Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-06-03


terday.
Z. |. u. lost the debate with Albion
College, Mich, which was held at
Fayette last week.
Nat Goodwin and Maxine Elliott
gave ''The Altar of Friendship at
Mason City last week.
Come and see us in our new store
when you want shoes, we can sell
them to you at prices that satisfy you.
j. G. Hexom.
The contract for the new high school
building at Oelwein was let last week
to VIM. Nunemaker for $21 .O20 There
were six bidders.
The morning edition of the Tele-
graph Herald has been discontinued
and the Times is now the only morn
ing paper in Dubuque.
is a leading student at Memorial
University, was the Decoration Day
orator at Mason City.
Miss Augusta Fuller, daughter of
Assistant Attorney General Fuller of
West Union, sails for Europe this
week on an extended foreign trip.
DR.. Robinson, the we'll known
physician of West Union, is very low
and no hopes are entertained of his
recovery. He is a victim of tuber-
culosis
Rev. G. A. Marshall of Cresco has
returned from his trip to foreign lands.
He has been absent several months
and his travels took him as far east as
the Holy Land.
The McGregor Times says that
Bickel, the big creamery man at that
place, is now receiving 10000 pounds
or 1850 gallons of cream per day,
and pays out more than $500 per day
to his patrons.
Sam Leigh had SOW bring him II
pigs one day last week when she only
had Tactical apparatus for IL. This
sort of thing will break the hog
market if it should become general. -
Rockford Register.
Rev. Youker pronounced same as
euchre) for eleven years pastor of the
Congregational church at Rockwell,
has resigned at the request of his
Pensioners because of his radical
preaching against card playing.
Ned O'Neill of Clear Lake received
check for 1920 last week for little
bag of ginseng seed weighing not
quite two and half pounds. There
were % thousand seeds and the price
received was ten dollars thousand
Mrs. Gustave Kreuger, accused of
the murder of her husband in Howard
county, was given her preliminary
examination last week and was bound
over without bail to the grand jury
which will be in session next week.
j. r. Bane, of New Hampton, who
has been for a number of years a
prominent lawyer and politician in
this district, has sold his business and
will remove to Theft River Falls,
MINI, where he has large land in
terests.
@. l.. Everett, of the law firm of
Ransier & Everett, independence,
died at Fargo, N. D., last Wednesday
evening. He was injured in a rama
way, as a result leg was amputated
and blood poisoning set in, from which
he died. He was 80 years of age and
young man of ability.
Cerro Gordo county has four candi-
dates for senator in the Hancock.
ranklin-C erro Gordo district-A. II.
Gale and d. w. Telford of Mason
City and VIM. Gray and X. S. Young
of Clear Lake. Gray is editor of the
Clear Lake Mirror. The fight, like
all such contest in that county, is a
warm one.
Independent began the 37th volume of
that paper and with it closed thirteen
years of 10. Graves editorship. The
Independent is an ably edited sheet
and we are pleased to note that the
business end of it is satisfactory to
its able proprietors. They deserve
everything good that comes to them.
The columns of the Lansing Mirror
read like fairy tales of old these days.
Every week records the finding OF
numerous valuable pearls by clam
fishers and last week it told of one
which sold for $4,000 within two hours
after it was found. Another fisher.
man found two pearls in one she'll
both valuable ones. Excitement runs
high.
Usage is having a visit from Ham.
lin Garland. the noted novelist, who
as a youth was a resident of that coun.
ty. He arrived last week and will
remain till some time in June. Dur.
ing the commencement of the Cedar