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RAILROAD TIME CARD.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. rani Railway—
Decorah Branch.
Passenger depot, corner Water and Day
streets. Telephone 58a.
Depart. Arrive.
Minneapolis, St. Paul,)
Mason City and west. Vf 10:15 a. ra. f4:25 p. m.
Cedar Kapids, Kansas)
City, Dubuque, Bavan- J- ♦2:25 p. m. f!2;45 p. ni.
na and Chicago. j
Pra. du Cliein, Madi-i
son, Milwaukee, Chi- +9:00 p. m. (9:20 a. in.
cago and St. lands. )
Accommodation Calmar )fl:30 p. in.
♦Daily. f Except Sunday, t Sunday only
Burlington, Cedar Rapids A Northern
Tmin No. 52 (passenger) leaves Decorah at
3:30 p. m. and No. f>4 (Freight) at 6:30 a. m.
No. 51 (Passenger) arrives at 1:50 P. M.,and
No 53 (Freight) at 5:00 p. m.
The 3:30 passenger makes close connection at
Cedar itapids with througli trains to Chicago.
Kt. l.ouis. Kansas City, Omaha, St. Paul and
points bey on d. All tniins dally except Sun
day.
Freight trains shown above will carry pas
sengers only when provided with tickets.
C. S. RICE, Agent.
J. MORTON, Gen. Ticket A Pass. Ag’t.
Winnesheik County
BANK,
Deco rail - - lowa.
THE OLDEST BANK IN IOWA.
ESTABLISHED IN 1855.
The largest,
The Strongest,
BANK
in the County.
Capital, - - /ioo.ooo.
INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY.
$300,000.
Safety Deposit Boxes,
for the Use of Our Customers.
C. J. WEIBER, Pres.
MRS. L. A. WEIBER, V. P.
E. W. D. HOLWAY, Cashier.
H. B. HUSTVEDT, Ass’t Cashier.
DECORAH
Steam Laundry.
MILLER *fc SON.
Proprietors.
All Classes of Laundry Work,
Also Cleaning and Dyeing.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
Our Wagon will call for and Deliver Work.
THE
National Bank
Of I )ecora h.
DECORAH. . . . IOWA.
Capital - #50,000
Safety to Depositors #IOO,OOO
The only NATIONAL BANK
in Winneshiek County.
What We Do:
A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS,
And the hospitality of the Hunk is
extended to the public.
RECEIVES DEPOSITS and will pay
interest thereon at a rate consistent
with safe banking.
LOAN MON EY on approved seoureties.
ISSUE DRAFTS payable on the prin
cipal cities of the world forunv amount.
SPECIAL ADVANTAGES'for selling
drafts on Heandanavia, Germany,
(treat Britain and Ireland.
Don’t Fail to Call and See Us.
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS:
L. B. WHITNEY, Pres.
(). (!. JOHNSON, Vice Pres.
H. C. HJERLEII), Cashier.
F. H. BaKKK. G. F. GITNIUiKSON.
O. L. Wknnks. E. R. Thompson.
J. J. Hauo.
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EDWARD LARSON,
Fire, Life and Accident
ASSURANCE.
REPRESENTS
The Hawkeye, of Des Moines.
Security, of Davenport.
DulnniueFire and Marine, of Dubuque.
Westchester, of New York.
The Manchester, Manchester, Eng.
Northwestern Mutual Life, Milwaukee.
Office iu Steyer’s Block, Room 1,
Water street, DFXJORAH, lowa.
ST. CLOUD HOTEL.
Accommodations unexcelled.
Good Sample Room.
Free’ Bus to all Trains.
ST. CLOUD HOTEL LIVERY.
Nice Driving Horses.
Easy Riding Carriages,
Careful Drivers.
Gentle horses for ladies to drive,
Prices Reasonable.
L. J. ANDERSON,
Dealer in and Breeder of Fashionable
Bred Trotters and Pacers.
FIRST CLASS FEED BARN IN CONNECTION.
Horses boarded by day, week or month,
(’or. Washington and Broadway Sts.
imp
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DECORAH, WINNESHEIK COUNTY, IOWA, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1897.
O fyLnicd
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY.
By AKERS A GREEN.
Official Paper of the City of Decorah
and Winneshiek Comity , lowa.
OFFICE—an WEST WATF.U STREET, UPSTAIRS
TELEPHONE NO. 15.
Republican County Convention.
A delegate Republican convention Is hereby
called to be held at the court house in Decorah
on
THURSDAY, AUGUST 12th, 1897.
at the hour of 1:00 o'clock p. m., for the purpose
ofehoosing 18 delegates to the Repuhlienn State
Convention to be held at Cedar Itapids, Aug.
18th, and 35 delegates to the Sima to rial Con
vention to be held later, to nominate a Repub
lican candidate for State Senator, and the
transaction of any other business that may tie
properly brought before It.
Under the usual apportionment such con
vention will be constituted as follows:
Bloomfield 8 I Canoe fi
Military 7 I Blutfton 3
Washington 3 Orleans ft
Jackson 3 I Highland 8
Frankville 8| Hesper 8
Springfield 9 I Burr Oak 6
Calmar 11 Fremont ft
Sumner 3 | Decorah Ist ward tl
Glen wood 8 I “ 2nd “ 4
Madison 7 1 “ 3rd “ 5
Lincoln «| “ 4tti “ 10
Pleasant 8| “ outside 11
By order Republican Co. Central Committee,
W. R.TOYE, Chairman,
L. B. Wiutnkv, Secretary.
Fair. Fair. Fair.
We wish every individual in North
east lowa and Southern Minnesota to
attend the Winneshiek County Fair
this year. It will be one that will
please you in every respect. We hope
every one will be interested and talk
fair until the 3d of Septenilier. Pas
tures are good and your cattle and
horses look well. Let us have au old
time show of all kinds ot stock. Here
tofore it has been said that too much
money has been paid out for trotting
horses that are travelling. This year
we have published no speed program,
hut will have a relay race every day
and home races for the encouragement
of breeders of road horses. Let those
who have objected to the racing being
the most important part show by their
presence and their exhibits that they
appreciate the new departure the
management have inaugurated for this
year.
We will have a line of attractions
that will please all who will attend,
viz: diving horses, probably trained
dogs acrobatic feats—base ball and all
minor amusements. There will Ik*
something to amuse constantly. Re
member the dates, August 31, Septem
ber 1-2 and 3, 1897.
H. L. COFFKEN.
Odd Fellows’ Installation.
Past Grand C. L. Topliff installed
the following elected and appointed
officers of Winneshiek Lode No. 58,
I. O. (). F., on last Tuesday night.
N. G.- Henry Meuser.
V. G.—Otto H. Schwartz.
Secretary—Geo. Hislop.
Treasurer—C. L. Toplitf.
R. 8. N. G.—Harry F. McCusker.
L. 8. N. G.—E. T. Reed.
R. 8. V. G.—E. W. Cutting.
L. 8. V. G.—Philip Husted.
Warden—Geo. H. Baker.
Conductor —R. Buck null.
Chaplain—FT I. Weiser.
r. U.-P. C. Bloomfield.
O. G.- M. (). Dalvey.
R. 8. B.—Jacob Ammer.
L. 8. B.—E. C. Williams.
With a year’s supply of foreign wool
and several months’ supply of other
foreign goods in tiie warehouses, it is
not expected that tiie new tariff'law
will meet tiie running expenses of tiie
government in tiie first few months of
its existence. Chairman Dingley and
other members of congress, however,
express tiie belief that tiie bill will
readily produce sufficient revenue to
meet the current expenses after the
present stock of foreign goods has been
absorbed.
Wk are in receipt of a letter from
Hon. W. H. Kleimne, of Ridgeway, re
questing us to announce his candidacy
for the nomination for state senator.
He says that some reports to tiie effect
that lie is not a candidate have gone
out, but that his name will come tie
fore the convention for tiie nomination
for tiie office of state senator.
Capt. E. I. Wkiskr in an open let
ter has refused to let his name lie
brought out us u candidate for the
senate.
SCHOOL REFORM IN IOWA.
The scheme of maintaining central
graded schools together with a com
fortable means of transportation thereto
for outside students is meeting with
quite general approbation. The fol
lowing correspondence to the Chicmjo
Record from Dexter, lowa, under date
of July 13th, indicates that the plan in
ojieration at that place is a good one:
“While the members of the “commit
tee of twelve,’’appointed at the Denver
meeting of the National Educational
association to make a report to the Mil
waukee meeting respecting rural
schools, were sitting in their offices
speculating on what to offer, the school
authorities of the little city of Dexter,
lowa, were putting into actual practice
some of the reforms’ which the commit
tee finally advocated. Dexter lias in
successful operation two plans for the
advancement of rural pupils, the first
of which can lieusedby every town and
small city, and the second by at least
one in each county. The first plan
provides for the attendance of pupils of
rural districts at the Dexter public
school. Dexter has demonstrated that
these rural districts can send their pu
pils to school iu town with less expense
and greater regularity in attendance
and efficiency in work than can lie pos
sible by maintaining district schools.
A contract is entered into between the
Dexter district hoard and that of the
rural district wishing to send to Dexter
specifying the amount of tuition to be
paid, the manner of paying, etc. The
pupils are taken to and from school in
a covered coach, so that pupils residing
two and three miles from town reach
the school in better condition for a days
study if tiie morning proves rainy or
snowy than pupils who have walked
three or four blocks in town. The new
school law provides that districts may
employ jiersons to carry the pupils to
and from school and pay for the trans
portation from the contingent fund.
This feature will only increase the pop
ularity of the Dexter plan, which has
many points in its favor over the town
ship plan. The second plan of which
Dexter lias made a marked success is
one tliat atfords additional advantages
to the older pupils of the county or the
community. Instead of maintaining
simply a high school course, Dexter
provides also for a normal course, a
course in business training, music, elo
cution, shorthand, etc. The cost of
sucli a school is very much greater than
that of a high school since it requires
thoroughly efficient, as well as special
touchers. Rut the increased expense is
met by outside tuition as the attend
ance of non-residents is great when the
school is under able and wide-awake
conductors. This kind of school aflords
all the young people within a radius of
twenty-five or forty miles an inexpen
sive, but efficient, secondary education.
Of course, this class of schools cannot
be maintained in every town, as each
school should have at least one county
as its territory. Rut it is a great ad-'
vantage to the rural youth, who cau go
to town to school four or six months
each winter and pursue any kind of
study which he may desire. Roth the
plans tried at Dexter are receiving the
indorsement of able school men.
Alert Anderson Dead.
Alert Andersou, the ouly son ot A.
B. Anderson and wife, died last Friday
morning at tiie home of his parents in
tliis city, at the age of seven years and
nine months, of membranous croup.
He was ill for three or four weeks and
recovered enough to be up two days be
fore lie died, but was taken away Fri
day morning. He was a very bright
child and will be greatly missed by his
parents. The funeral services were
held Baturday afternoon.
Taking Inventory.
Ben Bear is now taking his annual
inventory, for clearing up his stock pre
paratory to receiving his tall and win
ter goods. Tliis will take about three
weeks, and in the meantime all .sum
mer goods will be sold at reduced prices.
Many of his fall and winter goods are
being made to order now, and lie will
have an extra large stock of the very
best goods in soon. Always trade at
Bear’s, tiie cheapest place in America.
Talk about getting something for
nothing! (’aptain Kidd would not be
in the same class, If he were alive, with
Mr. Fred White, tiie gentleman who is
amusing himself by tieing tiie demo
cratic candidate for governor of lowa,
who seriously proposes an inheritance
tax of 75 |>er cent on estates of $1,000,-
000 or more in value, and 25 per cent on
those exceeding half a million, but not
reaching a million.
It is a toss up between Tom Watson
and Eugene Debs as to which can get a
new political party ou the road first.
CATER IS GUILTY.
The Verdict of the Jury in the Trial at
West Union.
IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE
Receives the Same Sentence as in the
Former Trial —a Long and Tedious
Fight for Liberty.
The second Cater trial ended at West
Union last Wednesday morning, and
John 11. Cater was found guilty of
murder and sentenced to imprisonment
in the penitentiary for life. The jury
retired at 5:15 o’clock last Tuesday af
ternoon, tiie attorneys on both sides
having finished their pleas, and at 8:30
o’clock Wednesday morning returned
a verdict of “guilty of murder in the
first degree,’’ fixing his punishment at
imprisionmeut for life.
The idea that a verdict would be
quickly agreed upon was prevalent,
and very many at West Union re
mained on the street, anxious to learn
the decision, until after midnight. Rut
an agreement was not obtained until
after four o’clock in the morning, when
the judge thought best not to receive
the verdict until the usual time of
opening court, 8:30 o’clock. It is
generally understood that there was no
disagreement as to the guilt of Cater,
the only difference being in reference
to the penalty, half the jury favoring
capital punishment at the outset.
When court opened Wednesday
morning a large crowd awaited admit
tance, and the room was filled when
tiie jury was called. The clerk called
the roll of the jury and Judge Hobson
asked Foreman Shaffer if the jury had
agreed upon a verdict, and reccivingan
affirmative answer, he was requested to
hand it up. The five minutes which
passed while the Judge was transcribing
the decision was a period of painful
suspense, and a sigh of relief was ut
tered as he read the following verdict:
“We, the jury, find the defendant,
John H. Cater, guilty of murder in the
first degree, and fix his punishment at
imprisonment for life in the penitenti
ary at hard labor. C. L. Shaffer,
Foreman.”
The judge in a short address thanked
the jury for the patience and care
they had exhibited during the long,
tedious trial of twenty days, for the
faithful and conscientious performance
of their duty, and discharged them.
He announced that sentence upon the
accused would be passed on Saturday
morning, July 17, at 10 o’clock, and in
all probability the sheriff departed that
evening for Anamosa with the prisoner.
As Cater sat in court Wednesday
morning his two daughters and brother
in-law sat immediately behind him.
When the court pronounced his doom
Cater received it with the same firm
stolidity that lias been prominent
throughout the entire trial, and when
the sheriff clasped the hand-cuffs upon
his wrists his daughters burst into tears,
and Elizabeth, the older one, threw
her arms about her father’s neck and
gave herself up to grief.
The case has been stubbornly con
tested from beginning to end, the coun
sel for eitiier side exerting every pos
sible influence to aid its side of the
case, and every inch of the ground lias
been carefully gone over, so that noth
ing of interest was omitted in the trial
of the ease. Judge Hobson was very
careful iu all his decisions, and in all
questions where there was a doubt the
defense was giveu the benefit. We l»e
--lieve the trial lias been just and fair,
and that the decision rendered will
meet with the approval of those inter
ested. Tliis second trial will cost the
county SB,OOO to SIO,OOO which is sever
al thousand dollars more than the cost
of tiie first trial, which was $5,700.
The stock speculators of the great
cities will now have an opportunity to
contribute directly to thesupport of the
government to the tune of about 12 to
13 million dollars per anuni. The re
publicans placed in tiie tariff bill an
amendment proposing to place a tax of
2 cents a share on all purchases of stock
of a par value of SIUO or less, and of a
stamp tax when issued, except on
building associations and other organi
zations of tliut character.
The gentlemen who would Ik* glad
of Bonator Quay’s retirement were a
little premature in their rejoicing. He
wiil serve at least one more term in the
senate unless deatli prevents.
Eugene Dkhs will have to watch
his socialistic laurels, as Mrs. Lease
lias announced herself a socialist. Mr.
Bryuu should not delay his announce
ment too long.
No. 22.
IN SOCIAL CIRCLES.
Announcements and Reports of Enter
tainments, Social Gatherings, Etc.
of the Current Week.
The intermediate class of the Unity
Sunday School leave to-day for the
Gardner farm, for a week’s camp.
The ladies of the Womans’ Relief
Corps served dinner in the Rudolph
building Saturday to quite a large
number.
The German Methodist Sunday
School held a picnic in Updegratt’s
grove last Thursday, quite a number
enjoying the occasion.
The Ottumwa Male (Quartette, one
of the very finest in the country, is
looked for in Decorah some time in
October. Full particulars later.
The families of Dr. F. W. Conover,
J. H. Duncan, L. R. Whitney, Henry
Elvidge, Eugene Chamberlain, G. F.
Raker, and L. N. Moss are going into
camp at “the pines” for their regular
summer outing. Most of their tents are
already pitched.
] iThe United Lutheran Sunday School
will hold a picnic to-morrow (Wednes
day) at Haugen’s grove. Transporta
tion via the C. M. & St. P. Ry. Train
leaving at 10:30 a. m., returning at 0 p.
m. Fare, adults 20ets., children lOcts;
children under five, free.
The Hummel, Hamilton & Co. circus
which exhibited here Saturday was a
surprise to many. The parade was
good, and the performances under the
tents were above the average. Every
turn in the show was well done, and
performed before good sized audiences.
The baloon ascension in the afternoon
was indeed aibeautiful one.
One of the leading social events of
the mouth was the reception gi veil to
a large party of friends by Mr. and Mrs.
O. A. Scliall, at their residence on
Broadway last Friday evening. The
guests of honor were Mrs. C. L. Gove
and daughter, of Minneapolis, and tiie
hospitality of these well known enter
tainers was enjoyed by all who were
present. Tiie Deco rah City Band en
livened the occasion with itiUMC, vocal
selections also being rendered by sever
al of our young jieople.
A “Woodland Fete” to take place in
Updegrafi’s grove on the afternoon and
evening of Friday, July 30th is
now under process of organization by
tiie ladies of the Kindergarten Associa
tion. Bupi»er and refreshments will be
served. A “merry-go-round” will af
ford opportunity for tiie children to
hold high revel, and ponies and goats
will be pressed into service to transport
them to all parts of the ground. Gypsy
fortune tellers upon having tlieir palms
crossed with silver, will recite your
past, present and future. Bicycles will
be checked and taken care of for five
cents. Luscious oranges witli valuable
prizes in them will tie sold. Hay rack
parties will be organized. More than
all tliis, tiie association is happy to an
nounce that on this occasion tiie mar
velous X-Ray will be on exhibition
for the first time in Decorah. Dr.
Johnson lias graciously consented
to place on exhibition that evening tliis
marvelous accomplishment of science
which is utilized by him in his regular
practice. But a small charge will lie
made, and no one should neglect to em
brace tliis rare opportunity.
Miss Clara Wilson Married.
Miss (Tara Wilson, youngest daught
er of Mr. and Mrs. 8. O. Wilson, was
married last Thursday evening at tiie
home of iier parents iu tliis city to Mr.
L. J. Van Burcn, of Chicago, who is ail
employe in the silk department ot
Carson, Pierie *& Scott’s dry goods es
tablishment. Both areexcellent young
people, and the l**st wishes of a host of
friends go with them.
lowa voters will remember the fate
of Kansas Itefore they decide to put the
affairs of tlieir own State into the
hands of men similar in principle to
those who have biought disrepute up
on Kansas during the past few years.
low A farmers are too intelligent to
i>e misled by the statement of the
Democratic platform tlmt since tiie
election they have been marketing
their products at a less price tliun ever
before.