Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-08-14

Lansing Will have carnival
Oct. 1st to 4th inclusive.
The Iowa State Association of Elks
will meet at Dubuque Sept. 18th and
18th.
No excuse for the blues caused by
torpid liver, when A-B-C Tea is had
for 25c package. 1871
The proposition to have Cerro Cor
do county purchase and own the fair
grounds at Mason City will be sub
mitted to the voters of that county
on Sept. nth.
The council at Postville has refused
to grant licenses to more than three
saloons, and has raised the mulct tax
500 upon each of the three.
The Dairy City Creamery Co. of
Manchester. Iowa, have just COM
pleted packing 217, 600 pounds of but
ter for the United States navy.
The ive-year- son of August
Ewald, of Nora Springs. was struck
on the chin by ball bat while play
ing ball and he bit his tongue so
severely that it was necessary to take
three stitches in it to hold it to-
gether.
Many threshermen of Delaware,
Dubuque and Jones counties recently
met in Worthington and formed
mutual benefit and protective associa-
ton, the object of which will be to
protect their interests by charging a
uniform rate for threshing grain.
Clayton county has been sued by
Dan Harding for damages claimed to
have been incurred by him from con-
tracing tuberculosis of the glands of
the throat while confined in the
county Jail, which is charged with
being an unclean and unsanitary
place.
Hurting his infant child on the
track in front of an approaching train.
Manard Grant, Dubuque fisherman,
crazed with drink, fought his wife to
prevent her rescuing the babe. Free
ing herself from his grasp she dashed
across the track, grabbing the child
and bearing it to safety as the train
whizzed past. Grant fled and escaped
the police by jumping into the har-
Dor He swan out a distance and
defied the officers till he became ex-
hausted. Then he came ashore and
submitted to arrest. Grant had been
on spree for several days.
- According to reports ahoat in
Catholic circles, Dubuque will have a
branch house of the Carmelite Order
of Sisters. The mother house of the
order, which is located in Paris, is
about to move to the United States and
establish a home at Marshalltown,
Iowa. The removal from Paris where
the order has maintained it's head
quarters for many years is the result
of the persecution to which they have
been subjected IN the recent struggle
between the church and state in
France, Iowa being considered their
new refuge. The convent or school
which the Carmelite Sisters con-
Quoted was considered the leading
seminary or young women's institu-
ton in France until it was closed by
order of the French government after
the controversy between church and
state was inaugurated.
Colonel Sweeney, of Usage, and a
former member of congress from this
district. narrowly escaped with his
life Tuesday evening during the
cyclone at Clear Lake. He was picked
up and carried out into the lake
several rods from the shore. where
fortunately he had presence of mind
to grasp the branches Of a tree which
had blown there, to which he chung
till rescued. Sweeney was a guest at
the Whitaker hotel and when the
spiral shaped cloud was seen he STEP
ped from the porch to get better
view. Scarcely reaching the roadway,
he was caught and hurled into the
water. Save few scratches he was
not injured. The injured from the
effects of the storm are recovering.
For day or two Mrs. Quinby was in
serious condition, but it is thought
she will be able to be taken home to
Elma, Iowa, within week. w. B.
Harrison, train dispatcher for the
Great Western at Des Moines, and
father of Miss Harrison, who was a
guest of Mrs. Quimby, arrived today.
Miss Harrison is improving.