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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28
WHO FED THE TURkEys,

The profits OF raising turkeys are
not always allotted where they proper
ly belong. A farmer ut an institute
was Dragging that he had sold seventy
five turkeys which had not cost him
10 cents head and got over dollar
apiece for them. His nice story was
completely spoiled by his neighbor,
who rose and said that those turkeys
had cost him over 80 cents apiece to
raise.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

A crop Of sorghum was cut and fed
with much satisfaction the past win
ter in this manner: About 100 pounds
of seed were sown to the acre. 1t was
then cut with harvester and bound in
small bundles-as small as possible.
These were shocked up and fed in the
bundle during the winter
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

Hen manure is an exceedingly con-
centrated fertilizer and should not be
used in a crude form for the flower
beds, but should be mixed with de-
cayed vegetation. leaves and cow ma
nure, one part to five. when it makes
very valuable fertilizer for the gar
den
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28
LABEL ALL ADULTERArED FOODS.

Now that the oleomargarine bill has
at last become a law. including all
bogus butter products, as it rightly
should, let the effort be made to in
clude other vicious adulterated food
products under the operation Of sim
liar law. There are vinegar. maple sug-
ar and strip. spices and all the long list
of glucose frauds Let's have all mean
things selling for just what they are
and not masking under the name Of
some pure food product.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

Cold storage has become most i'm
portant factor In relieving gluts of the
market for all perishable products and
equallzing the prices for the same. Not
long ago eggs always used 10 drop to
8 or 8 cents dozen along In the
month Of May. Cold storage facilities
now keep them up TO IL or Ia cents to
the producer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

Creameries are now being rated by
insurance companies as extra hazard,
GUS risks, and yet 1t seems strange
why this should be So True. there is
the pile of slack coal adjoining the en-.
CINE room. which Is always fruitful
cause of spontaneous combustion, and
then there is the carelessly adjusted
smokestack. and then there Is three
thousand dollar policy of a creamery
where there are only 20 cows to feed
It. this last causing much Of the extra
hazardous risk.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

Dogs have their uses as watch and
herd dogs on the farm, as hunters, as
rat killers, but dogs so kept do not
form 10 per cent Of the great crowd
of mongrel, worthless brutes which
infest every modern community.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

Spring lamb was frozen in New Zea-
land and shipped 10000 miles and sold
in the city of New York in April last
at "a cents pound. Peaches and
plums from South Africa were to be
had In the Chicago market last jan
uary.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

While it is all right to break in the
two-year-old draft colt, it is still bad
blunder to make 1t do regular work
alongside of a matured horse, and the
same rule should apply to your four
teen-year-old boy as well.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

A steer bought last October at 4
cents pound. fed seventy five bushels
of sixty cent corn and sold in May at
1925 per hundred only just paid his
way and left no proft-this from one of
the most extensive feeders Of cattle in
this country.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

Whenever there is an investment
made in good blood in any sort Of do
nestle animal. there should be a cor
responding investment made in good
food and good care for it, because no
critter on earth can do business on a
pedigree alone.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

Cold storage has proved great sue
cess with Baldwin apples in the east,
the fruit going in at $1.2O per barrel,
keeping perfectly and bringing $3 In
the spring at an expense OF 70 cents
storage charges.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

But few of the younger people Of the
country have ever seen an OK. ten
year-old, long horned. eighteen hun
dred pound beast Of burden. for his
sort is being almost wholly supplanted
by the horse, the oxen finding their
way to the slaughter house before they
are three years old. Et
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28
WANT C0LU 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,
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, 1902-05-28

The possession Of large supplies OF
soil fertilizers has had much to do with
the financial prosperity Of some coun.
tries. The guano deposits of Peru re-
stored the waning credit of that coun-
try and pail for many expensive gov.
eminent improvements. while the nj
trate deposits of Chile have been YER
liable gold mine for that country.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

It has about come to this-that there
could be no great war In any country
If it were not for the big packing
houses of this country. Men who fight
must eat. and to eat they must draw on
our American supplies Of meat
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

The recent orders for the cattlemen
to remove the fences which they have
erected. inclosing vast areas Of the
public domain. is very much in the
interest of the homesteader and man
who wants to raise cattle on small
scale. The order is making a lot Of
trouble among the cattle barons. how
ever.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

The howl against the meat trust
does not come from the farms. Out
west not a peep is heard. and as the
old granger notes a twenty-five cent
advance in hogs and steers in his daily
paper he turns to his wife and remarks
that the Lord has not forgotten his
Aeople after all
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

Rates-One cent per woodworking
less than ten cents.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

Alfalfa butter is not as fine as blue
grass butter and will never take the
place of clover. blue grass and corn as
a dairy ration. but fed with these it is
of great benefit. as it Is a great milk
producer. q
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

One moral to be drawn from present
agricultural conditions is to keep more
hens. Get better breed and give them
more attention. for they will pay the
largest per cent Of dividend Of any live
thing on the farm.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

The corn acreage of the corn belt
will be very large this season. the pre-
vailing high prices for this cereal act
ing as stimulant to every man to
raise every bushel Of corn possible
The country cannot raise So large a
crop of corn this season that the prices
will be forced to an Improbable point.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

II you have set out strawberry bed
this spring. do not let the plants bloom
and bear fruit this year, for 1t weak
ems them. and they will not set so good
a crop of runners for the next years
crOp
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

Alfalfa is the only forage plant which
will give the grower three full crops
in one year. This is one reason why
alfalfa should be grown on your farm
II it is possible to do so.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

Get rid of the foolish notion that dogs
60 mad in dog days, for they don't.
More dogs go mad during the winter
and spring than at any other season
of the year.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

If all the small. understood and In
ferior kernels of seed grain Of any
kind could be eliminated from the
seed sown, 1t would do much to i'm
prove the quality Of all crops raised.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

The bull needs watching even If he
has been dehorned. He is no sweeter
tempered or more trustworthy when
dehorned than when he is not; it will
simply take longer time for him to
kill body,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

A lately enacted law imposes fine
Of $1,000 or three years in the peniten-
tiary for maliciously setting a forest
fire in the state of New Jersey.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

The passage of the oleo bill will ne
cessitate the placing Of 100000 more
cows on the farms Of the country to
supply the demand for butter
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

Veal under two months old should
not be used as food. Still lots of 1t
pass as canned chicken at less than
thirty days.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

The only way we know Of to get rid
of dandelions from the lawn is to pa
tiently dig them out.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

We notice that If the lawn Is not too
heavily fertilized the lawn mower does
not have so much work to do.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

Arbor day in North Dakota has been
set over to May 8 Of each year to meet
the climatic conditions of the northern
latitude of that state.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

A successful cotton picking machine
is said to be at last in practical opera
ton in the south.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

The steer and the cow have fought
the butter business out to finish, and
old bossy is ahead.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28
A summer silo makes the dairyman
laugh at the brown August pastures.

Anyhow. oleomargarine will always
bring at least 10 cents a pound after
this.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

As feed equal parts of corn and
wheat give better results than either
grain fed alone.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

It is said that the horse chestnut is
richer in albumen than any other known
plant or tree.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-28

Good crops always come as a COM
pensation for the having to work gum
DO highways.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-02-14
COURAGE in Daily Life

Every one admires courage, but few
realize how much of what is valuable in
human life is dependent upon It, II is
commonly associated with important
crises or exceptional emergencies. Its
name brings up the thought of the soldier
in battle. of the hero who risks his life
to save another. of the statesman who
can bear TO be unpopular, of the preacher
VINO dares to utter the whole truth of
the martyr who dies for a principle. Ger
talnlY in these, and in many similar
cases courage is exhibited in a marked
degree, and the honor freely paid to them
is well deserved Yet they by no means
exhaust it, It's presence is needed in
the regular daily life of every individual
not as an occasional motive. but as a
continual one prompting to actions small
ana unnouced, as well as those which
are seen and approved by all
Difficulties cannot he overcome. TENN
tations cannot be resisted, follies cannot
be restrained, unpleasant duties cannot
be performed without courage One of
the simplest of obligations would seem TO
he that of living healthfully. Not only
Is II a plain duty, but an equally plain
policy. Then why are the laws of health
so frequently violated? Why do so many
people overwork their brains. neglect ex
ercise, persist in irregular and unwhoIe-
some habits, and thus lay the foundation
for innumcrahle diseases? \ few perhaps
from lack of knowledge. but far more
from lack OF courage. It is much easier
to continue bad habit than to break II
up; the former demands no effort. the
latter requires spirit, resolution. firm
ness and will, which are virtues all too
rare. Every one honors truth and sim
cerlty, yet every one does not practice
Them Temptations come, desires are
strong, opportunities offer for personal
profit through deceit, and though their
evil character IS known. there is not
enough courage TO resist them How
many people live beyond their means
year after year gradually mourning in
eVitable ruin at last, because they have
not the stamina to brave the cold
glances Of some social set or clioue
whose opinion is not worth a thought
So ii is through the whole category Of
duties that are either difficult or disagree
ahle--courage is needed TO overcome the
dislike and the mental Incidence that
combine to cause their neglect Indeed
II OFTEN takes more courage TO make these
quiet and private efforts than those which
nave the appearance of being greater and
more important No one sees or knows
or the former but ourselves, while the
latter receive ready homage. MANY n
one can perform a heroic deed in public.
while If confronted with a secret TENN
tation, he is a very coward.
1t is sometimes contended that courage
is wholly a matter of temperament: that
the brave inherit their bravery and the
timld their timidity, and that, therefore,
the former deserve no credit and the lat
ter no blame. But, like all other virtues.
IL is due only In part to heredity. We
come into the world, not with full-fedged
qualities, but with tendencies in various
directions. These ar, continually being
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-02-14
GentIemens Night at the Woman's
Club

The social event of the season was
"Gentlcmen' night" at the Womans club
Tuesday evening. The women of the
club and their friends, to the number of
about 300 gathered in Union hall. where
they were received by Mrs. Josephine
Arms, president. and Mrs. Albert Ham
matt and Mrs George f. WEIGH, vice
presidents of the club. The principal at
traction of the evening was the presenta-
ton of a series of Gibson pictures. Fol-
lowing is the list: An Old Tune. A Lit
tie Story Told by a Sleeve, Their Pres
ence of Mind. Is a Caddie Always Neces-
sary? When Doctors Disagree. A Receipt
for Kisses, His Only Child, Rival Beau
ties, Wireless Telegraphy, The Night Be
fore her Wedding, Is Bicycling Bad for
the Heart? The Only Pebble on the
Beach, and The Bachelors Supper. The
costumng was admirable and the posing
exceptionally fine.
The hall was transformed into a large
drawing room by the aid of draperies,
screens couches and pillows, rugs, tables,
and banquet lamps. The balcony was
draped with evergreen, and in one corner
o. the hall was a bower of fir trees, be-
hind which was placed an orchestra
from Claremont, n. H.. which discoursed
music through the evening. At one side
of the room were two dainty refreshment
tables, trimmed in holly red from which
salads rolls. coffee, ices and cakes We're
served.
During the evening an invitation was
given to the women of the club and their
gentlemen friends by Mrs. Ellery, Mrs.
Wolf, Mrs Host and Mrs. Bacon to at
tend the senior reception at Vermont
Academy Saturday evening, Feb, god.
These ladies' and several others from Sax
tons River are members of the Woman's
Club
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-02-14
GRAFTON.
G. n. French spent Sunday here.

G. n. French spent Sunday here.
j. Henry Howard visited here last week.
Miss Amy Davis has been spending a
few days in Townshend
Miss Madeline Staples has gone to Maine
to visit her grandmother.
The magazines ana papers belonging to
club of 1901 will be sold at the postoffice
at O'Clock Thursday evening Feb Goth.
Roy. Mr.. Swarts of Iydevnle, Vt.
preached at the Baptist church and Rev.
r. w. Pennock of Rutland, Vt. at the
Congregational church last Sunday.
Mrs Rose Pomatier. Mrs Florence
IIawley ana \. II. Willard were called
here by the serious Illness of their mother.
Mrs. r. Billiard. She is more comfortable
and a. II. Willard has returned to Boston
In the absence of the family the resi-
dence of Rev. Mr. Goodrich was broken
into and a considerable amount Of cloth
ing, silver ware and other articles stolen
y search was made by Grand Juror Red
field and Constable Eddy and part of the
property recovered. V. ]. Wooley,was ar
rested He pleaded guilty to stealing
clothing and was committed to jail at
Newfane on Monday last
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-02-14

Special Lenten services at Emmanuel
church began Wednesday of this week.
A sugar supper and valentine party will
be given in the parlors of the Methodist
church this evening.
George Blakeley, assisted by George H.
Hobson of Newport, will give his second
recital in the Congregational church
this evening.
10 Moore of Claremont, formerly an
employe of one of the principal clothing
stores of the village, visited in town the
first of the week.
Special services are to be held through
the week commencing Feb. oath at the
Baptist church under the direction of
evangelist Paul Price of Ohio.
A. II. Fuller of the firm of Fuller &
Farr, entertained about twenty friends
very pleasantly at whist at his home on
George street last Tuesday evening.
sleigh ride to Alstead was enjoyed
last Friday evening by the members of
the Universalst Sunday school and their
friends to the number of about thirty.
L. NJ. Read, who has been suffering so
severely for the past week or two with
heart disease, was considered more com
Portable by his physicians last evening
James r. Waite in Uncle Terry" at the
opera house next Tuesday evening, will
give one of The finest pictures of Now
England country life that has been given
in our town.
Arthur Gladstone of Burlington came to
Bellows Falls Monday to take the posi-
ton in the store of ]. c. Day recently va
Gated by II. O. Whitman, who has gone to
Livingstone, Mont, where he has a sim
liar position.
Mrs. John tt. Witherbee died at her
home here Saturday night after a long
illness with consumption. Prayers We're
offered at the house Monday morning and
the body taken to her native place, Troy.
N Y. for burial.
The engagement of Miss Susan Piper of
Worcester, Mass, to Rev. c. r. White of
Wilder, Vt, is announced Mr.. White is a
son Of Wallace White Of this place. and
formerly lived here, being a graduate of
Bellows Falls High school.
local branch of the United Irish
league was organized Sunday. J. ].
O'Connor was elected president and p. H.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-02-14

40 one deliberately says, 'I will do what
Z hho" TO be foolish and wrong" very
rev even mean it in their own minds.
only they lack the courage to do right
me power to sacrifice desire to principle
- HeS can II by some other name, but it
of wrong-doing.
courage then, is no spasmodic virtue TO
pe SHOWN on great occasions and then
laia aside Emerson says: THE dav
never SHINES in which heroism may not
WORK Whose is heroic will
niways ma crises to try his edge HUI
man virtue demands her CHAMPIONS and
martyrs. Happy is the man whose
courage is equal to his knowledge. and is
not merely an occasional stimulus TO pre-
eminent deeds, but a continual factor in
ms daily life. enabling him to realise in
bbii aS action his best thoughts and
er. P'i'" ieus-
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-02-14

modified by the influences that surround
us; some are strengthened, some are
weakened. Courage. like the rest. is
capable of growth or decay. 1t NAV he
fostered by exercise, or withered bv No
eject Every time we rise to the oc-
caslon, banishing mental Incidence CON
querlng obstacles, restraining unwortbv
desires accomplishing what is dif6cuIt
choosing the higher motive insteau Of
the lower, sacrificing inclination when n
CONNECTS with reason, translating into
action the best that we know or imagine
we give fresh impetus to the cora %
mat thus comes into play. On the other
hand, whatever courage we naturally nos
sess may be weakened by disuse, To
yleld TO Incidence or fear, or evil per
S uasioh, is TO forego all hope of heroism
self-control soon becomes Impossible and
the man is buffeted about, the slave of
circumstances Moral weakness is the
source of most of the evil in human life
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-02-14
CAM BRIDGEPORT.

Mr.. Shepherd and family have moved to
farm in Townshend
Landlord Wood announces a dance for
Friday evening. Feb. 2S.
Mrs. A. w. Wild expects her sister, Miss
Douglass next week to spend the remain
der Of the winter with her.
Next Sunday afternoon. in place of the
preaching service. the w. c. r. L will
hold n public meeting in memory of Miss
Frances +. Willard. An interesting pro-
gram has been prepared, and a cordial in
vitauon is extended to all to be present
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-02-14
BELLOWS FALLS NEWS.
ParochaI Schools Will Be ES-
tabIished This Year.
Change Will Take over 400 Pupils Out
of the Public Schools and Necessi-
tate an Entire Reorganization of

of the Public schools and Necessi-
tate an Entire Reorganization of
System.
A largely attended meeting of the men
of ST. Charles's Roman Catholic parish
was held in Union hall Sunday to discuss
and make plans regarding the establish
ment of parochal schools here in the near
future The meeting opened about II
o'clock and continued until nearly p. m.
About 400 of those particularly interested
in the establishment of these schools
were present Nearly every one had his
mind made up to what he thought best
in this regard. Father Reynolds was not
present in person, having left the details
of the plan to the prominent members of
his church. DR.. J. T. Ridden was chosen
chairman of the meeting and Daniel II.
Cray secretary. After a thorough discus
sion of the advantages gained for the
church by the early education of its fut-
ure members. and of all the details con-
nected with the new school system, 1t
was voted that a committee of seven. Of
which the chairman of the meeting should
be chairman. be elected to make all ar
rangements for procuring suitable build
ing or buildings to be ready for the open
ing of schools in September of this year.
An article will be inserted in the warrant
for the next town meeting to see If the
town will vote to sell the old High school
building on Cherry street adjacent to the
property owned by the Catholic church.
for use as a parochial school. If some
such arrangement can be made. this Is
probably what the committee will do. If
not, it is probable that a building will be
erected on the lot on Green street imme-
diately in front of the parochial dwelling
already owned by the church Practical
ly no opposition to the establishment Of
these schools developed at the meeting,
entire harmony seemingly prevailing.
There are about 900 scholars now in the
village schools and the withdrawal Of
over 400 by the parochial schools will ne
cesstate an almost entire reorganization
of our school system. The committee
elected to make all the arrangements for
the schools are: DR.. j. r. Ridden. D. II.
Cray, Daniel P. Higgins. Edward Lawlor,
Edward Barrett, ]. ]. Fenton, and John
f. Brosnahan.