Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

Local news items ON every page
this week
Judge John DeCou was over from
Ossian way Monday.
Clement Bertossa drove over from
Ossian Monday to visit his parents.
Andrew Carolan was down from
Button Monday, on business trip
Rev. Borge and Knut Selsvold de-
parted on Friday for trip to Norway.
L. J. Halse, of Bluffton township,
was transacting business in the city
Monday.
Editor Dan Young, of the Man
chester News, was in the city over
Sunday.
Miss Pauline Haug, of Spillville
visited at the home of her uncle, G.
Heuser, last week.
-Thos. Graham came up from Des
Moines Saturday, for visit with
relatives and friends.
II. F. Hall and Mrs. Kathan drove
over from Ossian Sunday, to see the
ruins and visit friends
&C. V. Oliver drove up from Fayette
! Sunday morning, and spent the day
looking over the devastated part of
the city.
"A baby boy was born this morn
| ing to Mrs Elmo Kennedy, at tire
home of her father, A. L. Abbey, in
| West DEBORAH.
! Edwin Hover was down from
Locust, reviewing the ruins of the
flood. He is building a fine barn,
3Ox40 feet, this summer.
The horse of the u. 5. Express
Co., which takes the place of the one
! lost in the flood, is a handsome
animal, and its drivers are proud of it.
There is very little this week
of news to interest the public other
than anecdotes of the flood, and then
our Office force have been employed
most of the week in assisting the I'M
fortunate ones in clearing away the
rubbish and cleaning up their places.
r. F. B. Portman, acting for
the trustees of Grace Episcopal church,
last week purchased the Geo. Pen
nington residence ON River street for
rectory for the church, through r.
! +. Gibson. Mr.. G.. also sold the
Mrs Fannie Hawley residence to
Edward Wicks.
A. b. Hoskins has been doing
some brick laying at Ossian, and on
Saturday night after quitting work,
walked the distance to his home in
West DEBORAH, being unable to reach
home by train or vehicle. There are
few men seventy-five years of age who
would attempt such task.
The DEBORAH Musical Club wishes
to announce that all who had purchas-
ed tickets for the Leonora Jackson
concert from members, will have their
money refunded by the member from
whom they purchased them, on the
presentation of their reserved seat
tickets, and all who purchased direct
from Brunt & Parman will have their
money refunded there.
The Public Opinion had
"troubles of its own" in issuing last
weeks paper. Wednesday morning
is the time of issue, and the flood be-
ing early Wednesday morning, with
devastation everywhere and everyone
excited, the editor out of town, and
so little time to ascertain the damage
done our Office force are entitled TO a
great deal of praise for the enterprise
they displayed in giving as complete
an account as they did under the cir
cumstances. In cases like this, few
hours time would enable us 10 give
minute particulars, but the paper
must be out on time, so that there was
no time to lose in learning details.
Even after the paper was printed, the
mail service throughout the county
was so badly out of order that many
OF our readers did not receive the
paper until day later than usual.
} No free delivery was made through
} out the residence district of the city
until Thursday, and most OF the
stages and rural routes did not leave
until Thursday.