Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-05
budget of Deus Items.
Interesting news and humor. cleaned
from the press Of Northeastern Iowa.
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typhoid fever.
Waukon has the second oldest liter
airy club in Iowa
The German Methodists will build
a commodious new church at Charles
City.
Fred Cummings, of Charles City,
was run over by the cars and killed
few days ago.
An unusual number of deaths was
reported by the papers of northeastern
Iowa last week.
The warehouse of the Iowa Elevator
Co., at Oelwein, burned down one day
last week, entailing loss of SIS, 900.
A Blue Earth farmer was arrested on
the charge of vagrancy and found to
have $4,000 in his clothes and
ticket to Seattle.
Miss Monk, teacher in the Lansing
public schools, has taught there. con-
tinuously since 1866, period of
thirty-six years.
The dedication of the D. B. Hender-
SON library and the installation of DR..
Bassett as president of U. /. U. will
occur at Fayette on Nov. 18th.
Charles Pagel, an old resident OF
Sumner, and a prominent land agent,
died at an early hour Tuesday morn
ing from injuries received Monday
evening by being run over by Chic
ago Great Western train
An effort is being made to raise a
$50, 900 endowment for the German
Methodist college at Charles City.
Henry Salzer, member of the board
of trustees of the college, heads the
fund with $40, 600 and two other gentle
men have signed for 81 900 each.
A young man of the name of Spence
was the victim of an awful accident
near Fairbank Monday afternoon.
While working on the G. G. W. tracks
just at the outskirts of the village he
was StIuCN ny q SioNOh WAN oiiN o"'''
of his legs cut off below the knees.
Little Rodney Lien pulled lighted
gasoline lamp off from shelf at Post
Vile last Tuesday, the oil pouring
out on his head, which ignited and
burned fiercely, but bystander
smothered the flames with his hands
so quickly that his scalp was not
burned in the least.
While out hunting with two others
one day last week, Bernal Blow OF
Elgin shot off his right arm between
the hand and elbow. He was carry
ing his gun under his right arm when
it slipped. In attempting to recover
it the weapon was discharged with
the above result.
A real estate dealer in this village
received letter containing the fol-
lowing: "Dear Sir-Two years ago l
rented cottage of you. My wife was
taken i'll and died there and the doc
tors all say that the situation OF the
house on the low marshy grounds was
the cause of her contracting the dis
ease that killed her. l married again
about year ago. If you can procure
me that same cottage for the season
will pay you good price, myself and
wife will at once move onto It, -
1t is an old saying among lawyers
that no one knows what jury will
do. But an Allamakee jury, whose
verdict was reversed by the Supreme
Court last week, beats them all. Last
winter this jury agreed ON verdict
for plaintiff in a suit, but the verdict
they handed in said they found for de-
PENDANT. The jurymen did not dis
cover their error until they had been
discharged, so the case had to go to
the Supreme Court.
Yesterday afternoon serious acct
dent befell Mr.. Hayford, the head
miller at the new mill He was en-
gagged about the roller in the manu-
facture of the first lot of wheat -four
and in endeavoring to adjust a portion
of the machinery had his right hand
caught and drawn into the rollers.
The index finger was so badly mashed
that it required amputation at the
knuckle Joint. and the other nngers
and thumb were sorely crushed and
bruised. Mr.. Hayford sat the Meyer
hotel. -waukon Democrat
A slough meadow of twenty acres
ON Adm Terry farm in Polk town
ship has been moved every year dur
ing the past AS years. 1t mas never
been seeded. The native grasses sui
hold possession. only here ana ther'
are tufts of clover and timothy
There is not stone on the meadow u
interfere with the mower. The aver
age yield per acre has been two LOADS
during ito 10 years. This year they
cut 60 loads from the 30 acres. Moth
ing in the shape of fertilizers has eve