Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-10-23


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Poultry of all descriptions wanted
at Reum's meat market. 29tf
Ben Tillman will pull the feather
from theEeagles tail at Preston next
Monday.
Judge Kelly fined thirteen Usage
illegal liquor dealers $500 Friday, all
pleading guilty.
Senator La Toilette delivered his
lecture on Representative Govern
ment" at Cresco Saturday
A Short Course, conducted by the
State agricultural college, will be
held at Cresco some time during the
winter.
Francis. the three. year-old son of
Frank Hayes of Denver, Colo, was
drowned in water tank at the home
of his grandparents near Jesup, where
he was visiting, on Wednesday.
Homer Hughes, young civil en-
gineer of Iowa City, Iowa, has closed
a contract with John d. Rockefeller,
Jr., to do the landscape engineering
on Rockefeller tract of ninety one
acres. near Cleveland, Ohio. The
Iowa City boy will get 800, 600.
Clear Lake boasts of the most
productive acre of land in Iowa.
Samuel Kenney who raises onions for
local as well as other markets has
received the net proceeds of the sale
of his crop of one acre in check of
$500. There were five hundred bushels
OF the vegetable and he has disposed
of them at 81 per bushel.
Some young men who went to a
charivari in Manchester recently took
along some dynamite to help along
with the noise. They were little
ignorant in handling it and the explo-
sion broke about twenty five window
panes, cracked the plaster on one of
the rooms and slightly injured some
of the people in the house. The boys
tied all the bills for damages.
Al meeting of the car men of the
Chicago Great Western shops at Gel
vein, an organization composed of
over 200 men, it was voted by a de-
cislve majority to call the strike off
so far as they were concerned. and the
men have filed individual applications
with the company for work. This
action of the car workers breaks the
backbone of the strike, and it is ex-
pected other organizations will at
once follow suit.
Capt. Peter Hire. the well
known river pilot. once resident of
Lansing, is now confined in the in
sane asylum at Independence. where
he was taken about year ago from
Dubuque. He is completely paralyzed,
his speech gone, and his mind blank.
Capt. Hire was one of the best known
pilots on the river and had charge of
the wheel on some of the best rafters
on the river, as we'll as passenger
packets.
The prize mixer is Aaron Grimm.
a Clear Lake resident. who has forty
COWS, and with milking machine
does the entire job of milking him
self. His machine extracts the tactical
fluid from two COWS at the same time,
is operated by a gasoline engine,
which is placed some distance from
the barn, and spout conveys the
milk as it is taken from the COWS by
the mixer TO the dairy house. Only
few minutes are occupied in doing
the Job.
Typographical errors place a news
paper in an embarrassing predicament.
For instance. an editor meant to
compliment young lady at party
by noting that 'her dainty feet were
incased in shoes that might have been
taken for fairy boots" When it APP
peared in the paper the printer made
him say, her dirty feet were incased
in shoes that might have been taken
for ferry boats" Changing "dainty''
TO "dirty" and "fairy" to FERRY.
and "boots" to "boats," did the mis-
chief