Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-11

There are no prisoners III the county
Jail of Buchanan county.
Waterloo will get twenty-three
blocks of paving this year.
Nashua will soon have a telephone
exchange with one hundred patrons.
The rise of water in the Mississippi
at McGregor in the first half of May
was 516 feet.
The date of the Yeomen picnic at
Hawkeye has been changed from June
II to June %.
Tax ferrets have lately cleaned up
$40, 900 for Dubuque county and $780,
900 for Cerrro Gordo county.
The state of Iowa has just purchased
528 acres of land to add to the hospital
grounds at Independence, paying $4o,
100 therefor
The business organizations of La
Crosse have extended an invitation to
Roosevelt and his cabinet to visit that
city September 25.
The Hebrew ladies of Dubuque have
organized Hebrew Benevolent
society, which expects to do much
good among the poor of the city.
VIM Petit, of Fayette, has con-
tract to dig and deliver one thousand
ginseng plants to a Des Moines man.
He gets four cents each for them.
The Dubu que board of health has
ordered the vaccination of the entire
eolored population of that city owing
to the prevalence of smallpox among
them.
The 18th annual reunion'of the North
Iowa Veteran Association and annual
reunion of the 9th Iowa Volunteers,
will be held at Riceville, Iowa, June
10th and 18th. 1902.
The Odd Fellows of Cedar Falls dedi-
GATED new $40, 900 temple Saturday
with appropriate ceremonies. About
fifty members from visiting.lodges of
the district were present and partici-
pated in the exercises which
came to close that evening with a
banquet.
1t is said that the saw-fy is playing
havoc with the strawberry crop in
Iowa, and that there is likely to be
shortage of berries. If the saw-fy
would only leave off defoliating the
vines, and give its attention to saw
ing out the bottom of the strawberry
box its appearance might be hailed
with joy.
Charles Fitzgerald met death in
peculiar form about one mile north of
the city on the G. c. w. railway
Friday afternoon at a little after
O'Clock. He was employed by the
contractor in grading, and was stand
ing near the track as the afternoon
passenger north went past. A bag of
bolts for the contractor was thrown
from the rapidly moving train, and
struck him in the head, so crushing it
that he lived bat three hours. He did
not regain consciousness. -Oelwein
Register.
The fearful old-time plague, BLACK
leg har broken out in Providence
township. Hardin county. j. l..
Reece we'll known breeder of full
blooded short horns, has already lost
several head of choice stock and more
are sick 1t is believed that several
herds are affected. Veterinarian Bun
ker, &c Eldora, was out all one day
last week vascinating the remainder
of Mr. RsVae's herd. A double vacci-
nation sine days apart is said by
veterinarians to be an antidote to the
fatal disease.
The man with the longest name on
record lives ia Iowa, it is said His
name is August NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
nklotser ann he lives at Hanlonton.
He is said In be wealthy and has many
relatives in northern Iowa, some of
whom nav bear his name, but most of
more than half dozen syllables of it
at the saBs time. AS the Mason City
Tim es-Herald says, he travels on a
first class ticket, always, himself, but
his name follows him on fiat car.
fweDty years ago this summer
Judge Oliver p. Shiras, of Dubuque,
Cook his seat upon the federal court
bench. On February 10, 1908, Judge
Sh1ras will have reached the anniver-
sary day OF the opening of the United
States conrt in Sioux City He was
the presiding judge at the first session,
and he has presided ever since, at the
regular terms held in May and Octo-
Der of each year The state of Iowa,
prior to twenty years ago, was a dis
trict of itself for the United States
court, and it was presided over by
Judge Love who WAS Amounted i'm |