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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-29
BURR OAK.
from our regular correspondent)

(From our regular correspondent
July 2S, 1903.
The cemetery ground was completed
yesterday.
Mrs. Geo. Heckle, who has beer
quite i'll the past week, is much better
at present.
ED. Dick is spending short time
at Maquoketa.
Leah Roberts spent few days OF
last week at the Sharp home.
Mrs. B. Ward was summoned to
Satire Sunday morning to care for heI
daughter, Mrs. Manning, who has
typhoid fever.
The l.. AS. served ice cream at the
post Office Saturday afternoon and
evening. So was cleared for church
benefits.
Miss Ella Wade aud VIM. Delay
were married at DEBORAH Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Cornell were
called to Manchester last week by the
illness of Mr.. C's. father, who passed
away Thursday.
We are sorry to report that Ida Ward
is no better
There was no services at the NJ. E.
church last Sunday as Rev. Dorcas
was holding quarterly services at Cres-
co and Lime Springs.
Susie Kelley was called home Sat-
urday on account of the illness of her
little brother who is yet quite i'll.
Glen Oren of North Dakota arrived
Friday night for a visit at the Reed
home.
Ruth Sharp spent Saturday and Sun
day with her cousin, Bessie Shelley.
Miss Pearl Sharp of Cresco is a
guest of Mabel Ackerson.
AS Mr.. and Mrs. Jno. Ward were
driving to town Saturday the buggy
broke, which frightened the horse and
threw the occupants out Mrs. Ward
received slight injury and the
buggy was nearly demolished.
Burr Oak nine is proud of their new
suits they got Saturday.
The beautiful home of r. Donlove's
is, nearly completed.
A ball game was held out of town
Sunday afternoon. Ridgeway boys
Aame out victors over the BUR- Oak
players.
Minnie Robinson hasTbeen very i'll
with hemmorage of the lungs but at
this writing is little better.
II. Shelley begins tomorrow to lay
the wall for an elevator for Robt.
Stead.
Tonight closes Goodenough's show
which has been here for week.
Invitations are out for ball at the
hall tonight. Music by Perry's
orchestra.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-29
Tracy & Riley
investments In
SOUTHERN LANDS.

Such Investments are not speculative. The
South is not new country. Market and ship
ping faculties are adequate and first class.
The climate is mild and favorable. Notwith-
standing these and other advantages, south
ern lands are selling for prices far below their
real value, and at present prices net large re-
turns on the investment. For tree set of
Circulars Nos. to 10, inclusive concerning
the possibilities of lands in Kentucky, West
Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana, and
near the Illinois Central Railroad, for home
seekers and investors, address the under
signed. a..
j F. MERRY,
Asst Genl Pass'r Agt. c r Il
Let Dubuque, Iowa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-29
5 c,otrespondence...
News hAppenin6s Of the County,
reported hS . e~mpetent corps Of writer's.

people of Freeport when it is finished.
The roads are almost impossible il
some places near here from the wash.
outs.
Miss Nora B. Imam of Arcadia,
Wash. arrived from Usage last We'd
nesday. She will spend month or so
visiting relatives around DEBORAH,
then she will visit other points in
Illinois and Iowa before returning.
Mrs. Alice Elwick expects to start
for Usage in few days where she
will visit relatives few weeks.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-29
Safeguard the Children.

Notwithstanding all that is done by
boards of health and charitably in
clined persons, the death rate among
small children is very high during
the hot weather of the summer months
in the large cities There is not pro-
badly one case of bowel complaint in
a hundred, however, that could not be
cured by the timely use of Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and DiarrhoeF
Remedy. For sale by Engbretsor
Pharmacy.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-29
CASTALIA

| From our regular Correspondent.
July 20, 1903.
Geo. Allen went to Chicago with
stock Sunday.
". II. Hsefner and family drove to
Froelich last Sunday.
Miss Alice Bioxham is at home
again for visit.
Miss Mary Uhley returned from
summer school at Chicago University
last Saturday
John Bowers spent Sunday at his
old home in Toddville, Iowa.
Mrs. Jas. Stewart is visiting her
daughters at Fonda, Iowa.
Mrs. A, ]. Fox is enjoying visit
at her old home here.
Twenty seven tickets were sold
from here for the Prairie du Chem
excursion last Sunday.
Mrs. McManus is here from South
Dakota visiting her sister, Mrs. Les
ter Bush, whom she has not seen for
many years.
Manley Scofield came home from
Northern Wisconsin points last Friday
| for few weeks vacation.
Mrs. VIM. Wager and children of
Calmar visited friends here one day
last week.
The gardeners around here began
supplying town trade with roasting
ears of corn on the 22nd.
Mrs G. M. Lambert of Luana is
visiting her mother, Mrs. Shaffer.
| H. W. Neverman has sold another
of those Port Huron steam threshers
and general agent Thorpe was here to
start it last week. Mr.. Heckmen was
the purchaser.
The first threshing of the season in
this township was done last Friday,
July 30. Several other machines will
get started this week.
| II. W. Baldwin and wife Of Kalona,
Ia, surprised their many friends here
by a visit last week but it was all too
short. They left the next day for
Elgin where Mrs. BIS father is serious
ly ILL.,
| Daniels Bros. are doing the inside
finishing to Tatro's house this week
and it will soon be ready for &C.
cupancy.
Miss Bessie Allen returned Saturday
from the state normal school at Cedar
Falls where she was recent graduate.
Mrs A. Nj. Thomas and children
leave for their home at Spokane,
Wash, today. They will be met in
st. Paul by Mr.. Thomas.
Mrs. A. ownsend arrived last week
from Backers, Mimi. and was the
guest few days of Mrs Chas. Allen.
Mrs. Cliff Jones of Cresoo and hei
sister, Miss Lemon of Cresco, were
: visitors here over Sunday.
i Mr.. and Mrs. Hunting of McGregol
passed through here Sunday evening
on their automobile.
Chas. Bloxham is here visiting his
brother, s. Bloxham.
Miss Carrie Vance returned Satur
day from the summer school at the
state normal at Cedar Falls.
The l. o. G. L. will have election
and installation of officers next Satur
day evening.
Miss Blanche Riggs conducted ,
/ very interesting meeting at the Y. p
@. U. last Sunday evening.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-29
FAULTLESS CANNED GOODS FOR

FAULTLESS CANNED GOODS FOR
THE CAMP
or home. Ours will be found suitable
for either places. Have the fine flavor
that makes them acceptable even
where choice fresh vegetables. meats.
etc., are plentiful.
Only the best goods are used by the
canneries from whom we purchase and
we consider them worthy to be in
this stock of
GROCERIES,
Salt by the barrel.
Open from a. m. to $50 p. M.
Saturdays at o'clock.
Telephone No. So.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-29
That $1,000 Refrigerator

That $40 Refrigerator is only
$3.50 today and going down at the
rate of l0c per day. Keep your eyes
on the price, from now on for some
one Is bound to get the BEST BAR
GAIN you ever heard of in that line.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-29
FREEPORT.
(From our regular correspondent

(From our regular correspondenD
July 80, 1908.
James Coughlin of Springwater
spent Sunday with Freeport friends.
Mrs. Padden and Mrs. Miller of
Frankville were calling on O. l..
Beebe and wife Thursday.
Miss Eta Klein returned home from
MeGregor Friday where she has been
' visiting relatives few weeks.
Miss May Lambert of Castalia is
visiting her friend, Miss Jennie Tyler,
this week.
Mrs. Geo. Strayer and Mrs John
Lee were calling on Mrs. o. H. Stevens
at Pinchville Wednesday.
Miss Lillian Obriham of Lime
Springs visited with Mr. and Mrs. O.
L. Beebe Saturday and Sunday.
Sam Mailman and son Charles went
to Prairie du CHEN Sunday on the ex-
cursion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gene Mailman of De-
corah were calling on friends here
Sunday
i Mr.. AID Mrs. Ed Anderson of Pleas
ant were visiting Mr.. and Mrs. s.
4 Warn Sunday.
Chris Anderson and Miss Bertha
Berg of DEBORAH were in Freepor'
Tuesday.
a Clarence Miller is working for o.
Fl. Stevens at Pinchville this week.
Mrs. Solberg and Miss Be.tofsa of
Decorah attended the ice cream soci'
able at the poor farm, Saturday even
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs Youngblood of Canoe
we're calling on s. Warn and wife
Sunday.
III Miss Edna Brouillet of Frankvillt
= visiting with O. l.. Beebe and wife
his week.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-29
House for Sale or Rent.

Do You want to buy or rent a house,
we can help you. H. A. Prsstmark q
Son, East Water ST., Tel. l44.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-29
SeaSOnable Hardware.

At prices that cannot be Duplicated
Adjustable Window Screens. l0c
4 Ball Oroquet Sets. ......... .40c
at Lightning ice Cream
Freezers, only. .......,.. 81. 25'
Best Galv. Fave Spouting, pr foot5c
Barn Door Hangers, pr pair, 45c
Extra Heavy 10 in. Hinges. pr
pair Observation-Disclosures. 25c
Wire Bird Cages ............... Soc
Carpenters Squares ....... 25c
Pocket Boxwood Rules ...,. l0c
Wardrobe Hooks, pr doz. l0c
Harness goods of all kinds
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-29
July 81. 1908.

July ", I9O3.
A runaway in Freeport Sunday.
Rev. Walcott preached to quite a
large audience at the poor house Sun
day afternoon.
The ice cream sociable was enjoyed
by all Saturday evening in spite of
|, the rainy weather and excessive heat.
t.,Harvesting and haying are the main
occupations of the farmers just now.
Work on the new bridge at Trout
Run has begun again and the bridge
will be much appreciated by the
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-29
Patents,

Protect your ideas. Consultation
free. Fee dependent on success. Est
1864. Milo b. Stevens a. Co., 800
4ith st Washington. 20-pd
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-29
Toilet Articles
At Economic Prices.

At Economic Prices.
Large Bottles Vaseline .... -. &c
, o.. Bottle Glycerine ......... l0c
? on Bottle Cold Cream, ...... l0c
4 OF Bottle Turpentine, ,... l0c
Quart Bottle Ammonia ...... loo
Talcom Powder, pr box ........ sc
Large box Camphor Balls, .. sc
Bulk Perfume. pr or only 49,. zoe
Royal Tooth Powder. ....... l0c
CSC Tooth Brushes, ........... loo
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-29

A few specials in Shoes and Slip
pers-something entirely new.
Ladies' Patent Leather Shoes,
double soles, best quality Kid, new
Styles at SO. 80 per pair. Mems yici
Low Shoes, very soft and easy 81. 80.
A large variety of Ladies' and
Misses Slippers at 81 per pair.
Children's Patent Leather Colonials
81. Misses in same . 81. Is
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-01-18

Pierson. came to Tanning Island and
Captain English agreed with the COM
mander to place the island under Eng
lfsh protection. The British Flag was
hofsted over the island with ceremony,
a salute was fired, and in the name of
Victoria the island was declared under
the protection of the British nation.
Since that time the British flag has
been paramount.
Captain Wilson. being born in Tahiti
and understanding the customs of the
natives and their various dialects. soon
gained control of the various industries,
despite the attempts of others to break
down his monopoly. He was favorite
with the many island chiefs and people
of the Southern Seas. and being made
A captive by one Of the fairest OF the
Island girls. he held a power and infiu-
ence which practically placed him in
control of the situation. on July +, 1850,
c. B. Wilson was born at sea, aboard
the brig Diana. owned by Captain VIII
son. the boatswain being Captain Harry
English. well-known in Honolulu
In 1852 the English Whaler Wallaby,
from Sydney, went on the reef at Fan
ming Island. knocked a hole in her hull,
and rapidly filed with water. Being m
sured. the captain Sold her at auction,
Captain Wilson purchasing the vessel
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tain Wilson's children. Tahiti as q
market for oil was given up entirely in
1885, or Whereabouts Honolulu being
made the home port, and the pearl fish
cries We're later abandoned. 1t was on
EngI1sh's last trip TO Tahiti that Bick-
nell was engaged as head overseer for
Tanning. This is e. B. Wilson's first
recollection of seeing Bicknell on the
island. As for William Greig Mr.. Will
son does not remember that he was on
the island in 1857. He was engaged by
English as a bookkeeper in the latter
part Of 1858. In the month of Nav. 1859
C B. Wilson was sent to Honolulu to
attend school.
During all these years. while young
c. &. Wilson grew from boyhood TO
manhood the question had Seen upper
most in his mind: Did Captain English
have the legal right to take partners into
a business, or to dispose of established
and varied enterprises and an entire is
land, his connection being only that of
a manager"
A PARTNER FROZEN OUT.
On young Wilson's return to Tanning
in 1862 he was placed under the private
tutorship of William Greig, later under
William Boyce, and finally under H
Barrondale. Wilson's education in
Honolulu was obtained in the pri-
vate schools of Mr.. Johnston on Judd
street, and of Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel
Smith on kukui street. During the ear
ly part of 1864 MesSrs. Greig and Bick-
nell offered to buy out English's inter-
est for $4,000, or to receive $40 900 for
their joint interests. English was I'M
able to pay this latter amount and is
said to have been practically frozen out
of the firm by his associates, the firm
of Greig and Bicknell taking full pos
session of the island and continuing the
oil business. The hog-raising venture
on Caroline Island had been abandoned
by English, together with the right of
ownership of the Island. About the
middle of 1864 Captain English, with his
wife and family, sailed, in a vessel be-
longing to him, for Caroline Island,
formerly owned bg Captain Wilson. He
found natives there who had been left
there by Wilson, still engaged in raising
hogs and shipping them to Tahiti.
Three days after Captain English's ar
rival at Caroline a vessel came from
Tahiti for load of hogs, and, fearing
complications with the French author
tiles at Tahiti Captain English crowded
on all sail and bore away from the is
land. After visiting several other Pacif-
il islands, the vessels PROV was headed
for Honolulu, arriving December Il, |
1864
All the remunerative enterprises that
had been built up at Tanning and other
islands in the Pacific and left in the !
care of Captain English were then in !
condition, but in less than !
ten years they We're practically wrecked
and ruined, so far as the interests of the !
English and Wilson heirs were concern !
ed. AS the guardian of young c. B. Will |
son, Captain English had nothing to |
turn over to him as compensation for
the brilliant enterprise of that pioneer
captain of industry of the South seas
Of the Pacific, Captain Charles Barnette !
Wilson.
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laid claim TO the island and its various
industries for the salary alleged to have
been due him, and he afterwards sold
quarter interest to George BickneH.
brother of James Bickneu of Honolulu.
Afterwards he sold quarter interest to
William Greig, brother of Mrs. McIn-
tyre. wife of Hugh Mcintyre. Sr of
Honolulu. They made cocoanut oil and
shipped ii 10 Honolulu in an Eastern
built schooner. Captain Chapman made
a voyage from Papeete to Tanning Is
land in the early sos and was offered a
quarter interest in the enterprise OF
island owning. which would have made
four partners in the firm. 1t was the
purpose Of the traders at that time 10
develop the guano deposits and extend
the trading business. Captain Chap
man did not see his way clear to con-
meet himself with the others. and con-
cluded not 10 join in the partnership.
At length Bickneu and Greig bought out
Captain English. On the death OF
George BicknelI. Greig managed the is
lands affairs. At present the British
cable combany is negotiating for the
purchase of the interest Of the Bickneu
heirs for about $4,000.
Captain English had charge Of Can
tain Wilson's affairs, both in Tanning
and Tahiti. and was guardian Of Cap
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the maintenance of a fourishing cocoa
nut grove, and for the raising of food
products for the whites and natives.
Captain Wilson found no aborigines on
the island, and those who found work in
the various industries begun by captain
Wilson We're procured from the Society
and Paumotu groups at about SO per
head per month, payable in cloth at
80 cents fathom. He began the rails
ing of hogs for the Australian and
CHILEAN markets, the manufacture of
copra and cOcoanut oil, and the extern
sion of the pearl fisheries An oil fac
tory was established. and flaming S
Island was made base of supplies, or
headquarters of all Wilson's trading OPP
erations in the Pacific. Nearly 600 la
borers were employed in the manufac-
ture of copra and oil. for which a ready
sale was found at Sydney and Mel
bourne. Wilson found a market in Ho-
nolulu and San Francisco for oil and
salt fish at the beginning of the gold
excitement in California; His hog
ranch was established on Caroline Is
land, about so miles distant and 20 the
northeast of Tahiti. This venture was
not successful, owing to the great losses
sustained in transportation, often
amounting to 40 per cent Of the number
originally shipped away. The first
rnother-of-pearI fisheries in the groups
were established by Captain Wilson,
who seemed to be a man of prodigious
enterprise and stick-to-itfveness.
Tanning Island, under Captain Will
sons energetic rule, became hive of
industry. He built stone buildings as
warehouses for the great stores of
goods, schools, churches, and organized
the laborers into village communities.
In keeping with the progress of the
times in that busy port, a Jail was
also erected. The minister who married
Captain Wilson and his Tahitian bride
was the judge of the settlement, which,
at times, numbered nearly six hundred
souls. Over this little kingdom Captain
Wilson was monarch of all ne surveyed.
All this time the American flag waved
there, having been acquired from a
sturdy down-ea Yankee. In the early
part of the year 1861, the British cor
vette Alert, in Command of Captain
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and cargo for 81, 600 The cargo was re-
moved by native divers, the leak stop
ped the vessel foated, and soon she was
riding the waters of the harbor in al
most as good condition as before the
accident a bargain was made with
Captain Wilson to take the crew back
to Sydney as consular men, and, with
number of contract labOrers whose
terms of service had expired, the Wall
laby, under command of Captain Will
son. sailed to sydney, and here COM
mences the changing history of success
sive ownerships of the Island. Captain
Harry English was left in charge of the
island and its industries.
CAPTAIN WILSON DISAPPEARS.
The gold excitement was running high
in Australia, and charters for cargoes
were worth obtaining when the Wallaby
made port at Sydney. 1t is little wonder
that Captain Wilson shared in the ex-
citement and possibilities of making
money fast, but, unfortunately for him
and his posterity he secured a rich
charter to take a load of lumber to Mel
bourne. 1t was at this time that Cap
tain Chapman, then in command of the
ship Eliza May, of Tahiti, met young
Wilson. The two men met aboard the
Eliza May, and each found that the
other was from Ia hiti, Captain Chap
man being Intimately acquainted with
Captain Wilson's father Wilson went
aboard quite often while the vessels
were in port. His second cargo was Sc
cured and Captain Chapman remembers
bidding Wilson good bye on the wharf.
it being the latter's purpose to dis
charge the lumber and then go back to
flaming. 1t was his last voyage, for he
was never heard of again, either alive
or dead, the Wallaby presumably foun-
dering or becoming wrecked in a re-
corded hurricane of the period, which
also placed many other vessels on the
eternal missing list"
CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP.
Those on Tanning Island patiently
waited for Captain Wilson TO return with
the material needed for the carrying on
of the work of the island, and for trading
with the other islands. a couple of
years passed by, and English finally
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HOW ST. LOUIS GOT
FIRST CABLEGRAM

The st. Louis Star played up the cable
connection with Honolulu as the story
of the day. At the top of the page was
a map showing the route by cable and
telegraph from Honolulu to the Missou-
ri metropolis. and then followed a col
umn. and a half of small type. Here
are the headlines:
Honolulu to ST. Louis in Just Ninety
Seconds.-First Message in st. Louis
From the Hawaiian Islands From w.
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First message in ST. Louis over the
new Pacific Gable:
Honolulu. H L, jan ,, 1903.
Seymour Hall, Simmons, St. Louis,
No: Happy New Year; Aloha nui.
HALL"
The Star, in its account, says;
The first message received in st.
Louis over the new cable lice was con-
gratulatory ore TO Seymour Hall, at
present an employe Of the Simmons
Hardware Company. retail department.
Mr.. Hall. who is - years old and
recent Harvard graduate. Is a native Of
Hawaii and a son Of ". W. Hall. pres
ident of the z. o. Hall < Son Hardware
Company OF Honolulu.
The young man has been employed
by the simmons Hardware Company for
several months. His purpose is to thor
oughIy learn the business here before
identifying himself with his fathers
firm in Honolulu
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-01-18

For fire harness cali upon Fred Philip
< Brother, Wave-Iy block, Bethel street,
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". Hall to His Son Seymour Hall, Elx-
tending Him a New Years Greeting
Six Thousand Miles at Fifty-nine Cents
a word"
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-09-10
UNIVERSITY OF NoTRE DAME,
Notre Dame, Indiana.

We call the attention of our readers to
the advertisement Of Notre Dame Univers-
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tions of the West, which appearsi in another
column of this paper. Those OF our read
ers who may have occasion to look up q
college for their sons during the coming
year would do well to correspond with the
President, who will send them n catalogue
free of charge, as well as all particulars
regarding terms, courses of studies, etc.
Private rooms are given free to students
of the Sophomoe, Junior or Senior years
of any of the Collegiate Courses.
There is a thorough preparatory school
in connection with the University, In which
students of all grades will have every OPP
portunity of preparing themselves for
higher studies The Commercial Course
intended for young men preparing fog
business, may be finished in one or two
years according to the ability of the student
st. Edward Hall, for boys under thirteen,
is unique department of the institution
The higher courses are thorough in every
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Thoroughness in class-work, exactness In
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best interests of all, are the distinguishing
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Sixty years of active work in the cause
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