Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-12-31

Cummins' appointment of b. l.
2 Elliott to the position. The offic,
carries with it salary of $4,000
Mrs. a. K. Eaton, mother of Hon
W. l.. Eaton of Usage, and one of thu
Oldest settlers of northern Iowa, dice
at Usage last week, aged rs years
With her husband, who was ther
Receiver of the General Land office
she resided in DEBORAH in 1855 anG
1896 and removed to Usage when the
land Office was moved there. Hel
husband died three years ago.
| Henry Hipp of Livermore went
cunning for skunks a few days age
and in two hours bagged twenty OF
the varmints and then the surviving
widows and orphans put up formid-
able defence and smote Henry, Hipp
and thigh. Mr.. Hipp disposed of the
tangible portion of his "catch' for
$l5, or rs sents per skunk which he
thinks is not so bad seeing the critters
had already liquidated at 100 sents on
the dollar. -Northwood Index.
A suit has been filed in the district
court of Grundy county in which the
plea is one of the most original on
| record. A woman sues for S., 600 dam
ages claiming that she sustained in
juries being out all night caring for
her husband, who was the worse of
for the use of liquor. The woman
seeks to recover from the man whom
she claims sold her chubby the
booze that resulted in such great in
jury to her physical and mental sys-
| TENS.
Col. f. B. Temple, who has been
playing the Union Spy" with am
ateur companies for the last twenty
five years, had three nights engage
ment with the military company at
Sheldon and everything went off in
fine style the first two evenings, but
the third the colonel had so severe
an attack of acute alcoholism that
the captain of the company refused to
allow the curtain to go up and re-
turned the audience their money at
the door The colonel is subject to
such attacks. Hampton Recorder.
| Ben Kundson, who has resided at
and near Carpenter, five miles north
west of st. Ansgar, for the past thirty
five years, was found Friday morning
under the railroad bridge near town.
He was still alive, but died at noon.
He had fallen off from the bri dye in
the evening and had laid there in the
piercing cold all night. Deceased
was about so years old and leaves a
wife and family in destitute circum-
stances to survive him. 1t is just
eight years ago since his brother, a
woods within sixty rods of where Ben
met with the accident which cost
him his life.
/ An important improvement to be
made in Clear Lake the coming year
is large auditorium and pavilion to
be built by Landlord Whitaker in
front of the Lake Shore Hotel The
building. which will rest on tamarack
piles, will resemble very much the
large pavilion at Lake Harriet. MINI.
The basement, or floor next the water,
will be given over to billiard room,
bowling alley, barber shop, etc, On
this floor passengers will be landed
from boats and will pass upstairs to
the main floor which is practically a
veranda. 1876 feet long, extending
around the four sides of the building.
Inside is the auditorium, 56x6S feet
after taking off room for large stage
and a plenty of dressing rooms. The
auditorium will seat 500 people and
will contain balcony with seating
capacity of 500 more The floor will
be of yellow pine and arranged for
dancing.
The Standard Oil Co. mnst have
been quite anxious to settle with the
relatives of the three persons who
were burned to death at Nashua last
summer, judging from the method
they took to bring about settlement
AS soon as the company had learned
of the case, it sent G. r. Rowlson
from Chicago to effect settlement.
Mr.. Rowlson in the guise of book
agent went to Nashua. In this role
he came in contact with the families
of the victims of the accident and
learned their side of the case. He
sympathized with them and incident
ally put up good ICON" talk in
favor of the company. After things
had been satisfactorily adjusted he re-
Turned to Waterloo and sent another
representative of tine company to
Nashua, who paid the two families
about $l4, ZOO. Rowlson had carefully
warned the families against securing
lawyers, as he stated the company
would be undoubtedly willing to pay
n goodly sum for tho liability they
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