Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-12-24


HI. j. Vail of the New Sharon Sta
will be appointed postmaster.
Mrs. Herman Morse, the mother o.
the first white child in Buchanan
county, died last week at the age Of
so years. She came with the first
band of settlers to this county in
April, 1912.
The Junior League of Riceville,
secured about $500 worth of goods fol
their church fair, by appealing to the
wholesale houses with which the
local business men deal, so says the
Recorder.
Ex-Sheriff Fred Cook of Clayton
county died at Elkader last Wednes-
day. He was sheriff of the county
for several terms and at the time of
his death was acting as deputy.
Howard county's deputy sheriff,
Charles Sawyer, also died last week.
Get Christmas photos now at Rey-
nolds. Best in the city.
Ex-Secretary w. S. Hart of the
Allamakee Agricultural society has
sued the society for $3.50 of unpaid
salary that has been due him for
several years. At that time the salary
was not paid as there was discrep-
ancy in the secretary's accounts and
the matter has never been settled.
The Cleveland, Osage's new hand
some hotel, was formally opened last
week with grand banquet at which
over two hundred sat down to plates
at 81. 90 per. The new hostelry is one
high with basement and annex and was
erected by the Cleveland heirs as a
monument TO their parents.
The body of man, believed to be
either Earl Bittle or Andrew Bittle,
of Cedar Rapids, IA, was found near
Mountain Home, Idaho. The man is
supposed to have been dead several
months In his pocket was railway
ticket from Cedar Rapids to Portland,
Ore, and a purse containing $l9C.
| The purse bears the name OF Andrew
Bittle.
An Iowa farmer had a COW killed
by the cars a short time since and
wrote to the railroad company asking
slight remunerative damages, adding,
Thirty dollars will be considered
satisfactory as the animal killed was
but common cow and by no means
the best in my herd The claim
agent of the road promptly answered
the letter and enclosed a check for 800
saying: sit is the first instance since
my connection with the claim depart
ment of the road that any other than
full FLOODED animal of great value
has been killed by our line and en-
close 800 as damages and a reward
for your honesty, and would humbly
ask your photo to be framed and
placed in my office. Eek.
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cider just tapped at Hedges. Aft
State Veterinarian Koto was in the
city. last week. inspecting the herd
of cattle on the.county farm. He was
assisted in tine work by DR.. Frank
Kennedy, of this city. Twenty three
animals suffering with tuberculosis
were condemned and ordered slaught-
cred, one of them being the high
priced male at the head of the herd.
These condemned animals were
bundled into car OH Monday and
taken to Cedar Rapids by Supervisor
Bruihler Here they will be slaught-
cred and turned into "tankage" lin
other words, soap grease-the county
realizing something for this, the
hides, etc. The loss will be heavy
one, but Fayette county is better able
to stand it thanTif it came upon q
single individual. West Union Argo,
Sam Drake over at Algona has 8
horse that has horse sense. A while
ago Sam left his horses in the barr
without feeding them. A little while
afterwards he went ont and one Of
them was out of its stall. On locking
around he discovered it up in the tot
of the hay NOW in the loft. The
horse bad pitchfork in it's moutl
trying to pitch down hay for its mate
1t took two days to get the horse
down. Sans first idea was to dig ;
basement under the barn, let thu
building down in the hole and thel
drive the horse out of the gable, bu
he finally pitched the hay out of thu
NOW over under the other horse. grad
ually letting the one that was in thu
NOW down until they could lead i
out. The other one had kept tramp
ing the hay down so that he was nov
, up near the roof, so they pitched tn
, hay back again and let the other on
down so he could be got out. San
came to a creek without any brdig
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