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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-14
FINANCE COMMITTEE REPORT.

To the Honorable Mayor ana CITY COun-
ell of the City of DEBORAH, Iowa.
Gentlemen:-We, your finance com
mittee, respectfully report that we have
fully and carefully reviewed the record,
claims and vouchers concerning the
financial transactions of the city of De-
corah for the year ending March 31st,
1909, and have checked all bills and
vouchers and have found everything
correct and satisfactory to the best of
our knowledge.
Respectfully submitted.
W. +. BAKER.
p. JENSEN.
i. J.. CALDWELL
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-14

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ly and are certain. We sell and
recommend them. Engbertson's
Pharmacy. Apl.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-14
ORDINANCE NO. 24o.

An Ordinance in Relation to Finances,
Making Appropriations for the Ex-
penditures of the City Government,
and Fixing the Salaries of Various
Officers and Employees of the City of
DEBORAH, Iowa. for the year Begin
ming April /, 1909, and Ending March
81, 1910.
BE it Ordained by the City Council of
the City of DEBORAH, Iowa:
Section THAT the salaries of the
various officers and employees of the City
of DEBORAH, Iowa, are hereby fixed at
the amounts hereinafter set forth and
there is hereby appropriated out of the
revenues or funds of the City of Deco
rah, Iowa, for payment of the different
expenditures of the city government for
the year beginning April LIST, 1909, and
ending March 81, 1910, the following
amounts set forth in this ordinance, to-
wit:
CORPORATION FUND.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-14

To the Hon. Mayor and Members of the
City Council
Gentlemen:-I herewith submit my re-
port as City Clerk for the year ending
March 31st 1909.
EXPENDITURES CLASSIFIED.
Amount appropriated for street
Improvement .......... IS 10000
Amount expended for street
Improvement -. ......... 1,26S.9O
Amount appropriated for
freight and rep. on city prop
Amount expended for freight
and rep. on city property. 192.01
Amount appropriated for print
Amount expended for printing 1,151.92
Amount appropriated Board of
III. expense ........ ...... 10000
Amount expended Board of H.
expense ........ .......... 1855
tiOn expense .............. 00.UO
Amount expended poll books,
etc. ........ ............. 1880
Amount appropriated for Clerk
and Office expense ..... $4,000
Amount expended ........... SS4.22
Department -. -. 1880
Amount expended for Fire De-
Amount appropriated for Inter
est on bonds and time orders 1,175.00
Amount expended for interest 657.S9
Amount appropriated for light 100000
Amount expended for light. 3,S6S.52
Amount appropriated paving
cases Lift, and Atty. fee. 2,235.0O
Amount expended .......... 2,3O9.S0
Amount appropriated for police 100000
Amount expended for police. 100000
Amount appropriated for may
or and salary Council ...... 10000
Amount expended for Mayor
and salary Council ... 295.00
Amount appropriated for City
Treas. salary ............ 1880
Treas salary ............. 1884
Amount app. waterworks, over
dNnf ran nd
$500 ........ $4,000
Amount exp rep. meters, etc S44.e4
Amount appropriated for fuel 10000
Amount expended for fuel. 1856
Amount appropriated sundry
Amount expended sundry ex-
Amount appropriated for
bridges and culverts 10000
and cuiverts ...........e.. 1876
Amount appropriated for GEM
ent crossings ............ 10000
Amount expended for cement
crossings ............,. 5oi.5l
ing and crawling ..'..e.... 10000
and grading .......... 1861
ing ........ ........i..... 100000
ing -. .............. 2,551.Ss
tiens and deposited with
City Treasurer ............ 3,932.14
nee Light fund ..............s s,475.7S
Fire fund .. 695.17
w. w. Sinking fund 1,253.64
Grading fund ..... 2,094.58
Corp. fund ....... 1895
Liquor fund ............. 6,642.25
Bond fund ........... 572.71
Received from dog tax ...... $500
Received from old plank and
ai' iNDEBTEDNEss.
Three time orders, $1,000 each, at .
per cent, due July 10, 1909.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-14

If you have never used our Want
Column, you will be surprised what
1t will do for you.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-14
3OO,O 900 Women Use It

figure that 300, 900 housewives it day
for laundering and for dish westinghouse because
1t is very much better than merely good soap
want you housewives who merely good soap
know Gavanicthe besto judge by results which the
best soap.
Galvanc Soap cannot harm the clothes.
I've SO years experience crystallized in this soap
Galvanc makes the clothes and whittier and goes
twice as far yellow soap.
No boiling required No rubbing-except very soiled
spots.
Cocoanut oil is reason.
go 10 $40 miles to Ceylon for this OIL
Others won't it because it's expensive yet it's i'm
mensey effective.
But nothng's good for those 100000 who Gal
vanic Soap.
They deserve the best, make it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-14
THE YEARS BUSINESS,
ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE CITY
OFFICIALS.
Showing Made in Final Accounting
Reflects Credit Upon Manage
ment of City's Affairs.
TREASURES REPORT.

Report of the Treasurer of the City of
DEBORAH for the year ending
March 80, 1909.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-14

The balance of said fund not specific
ally appropriated together with whatever
receipts may accrue, to the general fund
is hereby appropriated to defray the con-
tingent expenses, of the city, properly
chargeable to the general fund.-
LIGHT FUND.
There is available in the Light Fund
from the taxes of 1908 and balance on
hand the sum of (estimated) S 100000
Special appropriation ... 10000
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-14

INDEBTEDNESS.
Three time orders, $1,000 each, at 8
per cent, due July 10, 1909.
One bridge order, $1,000, at per cent,
uu one bridge order $1,000, at per
cent, due April z, 1910.
one bridge order. $1,000, at per cent,
ou Total outstanding orders, $4,000.
BONDS.
$1,000 in w. w. bonds at per cent
due Sept. /, 1911.
$1,000 in w. w. Fund bonds, at per
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-14
It's Honest Soap

I'm asking favor-in asking you to take my
word till you try it. That's why Pm going to
make the first cake worth while regardless of its
own value I'm going to give you times what
you pay for when you buy that first cake.
Don't pay Sc for merely good laundry soap
soap not one-half so effective. Learn what you
save and gan--uSsg Galvanic Soap.
Clip coupon n0U-while you think of it.
CALEB f. JOHNSON, Pres't.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-14
REPORT OF THE CITY CLERK.

To the Hon. Mayor and Members of the
City Council
Gentlemen:-I herewith submit my re-
port as City Clerk for the year ending
March 31st, 1909.
EXPENDITURES CLASSIFIED.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-19
THE HOTEL CLERK
 ON THE PAYNE BILL

figure everybody else in town, we cal culated that he'd eventually broaden out and own all the money in the world.
 But he didn't Larry. They rarely do. One morning the bank forgot to open. It developed afterwards that the worthy president had fallen in love with the lit- erary style of gent in the city who knew how to write mine advertisements so attractively that you could read em and actually see the gold clnging to the miners front teeth as they came out of the shaft of an evening. So he took all the available assets and the surplus and came up to New York. where every day is Tag Day for the stranger with coin on his person. don't need to tell you the rest, Larry. He swapped considerable real money for bale of mining stock cer- tifcates, beautifully printed on paper that .vas subsequently, found to be admirably adapted for use on pantry shelves and under the mating in the front hall, but that had no other real marketable value.
 And that's the way with a good many of them. Larry, who try to corral it all all These phlaFthropic flnanceers who own trusts an6 things and want the tariff histed up on everything an ordinary man needs will mostly get theirs If we wait long enough. They'll overreach and fall in it."
 "Then you don't believe wot they say bout only wantin fair protection for their products?" asked the House Detective.
 T only wish I owned as good bank as some of them would break into" said the Hotel Clerk
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-19
HEAVY SALES MADE
 OF FOUNDRY IRON

New York. April 1s.-Consumers of foundry pig iron in the eastern district contributed orders for about 35000 tons to last weeks total sales by the fur naces, which in all sections aggregated about 125,0o0 tons. Of the eastern orders. about 1000 tons came from New Eng land, 12,000 tons from the Philadelphia territory, and 13.000 tons from melters in the Hudson valley. in New Jersey, and central and western New York. About 15,0Oo tons went to Alabama producers, northern furnaces securing the balance.
 East of the Allegheny mountains about 50,0OO tons foundry grades are now under negotiation, the largest inqures coming from the territory tributary to Buffalo. There are other inquiries from blow manufacturers in Ohio and stove foun- ders in Michigan.
 One easthern plant, too, is testing the market for basic. Of the heavy stocks of iron at furnaces, only about 50,0 GOO tons are carried by the producers in the Le- high and Schuyllill valleys.
 At the present rate of booking orders for structural and fabricated steel, April will be a d-breaking month; already three-fourths of the March total have been secured and bids are in for nearly 100000 tons additional, half of which should be closed this month.
 Specifications for sheets, plates, bars, shapes. wire products and pipe have in- creased with both the Steel corporation and independent mills, and the percentage of operation by the corporation subsid- iaries has been increased to 65 per cent of capacity. Rails are tagging, but or ders for 55000 tons have been placed re- gently.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-19
MYSTERY IN DEATH
 OF PROMINENT MAN

Meridian, April Especial. )--About daylight this morning the dead body of c. B. Gibson of Hickory, about 20 miles west of Meridian on the Alabama Great Southern railroad, was found at the corner of Fourth street and Six teenth avenue by a newspaper carrier. Coroner D. A. Ray empanelled jury and a verdict was rendered that Gibson came to his death from natural causes While there were no marks of violence found on the body and in the face of the verdict, the police are of the opin- lon that there was foul play.
 Witnesses before the jury testified that Gibson was seen about o'clock this morning in an apparently intoxL cated condition and the fact that when his body was found there was not a cent of money on his person and that his pockets were turned inside out gives rise to the suspicion that he was doped and robbed. Freshly made wheel tracks near the body also lead to the belief that the body was hauled to the place where found and dumped to the ground
 Deceased was one of the most prom inent cotton planters of his section and left home with a considerable sum of money In his possession. Re was about 45 years of age and is survived by his widow and several sons, one of whom came to Meridian and accompanied the remains to Hickory, wh ere the inter- ment will be held tomorrow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-19
COLU MBUS TO HAVE
 GREAT FIELD DAY

Columbus, Miss April 1S.-(Special)- Newt Friday, April 23, will be field day for the high schools of northeastern Mis- sissippi, composing what is known as the Northeast Mississippi Schoolmaster's club. The following schools will be represented: Columbus. Aberdeen, Corinth, Baldwyn, Bonneville, Tupelo, New Albany, Nettle- ton, Amory, Verona, OHolona and West Point. Two special trains will arrive in Columbus by 10 o'clock in the morning bringing an estimated crowd of fully 250O people from these named towns.
 At il o'clock Friday morning the various contests will commence in the chapel of the Industrial Institute and College. These contests will be between the representa- lives of each of the schools; each town being allowed only one representative in each contest. Gold medals will be award ed to those successful rivals in music, or atory and elocution. prize will be be- slowed upon the school showing the best manual training exhibition.
 Dinner will be rendered to all guests upon the college campus. Many of the Columbus ladies will assist in serving and the people of the town have also donated liberally to the menu. Barbecued meat will be furnished by President Whitfield, and it appears as though there will be ample to satisfy the appetites of all.
 In the afternoon at o'clock the athlet- ic events will commence with a basket ball game between the girl teams from Columbus and Aberdeen. With the completion of thef rst half of this strug- gle the boys from Columbus and Aber- deen will also compete This will obviate any loss of time in waits. These games will be followed by contests in tennis, pole vaulting, high jumps. running jumps, shot putting, hammer throwing, a mile foot race and a 100-yard dash. Handsome prizes will be awarded the successful one in each contest.
 Next Thursday afternoon at 4 clock at Lake Park the boys from Franklin acad- emy, the local High school and those from Corinth High school will battle for honors on the diamond. Both teams announce splendid condition and great ball game Is expected
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-19
SECRET SERVICE
 MAN |S SUICIDE William Bainbridge Ends His
 Own Life In Paris ROUNDED BY DEPARTMENT l  In Spite of All His Efforts, Rainbridse Could Not Stop Smuggling and He. Was Held Personally Re-
 sponsibe for It.
ROUNDED BY DEPARTMENT

Paris, April 1s.-(Speeial.lA stir was created in Paris late yesterday afternoon by the announcement of the suicide of William E. Bainbridge. chief of the United States treasury secret service here and closely connected with the United States consulate. who shot himself at ? o'clock this morning with a pistol
 Bainbridge killed himself after several weeks of despondeney caused by what he considered persecution on the part of ths United States treasury officials.
 He was a kell known figure in Paris and died bounded to death by his ehieis at Washington, who every day Tor the past few weeks have been throwing ts- breaches at him by cable messages signed by the chief of the secret service and underlngs of the treasury department. One of these cablegrams said
 Tn the last IS days s100,0oo worth or goods from France has been smusgied into New York. What are you doing?
 He was accused by cable of inefficieney and neglect of duty and the climax came on Thursday when the treasury depart ment cabled that s500O worth Of goods had slipped past the customs officers with out a warning from the head of tho Paris service. The message ended with threats this time as well as repeated re- proaahes Driven to a heufasthenic crisis by t.fess messages Bninbrdge neverthe- less cabled explanations, stating that With his six men he was doing his best in his field. which included not only Paris, but all of France. He promised to re- double his efforts but evidently had be- come nervous wreck.
 On Friday afternoon Bainbridge met a woman who occupies an official position in the United States service. He had the look of a persecuted man and gave signs of extreme neurasthenla.
 ''The treasury is going 10 make me a scapegoat, said Bainbfidse. "fhey are bounding me to death."
 That night he did not go to bed put passed several hours in his study sorting and docketing his papers The fatal ca blegrams were piled up on the desk. Then before daylight he sent bullet through his brain.
 Bainbridge occupied a good social posi- ton in Paris where he had lived for the past three years. He counted among his friends the highest officials Of both France and America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-19
DISHONEST SPORT
 CAUSES BIG RIOT

Glasgow, April 1S.--(Special. 1.-The Eng lishmans belief that all his sports are conducted with honesty received a rude jolt here today. There was riot at the football field yesterday afternoon in which 90 persons were injured. The police were unable to handle the mob which rioted for an hour. This violent demonstration was protest against a second drawn game in the Scottish cup finals between the Celtic and Rangers teams.
 Tens of thousands of Scots who had paid to witness the game made a rough house because they did not believe the drawn games were anything but prearranged with the object of increasing the gate re- ceipts The mob stormed the field. The mounted police failed to maintain order and finally the fire department was called and the mob refused to give way, and then tore up the bleachers and set them ,atlre, and would not permit the f1remen to extinguish the blaze. Two hours elapsed before the police were able. to clear the grounds. Most of the 30, injured were wounded by bottles, stones and bricks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-19
Washing Woolen Blankets.

After trying any number of different ways of washing woolens, in an effort to find one that would cleanse without shrinking them, the one here recom- mended has been used for several years with entire satisfaction. By adhering to the simple rules here given any grade of woolens can be cleansed without shrink ing. but the rules are positively invio- lable
 Provide a generous allowance of hot soft water, white castillo, ivory or other pure soap and borax. Having the wash ing and rinsing waters of about the same degree of heat. Make good studs for the first water, but on no consideration put soap on the soiled article itself. Have the water as hot as the hands can bear comfortably and allow one level tea = spoonful of borax for every gallon of water; immerse the clothes and allow them to stand ten or fifteen minutes be- fore washing; then work them up and down. squeeze and, if necessary, rub with the hands, but never on wash, board.
 The water must be squeezed not twist ed out; consequently a wringer is better than the hands. Rinse through two wa- ters, using little less borax and no soap. but allowing the clothes to lie ten minutes in each, working them up and down and saueeEing. After wringing pull into shape and dry as quickly as possible, pulling out at least twice during the pro- cess of drying. Woolens must never be hung in hot sun, nor out of doors in freezing weather. In winter dry on clothes bars, standing the latter over a furnace register or near the kitchen range
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-19
MASS MEETING ON
 LIQUOR QUESTION

Montgomery, April 1s.--A special to the Advertiser from Girard, Ala, says:
 Editor ". F. Berry of the Phenix- Girard Journal spent today with his family in Phenix City without moles- tation, but Is on the Georgia side again tonight.
 Intense interest is being felt in tn e mass meeting called for tomorrow to take action regarding the blind tiger situation in Girard. Those who claim that the proportions of the present agi- tation have been greatly exaggerated think that the attendance will be small but the contrary view Is taken by Edi- tor Berry and his supporters.
 Mir. Berry was in telepho one communi- cation this afternoon with the office of the governor of Alabama and was again assured of the protection of his life and rights as citizen by the state of Ala bania- Unless there are other develop ments it is understood that the gov ernor will await the results of tomor- rows mass meeting before taking any action in the matter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-19
Shelley and Keats.
rom the Atlanta Georeia n

From the Atlanta Georgian.
 NioIe than ordinary interest attaches fo .he formal opening in Rome. Italy or the memorial house which commemorates Keats. anu
 Both died in this sunny cline os .h,, Mediterranean and both are buried fin inc GUY or Rome, near the pyramid of Csius Cestius 'i Saius Spezla. "Nii UT And It seems like an averaging Nemesis tlat death should have overtaken him in @ .Iiis manner; for his first wife. whom he committed suicide by drowning "'''
 However, it must be said to the cradir ol sheiley, whose views in regard to we'd lock were somewhat peculiar that ha dld not leave his first wife without the mAan. o1 support and her course in seeking sei,oestruction was doubtless prompted os hef love for her cratic husband
 me atheistic philosophy of Shelley has kept him from touching the great bAart or the world, but the structural form and beauty of his verse have given him ., strong hold upon the esthetio ina sination
 heats went to Italy to check the rav ages of consumption
 rms iii-starred English poet was a een rus or the rarest mold but he xvboll,, ,cNUo oppiecldliOn In his day exceDt hv ms two staunch friends, She. ana Byron anu
 The poetry-reading public was still I'm. uer the sway of Moore and Scott. Tho star or childe Harold was just beginning 10 emerge: and the new school of poetry was yet to come into favor. Conseouent- " Endymion" became the target for the most ruthless assaults of criticism.
 IL sickened the heart of poor Keats But ne continued to write. struggling all the while with the malady which was slowly preylng upon his vital cords; and finally ,he rupture of blood vessel put an end to ms unhappy existence at the age of 25.
 NO wonder in a fit of mental depression he wrote for his tomb the epitaph:
 Here lies one whose name Is writ fl, water i',
 But today wherever the English lan- guage Is spoken the name of Keats ia honored; and instead of being written in water 1t is written upon the enduring taoiets of his country's marble.
 The exercises in connection with tha formal opening of the memorial house were graced by the presence of King Vic tor emmanuel; and the funds for the pur- chase of the building, which was the ons In which Keats died, are said to have come in large part from this side of ths Atlantic. s'0
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-19
Mexican Easter Customs.

"In my country" said 8 Mexican wo- man, Easter Is the season when one sends flowers to every friend and neigh bor and to all the strangers within the gates. A guest in hotel may find his or her room submerged in flowers on Easter morning. It is our way of wishing them welcome, and answers to the Merry Christmas which is 80 delightful to hear in northern countries. We are also be- ginning. to send Easter eggs to children, but this Is the result of following the customs of the United States and Europe
 Some of the Mexican natives resent any intrusion on making Easter anything but what we most prize, the feast of flowers" |"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-19
ESCAPE FROM JAIL
 IS SENSATIONAL


 Chattanooga, April s.-tSpeeial.)-W. L.. I,awter, who is under sentence for five years for highway robbery, and whose case is now in the supreme court made & sensational escape from the Hamilton county Jail yesterday. Lawter, who is an active young white man. had been put to work at some painting In the base ment of the jail with a white trusty to watch over him. He chaneed to see that the door leading to the. yard was open and when the trustys back was partially turned bounced upon him and threw him to the ground.
 Lawter then dashed through the door, leaped over an eight-foot fence in the rear of the jail and dashed down Cherry street in full sight of dozens of passersby. Notwithstanding the fact that he was clothed in paint-splotched overalls and was distinguished by loose shoe sole which ''tiopped' continually and kept him from running, he eluded his pursuers, which immediately became legion, and is still at large.