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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03
A WHITE SLAVE.

He was city bookkeeper, been one
for nigh on to thirty years, day after
day, year in, year out, adding up end
less columns of figures, writing duns,
crediting remittances in dingy old Of
fee where sunlight and sentiment new
er found admission, at home nights
and Sunday afternoon In the park
giving him all there was of living out
side the office He knew he was In a
rut and bad one, for while his salary
kept his family in comfort it made a
treadmill slave of him. He writes us
and wants to know how he can better
his condition, for, as he says, he has
neither the capital nor the ability to
climb up and become member of the
firm and boss other people. He says
that he has saved enough to buy a
small place near some town and wants
to take up the growing of small fruits
and vegetables and keep fowls. AS he
will have to quit before long anyhow,
being close to fifty years old, he had
better do it now and get start be-
fore he gets used up. Such men put
us In mind of an old bus horse which
makes the same trip six times day
year after year, getting a little poorer
and feebler each year. Sensible man
to think Of quitting, for when he gets
his face tanned, his hands calloused
and goes to the house at night with a
four horsepower backache and a ten
horsepower appetite he will realize that
he has just begun to really live and en-
Joy life. The white slave of the Amer
lean counting room is from our stand
point to be pitied.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03
Notice to Property Owners.

Notice 10 Property owners On Maple
Avenue in the 9Th Ward, in the City
of DEBORAH, Iowa, Between the West
end of the Bridge over the Upper
Iowa River near Bederman's store
and the East end of the Tavener
Bridge over the Upper Iowa River,
thereon.
A. an adjourned regular meeting of
the City Council of the City of De-
corah. Iowa, held at the City Hall. in
said City on the 25th day of July 1904,
the following Proposed Resolution
was read and received
Whereas, majority of the lineal
front foot property owners owning
property on Maple avenue Tin the 5th
ward in the City of DEBORAH. Winnie
sheik County, Iowa, have petitioned
this Council to establish the width of
said Maple avenue aforesaid at 30 feet
from curb to curb and TO order and
construct cement curbing on both
sides of said Maple avenue from bridge
to bridge thereon and assess the cost
of the same 10 the owners.
And Whereas. in the opinion of the
City Council of DEBORAH, Iowa, it is
deemed necessary and advisable to
construct a cement curling on both
sides of said Maple avenue, in the 9Th
ward, in the City of DEBORAH. Iowa,
between the west end Of the bridge
over the Upper Iowa river near
Bederman's store and the east end Of
the Tavener bridge over the Upper
Iowa river thereon. Therefore be Il
Resolved, by the City Council Of
the CITY of DEBORAH, Iowa. that it is
necessary and proper TO construct &C.
ment curling on both sides of said
Maple avenue in the aforesaid street.
in the City of DEBORAH, Iowa, between
the west end of the bridge over the
Upper Iowa river near Bederman' S
store and the east end Of the Tavener
bridge over the Upper Iowa river
thereon, in accordance with plans and
specifications for such curbing and
Improvement (the expense of grading
and graveling said Maple avenue
aforesaid shall be borne by said City
of DEBORAH. Iowa, and paid for out
of the City Improvement Fund as by
law provided now on file with the City
CLERK of said City of DEBORAH. Iowa.
That the cost of constructing said
curbing thereof, shall be assessable
hkoIIoe lilC AUS pNAtiS VI iOic
fronting on both sides of sa d Maple
avenue above named, but such assess
ment shall not exceed the benz fits con-
ferred upon such lots or portions Of
lots, by reason Of said curbing or im-
provement. and In no event shall such
assessment exceed twenty-five per cent
of the assessed value Of such lots or
portions of lots, so assessed, as by
statute. made and provided. in such
cases. and be it further
Resolved, That the property owners
abut,ing On said Maple avenue afore-
said against whoinrit is hereby pro-
posed 10 make such assessment and all
other persons interested, be notified
as by law required by publication and
such other and further notice as .ha |
be deemed legal and necessary. that
this resolution is now Eending before
this Council. ana that the same will
come up for hearing and passage ut a
special meeting Of this Council TO he
held al the City Hall at 80 o'clock
p. N. on the 2nd day of September,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03
MAKING HAY.

The making of the hay often puts
a farmer to his wits ends if he has
much to put up. There is probably
more waste connected with the secur-
ing of the hay crop than any other
raised on the farm, and this waste
comes largely from improper stacking.
If hay must be stacked out of doors it
should be put in large stack, and a
stack cover should be used to protect
the stack until it is completed. Modern
machinery makes it possible to build
the stack of any desired height. This
building lot Of small stacks all over
the meadow simply results in the loss
of about one-third of the hay.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03
GRADING FARMERS.

Farmers may be graded by acres
five acre farmers, ten acre men, then
twenty and forty acre fellows, then
those who can handle an eighty or a
quarter section, with here and there
one who can swing the business of
full section. The best farmers are
found among the little fellows, for
their limited acreage compels them to
do better work and raise bigger crops
than their neighbor who has more
acres. 1t is a good thing that the large
farm can never be made as profitable
as the smaller one.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03
GARDEN WEEDS.

A little invention of our own has ma
terially aided in the keeping of the gar
den clean and free from weeds. We
like to cultivate the garden as much
as possible with hand steel rake, kill
ing the weeds when they are very
small, but often found some weeds
which had too much root to give way
to the rake. We took piece of an old
bucksaw blade, the length Of the rake
head and an inch in width, and had it
riveted to the head Of the rake; then,
putting knifelike edge on the blade,
we had handy combined rake and
hoe which makes most effective gar
den tool. 1t is worth trying.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03
Notice of Appointment

Notice of the appointment of Administrator
ofthe estate of Ole o. Ulven Deceased.
Notice is hereby given, that the subscriber
has been duly appointed Administrator of
the estate of
OLE o. ULVEN.
late of DEBORAH Township in the county of
WinneSheik STATE of Iowa, deceased intes-
tate and has taken upon himselftbat trust by
giving bonds as the law directs. All persons
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 10 max payment to 3l-3
NILS RISTE Administrator.
NJ. A HARMON. Attorney,
Dated at DEBORAH, Iowa, Auguet 1904.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

FOR RENT-McKinney residence on
Broadway inquire at Marsh Music
House. 3ltf
WANTED-A cook at the Meader
House. Call on or write to A. B.
Mcintosh, Canton, Mimi. 3ltf
FOR RENT have dwelling house
TO rent near my place in West De-
corah. Will be ready by Sept. LIST.
Joel Dayton.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

Good crops of corn may be made
even if it is not knee high by the Fourth
of July. 1t is July and August tropical
warmth which makes this crop, and it
makes very fast when the questions
of heat and moisture are just right
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

Colorado feeders report net profit
Of 500 on steers fed and fitted for mar
ket on sugar beet pulp and alfalfa.
Whether this profit should be credited
to the pulp or the alfalfa is not stated.
Perhaps 1t was the happy combination
of the two. ~. -Aeae---u.t
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

Florida agricultural enthusiasts claim
that they can make pound of beef or
pork with cassava roots at half the cost
1t can be made in the corn belt Bring
on the root beef and bacon and let's see
what il is like
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

Europe took 100000 barrels of
American apples last year at good
prices. This year the foreign crop Is
good, and the demand on this country
will be light. The crop Of the eastern
states will not be as large as last year,
but of better quality. a.. e-i....u=r-,-
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

1904, at which time and place such
property owners and all other parties
interested shall appear and show
cause, if ally there be, why this reso-
luton shall not be passed and an ordi-
nance enacted or resolution passed to
carry the same into effect.
f. W. UAUBNEY, Mayor.
F. N. HUGHES. City Clerk.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

Sympathy is one Of the divine attri-
butes of humanity, but 1t is usually
worse than wasted when applied to the
tramp nuisance.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

Politics and agriculture are happily
blended in the congressional distribu-
ton of seeds. How many legislators
would lose their jobs were it not for
the seeds it is hard to tell, but this
much is true-the seeds are worth more
In a political than an agricultural way.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

There is no more attractive lawn
shrub than a clump Of common elder
berry bushes. They do not sucker bad
", have a very delicate and pretty
foliage and are of singular beauty
when covered with masses Of white
bloom or later with their rich purple
clusters Of berries. .f3sz,. +, -.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

Eighty-nine colonies of the soldier
ants of Guatemala, which make such
short work of the Mexican boil weevil,
have been received by the agricultural
department and will be released in the
cotton growing sections of the south.
1t will be a great achievement for the
department II this method of extermi-
mating this pest Of the cotton fields
proves success, but not more so than
the eradication Of the orange scale by
the ladybugs imported from Australia
which saved the orange orchards Of the
Pacific coast.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

Wheat yielding forty bushels an acre
and weighing sixty pounds to the BUSH
ell has been grown 800 miles northwest
of st. Paul, MINI. There Is almost no
limit to the wheat growing territory of
the far northwest.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

The dwarf mountain pine is very
desirable tree for lawn decoration and
is hardy withal.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

PA friend wishes to know whether it
hurts the asparagus bed to cut it back
In July. 1t is about the worst thing
which can possibly be done for it, as it
inficts an injury from which it will
not recover in years. Any plant cut
back when in full growth and before
maturity suffers irreparable damage.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

A man in New Jersey comes to the
front with strawberry Of a new va
riety which measures three inches in
diameter and weighs one-fifth of q
pound, which seems to us like quite
OVERRIDING the strawberry business.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

1t is reported that seedless apple
has been developed. If So it will with
out any doubt be worked to the limit
as a new swindle by fruit tree peddlers.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

OF 36S species of plants tested, the
seeds of the bean and clover families
longest retained their vitality.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

Disaster beset the nest building eff
forts of the birds around our home this
year. A song sparrow's nest in the
little cedar was visited too often by
the little folk, and the bird moved her
quarters. A robins nest was despoiled
by the blue jays, which sucked the
eggs, while a doves nest was raided by
house rat and the young killed. Bird
life is full Of tragedy fr0m beginning
to end.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

Some peculiar quality connected with
the soil in the valley of the Hood
river in Washington gives to the straw
berries there raised remarkable keep
ing qualities, permitting the shipment
Of the berries to points as distant as
st. Paul in almost perfect condition.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

There is more sense in teaching the
elementary principles Of agriculture in
the public schools than there is in
many Of the fads which receive atten-
fiOn
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

We took toll from our strawberry
bed for just four weeks this year. The
last were the best on the broad prin-
ciple that blessings brighten as they
take their fight.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

1t costs about S65 to produce an
acre Of well cared for onions. The
crop should be as much as 500 BUSH
els and one year with another it will
sell for 40 cents per bushel.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

Eggs are now graded as .arsts, Sec
onds, thirds and dirties, which grading
means a difference in price of over 5
cents a dozen between the best and
the worst. --,-~ssas
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

1t is a curious and rather unusual
fact in natural history that the chinch
bug will leave the growing corn to feed
on foxtail grass, being case where
one mean thing has natural affinity
for another.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03
Strawberry and
Vegetable Dealers

The Passenger Department OF the Illinois
Central Railroad Company have recently is
sued a publication known as Circular Mo. II,
IN which is described the
best territory in this country
for the growing of early vegetables. Every
dealer in such products should address post
al card to the undersigned at Dubuque, Iowa
requesting copy of Circular No r.
j. F. MEnRY, Asst. Genl 7 ss'r Agent.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

The crop outlook for the country at
large is not of such character as to
Justify the belief that prices for farm
produce will be any lower than they
have been for three years past.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

Texas is Dragging as much on her
crop of Elberta peaches as on her cot
ton crop.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

There are two things which it is diff
6cult to teach horses to do-one is to
walk fast and the other to move a
heavy load slowly.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

There is no prettier sight than bass
wood or linden tree in full bloom, the
bloom itself being one of natures
queer freaks. The little bell shaped
capsules, fragrant as the lily of the
valley and full Of nectar, are great
snap for the bees, and from this tree
they make their best honey.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

The whole business world is now
watching the crops. These crops
mean a lot of newly created wealth.
Men may buy and sell till doomsday
and the world be none the richer, but
when scme man has raised pound Of
cotton, q bushel of corn, fat hog or
a brood Of chickens the country is by
that much the richer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

Cold storage is total fiZzle when
applied to strawberries. The mere
placing of the berries in a refrigerator
car in the south country for shipment
north for only a few days almost en-
tirely ruins their fine flavor 1t is with
this berry as with woman-its beauty
and delicacy cannot be preserved arti-
ficially.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

The individual excellence Of the
grade sire will seldom justify its use.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

A wagon will last about six years
II left to stand outdoors and will last
twice as long if properly housed. Same
rule applies to all machinery.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

mate remedy for the man who can and
won't work.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

We have one acre Of onions this year
planted on a piece of land which last
year was half in corn and half in
beans. 1t is very easy to note the
effect of these two crops upon the
crop of this year, that part which was
In beans last year being much the
best. Beans are very good fertilizer,
working in the same way as clover.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

When the weeds in the cornfield the
last of June are as high as the corn
it will pay better to plow up the field
and SOW some catch crop, such as mil
let or buckwheat. The land will thus
be got in good shape for a crop anoth-
er year. 1t never pays to let the weeds
get the best of field for any half crop
of anything.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

Clay for the sand road and sand for
the clay road is always in order as a
means of securing better roads.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

COLUMN

Rates-One cent per word nothing
less than ten cents.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

In Cuba they cut off the timber and
brush, then punch holes in the ground
and plant corn. 1t is never cultivated,
but grows to height Of sixteen feet
mule.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

A cemented cellar, hard water under
pressure and soft water handy, hard
wood kitchen floor and modern cook
ing range would take the wrinkles out
of many good woman's face. With
domestic help so hard to obtain 1t Is
economy to provide the housekeeper
with every obtainable facility for do
ing her work as easily as possible.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

There is so much difference between
working with a well polished, sharp
hoe and a rusty, dull one that we Won
der why any one will use the rusty
and dull one. There is only one way
in which to keep the kind of hoe first
named, and that is never to lend it, 1t
should be as unloanable as your razor.
rubber boots and shotgun.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

A case where the laws are utterly i'm
potent is that Of a friend of ours who
had a pair of pet gray squirrels killed
by a town poacher while the family
was absent from home. We had the
same mean game played on us some
years ago with some red squirrels
which were the children's pets. A pub
lie whipping post would fit this and
few other offenses which are common,
such as wife beating and manning do
nestle animals.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-03

We watched a towboat handling a
log raft on the Mississippi river recent
ly. The thing which specially attract
ed our attention was the small and in
ferior quality Of the logs in the raft
which the boat was handling. We
could not discover a single log which
was over a foot in diameter at the
butt and plenty of stuff which would
only make telegraph poles. A lumber
man told US recently that he cut ev-
erything now which would make
II foot by scantling.
The Dolores star., 1904-03-11
Boys Should Work.

J. p. Dolliver, United States sena..
from Iowa, recently delivered l
hours address in Plymouth churd
Brooklyn. filling the pulpit usually d
cupied by the Rev. DR.. Newell Dwigl
Hills.
The senator's subject was "Th
Republic and the Spirit of Patriotism
and he spoke of the poor boy as Il
most important factor In the maxim
of the Republic.
I'm not wasting my sympathy 0
the children Of the poor" he sal
What little sympathy have | vi
give to the children of the rich.
IF you have 100000 and give it
a boy to start him out in life, b
doesn't start. / suggest keeping thu
hundred thousand and that boy apart
it will be better for the boy, and 4
the facts seem to prove, better for th
hundred thousand"
THE real American type. with Il
background of poverty. discipline an
hard work was characteristic Of ever
President of the United States"
continued, "since Washington, an
could have been sad of W. j. Bryan
he had been elected"
The Dolores star., 1904-03-11
RUSSIANS GETTING READY FOR THE WAR;
WHICH THEY SAY HAS HARDLY BEGUN

for eight months. In addition there
will be division of Cossacks with
mountain batteries on the peninsula
to oppose landing and harass the enc
my If they succeed in investing the
city.
Viceroy Alexieff still retains his
headquarters at Mukden, through
which 5000 or 1000 soldiers are pass
ing daily to the positions which the
main army will occupy. The Rus
SLAMS believe that for military pur-
poses there is only one road over
which the Japanese can come from
Korea. All the troops landed at Che
mulpo, Mokpo and Chimnampo must
use the "Peking road" Consequently
the landing at Plaksin bay and the
other places on the east coast of
northern Korea are not considered inn
portant, the absence of roads prevent
ing these forces from combining with
the main body.
The Cossacks, mounted infantry and
light guns now across the Yalu river
will serve to harass the enemy in ev-
cry possible way, as well as to hold
him in check until the Russian main
armies and reserves are concentrated
and disposed. Sharp fighting may oc-
cur between the advance parties. but
nothing of decisive character is ex-
pected.
The Russian plans contemplate TAX
ing no chances on the score OF inferior
numbers. By sheer weight of men and
guns, If nothing else, when the proper
time arrives. Russia counts on over
The Dolores star., 1904-03-11
JAPANESE ATTACK
VI-ADIVOSTOCk

Vladivostock. March CA fleet OF
five Japanese battleships and two
cruisers appeared off this place at 1:25
o'clock this afternoon and bombarded
the town and shore batteries for fifty
five minutes
The fleet approached from the direc-
ton OF Askold island. at the east en-
trance to Ussuri bay, and about thirty
two miles southeast of Vladivostock.
Entering Ussuri bay the enemy
formed line OF battle, but did not ap-
proach to close range.
They directed their fire against the
shore batteries and the town. but no
damage resulted. as most of their 200
lyddite shells failed to burst.
The Russian batteries, commanded
by Generals Vernonet and Artamon-
on. did not reply, awaiting closer ap-
proach OF the enemy. The Japanese
fire ceased at 2:20 p. M, and the enemy
retired In the direction OF Askold is
land.
simultaneously two torpedo boat de-
stroyers appeared near Askold island
and two more near Cape Maidel. The
Japanese ships were covered with ice.
The attack resulted in no loss to the
Russians. but cost the enemy zoo. 900
roubles (3100.0 .00O In ammunition. Most
Of the projectiles were six and tvelve-
inch shells.