Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-11
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Dubuque last week elected officers
as follows
Grand Master-W. S. Garner, of
Clinton Grand Senior Warden, W. F.
Norris of Manchester; Grand Junior
Warden, DR.. J. c. Dunlevy of Sioux
City; Grand Secretary, n. r. Parvin
of Cedar Rapids. The next grand
lodge meeting will be held at Waterloo.
Adjutant General Byers has given
out the dates which have been set for
the encampments of Iowa's four regi-
ments of national guards The Forty
ninth will go into camp at Cedar
Falls July Sth, closing July 18th; the
Fiftieth, August 9Th to 18th; and the
Forty first and Forty second from July
II to %. 1t is understood that Oska-
loosa will get the Fiftieth and Fonda
the Fifty second.
A Colorado paper says that baby is
the prince of walls, an inhabitant of
lapland, the morning caller, MONDAY
crawler, midnight brawler, the only
precious possession that ever excites an
envy, a key that opens the hearts of
all classes, rich and poor alike in all
countries, stranger with unspeak-
able check, enters the house without a
stitch on his back and is received
with open arms by everyone.
The editor Of the Wilmar Argus
lives in a house located between an M.
E. church and dance hall. One
evening there was gathering in both
places. 1t being too warm for COM
fort the editor sat on the veranda and
took i'll the situation. This is what
he heard: ''Let US pray-all salute
we beseech thee to-join hands and
draw near circle to the left-listen
to us-frst four forward aad back
as veal promenade-kneel before
| thee Ambulance all-present our pc
tition-seat your partners. The editor
was more than saddened at the degen-
Grafton of the village and went off and
| Joined base ball club in order to be
neutral. Elk
Perhaps the smallest calf ever born
is now on exhibition in one of the
show windows of Creston. Tt stands
but eighteen inches high and weighs
but fifteen pounds. 1t was born on
the farm of Frank Gels five weeks
ago, and until brought to Creston for
exhibition, played and ran around
the farm the same as its more fully
developed relation. 1t was born of
ordinary sized parents, but as it is too
small to reach the mother to nurse, is
being raised on bottle 1t is alive
and we'll and gives every evidence of
growing into mature cowhood. 1t is
different from most dwarf animals, in
that it is in no sense of the word a
deformity or monstrosity, every part
of its anatomy being perfectly shaped
and apparently we'll developed.
The school board of Jesup will
soon be called upon to stand defend
ants to suit for wages not paid to
principal c. A. Thompson and Miss
Maude Hoover, teacher in the gram
mar department. Some months ago
the schools were closed for a period
of two weeks on account of a small
pox scare. No one took \ the disease,
but the action was precautionary on
the part of the board. The two
teachers named above claim wages for
those two weeks, although the school
will be carried two weeks further in
to the year than was originally in
tended The board will resist and
not only has the board already defined
their position but the town has divid-
ed itself into two factions and things
are getting warm. Whether or not
the board has the right to close the
schools in the interest Of good health
to the financial loss of the instructors
is point that the courts will have to
settle.