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Sharp County record., 1905-11-17
CiOthin9.

You never before bought suits overcoas, furnish
ings, ETC., for yourself boys you will buy them now
Boys two piece Knee Pants Suits, suits that are well
worth 81 90, to Is. Our price
Boys two piece Cashmere Suits all styles and kinds,
Norfolk effect with belt absolutely worth $500. Our
Youths all wool Cashmere and worsed suits $3.50 to
So co.
Mems Pants, best to be had in the market, 75c S.00
81 %, 150, $500, 80, $780, $780, 81 90, $3.50
Overcoats for all mankind for % per cent less than
you can buy elsewhere.
Mems new Overcoats, fine Beaver Overcoat in black
or blue, worth $780, Money back sale price 800
fine all wool. Kersey Overcoat, high storm collar,
spitta for horse back riders, we'll worth $500, your
money back sale price. $500
Boys Overcoas in all colors and kinds price ranging
from ST. to $500 Bring the boys and come early and
get your choice
Sharp County record., 1905-11-17
Hose for Men, Women and Chifdf en-.

Mems heavy wool Sox well worth LCc Tar. CT your
money back per pair....... ............2 25c
Heavy Socks for men in gray, tan black Zoe
Ladies fleece lined Hose in black only, regular 15c
Misses and Boys heavy ribbed Stockings, worth 15c
pair or your money back Our price. ........ 10c
Boys heavy ribbed Hose, double knee, worth 25c or
your money back. Our price per pair 21c
Sharp County record., 1905-11-17
Cotton Checks, Bed Ticks, Prints

Danvle Checks, full 20 in. goods, the kind that ev-
erybody asks you &c yad for. Our price per yard sc
Riverside Plaids, nothing better made the kind they
all ask &c yard for. Our price per yard &c
A. Z. A Amoskeg Ticks well Wcrh IS - Cur ,e
is still the old price. Per yard ...............15c 15c
Best Standard Prints, reds, blues. p1sys snd black
all at per yard
Sharp County record., 1905-11-17
Grocery Department.

Good Roast Coffee per pound u 1-2c
Arbuckle Coffee per pound nd...................1 15c
Best Green Coffee per pound 15c
Best Granuated Sugar, 10 pounds .S1C0
Best Y. G.. Sugar, Is pounds. ................ S1C0
Best High Patent Flour per barrel. l........... S525
Second Patent Flour per barrel $500
Salt per barrel 81 25
Salt 70 pound sack See
Best Rice per pound DC
Charlotte Soap, Seven Bars for 25c
Seth Soap, Seven Bars for 25c
Good Luck Baking Powder, Three cans 25c
Soda per pound sc
Sharp County record., 1905-11-17
Underwear Department.

This is of our strongest departments. Under
wear for Misses Boys in union separate suits
Union suits 25c and soc suit Separate suits 25c and
soc garment extra heavy fleeced absolutely the best
values in the city or your money back.
Mems heavy knit Undershirts and Drawers 25c per
garment.
Extra heavy fleece lined Shirts md Drawers per gar
ment. 39c
Union and separate suits for Ladies' the kind that is
and the kind they should wear for winter Extra
heavy. 25 and SOC suit
Sharp County record., 1905-11-17


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Sharp County record., 1905-11-17
Blankets and Comforts.

Good weight Skaline Comforts .................98c CSC
Extra large size ........,....,........... S135
Hand made Comforts, good va each 81 IS 81 so
Big bargains in cotton Blankets, 1914 to ia, price
per pair Acc to 81. so.
Soft wool Blankets, white only 1914 to 1874. Price
per pair from. 80 to $3.50
Sharp County record., 1905-11-17

Warm Clad Flannel
Amoskeg 1921
less than per ryad,S1.2c
Sharp County record., 1905-11-17

Sewing Needles, per paper, 2 1-2.
Mennen's Tacum Powder, Two for 25c.
: worth 10c. Sale Price per yard, 1-2c,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05
THE SMALL TOWNS.

The small towns of all the vast prai.
RE region are very much alike, those
towns which have from 400 to 1000 in
habitants. There are the railway station,
the poStotfice, the elevator, the stock
yards, the graded school usually the
pride of the town, the banker who
lives in the best house in town; the To-
cal paper, the brass band and the base
bail team, IL town hall or opera house,
the women's club, half dozen frater-
nal organizations, lot Of retired farm
ers, the people nearly all readers of the
daily papers, the telephone system and
rural mail route usually a creamery
and horse buyer, some fellow a can
didate for a county or state Office, gen.
orally twice as many church organiza-
tons as the town can support properly
and half dozen very poorly paid par
sons; there are the drug stores, usually
twice as many as can exist doing a le-
climate business; the gang of young
toughs who make Rome howl periodic
ally, the hotel sometimes good, but Of
ten So day travesty; the mayor,
some nice old citizen who is apt to feel
his oats, the little fool girls who come
to the depot when the train comes in to
fiirt with the travelling men-communi-
ties which are intensely loyal to their
town, county and state, where the best
there is in American citizenship is
making brave and successful fight
with the ills and evils of white mans
civilization, where none are very poor
and none very rich, where living some
times becomes tame and irksome from
the very monOt0ny of right living;
thousands of such towns all through
the great northwest, and no great
wrong can be accomplished in politics
or government while these towns exist.
w.,sr- s,sya $50 ~ gsS>
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05
sHIpLoAps OF RAW MATERIAL.

Ninety-seven thousand immigrants
arrived in this country during the
month of March. Most of these people
We're very poor, with only just enough
money to dodge the pauper clause of
the immigration laws. They were a
mixed and low grade lot, largely the
hapless victims of effete monarchies,
compulsory military service, heredi-
tary poverty, a system of confiscating
taxation and overpopulation. They
will largely center In the cities, glut-
ting the tenement sections, and instinc-
lively become at first the gatherers and
users of the wastes, the garbage, the
odds and ends; they will drift into the
sweat shops, join the army of peddlers,
only the very few going where their
unskilled labor is wanted-out into the
country. They will seek and stick to
their kind, their church and add to the
already densely populated settlements
Of foreigners, which are becoming so
grave problem in our larger munich
palities.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05
THE HIRED MANS WASHING.

A farmers wife wishes to know just
what is meant by the term washing"
as applied to the contract made with
the hired man. Does it mean starched
collars. cuffs and Boiled shirts as we'll
as work clothes, with darning and
mending included? We do not consider
ourselves an authority on this point,
but if we were in this lady's place we
would pack up all his fine clothing in
a nice bundle and tell him that he
could take it to the city laundry and
would give him needle and some yarn
and tell him to darn his own socks or
else buy new ones when they got too
holey to wear. Hired men with pajamas
and dress linen may be the common
thing as our agriculture develops, but
today few women care to look after
this line of goods in the wardrobe of
the hired man. There is only one ex-
ception, and that is where the hired
man is in every way eligible as a hus-
band for one of the girls, and then 1t
will pay to do his washing just as one
Of the family. Ordinarily a wamus, q
pair of overalls, two pairs of socks and
nightshirt, work shirt and a suit of
underwear would be construed as
liberal definition Of the term wash
ing" ,.-
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05

In some few communities the farm
ers, influenced by broad minded pub
lie spirit, have banded together and in
a cooperative way have undertaken
the Improvement of the highways on
their respective farms Independent of
the work done by the road supervisors
with the regular tax. 1t is needless to
say that In such cases there has been
a marked Improvement in the condi-
ton of the highways. We do not see
how a man owning good farm can
render his community and his country
a more patriotic service than in this
manner. He is further well rewarded
in financial way, as the fine highway
adds good dollars to every acre of land
which he owns.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05

We came across very level headed
and philosophic farmer not long ago.
He lives on farm which is subject to
overflow when the Missouri river gets
on tear. which 1t did last year, de-
stroying his corn crop on the bottom
land. He figured it this way: That
while he lost his corn the overflow had
deposited between three and four inch
es Of rich river silt all over his land,
which was worth far more and would
last longer than any coat Of fertilizer
he could give the land. He said quite
cheerfully that while he was out q
crop last year he would show the boys
a thing or two on corn next year, and
we believe he will. 1t quite often
proves that our seeming calamities are
in reality blessings after all.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05

A good name counts for much. A
certain county in western state
which has established fine reputa-
ton for the barley which it produces
and which is known on the market by
the name Of the county finds that five
times as much barley is sold each year
under this brand as it ever produces.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05

There is a small fortune awaiting the
young man who will go into the north
wheat country, get section of land
and a proper outfit for growing the
crop and stick at it for ten years. 1t
is not very attractive country in
which to live, and the business is work
four months and loaf nine months.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05
H. L. COFFEEN
REAL ESTATE DEALER.

Has bargains in land near DEBORAH,
also in other parts of Winneshiek County.
He can give you as good bargains on
Dakota or Wisconsin lands as any dealer
in the state. Office with c. S. Boice
over Reeds Hardware Store. References
those TO whom he has sold land. Call on
him.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05

While we would be glad to kill every
one of the pesky English sparrows
during the summer, we can't help
wanting to feed the little rascals when
they perch on the window sill during
a bitter cold day In winter.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05

Some corn growers express the fear
that should the yield of corn be increas-
ed as a result of the employment of bet
ter methods of culture the price would
be lowered and the raising of corn be
made Improbable. Well, let us raise
the same number of bushels we do now
on two-thirds of the present acreage
and have lot of good land for the use
Of other crops. There's nothing wrong
about that, we take it,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05
A FARM BLEMIsH.

There is one mighty sorry looking
spot on many good farm all through
the corn belt, and that the feed yard,
the lot used for the feeding and fatten-
ing of lot of steers and hogs. Quite
often it will include part of the tim
Der lot or grove around the farm home
stead, to the utter ruin Of every tree
growing In the lot. 1t becomes poached
up to depth of a foot or more and be-
comes veritable quagmire of filth.
This lot is blemish on the farm, for 1t
represents big waste-waste of fer
tility which the fields need, waste Of
food, waste of valuable timber.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05

The tree when transplanted, no mat
ter whether it be deciduous, evergreen
or fruit tree, should always be set from
three to five inches deeper than it grew
in the nursery or timber from which it
was taken
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05
Chicago, Milwaukee & 81. Paul Railway
Passenger Depot corner Water and Day streets.
Telephone II4-2

Passenger Depot corner Water and Day streets.
Telephone H4-7
.06 204 Depart POS 30
$40 a m as a.ia Decorahls.i5 y. m 20 o. m
1910 a. IN IL: 10 pm Conoverl9:,5 p IN 1901 a. m
1920 a. IA 1890 PM Calmar $50 pm 1910 I'm
20l 203 Arrive 2O5 2O7
$40 am ll:25 a. m Decorah 1926 pm lll:lO p. m
500 m 100 am Conover 800 pm 1880 D. m
Nos. 20l and 206 daily
Nos. 2o5, 205, 204 and 20S daily except Sunday
Train No. 206 makes connection at Cal
mar for Mason City and points west on
the i & d division.
Train No. 204 makes connection at
Conover for st. Paul, Minneapolis, AL.
bert Lea, and points on the & M divi-
sion. AT Calmar wit b trains for Cedr
Rapids, Kansas City. Omaha, St. Louis
La Crosse and Chicago.
Train No. POS connects at Calmar
with night trains for Chicago, Mil
waukee, Madison, Davenport,
Island and Kansas City.
Train No. 210 makes cor nection with
the early morning trains at Calmar for
points in Minnesota, North and South
Dakota, and points west of Calmar in
Iowa and South Dakota. Tickets for
this train must be bought and all bag
gage checked before As p. m.
s. V. Potter, Agent.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05

Three million barrels of apples We're
held over in cold storage the past sea-
son, the largest amount of fruit ever
so held. AS applied to food products
cold storage has effected most re-
markable change.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05

A very common sight these days is
to witness the amOrous scrap between
two male robins out on the lawn, and
they usually fight for keeps. If one
will look closely, there may be found
demure little hen robin sitting on the
fence or in tree near by, and she al
ways flies off with the victor in the
bout and never yet was known to take
up with the one which got whipped,
in which respect she is very like de-
mure females of other species.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05

The big ear of corn is not by any
means the best ear any more than the
biggest man is the best man. Until
within short time the large ear was
accepted as the standard of excellence
in corn regardless of the size Of the
cob or the percentage relation Of grain
to cob. This has now changed, and the
standard is based upon a dozen other
things besides size.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05

Banana culture is being undertaken
in Mexico. On one plantation SAT
punches were produced to the acre,
which brought the grower 81 cents per
bunch in the field, or SLABS per acre.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05

Poor seed is the prime cause of
poor corn crop. If the seed is poor the
stand is poor, and no favorable condi-
tons of weather, cultivation or fertil
ity can offset this trouble.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05
The government has made a marke

The government has made a marked
change in the horses furnished its cav
airy since the war Of the rebellion.
Then cavalry horses seldom weighed
less than 1,15O to 1000 pounds. Now
the broncho has largely taken the place
of the big horse, this range animal
possessing more endurance and activ-
ity. ..,syRsss Ss s:Ss slEs asssss4s~M
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05
TWO KINDS OF POOR SEED CORN.

TWO KINDS OF POOR SEED CORN.
There are two kinds of poor seed
corn-one which is dead and will not
terminate at all; another, corn which
has been SO injured that its germinat-
ing power is weak and which can only
send up a scrub stalk which cannot
produce an ear, this the common bar
rem stalk which may be found in all
our cornfelds. OF the two kinds of
poor seed the last is the worst, for it
takes moisture, sunshine and fertility
which could be probably used by its
more thrifty fellows. Then such bar
rem stalk always manages to throw out
a tassel and so sheds its weak and de-
graded pollen on its better bred neigh
bors. A surprise awaits any corn
grower who will take the trouble to go
through his cOrnfield and take a single
row through the field and find out for
himself just how many missing and
barren stalks there are, even where
there seems to be fair stand. He
will very quickly discover that with
good and even stand he can easily
largely increase his yield of corn.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05

A reader who has small piece of
land attached to his town residence
wants to know what he can SOW on it
that will furnish him the best food for
his chickens both summer and winter,
wanting some crop which he can NOW
off two or three times during the sum-
mer so as to keep the weeds down. We
know of nothing which would give him
better satisfaction than alfalfa. This
would have to be cut three or four
times during the growing season and
makes most admirable food for chick
ems both winter and summer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05

The first hundred pounds of meat
put on hog with grass, clover or al
falfa and Stops is cheaply made meat
and costs far less than the next hun
dred pounds which is made largely
with corn. The right thing to do is to
make the first $50 pounds with these
cheap foods. .,ssrzg Ey5x.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05

A friend claims that If perfect
stand of corn is secured and larger
yield is obtained it will result in more
rapidly exhausting the fertility of the,
soil This point is not well taken, for
wherever the stand of corn is poor
there will be found the big weeds,
which rob the land of fertility to a
much greater extent than does the
corn crop.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05

The very richness Of western soils
has in a way been destructive of all
principles of good farming. Men have
made living too easily, have not been
forced to consider how to treat the
soil so as to insure the retention Of
its fertility, been ever tempted to work
too many acres, always rating their
standing as farmers by the number Of
acres worked rather than by the yield
of crops secured or the quality Of such
crops.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05

Cyclonic conditions often develop
quite early in the spring in the middle
west Two or three days Of so degree
temperature in late March or early
April will often set things going, so
disturbing the normal temperature
that cyclone results. Hot air alone
will never produce cyclone; neither
will cold air alone, but the mixing Of
the two works on the same plan as a
seidlitz powder.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05

The late raid of the British army
into the unknown kingdom Of Tibet re-
veals in the sacred city of Lassa, new
er before invaded by other races,
curious people and curious condition
Skilled labor is paid but cents per
day, while unskilled labor is paid but
2 or 3 cents. The prayer readers are
the best paid, receiving 10 cents per
day for ten hours steady work reading
prayers for other people.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05

Life for the heavy draft horses In our
s.->
cities Is hard one. The enormous
loads and unyielding pavements soon
wear them out, notwithstanding the
good care taken of them. Unless the
auto dray supersedes the horse the de-
mand for the 1000 pound horse will
never grow less.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05

1t certainly looks like most reason
able proposition that If man is going
to pillow field, harrow it, plant it, cul-
at least be dead sure that his seed corn
is good and will every kernel grow, for
1t is not with corn as with the small
grains, which, if the seed be poor, will
still be often thick enough by the stool
ing of such plants as do grow, whereas
with corn If the seed fails there is
no way for nature to make good the
loss. So small an amount of corn is
required to plant an acre that every
effort to select and plant only the very
best is justified.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05

Many an acre of the most productive
land can be redeemed by $40 worth Of
tile drain. When we see man, as we
often do, busy blowing some hillside
badly worn, while at the foot Of the
hill lies an undrained bog, we always
want to stop and have talk with him
and get him to seed his hillside down
and drain his bog and cultivate that
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05

1t is always interesting to note how
the wastes of great city are utilized.
The street sweepings go to the market
gardeners as fertilizer; the dead ami
mails are tried and rendered and hides,
bones, fat, hair and hoofs allotted to
manufacturers, while the precipitate
goes into fertilizer; the paper scraps
are gathered and find their way back
to the paper mills; the broken boxes
form the poor mans kindling wood;
scrap iron and tin cans go to the foun-
dry, old carpets to the rugmaker, and
old clothes go down the grade step by
step till they land In the ragpicker's
basket; the untasted portion of the
S1.25 sirloin steak at the tony restau-
rant is by no means fed to the hogs.
but appears later in savory meat pie
hash or soup where square meal can
be had for ID cents. But little is really
wasted.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05

When we hear people complaining
about their awfully muddy roads we
have no pity to extend to them. The
mud is unpleasant, we know. but mud
in general way stands for money, the
worst roads usually being associated
with our richest and most fertile soil.
Mud also means moisture. There are
good roads always In the desert and
on all the poor, gravelly, impoverished
soils of the east, but when we come 10
the soils which will produce eighty
bushels of corn to the acre mud is in
evitable.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-05

1t is the competitive strife in bust
ness which gives the world its best
things, develops its best and brightest
men. While competition is cruel and
merciless, ever crushing out the weak
and the incompetent, cooperation,
which is its legitimate antidote, if
generally substituted for it would soon
head the human race toward degen-
eracy. Hard and severe though the
process may be, competitive strife is
absolutely Indispensable to the best de-
velopment of an American civilization.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-07-23
PLEASANT SAIL
By MR.. WHITING
Large Party of Visitors to Buckroe
Beach Given an Outing on the
Yacht Miuta.

Mr.. Segar Whiting gave very de.
iightful sailing party on his yacht, the
"Minta," Friday afternoon to his
friends who are visiting at the various
cottages at Buckroe Beach.
His guests on this occasion were:
Miss Bessie Booker, Mrs Casey, Misses
Mary, Josephine and Agnes Harvey,
Washington. guests of Mrs. Harry
Booker; Mrs. Charles j. Faulkner,
Master Whiting Faulkner, Martics-
lniIg, who are spending the summer
at their delightful cottage at Buckroe;
Miss Mary Lee, Hampton; Mr. Cary
Johnson, Richmond. Va; Miss I.illia.l
Young and her guest, Miss Pinide
Morecock, Williamsburg; Mrs. John A.
Wilkins, Miss Taylor, Washington;
Mrs. Hardwick, Misses Iennineham
and Josephine Elicit, Mary, Carrie and
Ida Steger, Mr.. Tazewell Elicit, Rich
mnnd, Va; Miss Lenora Ashmor.
Hampton. Va; Master Faulkner Car.
Ter. st. Jchnburg, VT; Mr.. Robert
Ware, st. Louis. Mo-, guests of Caps
View Cottage.