Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-10-09

The Buchanan county fair had a
spelling contest open to students of
the public schools.
A district meeting of the Fedora.
tion Of Wcmen's Clubs will be held at
Independence tomorrow and Friday.
Judge Fellows granted thirteen
divorce DEGREES at the recent Fayette
county district court at West Union.
Mrs. W. @. Hackleman committed
suicide at McGregor last week by
drowning herself in the Mississippi
river.
The marriage of Mrs. Louise Fair
banks. white, to Walter r. Hamilton,
colored, at Charles City last Wednes-
day. has created a sensation in that
city.
Philip Lawnbeoy. an old and re-
spected citizen Of Belmond, aged 70
years. dropped dead on the sidewalk
while going to dinner. He was a
wealthy farmer.
= What queer sweet thing is woman
Louis Sattler shot his sweetheart and
then. tried to kill himself because she
hated him. They We're both sent to
the hospital to debut recovered.
Saturday they. were married. --Blairs-
town Record. \ III.
Rev. E. E. Hastings of the Presby-
terrain church of. Grundy Center, has
accepted the call of the First Presby-
terrain church of Fort Dodge to be.
come their pastor. His charge will
terminate on Dec. LIST.
The Webster City Stucco works
burned to the ground early Friday
morning. 1t is supposed to have
caught from the dry rooms. The loss
will reach S25, 900. The insurance is.
$1,000. Manager Parkhurst announced
that the plant will be rel u 1t of
cement
Thirty of the prominent citizens of
Usage have organized the Usage Driv-
ing Club and will hold fall meeting
Oct. is, II and IS, offering $1,000 in
purses. Many entries for horse races the
18th and 18th are coming in and some
great speed is expected. Two automo-
bile races of miles each, and ball
game for blood between Usage and
Lowther afford entertainment for
lovers of this sport.
Prof. Geo. A. Oliver. formerly a
resident OF this city and an instructor
in Valdez College, later in charge of
the commercial department of Upper
Iowa University. Fayette, has accept
ed the position of superintendent of
the Interstate School of Commerce.
new institution which will be open
ed at New Hampton Oct. 21st This
school is one of chain owned and
operated by the Inter State Schools of
Cedar Rapids.
Ptomaine poisoning seriously affect
ed eighteen Of forty seven women who
attended banquet at Mason City,
where they were served with pressed
veal and scailoped salmon. So i'll
were the affected ones that physicians
were in constant attendance for day.
The occasion was the annual banquet
of the women of the Christian church. /
After the banquet the usual pro-
gramme was carried out. The guests
became i'll before the programme was
finished and broke up the festivities.
A man supposed to be a tramp
asked for something to eat at the home
of Mrs. Jack Hathaway at Oquoawka,
near Burlington, Thursday afternoon
and upon being refused he seized the
woman by the hair of the head and
beat her into insensibility. After the
fiend had done this he took her 4-year-
old boy, tied him to a tree, poured
kerosene oil over him and set his
clothes on fire. When the mother re-
covered consciousness, an hour after
the attack made upon her, the child
was still alive but died in short time
after being found by its mother. The
country in the vicinity is. greatly
aroused and an armed posse is scour-
ing the vicinity for the brute who
was guilty of the horrible deed.