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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-18
Better Late Than Never.

A friend of ours with ten acre apple
orchard has during the past four years
allowed the blue grass to overrun his
orchard. His trees were showing all the
i'll effects of this orchard pest, were
being starved for want Of moisture and
nutriment, many were dying, none doing
we'll. He has now turned over this blue
grass sod, which was not an easy job to
do without iniuring the roots Of his
trees, and will hereafter keep the blue
grass out. Probably the best way in
which to do this is to seed to medium
red clover, moving twice year ana u-a
the cut clover for a mulch. By mulch
ing eight feet each way from the trees
he can pillow over the clover strip in the
middle every two or three years and thus
keep the blue grass out. We know of no
better way to care for the orchard than
this.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-18
Hog Cholera.

A reader of these notes writes us re-
questing that we say something about
hog cholera. He says that he is losing
all his hogs for the third successive
season and wants to know whether any
progress has been made in discovering q
cure or preventive for this disease. We
regret to say that hog cholera is just as
unpreventable, just as cratic in its
manifestations. just as fatal and Just as
incurable as it always has been. New
remedies and methods of treatment are
constantly being advertised, only to be
abandoned as utterly valueless; quacks
make fortunes out Of so-called cures and
the hogs keep a-dying just as they
always have. There are as many theor.
les as to the cause of the disease and
how to prevent it or treat it as there are
about religion. Nothing definite seems
to have been settled, even by the most
thorough scientific research, save that it
is germ disease, that is both contagious
and infectious; that no breed OF hogs is
exempt; that it comes when it gets
ready and leaves when it has cleaned all
the hogs out. theoretically, proper
food, care and sanitary conditions should
prevent it, or at least mitigate its force
and destructiveness, but they don't, the
hog Of the slums, the animated product
OF decomposed animal and vegetable
offal bearing charmed life, while the
well-beed, well-fed pig in palace falls a
victim 20 the disease. The experiments
made by the government along the line
of serum innocculation hold out some
promise of relief but have not as yet
been sufficiently tested to make certain
the efficacy of this method Of treatment
AS affecting the hog interests of the
country as a whole, the plague is an
equalizer and regulator aud positive
benefit to the man whose hogs are not
visited by it, But what is our friend to
do who has lost all his hogs for three
years in succession? We reply, quit
trying to raise hogs, or il any at all, but
just few. Put sheep OF the mutton
breeds on the farm in their place. Put
more cows on the farm, Of beef breeds il
you don't like to milk, and put your corn
into mutton and beef, both are going to
pay as we'll or better than hogs for some
time to come. We know of two men
who, two years ago, substituted the
sheep for the hog and both are more
than satisfied with the results. II you
must keep hogs you are liable to have
the disease in your herd and for fact
there 10 no better remedy to use when It
comes than to cut an inch Oh the tail OF
every other hog In the herd.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-18
Northwestern Orchards Short-lived.

We incline to the opinion that the
apple orchards of Iowa, Minnesota, Wis.
consin and other northwestern states are
at best short-lived as compared with the
orchards of the east. An apple tree of
any desirable variety, forty years old, is
hard to find anywhere in the northwest.
Climatic conditions in this territory are
of the extreme excessive heat,
periodical droughts, intense cold, extreme
aridity of the atmosphere-con
which either singly or in combination,
neutralize the best efforts and up
set the calculations of the horti-
culturists. IL this be fact, and
we really believe it to be, it emphasizes
the need of continuous planting Of
apple orchards, year by year, taking
advantage Of past experiences and avail
ing ourselves of newly discovered facts,
planting harder varieties on more care
fully selected sites and keeping everlast-
ingly at it if we would insure for the
future supply of good fruit.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-18
For Better Roads.

There assembled at Des Moines last
week a large body Of representative men
farmers, county supervisors, and
public-spirited citizens-to discuss the
very live and important question Of
better roads for Iowa. By common con-
sent it is agreed that the time has come
when more intelligent and economical
method of using road funds and doing
road work must be adopted-the time
now here when the temporary and make
shift policy of the past must give way to
one which shall secure the building of
permanent roads upon'a scientific plan.
The rate Of taxation for road purpose
has been and is now five mills on the
dollar. One mill of this is levied as
county tax and is under the exclusive
control Of the Boards of county super
visors; the other four mills is expended
by the township authorities, this five
mill tax paid two-tifths in money and
three 6fths in labor. Since four years
ago when the county supervisors were
given the one mill to spend, which
amounted to about $4,000 in the average
county, the eyes Of the tax payers have
been opened to what can be done with
even one fifth of the road tax, where a
days work is secured in return for a
days wages and where the work is done
under contracts let to the lowest bidder,
and sentiment has grown rapidly in
favor of giving the county supervisors
more to spend in this manner. At the
convention there was a full and free
discussion of this question, which crystal
lied into the unanimous adoption of
resolution requesting the Legislature to
this winter amend the road laws so as to
provide:
l. For a reduction of the road levy
from five to four mills.
2. To have the road tax all paid in
cash.
3. One half-2 mills-of the tax to
be collected as county tax and be ex-
pended by the BCardsof Supervisors the
other mills by the township officers.
4. The township to be the unit of
organization.
We commend this resolution and hope
that 1t will become law next winter, as
it will put road building on common
sense and business like basis for the
first time In the history q the stats.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-18
Forty Pounds of Nutmees.

The wife of farmer in a certain
county in Southern Minnesota went into
the store Of a country village where the
old man ran grocery account, and call
ing the proprietor of the store to one
side, informed him confidentially that
she would like to sell him few pounds
of nutmegs; she said that she had forty
pounds of nutmegs on hand, far more
than the family could use before they
would spoil. Asked where she got so
many nutmegs, she said that they came
with an order for groceries which tho
old man had recently got filed by
house in Chicago, that they cost her
seventy cents pound and she would
let thirty-nine pounds OF them go at
seventy Five cents. She said they had
got nineteen pounds of sugar for
dollar on the order, il they took the nut
megs. The merchant took one of the
nutmegs and cutting it open found that
it was as dry as piece of wood and
absolutely worthless and as politely as
he could told the lady that they were
not worth one cent pound. She went
out OF the store in state OF mind,
muttering something about merchants
being accommodating totheir patrons,
quite for getting the grocery account
on the merchants ledger, which showed
an unpaid balance of $1847, which re-
presented things which were not nutmegs
bNa good deal. 1t is hardly necessary
for US to adorn this story with moral,
itehaving one very conspicuously fasten
ed,to its tail.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-18


There are quite number OF men who
when they first go to selling milk, are
somehow sorely tempted to mix water
with their milk, and it is often the men
whom one would least suspect which
will try to work this ancient fraud The
test plan not only secures to the buyer
good milk, but it does much to stiffen up
the moral backbone of lots of men who
sell the milk, to whom the disgrace lies
not SO much in committing fraud, as
in the getting caught at it. Where the
test is not used, the good man will buy
Holstein three per cent. COW, which
accomplishes the same result as is
secured by the pump.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-18

A good friend of ours, enthused over
the glories of September harvest sea
son, refers POLITICALLY to the bloom on
the tomato-the ripe fruit. Maybe there
is bloom on the ripe tomato, but if
there is, we have never seen it. 1t can
be found on the plums, the grapes, and
on the cheeks of most of our pretty
girls, but on the tomato, never.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-18

When pasture becomes foul with
wees, the easiest way in which to rem
ovate it is to pillow it up, tcke crop of
corn from it and seed down again the
following spring with nurse crop of
barley or flax. Pastures would not get
in this condition if sheep were kept on
the farm
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-18

How In the world was it that our
grandparents, knowing nothing of mi
crobes, bacilli, germs, serum and modern
sanitation and hygiene, managed to eat
three square meals day. raise brood
of dozen children and live to be four
scora9
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-18
FARM, ORCHARD,
AND GARDEN.
EDITED FOR PUBLIC OPINION BY
J. S. TRIGG Rockford, Iowa.
J. S. TRIGG. Rockford, Iowa.

Sugar beets will bear transportation
by rail distance of one hundred miles
to the factory and still leave the grower
a margin of over $50 per acre clear of all
expense involved in their production.
But very few crops are now grown which
will give the farmer SO large margin Of
profit per acre.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-18

Corn was fit to crib two weeks earlier
than usual this year. And lots of men
went at it just as soon as it would do to
pick, having lively recollection of the
wretched work of digging the corn crop
of '98 out of the snow and the mud last
spring.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-18

The five dollar land OF the northwest
has gone to twenty dollars; the twenty
dollar land to forty dollars and the forty
dollar land to seventy dollars and the
end is not yet.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-18

Six-hundred bushels OF onions can be
raised on the same land required to pro-
duce two hundred bushels of potatoes
but the onion crop requires vastly more
hand labor and is too often difficult
crop to find a market for.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-18

1t is said that the keeping of few
billy goats with flock of sheep will
keep dogs from attacking the flock. Be
that as it may, the sheep will invariably
rally around the goats if attacked and
seem instinctively to recognize the fact
that the billy is better fighter than
fhay ara
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-18

The year 1899 has brought one OF the
best matured crops Of corn in the corn
belt ever grown. The ears ripened per
fectly before frost.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-18

Potatoes sold from the field when dug
at 20 cents are better sold than if pitte d
and held for 30 cents in the spring.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-18
Original Notice.

Carrie M. Schofield,
VS.. Plaintiff,
j. b. Mitchell. Mrs. j. Il.
Mitchell, +. Emma Brown
Brown her husband, In the
Winaie Eden, - Eden Court,
her husband, - Arms, Iowa,
husband of Mary A. +. tfor Win
Arms, Henry b. Mitchell, County,
Mitchell his wife, VIM. ember
III. Mitchell, - Mitchell ID. 1899.
his wife, Olive NJ. Lund,
- Lund her husband,
Carrie M. Mcintosh, and
Mcintosh her husband.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-11-17
Is An Example Needed e?

Readers Of the REGISTER will re.
member the account of the attempt
to hold up ID. Sims on the street here
few nights ago. 1t was bold,
high-hsnded piece of business, and
the immunity of the guilty ones
seems to have made some other
night thugs bold, as two more at
tempts in this line are reported.
Saturday morning as Jim Henry
was gong TO his work at the brick
plant he was overtaken by two men
who accosted him and signiiied their
willingness to relieve him of all his
valuables. Having none with him
they were forced to be content. Bert
Mitchell, while on his way home
Saturday night, believes that but for
having q heavy cane he would have
been stopped. He was near the cor
ner of Broadway and Walnut streets
and saw "a man ahead of him.
Another man approached and passed
him, Immediately turning and follow
ing him back toward the first man.
He gripped his cane and stepped in
to the street and the men did not try
to follow him.
lola has always been decent,
peaceable town, but If there is gang
here which thinks that such things
are going to be kept up and nothing
happen to them, their mistake will be
corrected. lola people are slow to
anger, but if they once start on the
trail of this robbery gang, there will
be sad times for come one. If an
example has to be made-it will be
made.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-11-17

pected "innocentsr is the way i'm
which they neglect to try to establish
their good names. That would be
the first thing most men would do as
the presumption of their innocence
would thereby be strengthened. But
they ali remain mum as posts about
the subject of their former character
aud the fact leads to the suspicion
that they have done worse things
than pick pockets.
The jury in the case of the State VS.
Barney Mccoy, charged with selling
Intoxicating liquors at Moran last
summer, brought in verdict We'd
nesday evening finding him
guilty ON two counts. This means a
fine Of $500 and possibly a Jail SEN
tence of sixty days, or both.
The case which follows the King
trial will be that of Bob Ssylor,
charged with appropriating to his
own use the barber tools belonging
to a barber named Chas. Miller, who
had quit barbering and gone into the
shirt making business.
The case ef th4 State VS. j. f. Ben.
jamin, charged with attempted rape
was continued and the witnesses dis
missed until further orders.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-11-17
Mr.. Dayton viii Build.

1t has taken twenty-five years or
more tor the business portion of lola
to get built up so as to bring into
requisition the lots on the east side of
the square. For years the court
house alone held sway and now there
are three other business houses right
north of it and the northeast corner
will next be built upon. Mr.. II. T..
Dayton, who came here from Golden
City, Mo-, intends to build frame
business house on his lot north of the
Tudor home, Mr.. Dayton has bought
considerable property and has faith
that the town will build around the
square and extend Outwards in pro-
portion. One building always at
tracts another and they mutually
benefit each other, so that the start
which he will give the northeast cor
ner may be expected to bring good
results.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-11-17
LITTLE NEWS

London, Nov. 14..-The scarcity of
news from the front still leave, the
chief interest cen tered in the ARRIVAL
of reinforcements. Escourt dispHtcne,
say that Photograph commun cation has
been established with Ladysmith, nut
so far no news has been received. the
latest date being November q, which
shows that the occupants of Lady
smith had no news of the outside
world since Gen. French reached
Pietermaritzburg and that they were
puzzled at the inactivi ty of the Beers.
Everyone was confident and chez rful,
but all were suffering the neon
venience of the siege, bread selling at
three shillings per loaf.
Col. Baden-Powell's dashing sorties
AT Mafeking encouraged the hope that
the British garrisons along the west
ern border are all able TO hold out.
Cecil Rhodes is employing 5000 men,
white and black, at Kimberley in road
making as remedy for restitution.
According to dispatch from De Aar
the. Hoers at Kimberley have got the
exact range of the mines and are con-
stantly throwing shells at the dyna-
mite huts. Sc veral of the latter have
been blown up and the damage done
10 the mines already amounts to many
thousand of pounds.
RECoNNOTERED IN AN ARMORED TRAIN.
Estcourt, Natal, Nov. 9.--An armored
train, with a company of the Royal
Dublin fusiliers, started at half past
one this afternoon and reached the
break in dhe railway line about half a
mile frout Colenso without accident.
Capt. Helsley, with several men, re-
connoitertd and met a native who said
the Beers were occupying the town.
While heNonversation was in progress
the Beers kpened fire from Fort Wylie,
but did 10 injury. Capt. Hensley
thereuponI retired on the train, after
which thJAfusiliers volleyed on the
fort. As here was no response, the
presumpti1 was that the Beers had
reiterated lrhe armored train returned
here safely NJ six o'clock. Capt. Hens
ley learned Nrom the native that the
Beers weroh numerous on the Lady
smith side 81 Colenso. During the
afternoon JhA'e was a cessation of the
bomblrdmenP Of Ladysmith. A hello
graph was wt1ing from Fort Wyhe.
BRITISH sHpt ARRIVE AT CAPE TOWN.
London, Ny. IA dispatch from
Cape Town To, he war Office announces
the arrival ere yesterday of the
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-11-17

Ensign f. 7. Edwards, division or
ganizer Of the salvation Army, is
here from Kansas City and will or
ganize local corps. He has rented
an upstairs room on the north side Of
the square and hopes to have it in
readiness to Ibegin meetings tonight
Capt. Jones, ofLawrenco, and Lieu
tenant Chapel, Of Chicago, will have
charge of the local corps. Both of the
young ladies have been very success.
ful in their work and their efforts in
this community to build upa flourish
ing army and make conversions to
Christianity will undoubtedly have
the warm good will and ssistance OF
all the churches, The first meeting
will be held tonight at the opera
house and permanent organization
will be effected as soon as possible.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-11-17
TOWNSHIP BLANK BOOKS
Get Them Made at Home and Save
Money.

The REGISTER begs to call the at
tention of the newly elected town
ship officers to the fact that
this office is fully equipped for
making Justice Dockets, civil and
criminal, and all other record books
used in any of the township offices.
The REGISTER can also furnish on
short notice all the blanks used by
any of the township officials, includ-
ing road overseers. Leave your
order for these books and blanks here
and thus help build up home in
dustry by keeping Allen county
money in A lien county:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-11-17
Teachers Association.

The lola Division of the Teachers
Association will meet on Saturday
December End.
The following is the program:
GreenwOod's Principles of Education, pages
50 III, Miss Campbell.
Studies in music, Miss Mitchell
Composition Work.
Literature, Macaulays Essay on Milton, Miss
leila Harris,
Round Table, Current events for the year
1899, Miss Olive KnOwllon.
Miscellaneous Business
Bring your music books.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-11-17
Southwest Corner Square, lola, Kansas.

that washed sand in abundance can be
found on the North Branch, opposite the
old Richard and Jackson homestead just on
top of the north bank, which | think will
make common glass and that on one of the
two round mounds south of the Marias Des
Cygues river in Bates couRty, south east Of
Rich Hill about eight miles, he viii find
any amount Of coarse gravel Cor plate glass
quality
have the authority for this from Pro
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-11-17
Glass SnndNear BY.

The following from the Nevada
Post will he of interest as showing
that when the time comes lola can
get glass sand close by should she
want u glass plant
DR. Albert Badger writes from Green
Springs: You can say for The benefit ofthe
person limiting for sand suitable for glass
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-11-17
LOST or StOlpn.

A medium size pug dog, light color
spot OF hair of back when gone. IS
W II be paid Tor his return to Schell d
Baird dps hardware store, lola, or $40
paid for information of the parties
that took him, {. p S. SCHELL.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-11-17

q W McKinder 3A miles south OF Lone
Elm. has cows 2 steer calves, and two-year
old steers for sale.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-10-11
The Bride and Groom Murdered at
Supper.

ST. LOUIS, Ocr. "A special to the
Post-Dispatch from Montgomery, Mo,
says: Frank Walker and his BRIDE
were murdered to-day by Charles Kan
kin, a disappointed lover, who. then
killed himself. A child was seriously
wounded by the shots that killed the
couple. All concerned in the tragedy
were prominent residents OF Montgom-
cry county: r
The murder occurred at the home Of
James Cook, nine miles east OF here.
where the couple and their friends had
gone to eat their wedding supper.
Walker. who had no relatives, work
ed around the farm. Tuesday after
noon he and Miss Maud Goshorn drove
to Montgomery and we're married.
They then drove out to the Cook home,
where a supper was prepared. A COM
pany of well wishers gathered. The
bride and groom sat side by side at the
head of the table in front OF an un-
curtained window, when Rankin shot
the couple, firing with a shotgun
through the window. Both were IN
stantly killed, their heads. being rid.
died with shot. A child, a member OF
the Cook family, was badly wounded.
No one saw the murderer and his
identity was unknown until his dead
body was stumbled over outside the
house. ,,
A letter left by Rankin revealed the
fact that he was q rejected SultOr OF
Miss Goshorn's and that he committed
the murder because she married an
Othnr