Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-01-27

Mrs. Catherine speckel of Du-
buque died last week on her Tooth
birthday.
John Uglum, young man of Jack
sonville township, Cbickasaw county.
has disappeared and cannot be locat-
ed.
j. w. Greggs of Goodell, Ia, has
a herd of seventy-five deer on his
farm. 1t is one of the largest herds
in the country.
Rev. Sam Small, the famous evan
gelist-lecturer, will launch a farm
magazine to be called "The New
West" at Waterloo.
The Catholic fair at Nashua was a
grand success this year and the So
ciety proclaim over $1,000 "to the
good" for their four days labor.
Watch for our Saturday Spe-
cial Sale on hosiery, Saturday the
Goth only. 10-cent hose for cents,
at Parsons, the Big Notion Store.
The city council of CrescO has
taken the preliminary steps to have
the main streets of the city paved
with brick during the coming sum-
mer.
Vincent Tibeau of Charles City,
was drowned in Floyd creek near
Rudd, Saturday, he and Harold Hoef
fer falling through the thin Ice.
Hoefier succeeded in getting out.
For health and happiness-De-
Wits Little Early Risers-small,
gentle, easy, pleasant little liver pills,
the best made. Sold by Engbretson''
Pharmacy.
Theodore Trieloff, aged II, pro-
prietor of the Berliner hotel at Du-
buque, passed away after a violent
fit of coughing, strangling to death.
He had been in his usual health up
to that time.
Tim Killerlain of Fayette is critic
ally ill from the kick of horse and
it is thought that he cannot recover.
Several ribs were broken and as the
kick was right over the lung hemor-
rhages were caused and the physici-
ans are unable to prevent them.
Jesse V. Melick, aged 70 years, an
old and highly respected citizen of
Buchanan county, residing 21a miles
east of Quasqueton, met tragic
death Tuesday evening by being
struck by train No. 33 known as the
Clipper The accident happened at
what is known as the Singer crossing,
just this side of Winthrop. He ha |
been in independence during the day
and was on his way home when the
sad event occurred, evidently at
about 6 o'clock.
Last Wednesday afternoon John
Bieber met with an accident that has
kept him in doors, at the DR.. Heuck-
er residence ever since. A stove was
brought to the store and cleaned
coated with composition composed
of lamp black and gasoline and John
wanted to be sure that it was in
good condition. He lighted a match
to examine it and he got it full in the
face. His eye brows and eye lashcs
were burned off and his face badly
mutilated. At this time it is hard to
say what tho outcome will be but all
hope that Johns face will come on.
Of the ordeal in good condition
Waukon Republican.
Bellevue, small town of eastern
Iowa, has a piano factory employing
fifty people and turns out fourteen
completed instruments each week.
Grinnell, thriving town, but by no
means a city, has several factories
and is about to acquire buggy fac
tory, through the removal of plant
from Ottumwa which employs forty
hands. Nearly every week items OF
this sort are noticed in the Iowa
newspapers, proving with the facts
of what are being done the conten-
tion of these columns that any live
town of the state with the proper
push and Enterprise can have a num-
Der of these enterprises, which fur
nish desirable employment and pro-
duce good citizens and home builders.