Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-08-05
CASTALIA
ur regular Correspondent.

From our regular Correspondent
Aug. 4, 1903
Presiding Elder Carlton is expected
to preach at the U. B. churcn next
Sunday
L. H. Gibbs is sojourning at the
Twin Cities.
Miss Blancna Riggs is visiting
friends at Riceville.
A cheap excursion is advertised for
La Crosse tomorrow.
Rev. Ross and family are spending
week visiting at Bethel
Mrs. G. G. Thornton and children
returned Saturday from visit to Aus
tin. MINI.
Mrs: W. F. Smith left last week for
points in New York to visit her old
home.
Our boys won a second game of ball
from Frankville last Sunday but the
score was too high to call it a good
game.
The German Lutheran minister of
Postvilie will preach in English at the
U. B. church next Sunday at 2:30 p.
m. This is the first English service
here and 1t is hoped for a very large
congregation. Rev Bockelman is very
able and pleasant speaker and we APP
preciate this opportunity to thus honor
our German friends.
Our people join with the other
towns on the DEBORAH division of the
Rock Island system in their petition
for an extension of the train service
from West Union to DEBORAH. 1t
would be a great convenience and
certainly ought to pay the company.
We hope it Will be put on.
Arrangements are being made with
the clubs at Postville and Ossian to
play great matched game at the ball
grounds here next Sunday afternoon.
Both clubs are very evenly matched
and it will be the best ball game ever
seen in Castalia.
SmithNance went TO the western part
of the state last week to run steam
thresher for the season.
Reports from various threshing re-
turns show the-Darley crop in this Sec
tion to go about 40 bushels per acre.
The prospects for good crops is exceed
ingly good and with prices where they
now are we certainly won be poverty
stricken this fall.
Many of our citizens were disap-
pointed on account of the rain last
Saturday preventing them from see
ingg the "coun" ball game at Post
Vile.
The continued heavy rains are wash
ing out bridges and spelling the roads
faster than foreman Gibbs and his
men can repair them.
Mrs. Ester Lambert has had her
house reprinted.
With a bridge washed out below
Clermont and no pile driver closer
than Watertown, S. D., it looks as if
train service on the branch would be
demoralized for some time.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Musser were
down from DEBORAH Sunday.
Carpenter harp orchestra furnished
the music for social club dance here
last evening. All report good time.
Robert Johnson was born in County
Antriam, Ireland, May %, 1918, and
died at his home in Fayette county,
July 81, 1903. He emigrated to Canada
in 1910, while there he became mem
Der of the Presbyterian church. In
1860 he moved to Winnesheik county,
Iowa. In IS he married Miss
Phidellia Kimbell who died April rs,
1859. In1S60 he married HelenGriffen.
To him were born eight children,
six of whom still survive him. Three
of the children were by his first wife.
The funeral services were conducted
from the u B. church here at 80 p.
m, Monday, Aug 3, Rev. H. o. Ross
officiating. The interment was in the
cemetery north of town. Thus one by
one the old settlers are passing from
us.