Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-08-13
Budget of Deus Items.
Interesting news humor. Cleaned
from the press OF Northeastern Iowa.
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Memorial Post, No. PIG, G. A. R.
of Howard county, held its second an
nual picnic at the old town of Lime
Springs yesterday.
Art Mcdonald, carpenter, work
ing on a dam at Maquoketa was
blown to pieces ON Monday by the
premature discharge of dynamite.
The boilermakers employed in the
Great Western shops at Oelwein have
been granted an increase in the wage
scale. They now receive 80 cents an
hour.
The Floyd county veterans associa-
ton will hold their reunion at Nora
Springs, Thursday, Aug. 2S, 1902.
Arrangements are being made to have
this one of the best reunions they have
ever had.
Probably the largest real estate deal
ever made in Tama county was con-
summated last week, when E. S. Con-
verse sold his section of land to Oscar
Casey of Dysart and Joseph Bell of
Traer for $53, 900.
Tuesday evening Sheriff Benton
brought in two men, named Clark and
Sass, who are charged with stealing
and selling logs belonging to the
Standard Lumber Co. of Lacrosse. -
Elkader Register
A Boston paper remarked that sum-
mer must be here; butterfly was
caught in the south end today" And
a Kansas editor remarked that it
might be all right to catch butterfly
in the south end, but in case of a
wasp it were wise to grab it about the
equator.
Ben Bear, merchant at DEBORAH,
has started on his SD trip to New
York, to buy goods. says the P u b | i C
Opinion. He goes twice a year and
gets the pick of the manufacturer S
goods. Then he comes home and ad-
vertises, and gets rich. - Fayette
Postal Gard.
Charles Kepley, living on the shore
of Clear Lake, was drowned Sunday.
His nephew fell overheard and Kepley
rescued him. After the boy had been
safely deposited in the boat Kepley
suddenly sank to the bottom, victim
of heart disease. The body was re-
covered. His wife is in a critical
condition, being Frustrated by the
shock.
During the storm of last Thursday
evening lightning struck the large
barn on the VIM. Zoll place in French
Greek township, north of town. The
structure was burned to the ground,
and the destruction was so swift and
furious that twelve head of cattle
were also consumed, together with
harness and other property. Mr.. zoll
had the building and stock insured in
the Allamakee German Farmers
Mutual Co., but it will not recon-
pense him for his loss by several hun
dred dollars. A farmer named Wue-
neke, residing on Portland Prairie, is
reported to have lost his barn also in
the same storm, by lightning -Wauk-
on Democrat.
One of the most disastrous railroad
accidents in the history of Iowa &C.
CURED on the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul railway last Wednesday after.
noon, two and one-half miles west OF
Rhodes, Marshall county. The acct
dent was due to a collision between
freight No. 80, east hound, and work
train. Each train was going at good
rate of speed ana met on reverse
curve. The impact was something
terrific, the cars of the work train be-
ing thrown ON top of one another and
badly demolished. Seventy eight
laborers were ON the train, all being
crowded onto two fat cars and one
way car. Many were buried under
the wreckage. Fifteen were killed
outright, and over forty injured.
Anent the recent wet season, Bailey,
of the Britt Tribune, comments as fol.
lows upon recent trip to the editor.
ial association at Boone: While stop.
ping at Ogden few DAYS ago we no.
ticed bubbles continually rising on
the waters that cover the farming
lands. On investigation it proved to
be the hired men coming up to get
air, they were cutting oats under the
water. The ducks went on top of the
barns to lay their eggs and the eggs
rolling off the roof were being hatch.
ed by the mud turtles. The rural
route drivers had seat on top OF
their wagons and driving into a mud
hole they whipped the horse as long
as it was in sight and then whipped
the bubbles until he came out ON the
h other side of the slough. They run
lawn mowers on the sidewalks Sun
days to scare the bull frogs off so the
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