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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-04-23
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Judge DeCou's 18th Birthday.

A goodly number of the old friends.
and neighbors of the Judges came IN
upon him all unexpected the 18th, and
passed the day with him. It was a.
complete surprise and day long to be-
remembered by all present. The
friends presented the Judge with a.
nice rocking chair, and it is sincerely
hoped by all that he may live to enjoy
it many years. AS the noon hour ar
rived a bountiful dinner was served
after which the time was pleasantly
spent in conversation and cards. A
letter was received and read from Mr..
H. A. Bigelow, also one from Mr.. NJ
j. Carter, expressing regrets for alb
sence, but good will and long life to-
II know of no one that deserves rs
lashes more than he does, and would
be glad to lay them on. :" Mr.. Bige-
low authorized elder Olmstead to-
fill his place" and he we'll knew that
Satan himself could not fill his place.
Mrs Chas Holbrook and Elder
Olmstead arranged the group in the.
yard where the picture was taken.
All agree that most enjoyable time
was had, and we parted wishing the
Judge, whose character and standing.
is above reproach, many days of con-
tinued happiness and prosperity
Long may he live. XXX
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-04-23
Sensible Advertising Agreement.

The leading business men of Syra-
cuse, N. Y, have signed an agree
ment in regard to advertising, the
three main points of which are as
follows:
First-confning advertising to news
papers.
Second-refusal to buy other than
as individual tickets for benefits, etc.
Third-More careful discrimina-
tion in the allowance of discounts.
The merchants state that they have
been imposed upon for years by lady"
solicitors for all sorts of schemes, but
that they will hereafter place all
their advertising in the newspapers.
Every man who has given the matter
any test knows that newspaper adver-
tising is the cheapest and most effect
I've of any he can~use. Ii the news
papers of Decorah had the money that
constantly goes to all manner of fake
advertising schemes, the papers could
be better and more prosperous and the
advertiser gets better results for the
money expended. There is no ques-
tion about this-the testimony of all
the successful advertisers confirms the
statement.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-04-23

The Usage Journal has been pur-
chased by the Press and News, so that
in the future there will be only two
papers in Usage. The Press receives
the subscription list and accounts, and
the News takes part of the machin-
cry. The Journal has been a good
paper, but Usage can afford to support
the two more literally.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-04-23

Charles Wondries, of LAGRANGE,
ILL.,, has a perpetual motion machine
which he is planning to exploit at the
st. Louis exposition. He asserts that
it will run till it wears out without
stopping. The power is derived from
a draught obtainable through hall
stack or chimney. He proposes to
erect stack 1850 feet high and two
hundred feet at the base. With it he
says he can generate fifty horse power,
enough to furnish lights for the shack.
The cost would be $500, 900, and he
says he has stock company in form
alton to furnish the money.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-04-23

The appointment of j. S. Clarkson,
of New York, as surveyor of customs
for the district of New York at a
salary of o., 900 per year, meets with
the hearty approval of his many old
Iowa friends. In fact, it is consider
ed an Iowa appointment.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-04-23

Carnegie's polytechnic school soon
to be built in Pittsburg will be the
heaviest endowed of any institution
in the work and will contain room for
100, 900 pupils Its aim is to supply
skilled artisans in every branch OF
labor. He will give it $3S, 600, 900.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-04-23

1t has been 80 years since the con-
struotion of the Nicaragua canal was
proposed and the project has been
under discussion ever since. 1t can
not be considered premature to begin
the work Of construction Immediately.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-04-23

If the same ratio that has prevailed
heretofore is carried out, there will be
,1S4 delegates in the next republican
state convention, the fourth district
having the following representation:
Allamakee IL, Cerro Gordo 7, Chicka-
saw 10, Clayton 12, Fayette IA, Floyd
10, Howard s, Mitchell 4, Winnesheik
10, Worth 6.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-04-23

Speaking of swearing off, the success
of Mr. George w. Vanderbilt in this
direction will do. He secured the
reduction of his personal tax assess
ment from So, 900, 900 to $40,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-04-23

The Republican has been having
bad dreams again, over the fact that
the Public Opinion and Journal
have published the official reports of
the city officers this year. The Re-
publican printed the same for upwards
of forty years, and no "whine" came
from this office because of it, The
Republican endeavored this year to
slide in and get paid for this publica-
tion along with the other papers at an
extra cost to the city, not content that
we should have it one year; but was
promptly turned down by the city
council by vote of to l. Hence
these bad dreams. Hence so much
self-styled "commendable newspaper
enterprise.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-04-23

"The Atlanta Constitution" the
other day received the following
letter: "Sur an Friend; DO the Carn-
age liberrary lend Books teechin Mat
thewmattics to Outside your citie? l
want Onlie Books ON Mathematics,
as 1 am all right ON spellin an am a
purity good Grammatican if l do say
it miself. l kin spell an Grammarize
but Matthewmattics is too much for
me" {"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-04-23

We cannot understand what is 'ail-
ing'' the Republican of late. 1t seems
to have serious attack Of sour stom-
ach or something Of the sort, with no.
thing to do but to cast discourteous
slurs at this paper without regard for
the truth. Are they Jealous of the
rapid growth of Public Opini on?
We have nothing to say against the
Republican, whatever. We always
speak good word for it as a
newspaper. The Republican is good
paper, one of the very best in Iowa.
We wish it continued prosperity and
successful growth. Our business is to
"mind our own business, and let
Others mind theirs" If the Republi-
can editors haven't enough to do to
publish their paper let them purchase
another. We prefer to run the
Public Opinion ourselves. We
are enjoying good business, its grow
ing rapidly, and our time is pretty
we'll taken up attending to it. When
we are not satisfied we will quit 1t.
But we are becoming tired of the
jealous dictatorial spleen crop
ping out all over each successive is
sue of the Republican. Isn't there
room enough in this big county FOL
two republican papersg Have we nc
right here? True, we didn't ask th'
consent Of the Republican to come
here, and probably won't ask it''
consent to stay. Our business is oul
business. II this isn't plain enough
we can make it palmer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-04-23

Yes, said the western man, there are
several patches of country still left
out our way that will support a few
million people each. There is a
little section up in Wyoming, for in
stance, known as the Big Horn Basin
which has just been opened up by a
new line of Burlington railroad.
1t covers about $4,000 square miles.
It's larger than New York state.
Three times as large as Denmark.
Twice as large as Bavaria. 1t is
covered with beautiful streams, a
never-failing water supply and the
soil is as rich as any in the world.
The possibilities for irrigation there
are enormous and three big irrigation
bitches are already built. Oh yes,
there are few scraps of real good
country left. We won't be crowded
off the earth yet awhile.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-04-23

A colored pastor was expounding
the gospel to his little flock, and after
vividly describing the place of the
damned, concluded his services with
the following: Brethren, / has been
asked how hot is hell, and I will say
dat if you took all de wood in York
state and all the coal in Pennsylvany
an poured ON dat heap all de oil
in de world and set dat all on fire,
and den took man out of hell an
put him into dat burning mass, he
would freeze to def. OATS how hot
it is. -
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-04-23
Subscription Price $1.5O per year
Office-317 West Water Street.
Telephone No. Is.
A single case of small pox cost the
town of Monticello $198 70.

All the royal families of Europe
have princes who are hankering after
trip to the United States
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-04-23

The farmers are getting good share
of the money coming in from abroad.
The exports of wheat, as shown by
the government reports, for the eight
months ending with February shows
an increase of nearly $50, 900, 900 over
these of the corresponding months of
last year. In provisions the increase
is s., 900, ,OOO In cotton the increase
has been $50, 200, 900 pounds though
the price has been lower. Exports OF
corn are much below normal, due to
the shortage of the crop through the
drought of last summer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-04-23

Toluca has unique way of dealing
with smallpox. Two people of Okla
homa arrived there with the disease.
Both were quartered in the same
house. AS soon as the nature of the
disease became known the city author
tiles put rollers under the house and
rolled it out onto the prairie. An
other popularity of the place is a
bigamist who is living with both his
wives, in turn.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-04-23

John O'Neil has full line Of
buggies and surreys. 14-6
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-04-23

The winter now is past and gone and
gentle spring is here, the whiskey
seasons over and the buns are drink
ing beer. The meadow larks will
soon be heard in soft and mellow notes
and the farmer will hump himself
with the sowing of his oats The
robin and the bluebird will build
their little nests and the dudes will
scare the horses with the Dolly Var
den vests. The housewife now with
mop and broom will clean the house
full we'll, and the man she swore to
cherish will wish he was in we'll,
he would like to go fishing for a few
dayS
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-04-23
Ice Cream by Wholesale.

Some excellent arrangements for the
wholesale manufacture of ice cream
have been fitted up by H. j. Hedges, ilf
the basement of his restaurant. He
has installed ten-gallon freezer
which will be operated by an electric
motor, as we'll as an ice crusher. He
also has a large patent cooker for pre-
pairing the ingredients. He will this.
year make ice cream in large quanti
ties, furnishing it to proprietors Of
ice cream parlors and soda fountains
throughout this section of the state,
shipping by express every day. He
has a large number of customers ON
his list now, which will doubtless.
increase as the excellent quality of
his cream is learned by the dealers
and consumers.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-04-23
Assessment for Gleuwood Township.

Mr.. o. G Carlsborg, assessor for
Glenwood township, gives us the fol-
lowing assessment figures as obtained
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-04-23
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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
H. J. GREEN,
Editor and Proprietor.

The Only Ofhcial Paper of Winnesheik
County and the City of Decorah.
The age-herald., 1902-02-18
The Story of Half-a-Century.

The Dr. Harter Medicine Co., was estab- ished in 1855 and is now nearing its golden anniversary. The two views above tell the tory. The present laboratory is on the Corner of First and Canal Sts., Dayton, o. Visitors are cordially invited and wel- lomed. There will be no difficulty in find- ng it for the above is a faithful picture. t is the home of Dr. Harter's Iron Tonic ind is one of the best equipped laboratories the world. Skillful chemists are em, Aoyed. The purest of drugs and ingre- iients are used. No physicians prescription s anywhere more skillfully compounded.
 Dr. Harter, who established the business, while in active practice discovered his famous Iron Tonic. Its unbroken success of half-a-century and the magnitude of the present business is a monument to him both as phy sician and as business man. Dr. Harter's Iron Tonic is sold every, where and is recognized as the best blood purifier and tonic in use
 Houston, Texas Dec 4, 1901. "My father has used your medicine since the War, and when married in December 1872, commenced housekeeping with one bottle of Dr. Harter's Iron Tonic, one bottle of his Wild Cherry Bitters, and two boxes o1 his Little Liver Pills. I am now near sixty. two years Of age. Looking backward feel attached to the old medicines and would not change them for any of the new ones made.
 Mrs. J. A. Pickett.
 (s5,ooe eusfauist that sssw testimonial Is Oenulns.)
The age-herald., 1902-02-18
MRS. MACFADYEN
 AND HER NOBLE WORK.
sma Dooly in Leslie's Weekly.

Isma Dooly in Leslie's Weekly.
 Mrs. MaoFadyen Grene Ashby), who has done such effective work in Georgia and Alabama in connection with the child-labor movement, and who has ere ated a sensation by her exposure of cer- tain conditions thereof, is an English woman, and had to face the prejudice of the conservative South against outside interference. The measure of success with which her effort has met Cand it is considerable is largely due to the fact that her efforts are along a line not all ways followed out In agitation against tion of chld-labor from out the mar row limits of political policy. She tram scends altogether simply the commercial features of the fight, and places the whole subject on a plane where it must be not only looked upon but actually dis cussed as a great national-a great world problem. She is. not, in the narrow sense of the term, a representative of any la Dor organization. but she does work through labor organizations. and as their representative brings a practical interest into the work which wonderfully stimu- lates the interest of the audience she addresses. while it does not in any sense make her appear as the advocate of one element against another. Any one dis posed to think slightly or even to ignore the sociological movement that has its center among the students of the great universities and colleges of social inter- est presented by such speaker as Mrs. MacFadyen to realize that in the future all phases of social policy must be tested through this new, this scientific method.
The age-herald., 1902-02-18
A COFFEE SWORD. The Old Things Would Bob Up."

Coffee puts it's sword into people first one place and then another. You may depend upon it, if you are coffee drink CT, and have ailments in some of the or gans of the body, that coffee is doing its work. You may prove whether 1t Is or not by leaving it off for ten days or two weeks, although it often takes from nine months to two years to recover from it's effects.
 Mir. J. w. Ashby, Mt. Airy, N. C.. says, "I was a coffee drinker for 20 years. About three years ago I suffered greatly with pains in the region of my heart and the pit of my stomach. These pains ap- peared about the same time each day.
 T wondered If coffee might not be the fault so began the test of leaving off cof- fee. The pains ceased. but when I be- gan to use coffee again the same old pains would bob up., l have now been using Postum for some time in place of coffee and am entirely cured of the old neuralgia of the stomach and heart. RespectfullX."
The age-herald., 1902-02-18
The Casino Girl.

At the Jefferson Theatre next Saturday matinee and night the attraction will be ''rhe Casino Girl.' which has proved the chiefest of the musical comedy successes of the New York Casino The extravagan- "a of gayety, as it may be termed. is of the usual texture of that distinctive class of musical conceits that have, within the past half dozen years, become so popular throughout the country. Comics. melo- dies and vaudevilles are blended with pagentry and spectacle. The result is an entertainment of sufficient variety to sat- isfy the most carping theatregoer. Tha story has to do with the adventures of an American comedienne, sojourning in Gail TO, her sweetheart, a young Englishman two comic opera robbers. a German brew. 1T, who becomes pasha of Egypt and in- cidentally is the prime mover in the hil- arious fun making, and in addition there are the countless characters, whose ef
 forts add to the general merriment. The scenes pass in modern Cairo and are dec- orated with appropriate scenery.
The age-herald., 1902-02-18
HAROLD BAUER,
The Great Pianist, Will Appear To- night at the Jefferson Theatre-He Comes Under the Auspices of the Forbes Piano Go.

This great artist has been secured at a great expense through the efforts and under the direct management of MT. J. Forbes Piano Co.,. and music lovers should avail them selves of this oppor- tunity of hearing "America's greatest pianist" MT. Bauer played at Atlanta last night to standing room only and the music critics place him at the top of the living pianists. Huneker. the great critic writes of Mir. Bauer: 'tHe Is a musician for whom the message of the composer is the primary consideration. There is violin timbre in his touch, the warmest and most mellow heard in this country sing in velocity passages, chant in can tiena. and to top all, there Is a strong mentality, a sense of just historical values, and a color sense that at time be- comes overpowering. His success is un- equivocal'
 MT. Bauer will use a Mason and Ham, lin piano which shares in no small de- gree the artistic success which this great artist achieves. The Forbes Piano Co., should be warmly supported in their eff forts to bring this greatest artist, for the lovers of Birmingham. The reserve seats which are now on sale at the box office of the Jefferson Theatre are being rapidly sold and the chances for a large and influential audience will greet Mr Bauer at this, his first recital in this city.
The age-herald., 1902-02-18
INDIANS FIGHT FOR LAND.
Miami Nation Begins Suit to Recover
 Property in Indiana.

Chicago, February IA fight to regain thirty-six sections of land in Indiana has been begun by the Miami Indian nation. Two local lawyers experienced in this line of legal business have been retained and the campaign will be pushed both in the courts of Indiana and at Washing ten.
 The land is situated in Grant Miami Wabash and Mercer Counties. Ind. and came into the possession of Chief Ma Chim- Go- Mish-Ah for the use of his tribe in 1918, by treaty with the government This treaty is said to have specified that the land should not be taxed, and that it could not be sold except by consent of the government.
 Despite this fact, it Is claimed that much of this land passed to other hands for non-payment of taxes. and great deal of the remainder was lost by the In- dians through their ignorance. A mass meeting of the Miami nation, numbering 450 persons. was held recently at Marion. Ind. It was resolved to raise a fund to fight for the land.
The age-herald., 1902-02-18
Social Notes and Personals

that are written might as well remain unacted That means that am threaten ed with literary famine. Shall I wait until the public tires of my repertory? That would be foolish, and I have always taken pride in avoiding acts of folly. Besides I must escape from the slavery of stage life. That Is no life at all. I assure you it Is hell-downright hell. Of many of my companions on the boards I cannot think but with feelings of loath ing and suspicion. Most of the players I meet are a contemptible lot.
 D'Annunzio. comments the Springfield Republican, will doubtless appreciate the remark about dramatists, in view of Duse's recent production of his Frances ca da Rimni." The actress says tha' after her retirement from the stage she will endeavor to make the world acquaint ed with the great masterpieces of liter ature by the lecture process, where her genius will be unhampered by the awk- wardness and stupidity of her associates.
The age-herald., 1902-02-18
DUSE THREATENED
 WITH LITERARY FAMINE,

It is a strange fact that Elemora Duse, with her thoroughgoing and even offen- sively pessimistic views of her profession. should yet have reached it's top. Not long ago she made disparaging statements about her brothers and sisters of the stage that far from endeared her to them. and now, in announcing that her forth coming Am erican tour will be her swan- song. so far as stagcaand is concerned, she says some unkind things about the dramatists, and adds a word more about her professional associates
 l need not repeat that leave the stage without regret. but at the same time honestly compels me to say that I am al- most forced to the step I can't be for ever playing Dumas and Sardou, Ibsen and Sudermann. No one of account is wrIting new plays for me, and those
The age-herald., 1902-02-18

Among the guests at the recent recep- tion given in Washington by Senator Hanna and Mrs. Hanna were a number of Aiabamians. including former Secre- tary of the Navy Hilary A Herbert, Mir. and Mrs. Mlcon. the latter Mir. Herbert 8 daughter: Congressman and Mrs. Bank head. Miss Florida Graves, Miss Alberta Fulghum and Lucien Julien Walker.
 
 Miss Retta Heustis of Mobile is the guest of her sister Mrs. George H. Clark. Mir. and Mrs. John Ruhm, Jr., who have been the guests of MT. and Mrs. Richard Randolph. returned home yes- terday.
 Mir. and Mrs. George H. Clark returned from Mobile few days ago.
 
 The Highland Book Club will meet with Mrs. N. P. Pinckard eWdnesday morning. Mir. Hamilton Stiles is spending few days in Savannah
 Mrs. A. H. Nave of Knoxville, who has been the guest of Mrs. T. G. Bush, re- turned home yesterday.
 Mrs. Arthur W. Smith and her son, J. Arthur Smith, left yesterday for Palm Beach. Fla.
 St. Mary's Hflman Hospital chapter has begun a series of work meetings for the Lenten season. The first meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. J. H. Bing- ham Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock.
The age-herald., 1902-02-18
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 $7500-Handsome house Sycamore street, half block of Highland avenue. $7500-Splendid residence 17th street be- tween 9th and 10th avenue. south, easy terms
 s2450-Vacant lot 70 feet front. back to alley, 10th avenue, south, between 2Oth and 21st streets. $60O0-10Ox1O0, northwest corner Avenue F and 2Oth street. S1500-150x140 northwest corner Avenue D and 10th street. $50 front foot, beautiful residence lot southwest corner 10th avenue and 12th street south.
 $3500-75x24O southeast corner 11th avenue and 18th street, south. $3S00-Desirable 7-room residence 11th ave- nue south between 16th and 17th streets. $33 front foot, POS feet front, 14th avenue between Fist and Beech streets cheap; 400 feet front 10th avenue north, 18th street.
 $6500-Elegant home, 18th street between 10th and 11th avenues $3000-Handsome new cottage, Sth avenue north; easy terms. $25 front foot; nice residence lot Hunts vile avenue; easy terms. BROWN BROS. & co. Phones 91S 3Ob North Twentieth Street