Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-02-13
THE FARMERS INSTITUTE.
Annual Meeting at Calmar Last Week
Proved Very Interesting, the At.
tendance Being Good.


published the programme last week,
has come and gone. On account, we
presume, of the very severe weather,
the attendance was not so large as
could be wished for, but altogether it
was of profit TO those who took part,
as in the discussions of the various
topics many good thoughts were ex-
changed.
The opening session was begun
rather late on account of the late ar.
rivals. The meeting was called to
order by the president, j. Fl. Nc
Millen, with the secretary, w. A.
Van Vliet to take down minutes of
the meeting. John B. Kaye gave an
appropriate address of welcome, after
which some topics on the programe
were taken up and discussed. Among
those who gave their views were j. j.
Valenta, A. o. Flaskerud, X. II. Boo,
Andrew Knutsen, II. Weselmann and
others.
The first on the evening program
was the exercises by the school chill.
dren, which were very good, and
were intersporsed by some fine vocal
selections by the Laerken singing
society. The speaker of the evening.
Hon + f. Faville. of Des Moines,
failing to make his appearance, John
b. Kaye took his place and gave some
"reminiscences of life in early days
when he was a boy on the farm.
Wednesday morning the people were
late in congregating and the meeting
was not called to order until about ten
O'Clock, but from that time until
noon an interesting session was held.
g. A. Meyer, John Bruening, n. A..
Klein, A. o. Flaskerud, Alonzo Har.
vey and others took part in the talks
and discussions As Alonzo Harvey
is quite an expert authority on corn,
his talk on corn was interesting and
instructive.
The Wednesday afternoon session.
Ladies session-was quite interesting.
Mrs Heflin was elected to preside.
The session was opened up with prayer
by Mrs. Kaye. followed by all joining
in singing America, with Emma
Nockels at the piano.
The principal subject before the
meeting was Hometown can it be
made more attractive" Mrs. j. b.
Kaye opened the subject with some
very good remarks, and was followed
by Mrs S. II. wager with very
good paper The others who were
down on the program for this subject
were not present, but on call fol-
general discussion Mrs. W. V. Wager
briefly gave some good ideas.
Mrs Squire from Spencer. Iowa, haC
very good paper on poultry raising
and also another on the farm home
in general.
The baby show caused much interes
and amusement; ten babies were en-
tered in the contest. 1t was gooC
thing the little innocents did no
realize the situation. We believe IL
this case lottery would be excusable
for each mother naturally thinks he
offspring the incest and ii is wicked
to undeceive them. The girl lab,
getting first prize was Mrs. Jess
Kicks; second prize girl baby Mrs
Emma Cassuhn's; first prize DO.
baby, Mrs j. j. Mashek's; secon'
prize boy baby Mrs. Otto Peterson S
In II. j. Giesen's bread contes
Mrs. o. H. Olson received the Is
prize and Mrs Frank Poshust
second Mr. Giesen gave each lad
having bread on exhibition consola
zion prize of sack of -four.
In Mr.. Ode's corn contest Edwar
Luzum, son of Joseph Luzum, wa
awarded first prize and John Shindla
got second prize.
The Il. J. Becker Company res
estate firm, had very fine display i
the hall of South Dakota grains an
grasses. Courier.
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