.
Hokus —Flubdub is very careful
about the training of his family, isn’t
he? Pokus —Yes; he tries to bring up
his children in the way he should have
gone.—Puck.
Small axes fell great trees.—German
Proverb.
THE RIVER FALLS JOURNAL
Largest Animaion Earth
Spark’s W orld Famous Shows are
billed to exhibit at Ellsworth
Tuesday July 27, and from the
from the newspaper report pre
ceding them their exhibition will
be worht going many miles to wit
ness. \
Among the many features the
show carries is what is claimed
to be the largest land animal on
earth. It is an elephant said to
be three inches taller than Jum
bo .'and a half ton heavie/.
Some idea of her immense size
can be obtained when you consid
er that she is 11 feet% 7 inches
tall and weighs over 5 tons& In
/other words she weighs as much
as 10 ordinary horses.
Another extraordinary feature
with the show is Capt. Tiebor’s
troupe of educated Seals and Sea
Lions. Those interesting sea an
imals perform the moat seemingly
impossible feats; balancing chairs,
umbrellas and whirling brands of
fire while climing ladders, walk
ing light ropd and tiding the backs
of galloping horses) This feature
baffles .description and must b e
seen to be appreciated.
Many other wonderful thing are
to be seen with this mammoth
sfiow and the main performance
beneath the big tents will pre
sent a number of the most mar
velous foreign acts of the century
The menagerie of wild animals
carried with the show is complete
in eve<y detail, and contains rare
end cur.Ous spetjmens of the earth s
most interesting .and curious ani
mals.
A mile long street parade of
dazzling splendor, beautiful wom
en, and handsome horses, inter
spersed with three brass bands
anjd a steam caliope will traverse
the streets shortly before noon,
and this feature alone will be
W’orth going many miles to see.
Don’t forget the date and the
place of exhibition Ellsworth, the
27th, of July.
Phone 438 Office Stewart Blk
DR. MARTIN GOLBERG
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
RIVER FALLS, WISA
Besides doing general practice I
also treat diseases of the Ear, Nose
and Throat, and fit glasses.
Don’t Scrap Your Tires
Get Cash Value for Your Old Ones
We are going to put Defiance Tires on every car in this neighborhood. In
order to do this, we propose to accept your old tires in exchange for a De
fiance 4,000 mile guaranteed one, regardless of make or condition of your
old one. Note these attractive prices.
DEFIANCE TIRES
SMOOTH TREAD
Regular O.’d Tire Your Net
Size Price Allowances Cost
32x3 X sl3 35 $2.91 $lO 44
33x4 19.05 4.16 14 98
34x4 19.40 4 24 15 16
35x4 20.20 4.42 15.78
36x5 31 15 6.80 24.35
SMOOTH TREAD
Regular Old Tire Your Net
Size Price Allowances Cost
30x3 $ 9 00 $2.32 $r 68
Other Sizes Priced Proportionately
Our tire stocks are absolutely fresh and are covered by a manufacturer’s
guarantee. All adjustments on a 4,000 mile basis and sold under the
strongest gua r antee ever written.
NOTE THESE PRICES ON TUBES
Size Regular Price Sale Price
30x3 $2.35 $2.12
32x3X 2.80 2.52
As Factory has Given Us a Limited Number of Tires
These Prices are Good Only Up to August 10
C. CARISCE & SON
Buick Agents. River Falls, Wis.
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(DEERING!
IV II
Binders ||
II Mowers, Hay Rakes |
| Binder Twine g
II Long known to be the best of its ||
kind. Please come in and look
over samples and be convinced.
A. W.Lund
Hardware Harness Machinery
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I EGGS and POULTRY I
* - •
S -pEGINNING TUESDAY, JULY 20, I will $
• commence to take in at the Cream Station on 8
• Every Tuesday and Friday •
• (until further notice) Eggs and Poultry and pay cash for same. •
• Please do not forget the Days as stated above. •
I CURTIS JOHNSON “ *
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Other Sizes Priced Proportionately
FORD SIZES
“TIGER” TREAD
Regular Old Tire Your Net
Size Price Allowances Cost
32x3/4 $15.35 $3 95 $11.40
33x4 21 85 5 61 16 24
34x4 22.20 5 71 16 49
35x4 23.20 5 84 17.36
35x4,54 31.00 7 97 23 03
36x5 35 75 9 19 26 56
“TIGER” TREAD
Regular Old Tire Your Net
Eize Price Allowances Cost
30x3 $lO 35 $3 04 $7.31
30x3/4 13 35 3.93 9.42
Size Regular Price Sale Price
33x4 $3.90 $3.51
34x4 4.00 3 6q
Other Sizes Priced Proportionately
THURSDAY. JULY 15, 1915.