Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-08-21


are at Postville this week.
Fire in the business section o.
Dyersville last Wednesday caused {
loss of $50. 900.
Remember, we have no high Cut
goods in this sale. they are all Ok
fords. Bromley & Co. 1873
The Mershon Stock Company, q
theatrical organization, is rehearsine
at McGregor and will open the season
there.
Dan Thompson of Donnan had
several bones broken by truck load
of trunks falling ON him at the depot
last week.
John l.. Sullivan, the ex-champion
pugilist, will umpire the base ball
games at the Delaware county fair at
Manchester this year.
The annual reunion of the Union
Veterans and Ladies Relief Corps of
Fayette county will be held at West
Union, Wednesday and Thursday.
Aug. 2sth and Goth, 1907.
A heavy storm at Dubuque Thurs
day evening did considerable damage
and washed out the Milwaukee tracks,
delaying trains and demoralizing
traffic for day or two.
ALI of our 3d. Oxfords go at
50. 70, the $3 ones at 3d. 40, and the
80. 90 ones at ST. Remember that
these lots are all broken sizes that is
why we sell them cheap. Bromley &
Go. 1873
The street car line of Independence
has gone out of business and the
tracks will be torn up. because it did
not pay and when the city ordered
the company to pave its tracks it
decided to surrender it's fra nchise.
In an effort to catch an unruly
broncho last Friday Herman Schroeder
a we'll known farmer of near Gutten-
berg came near meeting instant death
and as result of injuries received
in the attempt he is now confined to
his bed with little hopes of COM
plete recovery for some time to come.
Mrs. Johnson is scientific poultry
raiser. Each year she produces from
1000 to 5000 chickens. The depart
ment of agriculture at Washington
has become interested in her methods.
An expert expects to spend two weeks
on the Johnson farm studying her
poultry business.
9. A. Moody has had a new expert
ence in his business of handling eggs
the past week, which he says is un-
like anything he has ever had in his
business career of twenty years.
While looking over 30-dozen case of
eggs Tuesday he found that nearly
one half of the case contained eggs
that had had the contents blown Out
of them by breaking a tiny hole in
each end. That is being pretty
small. Nashua Reporter.
o. M. Beach of Fayette hung for
several minutes from the top of
windmill tower with his fingers
caught I. in the gearing. He was
compelled to wait for little gust of
wind to start the mill and release his
fingers. He was oiling the machine
when gust of wind sprang up, the
brake failed to work and his hand
was caught.
William jennings, a farmer of
Cerro Gordo county. was knocked
from his machine by hail stones dur
ing hail storm recently and was
found several hours afterwards un.
conscious. His head was badly
lacerated by hail, the storm lasting
nearly half an hour. The team ran
away and in circlinR narrowly averted
cutting him into pieces. The swath
showed where the sickle moved al
most under the body.
Three people received fatal injuries
in the destruction wrought by a tor
nado Friday afternoon in the vicinity
of Alton. The dead: Infant son OF
Geo. Conn. Fatally injured: Mrs.
George Conn. Mrs. John Shields. All
three were in the farm house. which
is twelve miles southeast of Alton,
when the storm struck. The building
was literally torn in fragments and
the three unfortunate occupants re-
.ceived fearful injuries and were car
ried long distance by the tornado.
Mrs. d. @. Johnson, christened the
Poultry queen of Iowa." Matched
the largest brood ever brought into
the world at one time when she
Matched 1877 chickens. Mrs. johnson
lives four miles north of Maxwell.
Strange to say. it took thirteen in
cubators to do the trick, and thirteen
in this case did not prove unlucky.