Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-04-29

Dried sweet potatoes are coming into
he market as a valuable and whole
some addition to our food supply.
Family pets are all right II they only
would not grow into domestic nuisances.
The getting rid of one of these pets is
always serious affair.
The waste land on the public high
ways and railroad rights of way in
the state of Iowa would, if cultivated,
produce enough food to feed the people
of Ireland.
Looking back forty years we find
that twenty farmers become financial
ly independent where one business
man does. Farming may be slow, but
it is pretty safe.
AS rule, all hoed vegetable crops
exhaust thy fertility of the SOIL This
exhaustion is to some extent cOmpen-
stated for by the mechanical condition
in which such crops leave the soil.
In the pioneer days when men were
fighting to live and hold their land
they did as well as they could in their
methods Of farming. Now they may
and should do as well as they know
how to do.
The man who used to move his barn
to get rid Of his manure piles has most
ly disappeared from the west. He
went with the man who burned his
straw and stole wood from the specu-
lators timber lots.
1t is this way out west: More hired
men are wanted, more hired girls,
more teachers-in fact, more Of any
kind of people who are willing to do
the hard and dirty work of life for
reasonable compensation.
Some deer from England which were
turned loose in the forest regions of
Molokai, one of the Hawaiian group Of
islands, many years ago have so in
creased in numbers that they threaten
the destruction of the forests.
One Of the April magazines had no
fewer than nineteen different adver-
tisements of automobiles, prices rang
ing from $3.50 up. The auto is here to
hn oh In, nria hn-
fore long, just as it was with the
bicycle.
Interest and rent are two things
which we do not like to have to meet.
OF course men can't dodge them al
ways, but there really is lots Of salts
faction in owing no man dollar and
in living in your own house or on your
own farm, and lots of men die in ig-
norance of this pleasure.
And now comes a college professor
with the honesty and good sense to af-
firm that it is better for girls to put in
the time usually devoted to the dead
languages and higher mathematics in
securing practical knowledge of home
making and home keeping. This pro-
fessor should have his salary raised at
once.
Where the desert lands of the west
are not impregnated with alkali they
are wonderfully productive just as
soon as water is brought into contact
with them, far more so than ordinary
soils within the rain belt. The very
aridity which has rendered these lands
worthless has resulted in storing up in
them almost unlimited fertility.
One Of the best farm hands we ever
knew is an old bachelor, a bit bald,
with sandy chin whiskers, who got
shook by a girl some years ago and
who has had it in for the girls ever
since. This man stays at home nights
and is willing to do the Sunday chores
and enjoys the good home and freedom
from family cares which are his lot.
The country needs more of this kind.
Notice of Appointment.
Notice of the appointment of an Admins
traitor of the Estate of Almon Rice. deceased.
Notice is hereby given, That the subscriber
has been duly appointed Administrator of
ALMoN RICE,
late Of Button township, in the county of
Winnesheik, state of Iowa, deceased. intes-
tate, and has taken upon himself that trust
by giving bonds as the law directs All per-
sons having demands upon the estate of the
said deceased are required to exhibit the
same; and persons indebted TO the said estate
are called upon to make payment to
CHARLES III. RICE,
Administ ator.
Dated at DEBORAH, Iowa. April 8, 1907. l5-4
Petit Jurors.
State of Iowa, Winneshek county, SIS.
I'm District Court, May Term, 1868.
To the sheriff of Winneshiek county, greeting:
You are hereby commanded to summon the
the following named persons:
H. Demming ....... ........... Castalia
jas CdIlll .Ossiah
HERMAN HeInsetn -. ......-............
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