Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-11-01

The school enrolment at Indepen-
dence is 666, the same as DEBORAH.
A box factory is to be moved from
DeSota, Wis, to Lansing.
There is a movement on foot to start
a beet sugar factory at Waverly.
Over LOCO delegates attended the
Iowa Epworth League convention at
Waterloo last week.
Ed. Hurmence and Vic Stevens,
principal owners of the Sumner Tele-
phone system, have bought of sthe
Standard Telephone Co. the exchanges
at Chester, Lime Springs and ,Cresco.
The line running from New Hampton
to Ridgeway is included.
Ed. @. Brown, former member of
the Iowa railroad commission and
president of the Sheldon State bank
which failed two years ago with a
large shortage, was acquitted by a
jury at Primghar tonight on the
charge of fraudulent banking.
Adolph Frederick, aged 40 years,
was killed at Fairbanks and his body
was found in the Wapsie river. While
driving home his team wandered on
the Chicago Great Western railroad
bridge and the entire outfit fell into
the river, twenty-five feet below. The
team was uuhurt.
How dear to my heart
Is the cash on subscription
When the generous subscriber
Presents it to view:
But the one who won't pay
I refrain from description
For, perhaps. gentle reader,
That one may be YOU
An attempt was made to burn the
new hotel at st. Ausgar on Friday.
Gunny sacks saturated with kerosene
were found at the front doors, having
been placed there with the intention
of destroying the building undoubted-
ly. The fire was discovered and ex-
tinguished before much damage was
done.
A. M. Bush, for many years pro-
minent business man of Usage, died
very suddenly of heart disease. He
was taken sick on the street and
friends helped him to his home in the
same block, where he died in ten
minutes. The funeral was held Fri
day under the auspices of Occur de
Leon Commandery, No. 10. knights
Templar
Mildred j. Simonds was accepted
last week by the Des Moines branch
of the Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society of the Methodist church as q
Missionary. work for which she is
eminently fitted. She will remain in
her present position during the cur
rent school year and may not go to
her field of labor, wherever it may be,
until the autumn of 1906. -Fayette
Reporter.
Automobiles are getting thicker
than flies in Independence. and the
automicrobe is yet working. The
feeling against the "cough cart"
which tempts mems fingers to travel
to the pistol pocket is generally SUBJ
siding, and many have dropped their
paving brick missile to read about
"sliding transmission" and different
gear" Almost any boy in town can
tell all about why the wheels go
round and how to make the auto horn
"honk." People are not hiding in
the brush any more and staying at
home for fear of quadruplex fit in
the old horse when a hesitate
wagon shows up ON the pike ahead.
Next season the lumber of machines
will be augmented by the men who
this season gagged over the smell of
exploded gasoline in an "automobub-
BILE" Familiarity is bringing results,
and the prophet ON gas engines de-
lights in holding his own in the
kindergarten school of the road, and
the pleasures of life seen from the
hurricane deck of the mysterious
"red devil wagon. ".'-Bulletin-Jour-
nal.