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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-01-10

With the opening of the Iowa legis-
lature on Monday politics for the year
has been fairly launched. The bien-
nial election adherents are apt to get
all they want between now and
election day, for from present in
dications there is more real politics
in the air than in any two years with
in our observation.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-01-10

A young man from Kansas City
went out into the country recently to
get work. He had seen the advertise.
ment of farmer who wanted man
to work eight hours day. The
youth did not take the job, as he
found an eight hour day on Kansas
farm meant eight hours before noon
and eight hours after.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-01-10
Subscription Price $l.50 q Year
Cmcs..817 West Water Street.
Both Telephsnes Numbsr IS.
Current Comment.

The demand from the people of Iowa
for drastic pure food law is
unanimous There is no splitting of
hairs OH this point.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-01-10
FOURTH DAY.

$3.50 A. NJ, Jan 4. 1906.
Board met as per adjournment. Mem
the Chairman. Minutes OF yesterdays
meeting read and approved.
Moved, seconded and carried that the
tax of 1880 be refunded to T. o. Bak-
ken, same being a clerical error, and
the Treasurer be instructed to correct
his books accordingly.
Moved. seconded and carried that
Road No. 1858, known as the Frana and
Falness road, in Calmar township, be
established on payment of costs and
damages as appraised, to be paid by the
Moved, seconded and carried that
$4.97 on tax sale No. 43 and $4.44 on
tax sale No A be refunded to III. F.
Barthell, the same being double as
sessment.
The settling with the County Treas
urer was taken up and completed.
The Board then proceeded to the office
of the Clerk of Courts and settled with
said officer
On motion adjourned to 80 p. NJ.
1870 p. M.-Board met as per ad-
journment. Members all present and
The selection of newspapers in which
to publish the Board proceedings and
official matter was taken up.
The following papers having filed APP
plications and -Posten,
The Decorah Republican, The Decorah
Public Opinion, The OSsian Bee and The
Ossian Enterprise.
On motion the Decorah-Post The
Decorah Republican, The Decorah Pub
lie Opinion, and The Ossian Bee were
selected as the official papers of the
county for the ensuing year.
Moved, seconded and carried that the
Calmar Mfg. Co. be given the contract
for a filing case for Court Room at a
cost of $4,000.
The applications for doctoring at the
Poor Farm and Jail were opened and
We're as follows: NJ. ID. Jewell. $4,000;
A. f. Barfoot, $4,000; A. j. Swezey,
$156.0O: +. w. Daubney, $156.O0.
Board proceeded to ballot on appli-
cation for County Doctor and NJ. ID.
Jewell received majority M. ID. Jewell
was on motion appointed County Doctor
for the ensuing year.
The bids for Steward at the Poor
Farm were next opened and were as
follows
Geo. Stoskopf. 100000.
julius Haas, $4,000
On motion julius Haas was appointed
as Steward of the Poor Farm for the
ensuing year.
On motion Mrs. julius Haas was ap-
pointed Matron at the Insane Depart
ment of the county without any COM
pensation and Miss Cornelia Arneson
assistant matron at salary or $500
per week.
Iver Hamre was on motion appointed
day man at the County Farm.
on motion the bids for nightwatch
were rejected.
on motion adjourned to $3.50 A. NJ,
January ), 1906.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-01-10
FIFTH DAY.

S.1U ~. NJ, Jan. -, 1910.
Board met as per adjournment. Mem
bers all present and called to order by
the Chairman. Minutes We're read and
approved.
Motion made, seconded and carried
that the Board reconsider the action of
the Board In selecting newspapers in
which to publish the proceedings and
county matter
The following resolution was present.
ell by Mr. Kubish and seconded by Mr..
Wolfenberger: f
Owing to the irregular manner of The
Ossian Enterprise presenting its claim
to be entered into competition as an
official paper of Winneshiek County at
the final day and the hour set aside by
the Board OF Supervisors. and that the
paper--its existence less than one year,
and having many subscribers for 3 and
months on the list so presented, could
not he considered bona fide yearly sub
|scribers,T-- .E r454e ~ t.
THEREFORE,. l move that the De-
corah Posten, The Decorah Republican.
The Decorah Public Opinion and The
Ossian Bee he made the official papers
of the county for the year 1906. ~
ON motion the revocation of the APP
pointment of Deputy Recorder was APP
proved.
The following banks having filed
bonds in accordance with Sec. 1457 of
the 1897 Code of Iowa, duly approved
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-01-10
THIRD DAY.

$50 A NJ, Jan. 3, 1906.
Board met as per adjournment Mem
bers all present and called to order by
the chairman Minutes of yesterdays $
meeting read and approved.
The settling with the County Treas
urer was again taken up but not COM
pleted.
Ii was moved, seconded and carried
that the proposition with A. Bernatz &
Sons, proposing to furnish $50 4S-pound
sacks of their best flour on demand at
the Poor Farm at Freeport. Winneshiek
County. Iowa, at a price Of $2S1.25, be
accepted.
The bond of f. j. Hook, County SUI
perintendent of Schools, was presented.
examined, and on motion accepted.
On motion adjourned to 1870 p. NJ.
1870 +. M.--Board met. Members all
present and called to order The entire
afternoon was taken up in settling with
the Treasurer.
On motion adjourned to $40 A. NJ,
Jan A. 1906
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-01-10
FIRST DAY.

DecOrah, Iowa, Jan. 1, 1906.
Board of Supervisors of Winneshiek
County. Iowa, met according to law
Present - Members Nicholson, Kubish,
Wolfenberger, Hover and Jewell, and
were called to order by the Auditor.
Members Nicholson and Wolfenberger
were duly qualified by taking the oath
of office before the County Auditor.
NJ. j. Nicholson was elected Chairman
for the ensuing year by acclamation.
This being a legal holiday, Board on
motion adjourned to $3.50 a. M, January
?, 1906.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-01-10
SECOND DAY.


Board met as per adjournment. Mem
bers all present and called to order by
Chairman Nicholson. Minutes of yes
terdays meeting were read and approx
ed
The entire forenoon was spent by the
Board in making their semi-annual set
tlement with the County Treasurer
Pending same Board adjourned to / 80
=. M.
1:30 p. M.--Board met as per ad-
Journment. Members all present and
called to order by the Chairman.
The following official bonds were pre-
sented, examined and approved:
II. X. Haines, County Treasurer.
G. Jergenson, Deputy County Treas
urer.
Geo. Mizener Sheriff.
j. G. Mashek, Assessor of Spillville
Corp.
f.. J.. -Gillett, Deputy Assessor of De-
corah Corp.
The Auditor was instructed to notify
the different newspapers in the county
that the selection of papers in which to
print the proceedings of the Board of
Supervisors for the ensuing year will
be taken up at 80 p. NJ, January 4th,
1906, and that applications and lists
must be on file at that time.
The settling with the County Treas
urer was again taken up and the entire
afternoon was taken up with this mat
ter.
On motion adjourned to $40 A NJ,
Jan. 3, 1906.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-01-10
County Board Of Supervisors.
Official Publication of the Proceedings of the Board Of
Supervisors in their Regular January Term.

by the Treasurer and the Board of SUI
pervisors of Winneshiek County, the
following resolution was presented and
on motion unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That e. r. Haines. County
Treasurer, be and is hereby authorised
to deposit the public funds entrusted
to his care and keeping as such Treas
urer-
In the Winneshiek County State Bank
of Decorah to the amount of $25,000.00:
In the Winneshiek County Bank OF
Fort Atkinson to the amount of $4,000;
In the Winneshiek County Bank of
Ridgeway to the amount of $4,000;
COURT HOUSE BOND FUND.
In the Winneshiek County Bank Of
Calmar to the amount of $4,000;
In the Citizens Savings Bank of De-
corah to the amount of $25.000.00:
In the Ossion Bank of Ossian to the
amount of $10,000.00;
In the Castalia Bank of Castalia to
the amount of $5,000.00;
In the Citizens Bank of Ossian to the
amount of $25,O0OO0;
In the National Bank of Decorah to
the amount of $25,000.00;
BILE the amounts authorized to he de-
posted therein according to law.
The reports of f. r. Haines. County
Treasurer, s. +. Brickner, Clerk of the
District Court, Geo. Mizener, Sheriff. H.
s. Stinson, Recorder, F. j. Hook. Super
intendent of Schools, /. Linnevold, Au-
ditor, We're on motion approved, the
same being found correct and all mon
eys properly accounted for.
THE COUNTY TnEAsU1ER's SEMI
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-01-10

The Howard County Farmers In.
stitute is in session at Cresco this
week.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-01-10
THE COUNTY TREAsU1EH's SEMI
ANNUAL REPORT.

From June LIST, 1905, to jan 1st. 1906.
Decor,lh, Iowa, Jan. /, 1906.
To the Honorable Board of Supervfs-
ors of Winneshiek County. Iowa:
Gentlemen:-In accordance with Sec
tion 145S of the Code, hereby respect
fully submit the following itemized re-
port of the receipts and disbursements,
also schedule of the balances in the
various funds, as shown by the books of
the office.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-06

The Tarboro Southerner notes that
the editor on a ten-mile drive into
the country saw many farmers haul
ing dirt, cotton seed, other preparato-
ry fertilizing ingredients to compost or
spread on the land and blowing when.
ever conditions would permit. These
are sensible farmers. They are no.
wasting all the home produced fertili-
GERS and spending their h~ard-earned
money for the higher priced but no
more valuable article. Our farmers
lose more money every year by not
paying proper attention to the barn
yard manur and home made COMPOST
heaps than in any other way. They
can get formulas from the state agri-
cultural department which will enable
them by the expenditure of a few dol
lars for chemicals, to make as good
fertilizer at very little cost as the
best they can buy of the prepared az
ticle from the factories. Those FAR
mers who pursue the former course
are ,he men who are making the most
money out of their farms and they
are keeping their land in better condl-
ton. too.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-06
is IT WORTH THE PRICE?

Read the following n think it over
carefully. Is the life you are living
and the success CD you are making of
that business life worth the price you
will pay for it in the end? The follow
ing letter is printed in the New York
Sun from a correspondent:
ITO the Editor of The Sun-Sir:
Many years ago I came here from a
country town, poor as any boy could
well be; found employment in a large
nee bettered my position year af-
ter year; became a partner, then the
head of the concern. Made ny fortune,
q large one: nov retired.
when I die I shall leave my chill
dren each a fortune, but when I
think it over day after day ]. car only
be ashamed of it all. I suppose I was
no worse than the others: I know some
were worse THAI I. I could always
say, It's good business but I forgot
that there was such a thing as a square
deal. If I could get the better of an
associate or a customer Or an employee,
I did! Anything that I could do to at
tain my own success was good business.
and I did it.
81 have given to charity, headed
subscrip tons, but it doesn't satisfy
me. 1 know what I have lone wasn't
manly. Last night I sat with other
so-called successful men. I studied
them. When they can't help thinking.
they think just as I do.
3The modern success is rank fail
ure. It has made this country rich:
it las made it great: it has made It's
people selfish and ~unprincipled. I
would give all I possess tonight if I
could say: I have given every cue a
square deal. I have done 10 maj q
wrong
think it over it will mean a lot
to you some day.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-06
OPPOSED TO MUNICIPAL OWNER
SHIP.

Mr.. Frank G. Hoyne is president Of
the board Of aldermen Of Chicago. A
few evenings ago he attended a ban
quet given by members of a real estate
organization of that city. In a speech
ne declared that he was opposed to
municipal ownership of utilities for
the same S mat he opposed gov
eminent ownership of railroads, tele-
graph companies and other corpora
lions, giving his reasons as follows:
"FJfst, because I believe the least
government the best government.
Second. because | believe that per-
sonal effort and individual ambition
have made his city and country what
they are"
This declaration was Kissed most
vigorously by his audience.
The Washington Post comments as
follows on Mr.. Hoyzle's declaration
against municipal ownership:
1t should not be necessary, after sub
hitting that extract from Mr.. Hoyne's
speech, % say that he is what used TO
oC ~ q III At, d SNAt~S A
to the fundamental tenetS of the Jeffer-
sonian creed. But it unfortunately hap
pens hat he and those who share his
views r not good democrats today.
For in these days the democratic ban
ner waves over an eager host of GEN.
traliZationists. Propositions that tend
directly to the extinction Of the reserv-
ed rights and owe of the states find
their most ardent promoters in the
party that wears the democratic name.
The most cheerful and HOPEFUL travel
ers on the road that must, # followed,
lead straight on to the to
the abolition OF the individual and of
competition. are shouting democratic
anthems and proclaiming their fidelity
to Jefferson n Jackson.
Whether one agrees with Mr.. Moyne
Or not this declared opposition to mu-
ownership sounds strange
when coming from a man whose party
won the last city election chiefly on
it's advocacy Of the ownership by that
city of the utilities within it's corpo-
rate limits. We would TX to know if
Mr.. Hoyne publicly opposed this prin-
ciple during the last municipal cam
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-06
THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL
Few People Know How Useful IL Is In
Preserving Health and Beauty.

Nearly everybody knows that char
coal is the Safest and most efficient
disinfectant and Iurifier in nature, but
few realize its value when taken into
the human system for the same cleans
ing purpose
Charcoal is a remedy that the more
you take of it the better: il is D a
drug at all, NUT simply absorbs the
gases and impurities always present
In the stomach and intestines and
carries them out Of the system.
Charcoal sweetens the breath after
smoking, drinking or after eating
onions and other odorous vegetables.
Charcoal effectually clears and i'm
proves the complexion, il whitens the
teeth and further acts is a natural
and eminently safe cathartic.
1t absorbs the injurious gases which
collect in the stomach and bowels: it
disinfects the mouth and throat from
the poison of catarr.l.
All druggists sell charcoal in one
form or another. but probably the best
charcoal and the most for the money
is in SIuart'S Charcoal L.oZC- ages: they
are composed of The finest powdered
Willow charcoal. and other harmless
a~ntiseptics in tablet form or rather in
the form of large, pleasant tasting
lOzenges, the charcoal being mixed
with honey.
The daily use of these lozenges will
soon tell in Il much improved condi-
ton of the general health, better COM
pleXion, SWeeter breath and purer
blood. and the beauty of it is. that no
possible harm cal result from their
continued use, but on the contrary,
great benefit.
\ Buffalo physician in speaking of
the benefits of charcoal says: Il ad-
wise Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges to all
patients suffering from gas in stomach
and bowels, and to clear the complex
ion and purify the breath, mouth and
throat; | also believe the liver is ben
Gifted by the daily use of them; they
Gusts but twenty-five cents q box at
drug stores, and although in some
sense a patent preparation, yet l be-
lieve | get more and better charcoal in
Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges than in
any of the ordinary charcoal tablets"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-06
NEED OF GOOD ROAD TO OUR
FEDERAL CEMETERY.

The Charlotte Observers Washing
ten correspondent writes that paper
that Senator Overman has secured a
unanimous report from the committee
on military affairs in favor of the
bill appropriating fifteen thousand DOL
lars for the construction of a roadway
from Salisbury to the federal ceme-
terry near that city. Why is it con-
gress cannot be induced to pass a sim
liar bill for Wilmington. A good
roadway from the city limits to the
federal cemetery here is greatly need
ed. The distance is less than half a mile.
For years unsuccessful efforts have
been made to induce the federal gov
eminent to do this work. The county
has improved this road to some extent,
but it is no in the condition that it
should be. Besides building this road
the government should do something
with the swamp which lies just be
yond the cemetery. 1t is now a damp,
marshy place with much stagnant
water in it. For the sake of the
healCh Of the keepers of the cemetery
and their families the government
should take some steps to remedy the
existing conditions-either to drain the
marsh or to make a lake out Of it.
With the expenditure of a few thou
sand dollars in the latter work it
could be made a beautiful place. AS
it is this place is a disgrace to the
government. 1t should not allow such
conditions to exist almost at the door
of the federal veteran whom it puts
in charge of the graves of it's dead,
O should it allow the roadway from
the city to the cemetery to remain an
almost impossible sand hill except for
the work the county commissioners do
on it to put it in moderately good
condition. The county commissioners
have done some work on this road,
but it has not, and properly SO, been of
the substantial character they have
done on other roads of the county or
of the kind that the government
should do in building and maintain
ing a road from the most populous
city in the state to the ceme-
terry where lie so many who lost
their lives in it's defense. We hope
our senators and representatives can
induce congress to take favorable &C
ton in this matter.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-06

Bears the The Kind You Have AFHaYs BOUGHT
S'ss "a NMz%

It soun6s a little strange that a
dfgnified and austere congressman
should choose to give his fiance a
poodle dog as a present, and that a
presidents daughter should be in
cDned to idolize one. But there's little
difference in the makeup of folks after
all.-Charlotte News.
Or pay a glowing tribute to her in
a speech before an audience of which
she formed a part. We can forgive HIM
for the poodle dog affair but this other
conduct was extremely out OF taste, to
say the least Of II.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-06

has been demonstrated t a degree
which does not warrant contradiction
by those who keep in touch with the
newsgathers of the leading newspa-
pers of all sections of the country.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-06

1t strikes us that we have the right
to think that Governor Glenn took The
Messengers view of his duty in regard
to more diligent efforts to have the
Watts and the ward laws enforced.
In view of his recent letter to the
sheriffs of the state, following this
papers suggestions on the subject, we
do not think the friends of the COVER
o can charge us with-urging him to
the performance of a duty which does
not pertain to his Office. No doubt
Governor Glenn himself will say that
The Messenger was acting within its
province as a public Journal when it
called upon him to see that the sheriffs
and other executive officers did their
duty in this matter. We know he did
not take our remarks as a captious
criticism of his administration.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-06

Plans are on foot for a joint
Wheeler memorial meeting to be held
in Atlanta on February 25th, at which
both ex-corfeuerate and federal armv
officers are expected 70 be present.
We do not take much stock in these
joint meetings. If the confederates
want to held q meeting to do honor to
the emo OK tkeir old comrade let
them do so in their own way and by
themselves, and if his brother officers
of the federal army, who served with
him in Cuba and the Philippines wish
to do the same let them hold their
meeting. We believe in burying the
past. and in the sentiment that this
is again a united country, but there
are some memories connected with
the south's sufferings and sorrows in
the wal between the states which are
too sacred to be shared in by any
but those of the south, and this fad of
mingling the blue and the gray is no
proper way to go about a real and
a solid cementing of the two Sec
tons. The men of the present day
can bring about this desired union in
fact without using the sacred memory
of those who suffered and who died
for the cause as a foundation IN
which to build the new republic. Let's
be a reunited country, but let each
side go it's own way in paying tribute
to it's heroes who gave their lives for
the cause they thought right.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1906-09-06
GAINED 81 POUNDS
Persistent Ansemia Cured by Or.
williams Pink Pills After Other
Remedies Had Failed.

when / began taking DIR. Williams
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Ihad spells OF vomiting. could not eat.
In fact, did not dare Ia, / had such dis.
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The bnckache l suffered was at times
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For rheumatism, indigestion. nervous
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