Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-08-13

Mason City will make an effort to
raise $4,000 to add to the $4,000 do
mated by Andrew Carnegie for pub
lie library.
After long continued fight as to
the location, Waterloo's Carnegie
library has been definitely located on
the east side, in Lincoln park.
The explosion of gasoline stove IN
the restaurant of F. B. Reed at Wau
coma last Wednesday afternoon, caus-
ed a fire which damaged the goods
and seriously burned Miss Carrie
Budka, who was at work by the stove.
The men who were employed in the
brick yard at Waverly went ON
strike the other day to have their
wages advanced from 81. 80 to 81. 70 per
day, and their demand was granted in
just three minutes after it was made.
On account of the date as decided
upon, August 21, conflicting with
other attractions to be held in the
county, the committee having in
charge the Harvest Home Picnic at
Fayette has arranged for the picnic to
be held ON Thursday, Aug. 20. There
will be good music, the usual sports
and a speaker of wide reputation will
be engaged.
A "freak" squirrel, was found the
other day several miles west of Lam
sing. The animal was snow white,
with pink eyes and is perhaps the
only one in existence. Two boys
from Dubuque are camping at the
Ryan & Miller saw mill and journey
ing to the woods found the animal
which they switched into insensibility
and were thus enabled to capture it.
The animal is now ON exhibition here.
They have refused a large sum of
money for the little fellow.
A new swindle is being worked
among the farmers in northeastern
Iowa. The sharpers carry cases con-
tanning samples of high grade fence
wire and claiming to represent firm
in Indiana. They offer wire fencing
at a low price, the goods to be sent @.
o. d. When the farmer buys the
goods he is shown model of fine
ornamental automatic gate to be sent
free with each order if the farmer
pays a small sum in advance on the
order for fence wire. This generally
catches the farmers for sums from So
up, and the agent is seen no more and
the fence wire ordered by the farmer
never comes.
Two Iowa men, William Taylor of
Mason City and George Taylor of
Rockford, and their brother, Richard
Taylor of Pasco, Wash. are the newly
discovered relatives of Mrs Henry M.
Flagler, and will at her death divide
about So, 900, 900 as their share of her
fortune. Meantime they will receive
81, 900 annually. They were laboring
men in poor circumstances, and were
sent out west when children from
New York City by a founding So
ciety, their parents being dead They
were raised by different families.
One of the brothers, while looking up
the family record, accidently discover
ed the relation to this wealthy lady.
An Eldora man had 81 warts ON
his hand that were removed by a
woman talking them off " Well
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Britt that can talk off warts, or bun
ions, or chilblains or even talk the
whole arm or leg off. She can talk
you into comatose condition, until
you smell varnish and cut flowers, see
visions of floral gates ajar, and hear
the dull thud of earth clods on the
box cover above your remains. She
will talk to you until the rumbling
of hearse wheels and rattle of glass is
a reality Remove warts, we'll yes,
or stone bruises, corns, ingrowing
toe nail, tape worm, superfiuous hair,
cross eyes, goitre, reelfoot or water
brash. Warts are dead easy. Britt
Tribune.
Neglect to take care of the imple-
ments and consequent buying of new
ones is responsible for keeping many
farmers poor, and has sent others
to bankruptcy. Buying new tools
and machines when with reasonable
care the old ones would have done the
work is one of the most common and
greatest wastes on many farms. A
good rule is to buy the best. the market
affords and then take care of them
when in many lines one machine will
outlast three with the average care.
Painting helps to preserve machines
oil prevents them from wearing out
protection from rain saves them from
rusting and rotting out. When you
get through with your pillow, mower,
harvester or hay rake this year, dom t
leave it out in the middle of the field,
bring them home and care for them,
it will pay you. Howard Co. Times.