Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-21

Union.
The Board of Supervisors of Clayton
county have decided to bond the coun-
ty for $4,000 to pay outstanding in
debtedness.
If our merchants expect to get their
share of the fall and winter trade they
must do some good advertising. Mer-
chants around Us are alive to this fact
and are going after the business.
The annual Upper Iowa Methodist
conference will con vene at Davenport
this year on October 9TH and will con-
tinue for a week The presiding
bishop will be Bishop Joice of Min
neapolis.
About a year ago Mrs. Chas. Berg
strom of Parkersburg lost her wedding
ring while digging some potatoes in
the garden. This week she was en-
gagged in similar occupation and
found the ring around small potato.
Greene Recorder.
W. j. Springer one of the prominent
attorneys at New Hampton. broke his
arm recently while playing ball at the
fair grounds. The game was between
the court house rats and the pro-
fessional men and it was while warm
ing up, and throwing the ball to one of
the other players, that the accident
happened
A company known as the Hawkeye
Packing & Provision company has
been incorporated under the laws Of
the state and the ground for the build
ings has already been broken. The
plant will be located on the west side
of town on the Hawkeye Land COM
pany's addition.
Fred Graham, an employe OF the
Mason City g. Clear Lake Ry Co. at
Emery received the force of 500 volts
of electricity Wednesday evening and
lives to tell the story. But as re-
suit of the experience his hand is
burned almost to crisp and part of
it or all may have to be amputated.
At the meeting of the Board of Su-
pervisors of Floyd county last week
G.. H. Fawcett rendered his resigna
'tion a county auditor and the same
was duly accepted, the board immed-
lately appointing Fl. B. Rosenkrans,
candidate for auditor on the Republi-
can ticket, to fill the unexpired term.
The superintendent of the Elkader
schools has arranged for a series of
hale hour talks to the pupils by promi
nent men and women of that city. A
talk will be given each Thursday
morning during the school year and
the topics as published in the Elkader
papers promise some good things for
the pupils.
The wife of farmer living near
Charles City died last week. The
husband had started on q trip to
Europe a short time before, leaving
his wife in good health and the news
of her death is to be kept from him
in order not to spoil the pleasure of
his trip, which is about the queerest
way of doing things we ever heard Of
Rockford Register.
Last week Monday William Moore,
residing four miles south Of Strawber-
ry Point committed sui eide by cutting
his throat. On Sept. l his barn was
struck by lightning, killing one of
his boys and burning three cows and
some farm machinery. 1t is supposed
he grieved over the calamity until he
became insane. He leaves wife
and four children.
1t has just developed that the Dos
ton Boomers, the alleged ladies
base ball team that has been playing
in this vicinity, is clever fake, the
so-called ladies being men. made mp
to represent the fair sex. There are
several women with the organization.
two or three of whom are stationed at
unimportant places on the team, but
the real ball players are men. The
graft is good one and the Boomers
have been exhibiting before large
crowds in all of the.surronding towns.
Manchester Herald.
A farmer called at our office the
other day to insert notice for calf
that he had lost. 1t happened that
we published lost notice the proceed
ing week. and on comparing he found
that the one advertised was the one
he had lost. He told us that he had
spent four days looking after that calf
and as last resort had come to gee if
we could help him. He did not take
the paper. If he had he would have
saved that four days search for the
calf. We tried to get him to SUBJ
scribe, but he told us he took two
farm papers. and they were both Of
them cheaper than this paper and
that he never read the papers anyway.
Now If the man took only farm
papers, why in all reason did he not