Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-11-02
beautiful DEBORAH"
WRITES W. N TUFfORD OF MASON CITY
He Says il is One of lowa'S Many Pros.
porous Large Towns and Has the
Marks of a City.

Will n. TuHord lives IN Mason CITY
and'is the talented editor of the Daily
Times Herald. He is also the grand
Acknowledgements of the grand lodge
of the Odd Fellows of Iowa. Last
Wednesday with lis. good wife he came
here to attend the Odd Fellows fiji
tieth anniversary, and when he re-
covered from the effects of it dashed
off the following for his paper:
You go to Calmar. or to some other
point high up on the hills in the
northeast part of the state, and take a
train on one of the two railways, the
Rock Island or the Milwaukee. You
get up on these small trains, part
Texas sleepers, part mail cars. part
smokers, and the rest day coaches.
Having climbed on the train you put
your feet on the dash board, take the
lines in firm grip tell the conductor
to cut her loose, and then for miles
you take toboggan slide down among
the hills, through ravines, gulches.
across bridges, and with long drawn
breath you are at DEBORAH, down
among the everlasting hills, in a
beautiful valley. surrounded by bluffs.
that shut out the sun for an hour at
each end of the day.
But what vision of progressiveness,
beauty, thrift, enterprise, push, up
to-date Americauism you find. There
rests town that has grown so large
off the rich farms surrounding it that
it has really reached the dignity of a
city. It has some six thousand people
within it's confines. happy, indus
trious, sociable, progressive, so that
the name DEBORAH stands for progress,
tor push, for loyalty to America and
it's laws wherever the name is heard
There you will find long paved
streets. beautiful homes, prosperous
merchants, big buildings, splendid
college, the famous Norwegian
Lutheran educational institute with
some four hundred young men attend
ing there you will find great churches
prosperous modern newspapers, and
all the marks of modern civilization.
Speaking Of newspapers at this point
is the world widely known DEBORAH
Posten, the Norwegian paper that
has some so, 900 subscrib ers, it is said,
nearly half of whom are in Europe.
showing that Americans can lead the
world in many ways. This paper has
great plant, as modern as it is poss-
IDLE TO make. Great web presses,
stereotyping plant. battery of three
type setting machines, an auxiliary
web press and printing Office at the
home of the owner, Mr.. B. Anundsen,
to be used in case some accident
should befall the down town plant.
The Office is equipped with its own
electrical lighting and its own gas
plant, its own heating and steam
power plant, and with everything
with which 20 run a modern news
paper and do it quickly. 1t is monu-
ment TO mans enterprie. for though
worth many thousand dollars, il shows
the energy of one man who bnilded it
without capital of any kind at first.
but a will and his hands.
The Republican run there by Messrs
A. K. Bailey and son, the Public
Opinion by Harry Green. the Journal.
the latter democratic paper, give
evidence of the progressiveness of De-
corsh and the surrounding country,
because they are each we'll supported.
A splendid new court house. cost
ing many thousand dollars is being
erected, and in few months will be
ready for occupancy. 1t stands on a
full block of high ground in the CEN
ter of the city and is very beautiful.
Down in the heart of the city is be-
ing erected a beautiful and commod-
ious modern hotel, a needed addition
to the city. 1t will be delight to
the travelling public, and Is to befitt-
ingly named the Winnesheik.
All over the city is heard the sound
of hammer and trowel, building resi-
dences, some of them large and cost
ly, all modern.
Here also is located the famous ice
cave. In the summer ice forms in il
constantly, i'll the winter it does not,
strange as that may appear, but SO far
no one has laid pipes TO the cave TO
get hot air for heating purposes in the
winter. The hot air ia about the won
der that you get.
Here also is famous cold we'll, up
by residence. In the summer time
the air coming out of the we'll is
strong enough to blow upward light
substances. and is so cold that it will
preserve vegetables, and meat, and
such articles from decay and is used
as refrigerator by the family, poss-
IDLY it sends out hot air in the winter
and the family uses it for cooking.
Dub tnat is not pOsltlVely stated.
There is another wonder here. Way
up nearly to the top of bluff is big
spring, running with such volume that
in days gone by it was used to turn
the water wheel of mill. How the
water gets up there in such volume,
whom there is no higher hill above it,
when the hill it is on is nearly one
of the highest points in Iowa, is an
other wonder.
DEBORAH is an easy town to get into
after you find the trail. for it is down
hill there for miles in every direction,
but it is difficult to get out of as you
ike the people so we'll that the climb
out of the pocket in addition to the
physical effort, requires a mental one
also, as you seem TO be leaving behind
friends.