Current News Mark your calendar for chamber chicken feed!

The Prescott Area Chamber of Commerce would like to invite everyone to join them on May 30 for their annual Memorial Day Chicken Feed. It will be held at Freedom Park from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Once again, the menu will include grilled chicken prepared by Mike Ptacek and crew. Dinners include potato salad, beans, and bun. Hotdogs, chips, pop, water, beer, and wine coolers will also be sold. Take-out orders will also be available.

Mark your calendars and spend the holiday with family, friends, and neighbors and come out and enjoy the park.

For more information about the chicken feed, please contact the chamber office.

40 years ago

RIVER FALLS JOURNAL

May 14, 1981

MAYOR’S VETO* The mayor’s veto of city council action at the April 28 meeting was upheld by council action at Tuesday’s meeting, when no motion was made to try to override the mayor’s veto, Alderman Hoffman moved to uphold the mayor’s veto. On a 5-1 vote, with Alderman Pederson voting no and Williamson abstaining, the veto was upheld and it now apparently kills a renovation plan for a four-block section of Main Street.

At the April 28 meeting, the council voted 4-3 to go ahead with the controversial Main street project. However, Mayor Norry Larson vetoed the action then. Under state statutes, the council could have overridden the veto. However, that would require a 5-2 vote to do so.

*Mayoral powers in Wisconsin are covered in detail in Chapter 62.09(8) of the state statutes.

70 years ago THE RIVER FALLS JOURNAL May 3, 1951

College Host To 250 High School Students River Falls State College was host Tuesday, April 24, to approximately 250 high school seniors from 35 communities. The local high school was represented.

Students were taken on a tour of the campus, visited classrooms, saw movies, and an assembly program of campus activities and attended an afternoon dance. They were welcomed to the campus by President E. H. Kleinpell.

PEEPING TOM BOTHERS 7th, 8th Street Folks Residents in the seventh and eighth street section of the city were bothered last weekend by the activities of a “peeping Tom.” This is a rather serious offense, both from the standpoint of legal action and manhandling if caught in the act of “peeping.”

85 years ago ELLSWORTH RECORD May 14, 1936

STRUCK BY BASEBALL BAT June Brown, Ellsworth High School student, received the full force of a baseball bat at the school grounds Tuesday morning when she stood too close to a batter as he swung at a pitched ball. She was knocked unconscious and was taken to her home and a physician summoned. She has recovered.

SOUTHEAST ELLSWORTH Locals We are sorry to hear of the death of Wm. Schramm who died Saturday morning after being struck by lightning Wednesday morning while dragging in his field. This community extends sympathy to the family.

145 years ago

Three different Pierce County newspapers, three perspectives!

THE RIVER FALLS PRESS May 11, 1876 MARRIED CORNWELL JOHNSON — At the residence of the officiating clergyman, Rev. J. A. Ball, May 7th, 1876. Mr. William Cornwell and Miss Anna Johnson, both of River Falls.

Local Correspondence TRIMBELLE, May 8th, 1876 Times dull and locals scarce.

Mr. J. H. McLaughlin is about closing out his store.

Mr. Jerry Beardsley, has returned home from Dakota.

Mrs. Sibbley and family, of Chicago, have arrived.

Mr. Isaac Beardsley is expected home from Mason City soon.

The lecture by Miss Kate Kane, on Friday evening, was but thinly attended, not many people seeming willing to pay even a quarter to listen to a lecture upon the subject of temperance, when so many lectures may be heard for the mere trouble of attending. Those who did attend listened to a very pleasing address by the young lady, the lecture abounding in good hits at men and things. Were we disposed to be critical we should say that Miss Kane spoke too fast; especially should she stop a moment after saying a good thing, to give her audience time to see the point, and have a laugh before starting upon a new section of her discourse.

A WARNING — We clip the following from an exchange. It may be an unnecessary warning here, yet as we read of young girls being duped all over the country, it may not be amiss to give it circulation: Parties in Philadelphia area sending circulars and letters all over the country, to young girls, offering them good wages to go to the centennial and clerk in cigar stores and fancy notion stores. They offer to pay them in advance, but advise them not to let their parents know they are going. This is a plan to debauch thousands of girls. If they go to Philadelphia on such promises, they will find themselves destitute, in a large city, with only one fate before them, and that the worst that is possible to imagine. Pay no attention to such circulars.

PIERCE COUNTY PLAINDEALER Prescott, Wisconsin May 11, 1876

TRIMBELLE ITEMS Mr. J. C. Beardsley arrived home from Dakota, last week. He intends to move his family there soon.

The present owner of the Grist Mill in this place, has commenced repairs thereon.

Nearly all the farmers in this vicinity have finished sowing.

Dr. Bourne, of River Falls, was in town one day last week.

Mrs. Charles Sibbly, of Chicago, is visiting friends here.

Those who engaged in making Maple Sugar this Spring, report a poor season, and very little sugar made.

Mr. E. W. Smith has moved into the house formerly occupied by D. W. Kinne.

The cold backward spring has caused some of our citizens to wish for a home in a warmer climate. TREE PLANTING There has been a great deal said through the press in favor of tree planting as a “thank offering” in this our Centennial Year. This is being done in a great many places throughout the country, and we see no reason why we in Prescott cannot do something in this line. The ground in the Park has been broken for this purpose, and it is the earnest wish of all persons that have had anything to do with this matter, that all should take hold and help make it a success. RIVER FALLS ITEMS Business is very good for this time of year.

The entertainment given by the little folks, to get funds to purchase a new library for the M.E. (Methodist Episcopal) Sabbath School, netted them quite a sum.

Supt. Baker starts out next Monday to visit the schools throughout the county.

PIERCE COUNTY HERALD Ellsworth, Wisconsin May 10, 1876

Local Intelligence NEW goods at Elliot’s TRY some of C.S. Dunbar’s “lemon snaps.”

E.L. DAVIS has some fine oranges and lemons.

MRS. GILES WILCOX, of Trenton, died last week.

E.L. DAVIS has more of those California dried peaches.

A LITTLE girl was born to Fred Hines, of El Paso, last week.

C.S. Dunbar is putting a “Centennial corner” into his Restaurant.

MRS. DANIEL YORK, of Rock Elm, is very sick, and not expected to live.

A DAUGHTER of Charles Olson, of the town of Ellsworth, is seriously sick with typhoid fever.

E. W. NYE started for Cheyenne last week, where he intends to enter a law office.

—River Falls Journal, May 4th.

FRANK MANTOR, formerly of this town, has returned from Empress Victoria’s dominions and will, we understand, locate at Esdaile.

160 years ago PRESCOTT JOURNAL LUTE A. TAYLOR, Publisher VOLUME V. No. 1 May 15, 1861

THE ZOUAVES AT WASHINGTON …Col. Ellsworth says he will have them (the ZOUAVES) sworn in tomorrow, when, being under army regulations, they can be more absolutely controlled. They are spoiling for a fight, and undoubtedly will be among the first ordered off, as they will also be among the first to win honorable laurels on the field of combat.

FEMALE VOLUNTEERS — The clerk of an Ohio River steamer informs the Cincinnati Gazette that as the boat touched at Leavenworth, Ind., a company of Volunteer Woman, armed with rifles, marched down from the commons where they had been drilling, and fired a salute.—They seemed to handle the arms with ease, and presented a very credible appearance.

THE SOUTH—Henry Ward Beecher in a recent address said that while he went heart and soul into this war, he never felt less bitterness toward the South than now—never more sorry for them. The last thing he wished to see was a servile insurrection. He prayed to God to avert it and trusted that slavery might be blotted out peacefully. And he especially deprecated all mobs at the North. He had seen the teeth of a mob set toward him, and it always looked to him like a brindled wolf. When it looked the other way, it was not a bit handsomer.