Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

The business men OF Cresco have
decided to hold a street fair this fall.
There promises to be a scarcity of
school teachers in Clayton and Fayette
counties
The Gentlemens Driving Club of
Riceville is making plans for race
meet in the near future.
Attorney Jay Cooke of Oelwein has
been nominated by the democrats of
that city for judge of the superior
court.
The citizens of Hawarden will cele-
brate the twenty-first anniversary of
the town by giving a three days
carnival on Sept. 2-3-4.
Rev. Heald, pastor of the Usage M.
E. church was recently operated on
at the Rochester hospital for an abcess
in the head which threatened to de-
stroy his hearing.
The screen wagon service for carry
ing the mails has been secured for
Mason City. This makes that city the
only one in Iowa north of Des Moines
which has the service.
A Nora Springs landlord was robbed
of $50 one night last week by thief
who took $50 from the pocket Of his
pants, which were under his pillow,
and the rest from his wife's dress.
The Cedar Rapids Carnival for 1908
is to be held Oct. to 10. The
management are determined this year
to Guido all former efforts, and have
appropriated $500 for entertain
ments
The Waterloo Graphic has found an
epileptical patient at the poor farm in
that county who has eaten section of
plaster off his cell, gnawed gaping
hole in the brick wall and tackled the
brass paddock.
Frank Inwards shot an eagle near
Riceviile last week which measured
seven feet from tip to tip of wings.
chickens and when shot had large
hen in it's claws.
The Paulist order of the Catholic
priesthood will construct home at
Waverly in a few months. which will
be the first mission of the order to be
established in the west. The building
will cost about 100000
The Fifty sixth regiment of the Iowa
National Guard is holding its encamp-
ment at Clear Lake this week. The
regiment is composed of companies
from the principal cities in north
eastern Iowa including Mason City
and west.
A barn on the Bishop farm north of
Charles CITY was burned to the ground
Sunday, having caught fire from spon-
taneous combustion, clover hay that
was stored in the barn becoming over
heated. Some so tons of hay, one
horse and several sets of harness were
consumed
Three members of the Hardin county
bar became benedicts during the past
year and according to an unwritten law
of that county, they were last week
ordered by Judge Whittacre in a
lengthy decision to give banquet to
the bar of the county at one of Eldora IS
principal hotels
A base ball league composed of
several cities of the state which had
successful teams this year is being
talked of. The following cities are
likely to be represented: Waterloo,
Marshalltown, Fort Dodge, Webster
City. Mason City, Greene, Cedar
Rapids and Oelwein.
A fellow who was so far gone that
he thought he owned the Great West
ern railway was taken in by the police
at Oelwein and provided with several
days work by the city. A few hours
work in scrubbiDg the city offices
made him forget his immense posses.
sions, says the Record.
Henry Swisher, young farmer liv'
ing five miles southeast of Charles
City, had both feet nearly severed
while moving hay recently. He hsd
stopped to fix the mower and the team
became frightened and started to run
knocking Swisher down and cuttinf
the tendons of both feet.
We congratulate the Elkader Regis
ter upon the addition of Simple,
typesetting machine to its equipment
Although an expensive piece o
machinery, we have found ours to b,
even more advantageous than we hat
expected. The office is fortunat,
indeed which possesses one.
When the small daughter of al
Usage citizen was saying her prayer
the eve before her departure on
visit, asked God to bless papa ant
l. Il