Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-08-13

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church at Algona. He has been at
Cresco seven years and has made a
very successful pastor.
A preacher administered a rebuke
recently to member of his flock who
had the reputation of taking little
booze when he feels like it. The
preacher meeting the brother and get
ting ON the windward side of his
breath said: "My brother, you may
look like Christian, and you act
like a Christian, but your breath
| smells like hell"
| An unknown writer offers the fol-
lowing good advice: If your neighbor
is prosperous, let him prosper. Don't
grunt, growl or grumble. Say good
word for him. Your turn will come.
If you see the town is moving along
nicely, feel good about it. Try to get
some of the benefit yourself. Don't
stand around like chilly cadavor.
Don't waste your time feeling sore
because some fellow has little mere
sense than you have. Do little hus-
thing yourself.
One of the changes in the Iowa law
that has recently gone into effect, re-
altes to the matter of quarantines.
The legislature passed law providing
that all cost of maintaining quaran-
tine shall be taxed to the township
where the disease prevailed instead of
being taxed to the whole county. The
law makes it the duty of the boards of
supervisors to audit the accounts and
collect the expense of care and attend
ance from the parties themselves if
they are able to pay, if not tax is to
the township.
Some one has calculated that man
getting $500 every day from the be-
ginning of the year | to the present
time. and consuming none of his earn
ings would only just now have about
as much as Rockefeller. Putting it
another way, imagine town contain
ing 5000 working people, each earn
ing 81 per week. The total wages
earned by the people of the town in
successive generations from the time
of Christ to the present day would not
exceed the amount of Mr.. Rockefeller S
fortune, which is generally estimated
at about 5000, 600, 900.
Last Tuesday afternoon as Frank
Rooney, residing east of this city,
was driving along the road with his
binder, driving four horses, the lead
team being a span of bronchos,l the
evener struck the heels of the leaders
and they started to run away. Seeing
he could not stop them he turned them
into the fence, but just before they
stopped the binder struck a rock and
was thrown to the ground with great
force sustaining serious internal in.
juries and fracturing five ribs. For a
time his condition was considered dan
gerous on account of the internal in.
juries, but reports from his bedside
this morning are more encouraging. =
Lawler Dispatch.
Twenty seven years ago Mrs. Sa
mantha Ambergris, modest little
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sewing button on her husbands
trousers Having occasion to threaG
a needle, she held it between her lips
while she looked for a spool of thread
Just then she sneezed violently ant
the needle disappeared nor could SHIT
find it after the most prolonged search
The incident passed entirely out o.
her mind. One day last week, how
ever, Mrs. Ambergris, who is now al
elderly lady, felt tingling sensation
in the middle finger of her left hand
She looked at the finger and saw some
thing small and sharp protruding from
the skin. Applying a pair of tweezer'
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splinter she had accidently run int
her finger the day before while clean
ing house. Rubber New Hampton
Courier.
A Mrs. Gardner, of Rockford, made
an attempt to kill her young 6-year
old daughter and then suicide. On
| Monday she went to the Shell Rocl
!, river, and was known to have made al
} attempt to take her life. Wednesday
she, in company with her little daugh
} ter, went to the drug store and pur
} chased an ounce Of choloroform, stat
J ing that she wished to use it for rheu
matism. She then went into the coun
try a distance of about half mile
and was in the act of taking the drus
when the young man who had sole
, the shloroform appeared ON the scene
and recovered the bottle and contents
Mrs. Gardner claimed that her hus
band has been intimate with hel
sister, Mrs. Frank Fay, The latter
, woman is tho wife of the notoriou.
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