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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1915
Page
4
A Decorah reminiscence recalls years ago when young men wore plug hats on Sundays. A New York bond man and frock coats arrived to gaze at the scene. After a wedding quarrel in Charley Rudolphs Café, the hat craze ended as battered hats lay in the street.
Eleven bells forming the Dolliver memorial chimes were installed in the New Methodist church in Fort Dodge last week. Mrs. Louise P. Dolliver donated the $4,000 gift in memory of her husband the late Senator Dolliver. The chimes can play 200 tunes.
Coroner Markuson of Grey Eagle certified the death of J. B. Willsie as accidental from a shotgun discharge. No inquest was held. Funeral held at the farm with Rev. H. D. Green officiating and body sent to Burr Oak Iowa for burial. Pallbearers were Odd Fellows members Wim Salisbury A. L. Peterson E. H. Powell Howard Hicks Aug Olson and Elmer Brisbon.
Wi F Baker reports April weather with mean max 69 and mean min 42 degrees. The 24th reached 85 degrees and the 3rd was 22 degrees. Rain or traces on seven days, heaviest on 27 with 0.72 inches, total rainfall 1.09 inches and a light thunderstorm that day. Last April 1914 was warmer with a 58 degree mean and 3.38 inches rainfall.
Roscoe P. Girton aged 25 a State Center farmer was killed when thrown from a manure spreader whose wheels passed over his body crushing his chest. His lungs were punctured by fractured ribs and he died about thirty minutes after the accident.
A retail prompt suggests asking the gentleman who assists with your suit for a Ben Bear sou venir as a keepsake.
Last Saturday 135 reservations were made for a special train leaving on the 25th with the Luther College Concert Band bound for the Pacific Coast. The train will depart at full capacity.
Notice to bond buyers invites sealed proposals for water works bonds totaling 36000.00 from Spillville Town Council. Proposals due by May 15 1915 8 PM with a 3 percent certified check. Readable at council rooms. Town Clerk A A Novak signs dated April 26 1915.
A Chicago Banker feature highlights Winneshiek County State Bank of Decorah Iowa founded 1855 by Horace Spangler Weiser. It traces the Weiser banking family across generations from York Pennsylvania to Decorah and notes a new modern building with a strong vault.
Fifty years ago a third issue of the 7 30 loan was authorized. Confederate forces in the Trans Mississippi department surrendered to Gen Canby. Decorah shows over thirty buildings under erection. Lieut Sherman Page returned home from Fort Randall Dak having resigned. Mrs Page was buried before leaving the fort. H H Dickerman sold out his drug stock to Mr Montgomery recently from Sinois. Internal Revenue reports three breweries and twenty three liquid dealers in Winneshiek county. Howe s Champny Circus travels to Decorah Friday June 2. Beowea branch work progresses.
Automobiles lined Water Washington Winnebago and Main streets last Saturday as outsiders parked and drove by stores. The bustling scene drew many onlookers and created a lively urban bustle throughout Decorah.
A humorous look at language confusion among Allied soldiers from many nations. It notes misunderstandings between British and foreign troops on French soil and mentions various tongues from Hungarian to Maori and Boe Dutch. It ends with an advert for Bear's $12.00 all wool blue serge suits as the best value in America.
The Swedish consul at San Francisco protested to the police commission against displaying the Swedish flag in a water-front saloon as a bait for custom, citing a Seward precedent from 1864.
The law in Turkey bars taking a man's residence for debt and exempts enough land to sustain him from seizure, ensuring housing and basic land remain secure.
Mrs. Charles Tanner of Wabash Indiana endorses Chamberlain's Liniment for lame back and sprains noting it relieves pain and soreness after twenty years of use by her family. Bottles priced at 25 and 50 cents, sold by Engbretsen's Pharmacy. Si Spoodles is described as a singer who reads music by ear.
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