Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-10-22


Lansing has new pearl button fac
tory, its third industry of this kind
The Great Westerns new freight de
pot at Fort Dodge will be 300 fee
long and will cost $4,000.
Kossuth county has raised tn,
wages of school teachers to $37 for Is
grade and $35 for End grade
The Iowa Poultry Fanciers' Associ
alton will hold their annual show il
Waterloo, December Is to 90
Two packages of $1,000 each were
stolen from the United States Express
office at Cedar Rapids Thursday.
81 have only the most distant rela
tives.''
Has the family run out?'
"No; they have become rich.
A Washington despatch says that
Assistant Attorney General Fuller il
now able to report at the Office of the
Spanish claims commission and take
up light work. He is steadily improv.
ing. He has lost fifty pounds in
weight
@. M. Grimm, the famous crack
shot and an extensive farmer of Clear
Lake, has just completed ON his farm
one of the largest barns in Iowa.
From the basement floor to the top OF
the flag staff measures 107 feet. The
cupola alone is fourteen feet square.
We handle good honest made, styl-
ish suits. We handle the sensible
kind. Not the expensive, but cloth
ing that's good enough for the Best.
We like to have you see it. It's worth
your while, as you will want a suit
or an overcoat and we want to sell
it to you. Bears.
A new inebriate hospital was opened
at Cherokee October 10th, in connec-
tion with the insane hospital The
rapid increase of commitments under
the new inebriate law crowded that
department of the Mt. Pleasant hospi-
tai to overlooking, and hence the es-
tablishment of another at Cherokee.
When young man went to neigh
boris dairy to see his sweetheart, who
had charge of the institution, and
asked timidly of the old man, "How
is the milkmaid?" the old man angri-
ly slammed the door in his face, say
ing, "See here, young man, our milk
is not made; we get it from the cows "
"What is that on the table doctor?'
asked visitor. 'That is tumor it
is a very large tumor; it weighs liz
pounds; the patient weighed SO
pounds. - WAS the tumor removed
from the patient?" "No, the patient
was removed from the tumor' "Did
you save tire patient?" "No; but we
saved the tumor.
James Younger, one of the famous
Younger brothers, former associates
of Jesse James, committed suicide
Sunday at ST. Paul by shooting. Youn-
ger was recently pardoned from the
Saltwater penitentiary, where he
and his brother, Cole, were serving
life sentences for participation in the
Northfield, Mimi. bank raid of 1876.
Younger left letter to the press in
which he gives as reason for his act,
dependency over continued ill-health
and separation from his friends.
In the case of r. +. Fitch against
the Mason City and Clear Lake rail-
way at Mason City Thursday the jury
rendered verdict of $3.50 for the
plaintiff, who is wholesale saddlery-
man of Oskaloosa On Aug. IL, while
riding in the smoking car on one of
the trains, he was thrown from the
Car by the quick rounding of curve
and his right leg was so badly shat
tered at the ankle that amputation
was necessary. A former jury in
Oct, 1899, rendered verdict for s.,
600 but the supreme court sent it back
for trial on legal technicalities
One man dead and fifteen others on
the fiat of their backs with typhoid
fever as the result of drinking water
from a contaminated we'll on the
Tippman property near the Davis Gas
oline Engine works is the condition
existing at Waterloo at present. A
sample of the water was analysed by
Professor Macy of the Des Moines
board of health and found to be i'm
pure because of animal matter. The
we'll was suspected after dozen men
who had been drinking from it came
down with the disease. Ralph Filkin
died but all the others it is thought
will live.
There is no other man in the
country, it is said, who enjoys the
distinction that James Weir of Boone,
Iowa, possesses. He is the father OF
eleven pair of twins, twenty-five
children. 1t is said that the mother
was partial to girls, while the father
preferred boys. Nature satisfied then