Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-04-20
BURR OAK.


Mesdames Emery and Bergman Of
Button were transacting business
in our berg Friday.
B. Norton of Canton, Mimi was
seen on our streets Thursday
Leah and Paul Roberts drove tC
DEBORAH Friday, returning the same
day.
Mrs. Alice Morrison, who has beer
quite sick for the past two weeks
was able to sit up short time last
Saturday.
Mrs. Anna Ward was shopping in
DEBORAH one day last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Sharp and son
of Bethel dinnered at the Roberts
home Sunday.
j. E. Briggs went to Chicago last
Wednesday on business, returning
Friday evening.
The L. A. S. will meet with Mrs
Nell Headington Thursday, April
81, for supper. Everyone invited.
Misses Agnes Ward and Blanche
Shelley went up on the stage Satur-
day evening to spend Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Pierce near Har-
,mony.
Mr.. Prescott of Oklahoma came
Thursday evening for a short visit
with relatives in and around this
vicinity.
Messrs. Reed, Ward and Emmons
made flying trip to the hub" on
Thursday.
The Bible Study class will meet
with Philip Seelye Friday evening.
We hear that we are going to
rly CO will
not be necessary for some Of the
B. o. people to go to Mabel for
bacon.
G. H. Kimball is back from New
Underwood, S. d., where he filed on
claim and expects to move there
some time within six months.
Misses Edna Sharp and Mary
Gossn,an of Canton have large
tclasses of music pupils in this vi
Ginity and Hesper.
Frank Nash took his son Bernard
to Cresco Sunday for an operation
for adenoids.
MesSrs. Johnson and Grinoger OF
Hesper have rented the butcher shop
here and will be ready for business
May 1st.
Earn Ward has moved his bee
colony down on the farm in the
Klon6ike.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Frye moved on
to the II. Van Vliet farm one day
last week, and Franks father is
boarding with T. Brode.
Dr. w. H. Emmons went to West
gate Thursday to spend Sunday
with his daughter Lucille.
Mrs. Luther Bennett entertained
the Prosper l.. A. S. Friday.
A party at the home of Pearl
Feltis was enjoyed by the young
people of this vicinity Friday eve
ming.
Mrs. Wilma Lehman and two
children, who have been spending
the winter with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ambrose Gates. started for her
home in Montana last Wednesday.
Messrs. Hughes OF West Union.
Jewell of Arlington. Green, Cratsen-
berg and Whitney of DEBORAH autoed
up from DEBORAH Tuesday evening
to be present at the bank meeting.
Joseph Broghamer of Chadron,
Neb. passed through here on the
stage Thursday evening, enrOute to
Canton, Mimi, for visit with rela-
tives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Valentine Stoskopf
dined with Mr.. and Mrs. j. A.
Thompson Sunday, April II.
Gertie Stebbins from near Cres-
co, who has been quite sick at the
Will Arnold home for some time, is
better.
Miss Maude Rice spent Saturday
in DEBORAH, most of the time in the
dentists chair.
Ern Ward and family, Ben Shelley
and family went for picnic dinner
near Bluffton Thursday.
Mrs. j. G. Lamm and daughter Lu
Rena of Canton, Mimi, who have
been visiting relatives and friends in
DEBORAH the past week, passed
through here on the stage Thursday
evening on their way home. Mrs.
Lamm and daughters expect to
leave in a few weeks for ChadrOn,
Neb., where they will make their
future home.
Mrs. Ed. Wilbur, who has been
helping care for her daughter Gertie
'Stebbins, returned to her home near
Cresco Thursday, accompanied by
Mr. Wilbur.
A large number of the stockhold-
ers of the Burr Oak Savings Bank
were present at the first meeting
in the |. o. o. F. hall on Tuesday
evening. A brick building will be
erected which will have a capital
stock of $4,000. The directors
elected were J. A. Thompson w. II.
Emmons, j. E. Briggs, E. A. Head
ington, /. N. Reed, Win Hilleman,
Alvin Rollins. Officers: Pres, w.
III. Emmons; Vice Pres, ]. A.
Thompson; Sec, j. e. Briggs; Treas.
IT. 2. Roberts. Arrangements are
being made for the site and new
bank building and the building will
be constructed as soon as possible
so the bank will be open in few
months.