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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08

We know of farm located near one
of our large western cities which farm,
containing so acres, is devoted to the
production of common farm crops dairy.
poultry and the like-which would sell
today for $4,000 The owner has lived
upon it for half century and absolutely
refuses to sell an acre of it for any pur-
pose. He says that he gets agood living
from the farm, and that is all he wants,
and so he milks his cows, makes his hay
and plows his corn with the roar and
rush of the business ola great city on
three sides of him, happy and independ-
ent as man can be. Fool, is he? Well,
we don't know, for mans life consist
eth not in the abundance of the things
which he possesseth, but rather in con-
tentment with that which he hath. The
old man will die pretty soon and then
may be the boys will make short work
of the old homestead and what it brings.
1t is often that way.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08
The Farmer as a Politician.

When a farmer gets to monkeying
with politics as steady business his
farm soon shows the effect of it. 1t
would be money in the pockets OF lots
of good men if they could only realize
that good farm and what grows out OF
it is worth more than any Office that
politics are vexation of spirit 1t goes
this way: man gets small Office; he
then wants bigger one and then wants
it term after term; he acquires expensive
habits of living and dislike for what
he calls the humdrum work of the farm;
he spends his salary faster than he earns
it and goes out of Office poorer than
when he went in; in many cases he
mortgages his farm to pay political ex-
penses and loses it and there is nothing
left for him but to hang around hoping
for another chance, which rarely ever
comes. We saw not so very long ago an
old man with saw bucking cord of
wood to earn seventy-five cents. That
man was for three terms the holder Of
an Office which paid him $500 year.
He left fine farm and wound up at a
town saw buck. And there are others.
OF course somebody must fill the offices,
but farmer should think long and well
before he seeks an office.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08
Rural Mail Service.

Two unexpected and very interesting
facts have developed in connection with
the experiments made by the govern
ment in the matter of rural mail delivery
-one, that where routes are established
the AMOUNT of mail matter is in short
time always doubled and often quad
rupled; the other, that tie cost of the
service is no greater than that of city
mail delivery Two hundred of these
rural mail routes are now in operation
and all proving successful in the highest
degree. 1t is probable that the service
will be greatly. extended. When the
American farmer has the telephone in
his house and the daily paper delivered
at his door. the charge of isolation will
be no longer laid to life ON the farm.
He will rather have the advantage of
the man in the town, in that he can
enjoy degree of exclusiveness impos
sible to the resident of the city.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08
The Run Down Farm.

If you are thinking Of buying farm,
you should not lose sight of one impor-'
tant thing, and that is to what extent
the land has been worked and robbed of
fertility. A farm which has been skin
ned by an exclusive grain culture for 40
years, even if it were land of the best
quality at first, is not worth as much per
acre, waving the matter of buildings
and improvements, by SO or Sl5 as
farm which has either been only cropped
for four or five years or one so managed
that the fertility of the soil has been
r,eintained. Most farms long rented are
to greater or lesser degree impoverish-
ed, and most farms upon hilly land are
more or less depleted by erosion. We
know of plenty of nice lying farms which
have got. into the % bushel an acre
class, SO far AS oats ard corn are con
cerned, and which cannot be got out of
that class Ey any other means than
clover and stock. We will put it this
way: We would rather buy raw
prairie farm, minus all improvements,
than one Of the farms well improved
above referred to at the sam price per
acre. The difference in yield of crops
for five years would more than Offset all
improvements. and then it is much
easier to take care Of we'll farm than
to doctor and build up sick one.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08

The beauty of the dying year still lin
gers with us. The snow king, the great
north wind, the frost elves and the
blizzard demon, while all ready to de
scend upon US, as did the Gauls upon
sunny Italy in the olden time. still grant
us little respite, while the Indian sum-
mer queen invests the landscape in
soft, delicious purple haze, through
which the sun glows like ball of car
mine fire and the new moon becomes
bloody scimitar hung across the west
ern evening sky. A hush OF expectancy
is in the air, premonition of coming
change, subtle feeling that today is
surely the last, just as to the dying
there comes sometimes brief, uncertain
moment of transcendent intelligence
aud rapture ere they pass away. All
nature is hushed, for, save the pirate
crow, the saucy jay, the CHEEKY little
chickadee and the sparrow, the birds
have all gone, seeking a,kindlier winter
home. Here and there in the woods
squirrel or a chipmunk may be seen
these last bright days securing for his
winter store few more nuts and acorns.
The prairies look cold and gray and
sere, and the woods are full of the de-
licious fragrance Of newly fallen leaves,
while here and there among the all pre-
vailing somber tone of color may be-
seen stray leaf of a poison ivy or
Virginia creeper, blood red and dying
late, or a yellow festoon of partridge
berry twining across some old, decaying
stump like a golden chain enlacing the
breast of a skeleton, lone relics these of
the late respondent pageant of color
and beauty, left like fragments of decora-
ton in some deserted festival hall. A
little while, and the legions OF the north
will fall upon us, and as the snow king
enfolds the earth in a mantle of ermine,
and the great north wind roars tumultu-
ously through the forest and over the
prairies, and the frost elves trace fairy
geometric pictures on the window and
electroplate each tree and bush and
smallest twig with scintillant crystal,
let us welcome the season of Thanks
giving, OF holiday pleasure, of social
intercourse, and cement anew around
the Preside those ties of love, friendship
and neighborly regard which make life
so we'll worth living.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08
The Problem Of Milking the Cow.

II am going to sell my cows and give
up dairying because l cannot get reliable
help to milk the cows" said farmer to
us the other day. Our friend voiced a
very common complaint. The average
hired man hates to milk, and when this
milking is hitched on at the end OF a
hard days work in the field we do not
blame him. Many hired men will not
contract to work unless freed from this
duty. Others, disliking the work, are
careless about it, and the cows under
their care soon shrink in their milk yield
and become Improbable. In one sense
dairying is agricultural slavery. Twice
day, Sunday and all, must the cows be
MIXED, and at regular hours, too, IL best
results are obtained. Our girls that is.
those of the American breed do not
take kindly to the COW either, and SO it
comes that many MAJ who would be
glad to keep dairy herd is right up
against one Of the most difficult prob
lens he has ever encountered on the
farm. The increased values of beef will.
with these men, have strong ndency
to make them change over to the beef
breeds and let the calves suck the cows.
Others will quit keeping cows The
past season has witnessed marked
shrinkage of creamery product. and
next year is likely to see it still greater.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08

We notice very common mistake
which is being made in shocking the
fields of cut corn where it is in bundles
as cut by the new machines-the band
on the shock is put too low down, per-
hitting the top to be opened by the
wind. The shock to keep well should
be in the shape of perfect cone, to Sc
cure which it should be tied as near to
the top as possible.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08

While New Zealand Is long, long
way off, its people are not SO very slow,
after all. A very curious constitutional
provision allows the government to buy
any mans land at 10 per cent above its
market value. This, it will be seen,
prevents land being nndervalued for the
the purpose of taxation, as the owner
never knows when the government may
take a notion to buy his farm at 10 per
cent above its assessed valuation.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08

Because the northwest was visited
with an unusually hard frost in Septem-
Der it is no sign that we are to have an
unusually hard winter. We recall an
October blizzard, a storm which stopped
all railway traffic and brought ten days
Of genuine January winter weather in
its trail. which was followed by ono Of
the most mild and open winters the
northwest ever had. Don't be Jere-
miah. always predicting trouble a'com-
ing.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08

The English government has been in
the Chicago horse market for 5000 ar
tillery horses to use in the probable war
of subjugation in South Africa. We
should think that were these American
horses end owed with sufficient intelli-
gence every one of them would balk
when ordered into action on the firing
line.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08

The very best conditions for the
growth and development of all orchard
and deciduous trees are tosecure for the
roots of such trees as large an amount
moisture and GOODNESS as possible. For
est trees grow under perpetual mulch
furnished by the trees themselves
There is practical suggestion here for
all tree growers.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08

One hundred bushels of corn to the
acre is possibility under proper con-
ditions in the corn belt. Thirty bushels
per acre is above he average crop yield
Here is margin of 70 bushels an acre
for the corn raiser to work On. Given
favorable conditions, 60 bushels to the
acre, and nothing less, should satisfy the
enterprising farmer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08

Improved methods are greatly i'm
proving the keeping qualities of both
butter and eggs placed in cold storage
and this process is becoming to great
er extent than ever before powerful
equalizer OF prices of both these COM
modities. May and June eggs and June
butter are now held over for the winter
market in almost perfect condition.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08

The Wisconsin experiment station is
sues bulletin on the effects OF the late
hard winter upon different varieties OF
apple trees. 1t is interesting to note
that the Wealthy heads the list of trees
reported least injured.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08

We note that one man cut 245 acres of
corn with corn harvester this season,
this acreage including his own crop and
that Of his neighbors. This work is the
most distinctive and important advance
in western agriculture the year 1899 has
developed. Inside Of two or three years
shocked corn will be as common as
shocked wheat or oats.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08

An Iowa judge in a decision lately
rendered holds that mortgage given on
implanted crops is void. If this decis-
ion is good law it would seem to apply
to the increase of herd of mortgaged
cows or a flock of sheep as well, the the
DRY being apparently that thing must
exist before it can be encountered.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08

We would burn the stubble from all
grain fields where it is possible and safe
to do SO. A clean sweep Of the stubble
by fire is great weed and insect de-
stroyer, more than most people think.
The value of the stubble is very small,
and even that is partially offset by the
ashes left by the fire.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08

The theory upon which good deal of
work is being done by the operators Of
the new road grading machines is to do
the most work on that part of the high
way where the machine works the east
est and best, and that is invariably where
it is least needed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08

The fine and tender varieties of tea
roses can be budded upon the common
wild rose witheperfect success and SO
budded will bloom profusely. We do
not, however, understand that the gratis
are rendered any harder or that they
may thus be wintered out of doors in
latitude ~.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08

Injury to fruit trees is almost always
confined to the south side of the tree in
all this northwestern territory. The ac-
ton of the sun and of the hot southwest
winds is responsible for such injuries,
and the fact suggests very plainly the
wisdom of affor ling the trees grove
protection on the south.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08

The calf crop of the country at large
is 20 per cent short this year, and this
fact effectuslly disposes of the suppose
ton that cattle are being produced in
sufficient numbers to bring the prices Of
meat down to their former level. Beef
has gone up to stay.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08

Albert Lea creamery is shipping but
ter to China as an experiment. When
John Chinaman sets his chopsticks into
a pail of that fine western extra, We
think we see him grin and say "belly
good"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08

There are lots of men who are think
ing of going into sheep. A word of eau
ton right here-go in light A man can
raise hogs and make failure of sheep.
Start with small flock and these of the
best kind, and grow into the business.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08

In this country there are 100000
more people and 100000 less cattle
than there were in 1889. No wonder
porterhouse steak has become an expen-
sive luxury.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08

Lice are the bane of the henhouse and
poultry yard. They are responsible for
most of the ills which affect the fowls
and it is surprising the number of peo'
pie there are who keep chickens who are
ignorant of this fact.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08

A certain feeder, who more frequently
than did any of his neighbors, got the
top Of the market on cattle, said, in re-
ply to query how he succeeded in SO do
ing, that he let the calf suck for two
months and then never let it get hungry
afterward. 1t should. be added that in
his case he paid fully as much attention
to breed as he did to feed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08

White clover lisa weed killer as well as
honey maker. More of it should be
grown. 1t is of no value for hay and
will make the horses slobber if pastured
on it, bat for other stock, especially for
sheep, it makes a most excellent pasture
grass
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08

When an old man of 70 marres a girl
OF Is and gives her 5000 the day OF the
wedding, she may be said to have
brought the top OF the market"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08

The farther north an apple of any
given variety is raised the longer it will
keep. Thus the Wealthy apple, which
in central Iowa is strictly fall apple,
is kept without trouble till February
when raised in central Minnesota.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08
ORCHARD,
AND GARDEN.
EDITED FOR PUBLIC OPINION BY
J S. TRIGG, Rockford Iowa.
J. S. TRIGG, Rockford, Iowa.

Sixteen head of high grade Shorthorn
steers sold for s12O.66 each at the Chi
cago stockyards the first week in Octo-
Der.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08

Country girls will please take notice
that it is only town girls with large
mouths who take to the gum chewing
habit Town girls with pretty mouths
never chew gum
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-08

There is not today very much if any
difference in the profit to be made from
the 2-year-old steer or the 2-year-old
colt, assuming that both are well bred.
The risk is less with the steer, and with
our present barbarous method of fenc-
ing this is an important item.
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plates which will show numerous stars
crossed by meteor trails. A second OBJ
serving station several miles away will
also take photographs 1t is expected
that both Observatories will get pic
lures of the same meteor trail. The
measurements Of the plates, referring
the trails to the known stars on the
plates, will determine the elevations OF
the meteors as seen from two places a
known distance apart This will PRO-
vide the dataSfor calculating the hight
in miles. Measurements of the plates
will also furnish the most accurate de-
termination of the radiant point
All who wish to see wonderful
sight should be on the watch. It might
be well for those desiring to see the
display to arrange with the telegraph
or telephone companies, or with night
witchman, to waken them in case the
shower appears.
AS has been indicated, there are sew
eral elements of uncertainty about the
time of the coming of the shower. 1t
may come little earlier or later than
November 1415th, and some unknown
effect of the planetary pulls may so
disturb the motion of the swarm that
it may decline to put in an appearance
at all this year: If SO, the astrono
mer is quite certain that he will see
the display of the last year of
the present century-November, 1900
When one sees the grand shower the
words of the Psalmist will come to
mind:
1.-THE heavens declare the glory of
God and the armament showeth His
handiwork. "-Cleveland Leader.
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Outright accusation doesn't worry up
right men.
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For fine white, dry granulated cane
sugar. Fresh fancy creamery butter
at so cents roll at the Pacific Market,
J, near Eighth.
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HiSInCOntr0Vertible!
The Editor Of the 8. Christian MilIion. :,

The Editor of the g christian Million, =
under the heading of General Notes, on
August 20, 1896, wrote =
"A good article will stand upon its own
merits, and we may rely upon It that nothing
will continue long which does not, In more
or less degree, harmonic with the state
ments which are published concerning II"
Mr.. Hall Caine, s
Author of 1.-THE Deenster, The Manx-
} man, 1.-THE Christian ETC., when speak
) ing on Criticism, recently, said -
ssWhen a thing that is advertised greatly
I Is good 1t goes and goes permanently; when
I It Is bad. It only goes for while !: the public
Z finds 1t out.
The Proprietor Of
{ BEECHAM'S PILLS
has said over and over again:-
sit Is falIacy to imagine that anything
will sell lust because 1t Is advertised. How
many nostrums have been started with glare
{ and snuffed out In gloom The fact Is, q
{ every dissatisfied purchaser does ten times
more harm than one satisfied does good.
{ AssuredIy the sale of more than 6, OO0, 900
boxes of BEECHAM'S PILLS per annum,
after public trial Of half-a-century, is con.
elusive testimony Of their popularity, SUI
periority and proverbial WORTH
family medicine wherever the English language spoken
and they stand without rival In boxes 10 cents
and 2s cents each, at all drug stores.
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LOW RENT TO RIGHT PARTIES
Good corner store and barn; also rooms
upstairs and down. $50 o street.
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IF YoH W yAH. n A coop GROCER,
surely satisfied. Fifteenth and D streets.
Both phones.
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TO LET-s0 ACRES, IMPROVED, NEAR
Orangevale; small cash rental. I'll K.
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A FINE STOCK OF HAMS AND BA-
con; also choice teas at J. VINEYARDS,
Twenty-f fifth and o streets.
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NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS AT FOR
esters' building, I street, 7th and Sth.
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LOO H ST-SOME VERY ATTRACTIVE
furnished rooms, with board.
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INTERNATIONAL HOUSE FOR GOOT
cool rooms from 81 upward. 322-32S K
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FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIEN-
tist--First reader, Mrs. Josephine H.
Goodwin. Services at II a. m. Sunday
school at same hour. Wednesday at s
p. m. Pommer Hall. sos ] street 1t
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SEE PAGE 4, AUCTION SALE ADV. OF
tom. 1908 J street. Phone. Cap. S44.
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MANHATTAN HOUSE. 315 K STREET
A very nice furnished housekeeping suite
and other single rooms.
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TWO FURNISHED ROOMS COMPLETE
for housekeeping. Apply Hibernia Ho.
tel, 1025 Front street. bet. ] and K.
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MRS. HELLOMS, LADIES SHAMPOO
ing and manicuring. Dandruff and fall
ing hair positively cured. 1119 o street.
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PERSONALS.

MISS DORA FRANCIS OF LOS AN
geles. yapor baths and massage. 100 K
street room 10. n6-1St
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EMILY FRANCIS, 3231a J ST.-READ-
ings daily from l to 9 p. m.
NINE. JoHNsoN-TEsT AND RusI-
ness medium. 1215 Third street.
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GEO F.. TONG, THE PLUMBER, 1913
Third. Tells: Cap. 1903: Sun. north 81.
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CHURCH NOTICES.

FIRST NJ. E. CHURCH, SOUTH,
Seventh, and XIV. E. Vaughan, pas
tor. All cordially invited. Residence 1917
Ninth street. Tel. west 374. 1t
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COTTAGE TO LET, 1923 F fREEr. IN
quire 1913 F for particulars.
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1892 H STA FURNISHED HOUSE
keeping suite, with bath, electricity, etc
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STREET PRESBYTER-
ian Church, between o and P Streets
Rev. w. c. Sherman, pastor. Preaching
by the pastor at II a. m. and 7:30 D. m
Sunday-school at 12:15. c. E. meeting
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MRS. NJ BEEBE, EXPERIENCED PRO
fessional nurse. 405 Fifteenth street.
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1881 N ST. TO LET, EIGHT ROOMS, S35
II. j. Goethe, Installment Home Builder
l01l 4th ST
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GENERAL NOTICES.

PIONEER PICKLE WORKS, 1920 L ST.,
manufacturer of pickles, vinegar, etc.
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BAPTIST CHURCH, I, BE-
tween Twelfth and Thirteenth streets
Preaching al IL a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Ev-
ening subject: wild Star Trains on
Time" A collision predicted this week
Seats free. All welcome.
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TO RENT-1,12O ACRES FINE GRAZING
land in the foothills. Apply 800 22d.
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CITY rRICES-ALL KINDS OF PLEAT-
Ing done. 2405 N street. Mrs. A. Krutt-
schnitt. Phone, Sun. black 525.
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MEETING NOTICES.
TO LET OR RENT.

42s La NICELY, FURNISHED HOUSE
keeping rooms; no children.
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THE SIXTH STREET NJ. E. CHURCH.
IS. J. Carroll pastor. Preaching by the
pastor at II and 7:30, on Fifty Beautiful
Years-or, Lessons From the Life of Sis
ter Osborne and 1.-The Election Sun
day-school at 1915, C. H. Dunn, Superin
tendent. Epworth League at $50. 1t
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GROCERIES.

CREAMERY BUTTER, 45c Per Square
roll apples. fine quality, 81 to s1-35 per
3 cans cove oysters, 25c; French sar-
dimes, Zoe; Blue Lake string beans, e
cans 25c; fresh eggs. 3ec a dozen; coffee,
15c ID, at PACIFIC CASH GROCERY,
Tenth and E streets j. Riley.
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