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The Florence daily tribune., 1902-09-03
Eastbound Excursions.

From June oath to Sept. i2, the
Union Pacific will sell round TRIP
tickets to Chicago, Milwaukee, St.
Paul, Kanass City, Omaha, many
intermediate and other points at one
fare plus $500 for the round "trip,
One night to. Chicago, st, Louis st,
Paul. Two nlgths TO New York OF
Boston, See your local agent or ad-
dress u, h. Griffin. general agent,
Denver.
The Florence daily tribune., 1902-09-03
And Still No Heir.

st. Petersburg. Sept. 3-The Off
cial Journal in st. Petersburg today
annoucnes that the czarina has had
miscarriage. There are no compli-
cations and her temperature and pulse
are normal.
The Florence daily tribune., 1902-09-03
Noted Author Dead.

New York, Sept. 3-Edward Egg
gleston. the author, died At Lake
George today.
The Florence daily tribune., 1902-09-03

Far Rent Keller's hall Wednesday
and Friday nights. 8itf
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14
WHY NOTf

In near15 every community there Will
be found not more than two or three
women who know how to cut and fit
ladies' wearing apparel. These are
crowded with work, while scores Of
other women are lamenting the fact
that they have nothing to wear and
can't get the services of a dressmaker.
Now, these helpless ladies can nearly
all of them do nice work in some line
or other which does not count for much.
They can paint little, do little fancy
needlework, make doilies and gauZy
handkerchiefs, play a little on the pi-
anO, stir up mess of Angels food,
make aprons for church fair, en-
broider on canvas a red dog barking
at blue parrot, run some women's
club for the elevation Of the sex, do a
lot of correct society calling (after they
have been able to get the aforesaid
dressmaker) and read lot Of the lat
est historical trash. Now. this is writ
ten by a man, and Of course he may
be dead wrong, but all the same we
want to know why. so long as dress
means so much to woman's comfort
and happiness, the girl should not be
taught how to cut and fit her own
clothes in place of teaching her to do
lot Of the useless things above men,
toned. Old fogy notion, you ladies
say. Well, maybe that's so. but for
all that hardly any one thing would do
so much to make woman independ-
ent.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

LOST-On Friday, May 9th, between
the tracks ON Washington street and
Steyer's opera house, black lady S
Jacket, with five large pearl buttons
Finder please return to r 6, this
Office.
LOST-A red steer calf, one year old,
strayed from my farm in Pleasant
township, about April LIST. Henry
DEFINING. 20-2pd
LOST-On the stage road between De-
corah and Bluffton, Saturday, April
10th, fur collar. Finder please
leave at this office. 17tf
LOST-A pocket book, containing a
considerable sum of money, in five
and ten dollar bills, on Thursday,
April gath. Might have been lost
in DEBORAH or Bluffton township, or
on the road Finder leave at this
office, CO, and receive reward 1Stf
FOR RENT-Reasonable terms, the
upper floor of the Grand opera
house. Inquire of the management.
/ Off
FOR RENT-A furnished room. In
quire over Marsh S Grocery store P. L.
WANTED-Would like to buy small
place near city limits, to 20 acres
Address I this Office. 20-2
FOR SALE-A buggy in good condi-
tlon. Inquire of Chas. Trzcinski.
18tf
STRAYED-A two year old bronco;
color chestnut; weight about 600
pounds, with halter. Finder please
return to or notify Fred Gross, De-
corah, and receive reward.
WANTED-At once a man to canvass
in the country with three lines of
saleable goods. Inquire at this
Office. G3
FOR SALE-Ten room house, with
one or two lots, in good location.
Inquire of W. F. Baker, National
Bank. 14-1O
FOR SALE-Good saw mill, eighteen
horse power engine, with q years
saving ahead. Cheap if taken soon.
Call at Lappen's store, Freeport. 13tf
FOR SALE-The very best of photo
graphs at Reynolds.
FOR SALE-Good new ten room
house with furnace heat, barn and
patch of land, for sale reasonably.
Inquire II l, this Office. S-13
FOR SALE-Three young registered
Red Polled bulls. Geo. A. Pfister,
DEBORAH, r. F. D., No. A. 6tf
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to order suits
from Meuser. Tailored garments,
ready made" prices. 12tf
WANTED-1O,OO 900 babies to be photo
graphed at Reynolds.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14
THE COUNTRY LoAFER.

We have run across him several
times the past winter. He was Matched
among the corn and potato fields, usu-
ally the progeny Of some hard listed,
avaricious old granger whose only pur-
pose In living is to get more land. AS q
boy. deprived Of boys rights. like
enough worked too hard, living in an
atmosphere of'greed and unrefnement,
he gravitates naturally just as soon as
he is big enough into rural smart
Aleck, takingsto cigarettes, beer drink
ing and the periodical raising of the
devil in orderly country communities.
He has no manners except bad ones.
When he looks at a young woman, he
leers at her. He is unpleasantly con-
spicuous at horse races, circuses,
Fourth of July celebrations and camp
meetings, the legitimate prey Of fakirs
and sideshow grafters, an all round
nuisance and really the very poorest
and most worthless product Of the fer
tile farms Of the country, coarse, loud
mouthed and never well dressed or
groomed. as his city cousin sometimes
is. This iii begotten chap is the direct
antithesis Of that industrious, patient,
ambitious farm boy who graduates
from the cornfields into the highest
places In politics, commerce and the
religious and educational life in this
country.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14
Notice of Appointment.

Notice of the appointment of Administra-
tor OF the Ertate ofCyrus K. Spriggs Deceased.
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, That the
subscriber has been duly appointed admistra-
tor to the estate of Cyrus II Spriggs late OF
Bluffton township, in the County of Winnie
sheik, State of Iowa, deceased. intestate, and
has taken upon himself that trust by giving
bonds as the law directs. All persons having
ueiianus upon lne sstate or tne saio aeceased
indebted to the estate are called upon TO make
payment TO
WILLIAM SPRIGGs, Administrator
M. A. HARMON, Attorney.
Dated at DEBORAH, Iowa, April 30th, 1902. 1914
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14
CEREAL FOODS.

This is for the ladies, the good cooks
and mothers who take pride In prepar-
ing palatable and nutritious foods for
their families. The cereal breakfast
foods-oatmeal, wheat, corn and rice
as prepared in hundred and one diff
ferent forms for table use are starch
foods largely. AS generally prepared
for the table these foods are seldom
cooked long enough. no matter what
the printed directions may say on the
wrapper about being prepared in FIVE
or ten minutes. This imperfect cook
ing makes such foods more or less
indigestible. If any cook will cook
these foods In double boiler for FIVE
or six hours the day before they are to
be used and warm them up for break
fast, they will be surprised how great
ly they will be improved in flavor and
digestibility. Just give this trial and
see.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14
THE ASPARAGUS BED.

II you want to set out an asparagus
bed this spring. do this: Cut old roots
into three or four pieces with a sharp
spade, prepare your bed. digging up to
a depth Of foot Fertilize heavily,
using well rotted stable manure, or the
surplus cats and dogs of your neigh
borhood could be well planted right
here and give good returns Cut none
at all the first year and sparingly the
second. but after that as literally as
you like. Do not cut after June 20. but
allow all the growth to mature on the
bed. These directions followed out VIII
give you an abundant supply of one Of
the finest vegetables the garden at
fords.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

II seemed almost cruel to take such
an unfair advantage of helpless bird
life. The ducks made blunder this
spring and migrated to the north coun.
try too soon. beguiled by the balmy
spring weather Of early March. A
fierce blizzard and below zero tenn
perature followed, driving the birds in
a half paralyzed state into the open
water Of the creeks and rivers. where
they huddled helplessly. prime mark
for the pot hunter. and he got them
by the score, by the hundred. by the
thousand. ald called 1t royal sport.
BY and by there will be no ducks Or
any other game birds left.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

We are asked how best to renovate
an old and weedy pasture. II possible.
we would plow it up and take crop OF
corn from 1t this year. crop of small
grain next year and seed down anew.
IL the land must be kept In pasture,
we would take cutSway disk and give
1t thorough disking both ways, then
sow clover and timothy. dragging 1t
smooth. This will rejuvenate the blue
grass and practically make the pasture
over new.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

We have score of seed catalogues
to look over this spring. We notice
that nearly every scotsman claims spe-
cial excellence for some two or three
new things In his line. These are al
ways high priced. and the almost uni
versal desire to try new things leads
many to invest their money. Our expe-
rience with these novelties leads US to
remark that in most cases they are
best let alone, they very seldom prov
ing to possess any merit over old vari-
cites and quite frequently being utter
ly worthless.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

A friend asked us the other day II
we had a recipe for seeding field
with clover this spring which would
absolutely insure catch and a good
stand. We told him II he would sow
his clover without any nurse crop
whatever. sowing the first week in
April. running a light harrow over the
field, that we would guarantee him a
good stand of clover by September. He
might, IL be wished. sow three pecks
of barley or oats with the clover. cut.
ting the crop for hay as soon as the
grain headed out. and be almost sure
Of securing stand.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

We have fine reports of the value of
the bronze grass for all that semiarid
portion Of the country where timothy
and clover will not grow. Some are
claiming that as the native buffalo
grass is run out by too close pasturing
this bronze grass may be made to take
its place. If so, it will prove to be
bonanza indeed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14
THE MORTGAGE HAD HIM.

While we do not know the mans
name and did not see the chattel mort
gage. we have not the least doubt but
there was one with this place in its
grip. All the farm tools were left out
in the fields-mower. reaper, pillow, rake.
hay loader. Three stacks of grain were
still unthrashed in February. We learn
ed that a few years ago the owner had
been left the farm by his father clear
Of incumbrance. This young man had
liking for low life In the town-beer
guzzling. pool and poker and the like
and in five years he landed at the bot
tom minus reputation. credit, money,
the respect Of his neighbors and all that
makes life worth living. He was stay
ing the year Of redemption out on the
place, and then the end must come.
Pity goes out to the little wife and
children whom hard fate compels to
share all this misery.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14
WANT COLUA MN

If you want to buy or sell anything,
have lost or found anything, have a
house, store or farm for rent or sale, or
want to rent or buy, want hired girl,
a position, or want to let people know
anything about you or your business,
use the PUBLIC OPINION Want
Column.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

Grippe. Colds, Neuralgia, Constipation
are all quickly cured by the new remedy,
BRoMo-LAx contains no quinine). Sold
BY druggists. CSC box.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

The young men of today who do the
farm work will never realize the pos
sibilities connected with hard work on
the farm as did their fathers when
they had to rake of from an old Nc
Cormick reaper in the early sixties or
keep up station after such machine
as one of five binders. My, but the
days were long then, and the sun hot,
and the work hard!
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

A whole lot Of eager homeseekers
are buying farms west Of the one hun
dredth degree of west longitude In the
Dakotas. Kansas and Nebraska and
are going to come to grief. That is
stock country. not farming land.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

Because of the shortage in the crop
of 1901 exports of corn fell off from
100000 bushels in 1900 to $4,000
600 bushels in 1901. The long delayed
European appreciation of this most val
liable of cereals is at last made mani
fest, and from now on this foreign de-
mand is going to materially affect the
future values of corn. The day of
burning corn in place Of coal is gone
never to return.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

We think that where so many as Of.
teen cows are kept in the farm dairy
some arrangement should be made to
have one man do all the milking and
give him plenty of time In which TO dc
1t. 1t certainly would be better for the
cows.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

The United States furnishes Eng
land with 63 per cent Of her bread
stuffs and 65 per cent Of her meats.
So long as England is compelled to
thus depend upon the United States for
her very living there will be no serious
ruction between the two countries.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

A field of corn planted thickly for
fodder was dragged until 1t got to be
six inches high. While some Of the
corn was thus destroyed. there was
still plenty left, and 1t only required
two plowings to make perfectly clean
deld Of corn.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

There will always be poor and i'm
perfect kernels of grain produced even
II you sow only the very best The in
ference is-we might say the fact is
that the more poor seed you SOW the
poorer will be the harvest.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

Darwin once picked up a wounded
pigeon by the wayside. Its leg had
been broken, and in its contracted
claws was little lump of earth. This
Darwin planted to see what vegetable
life it might contain. From it he pro-
duced fifteen varieties of plant life.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

There is peculiar significance con-
nected with that Biblical phrase which
refers to ''the grasshopper as bur-
den" when 1t is known that 100000
out of the $4,000. 900 square miles of the
land surface of the globe are subject
to the scourge Of these insects.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

Right now, during the last days Of
April. is the time to set out the straw
berry bed. We have sometimes thought
that the doing Of this might almost
come under the head of legitimate
Sunday work. for the doing of it is
certainly work of necessity and mer-
CT.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

Do not try to transplant black wal
nut or hickory tree grown in the ma
tive forest, for it will be sure to be a
failure. Nearly all the nut bearing
trees should have the nut planted
where the tree is to grow.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

In planting apple trees this spring
on the prairie soils set trees not less
than eight inches deeper than they
grew in the nursery and give them a
decided lean from the perpendicular
toward the southwest.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

We find that there are always two
things which need doing in the spring
of the year where there is only time to
do one. So many things must be done
right then IL done at all during the sea-
son-the sowing of seed and planting or
trees-and then there are always SO
much cleaning up and fixing TO do. 1t
Ia altogether the busiest season OF the
year for us.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

One of the beneficent uses of the
evergreen grove around the farm home
stead was made very manifest during
a recent March blizzard, the grove af-
fording a splendid shelter and protec-
ton to hundreds Of birds-bluebirds,
blackbirds, robins, meadow larks-
which got caught by the unreasonable
weather. These birds must have per-
ished by the thousand had it not been
for the shelter thus afforded.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

Just what is expected in the way of
work from the hired man on the farm
should be fully talked over and put
Into written contract form before clos.
Ing the deal. II man agrees to work
ten hours In the Geld and put in AN
hour doing chores before breakfast and
another after supper and agrees to
help do the chores on Sunday, let him
stick to his bargain. If he does not
want to work twelve hours day. let
him do his kicking before he com.
uancas work -
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14
To Cure a Cold in One pay

Take Laxative BrOmo-Quinine Tab
lets. All druggists refund the money
il II fails to cure. Il. w. Groves sig
nature is on each box. 25c. sos.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

When sixteen-year-old boy unslill-
ed In every particular can secure as
wages on farm $40 month. his
board and washing. as he can today.
he Is alone to blame II he Is not worth
$500 by the time he is twenty-four
years old. But not one in ten of them
will save dollar.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

We know one locality which had a
streak of good luck lately. 1t got rid Of
q mighty mean citizen and imported a
registered Polled Angus bull. 1t was a
good trade.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

The oil discoveries in Texas bid fair
to become the big discovery Of the
country's natural resources of the new
century. Assuming that the supply Is
practically unlimited. as it appears to
be. the wells at Beaumont will supply
a large part of the steam making fuel
of the whole country.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

The government is sending 1000
bushels of seed corn from the east to
those parts of the southwes: where the
crop was entirely destroyed by the
drought last year and Is sending 1t by
mail too. This is more sensible pros
utution of the mail service than to load
down the service with franked tons OF
worthless official reports and Congress
sional Records.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

One Of the most common troubles for
the landlord Is the difficulty of getting
a good tenant. and in very many cases
the landlord is alone to blame. He is
too stingy to put the farm in such
shape that it will be an inducement for
a good tenant to take 1t. Good tenants,
will not rent poorly equipped farms
and pay tribute to a mean landlord If
they can help 1t. Some men are too
mean to own foot of land anyhow.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

A few days since we Travelled over
section of the west where twenty-five
years ago one might have travelled for
q stretch Of forty miles and never have
seen a tree. Today this once wild and
bleak prairie is a beautiful panorama
Of high priced farms with timber to
be seen in every direction-groves on
nearly every farm; these groves with
out doubt performing most benefcent
work in breaking the force of the
winds and modifying extremes Of tenn
peratrra
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14
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Where clover will grow and Short
horn cattle are kept don't expect to buy
a farm for much less than $50 per acre.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

Wherever dairying Is a secondary
factor in the farm economy, where
from ten to twenty cows are kept on
100 acres, there the farm separator is a
most valuable machine. While the farm
separator is now boycotted By all the
creamery men working on the cream
cry separator plan, as is natural we
still believe the time is fast coming
when the farm separator will win and
the cream and not the milk be deliver.
ed to the creamery.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

A reliable young man. a good farm
hand. who has worked out by the
month for farmers for the past ten
years, stated before farmers institute
this winter that the farmer would get
more satisfactory work out Of his men
II they were not required to work SO
many hours. He said that where work
began at $50 In the morning and end
ed at 1880 at night it would pay to give
the men two hours incoming instead Of
one. We believe he is right about this.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

Seed potatoes are high priced this
spring. and so it is just as well to re-
member that one good eye is just as
good as more when cutting the potatoes
for seed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

Rates-One cent per woodworking
less than ten cents.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1902-11-13

The next attraction at the Opera
House will be Leo Dietrichstein'
great comedy success care You a
Mason?" which will be seen next
Tuesday, November 18th. The
play is in three acts, and is from
the German, the source from which
the American stage has obtained
it's biggest humorous success in
recent years. The principal char
acters are a stock broker who was
formerly an actor, gay old faith
er-in-law, a gentleman farmer,
young architect, an excitable
mother with two pretty daughters,
a maid, policeman, and clock
model. Time, now; place New
York. Act 1. Friday noon. Act
ii. and III. Saturday afternoon.
The point of the comedy is the
success which two gay husbands
have been deceiving their wives
through the pretense of belonging
to a Masonic Lodge. The two
husbands are involved in all sorts
of comic complications but manage
to escape successfully through the
exhibition of pretended signs and
! grips of Masonry. Inc company
which will be seen in the play has
become known as one of the best
comedy organizations in the coun-
try, Their success in this comedy
was so complete last season that
the entire company was re-engag-
| ed.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1902-11-13

LOST-Snowden Ingmire lost
his pocketbook containing notes
and bank certificates. Papers of
no value to finder. Any one re-
turning same to the First Bank
will receive reward. No questions
asked.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1902-11-13
Plain, Straight
Forward, Fair
and Square Business.

We don't dealin trickery
and schemes to deceive
the public. If you trade
at our store you can rest
assured that there will
be no Gold Brick Games,
Piano Rackets or Prem
ium Schemes Of any kind
worked on you, but we
will give you a full
dollars worth of goods
for your dollar. We have
made our reputation by
keeping faith with our
customers and we will
retain our reputation by
the same methods. The
smallest children If they
know what they want
, can buy as cheap and
with as much safety sat
our store" as the shrewd-
est buyers, because we
have but one price ::
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1902-11-13

Charley Beck has resigned his
position with Mr.. John Sweeney
and has taken up the insurance
agency.