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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14
Notice of Final Report of Referee.

STATE OF IOWA. ISIS
Winnesheik County
TO Charles II. Clark, Mary VIM, Bridget Fee
Annie VIM, Catherine Collins, Thomas Il.
Mcdonald, Patrick ii. VIM, Rose Kregel,
Robert l.. Lee. Dennis Lee. John II Lee,
CURE. Frank Mcclure, Mary Mcclure
Catherine Mcclure John Du fly,
Frances Duffy. Ambrose Duffy. Charles
Duffy Edward Duffy, Kate Cline, and James
III. Corcoan, Administrator of the Estate of
Michael Winn, Deceased; also Charles Nc
Manus, Patrick McManus, Mary A. McMan-
w., Margaret duffy, and the unknown heirs
Manus and said Margaret Duffy.
You are hereby notified that there is now
on file in the office of the Clerk of the afore-
said District Court the final report OF the un-
dersigned referee In the care OF John Duffy VS..
Francis Duffy, ct al (the same being cause
No. ZIP on the records OF said District Court
and which report said referee asks to have
approved; ana in which he asks also to be
permitted to deposit with the Clerk of said
DisI rict Court, as provided b, Title 3, Chapter
II of the Code of Iowa, the funds now remain
ing in his hands as such referee, amounting
to Sl4i22S, and which said sum Ii Is claimed
belongs to the above named Margaret Duffy
and Patrick, Charles and Mary A. McManus
or their legal heirs
You and each of you are therefore hereby
required 10 appear at the court room I'm De-
corah, in said county, on or before O'CLOCK
o. IN. on the Odd day of November, 1903, (the
same being the first day of the regular No
vember, 1903 term of said District Court and
show cause, II any YOU have. why laid report
should not be approved and said money dis
posed OF as by law provided I'm such cases.
Dated DecoIah, Iowa, October 3. 1903.
iO-i CHAUNCEY w. FREEMAN
Referee.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14
Illinois Central r. r.
OF INTEREST TO
STOCKHOLDERS.
Free Transportation to Attend the An
nual Meeting at CT icago.

Public notice is hereby given that the regular
annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Illinois Central Railroad Company will be
held at its offices in Chicago, Illinois, on We'd
nesday, October p, 1908 at II O'Clock noon.
To permit personal attendance at such
meeting there will be issued to each holder of
one or more shares of the capital stock of the
Illinois Central Railroad Company as regis
tered on the books of the Company at the
close of business on Tuesday, September ~,
1903, who Is of full! age, ticket enabling him.
or her, to travel free over the Company's lines
from the station on the Illinois Central Rail-
road nearest to his or her registered address
to Chicago and return, such ticket to be good
for the journey TO Chicago only during the four
days Immediately preceding, and the day OF
the meeting. and for the return journey from
Chicago only on the day of the meeting and
he four days Immediately following, when
properly countersigned and stamped during
business hours-that is 10 say, between 800
a, M and D. min the office of the Assistant
Secretary, Mr.. w. q. BRUEN, in Chicago.
Such ticket may be obtained by any holder
of stock registered as above, on application,
in writing, to the President of the Company
in Chicago. Each application must state the
full name and address OF the stockhold ex-
actly as given in his or her certificate of stock
together with the number and date of such
certificate. No more than one person will be
carried free in respect 10 any one holding of
stock as registered on the books of the Com
pany. A. u. HACkSTAFF,
3l-9 Secretary.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14
THE UNTOUCHED WOODS.

We found our way into bit OF the
old forest not long since, small tract
of the primeval woods lying in val
ley up among the hills, which the ruth
less hand of man had not yet despOiled.
no trace of his work visible save a
healed scar on the side Of some OF the
big sugar naples. showing where he
had tapped the tree for its sweet
There were big basswoods, elms and
naples whose tops shut out the sun
hundred feet in the air, some ancient
and decaying relics lying prone on the
earth. victims of some summer wind
storm, and moss covered, feeding their
more lucky kin. Here was the i'm
pressive silence Of the woods, the calm
of the chancel Of great cathedral, be-
yond the reach and sound Of the rush
and riot Of an outside world. silence
broken only by the bark Of fox squir-
rel, the muffied drumbeat of the lord
Of the woods and the tinkle and babble
of little brook fretting down the glen.
Here grew the most exquisite ferns
and MOSES, an inch in depth. like the
pile Of a Wilton carpet All too soon
the spirit Of greed and Of progress. you
will call it, while we call 1t savagery.
will invade this lovely retreat, and the
blows Of the woodman's ak will sound
like the tolling Of the bell over depart
ing souls. Then will come the stridu-
lent. rasping sound Of the saw. and
these monarchs Of the woods will be
sacrificed to make plank for hOgpens
and washing machines, fork handles
and tubs. Then the fire will get in it's
work. and, as with the end Of the
world, all that is left will be burned
up. and the hillside spring will dry up
and the little brook cease to run and
sing, and some hairy, club listed hu-
man will turn II into hog pasture or
scar the once beauty spot to raise
pumpkins. tobacco or taters. And then
just think Of any man made In the i'm
age Of God doing such dirty piece Of
business! But he'll do 1t and keep do
ing it as long as he can make dollar
by doing Il.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14
THE OLD FOLKS.

The old folks and the care Of them
after they have become no longer able
TO care for themselves is subject in
which nearly all are interested and one
very closely allied to our religion and
our civilization. While as a people we
term ourselves pretty well civilized,
there is still lot of barbarity prac-
ticed in this connection. None of us
has to look very far or very long to
see cases which make our blood boil at
the ingratitude and lack of filial re-
gard on the part of children toward
their parents, some permitting the old
folks to spend their last days in some
poorhouse or asylum, others permitting
them to exist outside such places in the
direst poverty or indifferently allowing
some kind hearted son or daughter to
bear the entire burden Of the old peo-
pies support Now, here is little plain
talk for the old people themselves, or,
rather, those who know they will be In
that class in a short time. If as re-
suit Of your toll and labor you are pos
sessed of a little property, you just
hang on to it hard and tight. Don't let
it go to help some son or daughter, no
matter what may be the emergency. So
long as you have money or property
others will care well for you, and de-
pendence, the very heaviest burden Of
age, will not be yours to carry. In q
general way it is best for old people to
have their own home unless death has
divided them. Age brings certain
amount Of crankiness even to the best
Of us, and the right to say what one
pleases and do as one wishes is proba-
bly, appreciated more when one reaches
seventy than ever before. The love of
money may be the root Of all evil, but
nevertheless the possession of good
hard cash or it's equivalent will do
more to smooth the days when the
grasshopper has become a burden than
any other thing. Old people should eat
away at the principal Of their little
capital and should not deny themselves
needed comforts or even luxuries in
order to hand down their property in
tact to their heirs. Let the heirs scratch
and earn some for themselves. Some
where we have read of the pathetic
story Of a woman who. fearing burial
at the expense of others, had figured
out the cost of the funeral expenses
and had worked hard and long to lay
aside the money needed for this pur-
pose and who practically starved her
self to death rather than touch penny
Of the hoard 1t should be, If children
are rightly brought up and family
bond of love and affection binds the
family together. then when father and
mother become helpless and old they
would be most welcome guests at the
home Of any one of their children, but
we feel almost justified in saying that
such cases are the exception rather
than the rule. The next best thing is
for old people to hang on to their prop
erty. for money will sometimes go far
Their than affection.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

The tenacity with which some things.
and usually the mean things, hang on
to life and persist In the effort to prop
agate themselves Is well illustrated in
our experience with a burdock this
season. We saw it come up in the
spring and let it grow until June, when
we fixed it. as we then thought. by
cutting 1t off four inches below the
surface. Along in July we noted that 1t
had made another good start and was
sending up well filled seed head. We
cut it again. Along in late September
passing by, we noticed that IT had still
vigor enough to push up feeble stalk.
upon the tip of which was a tiny bios
som bud. This beat us, and we let II
alone on the broad and humanitarian
ground that anything which would try
so hard to live and reproduce itself
should. as far as we were concerned.
have chance.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

Everything has its innings sooner or
later, and the summer of 1903 has been
a bee year all through the west. An
unheard of crop of white clover bloom
lasting over period of six or seven
weeks started them, and they just
swarmed and swarmed and piled up
the honey at rate never known be-
fore. They have made hives Of the
trees, holes in the ground, got into the
attics of houses, lined the sides of
schoolhouse and barn with masses of
well filled comb and have brought the
price Of the most luscious Of sweets
down to cents a pound. Great year
for the bees!
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

We all know in general way that
there grows big timber out in Oregon
and Washington. but only recently
have we realized what effort and ex-
pense are connected with the clearing
Of an acre of this heavily timbered
land to fit ii for crop. Fancy having
stump eight or nine feet across in the
land which you wish to convert into a
garden patch, with roots thirty feet in
length and three feet In diameter where
they leave the stump, and this wood,
both stump and roots, so sodden with
water all the time that II is almost i'm
possible to burn 1t! Fancy twenty
such stumps on an acre. often more.
and costing $50 each to remove them,
and you will understand why cleared
land in that country ought to bring a
high price.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

Ellis county, Tex, is Dragging over
cotton crop worth $5,0O0,0OO, and
Rush county. Kan, is pointing with
pride to a crop of winter wheat worth
f2,500,0O0. And these are only isolated
may touch low ebb in Wall street and
poverty show its head among the man
ufacturing sections. but there never
can be very hard times in those Sec
lions Of the country where original
wealth is created at such rate as In
those referred to.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

One eastern railway corporation is at
work trying to solve the important
question of future supply of ties for
the use of the road by setting out its
right of way with black locust trees.
The roads have on the average not less
than four acres of land available for
this purpose for each mile Of road and
in the level prairie sections even more,
and this land could be put to far better
use devoted to timber culture than to
be an annual expense to the corpora
tons to keep the weds cut down.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

Abnormal weather conditions in the
northwest have so stimulated the
strawberry beds that in many places
we get reports of a second crop of ber-
ries This is curious freak of nature
which is rather boosted of. but the
truth is that where the second fruiting
occurs it will greatly injure the crop
of next season.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

He is sixty and farmer, rich. but
has no sense. He has always set the
pace which kills-more land, more land,
more crops, more work. His wife died
ten years ago. worn out trying to keep
his gait; his boys have each run away
the first chance they had; his daugh-
tiers have married any old stick Of
man to be able to get away from home.
The sons and the worthless sons-in-law
are now watching and waiting like
buzzards on a fence for the old man to
die SO that they may divide up his pos
sessions. There will be a big funeral
Tome day soon-seventy-five or more
arriages and all that-and that's the
WI Of old Jones.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

A flock of hens running at large on a
farm homestead will not yield the profit
the same flock would when yarded and
properly fed and cared for. A friend
who has tried both ways tells us that
he gets nearly twice as many eggs I'M
der the last named method as he did
when his chickens ran wild.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

DDS induces slovenliness and superb
ciality in the cultivation of the soil.
Vast areas of grain producing territory
nre now worked almost wholly with
this tool, and the good old fashioned
blowing of the fields is lost art.
Valuable tool as the disk harrow is, it
should never be made to take the place
of the ulow
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

It is claimed that the music of a
brass band will kill mosquitoes.
western Chautauqua meeting which at
first was almost broken up by the pest
became entirely free from them after
the services of brass band were Sc
cured. This singular fact, if fact it is,
does not surprise us, for some bands
we know are calculated to drive away
all animate things.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

The corporations are not consistent
in barring out men over forty from
their service, for nearly all the best
general officers of the roads and their
boards of directors are gray haired
men-men with brains and experience.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

We find the COW which freshens in
the fall TO be more profitable than the
one fresh in the spring. 1t is easier to
regulate the ration Of the milk cow in
winter than in the summer, and our
experience is that her fall calf gets a
better start in life also. 1t is good
arrangement all round to have the cow
dry in dog days.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

England raised only 100000 bush
els Of wheat this year and wants 208.-
100000 bushels more from some coun-
try in order to feed her people. most Of
which will be supplied from this cOun-
try. Then she has got to come here for
a good share Of her meat. for nearly
all her fruits and for all the cotton
with which to supply her immense fac
tories. Each year we buy less and less
of her manufactured products. and
each year the balance Of trade grows
larger against her. IL 1t were not that
she is able to sell her lords and dukes
at big prices to our fool American girls
and that she has a batch of old ruins
and relics which Americans pay her
big money to see, we would own the
whole island inside of fifty years.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

If there could be secured just three
stalks of corn in the hill and there be
no hills missing, and each stalk would
produce an ear eleven inches long,
yield of 40 bushels to the acre would
be obtained
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

: The several byproducts Of corn, cot
ton and oil have now become Of almost
as much Importance to the world as the
original materials. The same is largely
true of our meat products.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

The government estimate of the dam
age done by the great foods of the cen
trail west the past season is in excess
of $40,O00.0OO, and this does not include
the incidental injury in the lowering
of crop yields outside the direct path
of the foods
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

Cheap lands and unquestioned fertil-
ity of soil don't really count for very
much when there comes foot of snow
and ice half inch thick in middle
September.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

There Is much comfort connected
with getting things all in shape for the
winter-fuel In the shed, plenty Of fOd-
der In the barn, corncribs filled up,
blowing all done, water supply handy
for the stock. the cellar filled up with
vegetables and canned fruits. When
this Is all done. as it may and should
be, the man who has worked fourteen
hours day for five months may look
forward to the winter season with
pleasure as time for a measure Of
rest and recreation. One trouble is
that too many of US try to get ready
for winter after 1t Is here. and then
there IL no fun connected with 1t.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

1t is better to have but $1,000 when
one is sixty and good health as the
net result of a life lived moderately
and well than to have 100000 and
wrecked constitution as result Of try
ing to own the earth.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

1t will pay the man on the farm as
never before to study how he can best
make a horse and machine do the
work of a man.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

The White Brahma is one Of our best
winter egg producers, but she makes
one tired with her uselessness during
the summer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

From the woman's standpoint man
should be just like Percheron horse
big and strong, but very docile and
tractable.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

The cribs of the corn belt are to be
Allied with a good average crop Of corn
this fall.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

Frosted and immature corn may be
best utilized in the silo.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

Rates-One cent per word nothing
less than ten cents.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

stural law favors a diversification
OF Nrm products rather than special
fzinAor dsvoting the farm to the pro-
ductAn of any one crop. No truth Is
more kasy TO comprehend than this
that Nen ,ny one form of animal or
vegetable LIE is given entire control Of
the handsome disease Is almost sure to
appear s9ons or later to compel the
change to sobething else. A little Of
many things will contribute not only
to freedom fpm disease, but better
assure satisfyAg financial returns. BY
way of illustra ion we note that $50 or
200 hens may Y kept successfully on
a farm. but itrease the number to
1000. and for Tkny reasons they will
not pay. The saAe is true of sheep and
hogs.
We are more Nd more impressed
with the practicalEalue Of the idea
suggested in these btes a year ago
the joint ownership Y flock of. say.
BOO sheep by eight Y ten adjoining
farmers, the flock to b under the con-
slant care of a shephsd, aided by a
trained dog. these sheepto be kept pri-
marily as weed destroyer on highway
and field and utilizers of\waste grain
and forage on the farms OF their own
ers. Thus kept, the two Great objec-
tions which obtain against the keep
Ing Of sheep-the cost of fencing and
the losses by dogs-would be wholly
removed. The logical result of so keep
Ing such flock of sheep would be few
er weeds. clean highways and an Incl
dental annual profit for the owners
more than sufficient to pay all their
taxes. The flock could be either win
tered In a body or divided up for this
purpose among the owners. Another
advantage would be fresh mutton all
The year round when IT was wanted.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-14

FOR SALE-I will sell one or both
of my dwelling houses situated on
East Broadway and River street.
Pleasantly located; nine rooms in
each. Call on me for price. E. j.
Riley. 37tf
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-14

Washington, Nov. 13.-The commerce
of Panama amounts to about $3,O0OOOO
per annum, it's population to about
300, 900, and it's area to 31,5n square
miles, or nearly equal to that of the
state of Indiana. These figures are
supplied by the Department of Com
merce and Labor through it's Bureau Of
Statistics, and are the latest available
data on commerce. population, ana
area.
The principal ports are Panama,
on the Pacific coast, and Colon, on the
Atlantic side, and these ports are visit
ed annually by more than 1000 YES
sells. which land over 100000 tons or
merchandise and nearly 100000 passen-
gers, chiefly for transfer over the
Panama Railway. forty-seven miles In
length, connecting the Pacific port OF
Panama with the Atlantic port or
Colon.
Colon, or Asplnwall, as 1t is some
times called, has a population of about
900 persons. The city of Panama
has a population of about $4,000. IL
was founded in 1919, burned in 1911, and
rebuilt in 1878, while Colon is OF mucn
more recent date, having been round
ed in 1855.
The population, which, as already in
dicated, amounts in number to about
300 0O0 is composed of various elements
Spanish Indian, Negro, and limit
ed number of persons from the Eu-
ropean countries and the United States,
especially those engaged in commerce
and transportation and the operation
OF the Panama Railway. A consider
able number of the population is COM
posed of persons brought to the 18th
mus as laborers for the construction OF
the canal, and of their descendants.
Since the abolition of slavery III ia
maica a considerable number of blacks
and mulatoes have settled on the
isthmus as small dealers and farm
ers, and in some villages on the At
lantic side they are said to be In the
majority, and as a result the English
language is much in use, especially on
the Atlantic side. Some of the native
population have retained their Gus
toms, speech, and physical type, es-
pecially these in the Western part OF
the province and claim to be descen-
dants of the natives found In that
section by the Spaniards when they
discovered and conquered the country.
OF the commerce of Panama. the
United States supply a larger share
than any other country. The importa-
tions at the port Of Colon during the
fiscal year ended June 3d. 1908, as
shown by the report Of the United
States consul, amounted to 1852, 6S4, of
which $614.179 was from the United
States, $119,0S6 from France, $11S,322
from England, $76,3S6 from Germany.
The figures of the fiscal year 1908 show
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-14
COST OF LIVING.

Washington, Nov. 13.-The Bureau of
Labor has issued a bulletin on the cost
of living of workingmers families,
showing that of 1851 families in thirty
three states from whom data was OBJ
tanned, the average income per family
was 1925 10, average expenditure for all
purposes $76S "a, average expenditure
per family for food 1926 30, and the
average size of family 5 81 persons.
The last figure is seven-tenths above
the average of private families in the
whole country, as shown by the CEN
sus of 1900. The food expense is more
than 421a per cent. of the expenditure
for all purposes. An extended inves-
LEGATION covering the years 1890 1902
show that the cost of food reached
its highest in 1902. the average then
being 1919 per cent. above the average
for the decade 1S9O-1899. and an in
crease of 16.1 per cent. compared with
1896, the year of lowest prices.
1t is announced as a conservative
conclusion that the increase in the cost
of living. as a whole, in 1902, when
compared with the year of lowest
prices, was not over 1871 per cent.