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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-07
/. THE DAY BEFORE

Chicago. Oct. 8.
wheat-No. 2 red. 10; No. red. 66
@6s; No. hard. 10; No. 8 hard. 66ea
691s: october. 6s1s; December, opened:
69& @69%; highest, 7o1s@70A; lowest,
6ass @69ik:s closing. 69A.
Corn-No. 2 and 3 and No. and 2
white, 61@61k; No. 2 yellow and No. 8
yellow, 63@631a; October, COX; Decem-
Der, opened. sA@4saa; highest. 49A::
lowest, 4S5s; closing, 4sM.
oats-No. 2, 80; No. 8. 90: No 2
white, s5@36; No. 3 white. 32@S4 No.
a white, 2s@31: standard. 32@31h
october, 31g December. opened. 32is
@32A highest. a2B; lowest. s2M:
closing, 3211a.
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Minneapolis Grain.

Minneapolis, Oct. Z.
wheat-December 66ss; May, 677s@
les; on track, No. / hard, $685.; No. |
northern, 6Sss; No. 2 northern, 66ss q
l67,s.
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Representative Hog Sales.

Chicago, Oct "a few representa-
tive sales of hogs were made as fol-
lows:
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Ranoe Of Prices.

The following quotations upon the
range Of prices upon the Chicago board
or trade today were furnished by the
Weare Commission Company:
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New York EXCHANGE.

chicago. Oct. New York exchange
10 discount.
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Half and HaK.

The dyspeptic may we'll be represented
pictorially as being half masculine and
desirable characteristics of either sex.
He has all the stubbornness of the man
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Oct. 3. iii. 4oI11. 4ol11 4o|11.4o|115
JAM. s. 80. s.SoI $500 s.25I s.25l s.32
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Chicago Produce.

Chicago, Oct. 4
Pork-October, 100: January, 1870.
Lard-October. 1925; January, s.s71s
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18
THE FAKE sEEDsMAN,

We are asked to say something about
the dishonest scotsman and incidental
ly something also about the religious
periodical which will carry his adver-
tisement, the complaint as made to us
being that these seedsmen send out
seed not true to name or which has
lost it's vitality, and the purchaser, see
ing their advertisements in a religious
paper, is not looking for this sort Of
thing. In the purchase of trees and
seeds of all kinds it is always best to
buy Of some firm near home or at
least at one of established reputation
If far off. Editors Of religious publ
cations never take any more trouble
and often not so much to keep their
advertising columns free from fraud
as does the purely secular press. some
Of the worst fakes going securing
choice positions next to reports Of re-
vival meetings and the work Of the
churches. Because an advertisement
appears in a religious paper or maya
zine it never should be assumed that
the statements made or the goods Of
fered are in any manner sanctifed
thereby. the very same caution being
needed as is common when one trades
horses with person who likes a fast
morse. ~"'hF x SSs-SSSss t,.EEs
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18
STICK TO STOCK.

we want to say word to the man
who is trying to dig out q farm and
home in the newer sections of the
country IN the timber belt, where
opening up and retaining the soil is
hard proposition compared with max
ing farm and home on the level prai-
RE. The easiest way in which to i'm
prove such a farm is with stock, and
the surest way to secure living while
doing it is also with stock. Pigs may
be very profitably raised all through
northern Minnesota and Wisconsin,
even though there be little or no corn
raised to feed them. Glover, peas, po-
tatoes and barley make the primest
sort of hog feed and the very choicest
quality Of pork, and every man so stu
ated should make it point to keep
all the pigs possible, and with the
pigs should be as many cows as winter
provision can be made for. If a man
will get start with cows, hogs and
poultry on such farm, removing the
trees and large brush, his stock will
not only make him good living, but
the pasturing of his land will soon SUBJ
due it and make it good arabic land.
Instead of doing this, nine out Of ten
of the settlers in such a new country
keep no hogs at all and only family
cow and depend upon the laborious
work Of grubbing the land to fit it to
raise crops Of grain to sell.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18
GOT RID OF THE HIRED MAN.

A friend who has about eighty acres
in crops to care for and who usually
keeps one hired man to assist him is
getting along without help this season
and doing pretty well at it too. He
keeps two teams of horses, and he
went and bought gang plow which
requires the two teams. He got a
twenty-five foot drag and rugged lit
tie cart behind it, so that he rides all
day. He will use hay loader in the
field and hay fork at the barn. His
wife has agreed to milk the two cows
and look after the garden and drive
the horse on the pulley when he fills
the barn with hay in consideration Of
not having a hired man In the home to
provide for, and, while he may not
have wholly solved the problem this
year, he says that he will so shape his
work another season as to be indie
pendent of hired help even though he
does not do quite so big business.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18
CORN FOR FODDER CROP.

We are asked about corn for a purely
fodder crop. It's big thing and hard
to beat. We prefer the fore part Of
June for planting. Drill in bushel of
seed per acre DIETER more than less),
plant regulation width and aim to give
the crop two civilizations. There will
be nubbins on the stalks so planted.
the stalks will be tall and slim and
may be cut, bound and shocked with a
corn harvester. and if properly put up
an acre Of good corn land will thus fur
nish four tons or more Of the best fod.
der on earth. every particle Of which
will be eaten by the stock. Where the
land can be spared this is even better
way than to cut up the field corn. as 1t
is so much nicer to handle. Try it for
the dairy.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18
POOR SEEDS.

We have run up against lot of poor
garden seeds this spring-not one sort.
but several sorts. They were purchased
from one of the most reliable seed
houses in the country. but for some
unknown reason not over 80 per cent
Of the corn, beans. radishes. lettuce.
beets, peas, lima beans and parsnips
had vitality enough to terminate. This
is very aggravating thing. The COM
plant is quite general this spring and
may have its origin in the abnormal
heat and drought Of last season. In
this connection we might add that
there is less complaint of poor seed
corn for field planting than we have
ever known before.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

FOR SALE-Single harness. G. R.
Cove.
STRAYED-Bay broncho mare, a
blaze in face, two hind heels white,
name notched, branded "77' on
right hip. Apply at l.. J. Ander-
sons feed barn.
FOR SALE-Two thoroughbred Short
horn bulls, one year old. w. A.
Kennedy, p mile south of De-
corah. 25-2
FOR SALE-A good house and lot on
Franklin street for sale cheap if
taken at once. +. L. Akers. 25-1
WANTED TO rent an unfinished
room Inquire 81 this office.
FOR SALE-Household and cooking
utensils. Inquire of G. E. Sykes,
corner Franklin and Mill streets or
this Office.
LOST-Span of horses. Bay mare
with white strip on forehead and
front feet, and brown gelding mare.
Notify Peter Hovey, five miles
north of Ridgeway. 52-1pd
FOR SALE-Two Poland sows. One
with six pigs and one with seven,
two weeks old. G. B. Robinson,
Freeport. 25-2pd
FOR SALE-Heavy work horse. V.
@. Sheetz, Freeport. 25-pd
FOR RENT-Good seven room house
on Mechanic street. Inquire of w.
r. Wheatman.
FOR SALE-House, barn and lot in
West DEBORAH, one block north of
j. J. Marsh's. Inquire of L. A.
Bulmer, DEBORAH. 24-3mo
WANTED-S76 people to buy the first
and best pictures Ct the flood Leave
orders with W. H. Schlung at this
Office. 23tf
FOR RENT-Reasonable terms, the
upper floor of the Grand opera
house. Inquire of the management.
1 Off
FOR SALE-A buggy in good condi-
tton, Inquire of Chas, Trzoinski,
lStf
WANTED AT once a man to canvass
in the country with three lines of
saleable goods. Inquire at this
office. G3
FOR SALE-Good saw mill, eighteen
horse power engine, with a 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 6ALE-Three young registered
Red Polled bulls. Geo. A. Pfister,
DEBORAH, r. F. D., No. 4, 6tf
WANTED-Gentlem to order suits
from Meuser. Tailored garments,
"ready-made" prices. 12tf
WANTED-lO,OOO babies to be photo
graphed at Reynolds.
FOUND-A bunch of keys at Luther
college grounds. Owner may pay
for ad and receive same at this
Office.
FOR RENT OR SALE-Grist mill
with stationary forty horse engine,
stone burrs, Mrs. Hannah l.. Robin
son, Burr Oak. 21tf.
WANTED-Girl for general house
work. Inquire of Geo. Bernatz.
WANTED-A girl to do general house
work in family of four. Inquire
at this office. II 23tf.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18
LOOK OUT For THE BoRER.

We have been on our annual hunt
for the borer in our orchard lately.
This little beast is by all odds the big
gest nuisance which the apple grower
has to contend with. the cause of the
death Of more apple trees than all the
other enemies with which the apple
has to cope. Sometimes two and three
borers are found at work on one tree,
the tree as yet apparently in perfect
health, but unless the borers are dug
out it is as surely doomed as though
it had been struck by lightning. Sharp
eyes and sharp knife are the only
remedy we know that counts against
them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

The oleo manufacturers have now
before them the difficult task Of edu-
eating the public taste in the line Of
using and liking the uncolored article.
1t is just as good. just as nutritious,
uncolored as colored, and it may be
that in time the popular prejudice
against white butter substitute will
be overcome and large market made
for the product.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

The robins which have been hatched
In the tree on your lawn and which
have lived off the grubs in the garden
and the fruit in the orchard assemble
In vast flocks during the winter in the
cedar swamps Of the south to feed on
the seeds of the cedars. Of which they
are very fond. At this time they are
caught in nets by the thousands DUR
ing the night when roosting and sold
for about 20 cents dozen. the poach.
ers making from 81 to So for nights
work.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

We would like to see the agricultural
fairs and associations offer good, sub
stantial premium Of. say, $50 for the
largest value of crops raised on a small
tract Of land. from one to five acres.
The time is fast coming when the soil
must be worked better and made more
productive. and small tracts cultivated
in competition for such prize would
be splendid object lessons along this
line.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

One of them drew his months wages
and then went to town and blew his
money in a doggery. When he started
for home, he was full as a tick and.
falling out Of the buggy. broke his
neck. Another one had some trouble
in the shape Of another fellow getting
his girl away from him. and he strung
himself up in the barn. Both of these
men lacked sense.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

People get awful queer notions
sometimes. Here is a lady who was
told that the proper way to start an
asparagus bed was to have big
trench dug and filled with old trash
broken crockery. tinware and old rub
bers-covering this with earth. The
bed was so made and proved dead
failure, as might have been expected
IL she had substituted an old horse or
the cats and dogs which the commune
ty could well have spared, the result
would have been very different.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

So many American farmers are buy
ing land and locating in western Can
ada that it is going to be nip and tuck
which shall be celebrated as holiday
the kings birthday or the Fourth Of
July.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

We think that we can see the time
near when load Of musty oat straw
will not bring S. when it is wanted for
stable bedding or to cover a strawberry
bed. The old granger won't work this
racket next winter.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

A western granger raised colt
sired by a thoroughbred road horse.
The youngster shared the rough and
tumble life of the draft colts in the
cornstalk fields and winter pasture.
At three years of age he was broken
In. In rural way, to drive, and local
horse buyer. seeing him. got him for
800. Being better trained and fitted
up. the buyer sold him to city buyer
for $3.50. and the colt was then ship
ped to New York. where he sold at
auction for S1,7OO. Good blood tells,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

Some one says that the good mixer
needs to be Christian. Maybe that's
SO, but we recall the case Of one good
man who for the time being really re-
GREETED he was one as he went through
the experience of trying to milk a
kicking heifer In fytime, his church
relations preventing him from doing
the subject justice.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

There is one thing which good many
readers Of these notes might do to their
sit down and figure closely
whether the cows which they are keep
ing are really paying their way. Weigh
each cows milk, and If it proves that
she is giving less than $500 pounds a
year you can figure out an almost cer-
tain loss. 50 SsH,aa; ..ssi;s~S.i
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

These are the days when the man
who set out a strawberry bed last year
is reaping a rich reward. One man in
about twenty will have all the deli
cious berries he wants; the other nine
teen might, but won't, because they
won't take the trouble. This is great
waste of opportunity and privilege.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

The suspicion is prevalent that q
good deal Of old horse meat is passing
in gold labeled cans as choice corned
beef" There is quite likely to be some
kicking over this matter.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

Some farmers are becoming so well
fixed that they think they can afford to
do their farm. work with a five hun
dred dollar team Of horses, and 1t al
most makes play Of the work when
|done with such q team.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

Some people will not let Virginia
|creeper decorate their porch on the
ground that its luxuriant growth cling
Ding to the woodwork is liable to rot It.
rs Is mistake. We have never found
{ 1t had any tendency to do this.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

When you milk cow and fatten her
3or the block at the same time. you
will succeed in making the toughest
of beef. We do not know why this is
so, but it's q fact Just the same.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

No moral training which the house
cat receives will ever prevent her from
robbing the young birds from the nest
in the tree by the door If it is possible
for her to get at 1t. ..,.s, ..>,..
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

While the Jersey cow Is almost GER
tain to be one Of the gentlest and most
ladylike of her kind. every way Iowa
BILE. her mate is quite likely to be the
Ggliest little devil in four states.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18
WANT COLUMN

If you want to buy or sell anything,
have lost or found anything, have a
house, store or farm for rent or sale, OF
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, 1902-06-18

Cold storage has made it possible
for the producer to get Is cents for
May and June eggs. Before the days of
cold storage cents was good price.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

la woman gets big contract on her
hnds when she finds that she has mar
led man who is bound to have hot
(scuit at least once every day, and the
|orst of it is that she is quite likely to
1--we a cranky old dyspeptic to cook
b before he is a grandfather
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

/, An elaborate experiment made with
the strawberry at the Iowa agricul-
tural experiment station proved that
pistillate varieties were more produc-
tive than the staminate.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

The curse Of the mustard follows
llose in the wake Of the fax crop
through all the northwestern territory
rhere fax is grown. 1t Is an easy
batter to get farm infested with this
lest and very hard thing to get rid
q II.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

Nature very reluctantly combines
size and good quality in any of her
products. The largest things of CIV
en- type are by no means the best.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

Steady work for the bull at the head
of the herd will not only make him of
far greater value as sire. but will
make him orderly and well behaved.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

There is one advantage on the farm,
and it is no small one either, and that
is the impossibility of there ever being
an organized strike among farm labor
ers. No business could be taken such
advantage of by laborers as that Of the
farm, and it. is fortunate that it is
from the nature of things exempt.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

Ne are asked how late in the season
5 safe to put CRAFTS in trees. II the
fits have been kept dormant, good
|'cent of them will grow II inserted
|n when the tree is well leaved out,
It is better to do this work during
|rch and April rather than later.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

There never has been time when
E simple factor OF weight counted
/ so much in horse as at pres
b The sixteen hundred pound horse
b a distinct advantage over the
|elve hundred pound horse for all
I'm work and town teaming.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

he Canadian Pacific railway will
rtly place the enormous amount Of
D0,0OO acres of land on the market
Bettlers. While these lands lie far
b and some of them are utterly
fhless, there is much fertile soil.
all the cereals save corn will grow
do well.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

A flock Of 300 Angora goats bought
by western farmer three years ago
not only paid their way in wool, or
hair rather, but sold for more money
than he paid for them and cleaned up
an eighty acre tract of rough brush in
the very finest shape. These animals
will do this every time.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

Rates-One cent per woodworking
less than ten cents.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

Farmers seem to lend willing hand
to the bears on the boards of trade by
Dragging too much about the prospec-
tive yield Of their crops.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

The nutritive value Of 10 cents worth
of per cent milk is equal to 20 cents
worth of round-beefsteak.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

When fat hog sells for $50 and a
fat steer for 500, as today, it is no
wonder there is a boom in farm lands.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

June butter is going into cold storage
at about % cents per pound this year,
nearly cents higher than it has been
for many years.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

If abortion appears in the dairy herd,
one Of the first things to do is to change
the sire.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

Hay which will sell for 81 per ton
from the barn next winter is better
sold from the field when made at S.:
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

We have come to the time when 1t is
unlikely that anything new remains to
be discovered about the mystery of
milk and the making Of butter. A
more interesting thing than the evolu-
ton Of butter making and the dairy
has never been witnessed in this coun-
try.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

Grippe. Colds. Neuralgia. Constipation
are all quickly cured by the new remedy,
BRoMo-LAx Contains no quinine). Sold
BY druggists. 2Sc box.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-18

1t is only few men who have the
eye to draw perfectly straight fur
row when blowing or start the corn
planter on straight row. Where one
does do this it always attracts atten-
ton and is quite apt to be an indicator
Of the general style ON which his farm
is run.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-07-11
With BACKGROUNDS
One Thousand Armed Men Are
Holly Pursuing Tracy. Es3
ESCAPE ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE
He Was cornered Tuesday In a
House, but Escaped Under Very
Noses Of His Pursuers-He Has
Killed Six Persons.

Seattle, Wash, July 9.-Harry
Tracy, the fugitive Oregon convict,
who has killed six men and wounded
several others since June 8, is being
holly pursued by men and dogs in the
country southeast of Seattle. and Will
probably be slain or captured within
L few hours. His pursuers, who have
with them two fine bloodhounds, are
only a short distance behind him.
Tracy made another extraordinary
escape from one of the posses after
him Tuesday afternoon. Word was re-
ceived at the sheriffs Office that
Tracy had been at the house of Mrs.
Gerald, near Renton, for five hours.
Fifty armed men at once fastened to
the scene. When they reached the
place they scattered and took posi-
tions SO they could watch the house
to the best advantage. The peculiar
actions of Mrs. Gerald convinced them
that Tracy was still in the house. On
the arrival of Sheriff Cudihee the
posse closed in on the house, only 10
learn from Mrs. Gerald that Tracy had
given them the slip. He had left the
house Dy a rear door ten minutes pre-
viously, while the posse were taking
up positions to watch the place, hid
for a few minutes in some Of the
bushes, and then quietly slipped away
through the woods toward Palmer.
The wonderful GOODNESS and daring
of the convict was never more fully
exemplified than in this instance. In
the back yard of the Gerald home An
derson, the man whom Tracy had kept
a prisoner from the time he left Port
Madison, was found tied to a tree.
Tracy had tied Anderson while TN =
posse was In full view of the house.
The bloodhounds were let loose IN
the trail, and are reported to be y
a few minutes behind him. Fully a
thousand armed men are now engaged
in the pursuit, including posse which
has taken the train for Palmer to In
tercept Tracy in his fight towards
Cedar mountain.