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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-08-01
AN INTERESTING LETTER
FROM SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA.
Rev. !. w. Allen Gives Oar Readers
His Impression of The
Queen City.

A week ago yesterday we left home
for few days vacation and brief
visit i'm Sioux Falls. While this trip
may be of frequent occurrence with
some, nine years have passed since our
last visit here, and within that time
some changes have occurred We try
to have our eyes open to learn what we
can.
100000, perhaps more, could live
within the limits of this city if all the
vacant lots were occupied. The earlier
settlers had large ideas and formed
great plans for the Queen City ofSouth
Dakota. Perhaps time will realize
many of their plans but they were
put into execution too soon in
the development of the state and
were hindered by the various calam-
tiles that have been the common history
Of many new states.
There are East, South and West
Sioux Falls, with broad unsettled Sec
tons between them, and Sioux Falls
proper. Now we are told the growth
is healthy, and there is some attempt
at concentration.
Since moving to DEBORAH we have la.
nented the lack of business. This and
that industry have disappeared, leav.
ing large, partially occupied, and
more or less delapidated buildings to
mark the graves of former industry.
Worst of all, our young men, as they
grow to manhood, must leave their
homes for employment, and we who
remain love the stimulous of well di
rected industry. But DEBORAH is not
in such failures. In the past, Sioux
Falls has had more industries than
you can count on the hand and some OF
them representing large outlay, but
they are now. numbered with the shave
beens." Still Sioux Falls is fine city
and represents large capital, and great
enterprise and energy. 1t is beautiful
ly situated on the low bluffs that Dor.
der the river Sioux. The population
is supposed to be $1,000. 1t has five
railroads with substantial depots. Mr.
Goddard would rejoice to preside in
such building as the post office here
1t is built of Sioux Falls granite with
u. S. court rooms and other apart
mants costing 100000 or more. 1t is
a fine structure. The court house with
its lofty tower and clock sitting here on
the fiat would make the enterprising
people of Calmar envious, if it could
stand OH our beautiful court house
square. Built of Sioux Falls granite
it is substantial and imposing struc-
ture. It's cost was somewhere between
sl25, 900 and $4,000, if we are right
ly informed.
Then there are numerous substan-
tial business places. Two dailies help
the people to know what has or may
have taken place in China and other
parts of the world. The Argus Leader
uses three Merganthaler machines
and prints on Hoe press with
folder attachment.
We understand that grain about here
is generally good and that corn is i'm
mense. Toward Yankton, sixty-five
miles away, very heavy rains fell about
a week ago, and there are still pools of
water in low places Mr.. Pettigrew,
the Honorable Senator, has nice home
here. We can not speak of Auditorium
and paving etc. Very Respectfully,
j. w. ALLEN.
Sioux Falls, July 27th.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-08-01

A very large and successful business
has been built up in evaporated eggs
1t takes four dozen eggs to make one
pound of the evaporated product, and
for all purposes save cooking to eat as
eggs are usually served, they are in this
form just as good as the fresh product.
1t would seem as though in this channel
eggs Of questionable age and repute
might find sphere of usefulness. The
product goes mostly to the mining
countries of the far north where fresh
eggs are Of necessity an unknown CON-
modify.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-08-01

Surprising, for instance, you we're
this year compelled to farm just as men
did forty years ago. How would you
like to plant corn by hand with hoe
and cultivate it with a crossing pillow?
Or SOW the wheat field by hand, as did
the sower Of bible times, and cut the
crop with cradle and thresh it out
with fail or tramp it out with horses?
Or cut the grass with scythe and
gather it with hand rake? Guess you
would give up farming pretty quick.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-08-01

Nellie +. Thomas
VS.. Plaintiff.
Frank Thomas
Defendant.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-08-01

SIN this district, OF course" said the
democratic spellbinder, 81 shall touch
lightly on l6 10 | and shall whoop it up
on anti-imperislism and the time-hon-
ored principles of the party, as exem-
plified by our great leaders, Andrew
Jackson and"
"Good heavensw exclaimed the par
ty manager, "that won't do at all.
Jackson was one of the worst imperial
lists the country ever had. Just give
Mark Hanna hill and let it go at
that"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-08-01
wi nneSheik
County air
DEBORAH, IOWA,
Aug. 28=29=3o-3I, 1000.
The Newest and Best Attractions and Greatest
Exhibits Ever Had.
Floral and Agricultural Halls.

Floral and Agricultural Halls.
We wish the people of Winnesheik County give full
exhibit at the Floral and Agricultural Halls this year.
Premiums will be paid day after the fair Farmers and
gardeners obliged compete with nurserymen the
classes separate good refrigerator with plenty of ice
will be placed in the Agricultural Hall that butter and like
exhibits may be kept in good shape.
Mr.. Caldwell will have charge of the Floral Hail. get
your spaces early From let every patriotic citizen
of old Winnesheik boom the fair for the year 1900.
Especial Premiums.
The following special premiums will be paid to
Standard Food fed stock:
Best Calf under months, IS h. box worth ST. So
Best litter Of Pigs, IS ID box worth $3.50
Best Pig under months, IS Id. box worth ST. so.
Remember the dates Aug. 28-2e3o-31
BEN BEAR, Pres H. L. COFFEEN, Sec'y.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-08-01
Bryan's Cabinet, if

State-John p. Altgeld, Illinois.
Treasury-William Sulzer, New York
Warden r. Tillman, South Caro-.
lima.
Navy-George Fred Williams, Mas
sachusetts.
Postoffice- William j. Stone, Mis-
souri,.
Law-Charles A. TOwne, Minnesota.
INTERIOR. Ham Lewis, Washington
Agriculture f. Pettigrew, South
Dakota.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-08-01

>,ou,o u ,r,,o. In the District Court of
NeiklS ne r. ih DiS,,,, the State of Iowa, in
mn, Ia ai"h' and for Winnesheik
rHhh Wasana,, County, September
Doienun'' term, A. D., 1900.
To said Defendant, Frank Thomas. You
are hereby notified that on or before the 23d
day OF June A. D., 1900 the petition OF Plain
tiffin the above entitled cause will be filed in
the Office OF the Clerk OF the District Court OF
the State of Iowa, in and for Winnesheik
County, claiming OF you Decree in equity
of absolute divorce on the grounds OF habit
ual drunkenness, and asking for the custody
of the minor children, and for the general re
lief, and for costs; a copy OF the petition is
filed for Defendant and that unless you
appear thereto and defend before noon of the
second day of the next term, being the Sep
TENDER 1900 term of the said Court, which WIN
commence at DEBORAH, Iowa, on the 2ith day
of September 1900 default will be entered
against you and judgment and decree rem
dered thereon as provided by law. -
Dated I'D day OF September A. ID. iWO
1914 FRANK SAYRB
Attorney for Plaintiff
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-08-01

Belmond in Wright county claims to
have the champion hog raiser in H. C.
Tyrell who 10 only Is years old. Last
Thursday he sold 1874 hogs for So, $50.
He has about 800 left, not including
about 900 little pigs which will be
raised on this years prospective big
crop. This is but one instance how
farmers do business ia Iowa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-08-01
To The Deaf.

A rich lady, cured of her deafness
and noises in her head by DIR. Nichol-
sons Artificial Ear Drums, gave
SIC, 900 to his Institute, so that deaf
people unable to procure the Ear
Drums, may have them free. Address
No 1912, The Nicholson Institute, $50
Eighth Avenue, New York. lS-l-yr.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-08-01
TIM nnnnrnh PAYS CASH serap
IIIt IItl.IIIIIII Iron, Rags, Metals, Old
IIIV UVvVIuII Rope and Rubber and
Bones. Warehouse in
n L. n. old Ammon, Scott d
V0T00 INN II0 Co. Foundry Building.
UOluU UIl UV. We are here to stay.
Block & Walker, Props.
ORIGINAL NOTICE.

In the District Court of
the State of Iowa, i'm
and for Winnesheik
County, September
term, A. D., 1900.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-08-01
SEWER PIPE,
WALL COPING,
FLUE LINING,

No building should be without either.
Wal Coping will last as long as the building
and prevents the wall from decaying' you
will save the price of IL in three years.
Many fires occur from defective fiues. Use
FIue Lining in all your chimneys and you will
have an absolutely fire proof chimney at
small cost.
We have added all of the above TO our line
of building supplies. Everything OF the best
grade and prices low.
N. II. ADAMS.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-08-01
An Easy Decision
To reach is that
nm. Quanda & Co.'S
DRUG STORE

is the pleasantest place in DEBORAH to
do ones shopping. Clean, comfortable,
with courteous service, it rests one to
60 there. Their line of goods is the
best, everything fresh, pure and up-to-
date, and prices always reasonable. We
prescribe simple remedies for household
use that always prove efficacious.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-08-01

There are no better pills made than
DeWitt's Little Ear;y Risers. Always
prompt and certain. Wangler Bros.
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Flowers in Mexico.

One of the chief delights OF tns,
of Mexico Is its flowers. Roses, Wv
forget-me-nots, marguerites anu :
bloom all the year round. Theis
few weeks when a quarter VIII uV''
splendid big bunch and when :
dollar will not fill the vases u
house to overflowing. Flowers @'
not only at the flower market ne'l
cathedral, that is devoted enll[u
flowers, strawberries and BIRDS y,
the other markets and on tne =
corners. The 'fower girls OF 'n'
ital are all boys and men. a. !
places in Mexico, particularly uO'',
Jara, little girls are to be seen y
streets all day and in the eYenlhs .
ing boutonnieres for which ths'
not set a price, but ask you y
what you please. 1t Is hard u =, =
flower on sale anywhere after w :.
The flower seller makes bouq~-
the most artistic fashion. Inc
venders never sell loose CUT ~
but arrange them on a DaseNv
green so that each flower s'an
itself, and the whole bunch Il r :.
finished with a garniture o.
leaves or ferns
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Nevada SKUNK.

| There Is a humorous florist In this
city by the sea. Whether it Is inten-
t1onal or not, nobody knows, but he has
certainly had some funny experiences
OF late. The other day a woman in
Nevada wrote to him that her husband
was dead and that she wanted some
thing nice for John" to be sent at once.
With due dispatch he plucked a horse
shoe off the wall where it had rested
for years, and filling it with sweet
white roses, he forwarded it to the
widow.
In few days the expressman drove
up and said the charges on an awk.
ward-looking bundle he carried were
$l.Oo. The florist paid him, and upon
opening the little gift found the horse
shoe, looking as If it had had a had
night, and thoroughly dilapidated, On
top was pinned slip of paper which
said:
Dear Sur-Mebbe you think ver
funny, but even if my John WIZ q
blacksmith you needn't send no horse
shoe. He wuz respectable and honest
and you hain't got no right to make fun
by him."
At last accounts the budding yonnr
man had made no reply, but it's two
to one that if some gambler dies he will
send up a broken wheel.-Salt Lake
Tribune.
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WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW.
Wholesale Business OF a Modest Char
acter-Cerels Are Higher.

Dubmpsb VI ~
aoter--Cereis Are Higher.
Bradstreet's says: New business at
wholesale is of between stations char
acter, but warmer weather has offered
stimulus TO retail business in some
sections. Chief activity and most at.
tention is, however, still concentrated
on the price situation, and efforts to
readjust quotations to meet current de-
mand and supply conditions 90 forward
steadily. The exception to the general
downward trend Of prices is that fur
nished by leading farm products, nota-
bly, cereals, but here the moving cause
is hardly so favorable, being the result
OF less satisfactory crop reports, par
ticularly from the Northwest, and it is
to be noted that advices from the
Northwest. where the winter wheat
yield promises to be very short, are
also less favorable.
Corn crop adyices remain favorable,
as likewise do those OF oats, but the
grains and hog products have sympa.
thized In the upward movement Of
wheat, which has at last broken from
its lethargy and is again attracti'g
speculative attention. Foreign crop
advices, it might be added, are not fiat
tering. The German rye crop promises
to be very short; the same report
comes regarding French wheat and En-
glish crop advices are not of the best
Cotton is slightly weaker.
Leather is dull and rates weak.
Wool is dull and on the whole
slightly weaker at Eastern markets.
Mills engaged ON women's wear-goods
are fairly we'll employed. The outlook
favors lower prices for the new Spring
weights.
Surplus visible wheat supplies are
decreasing rapidly, lending interest to
current unfavorable crop reports.
PACIFIC COAST TRADE.
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feet square. The court of the foun-
tains is to be the great center piece of
the exposition. Here the principal cleo
trical displays are to take place. The
court is to be illuminated at night with
the diffused light of more than 100000
incandescent electric lamps, the dis
trbution being so perfect that there
will be no shadows. Colors will be ex-
tensively employed to produce fantastic
effects. The huge steel tower $50 feet
high, which stands at the north end of
the court of the fountains, will be used
in the production Of extraordinary cleo
trio features. One of these will be an
electric waterfall thirty feet wide and
of seventy feet descent, from a niche
in the tower. The tower itself is of i'm
posing design and intricate workman
ship. The many foundations in the
great basin Of the court will be made
beautiful at night by means of electric
lights of all colors. The very extraor-
binary electrical features of the expo
sitlon are made possible by the fact
that electric power from the largest
power plant in the world, at Niagara
Falls, is to be provided In unlimited
quantities. This power plant is only
half an hours ride from Buffalo and is
one of the great sights for visitors to
the exposition to include in their timer
ary.
Opposite the court of the fountains
the the two big buildings of the exposi-
ton. the machinery and transportation
building on the west and the manufac-
lures building on the east. These are
each 500 by $50 feet and each has
beautiful tropical court with an
aquatic pool in the center.
Some of the Buildings.
From here broad avenue shaded by
poplars, called the Mall, extends be-
tween the agricultural and electricity
buildings and beyond them are the
manufacturers building and ten acres
devoted TO live stock exhibits. Head
quarters of all the officials of the expo
sluon Will De in the service building,
which is close to the machinery and
transportation building, one of the most
important structures of the exposition.
The massive steel tower divides the
court of the fountains from the Plaza.
1t stands in large aquatic basin and
a picturesque bridge enables the Wis
itor to reach it from the Plaza. In the
tower. at the height of seventy feet, is
a large restaurant. There are prom
enade floors at various heights and
balcony near the summit. from which
a bird's-eye view of the exposition, the
city, Lake Erie. Niagara River, and
open country may be obtained. All the
floors are reached by means of eleva-
tors
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PACIFIC COAST NEWS
Commercial and Financial Happenings
Of Interest in the Growing
Western States.

The mines owned by the War Eagle
Consolidated Mining Company on
Shaw's mountain are growing better
and better as development progresses,
says the Boise Statesman. The Nc
Carthy property is now producing some
very rich ore, specimens showing gold
in large quantities.
In the Paymaster, after following
the ore chute some 300 feet, the man
agement determined to open slopes
preparatory to starting the mill. Five
upraises were started for this purpose
and in every one of them the vein ia
far better than in the level. 1t is
about six feet wide, and there is four
and half feet of ore that runs close TO
$40 ton.
Altogether the outlook for this group
is most encouraging. All that was ex-
pected was to open a good property.
but 1t now looks as though it would
turn out to be bonanza.
Work on the concentrating mill is
progressing rapidly and it is hoped to
have the plant ready to run by the
Fourth of July. 1t will be a novel
sight to see that mill in operation.
There is no other plant like it in the
West,
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N0 EXT spring the city Of Buffalo
IN will throw open to the world the
gates of an exposition which will
go far toward making Buffalo famous
for something else besides the Niagara
Falls. For two years artists, landscape
gardeners, architects and public-spirit-
ed citizens have labored with but one
point of view. to make the Pan-Ameri-
can exposition of 1901 show notable
among the minor eXpositlons of the
country. 1t will not be of class with
the Chicago Worlds Fair, for to that
stupendous exposition all the civilized
world contributed its share. Indeed, the
very name of the Buffalo exposition
signifies that 1t is not worlds fair,
but an exhibition Of the products and
progress Of all America Canada, Mexi-
co and the States Of Central America
will vie with manufacturers and pro-
ducers of the United States in the COM
petition for medals and diplomas, and
the exposition will serve to bind still
closer together the peoples of this con-
tinent
The aggregate resources of the Pan
American exposition authorities
amount to $5,SO0,O0O and with this
sum a splendid exposition should be as
sured. The government appropriated
$500,000 for the government exhibit,
the State Of New York added 100000
and In addition there is an authorized
capital of $2,50O,000 and an authorized
bond issue of the same amount.
In June, 1899, the national govern.
ment, through the Department of State
at Washington, issued invitations to
the foreign nations of the western hem
isphere to participate in the exposition.
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Official acceptances have already been
received from Canada, Mexico, Hon
duras, Nicaragua, Salvador, Guate-
mala, Guadalupe, Dutch Guiana, Bo-
livia, Argentine Republic and Chill. In.
official assurances have been received
that the other South American coun-
tries will accept the invitation as soon
as the necessary forms of legislative
sanction have been complied with.
General Plan of Exposition.
The exposition grounds include $50
acres. Of which 1873 acres are improved
park lands, a part of Delaware park.
The grounds are about one mile from
north to south and half mile from
east to west. Their situation Is In the
northern part of the city, accessible
from every direction. The park lands
form the southern part of the extensive
grounds and are pronounced by expert
| landscape architects to be among the
most beautiful in the world. The trees
and shrubbery in wonderful variety,
the romantic footpaths leading in all
directions among the thick foliage, the
loveliest of lakes, on whose surface
numberless swans and other water
fowl of immaculate plumage are con-
stantly at sport, the wide reaches of
lawn and the rich embroidery of flow
ers everywhere to be seen all combine
to refresh and restore the mind Of him
who tarries within these delectable pre-
cincts
The visitor who approaches the expo
sition from the south will enter the
grounds on Lincoln parkway, a broad,
beautiful, shaded boulevard. Crossing
the triumphal bridge, which will be
one of the artistic beauties of the
grounds, the visitors enters the esplan-
ade, an immense open space which will
accommodate 250,000 people and in
which 1t is designed to carry out vari-
Gus ceremonies during the exposition,
at which a great concourse of people
may attend.
The visitor is now fairly within the
grand court formed by the main group
of exposition buildings. The court is of
the shape of an inverted t. The ap-
proach. fore court and bridge are about
l 200 feet in length, 500 feet wide. The
main court is 1000 feet long, 500 feet
wide, and the transverse court, across
the esplanade. is LOO feet from east
to west. On either side of the trium-
phal bridge are the mirror lakes. These
are a part of the grand canal, which
encircles the great group of
and upon which the visitor
may ride in one of the many electric
or take more leisurely trip
In Venetian gondola. The canal is
lined with young trees and banked with
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grass on its outer edge. Picturesque

grass on its outer edge. Picturesque
bridges cross 1t at many points.
Standing on the esplanade and fac
ing north the great group Of buildings
at the right, at the extreme east end
of the transverse court, are those of
the federal government. The main
building, In which will be sheltered a
greater portion of the government eX-
hibits, is 600 feet long by 100 feet wide.
A central dome rises to height of 250
feet above the main floor and Is sur
mounted by statue Of Victory, twenty
feet high The lesser buildings, each
$50 feet square, are west of the main
building $50 feet on the north and
south lines of the main structure.
Curved colonnades connect the smaller
buildings with the greater, forming a
spacious semi-clrcular court opening
to the west. The government exhibits
will include the aquarIums and ichthy-
illogical collection of the United States
fish commission and extensive collec-
tive exhibits from the Philippines, Por-
to Rico and Hawaii.
At the far western end of the broad
transverse court Is the horticultural
building, 220 feet square, fianked on
the north by the graphic arts building
and on the south by the forestry and
mines building. They are connected by
circular arcades, forming a broad court
similar to that inclosed by the govern
ment group. Behind the arcades are
the Conservatives. The Esplanade is
made beautiful with fountains, sunken
gardens, pergolas and colonnades.
Immediately north Of the Esplanade
is the court of the fountains. At the
right is the chronological building and
at the left the music building. each $50