Decorah public opinion., November 15, 1895, Image 8

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By AKERS A HEWITT.
DECORAH, IOWA, NOV. 15, 1895.
RAILROAD TIME CARD.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. I’aul Railway—
Decorah Branch.
Morning train leaves at 10:15, connects with
trains west and north; returning, arrives at
12:45.
Afteriux»n train leaves at 2:25, connects with
trains east and south and returns at 4:25.
Freight train arrives at 9:20 a. M., and leaves
at 9:25 p. M.
A freight train leaves Cal mar for Austin at
4p. m. 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
3:40 p. m., and No. .54 (Freight) at 6:.#) A. M.
No. 51 (Passenger) arrives at; 2:10 p. M., and
No 53 (Freight) at -1:36 e. m.
The 3:40 passenger makes close connection at
Cedar Rapids with through trains to Chicago,
Bt. Louis. Kansas City, Omaha, Bt. Paul and
points beyond. All trains daily except Sun
day. C. S. RICE, Agent.
J. MORTON, Gen. Ticket & Pass. Ag’t.
BURR OAK ITEMS.
Farmers are busy husking their corn.
Our little town is very quiet just at present.
Gertie Putnam was up from Decorah visit
ing relatives and friends.
A. Dawley, of West Decorah, is getting all
the well drilling he can do.
F. E. Downie has rented Mrs. F. Cleveland’s
farm and is preparing to move onto it.
There is quite a good deni of building and
repairing being done around here this tall.
Mrs. Autaway and two children left Monday
morning for a visit with her sisters, in Illinois.
The Ladies’ Aid Society gave a chicken pie
social last Tuesday evening in the I. O. O. F.
hall.
Henry Emery has bought the Ben Ward
property, In the north part of town, repuired
It some, and moved his family in.
HESPER GLEANINGS.
Miss Grace Cleveland is visiting friends in
Decorah.
B. M. lA*in transacted business »n Decorah
last Wednesday.
J. L. Cameron, ot Decorah, is rusticating in
Hesper for a few days.
Miss Eva Battey died Tuesday, Oct. 12, at
the home of David Tabers.
Insurance agent Miller, of .teeorah, was
seen on our streets one day this week.
Mr. John Garden, of Houston, Minn., is the
guest of his sister, Mrs. Robert McMillen.
Mrs. F. R. Fletcher, of Augusta, Wis., is
visiting Mrs. Moses Oran and other acquaint
ances.
Messrs. W. O. Casterton and F. Darrington,
with their respective wives, visited near Can
ton und Crasco last Saturday, returning Mon
day.
Mr. Henry Galusha started for Worth
county, lowa, last Wednesday, with the ob
ject of assisting Mr. Charles Cleveland in the
creamery.
The holes are all dug for the posts which
support the telephone wires, and it won’t be
long before we can have communication with
our sister towns.
Mrs. Genevieve Harper Cameron and son,
ot Tedford, Neb., are visiting Mrs. Harper’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. .J. L. Cameron. They
expect to remain until after the holidays.
By invitution a large number of young peo
ple attended the husking bee at D. A. Hill’s.
They had a delightful time, and the principal
feature of the supper were oysters served in
various ways.
Wbat to Do Witb Photographs.
Among the treasures which the sum
mergirl brings home with her none give
her more pleasure than the photographs
she has accumulated; nor ao any souve
nirs cause a greater amount of worry
—that is if they are unmounted—and
“Whatshall I do with them?” becomes
a perplexing question.
Of course they can be taken to a pro
fessional who does mounting for a con
sideration, but the sum of the bill is
not a pleasing sequel, and more often
than not the nictures, though dear to
memory, are lost to sight in the dim
obscruity of a table drawer.
There is a way, a home-made way,
to mount photographs which proves
so satisfactory if carefully undertaken,
with due amount of time and patience
thrown in, that it seems worth while
to suggest it.
Out some moderately stout cardboard
in the sizes you require, place your pic
ture where you wish it to be when
mounted, and put a pencil dot where
each corner comes. A large table and
plenty of newspapers are needed and a
pot or gelatine. This is much better
than mucilage or paste. It should be
melted and the pot in which it stands
placed in another one of hot water,
which should be renewed from time to
time.
A small sponge, tied to the end of a
stick, is used to apply the gelatine.
One advantage of gelatine is that if an
album becomes worn out the photo
graphs can easily bo removed by soak
ing the pages in hot water; it also does
not leave dirty stains if a little gets
over the edges of the picture.
A second basin of not water is also
required, with a small sponge floating
in it.
Now take the first photograph and
spread it as well as you can face
upward on a newspaper. Dampen the
face thoroughly with hot water, rub
bing it gently with the sponge. The
photograph will soon lie Hat instead of
rolled up; then turn it over, back up
ward and apply the gelatine with a
sponge brush, taking care, that the
whole is covered. The picture must
now betaken and placed boldly in the
album, the pencil marks made Indore
being used as guides.
In order that the mounting may be
done in tirst-rate style, this placing in
position should be done at one motion
and the picture should not be moved
afterward.
To fix the photograph in its place,
dab it with a soft towel or large cloth,
beginning at the center and working
outward. Do not rub it with a cloth.
The dampening of the photograph
with water and gelatine will be found
to have expanded it somewhat, so that
the pencil marks made before must be
used as guides to its position rather
than indications of the exact positions
of the corners. Unless the gelatine is
quite hot it will be lumpy.
However well the p'hotograph is
mounted, it is almost certain at first
to be covered with small blisters, and
you will think that it is spoiled. In
the process of drying however, all these
disappear and the surface becomes per
fectly smooth and even, and you begin
to wonder why you have never tried
your hand before at this work. In
deed, such a pleasing and satisfactory
employment is it that you wonder why
you ever do anything else but mount
photographs.—Eleanor Lexington.
IT IS HERE.
We art* beginning to realize that fall
with all its accompanying elements is
with us. Tiie iiot days of the summer
months have gone. The sun hits ceased
to pour its scorching rays upon our
heads. The heated atmosphere of mid
summer lias been transformed into a
more frigid aeriform. The warm
nights are now no longer and we are
all compelled to stay near the stove
after the night has drawn its curtains
down.
The trees which but a few weeks
since stood in stately form, covered
with green leaves, are now robbed of
their summer dress. The grass-decked
hills are bald, and present it cold and
chilly appearance. The green lawns
have changed their color into that of a
brownish hue. All these things re
mind us that sweet summer lias gone
away. They remind us, too, that soon
the white snow will change the face of
nature, and that cold, stern winter
will be here.
But this is the way of nature, and it
is tiie right way. Winter succeeds
summer, and summer in turn succeeds
winter. So the years will go on and
on untill time in its flight will find us,
who are young, in the realms of old age;
and we will be laid away in tiie silent
precincts of tiie tomb. Generation suc
ceeds generation, and tiie world moves
on. We are prone to ask what is life
worth and why should we live and toil,
and labor, only to die and leave the
world? Why waste our energies and
thought hut to Ik* destroyed and buried
with our bodies? But life is after all a
pleasure, and we cling to it in the face
of all obstacles. Our work and our
good deeds, however, do not die with
us, but are left to make their impress
upon tiie world. What good we arc
able to accomplish will be a benefit to
those who follow, and this is the great
object of life.
Good Bacon.
This country is fast Incoming a na
tion of bacon-eaters, and the demand
for bacon is very much greater now
than it was only a few years ago. This
demand leads to a well-defined call for
bacon breeds of swine, and those breeds
which can be depended on to produce
meat well streaked with lean have a
prospect of becoming very popular.
The bacon made in America has hith
erto been too fat to meet with great fa
vor in the markets of the world. In
Europe Danish bacon has first place,
while that of Canada is taken in prefer
ence to that from thiscountry. This is
because of the greater amount of lean
meat in the product of these countries
as compared with ours.
The American swine breeder has
been paying most of his attention to
producing weight without regard to
what their weight was made up of, and,
as a consequence, American pork is
largely pure fat, and it is not uncom
mon to find American side ]>ork that
has no lean in it. The favorite breeds
in America have been bred to this
weight ideal until they are largely fat
producers and very few of them are
good bacon hogs, and he who desires
to produce first-classbacon must choose
his breed carefully.—Farm News.
Fashion Fads.
Changeable corded fabrics, both in
silk and all wool, are in great use and
apjH'ar in new and attractive effects.
The dahlia, mulberry and reddish
plum shades in velvet and cloth are
much used for elegant fur-trimmed
costumes.
Brilliant cherry, orange, yellow,
green and other striking colors are used
in velvet for stock collar and vest or
plastron front.
Painted buttons of French origin,
and particularly those of Louis XVI.
date, are eagerly sought after just now
and command a very high price.
Among the novel elegancies in the
shops of the city are boxcoats of very
light-colored cloth, the coat and shoul
der-cape lined with richlv plaided taf
feta silk.
Ribbons or narrow galloons spangled
a very little on the edge make an effec
tive and inexpensive garniture which
can l>e arranged for neckbands, belts,
edgings and braces over the shoulders.
—TheHt. Paul Pioneer Press .says that
“if any support hail been lacking for
the theory that Minnesota is the
healthiest state in the Union, it has
been supplied by the exemption from
the prevelant earthquake.” Well,
now, that’s lots of cheek, in the face
of the fact that it is a matter of which
everyone will take judicial notice that
lowa is the healthiest state in the
Union.
—The schooner Mary Bupne from
Unalaska reports experiencing a severe
earthquake at sea Oct. 24. Thecaptain
was in the riggings and the sea was as
smooth as glass when the vessel began
to shake violently, every timber creak
ing and the sea became greatly agitat
ed. The phenomena lasted two min
utes. On the following day the
schooner passed through u large area of
apparently muddy water.
—Our boys who visited Minneapolis
recently, relate a story told by one of
the after-dinner shakers. He said he
would relate a little Bible incident,
found, he thought, somewhere in Gen
esis. The substance of it was that
God created the heavens and earth
and rested. On the sixth day he cre
ated man and rested again; arid it is to
be ho()ed that lie took a good, long
rest, for then lie created woman, and
neither God nor man has had any rest
since.—Corwith Hustler.
♦
New York Apples.
I have just received a carload of ap
ples, mostly Greenings and Baldwins,
and those wishing apples for winter
eating should come at once and get the
best. No. 1 New York apples.
35 L. A. Marsh.
♦
“Another Wise Girl”—Miss Lois Tuttle.
She buys a “Bauer” Piano, the
musician’s favorite, and the only high
grade piano sold in Decorah. This
piano speaks for itself. Sold at Marsh’s
Music House. 36-4
—What everybody says must be
true. Why? Because Spurr’s pic
tures have stood the test for ten
years, which proves the quality to be
first-class. Time always tells the story.
Such work is in demand, and will be
so long as tiie world stands. People
are becoming more proficient in artist
judgment and demand purely artistic
work. Photography has received more
scientific consideration than any other
profession the past twenty years, and
is one of the instruments of intellectual
progress, so recognized by publishers
and readersof the periodical world. A
well-taken photograph is something
to be prized, if the position and light
ing is artistically arranged, and tiie
picture finished in the latest style.
People who likeartistic pictures should
call at Spurr’s studio, 209 Water street,
and be convinced of the merits of his
work. No pictures are allowed to be
taken from the Spun* studio that does
not give satisfaction. Mr. Spun* lias
followed the photographic business for
the past sixteen years and lias kept up
with tin* progress of his profession.
His business is tin* oldest and best
established inWinnesheik county. His
studio is complete in scenic effects and
accessories, which afford every ad
vantage possible.
Her First Appearance.
Mary Anderson de Navarro in her stage
career memoirs, which will be published in
Tiie Ladies’ Home Journal (tiie opening chap
ters in the December issue), gives the public a
most interesting and entertaining view of the
trials and hardships she successfully combated
in following out her conviction that the stage
presented to her the opportunity fora splendid
career. She exultantly refers to her debut in
Louisville, Ky., on Saturday evening, Nov.
27, 1575, upon which occasion the “tall, shy and
awkward” girl of sixteen interpreted Shakes
peare’s love-lorn “Juliet.” The performance
was arranged upon two days’ notice —time
but for a single rehearsal—and the aspiring
Kentucky girl was jubilant when the theater
and a stix-k company were offered her, upon
condition that she play without pay. tier
happiness, however, was not unclouded, for
of the event site writes with touching pathos:
“That Thursday” (The day that her first ap
pearance was arranged) was one of the hap
piest days of all my life, tilled as it was with
the brightest hope and anticipation. Only
one black cloud hung over it; the thought of
Nonieand my grandpa rents who wereall very
dear to me. Had I known then that I would
never sec the face oft lie former, that lie would
die, my mother and I faraway from him, and
that almost until his death tie would refuse to
forgive or see me unless I abandoned the stage
life which lie thought so injurious—nay sinful
—I would even then have renounced what was
within my grasp. This estrangement sad
dened many years of my life, and has east
a shadow over all the otherwise bright and
happy memories of him who was the father,
friend and playmate of our childhood days.”
Mrs. de Navarro evlently did not suffer
from "stage fright,” the crushing terror of
debutante*, for she writes that she stood im
patiently waiting for tier “cue” to goon. At
last it came. “Then, in a flash, I was on the
stage, conscious only of a wall of yellow light
before me, and a burst of prolonged applause.”
Tiie performance was tilled with rather de
pressing incidents: one of the players forgot
fiis lines and had to lie prompted by the
youthful star; “Romeo” neglected to bring his
dagger, and “Juliet” had to perform her dis
patch with a hairpin, while the lamp that
hung in “Juliet’s" tomb, fell and badly burned
hernandsand arms. “Despite of these.”she
writes, “the night was a success, and 1 knew
that my stage career had begun in earnest.”
Legal
NOTICE OF REFEREE’S SALE.
OY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER OF SALE
n directed to the undersigned, reiVree, 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 plaintiffs petition, I will, on
SATURDAY, the K>th da; of November, ißys,
offer for sale the following described real
estate, situated in Winnesheik county, Iowa:
Lot four (4), bloek three (3), South Decorab,
and north %of northeast % of section two
(2), township ninety-eight <9Bi range nine (»),
and southeast y of southeast *4, and
southeast of southwest >4 of section
thirty-five (35), township ninety-nine (!«b,
range nine (9), Winnesheik county, lowa.
Said sale to take place at the front door of the
Court House in Deeorah, Winnesheik county,
lowa, commencing at l o’clock p. m., of said
day, when und where due attendance will be
given by the undersigned.
32-2 w C. CHRISTEN, Referee.
NOTICE IN PROBATE.
To Whom it may Concern.:
yOU and each of you are hereby notified to
1 appear ut tin* Court House, ill Winnesheik
County, lowa, on the 10th day of February.
1896, at 2o’clock t*. m., to attend the probate of
an instrument purporting to Is* tin* last will
and testament of Ole K. Kittleson, late of Lin
coln Township, in Winnesheik County, lowa,
deceased, at which time and place you will ai>-
pear und show cause, if any, why said will
should not beudmitted to probate.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto sub
scribed my name and atlixed the seal of said
office, this 13th day of November, 1895.
(Ska i..] HENRY KLVIDOE,
36-3 Clerk District Court.
NEW
Grocery Store.
J
E. OSTENSON& CO.
317 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.
teas,
coffees,
flour,
SPICES.
Everything at
Reasonable Prices.
Bfeir Goodsdelivered free in any Hart
of the city.
E. OSTENSON & CO.
J// IVest Water Street.
CRESCO DOINGS.
| From our Regular Correspondent.)
.hike Welsh was an OAsian visitor
Wednesday.
Ben Warner’s Company is playing
here this week. All new plays so far.
The i’atterson-Carter entertainment
is next Monday evening. We trust
that they meet with success.
The Cresco Social Club give their
second dance Saturday evening in their
pleasant hall in the O’Malley block.
Miss Carrie Breedlove is gradually
failing. Commencing with pleurisy,
it has changed to the dread disease
consumption.
The first number of the Cresco Lec
ture Course will lie Nov. 23, when
Robert Nourse gives his great lecture
on “Dr. Jeckyll und Mr. Hyde.”
Auctions are of frequent occurrence.
Farmers are disposing of surplus stock
and machinery, and find they get let
ter prices at public auction than pri
vate sale. Stock especially is selling
well, owing no doubt to cheap feed.
W. K. Barker underwent a painful
surgical operation yesterday morning.
The operation consisted of the unjoint
ing of the shoulder and removal of a
{Million of the socket end of tiie liumer
ous. Tnis will leave Mr. Barker with
a powerless left arm, hut it is hoped
will result in complete recovery.
Dr. Kerline, of Chicago, assisted bv
Drs. Kessel and Connolly, performed
the operation.
Bring in Vour Poultry.
Messrs. Olin & Anderson opened
their poultry market on Oct. 7th for the
season, and will pay the highest market
price for all kino of good stock.
Poultry must in* in good order, as
small, thin stock is comparatively
worthless; hut as we are permanently
located here, we will Ik* in the market
for your thin st«M*k when it is matured.
Our place of business is at 120 East
Water st., Decorah, near Haas’ meat
market. Olin & Anderson.
♦
For Rent.
A pleasant furnished room, upstairs.
For particulars call at this office.
F. C. SCHANCK’S
STAGE OFFICE.
At St, Cloud. Hotel.
Leave orders there for the NORTH. Stage
leaves office daily at 3:30 p. m., for Burr Oak,
Prosper, Hesper und Mabel. Connects with
train going west on narrow gauge, and makes
drives toany place within 25 miles of Burr Oak.
| FURNITURE!
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Oak Extension 'Fables.
At Prices •
Way Below *
All Others. •
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Lounges and Parlor Suits and Mattresses,
ata)r Our repair shops for Furniture and Carriage Trimmings are iierfect.
Soliciting your orders,
EMIL V. UFFELMAN,
501 West Water street, Decorah, lowa.
49*Mall order# promptly attended to. Ourjnew Catalogue will soon be completed. If you want eame drop a poatal card and we will
send yon one FKEE OF CHAKOE.
Union Sailings Dank.
CRESCO ~~
Union Savings Bank
Paid Up Capital, #IOO,OOO.
ROBERT THOMSON, President und Cashier.
J. J. LOWRY, Vice President.
DIRECTORS:
I• J. Lowry, Joliri Thomson,
W. K, Barker, John McCook.
Hr. H. C. I ’rice, Robert Thomson.
Hon. \V. Don forth,
Interest Paid on Time Deposits.
Austin Steam Marble Granite Works
MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN
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j J. B. BARBER.
L&eneral Agent, Cresco , lowa.
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There is no Dealer in Winnesheik County who
Can Sell Yon as 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.
Wejmaunracture right here in De
corah and if you appreciate that,
you want to buy of your home
manufacturer, and assist your home
industry
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IRON AND BRASS BEDS.
We are headquarters for such goods
••••
We also have all kinds of other
Furniture, such as Sideboards, Cup
i*oards, Wardrobes, Bed Springs—
any thing you want in the line of
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