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By AKERS <fc HEWITT.
DECORAH, IOWA, NOV. 8, 1805.
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RAILROAD TIME CARD.
Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway—
Decorah Branch.
Morning train leaves at 10:15, connects with
trains west and north; returning, arrives at
12:45.
Afternoon train leaves at 2:25, connects with
trains east and south and returns at 4225.
Freight train arrives at 9:20 a. m., and leaves
at 9:25 p. m.
A freight train leaves Calmar for Austin at
4p. rn. Leave Decorah at 2:25 p. m. to catch
this train. All trains daily except Sunday.
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern.
Train No. 52 (passenger) leaves Decorah at
8:40 p. M., and No. 54 (Freight) at 8:00 a. m.
No. 51 (Passenger) arrives atJ 2:10 p. M., and
No 53 (Freight) at 4:36 p. M.
The 3:40 passenger makes close connection at
Cedar Rapids with through trains to Chicago,
Bt. Louis. Kansas City, Omaha, St. Paul and
points beyond. All trains daily except Sun
day. C. S. RICE, Agent,
J. MORTON. Gen. Ticket & Pass. Ag’t.
BURR OAK ITEMS.
Election day was very quiet.
Looks as though we might get our long
needed rain.
They have been making a few repairs at
the creamery.
Our telephone line is completed and is now
being extended to Prosper.
A dance at the I. O. O. F. hall last Monday
night. Quite a few troin Decorah attended.
They have taken a new member into the
bane. What big heads it causes these boys to
have.
M. J. Ervin, our new postmaster, has put a
stock of goods in the postofltee. Good suc
cess to him.
Moving seems to he contagious this fall.
Clark Manning has moved his family into
their new house.
Royee & Evans Theater Company stayed in
Burr Oak four nights. It was cansidered a
success by those who attended.
BLUFFTON ITEMS
We had a very quiet eleetiou.
Mr. L. Elrea was In Cresco last Monday.
Mr. J. Farrall has purchased the Hale
building
A much needed rain came last Tuesday
evening.
Miss May Akers returned home from Hes
per last Sunday.
Mr. Westgate, of Hesper, was in town Fri
day and Saturday.
Mr. B. G. Street, of Heßper, was in town
Friday and Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Hurd, of Deeorah, are visit
ing relatives here this week.
Mrs. J. E. Fletcher, of Augusta, Wis., is
visiting friends and neighbors in tills place.
The telephone posts are up, and in a short
time we can talk with our neighbors in He
ro rah.
M. A. Lange, of South Dakota, is visiting his
. father and shaking hands with old friends In
this place.
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HESPER GLEANINGS.
Mr. Odgen Caster ton, of Highland townsnip,
Is reported quite sick.
Mrs. Will Aiken, of Decorah, spent part of
the week with parents.
Arthur Battey and family, of near Cresco,
came down last Sunday to see his sister, Eva.
E. W. Cleveland, manager of the creamery
of Hartland, Worth county, lowa, Is visiting
parents.
G. L. Potts, of Cresco, has come back with
the intention of becoming a resident of Mabel
or Hesper.
8. I. Osgood left several days ago for a deer
bunting expedition of tour weeks in the
northern part of Wisconsin.
Mr. and Mrs. Brace, of Mabel, and Miss
Emma Held, of Burr Oak. attended the sur
prise party at Dr. Worth’s last Monday
evening.
A Hallowe’en reception last Thursday even
ing, Oct. 31, at the noine of E, M. Carter, In
honor of Dora, was enjoyed by a number of
her most intimate friends.
F. L. Akers, G. O. Haugen, L. B. Whitney
and C. Christen, of Deeorah, came up Wednes
day, Oet. 30, to hear Hon. J. K. Blythe’s ad
dress, which was up-to-date and hill of en
thusiasm.
Drs. Mr. and Mrs. Worth were agreeably
surprised by over seventy of their friends
Monday evening Oct. 4., it being the occasion
of the arrival of Dr. Worth, who has lieen ab
sent for about three months visitingbis daugii
ghter, Mrs. C. B. Edmunds, in Wyoning. He
went thither to escape hay fever. The Dr.
brought home a few relics, gave glowing ac
counts of his trip and a very pleasant
was passed witli music, singing, social chats
and last but not least a bountiful supper was In
order.
The Horse as a Fighter.
New York Hun: “The Hun had an in
teresting item on Thursday headed
“Hoofs No Match for Horns,” said a
rich ex-cowboy who was stopping at
one of the Broadway hotels. “It des
cribed a fight between a horse and a
cow. Now, I never saw either cows or
buffaloes attack a horseso as to amount
to anything, but J want to rise up and
testify to the wonderful fighting powers
of the horse. He is built for more ways
and kinds of fighting than any other
Imxluct of nature. He can strike with
iis fore legs. When lie is in action he
fights ull over. If you want to see fun
you should see a wolf pack attack a
bunch of horses on the plains. The
horses get together with their heads
forming the hub of a wheel, and their
bodies forming the spokes. Then they
fight the wolves with their hind legs.
They All the air with wolves, and
every wolf lands dead, wounded or ill.
Horses avoid a fight as a rule, hut will
?o out of their way to kill a snake.
'hey jump on the snakes, clubbing
their hoofs, and using them like a mal
let. Tlieonly fights they seek are with
unmounted men, whom they frequently
attack, or else with one another; and
in the latter case they resemble a buzz
saw in action, all parts going at once.”
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Bring in Your Poultry.
Messrs. Olin &. Anderson opened
their poultry market on Oct. 7th for the
season, and will pay the highest market
price for ail kind of good stock.
Poultry must be in good order, as
smuli, thin stock is comparatively
worthless; but as we are permanently
located here, we will be in the market
for your thin stock when it is mutured.
Our place of business is at 120 East
Water at., Decordh, near Haas’ meat
market. Olin A Anderson.
SUGGESTIVE ITEMS.
f There art* 1,(MX),000 Scandinavians
in tlu* United States, of whom lilt),000
are voters.
f During the last fiscal year 20,745
patents were issued in this country,
and 12,000 expired.
iln England one man out of each 500
gets a collegiate education; in America
one out of each 200.
f There are 700 golf clubs at present
in Great Britain, with about 35,000
players.—Scientific American.
f An order has been enacted by the
city council of Charlotte, N. C\, lining
a minor $25 on being found in a saloon.
\ A connisseur of eats, living in
Westfield, Mass., has twenty-three cats
in his house. One he values at SI,OOO.
% Nlr. Giftin, the statieian, says that
in Great Britain tin* average wages per
annum for men is $195 and for women
$125.
f. In the twenty-six weeks of Pa
derewski's second American tour the
receipts for admission to his concerts
were SIBO,OOO.
f The Venetian government was tlu*
tirst civilized power to list* powder, and
they employed the tirst cannon in the
battle of Chioz, in 1318.
f Letters received from whaling ships
in the Pacific Arctic say that the ice
has formed earlier and heaver this year
than ever known before.
f The sundews are carnivorous plants.
When an insect touches the liquid on
tlie leaves it is held while the leaf
covers over it, smothering it.
f School teachers under contract with
the school board of Chehaiis, Wash.,
arc prohibited, by an order issued by
tlie board, from dancing or playing
cards.
\ Noah Bay, Washington, is tlu*
wettest place in all that wet state, and
perhaps the rainiest spot in the whole
country. The average annual rainfall
there is 123 inches.
f, A telephone wire i* carried a mile
and a hall without support over Lake
Wallen, between tjuintcii and Murg,
in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzer
land.—Scientific American.
f The wife of George Rhode, an em
ploye of the Lookport Paper Company,
recently gave birth toti triplet, two hoys
and a girl. The father of tlie children
is a German, and the mother English.
\ Three boys and girl were born to
Mrs. Amanda Webster at Bethel, Del.,
one day last week. The mother is
twenty and tlie husband lifty-two years
old. All the children were doing well
at last accounts.
i The largest flower in the world
grows in Sumatra. It is called the
rafHesia arnoldi and some of tlie speci
mens are each thirty-nine inches in
diameter. The central cup will bold
six quarts of water.
i From the fact that during the first
week of the open season fines aggregat
ing SoOb were imposed inSouthern New
Hampshire on over enthusiastic sports
men, it is inferred that the hunters are
having lots of fun up there.
i, The night blooming jessamine
shows no special charm through the
(lay, but at the approach of evening
its little candle-shaped flowers present
a picture of singular beauty, while they
All tlie whole air with their fragrance.
A woman drummer for a cigar fac
tory a pjiea red in Valdosta, (ia., a few
days ago, and surprised the merchants.
She further surprised them later Im
proving that she was an expert in
handling cigars and understood her
business thoroughly.
\ The rising generation of the new
woman is rapidly coming to the front
in the West. Last week the girls at
the high school in Pontiac, Mich.,
organized a foot ball team, and about
tiie same time the girls in the Helena,
Mont., high school organized a military
company.
$ An Albany grape grower says that
in the packing houses children eat
grapes all day at any time they like,
amt never saw one of them separate the
seeds from the pulp. He swallowed
the seeds himself and in twenty years
he bus never heard of a ease* of ap
pendicitis.
j. The Seventh Day Adventists in
Michigan, the chief center of the sect,
are proposing to discard the present
names of the days of the week, because
of their heathen origin. They will
designate them by numlter, as is done
in tlie Bible, except that they will, of
course*, call Saturday the Sabbath.
\ Careful observations of heat were
taken in a I,GoO-foot boring recently
made near Mulliausen, in Alsace. At
the lowest deptli the temperature was
KK>° Fahrenheit, and at 770 feet it was
04£°; from that point down the increase
was regular, amounting to one degree
Fahrenheit for every twenty-two feet
bored.
% The best estimate of the population
of the world gives it as 1 ~000,000,000.
Of this number, the males constitute
about 40 per cent, although this varies
greatly in different countries. In the
Cnited States, for instance, the males
constituted "d. 21 percent of the total
population of 1800, this excess of males
being due to immigration.
\ One of the most remarkable inks
known to the chemist is made of a pre
paration of Prussian blue in combina
tion with nitric and hydrochloric acid.
The writing done with this ink has
the singular property of fading when
exposed to the light, and recovering
its color when taken into the shade or
placed in jicrfeot darkness.
i A novel feature was introduced at
a harvest festival service held in a New
Haven church the other day. Mem
bers of the congregation owning cana
ries brought them to the church, and
the cages were hung in various parts
of the building. The feathered song
sters joined in the musical part of the
services with what is described as most
delightful effect.
$ Dr. Goriansky declares that the
use of tin* pure and fresh juice of
raw cranberries, given freely, either
undiluted or with equal part of
water, is an excellent means of reliev
ing tin* thirst and vomiting peculiar to
cholera. In fifty cases, in which ice
and narcotics failed to make the slight
est impression, the cranberry juice, in
small but repeated doses, rapidly check
ed both vomiting and nausea.—Ex.
To Warn Them With Kites.
Observer Fitzgerald, of the weather
office at Pierre, S. D., lias written the
bureau at Washington concerning a
method he proposes to adopt in warn
ing stockmen on the range of the ap
proach of heavy stormsduring tlie win
ter. His plan consists of sending up
large kites of different colors to a height
of 2,000 feet or more, which would
make them visible over a large scope
of the range country. The kites could
Ik* sent up at stated hours during the
day and at night colored lights could,
tlu* observer thinks, he attached.
Should tlie kites prove impractical col
ored balloons held captive by light
cables would, it is suggests!, doequally
well.—Pioneer Press.
Sonieihini' Worth Knowing
Philadelphia Record: Here’s some
thing that may stive your life when a
hull gets after you. When a bull
charges, just before the final lurch lie
shuts his eyes, and if you have the
presence of mind to stand stock still
until he is within two or three feet
from you, till you have to do is to step
aside, and he misses you. Any child
with sufficient presence of mind to do
this can let a hull charge till day with
perfect safety. Thisis not a new thing,
as it is one of the secrets of the bull
tighter in the country where the sport
is practiced. The bull fighters say
that a cow does not do this, and they
would never try any such tricks with a
mad cow. The writer knows that
what is said about the bull’s habit is
true.
Problem for Scientists.
Indianapolis, Oct. 31.—An interest
ing point for scientists to consider in
connection with the earthquake this
morning is the fact that a number of
the smaller Indiana streams having
their source in the southern border of
the gas belt have suddenly filled with
water. No rains liuve occurred in this
state for months to swell the streams,
and in tin* ease of Honey creek, in the
eastern part of Bartholomew county, it
had gone dry several weeks ago, tlie
water standing only in pools here and
there. This week it is filled to the
brim and in some places has overflowed
and washed away fences on the adjoin
ing farms. Sugar creek, which runs
near Edinburg, Johnson county, was
nearly dry, hut to-day it is reported to
be nearly filled. Smaller streams ris
ing in the Hancock county gas terri
tory, have shown similar phenomena.
No one can explain from whence the
water comes, and in the case of Honey
creek tin* record* show that previous to
the Charleston earthquake, Aug. 31,
1886, the stream acted as it has now.
The phenomenon was repeated previous
to tiie quake on Sept. 28, 1878, both of
these two quakes having been strongly
felt in Indiana.—Pioneer Press.
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NOTICE OF REFEREE’S SALE.
TJ Y VIRTUE OF AN ORDER OF SALE
Li directed to the undersigned, referee, from
the Clerk ot the District Court of Winnesheik
county, lowa, on a judgment obtained in
said court on the 2d day of October, 1895, in
favor of Owen O’Callaghan and others, plain
tiffs, and against Timothy Finn, defendant, for
the sale of real estate named and described in
said plaintiff’s petition, I will, on
SATURDAY. the 10th day of Xovember, iSqs,
offer for sale tlie following described real
estate, situated in Winnesheik county, Iowa:
Lot four (4), block three (3), South Deeorah.
and north %of northeast l 4 of section two
(2), township ninety-eight (98) range nine (9),
and southeast \\ of southeast ‘4, and
southeast of southwest % of section
thirty-five (85), township ninety-nine (99),
range nine (9), Winnesheik county, lowa.
Said sail* to hike place at the front door of the
Court House in Decorah, Winnesheik county,
lowa, commencing at 1 o’clock p. M., of said
day, when and where due attendance will be
given by the undersigned.
32--w C. CHRISTEN, Referee.
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Grocery Store.
E. OSTENSON& CO.
.i 17 West Water Street.
We have a full line of
the finetst Family Gro
ceries to be found in the
city. Everything new and
fresh, and will be kept so.
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SPICES.
Everything at
Reasonable Prices.
Goods delivered free in any r>art
of tin* city.
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jjj West Water Street.
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Apples —By the ear load.
Apples —By the wagon load.
AppleS-»r ,t "‘ barrel-
Apples —By the bushel.
Apples —By the peck.
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The choicest lot of Apples
ever shipped into Decorah—at
hard times prices.
Leave your orders early
and save money.
I have just received a lot of
Strictly Pure Vermont
Maple Sap.
The Best Pure Buckwheat
Flour, so cheap that every
body can buy it.
I have Quaker Self-Rising
Buckwheat for small families,
and it is easy to prepare.
Call and look at my goods,
look at my prices, and we can
surely satisfy the wants of all.
No trouble to show goods.
Honest Goods at LOWEST
PRICES, with prompt de
livery, at
E. E. AUCHMOODY’S.
| FURNITURE!!
Again we show you a few euts of our goods, which we can recommend as
tirst-elass, and cheaper than any other dealer can sell.
Oak: Extension
At Prices
Way Below
All Others.
We have the
PEERLESS
EXTENSION TABLE.
The Best in tbe World.
Lounges and Parlor Suits and Mattresses,
BW Our repair shops for Furniture and Carriage Trimmings are iterfect.
(Soliciting your orders,
* EMIL V. UFFELMAN,
49-M&11 orders promptly attended to. Our.new Catalogue .will icon U you want terns drop a postal card and we will
send yon ona FREE OF CHARGE.
Union darings Bank.
CRESCQ
Union Savings Bank
Paid Up Capital, /ioo.ooo.
ROBERT THOMSON, i J retAiclent und Cushier.
J. J. LOWRY, Vice President.
DIRECTORS:
1- J- Lowrj-, John Tliommm,
NV. K, Barker, Jolin McCook,
Dr. H. C. Price, Robert Thomson.
Hon. W. Danforth,
Interest Paid on Time Deposits.
Austin Steam Marble «» Granite Works
MANUFACTURERS OF' AND DEALERS IN
[the highest grade of,
CEMETERY WORK.
j Address or Call on
J. B. BARBER,
&eneral Agent , Cresco , lowa.
Nero furniture anb Repair 5l)op
There is no Dealer in Winnesheik County who
Can Sell You a» Good
A CHAIR
And as CHEAP as we Can.
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We will sell you a four-spindle, Hardwood Chair for the next
90 days per half-dozen $2. 60.
Oak Cane Seat, per set, #5.50.
Wejmaunraeture right here in De
eorah and if you appreciate that,
you want to buy of your home
manufacturer, and assist your home
industry
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We are headquarters for such goods
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Furniture, such as Sideboards, Cup
boards, Wardrobes, Bed Springs—
any thing you want in the line of
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