Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22


Mr. and Mrs. Pete Graf were De-
corah visitors Monday.
Miss Aida Mayo was a guest at
the L. W. Hazelton home Friday.
She was en- route from two months
sojourn in New Mexico to her home
at Sanborn, Iowa.
Gertrude DAILY came down from Ma
son City Saturday to remain until
Tuesday.
Yard Master A. B. Peterson is TAX
ing a lay off from duties on account
OF sickness.
Miss Gertrude Kaye was the guest
of DEBORAH friends Saturday.
DR.. W. E. Harrington was up from
Castalia Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pratt Nicholson of
Ossian were in town Friday on their
way to DEBORAH.
Mds. John B. Kaye and E. Helm
were at DEBORAH Friday.
Tom Pierce came home from Chica-
go last Sunday.
Miss Millward gave tea party to a
few friends Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Carl Meyer and Mrs. Oscar Oh
son entertained seven tables of ladies
at cards Friday evening at the home
of the former.
M. Nicholson and wife were in town
Friday.
T. W. Hazelton was visitor at De-
corah Friday.
Peter Meyer was business caller at
DEBORAH Monday.
Mrs. p. A. Peterson entertained the
German l.. AS. at her home Tuesday
afternoon.
The basket social that was to have
been held at the O. p. Ode home on
Tuesday evening was postponed until
Friday evening on account OF the
storm.
The regular passenger train on the
Davenport line came up Friday, which
was the first trip since the previous
Saturday. A rotary snow pillow, which
went down Thursday to clear the road,
got no further than Strawberry Point,
where it broke down. Below this
point however the road had been
sufficiently cleaned so that the regu-
lar train was able to make it's run.
Miss Lenora Swehla is visiting her
Roy Frank is out on the road in the
interest of the Calmar Manufacturing
Co.
H. J. Giesen was at Fit. Atkinson
Thursday.
Ray Walker had the misfortune to
break his arm Tuesday. He was box
ing in the gymnasium with one of the
boys and fell in such a way that one
arm was broken near the wrist.
Miss Nora Wohlford of DEBORAH
was the guest of her sister the past
week.
Miss Florence Hazelton was the
guest of the Misses Baker at DEBORAH
several days of last week.
Miss Dena Olson came down from
Austin Wednesday to visit at her par
entail home.
Carl Meyer went to Marshalltown
Tuesday to attend meeting of the
State Association of Furniture and
Fixture manufacturers.
Mrs. Seq rdahl is recovering from
an attack OF tonsilitis.
Ma. Klein was at Ossian Wednesday.
Joseph Gerleman was an Ossian
visitor Wednesday.
About seven O'Clock Friday evening
fire was discovered in the upper story
of the Steffes building, the lower part
of which is used as bowling alley.
Even before the switch engine gave
the alarm the fire department was
out and ready to fight the flames.
Some time elapsed before the firemen
broke into one of the rooms upstairs
and found the apparently lifeless body
of the tenant of the room, Mr..
Tollefson, lying near the door. He
was in terrible condition, his cloth
ing watersoaked, and his hands. arms,
and back badly burned. Drs. Filing
son and Helm worked over the in
jured man for more than an hour be-
fore he began to show signs of life,
and at the present tine it is difficult to
say whether his recovery may be hoped
for. The fire is believed to have
started from a pipe which Mr.. L.
was smoking when he fell asleep. On
waking he found the room full of
smoke ana tried to get the door open,
but failing in this he lay on the floor
face downward that he might breathe
the fresh air coming in through the
cracks in the floor. The building was
not very badly damaged excepting the
upper story, the interior of which was
burned and damaged by water.
A. l.. Abbey was business caller..in
town Saturday.
Miss Alice Field returned Tuesday
from weeks visit at the home of
Mrs. q. q. Gardener in DEBORAH.
Florence Hazelton leaves today for a
visit at Fairbault, Mimi.
Mrs. j. B. Kaye will entertain the
Methodist l.. A. S. on Thursday after
noon.
Frank Koch and wife, Misses
Amelia, Anna and Frances Hauber,
are transacting business at Spillville
today.
Carl Jordon has sold his house and
lot to Joseph Goetkin, section fore
man at Ossian, for $l450.
Misses Title Hauber spent Sunday
at home from duties at Valdez school
in DEBORAH.
The Misses Amelia, Tillie, Frances,
and Anna Hauber, were guests at the
John Etteldorf home at Festina Sun
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