Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14
Budget of Deus Items.
Interesting news and humor. Cleaned
from the press OF Northeastern Iowa.

West Union claims net profit Of

west Union claims net pront Of
its water works last year of 81, 100.
Archbishop Keane confirmed large
classes at Charles City and Usage last
week.
The Fayette county Yeomen hold
their annual picnic at Hawkeye this
year on Wednesday, June 18th.
The Record says Oelwein's growth
during the past year, as shown by the
assessors books, has been 1882, $685..
Not bad showing.
Waterloo's two gasoline engine
manufactures will unite and build a
| monster factory at an expense of 1926,
600, and will employ 200 hands.
F. R. Buckley, an aged and respect
ed citizen of Strawberry Point, was
stricken with heart disease one day
last week while painting porch. He
fell to the ground and expired before
help reached him..
Twenty machinists were added to
the force in the Great Western shops
at Oelwein the first of the week.
All of them came from Chicago where
they were out of employment because
of strike against the piece work
system.
u. W. Bopp, of West Union, who
has kept record of the rainfall since
1890, reports that in that time the
largest rainfall in any one week was
two and one fourth inches. But that
during the recent storms the precipita-
ton was 5.91 inches in six days. This
is nearly one-fifth of normal yearly
rainfall.
The young people of the Presby-
terrain church at West Union, have
secured Mr.. Marion B. Green, of Du-
buque, basso cantante; Miss Beulah
Wright, elocutionist from u. l. u,
Fayette and Miss Effie Profit, for an
entertainment to be given in the Pres
byterian church, Wednesday evening,
May 18th.
Valuable pearl finds have been
numerous the past week. Charley
Waukon, an Indian, found nice gem
Monday, and young Thomthe and Joe
johnson have made finds that will
keep them in "spondulicks" for some
time John Bechel is lucky clam
mer also, finding valuable pearl the
first day he worked this season. Ian
sing Mirror.
They haven't the love for fresh eggs
that they used to have at the home of
L. L. Thompson, and it may be some
time before they will be able to re-
concile themselves to a diet of hen
fruit regardless Of what height the
price of meat may soar. The reason
whereof, as stated by Mr.. T., is that
his good wife opened an egg one day
last week and found half of a good
sized anglewo-m on the inside Of it.
He had noticed day or two previous
while his garden was being plowed
that his chickens were feasting most
riotously ON the worms thrown up,
but the rest of the process by which
the worm got into the egg is a
mystery that he does not undertake to
explain. -Waverly Democrat.
More than a ripple of excitement
was caused at Clayton ON last Friday
night by the conduct Of ]. H. Bull
man, who stealthily enticed his child
rem away from his home, conveyed
them to Gutenberg by team, and took
the midnight train for Chicago, to
join Dowie at Zion City. The mother,
Mrs. Buhlman, has no faith in Dowie
and had obtained an injunction at the
last session of the district court re-
straining the father from taking the
children away and breaking up the
home, but no heed was given the COM
mand of the law by Mr.. Buhlnian.
The mother, Mrs. Buhlman, is good
woman, and deserves not such treat
ment, and to the thoughtful who
reflect ON such things and desire to
have truth, right and virtue prevail,
true religion ought to preserve the
home and family circle, and not
disrupt them. No church or sect, not
even Elijah III, as John Alexanduer is
pleased to call himself, should tole-
rate such conduct ON the part of hus-
band. --Elkeder Democrat.
Perhaps the largest trout ever seen
in this section was that brought to
Lansing Sunday evening by Geo.
Miles, who while walking along Clear
| Greek saw the monster fish lying on
the rocks where he had been washed
by the floods of the previous night.
The fish was still alive and was
brought to town and sold to land
lord Torgeson of the Dudley. It's
weight was four and one quarter
pounds, length, twenty-five inches.
Fearing that such fine and rare speci.
men of the finny tribe was designed to
grace the table of the Dudley ON Mon.
day, the Mirror scribe made Mr..
Torgeson an offer for the fish, with