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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-03-26
FIRE AT BELMONT KILLS FOUR.
Charred Body of Three Little Child
rem and Mother are Unearthed.

Belmond,, Ia, March 24.-Three
charred bodies of little children were
taken from the ruins of the home OF
Joseph Clark, by firemen who pulled
down the walls of the fire-gutted
structure, this morning.
Mrs. Joseph Clark, mother OF the
children, crazed by the burns she re-
ceived before she could be rescued
from her burning home, died within
few hours after the children's bod
les had been buried.
Mr.. Clark is the only one of the
family of five who escaped. He is a
laborer, and he was working yester-
day afternoon when the fire broke
out. He did not know of the destruc-
ton of his family until the fire had
been controlled.
The burned and blackened body of
the two-year-old baby was found by
firemen, in what had not been burn
ed of the bed in which it had been
sleeping. The remains of the four
year-old baby lay over trunk which
it had tried to pass in an attempt to
reach a window and air. The Six
year-old child had reached the base
ment of the house before it had sue
cumbed to the flames.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-03-26
1O1 YEARS OLD.
Patrick Corbly, Cedar Falls Farmer,
Celebrates Birthday March II.

Cedar Falls, Iowa, March pa
picture of rugged health and vitality,
Patrick Corbly, farmer living near
here, celebrated his one hundred and
first birthday on st. Patrick's Day.
Mr.. Corby works every day about
the farm of his son-in-law, Mr.. Nels
Christensen, with whom he has made
his home since his wife died twenty
five years ago, doing the routine
chores.
His farm home is two and one-half
miles from town and he frequently
walks the distance. He has not mis-
sed attending mass at ST. Patrick s
church here for many years.
He cast his twentieth ballot for
president of the United States at the
last general election. He was born
in Ireland in 1912 and came to Amer
lea when still boy. He settled on
a farm near here in the early fifties
and he has titled the soil on the same
farm almost continuously since.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-03-26
GIRL RETURNS TO REAL MOTHER
Shenandoah Young Lady Learns Fos-
ter Parents are Not Real Ones.

Shenandoah. March 24.-Margio
Ellen England, but known to people
of Shenandoah and vicinity as Mar
guerite E. Branson, learned for the
first time last week that she had a
mother living, to whom she is soon to
return after years of separation, and
after she had been formally adopted
and reared by Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Branson of this city.
The legal mother has proved her
right to the daughter, and that she is
i'm position to give her good home.
When a child, two years old, Miss
England was taken into the Branson
home here. Legal adoption was pre-
vented through legal difficulties. The
girl was secured from an orphans
home in Chicago, where she and two
brothers had been left because the
mother was then unable to care for
them
Later, when the mother became
able to care for her children, she be-
gan search for them, but owing to
the difficulties which are always
rem taken from homes for adoption
IL Wdo dH lHlpOSSlDlo TASK.
The oldest of the other two child
rem was found and with the mother
went to Milwaukee to live. The young
est, taken to Kansas, has not been
found. Mrs. England has remarked
and is nicely situated in the Wiscon-
sin city, and Miss Ellen. who is now
II years old, will be given every adj
vantage of a good home.
Mrs. Branson, the foster mother,
learned that the real mother of her
daughter" was looking for Margie
Ellen, and made trip to Illinois to
look into the. matter. She secured
the mothers name and visited scores
of the girls relatives in order to sat
isfy herself as to what action she
should take. Upon Mrs. Branson S
return she wrote the mother. She
soon will go to Chicago, where there
is to be a reunion of the family.
The young woman learned on
Thursday for the first time that Mr..
and Mrs. Branson are not her real
parents.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-03-26
Ear Bitten on BY Dog.

A small sized tragedy occurred at
the auction on Frank Benschoter's
place on Tuesday whereby a young
man will be slightly disfigured for
life. One of the animals for sale was
large and usually very good temp
cred ST. Bernard dog. The animal
may have resented being sold at auc-
ton and was not in his usual amiable
mood
At all events his wrath was finally
aroused to a dangerous point. A
number of persons had teased the dog
by frequently pulling his tail. Final
ly the great dog sprang at the crowd
without warning and brought his
teeth together with a snap. The ear
of Guy Comstock, a young man aged
about twenty-five, came between the
angry dogs jaws and portion of the
upper rim of his ear was taken off as
neatly and completely as though sew
cred with butcher knife.
DR.. Luedtke Of this city was called
and dressed the wound, but nothing
could be done in the matter of stitch
ing the severed piece of the ear back
in place.-Fairmont Sentinel.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-03-26
MANCHESTER STABLE IN FLAMES
Valuable Stallion Sustains Serious In
juries-Other Horses Escape
Cnhurt.

Manchester, Iowa, March 24.-Fire
supposed to have originated from
spontaneous combustion, nearly des-
troyed the feed stables owned by H.
Gcodhile OF this city yesterday. The
fire broke through the roof of the
large barn and before the firemen ar
rived on the scene the entire building
was in flames. In the barn were a
dozen or fifteen head of horses, the
larger part of which were very val
liable animals. BY hard work and
some of the men taking desperate
chances the horses were all gotten
out of the burning building.
Last fall Mr.. Goodhile had placed
in the barn large quantity of shred
ded corn fodder, and on top OF this
was piled several tons of baled timo-
thy hay. 1t is the superstition that
spontaneous combustion took place,
causing the fire to spread over the
entire place in an instant. One of
the stations, Cedric, which is known
to every horseman in eastern Iowa,
sustained injuries which it is feared
will prove fatal After being remov-
ed from the building the animal be-
came frightened and ran into a WOW
en- wire fence, throwing himself with
the result that the spine was injured,
causing partial paralysis. The ami
NAL, while not the most valuable one
in the barn, has been in Goodhile's
possession for some twenty years, has
become fixture, which money wiz
not replace.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-03-26

ants of each of the defendants above
named are unknown to plaintiff al
though he has sought diligently to
learn the names and residences of
such unknown heirs and claimants.
That all of the right title or inter-
est which either of the defendants
ever had in and to any part of said
premises, has long been barred by
the Statute of Limitations and lost
by adverse possession.
Upon the foregoing facts plaintiff
asks that it be ordered, adjudged and
decreed that the title and estate of
the estate of Frank l.. Stinson, de-
ceased, in and to all of the real prop
erty heretofore described, be estab-
lished as therein alleged against the
adverse claims of defendants to this
action and that all the defendants to
this action and all persons claiming
by or through them or either of them
be barred and forever estopped from
having or claiming any title adverse
to the plaintiff in and to any of said
premises and that the title thereto
be quoted in the estate of Frank l..
Stinson, deceased, and that any of the
defendants in any way contesting
plaintiffs rights as above alleged be
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-03-26
HERE'S THE MEANEsT MAN.
He Attempted to Take Liberties With
a Little Girl Going Through.

Look no farther for the meanest
man. He lives in Cedar Rapids and
his name is Edward F. Dolan and his
address will be, care of Sheriff Ives,
for thirty days. For Dolan was fined
500 and the cost for disorderly con-
duct, and conduct of the most disOrd-
erly kind.
Dolan was brakeman on the Rock
Island until he was arrested. They
separated him from the pay roll so
quickly he hardly knows yet how it
happened. Dolan was a brakeman on
the DEBORAH branch and when it fin
ished here Sunday he took advantage
of his position to offer help to little
cripple girl. He sat with her in the
depot several hours. The police no
ticed him and Marion Fletcher was
detailed to sit alongside them and
hear the conversation.
Finally Dolan got the girl to go
outside with him and in hallway he
attempted to take liberties with her.
Then he was arrested.
Dolan pretends to be a vaudeville
artist by occupation, in addition to
knowing something about railroad
ing. In some manner he has manag-
ed to get to be member of several
splendid fraternal orders.
He pleaded guilty in police court
yesterday and received fine of 500
and costs.-Cedar Rapids Republican.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-03-26
Small Hats Call for Small Rats.

The new hats for spring are five
hundred per cent smaller than they
were last year. And men who have
dared to look the milliner in the face
have found out that the price is also
smaller. says an exchange. The small
ness of the hats has made it neces-
sary to start smallness of the rats.
That is, to appear demure and sweet,
it is not now necessary for a young
lady to have on peck of Chinese hair
besides her own so that her shaggy
tresses may peek from under her lid.
Common, homegrown dandruff filled
hair, tied down with ribbon a yard
wide can be made to stick from under
the new rigs a-la-Paree, and that is
all that any well-bred girl requires.
But the dresses this year are even
worse than last-with three sleeves
the arms in two of them and the two
limbs in the other one.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-03-26
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This is the work of Ayers Sdrsdpdnila.
Strength. Power. Reserve.
Sold for 60 years.
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adjudged to pay the costs of this pro-
ceeding. Plaintiff also asks judg-
ment for such other and further re-
lief as may be equitable in the prem
ises.
And unless you appear thereto and
answer thereto on or before noon of
the second day of the next April,
1913, term of said court, to be held
at DEBORAH, Iowa, in and for Winnie
shiek county, commencing on Monday
the 21st day of April, 1913, default
will be entered and judgment and de-
ere rendered against you thereon, in
accordance with the prayer of said
petition. ia
E. w. CUTTING,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-03-26
The Firebu2 Again.

The firebug that so terrorized the
people of Postville with his barn
burnings year ago, suddenly burst
into evidence again last Friday night
between $3.50 and 10000 O'Clock, be-
ginning his depredations as before by
firing the horse barn of +. W. fuller,
the well known horsebuyer and burn
ing 1t to the ground. Four head OF
horses, about % tons of hay, a quaint
ity of feed and harness, etc, were de-
stroyed, the only thing saved from the
building being Lynn McEwen's buggy
which was just inside the door. Earl
lest arrivals say they heard neither
sound or commotion from the poor
dumb brutes who were burned alive.
-Postville Review.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-03-26
1000 Hogs Die from Cholera.

Two thousand hogs died of cholera
in Barclay township this past year ac-
cording to figures submitted by the
assessor to County Auditor j. j.
Rainbow. Figuring each hog worth
SIS, brings the financial loss to thir-
ty thousand dollars in this one town
ship. Multiply this by nineteen, the
number of townships in the county,
would give figures upon which to
base an estimate of cholera damage
i'm Blackhawk. The total would be
more than a half million dollars, pro-
viding the townships all suffered as
heavily as did Observation-Disclosures
Courier
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-03-26
Flour Mill Sold at Auction.

The Waukon -four mill was sold at
auction today for $500, Chas. Wat
erman being the purchaser. The mill
was built ten years cost at a cost
of $4,000 1t has fine equipment
of machinery, and four acres OF land
goes with it. The property sometime
ago fell into the ownership OF local
parties who have continued its oper-
alton, but having other business pur-
suits they concluded to dispose OF 1t.
Mr.. Waterman has been an assistant
in the Minert & Nagel mill and it is
his intention to operate it from now
Waukon Democrat.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-03-26
LIGHTING GAS AUTO LAMPS.
Ii. X. Ilnay Discovers Practical Way
to Light Gas Auto Lamps With
Electric Spark from Magnetic.

B. X. McIlnay, proprietor of the
Big Cedar garage, bids fair to attain
prominence in the automobile world
through his recent discovery of a
practical and convenient method of
lighting gas automobile lamps with
an electric spark supplied from the
magnetic. While there are other meth
DDS of lighting automatically, Mr. Nc
llnay's way is superior to any on the
market by reason of its simplicity and
cheapness.
Mr.. McIlnay is among the first
to use spark from the magnetic
rather than carry set of batteries
and a coil especially for the purpose.
The most practical device for the
purpose now on the market cost in
the neighborhood of twenty dollars,
while the Usage man figures that his
device can be made and sold for IS.
Usage Press.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-03-26

Last Thursday Craig Moser of Elg-
in had his wood saving outfit at the
Dan Bells home and was engaged in
saving up the years supply of stove
wood. The job was nearly complet-
ed when in some manner Craigs hand
slipped and as quick as wink the
first two fingers on his right hand
were severed, one being completely
cut off and the other was left hang
ing by a shred.
Drs. Hinkle, Hadsel and Berry gave
him an anesthetic as soon as he was
brought home, cleaned the wound and
made him as comfortable as possible.
-Elgin Echo.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-03-26
Remodelling First National Bank

Mr.. Chas. j. Weiser, of DEBORAH,
was in the city last week, in attend
ance at the regular monthly board
meeting of the First National Bank.
He was accompanied by Architect r.
Hill Turnock, of Elkhart, Ind, who
took the measurements of the Office
building of the bank for the purpose
of getting ready the plans and speci-
fications for the changes and improve
ments to be made by that institution.
A burglar alarm system will be in
stalled at once to better protect the
vault while the repairs are in prog
ress. The changes include a remod-
cling of the Office rooms, replacing
the cid front with plate glass one,
changing the entrance from the pres
emf location to a direct corner en-
trance, removing the iron columns
and substitute brick, putting in tile
floor in the front office, remodelling
the second floor for Office purposes,
which will be reached by a stairway
to enter the building on the side next
to The Fette building and to install
heating and water plant for the &C
comnodations of both floors. When
completed these offices will present a
very nice appearance and with new
desks and fixtures we anticipate a
banking office which will be credit
to any town.-McGregor News.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-03-26
Probed CHARACTER Before Marrying.

Mason City, Ia, March 24.-AftC,,
waiting eight years for his bride, who
arrived a few days ago from Sweden,
Nels Anderson of Mason, Montana,
spent a day before he was able to sat-
isfy the authorities and the Rev. G..
G.. Belsheim that there was no legal
objection to his marriage to Miss
Mitchelde Fugelstad.
The young people were lovers in
the old world. Anderson came here
from Montana an entire stranger and
before the pastor OF the Scandinavian
church would perform the ceremony
a day was spent. Two kilograms were
received from Montana vouching his
good character.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-03-26
Good Duck Hunting.

Humboldt, Ia, March 24.-Iowa
duck hunters, particularly those in
the northern sections of the state,
are having busy time with the re-
turning water fowl.
The birds have been very plentiful
but owing to the scarcity of water, of
which there is less each season, the
sportsmen have had difficulty in find
ing suitable places.
Small fields of water in corn stalk
land offers choice spots, while on the
lakes OF northern Iowa the gunners
report excellent shooting.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-03-26
Use Lime i'm Black Hawk.

Cedar Falls, Ia, March 24.-The
first experiments with agricultural
lime in building up the soil of Black
Hawk county are to be made next
week, when ESQ tons of lime will be
shipped in and distributed among the
members of the Black Hawk County
Crop Improvement association. The
first experiments will involve about
seventy acres.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-03-26
Town Farm is Expensive.

Iowa Falls, Ia, March 24.-six
hundred and fifty dollars an, acre was
paid to William Tricky for his nine
acre tract in the western part of this
city. The property was purchased by
w. A. Bailey of Cherokee who VIII
conduct a dairy. The property was
imnrOVed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-03-26
Unwrapped Dollar Makes Postal Trip

Iowa Falls, March PA UNIQUE
delivery of mail was made by the To-
cal postoffice today. A silver dollar
with a 2-cent stamp on one side and
a slip bearing the address on the oth-
err was turned over to Prof. II. I. Dag
istan of the Ellsworth college facul-
ty. 1t was mailed at Valley Junction.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-03-26
Drops Dead Trying to Call Physician

Rockwell City, March 24-Her-
man Harm, young man residing at
Lavinia. fell dead last night on the
porch of John Beam, where he had
gone to telephone for a physician to
attend his wife, who is seriously Ill.
The couple had been married but
few weeks. 1t is supposed the excite
ment and worry caused heart failure.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-03-26
Woman Hiker Reaches Logan.

Logan, Iowa, March 24.-On wa
ger to walk to Chicago before April
/. Miss Caroline Laitner, who LETT
Omaha Friday, reached Logan at II
O'Clock, noon, Sunday, and after am
ing resumed her journey.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-03-26

Vaudeville and picture show,
Star Theatre. Grand opera houses
every evening; matinee Saturday,
from $3.50 to 500. )tf
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-03-26

When people say "a man is as
poor as a church mouse" they really
mean that he is as poor as a preach
er, but dislike to put 1t that way.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-27
EXHIBITS PLANNED
FOR CONFERENCE
Indian Girl Weaving, Model
Country Church and School
Fair for Features.

A prominent feature OF the indus
trial exhibition scheduled to be a part
OF the Conference for Education In the
South. which meets In Richmond April
1918. will be the exhibits of the boys
State Demonstration T. .. Sandy and
the girls canning clubs. under the
care of Miss Ella Agnew. An entire
room in the old High School building.
which is to shelter the exhibition, has
been reserved for these two exhibita
An actual demonstration OF work by
the girls canning clubs will be given
daily during the conference. The ma
terial for the exhibits have already
arrived In Richmond
From indications received by j. Fl.
Binford, chairman of the exhibit com
mittee OF the conference. the quantity
and quality OF Industrial and agricul-
tura1 exhibits to be set UP will be
worthy of national show In adj
dition to the departments Of educa-
ton OF the various Southern States.
numerous institutions and agencies
have requested reservation for exit
bition space.
Have Striking Features.
h. J. Defarmett. superintendent of
the trade school of the Hampton Az
ricuttural and Industrial Institute.
consulted with Mr.. Binford Yesterday
regarding the expensive and illuminat
Ing exhibit to be set up by the Hamp-
ton school. This exhibit costing s5.-
600. was originally collected for show
In chicago An Indian girl. weaving
aboriginal homespun. will be an at
traction OF the exhibit, while tho work
Of tho institute will be demonstrated
In attractive style by charts, pictures
and models.
The National Bureau of Education.
part OF the United States Depart
ment Of the Interior. has engaged an
entire room for It's exhibition of edu-
cational conditions in the United
States and insular possessions This
room is expected to rank with the
best.
The Campbell County School Board
has voted an appropriation to ship tho
Campbell County school fair to Rich
mond In toto and set It up In the ex
hibition hall. The Campbell County
fair, which was the first to be or
ganized In Virginia, is also one Of the
most complete. 1t will be placed under
the eye OF Miss Anna l.. Jones. of
Lynchburg.
Religious Conditions.
The State Yourg Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION has prepared an elaborate
exhibit OF charts. maps and pictures
Illustrating In graphic manner re-
ligious conditions in rural communi-
ues in the South. more particularly in
Virginia.
model country church, fully fitted
ont. will form the principal piece of
an exhibit 10 be set up by the Home
Mission Board OF tho Northern Pres
byterian Church. Fifty charts and pic
lures will accompany tho church Miss
Anna B. Taft VIII explain the exhibit
Examples OF industrial and manual
work done by the boys OF the Laurel
Industrial School will be shown in a
special exhibit, which promises to be
one of the most interesting of the con-
ference.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-27
General News Notes.

About 500 people attended the en-
tertainment given at the Reams graded
school on Monday, and all enjoyed
themselves. Among the many attrac-
tons were an amateur minstrel show,
given by local talent. The sum OF 800
was realized for the Improvement OF
the school and grounds.
Several Petersburg riders followed
the Brunswick pask OF hounds in fox
hunt yesterday in Dinwiddie County.
They were successful in capturing one
brush.
Last evening, at the home of Mrs.
Ellen Harrison, on West Washington
Street. Miss Grace Gertrude Alley and
Howard Louis Parrish were united in
marriage by the Rev. a. II. Love. Miss
Nashti Caudle attended as maid of
honor. and Ernest Floyd as best man
Following the ceremony n reception
was given at the home of the bride
groom. on Pearl Street.
The Rev. \. r.. Love. pastor of the
West End Baptist Church. who was
taken i'll during the service Sunday
tight, has recovered.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-27
To Improve Hlatoric Rona.

Secretary Martin, OF the Chamber of
Commerce, and A. H. Pettigrew. of the
State Highway Commission, yesterday
inspected that portion of the historic
old Jerusalem Plank Road. in Prince
George County. on which the work OF
permanent Improvement is soon to be
begun. The road is to be rebuilt from
Petersburg for some miles out i'm the
county. passing through n section made
historic during the War Between the
states. supply of good gravel is to
be found along the route. AS has been
stated. the fund for the Improvement
IL given by the State and county, sup
plcmented by liberal subscriptions from
private sources in the county and In
Petersburg. The people of this city
Lave heretofore given literally to the
building OF good roads in Dinwiddie
and Chesterfield.