Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-04-29

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Fl. Atkinson has on hand 1854. 81
and no debts
Blackhawk county has a floating
debt of $4,000.
West Union cigar makers have
formed a union.
There are no vacant houses and very
few vacant stores in Usage.
Mason City is said to be the largest
city in Iowa without saloons.
Have White Plymouth Rock eggs
and hens for sale. Joel Dayton.
The value of the church property
in Cresco is estimated at $4,000.
The courts have been invoked at
Waterloo to prevent man marrying
his niece.
Gilt wall paper for Is cents per
double roll at H. A. Prastmark &
Sons. 1873
Those maps are by long odds the
finest premium we have ever given.
Pay up and get one.
May goth is the date of the dedica
tion of the Odd Fellows orphans
home at Mason City.
P. S. Narum has been recommended
by Congressman G. n. Haugen for
postmaster at Waukon.
We never gave away as fine a
premium as the county maps. They
are correct in every detail.
Ask to see our Dorothy Dodd
shoes for ladies, they are Just in and
up-to-date. Bromley & Co.
Another case of didn't know it was
loaded ends the career of a twelve
year-old boy at Fort Dodge.
If you don't take the Public
Opinion, join our big family and get
one of those fine county maps free.
The graduating class of the Waukon
high school will produce 1.-The Prin-
cess" for its commencement exercises.
Ingram paper 30 inches wide, all
colors, 20 cents border and ceiling in
proportion. H. A. Prastmark & Son.
1873
The semi -annual session of the Du-
buuue District Conference, M. E.
church is being held at Oelwein this
week.
Mrs w. L. Hughes, of New Hamp-
ton was found dead sitting at a table
Sunday morning, apoplexy being the
cause.
Subscribe for this paper and get a
handsome map of Winnesheik county,
up-to-date in every respect, free of
charge
1t is stated that the Floyd county
poor farm is the only institution CT
the kind in the state that is self-sus-
tanning.
The women of Eldora have organic
ed commercial club to cooperate
with the business men in advancing
the welfare of that city
Call and get one of the Winnesheik
county maps, if you are paid in ad
vance subscriber New and old sub
scribers treated exactly alike.
Prof. ID. M. Kelly has been re-
elected superintendent of the Cedar
Falls schools at salary of 81 700, an
increase of 5000 over last year.
The Times claims that McGregor
has more electric lights per capita
than any other city in the United
States-2500 lights. population, 1900.
Two rural mail routes in Tama
county were abandoned six weeks ago
on account of bad roads, 100 families
being thus deprived of their mail
service.
Two Thousand cords of soft wood
, from which to manufacture excelsior
has been contracted for at Waukon
Junction by the Guttenburg Excelsior
factory.
III. @. Burgess was elected Mayor of
Cresco at the recent election against
his will and refuses to qualify. Con-
sequently special election has been
called May 4th
Rev. A. M. Case of the Baptist
church at Nashua refuses to accept a
salary for his services, receiving only
as his compensation the Sunday
morning offering.
Mayor Ellis of Charles City has
served notice on the pool room and
bowling alley keepers that they must
close at ten o'clock and not permit
minors in their places.
p @. Howe, city clerk and long
time resident of Cresco, died last
week. He had resided in Winnesheik
and Howard counties since 1857 and
was soldier in the Civil war.
A clerk in the Manchester post office
has invented an electrical device
which causes bell to ring at the
house of farmer every time the rural
mail carrier opens the mail box to de-
posit mail.
Fire last Tuesday completely de-
stroyed the Park store at La Crosse,
the largest department store in west
ern Wisconsin, and did much damage
to surrounding buildings. causing a
loss of approximately 100000.
If you want one of those elegant
county maps, those made for carrying
in the pocket, mailed to you and you
are paid subscriber, send us three
cents in stamps Cor postage, and we
will send you one free. The card
board maps cannot be mailed.