Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-09-11


electric light service after Oct. 1st.
Joseph Griffin of Elma takes the law
practice of q. @. Upton, at Cresco,
who recently went to Spokane.
Five divorce suits are filed for the
September term of the district court
of Fayette county at West Union.
In period of temporary insanity,
Herman Boeckh, one of Lansing S
most popular citizens and business
men, shot himself in the temple in
his store. death resulting instantly.
The business men OF Postville held
a meeting last week and took steps
toward raising the necessary funds to
complete the securing of the right of
way for the Dan Patch Air Line from
there to Frankville.
A Hopkinton man the other day.
while blowing a fifteen acre field,
killed 1lS snakes, young and old, and
destroyed two nests of snake eggs.
They We're mainly of the bull snake
family, but one of them was brown
adder.
Twenty members of wheat thresh.
ing crew at North Manson Thursday
were poisoned by eating chicken sand
witches. A number are desperately
sick, but the physicians believe they
will recover. Ptomaine had developed
in the chicken.
The Mason City Hospital company
have accepted plans and specifications
for their nav building. to cost at least
$50, 900. They will not build, how
ever, until the money has been raised
for the $50, 600 Mercy Sisters Hos
pital. $780, 900 to be donated by the
Sisters at Dubuque.
A young man by the name of Sum-
mers, living a few miles south of
Charles City, committed suicide
Thursday morning by shooting him
self with revolver. No one seems
to know what induced the act, but it is
supposed to be case of dependency
caused by illness and other troubles.
Louise Milche, living five miles
southwest of New Hampton. while re-
turning home ON Saturday evening
and about to cross the Milwaukee
track on the fourth crossing west was
struck by passenger train No. s going
east at terrific pace about 8 80, kill
ing his horse outright and demolish-
ing his buggy beyond recognition,
while he himself escaped with slight
injuries.
Probably the largest pearl ever
found in the Mississippi in the past
twenty years in the vicinity of Du-
buque, was picked up Tuesday after
, noon by Haben Smice, clam fisher
man. When he picked up the clam
containing it he picked up small
fortune. The pearl is as large as a
walnut and weighs exactly 1858
grains. 1t is now in safety deposit
vault at the Dubuque National bank
and is variously estimated to be
worth from two to six thousand
dollars.
Here is story being circulated of
a good boy in college who was about
to graduate. He wrote back to the
farm for his mother to come. She re-
piled that she could not do so. She
said her clothes were worn out and
she had no money to buy new ones for
the occasion. The boy said come any
how. The poor mother went in her
best, but was not stylish. The COM
mencement was in a fashionable
church. The son was prouder of his
mother than his honors. He walked
down the aisle with her to one of
the best seats. There were tears in
her eyes, and she burst out weeping
when her SON pronounced the valedic-
tory. The president pinned badge
on his coat, but he took it and pinned
it on his mothers faded dress, as he
bent and kissed her wrinkled face.
The boy with this kind Of pride will
be an honor to his country and his
God May his number increase and
the shadows Of his loneliness cover
the world.
NEW FAD In TOWN.