Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-07-09
Budget Of Deus Items.
Interesting news and humor Cleaned
from the press of Northeastern Iowa.


week in August.
The milk condensing factory at
Waverly uses 10000 pounds of milk a
day at cost of $500, and makes three
carloads of condensed milk week.
The Gazette says J. F. Cass, of
Sumner, has just received a 50, 900
automobile, propelled by a 15-horse
power gasoline engine with a speed of
20 miles per hour.
A man at Waterloo recently was ar
rested and fined $50 and costs and five
days in Jail for abusing a horse he
was driving. This law is all right
and ought to be carried into effect in
other parts of the state.
Two men were gathered in at Gel
vein last week, for stealing 500
pounds of wool from man at Hazel
ton. One of the men confessed to the
theft and the other fellows were taken
to Independence to await trial.
A Gowrie Yidower of two weeks
standing was married not long ago in
that town. The other night crowd
of boys charivaried him. The groom
of an hour came to the door and said !:
eco way nit you, poys. For shame !!
Don't you know there was funeral
in dish house two weeks ago?''
Present indications are that the
summer meeting of the Northeastern
Iowa Press Association, to be held at
Dubuque July 24-25, will be more
largely attended than any previous
meeting of the association. The citi-
zens of Dubuque are preparing royal
entertainment for the editors and a
splendid program is being arranged.
Garnavillo, July Oscar Beckett,
employed ON the farm of Xavier Schae-
fer, about two and a half miles from
here, was crushed to death at quarry
on the farm. A large rock on an up
per ledge which projected became I'M
derminded by the recent rains, and
fell and struck Beckett on the back
The young man was knocked down
and his life cruhsed out instantly
1t is said that Waterloo baker has
gone crazy over the attempt to decide
whether or not it was cheaper to make
doughnuts with large holes or small
ones. He first decided that he could
save dough by making them with
large holes and then he thought it
stood to reason that it took more
dough to go around large hole than
a small one, and in the quandary he
lost his wits.
An Infatuated bull came near ending
the life of Joe Quirk of Jacksonville
township last Saturday morning. By
reaching clump of trees and lodging
about among them, he eluded the
beast until neighbor ON horseback
with the aid of his dog drove the bull
away. Mr.. Quirk's shoulder was dis
located and he was otherwise bruised.
The attack came when Mr.. Quirk dis
mounted his horse to open a gate. -
New Hampton Gazette.
The Window Citizen tells of Ger
man who lately lost horse in the ex-
citement of the moment related it as
follows: "Last night yesterday ven
/ vas awake in mine sleep, l heard
Something's dot vas not yust right in
de parn. l out yumps de ped and
runs NIT de parn out and ven l dere
come see dot mine pig pay mare she
vas tied loose and run NIT de staple
out and who effer vii pring her pack
1 yust so much pay him as is custom
airy. :"
At Waterloo they have strange ex-
periences. Here's one from the Re-
porter: ga hobo and a farmer were in
the tolls this morning for imbibing
too freely. 1t is said that one of them
claimed to haye had corn cake for sup
per last evening and not having any
place to go to get out of the rain, got
severe drenching which caused the
corn to ferment and gave him the APP
pearance of being drunk. The bluff
y wouldn't go and the mayor ordered
him to either get job or get ont OF
town by noon.
A. W. Richards, of Indianola, Iowa,
has completed the invention of a corn.
husking machine upon which he has
been at work for twenty years. The
contrivance is desinged to cut the corn
stalks near the root, snap the ear from
1.-THE stalk, husk it, and bind the
stalks into shocks The machine il
80 feet long, 10 feet high and weighs
$500 pounds. The inventor claims
that four horses and three boys car
operate it, The bin designed for re-
ceiving the husked corn will hold III
bushels. Just how four horses could
drag around a machine of that size