Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-09-24


Dubuque will hold fall festival,
street fair and boxing carnival, Octo-
Der 1918.
A letter which was written in
France and directed to Lima, Peru,
in South America was sent to Lima,
Iowa, through mistake.
There are fifteen active womens'
clubs in Mason City and several
others in progress of formation.
Last Wednesday afternoon the @. G.
w. ticket Office at Oelwein was bur-
glariZed to the extent Of about $40 90
during brief absence of Ticket
Agent Brennan.
An Elma merchant has an attractive
advertisement in the Democrat in
which he uses the right system of at
lacking department stores. He gives a
long list of articles on which his
prices are lower than the city fellows.
If more missionary work was done
along this line there would be less
buying on the catalogue plan.
A trio of McGregor young ladies,
Misses Daubenberger, Burdick and
CLARK took an overland drive recently
through Northern Iowa. They were
gone two weeks and visited at Charles
City, DEBORAH, Waukon and all the
intervening towns. They say they
had delightful trip and met with
cordial receptions everywhere.
The fourth district convention of the
Brotherhood of America met at Mason
City last week and elected delegates
to the supreme lodge, which meets
Oct. 8 in Sioux Falls, as follows:
w. j. Reinke and W. A. Doron, Ma
son City; Jacob Welch, Fayette; John
Mapson, Decorah j. Roup, Monona !;
G.. E. Greenleaf, Waukon A. S. Bur
dick, Postville; E. L. Elliott, Gel
vein f. p. Griffith, West Union.
Fred Boxleiter, Jr. f., of Dubuque fell
beneath the wheels Of Great West
ed last Tuesday. Fourteen cars passed
over his body, tearing it into hun
dred pieces. The head was torn from
the trunk and the latter was crushed
until it was not recognizable as part
of human body One of the limbs
was caught in frog and could not be
taken out without the use of a crow
bar.
The home of Herbert Waters, the
stock buyer, who resides in the south
part of Ludlow township, was burned
to the ground yesterday Tuesday
noon, together with two nearby build
ings. 1t required the greatest effort
to save the flames from communicating
to the barn. The fire originated in
the roof of the kitchen; presumably
from a defective f1ue. Mr.. Waters
was in Waukon at the time of the fire
and was appraised of the catastrophe by
telephone. He carried insurance on
the buildings and contents destroyed
in the sum of 81, 600 in tho Winnie
shiek Farmers Co-Waukon Democrat.
The "habitual inebriate" law
passed by the last legislature is work
ing like "house afire," and if bust
ness keeps up in the other counties as
well as it is doing here the State will
have to build three or four asylums
for this class of citizens The Sheriff
of Chickasaw county appeared before
Judge Fellows Thursday with pa
tient, mention of which is made else
where, and he was duly sent up. Mar
shall Dan Williams entered complaint
against Tom Brennan, Bud Clark and
Nick Stadsvold The former has a
job on farm and on promising to "be
good" was released. Bud, who was
working out Jail sentence on the
basement of the city hall, got an inkl-
ing OF the matter and skipped out.
He was "hiking" for Wisconsin but
Sheriff Bulman surrounded him at
Waterville and brought him back. He
and Nick are now in Jail awaiting
the Judges examination. -Waukon
Journal
A. Wilder was up from Center, Mon
day, bringing with him samples of a
new fruit he has been raising this
season. Mr.. Wilder has been sue
cessful grower of fruit for thirty
years, and he thinks he has found
something now that surpasses any
thing he has ever seen. He secured a
few seeds from Washington state last
season, and this year he demonstrated
to his own satisfaction that the gar
den huckleberry" is wonder. 1t is
annual, grows three or four feet high.
with lateral spread of as many more
feet. From July until frost kills it,
it is loaded with blossoms and fruit,
the latter the size of tame cherry !;
jet black never drops off, will dry
on the bushes like currant and has
no insect enemies. 1t is not good to
eat uncooked, but is as delicious as
a huckleberry when cooked, and for