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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1916
Page
3
A reader follows Billy Be and Tinker Teedle Tee into an ant colony beneath a large oak. They observe Cutting Ants stripping leaves to craft parasols and explore a vast nest with nurseries and elevator-like chambers, learning how the queen’s brood is raised.
In a vivid tale, Billy and Tinker explore an ant nest that resembles a bee hive and uncover how the industrious ants steal a bee secret. The narrative promises to reveal the method by which ants produce paper.
In Manson California Hall family survives a house fire due to their dog’s warnings. The dog whined signaling smoke, helping Hall rescue Iris wife and their child. Hall dropped the children to safety then saved the wife and boy, but the loyal dog perished inside the flames as the home burned completely.
The Prairie du Chien Press reports John Frenny of Austin Minnesota moved his family into the old Zachary Taylor home on South Church Street. He and his wife and three children will reside there. The house shows only minor changes since Taylor lived there seventy five years ago. The roof was updated fifteen to twenty years ago, while the interior remains nearly the same as during Fort Crawford era days.
Farmer Henry Lemon of Garner uncovered a wooden box wrapped in a gunny sack containing twenty five pounds of dynamite while hauling hay. A Ford car key and two blankets plus rubber gloves were found in the same stack. Authorities suspect safeblowers jailed at Garner earlier hid the explosives and contraband there.
An hour after William Williams received word that his mother was gravely ill in Brownsville, a huge rock tumbled from the Columbus bluff and crashed through the side of his house. It demolished the cook stove as the family had just begun supper. No injuries are reported.
River traffic opened in March with ferry service between McGregor and Prairie du Chien by Capt. George Freeman of the steamer Rob Roy. The river is free of floating ice and has risen four feet in three days. Rivermen predict a very high water stage this spring due to deep snows in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
In a Waukon suit a justice of the peace ruled the hunter entitled to the wolf bounty. The question arose when the hunter chased a wolf into a man's yard and the yard owner shot the animal. The decision favored the hunter's claim to the bounty.
A blaze destroying the barn on the J B Pyle farm three miles southwest of Melbourne Marshall county claimed four horses and other livestock along with grain hay harness and farm machinery totaling about two thousand dollars in loss.
A three foot coal vein was struck in Elevator hollow by J F Kelley for Sam McClure owner of mineral rights in a large Lehigh area. A company is formed to sink a shaft. This is the first notable find since previous workings ceased years ago.
Mr and Mrs Hugh McCabe marked their golden wedding at Waukon last Sunday Father Lowery chaplain at Mercy hospital Cedar Rapids who had married them fifty years ago attended The couple followed with a church parlors mass and dinner after.
A letter from Arthur Jones of Allen Kansas says he is 52 and has suffered kidney and bladder troubles for years. He credits Foley's Kidney Pills with delivering more relief than anything he tried, noting relief from rheumatism back pain stiff joints and irregular action. Engbertson's Pharmacy Ady.
Lieutenant Edwards reported to the Royal Geographical Society that sub tropical Bolivia and Brazil are plagued by giant insect pests. He described forests as nearly impassable and a 15 mile by 35 day trek through tangled terrain. Ants, especially the red Itashi, swarmed people and bites felt like hot iron.
Alvin Rollins describes San Antonio Texas highlighting its mission origins and Alamo defenders mythos naming streets and parks after heroes Travis Crockett Bowie riverfront bridges and fountains city boasts hotels schools and libraries including eight hundred thousand dollars for public schools recent compulsory education law and landscape concerns in parks and riverbanks with monuments to Confederate dead Fort Sam Houston aviation grounds and cosmopolitan residents noted. local ads for Dr Thomas Ecleectic Oil and new spring neckties conclude the piece.
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