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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-02-17
Murder and Suicide at WaYerlY.


At Waverly Thursday night Frank
Thompson, man aged about 80
years, shot his wife with fatal re-
suits and then turned the weapon
on himself and committed suicide.
Thompson came to Waverly about
two years ago to work for the ILL
nois Central. He was later mar
ried to the victim of his murder
Gus bullet, who was a Miss Homann.
The couple went to Colorado and
later she returned and obtained a
divorce. He came back from Col
orado a few days ago and was
searching for his wife. When she
opened the back door to empty the
dishpan he pulled a revolver FROM
his pocket shot his wife, the bullet
taking effect in a vital spot and caus-
ing almost instant death. He then
turned the weapon upon himself
with fatal results, dying a short
time thereafter.
The town of Delhi is making the
necessary moves looking toward
town Incorporation. 1t was incOr-
porated in the early years but most
of it's officers enlisted in the Civil
war and the Incorporation was al
lowed to lapse. Delhi was the
county seat of Delaware county un-
til its neighbor Manchester grew in
size and influence enough to vote a
change of location.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-02-17
Made Cattle Pay.

Andy Barnes delivered a carload
of fat steers to Frank Young of De-
corah, here Monday and also nice
bunch of feeders to Mahony bro
theirs. The fat cattle brought him
$3.50 per 100, the whole lot netting
him about $1,000. We believe this
the only bunch of cattle that have
been fed in this section this winter
and Andy says he made money en-
ough on them even if he did feed
them 50-cent corn.-Lawler Dis
patch.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-02-17
INTERESTING FACTS.
Brunt Parman Offer to Cure Catarrh. The
Costs Nothing II They Fail.

When a medicine effects cure in 90
per cent Of cases, and when we offer
that medicine on our own personal
guarantee that il will cost the user moth
ing if it does not cure Catarrh, it is only
reasonable that people should believe us,
or at least put our claim to practical test
when We take all the risk. These are
facts which we want the people of De-
corah to substantiate. We want them
to try Rexall Mucu-Tone, a medicine pre-
pared from prescription Of physician
whose specially was Catarrh, and who
has record of thirty years of cures to
his credit.
We sell more bottles and receive more
good reports about Rexall Mucu-rone
than We do of all other catarrh remedies
sold in our store, and if more people
only knew what thoroughly dependable
remedy ReXall Mucu-Tone is, II would
be the only catarrh medicine we would
have any demand for.
Rexall Mucu-Tone is quickly absorbed
and carried by the blood until it thor
oughly disnfects and cleanses the entire
mucous membranous tract, destroys and
removes the parasites which injure and
destroy the membranous tissues, soothes
and heals the irritation AMI soreness,
stops the mucous discharge, and builds
up strong, healthy tissue, relieves the
blood and system Of diseased matter,
stimulates the muco-cells, aids digestion
and improves nutrition until the whole
body vibrates with healthy activity. In
a comparatively short time there is a
most noticeable gain in weight, strength.
good color and feeling Of buoyancy.
We urge you to try Mucu Tone, begin
ming a treatment today. AT any time you
are not satisfied, simply come and tell
us, and we will quickly return your
money without question or bubble We
have Rexall Mucu-Tone in two sizes,
SOC and 81 90, Brunt & Parman, Drug
gists DEBORAH Iowa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-02-17
Cattle slaughtered.

A west bound Great Western
freight train, pulled by a double
header, ran into a bunch of cattle
Thursday evening down near Indus
try, killing seventeen head. Engi-
neer j. E. Taylor of this place was
in charge of the first engine, and
Engineer Gilligan of Council Bluffs
the second. The crews were not in
iured, but the pony trucks of the
front engine were derailed and the
wheels cut off the spikes for a dis
lance of about fifty feet.-Clarion
Monitor.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-02-17
Pioneer Conductor Dead.

One of the first conductors to run
a train in northern Iowa, William
Thayer died at his home near Chi
cago last week at the age of 81
years. Forty-seven years he ran a
train for the Rock Island road, west
of the first passenger train to cross
the Mississippi river at Dubuque on
that road.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-02-17
Falling Tree Kills q Boy.

A fatal accident occurred Saturday
at the home of August Lewfke, fif-
teen miles northwest of Charles
City. He was engaged in cutting
down tree and his boy was watch
ing him. When the tree began to
fall the boy started to run out OF
the way, but was caught in the cor
ner of a fence and the tree fell on
him, crushing his head. He died
almost instantly.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-02-17
Iowa Pastor and Inventor Dies.

Thomas Oliver, the inventor of
the Oliver typewriter and Oliver
cotton harvesting machine, who
died suddenly in Chicago, was for
several years a Methodist pastor in
Iowa, and it was while serving the
church at State Center, that he con-
ceived the idea of the cotton har-
vester. He was in the act of leaving
for the south to make a government
demonstration of his harvester when
stricken with heart failure. He fell
dead in his wife's arms. Oliver will
be remembered by many of the older
Methodist pastors of the state.
Our new stock of Wall Paper is
arriving every day. Brunt & Par
man.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-02-17
RY HARRY 7. GREEN.
Dies of His Injuries.

Thomas McGreevy died at his
home near Clement at about four
O'Clock Sunday afternoon from in
juries received the Tuesday previous
by falling from a load of hay and
striking his head on a rock in the
bottom of the ditch into which he
fell. He did not regain conscious
ness after the accident.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-02-17
Arrested on Old Warrant.

After three years of waiting, the
sheriff of Nora Springs last week ar
rested William Billings on charge
of gambling from which he was in
dicted three years ago. Billings
went to Dakota, where he remained
until recently, when he returned for
visit.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-02-17

Mason City's next manufacturing
plant will be one to manufacture
machines. The company
will be styled The Factory Develop
ment Company.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-02-17

The Postal Card says there is
rumor about town that new bank
will be started in Fayette in the near
future.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-02-17
Public Opinion
Property Exchange


growing Public
Property Exchange.
have piece property which you want SELL trade rent list with
nothing
do and only reasonable commission Try
it, 1t won't unes
And don't forget
Public Opinion does
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-02-17

Our Want Column Brings Results
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-06

he Shirt Waist Sale Wednesday demon
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-06
PROGRESS AT PANAMA
V--CongressionaI Visits to the Isthmus
By Frederic J. Hsskin.

Congress has shown disposition to want to Know everything that IS go- ing on at Panama. and each year one or it's committees journeys there and looks the situation over. Last year It w&s' the House Committee on Appropria- tions that went. This year 1t was the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Besides being shown the progress of the work. this committee held extensive hearings. In the present instance the trip was made, primarily, to settle the questions which have come up relative to the government or the Canal Zone, and of administration out side of the office of the Chief Engineer.
 But that did not deter the members of the committee from probing deep in- to every phase of the work now being carried on. They took a trip over the site of the Gathn dam. saw all Of the many experiments that have been made. looked down into the test pits to see what there was underneath the soil. ana peered into things, generally. Then, with Gatun dam plain In the minds eye, they had extensive hearings relative to 1t. The multitude of questions they asked shows that they were bent on getting to the bottom of that subject. 1t Is true that some of the questions were not to the point. and few ot them showed q surprising ignorance of the first principles of engineering. but on the whole 1t was thorouRh investigation.
 Once in a while civil engineer gets to. Congress-. There happened to be one on this committee. Representative Ken nedy of Ohio. When he came back from the Isthmus he stated to his friends that he was persuaded that the proo- lems to be solved at Gatun are not those of intricacy, but those of immen- sity. It is his opinion that the building of every sky-scraper in New York rep resents more engineering difficulties 10 be overcome than are encountered ai Panama It is only the unapproacnea immensity of the problem that impress ed him.
 When the average congressional com. mittee goes to Panama there IS usually some member who makes himself his-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-06
MEANING OF THE TRUE AND
 THE FALSE BROTHERHOOD
The International Sunday School Lesson for February 7h is iron Act tv: B, v-11-When the Church Tried Socialism.

vasive spirit of brotherhood. were really a practical fulflment of the teachings and example of Jesus. This was indeed the golden age come to earth in reality.
 At the present moment there are un- der way on this continent and else- where experiments in communism which are endeavors to reproduce the practical socialism of the early church. Fine-spirited men and women turn with repugnance from the greed and rivalry and cruel selfishness and ideous injustices and inequalities of our modern social organization, and try to five as brethren should live. Prob ably experiments of this sort will con- tinue for generations to come, as they have continued for generations past. Alas,( that most of them should fail so ignominously!
 The Serpent in the Garden.
 The reason our modern Utopias go to smash is that human nature Us so human. Even the idyllic community at Jerusalem had its Ananias and Sap phira, who, like the members of the Sanhedrin of whom John wrote, love the praise of men more than the praise of God" and who wanted a reputation for singular virtue, but who were not wiling to make the necessary sacri- flee. Thus early did they furnish the church with her first hypocrites. Hu- man nature is instinctiyely selfish. One does not have to travel to the ruthless conditions of heathendom to find this. The nearent bargain coun- ter, or stret car, or restaurant, or public entertainment, will reveal the same disregard for the rights of ones fellows in a mad endeavor to serve
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-06

tuted committee, found itself under a temporary embargo that was absolutely rnrelenting while 1t lasted. A party of United States Senators had q similar experience. but as soon as their ruffied sensibilties wese smoothed over they came to concede the thoroughness, efa- ciency and wisdom of the quarantine. 1. The hearings which were held on the Isthmus last month brought out the fact that it is desirable to relieve Colonel Goethals of all the burden of administration outside of the engineer ing department itself. Few people can conceive of the immense mass of de- tail that he has to wade through every day under the present system---detaiis relating to sanitation, civil govern ment. municipal Improvements, and everything else imaginable. Although he has an office force of unusual strength. the members are put on their mettle to handle it all. What the Congressional Committee seeks to do Is to bring about such co-ordination of the work outside of actual construc- ton as will give Goethais the supreme command and yet take the unnecessary details away from hirn.
 The Government is playing land agent on the Canal Zone, and the peo- pie who would like to get little ba- mana plantation on reasonable terms will hereafter have the opportunity. It Is planning to lease the lands of the Zone at nominal rent for twenty-five years. giving each lessee ae1ittle more than a hundred acres. Although the terms are advantageous. there seems to be little danger of any Rosebud Reservation rush or settlers to the Tsthmus. as establishing a plantation there usually means the clearing out of e primeyal tropical jungle.
 It is not the rural districts that are receiving an influx of population. but the outlying sections of Panama and Colon. The American parts of these two cities are known. respectively as Anoon and Cristobal. It is in these places that the crowds are going, since most of the foreign population prefers to be under the Jurisdiction of the United States rather than under the Nomination of the doughty little half breed police of the Panama Republic. So great has been the growth of the slum districts of Cristobal and Pan- anna. that 1t is deemed essential to spend another million dollars on inn- provemsnts in them, lest there should be outbreaks of epidemical disease.
 Tn last months hearings, 1t was de- veioped that in addition to all the ex- pense of sanitation. and all the work of exterminating the mosquitoes, it has cost over half million dollars since the American occupation to screen the houses and keep out the few mosquitoes that managed to escape the perils of oil The houses are all constructed with broad verandas. and these are entirely screened in, so that the people may practically live on the porches- At nrst3cheap grades of net
 II
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-06

ting were used and It was soon found that these would not stand the climate. In the past year the renewals theL have been made necessary, supplant the old and rusted screens with high grace copper netting.s and 1t is found that 1t gives very much better satisfaction. Last summer the verandas of the 11v- 6li Hotel were ali rescreened with the copper wirE and the doors and win- dows were also screened. so that the people have double protection from the wandering sassassins of the swamps., Now and then one will find his way through the porch screens. but he still finds himself screened out of the rooms. The work of screening IS done by the negroes from the West Indies, and they have proved them selves to be good carpenters. Many of them have worked for time in the United States. I4
 The propensity of the west Indian Co travel has bean great thing for the Panama Railroad. and through that channel many dollar that the Gov- erpment spends on the canal work coines back to 1t again Secopd-class cars are run on every train. and these are always crowded. Instead of hav1 ing seats like the ordinary passengef coach, there Is one long seat on either side, and while the Accommodations are much greater this wax, the cars are always crowded to their capacity The rate is So low compared 10 ts first-ciass rate. that few negroes rib first-class. There were more than so0,o00 second-class passengers hauia during the year, which means thG each West Indian oq the Zone mus have taken ct least a dozen pleasurt trips during the twelve months.
 when members of Congress go to the Tsthmus hereatter they will get q goodl impression of the work at the Atlantic side before they land at Colon. Few people understand that the canal has bo4 be dug several miles out into the Caribbean Sea to get the required depth. This work Is being done by the sea-going suction dredge Ancon. been planted along this channel. and by them the incoming passenger can trace out the line of the canal as he sails into the harbor at Colon These bouys are miniature acetyline gas plants in themselves. and when once set going, will burn for from three to six months without further attention. when one sails into Colon harbor hs passes the Atlantic terminus of ths canal at right angles. In the day tim he can look inland to Gatun, seye1 there is completed it will ,constitutl the most remarkable feature of thf landscape, as 1t rearssits lofty head lihi d mountain across the valley that dipi down into the sea just oft the starboart rafl or the incoming steamer. sA (Copyrisht, 1909, by F'rederec J1 Haslxin.)
 TomorrovF--Diyorcem in the United States.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-06
BY wILLIAnF T. ELLIS.

The big question of the present hour is socialism,; perhaps not Socialism spelled with a big s, but the spirit of socialism which is one with the spirit of brotherhood. There are on every hand significant evidences that the ideal of a human society dominated by laws of helpfulness and altruism has gained a tremendous hold upon the leaders of present-day thought. So powerful is this current within the churches that a considerable body Of clergymen have even gone over 10 the political Socialistic organization. Discerning leaders of the church per ceive that this living issue must be met and pioneered by Christianity.
 For in it's beginning, the Christian church as we have 1t set forth in the present Sunday-school lesson, was the most perfect comfnunistic organization ever recorded. It was a verttable Utopia; in simpleness, gladness, and singleness of heart, the members of the apostolic Church held all things in common, and each rejOiced in his possessions. only that he might share. There seems to have been no legisla- tion on the subject, and no ecclesiasti- cal ruling, but all were animated by the one spirit, so that there were among them no poor, for the rich vol untarily shared their possessions with their brethren.
 The Real Golden Age.
 The picture Is one of which the read CT quickly becomes enamored. The simplicity and beauty of this social life: the absence of selfish ambitions and all desire to excel; the lack of ostentation, and the manifest all-per-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-06

torian of the occasion. Upon the occn. sion of Speaker Cannon's visit fhera J. Hampton Moore, Congressman ana deep waterway expert. acted in that ca pacity. His little book with Speaker Cannon Through the Tropics" printed Tor private circulation. furnishes . highly entertaining picture of the Speaker and his friends. and their do- ings on this trip. Imagine a lot of schoolboys off on a junket somewhere, and the picture will be good one of a congressional committee sailing down the bounding main to Panama. They are Nike children when school lets ont.
 After they land at Colon they resume the demeanor of statesmen and trana- form themselves into human question marks, thus providing themselves with a fund of information in very short time. Special trains of the Panama Railroad are at their disposal, and they are carried down to the southern side of the Isthmus to the beautiful Tiyoli Hotel. where the government itself plays the role of boniface on a scalei that reminds one of the best places on the board walk at Atlantic City. Tns likeness Is carried just q little farther than the hotel itself. There they are now getting a seven-days-in- the week taste of the Sunday closing of hotel bars at the seaside resort This ripple of the American prohibition wave was caused by Mir. Taft. who. as Secretary of War. ordered the closing of the Tiv- oli bar.
 These congressional interrogation points look into everything. They in- vestigate the question of public lands. of criminal procedure. of sanitation. They are wise in the ways of the world, and might reasonably be expected to find the first trace of weakness that shows itself, yet so far as the actual engineering work is concerned, not one of them brings back . single question against 1t.
 Sometimes even these men have oc- casions to learn something about the rigid enforcement of the sanitary laws governing the ports of entry on the Zone. A year or two ago some Con- gressmen were sailing around through the West Indies. and came Co Colon from port against which Colon was quarantined. They wanted to land im- mediateIy But the quaraptine officers said they could not. Threats of hum .dred legislative reprisais did not bring the quarantine to the point of lifting. and Congress, through its duly consti-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-06
Rexv.rd Eor Pubiie Service.

Chicago, Feb, 5-Comptroller WilsOn posted notice some time ago telling his office force that he would pay $l for every suggestion for the improve ment of the service that warranted adoption William Fl. Grantz got the first dollar. He suggested a plan to make 1t impossible for any contract to become binding upon the city which IS not countersigned hv the mayor ana the comptroller,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-06

prices on skirts and petticoats. l
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-06

remarkable chance to save. The
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-06

trates the unusual bargains We are offering ths
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-06-03

CONNECTICuT'S TURNOVER PIE
There's a fruit of the East that
prize beyond measure,
Though it swings from no tree;
though it graces no vine.
With its color of amber and taste the
gods treasure,
And outline artistic of crescent de-
sign.
| muse on it waking; | dream of it
sleeping;
In summer or winter for it oft I
sigh;
A prize so nutritious, with flavor de
licious-
That unrivaled Connecticut turn
over pie.
Mid the New England hills twas the
first recollection
Gathered mp with the treasures of
memory dear;
Adding thoughts so ambrosial TO the
tempting collection
OF feasts epicurean our childhood to
cheer,
Oh the days that are numbered with
tn years up the valley;
Oh the moments whose echoes give
sweetest replies.
The saints must have taught her;
they still make my mouth
WATER
My mothers Connecticut turn
over pies.
When in manhood / put on the har-
ness of battle,
Preparing to fight through the cam
paign of life;
When | heard the loud cannon and
musk cts quick rattle
And nerved up my heart for the on
coming strife;
flied up my belt with the best am
munition,
And shouldered my rife to do or to
die
But | stocked, with thoughts merry
that grub commissary
With the precious Connectincut
turnover pie.
Oh the days of my youth they have
y@nished forever,
The retreat has been sounded; the
Eal,Ies are done;
And nov Il old age am waiting TO
never
Add to the triumphs of struggles |
then won.
But ] still have the Pleasure in the |
hours of my leisure,
Though it oft makes me dream /
that my grandmother's nigh)
Of eating that delicious fried fruit 50
nutritious
That famous Connecticut turnover
pie.
Sherman d. Richardson.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-06-03
A Woman on the Trail.

A tenderfoot's first night in the
woods is notable adventure. shall
not forget my strange dismay and
honlesick perturbation, as l craw,ed
with Doe into our tent in the cod twi-
light At nine o'clock. The floor of the
tent was laid deep with boughs, over
them pacK-ms nile was spread. then
a blanket, then our sleeping bags,
then several other blankets. Our com
rades' tent was pitched near ours
and between the two blazed a genial
fire Doe urged me to make ready
for bed in haste, before the fire went
out and she set me an admirable ex-
ample of celebrity. But I-alas, Every
thing went wrong beneath my blum
dering hands. ! could not find one
article in my duffie bag without re-
moving all the others; l lost my slip
ners in the blankets. and my cod
cream in the balsam boughs: I was
shiyering with cold and fatigue; the