Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-04-17


vein finds that the city has net in.
debtedness of S37, ALL
They had doctors trust in Usage
too, but only it lasted few weeks,
and has gone a-gliimmering.
There are seventeen girls and SIX
boys in the graduating class from the
Oelwein high school this year.
r. S. Fitz, now at Rockford, has
been elected superintendent of the
Hampton schools for next year.
The G. f. Griffith farm of 400 acres
in Howard county, two miles north
of Cresco, has been sold for SEQ. 800.
The Yankee Robinson circus will
exhibit at Elkader. Elgin, Monona.
and Waukon, the latter part of May.
Mrs. Rebecca McGregor, resident
of Lime Springs since 1857, is dead at
the age of 95 years. being born in
Scotland in 1912.
A U. S. Standard Voting Machine
is>on exhibition at Elkader, and an
effort will be made to sell set of
them to Clayton county.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
past winter was considered mild one
the dealers at Usage assert that they
sold more coal the past winter than
usual
The two national banks at Usage
have over one million dollars in re.
sources and show an increase of
$3.50, 600 in deposits the past fourteen
months.
The opening of the spring bon fire
season caused the death of one girl in
Mitchell county, also one in Howard
county. their clothing catching fire
from the burning rubbish.
Cresco people evidently have a
warm spot in their hearts for the city
schools as they gave two recent pro-
grams by the high school patronage
that Melted $2l5 for the library fund
at Orchard, Mitchell county, W. G.
and A. H. Shaffer, and Elmer Clapper,
of New Hampton, being the principal
incorporators The capital is to be
$40, 600
One by one the old mills in this
part of the state are disappearing.
The one that has stood at Westfeld in
Fayette county for over 90 years is
being torn down and the lumber con-
verted into a barn.
Forty years ago Mrs. E. 1. Squirting
of Ottumwa, Iowa, swallowed pin.
Saturday she felt an itching sensation
in her ankle On investigation the
head of the pin was discovered and
the offender extracted.
The contract for the new house on
the poor farm in Chickasaw county
has been let to G. f. Scales of Water.
loo, for $2l. $40 The heating and
plumbing contract also went to a
Waterloo firm for $3,577.
The Milwaukee road is being sued
by Theodore Martin, one of the in
jured in the narrow gauge wreck near
Cascade for $50, 600 damages, Martin
claiming that his lower limbs are
paralyzed and permanently injured.
Prof. S. s. Wyand, for five years
connected with the Memorial Uni
versity at Mason City, has resigned
his position and will go into the
ministry. He has been offered several
good pastorates. but has not accepted
any yet.
Gutenberg is said to be closed up
tighter than sardine can Oh Sundays
since the Business Mems Club has
undertaken to enforce Sunday closing
and it is impossible to get a cigar,
shave, ice cream soda, confectionery,
or anything except the filing of a
physicians prescription. IL is going
back 10 the blue laws OF New England
with vengeance Quite p contrast
of the towns of the county. Elkader
has not got that far along in Sabbath
observance but there are signs that
we are coming to it.-Argus.
Not once in the past thirty-t two
years has the water in the Mississippi
river at this point been as high during
the early part of April as the stage of
this year. Since 1875 there have been
ten years when it varied from few
tenths of foot to two feet higher
from the middle of the month to the
latter part, but has never in that
time been so high previous to April
9th as this year. The highest water
during April of any year since 1875
occurred during the latter part of the
month in 1888 when it registered
about twenty feet. -Guttenberg Press.
Young Child Fatally Burned.
Eleanor Graves, 4-year- old daugh-
ter of A. p. Graves, merchant of