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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14
Mutual Insurance Co. Officers.

A meeting of the policy holders of
the Observation-Disclosures County
Farmers Mutual Insurance Co. was
held at Frankville recently, and the
following officers were elected: Presi-
dent--C. r. Williams of DEBORAH
Vice President-James Orr of Post
Vile. Secretary e. w. Goodykoontz
of Waukon. Treasurer-T j. Crawford
of Frankville. Adjuster-J. S. Will
liams of DEBORAH. Directors-James
Orr of Postville and Joseph Welt
genant A meeting of the directors
was also held at Frankville Saturday
to settle up the years business.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14
Notice TO Contractors.

Notice is hereby given that the pro.
posals for the erection of school
house in sub district No. Z, school
township of Orleans, Winnesheik
county, Iowa. will be received by the
president of the board, E. Pollitt, at
his residence in said township (where
plans and specifications may be seem
until o clock p. w., Oct. 90, 1903, at
which time the contract will be
awarded to the lowest responsible
bidder. The Board reserves the right
to reject any or all bids
October 3, 1903.
40-4 @. H. Rice, Sec'y.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14
Typographical Tragedy.

We are thorry to thay." explained
the editor of the Skedunk Weekly
News, "that our compothing room
wath entered lath night by thome I'M
known who thole every eth in the eth
tablishment and thucceded in making
hith ethcape undetected.
1T hath been impothible, of
courthe, TO procure new thupply of
etheth in time for thith ithue, and we
are thuth compelled to go to preth
in a thituation motht embarrathing
and dithtreththing. But we thee no
other courth to purthue than to max e
the betht thtagger we can to get
along without the mithing letter, and
we therefore print the Newth on time
regardleth Of the 10th thuthained.
The motive of the mitherable
mithcreant it'll unknown to nth, but
doubtleth, wath revenge for thome
thupothed inthult.
ut thall never be thaid that the
petty tnplte or the thmall-thouled
william hath dithabled the Newth, and
if thith met the eye of the detachable
rathcal we beg to athure him that he
underethimated the rethourceth of a
firth clath newthpaper when he
thinkth he can cripple it hopelethly
by breaking into the alphabet. We
take occathion to thay 90 him, fur
thermore. that before next Thurthday
we Will have three tlmeth ath many
etheth ath he thole. Richardson
Tex Echo
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14
Notice.

To the Creditors of the First Ma
tional Bank of DEBORAH, Iowa: The
undersigned is now prepared to pay
the final dividend upon all proved
claims of the above bank. Holders of
certificates will please forward them
to Edwin F. Brown, N. W. Cor.
Clinton & Jackson streets, Chicago
Ill. 3S-4
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14
California and Arizona.

The Chicago Great Western Rail-
way will sell tickets Sept 10th to
Nov. Both inclusive to points in above
named states at a reduction of So. 90
from usual rates. If you contemplate
going it will pay you to inquire of
any Great Western Agent. or J. P.
Elmer, G. p. A., Chicago, for full
particulars. BILL
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

The executive committee of the HUI
name society at Des Moines will take
before the coming session of the legis-
lature bill asking for the formation
of bureau Of child and animal pro-
lection, patterned after the law which
has been working in Colorado for the
past two years
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

Township committeeman should see
to it that all certificates of nomina-
zion of township officers be fled with
the. County Auditor at least twenty
days before election. which this year
comes on Nov. Sd. Failure to do this
will prevent their names from being
on the ballots.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

The western railroads have finally
agreed upon the milage and rate ques-
ton. They will adopt three tickets,
which will result in a test of the
merits of the credential system as
against the mileage book good on
trains. They will be placed on sale
on Dec 1st and are /: new 4, 900 mile
interchans cable credential book
which must be honored on all roads
in the amalgamated bureau; the pre-
sent 1000 mile interchangeable Gre
Dental book. the use of which is ma
tional; new 1900 mile book good
on trains, it's use being optional.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14
WITH THE MAGAZINES.
What the Current Issues of the Leading
Periodicals Present This Month.

The Thanksgiving number of the
New Idea Woman's Magazine offers a
Table OF Contents which is typical
feast of plenty. Prominent among
the good things provided may be men,
toned an article upon 1.-The Presi-
dents New Church. :" by Walden Faw-
cett; Chestnut Dainties for the
Thanksgiving Table" by Eleanor
Marchant; Henrietta Crosman in CAS-
You Like 1t" bv Mrs. Wilson Wood
row; Catering, the third paper in
series of Profitable Industries for
Women, by Sarah E. Slater; and a
good list of other readable and inter
esting things from the pens and
brushes of well-known contributors.
''The Adventures of Dorothy" is a
story for children which is to be is
sued in the early fall by the Outlook
Co. 1t tells of city child who is
sent into the country TO live for the
summer with a retired sea captain
anG his wife on their large farm.
The story of that eventful Summer is
said to be told in way to deeply in
terest boys and girls, and is thorough
ly wholesome without being in the
slightest degree "goody- goody."
Football plays prominent part in
the October American Boy. The front
cover shows two strong American
boys in action on the football field
and makes a striking picture. "Foot-
ball at Yale" and football story,
ga Bit of Red Ribbon, 4" will int rest
lovers of the game. Surely no menu
for boys mental feast could be more
attractive than that spread out in the
80 pages of the paper before us, and
the good thing about it is that there
is not word of it all but will prove
/ helful to the boy. Boys ought TO APP
preciate having such splendid pub
LEGATION to represent them as The
! American Boy.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

In the Upper Iowa conference of the
Methodist church there are 240
churches, representing probable
value CT 81, 100000. The membership
is 90, There are $50 Sunday
schools with 40, 900 officers and teach
ers, and 80. 900 scholars.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

For serious, helpful discussion of
topics of the time it has come 20 be
the nabit of the well-read American
to turn to the monthly issues of the
Review of Reviews. In the October
number of that interesting periodical
he will find even more than the
usual amount of we'll digested material
bearing en- the live issues of the day.
Dr. Edward L. Devine's illustrated
review of the achievements of the Low
administration i'll promoting the well
fare of the masses in New York is at
once mastery argument for the con-
tinuance of the reform city govern
ment in power and message of en-
couragement to municipal reformers
everywhere who are striving for social
betterment in their various COM
munities. Another question that
vitality concerns the American public
is the eduaction of our rural popula-
ton. In the October Review this sub
ject is ably presented in two articles,
-one by Professor Willet NJ. Hays, of
the University of Minnesota. OIL "Our
Farmer Youth and the Public
Schools, and a brief illustrated re-
cord of actual experiments in
a" Learning by Doing for the Farmer
Boys" by Superintendent Kern, of
Illinois.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-07-09
Enforce the Law.

Knoxville Journal and Tribune.
The only safety to State or com.
munity lies In just and fearless en-
forcement of law. Give criminals an
inch and they will take a foot. Per
mi. a minor law to be violated and it
will lead to the violation of greater
ones. Wink at the law against Egamh-
ling, and in will encourage the criml-
nalIy disposed to do something worse
close the eyes to the elicit Sunday sa-
loon and those who may mediate lar
ceny may conclude that the officials
are Indifferent generally. Steal an
election and men conclude that the,
may steal other things, without CON-
mitting a greater crime. Stick to the
law. Enforce it and punish offenders
without regard to their wealth or social
position. Render law-breaking un-
popular and lawbreakers OF every sort
Infamous. When this Is done, there
will be no such demonstrations as We
have witnessed in Breathitt county
and no more violations that bring ter.
ror to communities and Disgrace te
States and cities.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-07-09
Please Stop Ay---What:

"Times are hard, money is scarce,
business is dull, retrenchment is a
duty, Please stop my" Whiskey
"Oh, no times are not hard enough
for that yet. But there is something
else that costs me a large amount OF
money every year, which I wish to
save. Please stop N.Y." Tobacco,
cigars and snuff? 'No, no-not these ;
but I must retrench somewhere. Please
stop my" Ribbons, jewels, orna-
ments and .trinkets? "Not at all.
Pride must be fostered, if times are
ever SO hard I; but believe can see a
way to effect quite saving in another
Please stop my" Tea,
coffee and needless and unhealthy lax
uries? mo, no, no not these. I can
not think of such a sacrifice. / must
think of sopething else. Ah, I have
it now. Ny weekly religious paper
costs me five cents a week. must
saYe that. Please stop my-paper
that viii! carry me through easily.
believe in retrenchment AMI economy"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-07-09
Drink Buttermilk,

Medical Talk for the Home.
The hot season is at hand. Busy
people in hot weather frequently find
themselves faint and thirsty, scarcely
knowing what to eat and drink. It
may be they have already drunk cold
water freely, but it fails to satisfy.
They will perhaps resort to glass OF
beer and sandwich, blindly stumbling
around trying to find something to fill
in the long space between meals.
Now, what these people want is a
glass of buttermilk. This answers the
purpose of both food and drink. Peo-
pie who have had breakfast at O'Clock
during the hot weather, will find them.
selves more or less hungry by 10 20
Instead of taking lunch, or getting n
glass of beer, the very best thing in
the world is glass of buttermilk.
The acid of the buttermilk quenche-
the thirst. The nutritive properties Of
the buttermilk make first-class lunch.
If nothing is taken with the butter.
milk 1t will agree with almost any
stomach, and as it contains all of the
tissue salts 1t makes almost an ideal
food. Those who take dinner at l
O'Clock will find themselves wanting
something again by or 80. Hero
is another chance for . glass of butter
milk.
Nervous people, thin-blooded people,
people who have dyspepsia, had better
give buttermilk q trial. Not too much
should be drunk at any one time, not
moro than one glass. It should be
at least two hours and half after eat
ing before the buttermilk is taken,
and no other food should be taken fer
about the same length OF time. Those
who prefer can add teaepoonful oi
sugar 70 the glass OF buttermilk. As a
tonic and nutritive there is nothing
better in the world.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-07-09
DoRoTHEA DIX,
One Of the Names Of the Four Women
For the Hall Of Fame.

Selected.
Dorothea Dix was the founder of our
present humane system of treating the
insane. She came from a humble
home, and began to support herself
when a child of twelve. At fourteen
she was teaching school. While still,
In her girlhood she began her life OF
philanthropy, opening in barn a
school for outcast children, at nineteen
years Of age. When forty-one she be-
gan her life-work for the insane poor.
At that time, unless wealty, the insane
were wretchedly treated.
But Dorothea Dix, frail, alone in the
world, often so i'll that her life was de-
SPARED of, conquered prejudice, won
friends for her cause, and at last estab-
llshed in twenty States public hospitals
and asylums for the insane, and saved
from misery millions of people.
When the Civil War broke out she
became superintendent of women
nurses. In the four years of her ser
vice she would not take one days fur
Tough, and moreover refused any gift
from the nation except flag OF her
country. At sixty-fve she resumed
her asylum work, in which she remain
ed till she was eighty-eight.
"The invincible power Of a mighty
purpose" made her grand, inspiring
example. "Her life was an epic; GEN.
turies hence it will find Its Homer"
The mural tablet In the Hall ct Fame
can only record her fame. Her great,
loying ''soul is marching on" forever.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-07-09
HOW's THIS?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re-
ward for any case of Cats rrh that can
not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.
F.J.CHENEY & Co., Proprietors,
Toledo, o.:
We, the undersigned, have known
F. J. Cheney for the last Is years, and
believe him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
by their firm.
WEST &:.TRBAx, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, ..
WALDING, K1NNAN & MARVIN, Whole
sale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Halls Catarril Cure is taken inter-
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces Of the system.
Price, Toe. per bottle. Sold by all
Druggists. Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-07-09
Nearly Takes Our Breath.
Business Guide,

Business Guide.
A North Carolina man comes along
and claims that he has a device which
will make collisions Of railroad trains
impossible. by attaching his machine
to the locomotives two trains coming
from opposite directions are brought
to standstlll before they are near
enough to strike each other.
A Tennessee man brings up an elec-
trio carrier, by means of which man
In the country can step to his front
door, place his letters into box touch
a button, and his mail glides down
wire into the nearest city postoflice.
The same Box is sent he ok with what
ever mail matter may he on band to
his address.
A Prot. Whitney is now in Denyar,
Colorado, preparing to place 13-inch
cannon ON the summit Of Pixies Peak,
from which he will fire magnet, at.
tached to = coil of wire thirty miles
long. This magnet will land in The
electrical sea, which he claims lies ia, It
beyond the pale Of the laws of gravita.
tion, and the world can be lighted up
from the city of Denver.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-07-09
Show Him Your Hands, Mother.

Selected.
l read story the other day of a
dying mother who felt her time hsd
come and she moaned of her life so full
of,care, 80 weary with struggles, and as
she laid her hands on the head of a
daughter, she said with touching
pathos: II haye nothing to show fer
it. I have tolled and toiled and have
done so little, my child. How can /
meet the Master?"
The weeping girl clasped the tremb-
ling, dying hand to her bosom, and
cried out in an agony of grief: "Show
the Master your hands, mother ~
Oh, those weary hands What a
lesson do they teach those whose lives
are sheltered and whose way is made
easy for them!
What profound respect ] feel for the
worn hands of the aged pilgrim whose
feet never faltered In the path Of duty
and self-sacrifice and whose hands ney-
er shirked toll when the family expect
ed 1t and whose tender heart held pity
and patience for the wayward and the
thoughtlees to the very end.
How little the dear house mother
troubles about the appearance of Ter
hands In all the years since wife
hood and motherhood brought inces-
SAINT care to her heart and toll for her
hands, the looks OF these hands have
never given her days pain or grief.
Out OF hot water into co!d-equally ex-
pert with broom or a cambria needle
|-one minute making a poultice and
the next getting dinner-watching aud
waiting beside the sick bed, bathing
feet, rubbing aching limbs, keeping
bandages straight, dampening the fe-
yered brow with a touch as light as
down, and lifting the sufferer from slde
to side with the strength OF iron.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-07-09
Boys. Read This,

Gazette.
1dleness is the devils own work shop,
and especially is this true Of boys.
We never feel sorry fer the boy who
has to work, even if it be to help make
living for himself and family but We
do Pity the boy who has nothing to do,
and whose parents are able to keep
him from haying to labor. The boy
who may work aud get only stipend
of dollar or even less per week, ia
learning trade, and, what is more. is
learning habits OF industry. 1t is often
the boys who begin early in the life of
industry that como the successful men
Of the nation The boy who waits
until he is grown, or until he acquires
an education, before be begins to labor
or learn profession, is apt to start in
life handicapped and outstripped by
his seemingly less fortunate competitor
who started in ahead of him. It pays
a boy better in the long run to work
for twenty-five cents week and learn
trade, with habits Of application to
business, than to do nothing and te
supported at the expense OF his parentr.
Boys, Go something, be something.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-07-09
SCOTLAND NECK. NC. O.
NO LOST EFFORT.

| Exchange.
A young Sabbath school teacher in
Boston had in her class a boy who
seemed fairly 1ncorrigible. Still she
clung to him. She prayed for him
every day, and often a dozen times a
day.
Finally he was arrested as an accom-
plice in a burglary and sent to prison
for two years. She did not give up
then, but visited him often in prison,
always finding him hard, sullen and
defiant.
After his release from prison he dis
appeared and no one knew where he
| went.
Years passed and the teacher mar
ried and went far front her native town
to live. She had grown children OF
her own when she and her husband
went to the Pacific slope to visit rela-
tives and friends. They found the
town or city in which one of their
friends lived greatly agitated over the
the liquor question.
eve are trying to elect mo license
mayor" said the gentleman they were
visiting. "He is coming to dinner to-
night, and I'll be glad to have you
meet him."
When he came she saw a tall, fine
looking man whom che would have
said at once she had never met before.
"Whv," he said, as he grasped her
hand, "are you now Miss Mp
II was Miss NJ" she replied.
"And you lived in Boston?'
eyes, did,
"And taught class in a Sabbath
school called the West End Mission ?"
"And there was bad boy in tha t
class named Roger Martini"
'There was boy Of that name In
the class. have never forgotten him" "
"And yet you don't know him when
he stands before you, for I am the
same Roger Martin.
II tried to forget you ana all your
teachings, tried to forget God, I lived
wicked life for fifteen years after ]
left my home, but in all those years Of
sinfulness could not forget your 10y
ing patience nor some of the things
you had said to me. feel that owe
my final conversion and acceptance
of God to you. I wrote and told you
SO when was converted, but the letter
came back to me through the dead let
ter Office. I wanted you to. know that,
through many days and years, God hsd
answered your prayers for me and that
none OF your efforts In my behalf wer,,
lost"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-07-09
CHOLERA INFANTUM.

This has long been regarded as one
Of the most dangerous and fatal dis
eases t0which infants are subject. It
can be cured, however, when properly
treated. All that is necessary Is to
give Chamberlain Collie, Cholera and
Diafrhoea Remedy and castor oil, as
directed with each bottle, and a cure
is ceftain. For sale by E. T. White
head &. Co. Scotland Neck, and Leg
gszt;s Drug Store, Hobgood.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-07-09
colored Maj Who Has Wealth.

Greensboro Record.
The average colored man may not
be accumulating wealth, but there is
one hereabouts who is doing very we'll.
His name Is J. NJ. Smith and recently
he gave in for taxation twenty.three
houses and lots in Greensboro. The
figures ran from $75 each to $500, and
they are located In Gilmer township.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-07-09
CATARRH OF THE STOMACH.

When the stomach is overloaded !;
when food is taken into it that fails 70
digest, it decays and inf1ames the mu-
cors membrane, exposing the nerves,
and causing the glands to secret mucin,
instead OF tue natural Juices VI digest
ion. This is called catarrh Of the SOM
ach. For years / suffered with Catarrh
Of the~Stonaach, caused by indigestion.
Doctors and medicines tailed to benefit
mo until used Kodci Dyspepsia Cure
-. r. Rhoa, Coppeil, Tex. Sold b
80 hitehead 6 20.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-07-09
C:S.RHOadS'

Judge VIM. T. Zenor, of Washington,
d. c., writes from 213 N. Capital street,
Washington, D. c.:
81 take pleasure in saying that can
cheerfully recommend the use of Peruna
as q remedy for catarrhal trouble and q
most excellent tonic for general condi-
ions."-Wm. II. Zenor
Mrs. Amanda Morrill,, 1s0 Reid street,
Elizabeth, N. j., writes:
81 have been sick over two years with
nervous prostration and general debil-
ity, and heart trouble. Have had four
doctors; all said that I could not get
well. ! had not walked . step in nine
months, suffering with partial paralysis
and paLpifaff0n of the heart every
other day, and had become 50 reduced
In flesh as to be q mere skeleton.
weighing only IS pounds.
Cup to this date I have taken Peruna
Tor seven months. It has saved my life
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-07-09
JUST ABOU T BEDTIME

take Little Early Ris.r-it will cure
constipation, b,liousness and liver
troubles. DeWitt's Little Early Risers
are different from other pills. They
60 not gripe and break down the mu-
cons ssmembranes Of the stomach, liver
and bowels, but cure by gently arous-
ing the eecretions and giving strength
70 thess organs. Sold BY +. T. White
hond = CO,
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-07-09

Real proof of the pudding is the
state of your stomach q few hours after
eating it.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-07-09
FOR SYSTEMIC CATARRH
Peculiar to Summer Pe-ru-na Gives
Prompt and Permanent Relief.

G. g. Rhoads, Indianapolis,
reu nights sleep Cares and
help me and ordered South complete change AS
much Peruna had
did, Six
Peruna" II Rhoads.