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


Miss Mabel Bernatz was the guest
of WaukoA friends last week
-Friede and Ruth Helwig visited
relatives at Ossian last week.
IT P. Logsdon is down from Cresco
this week, visiting old friends.
Mrs. Will Jacobs of Hawkeye,
visited relatives in DEBORAH last week.
b j. Mckay arrived home yes
terday from his Dakota hunting trip.
Mrs. L. Nj. Small of Castalia
visited relatives in the city last We'd
nesday.
Mrs. j. w. Vogle went to Emmett,
tsbulg, Iowa, yesterday, for a visit
with relatives.
George Merrill, of Howard coun-
ty, was the guest Of his brother, M.
H., last week.
Mrs. Walter Green is here from
Sioux Falls, S. D., on visit with
relatives and friends.
Even the little town of Harmony,
Mimi, is considering the paving of
its main business street.
John McAndrews arrived home
yesterday from weeks visit with
relatives in Minneapolis.
II. S. Hall and daughter, Mrs.
Kathan, were over from Ossian a
couple of days last week.
-Thos. and L. II. Flemming, of
Fremont township, spent couple of
days in the city last week.
r. f. Gibson arrived home from
st. Paul Monday afternoon, leaving
Mrs. Gibson for longer visit
Monday was Labor Day, the only
noticeable observance in DEBORAH be-
ing the closing of the saloons
Mr.. L. l.. Caldwell is busy these
days completing the taking of the
school census as required by law.
Mr.. Chris. Schield and his sister
Mary, of Ridgeway, came down to
visit with their sister, Mrs w. Toman.
Mothers desiring to leave their
babies in good care for the afternoon
or evening call at COZ Mechanic st.
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The Grand opera house is under
going thorough cleaning, prepare
tory to the opening of the theatrical
season.
The annual convention of the 23d
district, W. G. T. u, will be held in
the M. E. church at Ossian, Sept. 18th.
18th and 18th.
Mrs II. T. Little arrived from
Canistota, S. d., yesterday morning,
for visit with friends and relatives
here and at Burr Oak.
The @. S. Boice law Office and
Coffeen and Mays land Office are be-
ing moved into the d. E. Reed hard
ware building, upstairs.
Prof Haldor Hanson arrived home
last Thursday, having spent the sum-
mer in Norway, visiting among the
historic scenes of the old country.
"A letter from Prof. H. l.. Walter
who left here last spring for Guthrie,
Oklahoma, states that he has resigned
his position at Guthrie and accepted
one more agreeable at Dillon, Mont,
in county high school.
1t is announced that the former E.
W. Spur photograph gallery has been
rented by Lille M. Peakman, an ex-
perienced photographer who comes
here from Spencer, Iowa and will
conduct this gallery in the future
DIR. @. L. Toplif has been con-
fined to the home of his father since
Saturday with bilious attack, with
other complications which have kept
him in severe pain. He is improving
at this writing and hopes to be in his
Office in day or two.
will Schlung, and his sister Miss
Nellie, departed for Charles City
Monday, where they will enter the
school there. They were accompanied
to Calmar by their sister Miss Martha,
and Rev. Schlung accompanied them
to Charles City.
During the past week Deputy
Game Wardens Will Boyer and J. H.
Hargraves and others have been sein-
ing the river with 200 foot seine,
taking out an immense amount of
suckers and soft fish and throwing
back the game fish, the suckers eating
the spawn of the game fish and de-
stroying the small ones They report
q comparatively small number of bass
seen,