Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-12-27
NEWS FROM CAPITOL
Iowa Man Goes to Washington and
i Writes For Iowa Papers.
OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.
Mr.. Geo. A. Wood, Former s. =;
Newspaper Man, Will Write Bro
News Items For Public
Opinion Readers.

We are very much pleased to
announce to our readers that we .
have engaged the services of .
Mr.. Geo. A. Wood, a former =
Iowa newspaper man, to send us 8
a weekly letter of news items =
from the national capital at y
Washington, ID. c.. Mr.. Wood =
is in position to get the facts .
y first hand, and during this most .
important session of congress,
preceding national election, =
his letters will be unusually in =
teresting.-The Editor.
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Washington, D. c., Dec. 25, 1911.
Who says men won't go to church?
They've had to invoke the injunc-
tion's aid to keep a Pennsylvania
man out!
Members of congress are complain
ing of the usual contemporaneous-
ness of war scares and naval appro-
priation bills.
liam jennings Bryan has been dis
covered. But his name is Kallitschi-
witch!
Washington scientists are all
worked up over a blizzard on
Mars; but so long as it stays that
far away, we shall not worry.
On January 18th Uncle Sam will
blow in $1,0OO,00O for $4,000, 900
pounds of paper, one-third of which
will be used in printing the Congress
sional Record and other public docu-
ments.
Director Newell says that the trou-
bles of the Reclamation Service only
begin when the engineering prob
lens have been solved and construc-
tion completed, and that-the real diff
ficulties come In dealing with the
settlers, giving them sound advice
and at the same time collecting from
them the cost of the work.
Representative Prouty of Iowa has
introduced bill providing that the
United States government shall CO.
operate with the various states in
the construction of public roads, and
providing for a continuing appro-
priation from the federal treasury,
to be apportioned among the several
states.
Now that Arizona has decided to
send Marcus A. to the United States
Senate, the illustrious family Smith
will have five members in the upper
branch Of congress. The others are
William Alden of Michigan, John
Walter of Maryland, Ellison d. of
South Carolina, and Hoke of Geor-
gia
Within short time trains will be
running over the first federal rail-
road. This is 22 mile stretch
from Boise to Arrowrock, Idaho,
built to carry laborers and supplies
for work during the next few years
on what is to be the highest dam in
the world, the Arrowrock dam, which
will tower $50 feet into the air, and
supply water to 250,00O acres OF
land.
That the movement to establish a
department of health will not sue
ceed at the present session of con-
gress is the prediction of Charles
Miller, former, member of the Iowa
legislature, who has been active In
!. the movement against the proposed
legislation as the representative oi
the National League for Medical
Freedom, and who has been in Wash.
ington since the opening of congress
Hands Across the Sea" will here.
after not appeal strongly to Thomas
Warren of Spartansville, Texas
While working at a cotton gin IL
August, 1910, Warren's left hand
was cut off and in the excitement
following the accident the severed
member was lost, and has just beer
recovered, considerably fiattened, bu
otherwise we'll preserved, from {
Dale or cotton In factory at Man
chester, England.
Secretary Wilson is an advocate O
the "loss-off" system of egg buying
the general adoption of which HI
thinks will result in an improvement
in the quality of eggs shipped tt
market. Under this system all egg
bought are subjected to process
which shows exactly their state o
preservation, while under the lease
count" system the market price Il
paid for each dozen, whether good o.
bad.
Rats, puffs, switches, wigs ant
other articles Of feminine hea,
adornment, popularity believed to b