Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-22
Court House Question.


This has been pretty thoroughly DIS
Gus led IN h. ground OF central ocatior:
the 'ge maj rIt OF vo ers and wealth
that We uid be mo benefit, by a curt
house m Decor h han elsewhere and
this has not been d-n!ed by III would be
IN pvers. The above tact hou d - tc
The question beyond any further arsu
ment; but as have seen little any
thing about the particular benefit to
derived BY the people of the county aside
from the above reasons for The court
h use 10 rem In whe e it is, | W IL sta
what | think would, in the long run.
benefit almost the entire people Of tn
county to 1t the court house severely
alone.
DEBORAH has the larges. and best
equip ed stores, agricultural mp iment
depos s, -four ne mill notes, banks d
Dera houses to ue found in Northeas ern
Iowa The stock, gram and grass seed
handled hire is more than N all he rest
Of the coun y There are more skilllu
lawyers and doctors here than in all The
rest OF the county. he colleges and
schools OF ID corah cannot be excelled n
number and xcel,ence by any CT Y OF
its size N the United states. We have
70 good newspapers, with the FoSfeH
at the head, possessing the largest CIR
u alton OF any paper published in the
Norwegian la guage in the world
Right here | wish to say ior the beneht
of h young men who were not SO Tor
tunate as to be bonn with S liver spoons
| in their mo ths:-don't lose c urage:
the wor is open to YOU and you have
the same chance that Nj. Anundsen
had who about 50 years ago. started In
with a cash cap tai estima ed at little
less than nothing, bu who has BY energy
ability and integrity built up a business
to ITS present co ossal proportions. We
have anoth T apsr whose >enior edito
is the grandfather of all the res and
| asld- from its ho,y.ble politics it is sad
10 be the bes, county newspaper in the
| state. The o her two papers are run by
young men who are pushing to the front
The G. A X. and w. K. c besides all
other secret soclet es, have Their head
quarters n Deco al The County Fair
is held h re, the largest clrcuSes in the
world come here; the cou ~ teacher ;
institute ; he here. All these kinds
o. bushes, are here to stay; and If a
court house III uld be built IN Hesper or
in Festna, or in tn places, the bust
ness would still remain here. Don't
think tor moment that the people OF
DEBORAH are en- ireiy de endent upon a
court house for their bread and butter
The point W sh TO make is this, that
the business of the town will always
draw people from the very outskirts OF
the county and whether they visit US for
bus ness or pleasure. how easy to do a
little business at the court house all
under one journey!
By the courtesy of the proprietors OF
the Ice Cave Touring mills | have been
perm tied to examine their books and
find that for three days of this month
j(March I'd, sd and 4thl. IS farmers
brought to that mill over 1909 bushels oil
wheat to be ground into flour, or ex-
changed Tor -four and Early all came
from the so-called Calmar teri tory. II
is but fair to p esume that all other bust
ness in DEBORAH has received its proper
ton of trade and business in the same
, time from the same territory.
What are the facilities for getting
here? There are twelve big Travelled
roads leading to Decorah from all part:
of the county. There are two railroad.
running eleven trains daily. beside:
specials.
The beauty and value of the presen
! court house grounds, together with the
buildings thereon have been freely dis
cussed, but there is one item that ha:
not b en- mentioned. There stands upor
those grounds monument erected b,
the county to commemorate the memory
of the heroic dead whose names are In
scribed thereon Will the relatives anc
friends and the surviving soldiers WHIT
fought side by side with their dead com
rades in the greatest civil war on recore
ever con ent that that monument shall
he hauled around from one town t.
another in order to rest upon unity
|, grounds, where it must rest as it belong
to the county? We think not.
H. A. BIGELow.