Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-01-19
HEsPER.

49, anu MID, uIlip IOuHS ana
children were entertained at the
Alfred Young home Sunday.
Mr.. John Mcmillan called at Chris
Steno's Sunday.
Mr.. John Allen was a guest at the
Perry Kenyon home Sunday.
Miss Iowa Telford who has been
at Cresco for some time came home
Saturday evening to get acquainted
with the home folks again.
Miss Anna Usgaard went home
Sunday for visit under the parental
roof.
Mr.. j. C. Steno has been listed
among the sick the past week.
Miss Marie Peterson came up
from DEBORAH Friday evening to visit
under the parental roof Miss Peter
son is student at Valdez College
and speaks very highly of it.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Foltz were la
grippe victims the fore part of the
week. DR.. Lanin of Mabel was con-
suited for medical treatment.
Mr. Peter Leseth was a visitor at
Mabel Friday.
A large crowd attended the mas
querade ball in the hall Friday eve
ming. RObinson's orchestra was en-
gagged to furnish the music, but Per-
cy Robinson was called elsewhere, so
the Peterson orchestra of Mabel fur
nished the music.
Miss Myra Sayles, a senior student
in the DEBORAH high school came
home Friday night to visit at the
parental home.
Messrs Henry Barth and Valentine
Kern were observed in our locality
Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs John Foltz were
guests at the George Foltz home
Monday.
Mrs Ann Reed was victim of the
la grippe the past week.
Mr.. Weston Stoskopf came home
Friday to spend the week end at
home
Mr.. John Foltz went to Prosper
Friday after a load of coal.
Mr., c. J. Steno was a business
translator at Mabel Friday.
The doctors are kept very much
pre-occupied these days, as in ma
jority of the homes there are one or
more victims of a bad cold or la
grippe. The grippe seems to take a
harder grip of them this winter
Messrs. Albert and Will Brogham-
mer and Aslo Ray Smalley were
callers at DEBORAH Friday.
Miss Julia Vykmyr who has been
visiting friends and relatives near
Mabel and Hesper returned to the
Hedge jacobson home to take up her
duties as a domestic again Saturday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Darlington
were at DEBORAH Saturday.
Messrs. Ole and Alfred Anderson
also Philip Young were visitors at
Steno's Thursday.
Mr.. Willie Broghammer assisted
Wellington Telford with some work
on the farm Monday.
Mr. Valentine Stoskopf done some
shopping at Burr Oak Thursday.
Mr.. Albert Wingate hauled quite a
bit of ice for his ice house the past
week hauling it up from near Burr
Oak
Mr. Fred Foltz and son Henry
were business transactors at the
hub Tuesday.
British sea power is being used
with little restraint, just as policy or
necessity directs it. 1t never has
consulted anything but exigency.
Might with it makes right, as the
saying goes. 1t is frequently un-
scrupulous. If the British think
that the United States can submit or
ought to submit TO the control of the
seas in the fashion they think neces-
sary. they must assume that we are
wards of British effort, too timid to
help ourselves.
Miss Muriel Foltz reopened her
school again Wednesday, as she was
ents who were very i'll.
Miss Hilda Ramlo was caller at
Steno's Sunday.
Mr.. Albert Wingate made trip to
Mabel Monday.
Mr.. Roy Brown of Locust was seen
in our burg Saturday
Miss Lila Hilleman went to De-
corah Saturday for weeks visit
with friends and relatives.
Miss Hilda Ramlo went to Decor
all Wednesday for a visit.
Mr.. Will Hilleman was at DEBORAH
Saturday.
One of Hesper's most popular
young ladies, Miss Nora Rowe was
Joined in marriage Wednesday to
Mr.. Griswold. Congratulations.
Mrs Rowe White who has been
very ill for some time is much better
at this writing.
Mr.. Cyril Rowe who has been list
ed among the sick is on the road to
recovery which will be good news
to his many friends.
The fool holds discussions about
the war while the wise man holds
his tongue.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Mcmillan went
to the Waterloo Ridge Sunday as she
received word that her father had
been taken very i'll.
Miss Muriel Foltz spent Sunday at
the Will Feltis home
Mr.. and Mrs. John Foltz and son
Raymond were entertained at the
latter's parental home Sunday.
Mr.. C. ]. Steno called on Frank
Frye Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Johnnie Anderson was Wis
itor at the parental home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Welch Jr. and
children were guess at the Andrew