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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1908-07-22
Railway Merger at Iowa Falls.

By the action of the stockholders of
the Des Moines. Iowa Falls & North
ern, that road rassed out of existence
last week. a majority of the stock
holders in the Short Line voting to
sell its property to the ST. Paul & Des
Moines railroad company. While the
officials of both roads disclaim the
statement that another merger will
take place in short time. it is gen.
orally believed by the public that this
consolidation is but the forerunner of
the absorption by the Milwaukee
system of the st. Paul & Des Moines
road as short line between the Twin
Cities and Des Moines and eventually
Kansas City.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1908-07-22
Chicken Question Settled.

Editor Bailey of the Britt Tribune
got rid of his neighbours chickens.
which infested his garden. in the fol-
lowing manner: He Lad some small
cards printed in his own Office with
this legend on it: Keep your d.
chickens at home. Signed. Bailey
To these cards he tied thread. and
to the thread he fastened grain of
corn. A dozen or two of these notices
were distributed over the garden and
backyard and when the chickens made
their daily visit the corn was imme.
diately swallowed. The cardboard
dangling around in front of the chick
ems frightened them and they ran
home. where the owner noticed their
condition. captured them and read the
notice. 1t is said that Bailey now
has garden stuff almost large enough
to eat, and the chickens bother no
more "-Ex
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1908-07-22
JUDGE HoBsoN PROPOSED.
Fayette County and Thirteenth Judicial
District Back Him for Supreme
Judgeship.

Hon A. n Hobson of West Union,
one of the judges of the Thirteenth
judicial district, has permitted his
friends to present his name to Cover.
nor Cummins as candidate for APP
pointment to the supreme court of the
state, to take the place of Hon.
Charles A. Bishop. whose sudden
death occurred last week.
The movement naturally proceeds
from his friends of the bar of the
district, who without dividing line of
party or faction desire his elevation
to the supreme bench. Their know
ledge of his fitness has been secured
by the intimacy of practice with him
and in his court for period which
for the older members of the bar
reaches to thirty years. The position
of the bar is backed up by the
unanimous sentiment of Fayette
county, regardless of lines of
division, where the candidate has
been a resident for more than half a
century. To stand with practically
solid support from the people who
have known him intimately for so
long is perhaps greater honor than
any preferment could be. but the
friends of Judge Hobson desire his
appointment on the grounds of
eminent fitness and capability of SER
vice.
Judge Hobson has been on the bench
for almost fourteen years. Since his
first nomination he has never had a
whisper of opposition for the nomina-
tion, and nothing more than formal
opposition at the polls.
The conduct of his court room in
the counties of the district has been
such as to commend him not only to
the bar but also to all who have had
business before him. Learned, digni-
fed. OF judicial temper. his know
ledge fortified in character, he is in
all ways fitted for judgeship. His
high excellence as lawyer and Judge
does not rest on general assertion but
upon the records which show the high
per cent CT his appeal cases in which
his Judgment has been approved 5y
the higher court. At home Judge
Hobson is known to be a clean man.
irreproachable in private character.
with sympathies that are warm and
kind, and always inclining toward
the uplifting forces of the community.
West Union Argo
Although there will be no appoint
ment to fill vacancy and the nomina-
ton is to be made by state conyen.
tiOn called in the same manner as pre-.
vious TO the primary law enactment,
yet the friends of Judge Hobson in
the county. who number all who
have met him. hope that he will per.
NIT his name to come before the con-
vention. 1t will be a pleasure to sup
port such an able conscientious, high
minded citizen for this position.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1908-07-22
$4,000 Gift TO Leuox.

DR.. Reed has announced gift of
$40, 900 from @. D. Torrev of Man
chester. Ia, to the endowment of
Lenox college at Hopkinton. IL con-
sists of the residence in which Presi-
dent Reed lives, together with %
acres of land. lying just back of the
residence. The house is large two
story building with eleven rooms and
hall. and is equipped with all modern
conveniences. This carries the pres
ent efforts for endowment to about
t$75, 900.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1908-07-22
Iowa Drownines Of Past Week.

st. Ansgar-Harley Mather and Jor-
don Lang. aged 10, while swimming
Dubuque-Mary Hall. aged H.
while playing on log.
Des Moines-Frank Wallace, aged
10, while fishing.
Marshalltown--H. j. Taylor. aged
48, while wading with children.
Perry-William Kirgis. aged 81.
while swimming.
Manchester-Arthur Dubois. aged
6, mysteriously drowned swimming
with companions
Boone-Edward Collins. aged 20,
while swimming.
Cresco-Roger Woelstein, aged IA,
while swimming.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1908-07-22
Some Warm " Gather Salads.

Zone of the prettiest of the lunch
con or supper salads is made by cut
ting the top from a green pepper, re-
moving the seeds with knife or a
s'ick-they burn the skin il touched
with the tingers-and filling the
basket thus made with chicken or
lobster salad says Christine Ter
hume Herrick inSthe August Woman 8
Home Companion. Each pepper
NAV be placed on a lettuce leaf and
crowned with a spoonful of mayor
naise. Another salad Is prepared by
following a tomato and filling it with
dice of cucumber, or peeling a GU
-cumber. cutting it in half lengthwise,
sscooping out the inside, and replacing
this with dice of tomatoes. Serve
either tomato or cucumber on let
tuce leaf, and garnish with cucumber
ribbons. These are made by shaving
the peel from the outside Of Gu
cumber and ten slicing this. Take
slice-it should be rather thick-and
with a sharp knife cut this in a
spiral, as you would pare an apple.
The shaving must be very thin. as it
is not long before the seedy center is
reached, and only the flesh of the GU
cumber will serve for the ri!b hons.
Cucumber boats filled with shrimps
are satisfactory dish for cold sup
per. Mayonnaise is served with this.
or good boiled dressing. The cucum-
beers halved and filled with other
sliced or diced cucumber. served on
lettuce, garnished with cucumber
ribbons and with strips of the scarlet
sweet pepper cut very thin. make a
good dish.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1908-07-22

AT the first examination an ap.
plicant must write in all the above
named ten subjects for a second or
third grade certificate, but at a
second examination taken within one
year from the first the applicant will
be required to write only in such sub.
Jects as are necessary to enable him to
meet the requirements for the grade
OF certificate he seeks. If an applicant
appears i'll third regular examina.
ton within year he must write all
subjects required in his first examina-
tion.
Mote: These Regulations are
made by the State Educational Board
of Examiners and the county superin.
tendent may not modify them in any
respect.
Program of the Examination.
Wednesday, July 29th.
500 to s 80, Preliminary Arrange
ments, filing out application blanks.
80 to :l5. Didactics.
1915 to IL 10, photography.
10 to 1900. Reading.
/ 10 to 3 100. Geography.
3 100 TO 100. Arithmetic.
5 90, Oral Reading.
Thursday. July 3Oth.
500 to $40, Preliminary.
$40 to.l0:lO, y. s. History.
1910 to 10 90. Physiology.
4 kn ~
Music.
2 100 to 4 :0o, Grammar.
4 40 to 5 90, Writing.
Friday, July 3lst.
8 100 to 10. Preliminary.
$40 to 0:l5, Algebra.
l0:l0 to 10 90, Economics.
200 to 2 :45, Oivics.
:45 to 100, Physics.
Those teachers who are entitled to
full renewals of certificates now held
should be present on Friday and write
the thesis required. Any applicant
who may desire to write for State
Certificate should be present, also, at
the examinations.
Fees: An examination fee of 81 is
required OF all applicants for anv
grade OF county certificate. This fee
is deposited with the treasurer and
creates the institute fund.
A pamphlet containing the full
Rules and Regulations Governing
the Issuing of Uniform County Ger
tificates' will be furnished any pro-
spective applicant. upon request
mailed to the county superintendent.
Ellis j. Hook,
County Superintendent.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1908-07-22

The establishment of free public
library in Waukon has been made DOS
sible through the generosity of Hon.
Q. L. Granger, former judge of the
supreme court of the state, who re.
sides there. At a meeting of the
council he proposed to donate the sum
OF S3, TO constitute fund for the
purchase of books provided the city
would furnish and equip the second
story of the city hall for library pur.
poses. A special election as required
by law has been called by the council
for Aug. II, 1908. at which time the
question of the establishment of the
library will be submitted to the cleo.
tors.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1908-07-22

All kinds of co1ors in oil chemi-
cally pure at H. A. Prastmark & Son.
left.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1908-07-22
The Scapefoat.

Umpire in the games beginning,
Seven strikes were pitched that inning:
Balls" shou called them; thine the SHINING
On thy head the guilt.
Umpire, how couldst thou beckoned
Ballyhooley in from second?
Safe he was and Ill thou reckoned;
On thy head the guilt.
[ mpire. Flimfiam fumbl d badly;
Muffengrabbit played but sadly,
But we witnesses cried madly,
son thy head the guilt"
Umpire, though our pitcher tossed them,
Though our catcher lodged and lost them
Thy sins were the ones which cost them;
On thy head the guilt.
Umpire, though our hits were scattered.
Though our f1eld-defense was shattered
Little had these details mattered;
On thy head the guilt
Umpire, each cause hath its martyr
Who can never hope to barter
Merely good intent for quarter;
On thy head the guilt.
Umpire. though we fay and fiout thee,
Though for ever we will doubt thee
What would baseball be without thee?
On thy head the guilt.
-Edlnund Vance Cooke.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1908-07-22
Bad Burn Quickly Healed.

II am so delighted with what
Chamberlain's Salve has done for me
that feel bound to write and tell
you so. says Mrs. Robert Mytton,
457 John St.. Hamilton, Ontario.
my little daughter had bad burk
on her knee. applied Chamberlain g
Salve and it healed beautifully. I"
This salve allays the pain of a burn
almost instantly. IT is for sale by
Engbertson' Pharmacy. I'm
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1908-07-22
Free 200 Page Book About Minnesota.

Compiled by the state. describing
industries. crops, live stock. property
values. schools, churches and towns Of
each county, and Minnesota's spleu-
did opportunities for any man. Sent
free by State Board Of immigration.
Dept. r 35, State Capitol. st. Paul.
MINI. 29-2pd ,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1908-07-22
TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS FOR JULY. 'os
Supt. E. J. Hook Announces Examinations
and Rules which Govern Them.

To Teachers and Those Desiring TO
Teach During the Years 10000:
The next regular Teachers Exam
ination will be held in DEBORAH on
July 29th, Both and 3lst AS this is
the last regular examination until
after the opening of the fall terms of
school, it is of special Importance to
teachers to take notice of these dates.
The regular examinations begin
promptly at eight o'clock OH Wednes
day morning. July 29th. There is at
present prospect of a scarcity of
teachers unless some from other coun-
ties come in to supply the demand
All prospective applicants will please
read carefully the conditions OF ad
mission stated below:
Qualification Of Applicants:
Before admitting anyone to the
examination the county superintend-
emit must b satisfied that the person
seeking a certificate is of good moral
character, of which fact he may
require proof, and is in all respects
other than scholarship possessed of the
necessary qualifications as an in
structor."
Minimum Age for Admission to Regular
Examination:
If writing in the June or July
examination the eighteenth birthday
must be reached by the first of the
next November. -
Requirements for Securing Certificates:
Applicants must pass an examina-
ton in the following subjects with
no grade below the Per cents indicated
for each grade of certificate:
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1908-07-22
Take Notice.

We have purchased another large
car of Golden Link Flour which Will
be here next week In order to make
room for this Car we will discount
our stock Of -four that we have on
hand. Gall at the store. B. Barnett
q Sons. 28tf
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1908-07-22
A New Theory of Zones.

Bobby" said the teacher, chow
many zones are there?'
Two" answered Bobby. with a
little questioning note in his voice
Then. seeing the puzzled look that
came into the teachers face, he
ratified on without stop: lone male
and one female; the male can be tenn
perate or Incorporate. the female
frigid or torrid-" and he stopped for
breath. -Everybody's Magazine.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1908-07-22

State Food Commissioner Wright, of
Des Moines, has sounded the death
knell for bad eggs in Iowa. according
to exchanges. He classes them as ad-
liberated food. Placards have been
ordered posted at cross roads warning
farmers and egg buyers Of the penal
ties prescribed for the sale OF adulter-
ated articles. The liability extends
from the farmer through commission
men and to the retailer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1908-07-22

Henry Reeves, the old reliable
hog buyer, pays the highest market
price at all times. and handles more
hogs than all the buyers of northeast
ern Iowa combined. See him at the
Winneshiek County Bank or O.. M.
& st. r. stock yards. 23tf
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-07-11
MIR I'M EZOK,E NOUV6

of having attached to its staff young
woman who has the requisite knowl-
edge and skill to cover baseball and
football games, horse races and ath-
ietic sports of various kinds.
The young woman-she is only "a
years old-who holds down the sport
ing editors desk on the Chronicle
News so well that the applications of
male candidates for the job are never
considered, is Miss Ina Eloise Young.
When she was asked to tell how it
happened she said:
81 have been doing newspaper work
for three years-general reporting, and
covering everything from a fire to a
suicide.
ut was by accident that 1 became
sporting editor of my paper two years
ago. At the opening of the baseball
season, which, in the west, is the only
real sporting season of the year, there
was not a man on the paper who could
even keep a box score or knew prac-
tically anything of the game. l do
know baseball, for learned it about
The time when boys of my age learn
10 play ball. My brother taught me
he game because he always needed
somebody to fill base or some posi-
ion, and 1 could do it.
when 1 grew up he taught me how
% keep score and 1 evolved a method
If my own of following the players
rom home plate around to that sta
ion again-if they could do it.
7 began covering games to fill in
Until a man could be secured for the
position, and have been doing it ever
since, the managing editor consider
ng my work sufficiently good to
guarantee keeping me.
'tSince then I've done football games,
rs 1 learned to understand that game
while I was a high school student and
subsequently during my college work
at the University of Colorado. / be-
ieve I've covered all sorts of sporting
events with the exception of prize
lights, which I have never been re-
luired to do.
Understanding baseball and liking
it best, 1 naturally do my best work
with those games. / love to do horse
races, however, but as there have been
no races here for more than a year,
have grown a trif1e rusty in that
kind of work.
81 ride horseback, but all western
girls do that. In covering events that
happen in the mining camps around
here horse is the quickest method of
transportation
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-07-11
She Knew the place.

The elderly matron with the bun
dies, who was journeying to point in
Wisconsin, and occupied seat near
the middle of the car, had fallen
asleep. On the seat in front of her sat
a little boy. The brakeman opened
the door of the car and called out the
name of the station the train was ap-
preaching. The elderly woman reused
herself with jerk.
Where are we now. Bobby?" she
asked.
4 don't know. grandma" answered
the little boy.
Didn't the brakeman say something
Just now?'
NO He just stuck his head inside
the door and sneezed.''
Help me with these things, Bob
by!" she exclaimed. hurriedly. This
is Oshkosh. It's where we get off,
Youths Companion.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-07-11

ed vagrant is sent to maison de ROT
uge, which, besides acting as kind
of almshouse for the aged and handi-
capped, serves somewhat as do the
voluntary colonies Of Germany for
those wanderers VINO lat the time OF
their coming within the law are unfit
through Ignorance, illness or inefhcien-
cy to make their living.
Thirdly, Belgium does not expect
that any large proportion of its vag-
rant population will be reformed.
Most of the vagrants at Merxplas are
recidivists, repeaters, who have
reached their present position through
drink.
Fourthly, Belgium believes that va
grancy, being a social disease deve1-
oped through months and years, can
not be cured by 80 days of idleness in
a demoralizing jail. The average term
of detention is 16 months, long enough
to effect a considerable cure, If cure
is possible.
In Germany and in Switzerland the
treatment of the habitual vagrant is
similar to that prevailing in Belgium.
There are "a compulsory labor colo
MES in Germany, the average length
of sentence being one year. Numerous
industries are carried on and the cost
is comparatively small. These work
houses have diminished vagrancy,
while the "a voluntary labor colonies,
accommodating nearly. 1000 persons,
show no evidence of any substantial
improvement resulting from the time
spent in the colonies. In Switzerland
there are several compulsory colonies,
the sentences being from six months
to two years.
THE Swiss colony of Witzwyl. which
i Mr.. Edmond Kelly has recently de-
scribed in detail in his book on THE
Elimination of the Tramp shows that
in a certain proportion of cases the
inmates committed to a compulsory
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-07-11

labor colony do not reform and rejoin
the ranks of the industrial army. A
trained English investigator stated
recently, regarding Witzwyl, that
there is no doubt that the fact of hav-
ing worked hard for a year or Is
months makes a man apt to get into
the habit of working, and this is be-
lieved to be the actual result in
Switzerland
What, then, shall we say regarding
the treatment of vagrancy in the Uni
ted States? First, that at present it
is thoroughly inadequate As statis-
tics and the accompanying diagrams
show, 81 per cent. of the commitments
to penal institutions are to county
jafls and warehouses in which the
conditions are often exceptionally
bad. Drunkenness, vagrancy and dis
orderly conduct were responsible for
more. than half the commitments dur
ing 1904 to penal institutions in the
United States. For these three Of
lenses the county jails and work
houses, to which the large majority of
offenders are committed, offer prac-
ticai1y no reformative Influences. For
more serious crimes, such as burglary,
robbery, assault, forgery, ETC., there
are reformatories and state prisons, in
which latter institutions some reform
atory influence is felt.
THE sentences for yagrancy are in
/ over 80 per cent of the cases for
six months or less and the largest
percentage of commitments is shown
to be for less than one month. No
cure for vagrancy can be had under
such conditions. New York state
leads all other states of our country
in the number of its commitments for
vagrancy. The burden of vagrancy in
the United States was represented in
1904 by over rs, 900 commitments, be-
ing about 20 per cent of all commit
ments to penal institutions during
that year.
This brief resume of the present
conditions inevitably points to the
necessity of a material change in our
system of combating vagrancy. In
this connection it is of special inter
est that within recent months a bill
has been drafted in New York state
providing for the establishment of a
farm colony upon lines very similar
to that of the Swiss compulsory colo
ny. WitzwyI This bill, which has the
approval of the leading charitable so
cieties of New York city and of sew
eraI trunk lines terminating in New
York, and which will be introduced
into the next legislature, provides for
the establishment in New York state
of a compulsory labor colony, with in
determinate sentence, regular labor,
ref0rmatcry influences and classifica-
ton of prisoners
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-07-11
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