Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-08-07

be held October 1-3.
The dates of the Ossian street carni-
val are Aug 30th and 31st.
The Cresco base ball team has won
eleven out Of fifteen games this season.
Waterloo's Chautauqua went behind
81, 900 this season The business is
being overdone.
The physicians OF Bremen county
have effected combine and raised
their rate of fees.
The Fayette county Veterans as
ISOLATION will hold its annual reunion
at West Union Aug. 1929.
Three Cresco milkmen were fined
$25 each by the Mayor last week for
failure to comply with the milk or
dinance.
J. B. Hart of Postville has lost over
ninety head of hogs from cholera. No
other herds in that vicinity are
afflicted
Fayettes annual Harvest Home PFC
mic will be held August 22d and Lieu
tenant Governor Warren Garst will be
the principal speaker.
Converse g. Grannis. prominent
Cresco attorneys, will remove to
South st. Paul in the fall, where
they will practice their.profession.
J. A. Nelson retires from the editor
ship of the Mabel Record, to take
law course at the University of Iowa.
and is succeeded by E. R. Antrim.
Success to him.
Co. e of Cresco and Co. of Waukon
are at Des Moines this week, partici-
pating in the annual camp of the Iowa
National Guard. Chief Musician B.
o. Maj sh and his SD regiment band
of Waukon are also in camp with the
soldiers.
Seventeen head of cattle killed in
one bunch is the record made by
engine 482 of the Illinois Central
Wednesday near Usage. A herd which
had escaped from pasture found its
way to the track down which Engineer
Scroggy was driving his train and
the slaughter was unavoidable.
To get rid of rats, set trap and
catch one and then firmly wire a
small sleigh bell around its neck.
This will rid the house OF rats SO it
is said: the theory is, that the rats
hearing the sleighbells think it is
winter, and they all lie down and
freeze to death.
When you see dog grill doggrel, or
COW slip on a cowslip, when you see
cat sup catsup, or man go after a
mango when horse hides horsehides,
when you see a cat nip, catnip, or a
hog swallow hogs wallow, when
the cat'l IL eat what the cattle eat, and
an ice house is nice house, when
the deer slips on deers lips, or you
see a barn swallow barn swallow,
then you can make Frenchman be-
iieve that the English Ian guage is easy
TO "comprehendez "-Ex.
Young Peter Van Meter, salt
peter eater, he courted Anita, DeCita
from Streeter. She was sweeter, and
neater, discreter, petiter, than any
known "creetur' to Peter an Meter,
and when Peter did meet'er he'd
greet'er and treat'er and scatter and
fete'er in very short meter. Then he
being fieeter did attempt to secrete'er,
did finally defeat 'er, but she feared he
would cheat 'er, or possibly beat'er,
sat down ON ''teter" on big hard
coal heater and big ''muskeeter"
did eaat er completer.
Grin Hall, who lives north of Cen
trail City, has three acre skunk farm.
AT present he has it stocked with 200
skunks The place is fenced with
woven wire set three feet in the
ground and four feet above, with a
foot fiange ON top which prevents
their getting away. He expects to
breed a large number during the COM
ing few years. His little animals are
getting tame and they multiply very
rapidly. They are raised for the fur
and oil. The value of the grown ones
is about 30 each. Independence Bulle-
tin.Journal.
Finding no supper waiting for him
when he came home to his evening
meal, o. G. Greenwood, barber liv-
ing at Strawberry Point, attacked his
wife and gave her terrible beating.
. The neighbors were forced to call in
the police in order to stop the disturb
ance, and the man was arrested.
Greenwood few into a terrible rage
when he found nothing to eat. and as
saulted the woman. Her condition is
serious. He was arraigned in the
police court and ordered to leave
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