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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-25

j. ]. Haug was over from Spill
vile yesterday.
Alex. Bear is out from Chicago
for the Home Coming.
Rev. Paul Koren arrived home
Sunday from his trip to the Pacific
coast.
Mrs. F. E. Bloomfield arrived
home Sunday night from her Min
neapolis visit.
Miss Nellie Mckinney of ~Du-
ibuque is visiting at the home of her
brother, c. E. Mckinney.
Ralph Simmons of Viola, Wis.
visited Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Bloom,
field the past few days.
&C. e. Olson is expected from
New York City tomorrow, for visit
with relatives and Home Corners,
VIII Tobiason, Mrs. F. Jurgens
and Mrs. l. Gjermo arrived home
Sunday night from their Seattle trip.
Hon. G. N. Haugen and daugh-
ter of Northwood are guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Oscar Bauder during Home
Coming week
Robert B. Irwin went to Mil
maukee Thursday night, after spend
ing some weeks with his grand
mother, Mrs. Virgins.
Mrc ID uorxoan orr;,,oa 49,.
Friday evening from the Cresco hos
pital, having recovered rapidly
from her recent operation.
Supervisors Jewell, Jones and
Meyer were in attendance at the
meeting of supervisors and other
county officers at Sioux City last
week.
A large company of friends
very pleasantly surprised Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. C. Harvested Friday evening,
the occasion being their twenty-fifth
wedding anniversary.
Mrs. J. Heisig and daughters re-
turned yesterday to Mount Horeb.
Wis, after a few days visit at f. +.
Johnson's They will stop at Cres-
co for a short visit on the wa.
-Norske Selskab, the old time So
ciety, is keeping open house in their
rooms in the National Bank block
this week. A reception will be given
to Senator Johnson and Congress-
man Haugen by them on Friday.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-25

| Leo MarronSwas over from CAL
mar yesterday.
Mrs John Stryanz and children
came from Cresco yesterday for a
visit with her brother, Ed Hill.
Miss Ruby Engbretson returned
yesterday from Adams, Mimi, where
she had been visiting for a couple
of weeks.
-Theo. J. Brandt, furniture and
undertaking. First door west of
Winneshiek County State Bank.
Phone 4SS.
Mr.. E. Z. Owen of Frankville
township came up yesterday with a
herd of Is fine blooded sheep to ex-
hibit at the fair We acknowledge a
pleasant call.
City Detective Thomas CAL
lagher of Minneapolis is one of the
Home Corners, greeting old friends
here this week.
Miss Lucy Waste of Minneap-
oils concluded her visit at E. j. Stod-
dard's yesterday and departed for
Marble Rock. Iowa, for a further
visit with relatives before returnine
home.
-Auctioneer r. F. Owen was up
from Frankville township yesterday,
attending the Home Coming. Mr..
Owen has auctioneer's adv. in this
issue. Look it up.
-Messrs. and Mesdames R. A.
Woodland and H. T. Hancock of
west Union came up in the Iatter's
auto yesterday, to spend a couple OF
days visiting among friends and TAX
ing in the festivities.
Postmaster j. j. Marsh and wife
arrived home Monday fom their
months absence, visiting their
daughters at Eau Claire, Wis. and
Fargo, N. D., part of the time
being spent at Detroit Lake, Mimi.
Miss Marjorie accompanied them.
Iowa City's new motto, See Us
Increase" is very appropriate for
that hustling city. Iowa City has
fine business and educational advan-
tages. 1t is also city of homes.
This means so much to those seeking
a suitable location to do business
and educate their children. Address
Box SO, Iowa City, for further par
ticulars. 33-2p
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-25

Brunt & Pdrndn

To all Home Corners extend cordial invitation
to visit drug and jewelry store---whether you
buy or not. During the sixteen years we have been
in business in DEBORAH we have been charging our
stock and identifying quarters until today we
have stock and a store that would be credit to
a city several times the size of DEBORAH. We well
come Home-Comers to our store.
In connection with our drug and jewelry business
we have a beautiful Soda Fountain and elegant ac-
comodations where summer drinks may be enjoyed.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-16
NEWTOWN.

Newtown street is beginning to take on a, very busy appearance with the improvements on the residence of H N. Tiemann, and work on the new saw bank which was commenced Mon day. Herman H. Peck and James B. Nichols have in charge the excavatine work. A building is being rapidly put llp by George Northrop for cement, etc. -fhe new building will be 30x52 feet and fbrick and Indiana lime stone will be used, and will no doubt add much to the appearance of the street. Archi- fect J. A. MacVance of Pittsfield, Mass, drew the plans and the contrac- Dpr is E. H. Shaw of Great Barring ton. Mass, while the contract for zpitlmbing was awarded to F. J. Hall, ife local business man.
 = Miss Elizabeth Murphy. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Murphy, has suf- fered an attack of grip.
 - Miss Geneyieve Brown of Bridgeport, was a Sunday guest at the home of her ,erandmother, Mrs. Patrick Lyons, Walnut Tree Hill.
 Miss May Sullivan of Bridgeport, re- turned home Sunday after three weeks, visit with her aunt, Miss Eliza beth Clark, at the home Of oscar Pitzschler.
 Misses Anna Carlson. Marguerite Cavanaust, Dorette Gordon, Charles Caranaugh and Henry Carlson were guests Sunday of the Misses Farrell, HIawieyviIle.
 Mrs. c. Delury and Charles Bradley of Danbury. have been guests of Mrs. Michael J. Bradley on the boulevard.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-16
{ BRIDGEPORT IN ] , THE OLDEN DAYS {
Lotteries and Religion

An old copy of the Bridgeport Far mer contains a. novel dunning adver- tisement dated March 15, 1914. It is evident that Seth Hall post rider from Fairfield who was the logical prede- cessor of the Rural mail carriers of to- day needed money. He found az much difficulty in collecting his small bills as any one at the present time. His
 notice reads: Post Riders Notice-The subscriber offers to his customers, to exchange a few bills of his own make (about the first of ApriD for bank bills or small silver. He will warrant his own bills not to be counterfeit. Seth Hall, F,airfield.''
 A comment on the change which public sentiment undergoes as time passes is furnished by the advertise ments which appeared in the Republi- can Farmer of 1928. Lottery adver- tisements occur frequently. Among them are the Virginia Lottery. high est prize s15,00o; Union Canal. Seth
 Class, tickets s10; Groton Monument, 23rd class; N. Y. Consolidated, high of the most lurid and alluring of the advertisements is for the lottery of the Rhode Island Fourth Baptist Society, at Providence which offered about E.
 900 prizes, the highest being s10.OO0. The tickets for this extraordinary
 drawing were B each.
 Either our ancestors were eXtraor-
 dinarily sporty or the objects of these is said that the purchase of lottery tickets was then a regular investment by a large portion of the community. The running of lotteries was the meth cd used frequently for raising money for benevolent enterprises. Should the Baptists of the state attempt to raise money by a lottery they would
 be arrested for gambling. It would be interesting to know who were the
 winners in these schemes but no rec OrdS appear.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-16

Miss lola Woodruff who has been staying with her grandparents. MT l and Mrs. Chas. Sterling. has returned | to her home in Spring Valley, N. r. An invitation has been extended to Rev W. l.. Douglas to remain with | the Zion Hill M. E. church another year.
 George F. Brown has been sufferine
 with rheumatism for the past two weeks.
 J. H. Van Evera was an over Sum-
 day guest of his sister, Mrs. F. E. | Clary, New Haven. | Mrs. F. W. Leadbetter and daughter Georgianna of Santa Barbara. Calif.,
 were Saturday guests of Mrs. Helen H. Godfrey. 1 Miss Anna Willing is caring for Mrs. J. B. SturgeS. MT. and Mrs. c. T. Gregory, MT. and Mrs. J. A. Godfrey ana Mrs. w. B. Hurlbutt. attended the funeral of the late A. w. Wallace in Bridgeport. on Sunday.
 Samuel Osborne has been quite ill Miss Mary O1mstead snent Saturday in Danbury with her sister, Mrs George c. Benedict.
 caring for her grandfather who is very feeble.
 Miss Meta Willing has returned home from New York.
 Miss Josephine Hurlbut has been spending few days with friends in Bridgeport this week.
 Miss Lizzie McNicholl of Hicksville, L. T., who has been spending the last eight months with relatives in Virginia and Philadelphia. has been the guest of Miss Mary Olmstead for the past week
 Mrs. L. s. Godfrey went to Bridge port on Monday to meet her cousin. Dr. Joseph w. Hill of the Hill Mill tary Academy. Portland Oregon. who is spending a, short time in New Eng land. Dr. Hill was a WeStport boy and graduated at Yale in 1878 with President Taft hence his trip East this month to attend the Yale alumni cele- brations and incidentally visit old friends and scenes of his boyhood, combining business with pleasure
 Miss Maud Bethel of East Orange, N. J., was in town on Monday
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-16
WANDERED ALL DAY
 ON MOUNTAIN SIDE
CAPT. HOTCHKISS' MIND ITEM PORARJLY DERANGED FROM
 OVERWORK.

Winsted. March 16.-After wandering all day and part of the night on the Wetmore Mountain. Captain Earl H. Hotchkiss of the Connecticut National Guard lies at his home to-day in a weakened but not serious condition. Captain Hotchkiss disappeared yester- day morning while suffering from a temporary mental derangement in duced by overwork. He returned about g o'clock last night by himself and in a highly delirious state. Early to-day he recovered sufficiently to make a rational statement in which he said he did not remember anything from the time he left his work until he woke up in a snow bank on Beech hill near the Massachusetts line
 Captain HOtcnkiss is captain of the Signal Corps in the Connecticut Ma tional Guard and manager of the Win Sted division of the Southern New Eneland Telephone Company. He is 35 years old, has a wife and two children and came here from New Haven.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-16
HEALTH BOARD
 ON VACCINATION
Against Repeal of Compulsory Law = February Bulletin Shows Decrease in Msrtality-Births 0utnumber Deaths by 85l.

In the monthly bulletin of the state board of Health for February, pr. Jos eph H. Townsend, secretary of the board, makes the following statement regarding vaccination.-
 z The usual attempt is to be made at the present session of the Legislature to repeal the so-called compulsory vac cination laws. The opposition this year takes the form of a bill making it unlawful for any board of health or board Of education to make vaccination a condition precedent to the attendance at any public or private school in the State of Connecticut. The chief argu- rnents of the anti-vaccinationist have neer1, that vaccination does not prevent smallpox and that it causes other dis cases. In this connection, it is fn- teresting to know the experiences of the United States government in Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands, where vaccination had been neglected by the Spaniards. In a recently published statement of an army surgeon, it is said:
 pine Islands before systematic vaccin- nation was instituted there were 5000 deaths annually from smallpox, but for more than a year after the com pletion- of vaccination. there has not been death from this disease. More than three and a. half million people in the islands have been vaccinated without a loss of life or limb, nor has there been any serious 1DIeCtlOn 1TOI1l vaccination. In the United States ar my. vaccination being compulsory, smallpox has been a negligible quan- tity, although troops have been sta toned throughout the islands where the natives were thoroughly saturat- ed with the disease In Porto Rico, when the army occupied the islands in 1898, no, systematic vaccination had been practiced by the Spaniards- The medical department immediately es- tablfshed vaccine farms and T86. 290 persons were vaccinated during the early part of 1899, and smallpox was eradicated from the island"
 Some years ago when bovine virus was coming into use as commercial product to take the place of the hu- manized virus, it was sometimes harsh in it's action and produced various rashes upon the skin. With modern improvements in it's manufacture and the protection afforded in this country by a strict government supervision, its purity is guaranteed, and it can not have other than a simple direct action All laboratories producing it must be licensed and are subject to inspection Joy the hygienic laboratory of the pub lie health and Marine Hospital service at Washington. and bacteriological ex- aminations are constantly being made by this laboratory of virus purchased in the open market all over the coun-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-16
MISS M'CAUSLAND IN TORRINGTON

Especial from United Press) Torrington, March 16.-It was learn ed to-day that Miss Mabel McCaus- land of New York, who was the prin- cipal witness against Mrs. Ben Teal, wife of the New York theatrical man. ager, who was recently convicted of subornation of perjury and sentenced to year in jail has taken up her residence in this town for the purpose -of avoiding the publicity resulting from her participation in the trial.
 It developed in the trial of Mrs. Teal that she had hired Miss McCausland to swear falsely in the divorce case of Mrs. Frank Gould against her hus- band.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-16

Doings in the lodge rooms last
 night.
 George T. Ellsworth was chosen
 delegate to the coming Grand Court
 meeting by Court Seaside. F. of A..
 ternate. During the evening Past
 Chief Ranger George I. Smith was presented with Past Chief Ranger S chart by Geo. Ellsworth on behalf of the court. It was decided to reor- ganize the baseball team for the com ing year with Geo. Ellsworth as cap tain and George I. Smith as manager.
 Messrs. Geo. Smith. Geo. Ellsworth and mittee to arrange for the usual Mem orial Day program. At the business meeting two new members were in itiated.
 Stratfield Circle. c. of F. of A.. in itiated six new members and received eleven applications. This circle now meets in Tigers Hall On the first and third Monday of the month. Court Norden. F. of A.. received two applications and voted to attend in a body the concert by the Anti-Tuber- culosis Association. March 19. at the First M. F. church.
 Violet Camp. R. N- of A.. reversed it's usual proceedings by having the
 
 meeting after. About 50 of the camp
 enjoyed a banquet. During the course
 of the banquet Mrs. c. R. Williams
 was presented with a dozen table cov-
 CTS by Thomas Kelly on behalf of the camp. After the meal all went to the lodge room wher two new members were initiated. It was voted to re- organize the degree team.
 Six new members were initiated and five applications were received at the meeting of Star of Charity lodge. s. of B. This makes g new members pledged by this lodge to the joint in itiation to be held by all the lodges of the order in this city. It was voted to
 hold whist party on March 29 to de- fray the lodges share of the expense of the initiation.
 Twenty-Five tables were filled at the pinochle party given by Bridgeport Council. Jr.. O. U. A. M. Ice cream and cake were served. The prize win ners and their prizes were as follows: 1 W. Hadsel. 6915. pair of shoes: A. E.. | Wedge. 5s35, gold clock: T. Rehil1. 5560, jewel casket: l.. Day. ladies' collar: | Carrie Rogers. 546O. three doilies: J. Monohan. 5510. pipe; J. c. Travis. 5420. | burnt wood plaque: Mrs J. Rehill. | 5460. tobacco jar: c. J. Weldon. 54t0. l cigar holder; Mrs. c. J. Travis, 557O, l bon bon dish; T. Lowell, 5510. six cigars.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-16
= .A - EG A As s..utbs >Ihs Kind You Havs Always Bought BOTH SIDES ARE
 CLAIMING VICTORY
BOTH CANNONTTES AND INSUR- GENTS SEE SOMETHING TO GLOAT OVER IN THE
 HOUSE RULES.

Special from United Press.1
 Washington. March 16.-With the rules fight over-for the present at least-Congress got ready to-day to tackle the tariff. The last touch es were put on the bill this morning by the ways and means committee. pre- paratory to submitting it to the House immediately after the reception of the Presidents special message. which was expected about noon.
 As both sides in the rules fight yes terday morning predicted a victory both this morning were claiming it. Fact. is each has something to gloat over. The allies succeeded in voting down the old rules. but the Cannonites succeeded in voting them up again. with certain amendments. however, which they were forced to concede. These amendments were more than the regulars wanted to let the other side have, and they were less than the allies wanted. The allies failed by reason of the desertion from their ranks.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-16
Established 1857.

product of MT. Bullock's fertile imag- ination and purported to have been written by a nephew of Rufus Putnam the first white settler of Marietta O. They were gotten up as a. novelty to be used as souvenirs by the steamb boat company. The fact that they fooled the editor of one of the most promi- nent New York dailies is a practical demonstration of their merit. They were ingeniously constructed, but the deception was unintentiOnal
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-16
ARMED GUARD AT FORBES PLACE
FAIRFIELD AERONAUT EMPLOYS MAN TO WATCH HIS PREM ISES AND PREVENT
 THIEVINCS

4. Holland Forbes, the Fairfield aeronaut, has employed the biggest and fiercest man he can find in Fairfield to guard his premises from thieves which have made his property their objective several times recently Yes terday two men enticed away a valu- able bulldog and started for Bridge port. MT. Forbes followed with his coachman and the thieves dropped the dog and ran when they discovered that they were pursued. A warrant will be issued for their arrest.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-16
INGENIOUS LETTERS
 SOUGHT IN NEW YORK

Rev. C. $. Bullock of Stratford, has received a, request from a New York newspaper for the originals Of two let ters which were used by the Hudson River day line in it's Fulton celebration last summer. The letters were the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-16
SLANDE CASE NON.SUlTED

Justice Frank Wilder entered a. non- suit in the case of Mary Jasonke against Plagia MuchOr asking for $1O0 damages for an alleged islander. The parties are residents of Tigertown Mary alleges that Plagia called her bad names.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-16
CANNON.

Ask for o.Kourke's un,on tobacco.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-16
} IN LOCAL LODGE ROOMS
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Doings in the lodge rooms last night.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-16

Stratfield Circle. c. of F. of A.. in itiated six new members and received ; eleven applications. This circle now
 meets in Tigers Hall On the first and
 third Monday of the month.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-16

How can any person risk taking some unknown cough remedy when FoIey's Honey and Tar costs them no more? It is safe remedy, contains no harmful drugs. and cures the most obstinate coughs and colds. Why ex- pertinent with your health? Insist up- on having the genuine Foley's Honey and Tar. F. B. Brill. local agent.
 1
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-16

Court Norden. F. of A.. received two applications and voted to attend in a body the concert by the Anti-Tuber- culosis Association. March 19. at the First M F. church.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-03-14

routine duties. the time OF a car
rier serving standard route is full
ly occupied even when the condition
of the roads and weather is favora
BILE; but there are not infrequent oc
casions when the monotony of the
carriers duties is relieved by in.
cidents and circumstances arising
which call forth the most strenuous
activity and require the endurance
OF hardshlps that would cause men
OF less courage and strength to fal.
tor. The rigors of the northern win.
ters; the binding billiards and snow
drifts OF the mountains and plains
cloudbursts and swollen srteams-all
have to BE- encountered by rural
carriers. and there have been occa.
sions when carriers have lost both
hands and feet from freezing or
narrowly escaped death by being lost
in snowdrfts and billiards or being
drowned in swollen streams.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-03-14
TROUBLE OF RURAL CARRIERS
Letter TO Department at Washington
About Oklahoma Carrier.

Washington, d. c., March l3.-As
an illustration Of the vicisstudes I'm
the life of a rural carrier, Assistant
Postmaster General DeGraw has re-
Gently received letter from the post.
master at Curtis. Okla, recounting
the experience Of j. A. Trentham,
carrier on rural route No. ! out of
Curtis Carrier Trentham's route Is
nearly % miles IN length. on re.
cent occasion, while Carrier Trent.
ham was serving his route, a violent
wind storm arose, which oycr,hrcw
the carriers vehicle After setting
his vehicle Alright the carrier pro-
ceeded on the serving OF his route
when it was again overthrow hy the
wind, which az the same time scat.
tered his postal supplies and mail
matter over the surroundiug cOW.
try The carrier. Thoroughly imbuod
with the responsibilities imposed mp
ON him for the safe custody Of the
mails after much difficulty, recover.
ed practically all Of his supplies lie
again proceeded on the service al,
his route. when he found his pas.
sage ohstrNc'od by raging prairie
fire. which ncccssitatod the carrier
cutting n wire fence and fleeing 10
q plowod field, which me- saw in
the distance, in order 10 save his
life, his horse and vehicle and his
mail and equipments
Il must he conceded. oven Iy those
who consider the position of "a rural
carrier a sinecure, that II never be.
fore Rural Carrier Trcntham earned
his salary ON that day
\ rural letter carrier. basNes de-
liyorinE and collecting mail Is re-.
quired TO sell stamps, stamped en-.
yelopes and paper; 10 receive app'i.
cations and money for money orders.
to deliver special delivery matter al
the homes OF patrons when not
more than one-half mile from the
route and IN many cases 10 furnish
a supply and dispatch Of mail by
Closed pouch 70 and from ntermc.
diate postofficos on his route. II is
also necessary when trains are late
or mails congested, for rural car.
riers to assist in the separation
OF their mail, in order TO leave the
office on service OF their routes on
schedule time.
In the performance OF his daily
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-03-14
FARMERS UNION MAY BUILD
FARMERS ORGANIZATION FloUR.
ING ON BUILDING BIG PACKING
PLANT IN OKLAHOMA.

Enid Okla, March 1.-The Farm.
crs Union held its annual meeting
yesterday afternoon in the district
court room of the court house. The
following officers were elected for
the ensuing year:
j. Y. Callahan, Enid, president; c.
L. Larkin, Nowata, secretary and
treasurer, l.. Il. Clft, Canadian coun
ty; J. T. Niece, Grant county; l.. A.
Walton, Woods couty. H. i. Krippcn
dorf Kinefishcr county; board OF
directors.
The new Exchange Board OF the
Grain, Broom-Corn and Stock Grow
crs' association" held its first meet
ing at the farmers mill last night
and discussed plans for building a
large grain elevator at every shipping
point in the state. The board also
took some very important steps
toward the building of the much talk
ed Of packing plant.
President Callahan stated that the
plant would be built in the near IN
ture at some central point of the
state The exact location will be de-
cided by majority vote OF the stock
holders at their meeting to be held
in the near future.
This will cause much competition
among the towns OF the central part
Of the state, as the plant will make
the lucky one rank among the fore
most business centers OF Oklahoma