Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-07-30

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the highest in years. The water rose
three inches Friday The water is
now level with the locks and if IT
keeps on rising the old outlet will be
living stream of water.
Cedar Rapids, Ia, July %. Mark
Wescott, aged "a, and Floyd Webster,
10 years old, were drowned in the
Cedar river near Vinton. Webster
was in bathing and got beyond his
depth, and Wescott persisted in trying
to save him.
Someone in the vicinity, we cam
say who, is responsible for the follow
ing explanation of the continuous
rains of the season. Last summer
being an especially dry one, great
many prayers for rain were made and
they were so numerous that it was
impossible to get them all answered.
This year the anwsers have been
given. 1t is also intimated that there
is undoubtedly great number of petit
tions this year for dry weather, and
that the responses will not be possible
till next year, when another drouth
may be looked for -Fayette Postal
Card.
A belated traveller who was compel
led to stay all night in a backwoods
cabin, says that as soon as the frugal
meal was over tall, gaunt youth of
about IS and an equally sallow and
gaunt girl of II, both barefooted, took
their hats from wooden pegs in the
wall and prepared to go out, whereup-
on the mother, taking the pipe from
between her yellow teeth, said reprov-
ingly $50 long and wash your feet,
Levi, you and Looly both Hain't
you 'shamed to go off to an evening
party without washin' your feet?"
They obeyed but as Levi took the wash
pan from bench by the door, he said,
with a grumble :"Pd' bout as soon stay
at home from party as to have to fix
up for it. Exchange.
The telephone girl and the man to
whom she had promised her heart and
hand were sitting in front of the fire
place talking about the happy days to
come when they would be one From
one little detail to another the talk
finally drifted to the subject of light
ing fires in the morning. He stated
his emphatic opinion that it was
wife's place to get up and start the
fires and let her poor hard working
husband rest After this declaration
there was silence for the space of
about three quarters of a second.
Then the telephone girl thrust out the
finger encircled by her engagement
ring and murmered sweetly but firm
ly: Ring off, please; you have got
connected with the wrong number {"
Thomas Shayne and wife, of Hyde
Park, ILL.,, registered at the Fortner
house, July l. Shayne is tall,
large, distinguished looking man. He
said he represented "Parochial Pub
fishing Company" He went to the
Catholic parsonage armed with fine
references. He explained his work to
FIR. Dougherty, he was getting up a
Catholic Calendar" which would be
autographed on a large card and put
in a handsome glass frame, these
beautiful calendars" would be hung
up in more than six hundred homes in
and around Waverly, it would cost
the church nothing to have the hours
of service and other pretty things on
the calendar He was a smooth graf
ter, and succeeded in assuring FIR.
Dougherty that all this splendid adj
vertising of the Catholic church would
be as free as salvation itself. When
Shayne left FIR. Dougherty's home he
commenced to solicit advertising cards
from Waverly business men. He repre-
sented that he was sent to them by the
CATHOLIC priest of this city. The
cards were only So a piece, and what
was that when they were to be litho-
graphed on more than 600 beautiful
calendars which were to be put in a
fine frame and hung up in six hundred
homes in and around Waverly. He
succeeded in getting cards and pledges
amounting to $l20, payment was to be
made when the calendars were ready
to deliver. He was succeeding ia
mously, when, on Monday, Sheriff
Parrott received "a message from the
sheriff of Jones county, instructing
him, Parrott, to arrest Shayne and
hold him, that he was wanted for get
ting money under false pretenses.
PARROT secured his man according to
INSTRUCTIONS, On Tuesday morning
the Bremen county sheriff turned
Shayne over to the deputy sheriff OF
Jones county who took him to Ana.
mosa. He succeeded in getting $6C
from Anamosa people. Mrs. Shayne il
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