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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-26
WHY HE IS POOR.

So you are sixty and poor, are youi
Could not raise $40 to save your life:
Nobody to lend you SO? Well, that's
tough. Had hard luck, you say. Now,
see here, oil man, is it not just the
logical result of your own folly? You
were bound to have what you called a
good time when you were young, never
saved cent and spent this month
what you expected to earn next
month. You watched the clock when
you worked for others and alwayr
tried to render the smallest possible
service in return for your wages and
so found " Irself out of a job when
work got scarce. You never protected
or valued your credit, and five dollar
bill burned hole in your pocket. You
married, and your children had better
never have been born, while your wife,
poor soul. endured every penalty asso-
ciated with sharing the lot Of shift
less, unthrifty and lazy man. 1t is of
no use to blame the world, your fell
low men, the government or the Lord
for poverty in old age; nobody to
blame but yourself, and the worst of it
all is that, spite of your experience,
could you live your life over again
you would do the same fool things.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-26
REGISTRATION NOTICE.
You Must Register or You Will Not
Be Entitled 10 Vote.

To the Voters of the City of DEBORAH,
Iowa.
Notice is hereby given the Registra-
ton Board, will be open from O'clock
a. m. to 8 o'clock p. m, att the following
places, on October 27-2S-29 and Nov. 9Th,
1904.
First Ward. Stiles Hotel.
Second Ward Wilbur Lumber Cos.
office.
Third Ward. City Hall.
Fourth Ward. Hose House No. ,.
Fifth Ward. West DEBORAH Town Hail.
In case of sickness or absence from
the city on the above dates, or foreign
ers receiving their final papers after the
above dates, you may under certain con-
ditions, register on Election Day, Nov.
Sth, at the following places: First
ward, A. c. Ferrin's. Second ward, Riley
Bros store. Third ward, Jas. Me-
Cnsker's store. Fourth ward, Bakers
Lumber Yard office. Fifth ward, Bieder-
manu- a. Cos. store.
f. NJ. HUGHES, Il. w. DAUBNRY,
City Clerk. Mayor.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-26
LAMB VERSUS MUTTON.

We are asked when sheep ceases
to be lamb and becomes mutton.
This proposition is full of danger, al
most as risky as any reference to a
maiden lady's age. We have known a
brawny, bare armed butcher, with a
red face, most deliberately try to work
off on us the remains of some ancient
buck as spring lamb, and when rea-
soned with he would try to evade the
point at issue by claiming that there
was not very much in name anyhow.
Real lamb is the young sheep any time
before it is weaned. After that 1t is and
should be mutton Of varying quality
of succulence or toughness, as the case
may be. Serving an old sheep with
mint sauce doesn't make it lamb.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-26
A RUN DOWN KENTUCKY FARM.

A reader III Kentucky states his case
thus: He moved from the north and
bought a run down farm in that state.
Originally timber and blue grass land
and a good clay soil, the cropping of
the land with tobacco, hemp and corn
has been so long continued, merciless
and exhaustive, coupled with years of
destructive erosion, that he finds ne
has but skeleton of farm left. Re
wants to know how to renovate the
land. 1t is not an attractive or &c ~
proposition. Still it may be done, for
it has been done. If these clay hills
will grow alfalfa, and we think they
will, he should get them seeded down
with this valuable legume as soon as
possible. If not alfalfa, then clover If
clover will not grow he should try cow
peas or possibly the velvet bean. Barn
yard manure should be applied as far
as possible, green crops plowed IN
der, anything to restore the lost hui
mus to the soil. This land should be
got into grass of some sort as fast as
possible and the pillow kept out of it.
1t cannot be done in a year. Only pa
thence and time can do the work.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-26
Will Travel With Orchestra.

Miss Macha Vance will on next
Monday join the Musical Hoyles at
Chicago, with whom she has engaged
for a thirty weeks tour as reader.
The Musical Hoyles are we'll known
orchestra company who have been
travelling through this and other states
during the past few years. and have a
splendid reputation. 1t is compli-
ment to the ability of Miss Vance as
a reader that she has been engaged by
them, and those who know her ex-
ceptional qualifications are satisfied
that she will be credit to the COM
pany
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-26
]. 0. 0. F, Anniversary.

Elaborate arrangements are being
made by Winnesheik Lodge. No. $50,
|. o. o. f. for the celebration this
evening of the 50th anniversary of the
establishment of this order in DEBORAH
1t is expected that Grand Master Will
n. Tufford and wife of Mason City
will be present and All appropriate
program followed by a banquet has
been arranged for. 1t will be not
able event III the lodge history.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-26
SELL TO HIGHEST BIDDER.

1T would seem as though the govern
ment could devise some better way Of
disposlng of its public land than by
the race or the lottery plan. Why not
sell to the highest bidder conditioned
that such bidder shall be bona fide
settler TO comply with the residence
and occupancy clauses of the home
stead regulations, limiting one tract to
each bidder? The late wild craze over
the Rosebud reservation was in all
particulars Il lottery pure and simple
and was mighty bad example for a
government to set before a people To
whom ii bars Il turkey or church quill,
rattle.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-26
{. NJ. & ST. p. Excursions.

Chicago-International Live Stock
Observation-Disclosures on sale Nov. 81
1929, limit to return until Dec. 5,
1904; fare IS. 40 for round trip.
Biggest and best line of cotton
and wool blankets you ever saw for
the money at Mott & Co.'S. Our As
cent blanket is a good one sure.
Minneapolis-W Wisconsin and Mime
sofa foot ball game. Tickets on sale
Nov. ~, limited TO Nov. IA, 1904
So. IS round trip.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-26
Remarkable Low Rate.

Real estate agents and homeseekers'
excursion to New Orleans.
The passenger department of the
Illinois Central Railroad Company
will run an excursion to New Orleans
leaving Independence at AZ p. m.
Monday, Nov. /, at a round trip rate
of $22. 80 tickets limited to twenty one
days for return. The itinerary for this
trip has never been equsled IN. ten
days excursion. The route will be
via Memphis, Greenwood, Yazoo City,
Clarksdale, Vicksburg and Baton
Rouge to New Orleans. returning via
Hammond, jackson, Miss, and Jack
son, Tenn. The object of this low
rate excursion and this special timer
airy is that Real Estate Agents and
Homeseekers may bave an opportunity
to personally visit this section of the
south now SO rapidly developing and
see 1t under the most favorable con-
ditions. Pullman Tourist Sleepers
have been chartered for the entire trip
aud the price per double berth will be
$12 from Iowa and Minnesota and 81
from Illinois points. Application for
sleeper accommodation accompanied
in every instance by drafts, p o. or
express order, should be made to the
undersigned at Dubuque. Iowa, not
later than Nov. TO- Write at once for
full particulars concerning this excur.
sion. J. f. Merry, Asst. Gen. Pass.
Agt. 42-4
Better than sewing circle to find
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-26
Rates for Voters

Via the c., NJ. & St. p Ry. Spe-
cial arrangements for the sale of ex-
cursion tickets to voters returning to
their homes to vote during the fall
election will be in effect between all
points on the c., NJ. & st. P. Ry.
Tickets on sale NOV. CTS, 1904. Good
to return until Nov. 9, 1904. Rate !of
one regular fare plus So for the round
trip. The rates apply only for vosers
presenting certificates from proper
officers of the county, state or national
committee.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-26
Another Cheap Clubbing Rate.

We nave made another cheap club
rate for the benefit of our readers. By
a special arrangement we are able to
offer the Des Moines Daily Capital,
the great daily of the state, and the
Public Opinion both for the year 1905,
for only So. 30. cash in advance. This
is one of the cheapest rates we have
ever had for good daily paper, and
holds good until Dec. 2Sth only. If
you want it don't put it off too long.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-26
Going TO Missouri.

f. L. Akers and son Willie expect
to depart this week for the new home
of the family at Richland, Mo-. where
Mr.. Akers will engage in the land
business, having organized the South
ern Land and Investment Co.. of which
he is secretary. Mr.. Akers and fami-
ly have many intimate friends through
out this county who will deeply regret
their departure, but it is the wish of
all that the future in this new home
may be happy and prosperous one
for them
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-26
NOTICE TO BIDDERS.

Notice is hereby given that sealed
bids will be received by the City of
DEBORAH County of Winnesheik. State
of Iowa. until 100 O'Clock p. m. on
the I'd day of November, A. d. 1904,
for curbing with Portland cement
both sides of Maple avenue in the 9Th
Ward in said City of DEBORAH. Iowa,
between the west end of the bridge
over the Upper Iowa river near Bed
erman's store and the east end of the
Tavenir bridge over the Upper Iowa
river thereon, according to the plans
and specifications now OIL file with
the City Clerk.
All bids must be addressed to the
City Clerk of the City of DEBORAH,
Iowa, and must be accompanied in
separate envelope by certified check
in the sum OF 5000. 90. payable to the
order of the City Treasurer of said
City, as surety that the bidder Will
enter into contract for doing the
work in compliance with the terms of
the bid, and as surety also that he
will give bond for the faithful per-
Torrance of the work should the con-
trac be awarded to him. That pay
ment shall be made by said City of
DEBORAH, Iowa. for such work as fol-
lows. to-wit:
By bonds or certificates issued
against the lots or parcels of lots abut-
ting OIL such street improvement and
based upon special assessment to be
made upon such lots or portions of
lots to pay for said improvement, pro-
vided, however. that the proportion
ate cost of said Improvement to be
borne by said CITY shall be paid for
out of the General Improvement Fund.
The City reserves the right to re-
ject any aud all bids or any part or
parts of any bids.
The work shall be completed on or
before June /, A. ID. 1905.
That all such bids or proposals will
be opened and acted upon by the City
Council of said City at the City Hall
therein, on the I'd day of November,
A. ID. 1904, at Z 100 o'clock p. IN. of
said day. "4l-3
+. M. HUGHES. City CLERK.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-26
Going TO Lyle, Minnesota.

On Saturday A. j. Francisco sold
the lot on which his wagon shop
stands to W. B. Igvoldstad & Co., for
$500, and next week move his fami.
ly to Lyle, MINI. where they will en-
gage in the hotel business. The re-
moval of this estimable family from
the city will be regretted by all. who
will wish them every success in their
new home and business.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-26
Chicago Tribune Clubbing Rate.

For two or three years past we have
succeeded in getting very low rate
for our readers for the daily Chicago
Tribune, conceded to be the greatest
daily in Chicago. We sent III large
number of subscriptions last year, and
many are already asking whether the
rate will be in force this year or not
We have after much correspondence
succeeded in getting low rate this
year, although it is twenty five cents
higher than last year. This Is on ac-
count of the increased cost of white
paper, and the addition of new and
expensive features to the Tribune.
This rate is also good only during Oc-
tober and November. All should re-
member that after Dec. LIST we cannot
get this rate and cannot accept SUBJ
scriptIons under this proposition. The
low rate is as follows:
Chicago Daily Tribune one year, 81. 90
DEBORAH PublicOpinion one year, l.50
50. so
Both papers one year ..........$ SO. rs
Chicago Tribune six months and
Public Opinion one year, both only
So. 60.
You can have no better opportunity
to secure reading matter for next year
than this. There is no better paper
than the Chicago Daily Tribune. Ask
any bank in Winnesheik county. But
don't wait until December to speak
about this and then miss 1t Come in
at once. Last year over 100 wanted
to take advantage of the cheap rate,
but waited a few days too long. No
subscriptions accepted unless cash &C
companies the order.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-26

The monarchlal herd Of Europe needs
new blood. The present sires are old
rakes, epileptics, some idiots, an in
bred cancerous, unhealthy lot. Rever.
ence for royalty is strong when intelli-
gent nations will worship at such feS
tering shrines.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-26
Library Association Meeting.

The annual meeting of the DEBORAH
Library association will be held at
2: 100 O'Clock Tuesday evening, Nov.
LIST, in the council chamber of the
City Hall. All are urged to be pre-
sent
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-26
Halloween Social.

The Epworth League will hold" The
Feast OF Lanterns Monday. Oct. 3lst
at the residence of Mrs. B. II. Wells,
403 Washington street. Admission 10
cents.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-26

TRAINS LEAVE DEBORAH AS FOLLOWS
No. 5O4 Passenger, except Sunday las p. m.
No. 542 Freight, except Sunday. -. 5: o a. III.
TRAINS ARRIVE AT DECORATE:
No. 507 Passenger, except Sunday. l2:25 p IN.
No. Sal Freight, except sunday. -. .5:l5 p. IN.
Sunday stock train leaves at 600 a. m.
For sleeping car reservations, tickets, time
tables, ETC., apply TO any Rock Island ticket
agent. U. q. GRUVER.
Local Agent
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-26
WANT
COLUMN

Rates-One cent per woodworking
less than ten cents.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-26

Better than a sewing circle to find
out things-our want column.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-26

Good
ness an
territor
Edwin
PARTNER
way. Il.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-26

Chic
the al
System
plus s.
Goth, i.
Dec. "a
The Grenada sentinel., 1904-02-20
ALBANlANS ARE IN REVOLT.
Sixteen Thousand Alba mia ms in Re-
volt Against the Reform Plans
of the Powers.

Constantinople, Feb. 17.-Sixteen
thousand Albanians are in revolt in
the district of Diakova against the re-
form plans of the powers for Mace
donia and obnoxious taxes. In con-
f1icts which have taken place between
Albanians and Ottoman troops, the
latter were worsted. Large reinforce
ments have been dispatched to Dia-
kova. The Albanians attacked the
town of Diakova, February 13, and
plundered and burned q number OF
houses. Turkish forces subsequently
attacked the insurgents main position
at Babajhosi, but were repulsed with
heavy loss. 4 .~.Asa.4i
Feverish activity continues among
Turkish authorities on the Bulgarian
frontier. in accomplishing stores and
repairing roads for the expected mass
ing of troops.
The Grenada sentinel., 1904-02-20
MRS. HOSSACK AT LIBERTY.
The State of Iowa Tires of Trying to
Convict Her of killing Her
Husba nd.

Winterset, Ia, Feb. 17.-Mrs Marga-
ret Hossack, tried, convicted and SEN
fenced to prison for life for the mur-
der of her husband, December 2, 1900,
is a free woman. On motion Of the
state the case in rehearils was stricken
from the docket and the defendant dis
charged. The crime for which Mrs.
Hossack was given a life sentence at
Anamosa is one of the most horrible
in crimes annals. Her husband, an
aged man, was murdered with an ak
while he lay sleeping. She aroused
the household at two o'clock in the
morning, claiming that someone had
entered the house and struck the blow
A day later she was arrested at her
husbands grave, tried and sentenced
for life. A new trial was granted, and
a disagreement resulted. A third trial
resulted similarly, and the state con-
cluded it was a waste of funds to again
try the case.
The Grenada sentinel., 1904-02-20
THEIR LOSSES TOO HEAVY.
Three More Baltimore Insurance
Compa anics Succumb Under
Their Heavy Losses.

Baltimore, Md, Feb. 17.-G. Harlan
Williams, president of the Home In
su,rance Co., of Baltimore, was appoint
ed receiver for that company, Wednes-
day, and gave bond in the sum of $90O,-
600, indicating liabilities of $45o,0O0.
F. E. S. Wolfe, president of the Fire.
mems Insurance Co., of Baltimore,
was appointed receiver for that COM
pany, an2 was bonded for 100000, in
dicating hN,ilities of 100000.
Applications had previously been
made for receivers for both companies.
Application was made for a receiver
for the Old Town Insurance Co., of
Baltimore. 1t is understood that the
liabilities exceeded assets by $1200O0.
The Grenada sentinel., 1904-02-20
IMPORTANT MOVEMENT.
Japan EmbN rk1ng One of the Main
Branches Of Her Army.

Japan Embarl<ing One of the Main
Branches OF Her Army.
Paris, Feb. 17.-An official dis
patch received here, Wednesday, from
Toxic, announces that one of the most
important movements of Japanese yet
made is occurring. One of the main
branches of the army, consisting of
three divisions and including q divi-
sion of guards, is going on board
transports. The previous landings of
Japanese forces in Corea and elsewhere
are said to have been small, compared
with this simultaneous sailing of three
divisions, aggregating approximately
an army of $4,000 to $4,000 men. The
Japanese authorities, 1t is added, had
taken every precaution to prevent in
formation from going out concerning
the embarkation and the destination of
this army. It is believed-but this Is
not sure-that the destination of this
force is point near the mouth of the
Yalu river or spot on the Lao Tung
peninsula, danking Port Arthur.
Another official dispatch says a Jap
anese transport has been sighted OF q
town south of the mouth of the Yalu
river. This, 1t is added. is not con-
nected with the embarkation OF three
divisions referred to in these dis
The Grenada sentinel., 1904-02-20
RADIuM As CANCER CURE
A Valuable Method Discovered by
Ann Arbor Chemists. -
RadiO-Activity Impaired to D1s-
titled Water Makes of the Lat
ter n Curative Agent.

Chicago, Feb. ia dispatch to the
Tribune from Ann Arbor, Mich, says:
The possibility of using radium to
convert ordinary rain and we'll water
into mineral water, more highly me-
dicinal than any known natural min
eral water, has been demonstrated at
the University of Michigan in series
of experiments covering the last ten
weeks.
In searching for a method by which
radium could be applied to the interior
of cancer without any danger of the
terrible radium. or X-ray burns, it has
been demonstrated that the INNER
sion of sealed tube in pure, distilled
water for "a hours produces radio
active water, of powerful effects. In
jected' into cancers this water stopped
pain in ten minutes.
Patients now under the radium water
treatment include one with cancer of
18 years standing, and some of the
ordinary nose and breast cancers. The
16-year cancer has had six weeks of
water treatment, and from the first
five miutes after applying water pain
has been almost wholly absent. In
each of the other cases pains stopped
Immediately and several sufferers were
released from the morphine habit
which had been forced upon them.
The Grenada sentinel., 1904-02-20
BIG FIRE At PEORIA.
Feed House of the Great western
Distillcry Burned and the Old
Manhattan Burning.

Peorie. ILL.,, Feb: 1.-THE feed house
of the Great Western distillery was
totally destroyed by fire Wednesday
morning with loss of $4,000. The
house is not operated during the night,
and after the firemen started the fur
naces Wednesday morning they no.
ticed the flames, which are presumed
to have started from spontaneous COM
bustion, and sent in the alarm. The
fire spready rapidly: 1t also destroyed
several large stacks of hay to the west,
and communicated to the old Manhat-
tan distillery, but the firement expect
to control it here, though the fight is
difficult because of the high wind blow
ing.
The Grenada sentinel., 1904-02-20
SYMPATHY FOR JAPANESE.
Rem0 r h a bile Evi<lence~ of the Sym
pathy of the British People
With Japan.

New York, Feb. 17-British sympa-
thy for the Japanese is manifested in
remarkable responses to an appeal re-
Gently made for a fund for the widows
and families of soldiers and sailors,
says a Times dispatch from London.
Japanese are accosted in all parts OF
London by persons desiring to con-
tribute to the fund.
One little girl sent eight1o>nce, ex-
planning that it was her months saw
ings, which she wished to send to the
Japanese orphans An old woman
contributed % shillings, all in farth-
ings.
The Grenada sentinel., 1904-02-20
TRIBUTE TO THE DEPARTED
All United Mine Workers to Cease
Work at Noon, Friday, the Day
= - Of the Hanna Funeral.

indianapolis, Ind, Feb. 17.-The fol-
lowing was issued from the national
headquarters of the United Mine Work
ers Of America Wednesday,:
:. indianapolis, Feb. Ito the men,
bers of the United Mine Workers of
America: AS tribute to the memory
of the late M. A. Hanna. and as an
expression of the appreciation of the
many services rendered by him to. our
organization, you are requested to
cease work at noon on Friday, Feb
ruary 49,, the day Of his funeral
[Signed.]
JOHN MITCHELL, Pres. U. M. of A.
ct L. LEWIS, Vice-President.
''W. B. WILSON, Secretary Treasurer -
The Grenada sentinel., 1904-02-20
What the Japanese Yen IL.

! When the public reads that 100, ,OOO,-
600 yen have Professionally been set
apart by Japan for war purposes, it
may perhaps put an exaggerated esti-
mate on that amount. Although Japan
has gold standard, the yen is of silver
currency, and fluctuates with the price
of silver, so that at the moment 1OO,-
OOO, 900 of them means scarcely more
than G1O,000,O00. But even this is an
immense amount in a country in which
the wages of skillful artisan are often
not more than three yen a week.
The Grenada sentinel., 1904-02-20
DIsCREDITs THE REPORT.

Germany Doesn't Believe German
GunbOats Were Fired Upon.
Berlin, Feb. 17.-The German ad-
miralty discredits the reports that the
Japanese fired on the German gun
boats Kansas, Thetis or any other
German war vessel in the disputed far
eastern waters. The Hansa is al
Using Tau and the Thetis at Che Foo
The regular reports OF their move.
ments to the admiralty make no men
ton of such an incident. 1t is added
that even If it happened, it is as.
sumed to have been m excusable mis-.
take