Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-02-10


opened to the pubic.
AS result of .the doctors union
the price of town visits IN Lansing
is So
Rev. j. B. Smith of Cresco has re-
ceived a unanimous call to the Bap-
fist church at Cedar Falls.
Nielander & Co., the pioneer Lans-
ing merchants, are celebrating their
golden anniversary, having been in
business fifty years
Dubuque is going after some OF the
great chorus prize sat the ST. Louis
exposition, and is securing the best
talent in the city for its choir.
The McGregor electric light COM
pany has made a proposition to the
city council to do the pumping of the
city water by electric motor power.
An attempt to secure pardon for
Van Tassel, the Chickasaw county
murderer, has resulted liz an uprising
by the citizens. demanding his con-
finement according to the terms of the
sentence.
A strange case at Volga last week
was that of a man going to doctor
and stating that he was crazy at times
and wished to be sent to Independence.
His wife and children corrohorated his
statement.
Emil Klingebell, the lad who had
an arm badly injured in a shooting
accident last fall, has had the wound
covered by skin CRAFTS furnished by
his brother Frank. These boys live
near Charles City.
Last Friday, Oliver Wilson landed
a 81 pound spoon-billed sturgeon on
West Okoboji. The monster measured
six feet from tip to tip, and was de-
livered through the ice with much
difficulty Spirit Lake Beacon.
The Baptist, Christian, Congrega-
tional. Methodist and Free Methodist
churches of Mason City have united
III securing Evangelist Sunday, the
ex-baseball player, for series of
meetings. to begin early in June.
d. Fl. TAFT, manager of a shooting
gallery at Mason City had narrow
escape from death last Tuesday night.
A careless patron discharged gun
while TAFT was between it and the
target The ball struck the breast
bone and was DETECTED into the arm.
The city council of Aurora appoint
ed a fire committee who have ordered
several new chimneys built. a second
stairway to be built to the public
hall, and that all of the ashes be
dumped in the street and not in the
alleys.
Armstrong has had eight fires in
the last tree months, two of them
occurring within "a hours. The citi-
zens are thoroughly aroused. An in
vestigation has followed resulting in
the arrest of the night watch. whose
stories didn't hang together.
The Times Herald thinks it has a
straight tip that the Des Moines,
Iowa Falls Northern railroad will be
extended north to Mason City next
spring. This should be true, as no
railroad can afford to miss as good q
thing as Mason City. While the line
is going from Hampton to Mason City
it might be Rockwell would also
score. Rockwell Photograph.
A Minnesota school teacher receiv
the following note: "Dere Miss.
On last day ov skule yu jerked my boy
by the Necke till yu busted his suss-
penders and he had com hom holden
his clothes onto hisself with his hands
which I don't like 1t. II he don mind,
likk him all he nedes but don tare his
close. We don dress HIM upp fer no
foot bal game. And so no more for
the present. Mrs -"
TO HAVE WATER WORKS.
A petition signed by a majority Of
the voters of the town of Hawkeye
was presented to the town council
Monday evening and that body APP
pointed committee to estimate the
cost of q water works plant. The mat
ter will be thoroughly Investigated
and the proposition will be placed be-
fore the voters at the town election in
March. Hawkeye sustained $1,000
loss from fire in 1908 and it is time
something was done.
OTHER COLD WINTERS.
In 1882 two sundogs froze to death
and fell..on the Human farm near Bel
mona. Mr. III. took their hides off and