Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-12

New Hampton realized s432 Al from a
recent rummage sale.
Last Thursday Mrs. Gertrude Grant
of Cedar Rapids was burned to death
by an explosion of kerosene, used to
start fire.
Nielander & Co, Lansing, will cele-
brate the fiftieth anniversary of the
establishment of their business on o.
tober 10th.
A New Hampton girl vino has been
doing house work in town has thrown
up her place and gone to the country
to husk corn at sl25 day.
A farmer near Onawa has CLEANED
over 1000 pounds of honey from his
bees this season. One hive made six
ty-eight pounds during the month of
August.
James A. Kinney of the Aurora OBJ
server, has been appointed postmaster
at that place. The Observer will be
published as heretofore, with the help
of an able assistant.
A pickerel weighing fully II pounds
and over yard long was caught in
Clear Lake last week by JAS. Van
Lone. It was buster says the:Cerro
Gordo Co. Republican.
An epidemic of typhoid fever is pre-
valent in the country northwest of
Aurora, and the water supply is
blamed for its appearance. Whole
families are sick with the dread di-
sease. Lamont Leader.
The Elkader band has been in exis-
lance fourteen years and has begun its
fifteenth year. Few towns the size
of Elkader has a band that can show
a record of that length. 1t is a
good band too. Mail Press.
The Mason City high school foot
ball team is in charge of Prof. Frazier
the only salaried man ever employed
for snch purpose and they went to
Blue Earth lsat Saturday and were
goose egged by score of 100 to 0.
Four living generations, with the
greatgrandmother but SO years old, is
the remarkable distinction accorded a
Waverly family. Mrs. Sarah Barthol-
new. who became a wife at twelve.
and a mother at IA, was grandmother
OF nd ia kn nd ,ne or
at SO.
At county school board meeting
near Mt Ayr, RingRold county. last
Monday, two of the directors engag-
ed in an argument over school law
and wound up in quarrel. in which
one of the combatants tried to prove
his point with an ak and the other
with pistol. The man with the gun
won. shooting his opponent through
the heart, killing him instantly. Elk.
The Kensett Parade Band will have
to take back seat since the organiza-
tion of a Juvenile band in Kensett.
The little fellows have purchased a
full set of instruments (of torture) of
the zobo variety and give daily and
nightly concerts on our principal
streets. They play all the latest
musical productions. including "Tin
Maker Man, j." "Hiawatha." Yankee
Doodle" and others equally as popu-
lar. News
The Lilloett Mining Co.. with head
quarters at Iowa Falls. seems to have
gone the way of many other similar
investment concerns. Nearly all of the
stock was owned by Iowa people,
which sold at first at ten cents per
share, but soon rose in value to thirty
cents Many prominent Iowans have
lost fortunes in the concern, the stock
not being worth one cent share at
present. and rigiu investigation of
the company's entangled affairs is be-
ing conducted
The workmen at the j. G. Cherry
Co.'S. plant raised twenty five dollars
among themselves to assist Earl Rit-
ter who was severely injured by COM
ing in contact with saw while work.
ing in the factory last week. This
act of the workmen employed there
displayed an act of true fellowship
and one very acceptable to Earl at
this time. The wounds caused by
the saw are healing nicely and it is
hoped that no permanent handicap
will result from them Usage News.