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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-01-06
Notice of Appointment

Notice OF the appointment Of an Executrix
OF the estate of John HI. Vik deceased.
Notice is hereby given, that the subscriber
has been duly appointed Executrix Of the
estate of
JOHN III. VIK
late of Calmar township, In the County OF
Winnesheik, Stale of Iowa. deceased, testate,
and has taken upon herself that trust as the
law directs. All persons having demands up
on the estate of the said deceased are required
to exhibit the same; and persons indebted to
the said estate are called upon to make pay
ANNIE VIK
Executrix.
52-4 w. M. Strand. Attorney
Dated at DEBORAH. Iowa, Dec. 10th, 1908,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-01-06
Original Notice
district court Of Iowa in and for Win.

In the district court Of Iowa in and for Win
neshiek county.
CT. Weiser, Executor of estate of Edward
Mahar. d, ceased-Plaintiff, VS.. Ellen Mahar,
Mary Mahar, Michael Mahar and Ellen Ma
har, Qua rdian of the person and estate OF
Mary Mahar, of unsound NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
You and each of you are hereby notified
that on or before the 18th day Of January A..
d. 1909 there will be on file in the Office of the
Clerk OF the District court of Winneshiek
county, Iowa. the petition of the above nam
ed plaintiff c. j. Weiser, asking that his final
report as executor of the estate of Edward
Mahar be accepted and that he be finally dis
charged from further duties as such executor.
Now, therefore, unless you appear and de
fend thereto on or before the second day Of
the next term OF the said court to be held at
the Court House in DEBORAH. Iowa, colnmenc-
ing Monday, February LIST, A. ID. 1909, your de-
fault will be entered and judgment rendered
against you as appears in said petition.
Dated this Goth day of December A. ID. 1908,
at DEBORAH, Iowa.
5S4 Atty. for Plaintiff.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-01-06
Notice of Appointment.

Notice Of the appointment OF an admin
istraU,r of the estate OF Torger T.. Landsrud,
deceased.
Notice is hereby given, that the subscriber
has been duly appointed Administrator OF
the estate of
TORGER Il. LANDSRUD
late of DEBORAH township, In the County of
Winneshiek, State of Iowa, deceased,
testate, and has taken upon himself that
trust by giving bonds as he law directs. M
persons having demands upon the estate Of
The said deceased are required to exhibit the
same; aud persons indebted To the said estate
are called upon to make payment 70
c. 8. YOICE
5l-4 Administra tor.
Dated a. Decorah. Iowa. Dec. IL, 1908.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-01-06
Notice of Appointment.

Notice of the appointment of an admin
strator of the estate of liver I. Hagen de-
ceased.
Notice is hereby given, that the subscriber
has been duly appointed administrator or the
estate OF
IVER TOSTENSON HAGEN
alias liver 4. Hagen late of Pleasant township
in the county of Winneshiek, state OF Iowa,
deceased intestate. and has taken upon him
self that trust by giving bonds as the law d.
reefs. All persons having demands upon the
estate of said deceased are required TO exhibit
the same; and persons indebted to the said
estate are called upon to make payment to
OLE HAGEN,
IA Administrator
w. M. Strand, Attorney
Dated at DEBORAH, Iowa, Jan. End, 1902
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-01-06
Notice in Probate.
STATE OFIOWA

STATE OF IOWA
COUNTY OF WINNESHIEK
THE DISTRICT COURT THEREOF.
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
GEORGE PHI ELPS, DECEASED.
TO ELIZABETH PHELPS,
SARAH HODGES NASH,
MARIA HOLLAND.
You, and each OF you, are hereby notified
that the hearing on the petition of the tx
ecutors of the Estate OF GEORGE PHELPS,
Decreased ass ing for a construction of the
Will of said Genrge Phelps, Deceased, with
respect to the Legacies therein espresso TO be
pa VA BILE TO ca, b of you. has been set for Two
O'Clock In the afternoon of the second day of
the next term OF laid court, which said term
is to be begun and held ut DecOrah I'm said
County and State. on the first day of Febru.
airy, A. ID. 1909. AT which time and place yon
may apI ear. IL you see fit.
8. z. BRICKNER,
494 Clerk of Said Cou' I.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-01-06
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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-01-06
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can honestly say, that you did not
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using the entire bottle, the drug
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without question or delay.
We will pay the druggist the price
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This offer applies to the large
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family.
We could not afford to make such
an offer, unless we positively knew
what Kodol will do for you.
1t would bankrupt us.
The dollar bottle contains ~ times
as much as the fifty cent bottle.
Kodol is made at the laboratories
of e. G. Dewitt & Co., Chicago.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26

me-" She was blindly making her way
to the door,
so do L. said her husband quietly.
The violin is nothing-let it go.e He
pushed it till it fell with thud from
the table.
She darted forward as though to lift
it. "Ah, Jacques, you have hurt it more
than | did. For the strings could be re-
paired
so you do care said he. Il thought
you despised me, for j was not brilliant.
could not talk. But / had one talent
and | worked to make you think some
thing of me. Look" He threw open
his desk. 1t was full of manuscript mu-
sic. Il tried to compose-for you. But
wanted you-aIways''
'jacques" she cried.
Maurice Struggled costly in his sleep
And an hour later, fed, warmed. and
infinitely content, madam sat making a
silk case for the music But the fiddle
has two big dents ON its polished sur
face today; for madam was very human
and not at all great.-M. P Willcocks
in the London Leader.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26

sage being $50, this made shortage in
the revenues of the steamship companies
aggregating the enormous sum of ST.
10000. The regular cabin passenger
business also fell off. Fewer people by
10000 crossed the Atlantic for pleasure
in 1908 than in the preceding year. A.;
an average of $50 per passenger. the
loss to the steamship companies under
this head was approximately S3.000,000.
The slaekness of general trade led to a
falling off in receipts from the freighting
business. and the whole loss of the
steamship companies for the year is
calculated at $2G,000.0O0.
No wonder. when brisk immigration
means so much to them, that some of
the steamship lines have been stimulat-
ing 1t by sending agents into the rural
districts of European countries with al
Turing stories of the opportunities to ac-
auire wealth in the United States. Some
of the immigrants who have been dis
appointed in this country have enter
tanned expectations built up in this way
by fanclful exaggerationS, which would
have been impossible of realization out
side of Eldorado. 1t was to be expected
that the results of traffic stimulated in
this loose manner would prove unsatis-
factory sooner or later. The immigrant
accommodations on steamships have al
ready fallen under regulation by act OF
Congress. Congress will certainly take
cognizance of the dubious methods fol
booming immigration resorted to by
imaginative steamship agents. and will
see to 1T that hereafter drummers for
American recruits shall adhere to sober
facts.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS FFUDs.
Bush Vendetta That Is the Cause of
Many Crimes.

Duoh fCuuclLd 4udl is the cause OF
Many Crimes
Miss Young of the South Sea Island
Evangelical mission, who has recently
returned to Brisbane after four months
among Solomon island natives, has MANY
interesting things to relate as to their
customs. Native murders, it appears.
are OF frequent occurrence, but a great
many are the result of feuds between
different tribes.
Two Christian boys belonging to the
mission at Malo were brutally done TO
death. and another Christian native at
Flu was also murdered The crimes
were unprovoked, but were committed
because the islanders believed in hay-
ing life for a life. Ii a man belong
ing to a tribe is killed by another tribe
there is no peace until the death is
avenged, and it generally happens that
the most inofensive man in the Offend
ing tribe falls a victim. The native who
was killed at Flu left the mission sta
ton accompanied by a child to visit his
garden some distance away. The bush
men came down, chatted with him, and
they ate food together. Then the bush
men suddenly turned on him and killed
him to avenge murder committed by
his tribe some time previously.
Tn another occasion, at Onepeiu the
head station of the mission, a native
came and associated with the Christian
boys and shortly before daylight one
morning this man secured an axe struck
a Christian boy on the head and ran
away. The injured boy was attended
by woman missionary and subsequent-
ly recovered
Miss Young adds that a young Kama
ka of about is years was recently
brought from an adjoining island, but
1t was found necessary to send him
away to another station 1t appears
that some years ago the tribe from
which the boy was taken had murdered
a man belonging to bush tribe near
the station. How the natives got to
know the boy was there is a mystery.
but nevertheless it became known. One
day native who had not been near the
mission station for year suddenly made
his appearance. The boy was carefully
watched and at night slept in a room oc-
cupled by a missionary, but he became
so terrlhed that 1t was necessary to send
him elsewhere.
Miss Young says that the authorities
are doing all they can to prevent the inn
portation of rifles and ammunition. hut
| for all that the bushmen become pcs
I sessed of rifles. Some of the firearms
are of very old pattern. They are
certainly not supplied by white traders,
who are TOO much concerned about their
own safety to supply the natives with
weapons of destruction. 1t is alleged
| that some of the boys ship to New
Guinea and while there buy rifles and
ammunition. 1t has happened that some
of the boys when searched have had am
munition in their possession. London
| Standard.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
THE AWAKENING.

I am soul-sore and Bonded and weary,
And my being is ancient and gray;
The heart in my bosom Is dreary,
And | long to be up and away.
| want to re-spend what | squandered,
/ seek but one chance to repay;
For last night my soul Weakened and wan
dered
Ger the road to the gone yesterday.
oh. the wrongs that can never be righted
And the wounds that can never be healed
The darkness that could have been lighted
The truths that too late were revealed;
The burdens so readily shifted;
And the thorns that should nave WIN
drawn;
The anguish that might have been lifted
From a heart that was thoughtlessly
torn;
The clean things my foolish feet muddied
The innocent ones / judged wrong;
The home that with sorrow | flooded;
The deaf ear l turned to lifes song;
The struggler so easily aided;
The reckless one I might have checked;
The heartlessness that ! paraded;
The dear ones l hurt with neglect;
The flower robbed of its beauty
And tossed in q day to the slime;
The hour / faltered in duty;
The whim whose indulgence was crime
Oh, God! though / face Thee repentant,
/ ask not Thy mercy as yet;
| seek not to find Thee relentent
Until the tomorrow is met.
/ thank Thee that Thou has nnshuttered
The blindness that darkened my soul
NV PRAYER to Thee now is not uttered
In hope to default conscience TON,
I ask Thee to see me in sorrow
And grant me the prayer that pray
That / may make right on the morrow
The wrongs that ! wrought YESTERDAY
Herbert Kaufman in Everybody s.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
Coyote Hunt in an Auto.

Coyote hunting in an automobile, since
the success of G.. A. Maxwell and party,
promises to become highly popular
sport in Colorado. Mr.. Maxwell. accom-
panied by Charles Petree of Denver,
and c. c. Hildebrand of Chicopee Falls
Mass. left Denver at T:10 in the morn
ing, started over the plains to the east
ward and by $50 O'clock had hagged
one coyote. Forty minutes later another
fleetfooted animal had been run down
and by $50 still another had been
bagged.
BY this time the party was twenty
miles from Denver, and satisfied wild
the success of the hunt returned to thu
city with the three fine trophies, the
skins of exceptionally large coyotes.
Some of the animals led the machine
for a nice run of two miles at rate
of about forty miles an hour before the
dogs that were taken along were turned
loose to finish the work.-Denver Re
publican
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
The Suffrage in Sweden,

In the introduction of the last annual
installment of his ''Pandex of the News"
Arthur l. Street says:
In the beginning of his undertaking the
author, in common probably with the ma
1ority of his fellow Americans, felt dis
trustful as to both the accuracy and suth-
cheney of the daily press as n medium of in
formation ana of permanent record. But
each years experience in the keeping of a
carefully tabulated card analysis has served
modern life, and to intensity his conviction
that 1t Is at once the most valuable and
the most truthful medium of current his
tory Its information is far more often
confirmed than contradicted. and the vast
majority OF the contradictions are eventual /,
~ oyerborne by evidence that original
'rumors' and reports" were in reality
but facts which individual interests were
seeking to withhold from disclosure.
There are some reckless newspapers
and there are some mendacious newspa-
pers, but by the daily newspaper press
of the United States as an institution
Mr.. Streets certificate of reliability is
deserved. 1t is exceptional for the press
generally to mislead the public as to a
matter of fact By some unexplained
laundering, however this is what it un-
Intentionally did when every newspaper
in the country not long ago stated that
the Swedish Parliament had granted the
privilege of suffrage to the women of
Sweden. What the Swedish Parliament
has done, it now appears. has been to
grant suffrage 10 all male citizens. "a
years of age or over, who have commit
ted no crime, paid their taxes, and
served the prescribed time in the army.
The dispatches from Sweden stating
that the measure granted universal suf-
frage were inaccurate. no doubt uninten-
tionally. There was a time wnen in the
United States the phrase universal suf
frage" might have been used with no
thought of ballot for any but men,
but that time has long gone by.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26

Thousands of travellers will be gratified
TO learn that the White Star and allied
lines of the International Mercantile Ma
rine have succeeded in abolishing delay
at the New York quarantine. Hencefor.
ward, passengers will be taken up to the
city from the lower bay as late as mid.
night. thus saving much valuable time
for those who are destined for interior
points and extremely DESTROYS of taking
the earliest trains. When the magnitude
of the business done by the transatlan.
tic liners is considered, and the import
ance of time in modern business is taken
into account, the stubbornness with
which effort to expedite matters nj New
York has been resisted is Il matter for
surprise. 1t does not reflect glowingly
upon the progressiveness of New York.
ers, but rather affords explanatory light
as TO the persistency of conditions which
have been operating to New York's dis.
advantage in the export trade in bread.
stuffs. To get business, nowadays. cities
must be alive and thoroughly up-to-date
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
He Needed Buttons.

The surgeons We're a trife startled
upon finding that they had incidentally
sewed up a sponge in the patient They
hurriedly reopened him and extracted it.
When all was neatly sewed up once more
they came upon the discovery that
they had forgotten a knife They opened
han up again and found the knife. Sewed
him up and missed large wad of cot
ton. When they had again reopened
him. found the cotton. and closed him
again, the patient opened his eyes in a
weary way.
Doctors" said he. hadn't you better
put buttons on meF--New York Times.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26

Orders have been issued by the Navy
Department for the installation of the
new skeleton fire-control towers on six
battleships This is equivalent to an
nouncing a purpose to provide every bat
tleship in the service with towers of
the new pattern. The skeleton t0ayer is
neither pretty nor "ship-shape," but it is
a practical contrivance that will with
stand a great deal of pounding by an
enemys guns before the lives of the
men in the look-outs will be imperiled by
an impending collapse.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26

Although Congress reversed the order
issued by President Roosevelt RELOCATING
the marines to shore duty in connection
with naval operations, the Navy De
partment has put the marines where the
Roosevelt administration desired they
should go in the future by placing them
under the authority of the captains of
the ships to which they may be as
signed. AS the captains are convinced
by experience that the marines are UNI
necessary on the modern fighting ship,
they will employ them in the handling
rooms or in the powder division and
give the tackles" the honor of man
ming the guns. Under treatment of this
kind. the marines will doubtless soon be
glad to stay ashore for guard service at
naval depots, or as reserves for the sup
port of naval movements.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26

andrew Carnegie's peace proposal that
the United States defend British ports
on the Atlantic coast in return for a
similar compliment on the Pacific coast,
and in Hawaii and the Philippines.
amounts practically to a merging of the
naval power of the two nations and the
formation of navy that would be large
enough 10 provide fleets galore for de-
fence purposes. Mr.. Carnegie is quite as
interesting in this as he was in the re-
cent tariff inquiry.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26

The members of a group of eminent
English physicians have subscribed to
the following declaration 1--WE have no
hesitation in saying that we consider that
school and cross-country races exceeding
enc mile in distance are wholly insult
able for boys under the age of 10, as
the continued strain involved is apt to
cause permanent injury TO the heart and
other organs This is a warning as
much needed in the United States as
anywhere else, for American athletic
youths are as prone as their British
brothers to overdo.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26

The hall of the House of Representa-
tiyes in the Capitol at Washington is to
be reduced in size, with a view of facili-
tating the transaction of business. In
order to permit this diminution the desks
of the members will be taken out. One
result of the change will be that mem
bers occupying the floor will be more
easily audible than they are now. An
other will be that writing letters while
discussion is in progress will be difficult
if not impossible. The work of the build.
ers will be performed after the close OF
the extra session and before the reas,
sembling of the new Congress in Deem
Der. Whether or not the change brings
about revival of oratory, as some hope
it may, at least it will tend to the expe
dition of business-and that is IA con
summation devoutly to be wished"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
EDWARD ]. HENNING
Is the Peoples Candidate for
County Judge
Here Are Few Reasons Why He Should Be
Elected:

praccd all its years.
He is
He suchs
Equity.
He knows how work for his early
Dodge vhic
for laggards
He young40of robust md
a
He has been conspicuous public enterprises
Milwaukee
prsing, wideawake civic pride
Soeialv numbers and all
classes of people of all political parties
freminded all
Probate bench for he is obliged many questions
fecting conflicting opinions.
to political parties political bosses
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
Steamships and immigration.

The steerage business Of the Atlantic
steamship lines is one of their prime
sources of profit. They have been hard
hit by the lull in the immigration tide
during the past year. The decrease in
the number of immigrants carried In
1908 was 5S3 900 compared with 1907.
The average cost Of a third-cIass pas.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
over 1000, 600 from Great Britain.

In the last 40 years. 1S6S-1907, 1.T69,
100 persons have come to this country
from England and Wales. Add the
Scotch. 800, 432, and 2.040,29 have
come TO the United States from Great
Britain in forty years. This is more
than have come from Ireland in the same
time. twice as many as have come from
Sweden, four times as many as have
come from Norway, and more than have
come from Poland and Russia put to-
gether.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26

Sweden has set a precedent in the
name of protection to native industries
which will not be approved by lovers of
art. Hereafter public entertainments by
foreigners in Sweden will be subject TO
Il tax equivalent to ) per cent. of the
gross receipts. Actors, operate singers,
instrumental performers, even lecturers
ALI will be levied upon to the extent
named But such law, if it has any
influence on the stage, will tend to keep
foreign artists away from Sweden. and
take from Swedish students of music
and the drama opportunities to make
instructive comparisons. Ii will tend to
national narrowness, and will never put
cent in the pockets of Swedish play
cFS.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
Belgian Farmers Thrifty.

The Belgians border their roadsides
with apple and pear trees of the cider
and berry varieties, and they draw q
profitable revenue from their elongated
plantations. Thus the 100000 roadside
:rees Of Belgium bring in an annual in
come of E13,000-that is. a little over III
a tree. big and little; while they cost,
including contributions to a rRplantnS
sinking fund, triie over sad a tree.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
New Machine at Weather Bureau.

The federal weather bureau is expert
menting with a new machine known as
the meterograph. which records tempera-
ture. atmospheric pressure. humidity and
other important data for forty days with
out attention.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26

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