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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-05-03
Let's Have New Men.

Cedar Rapids Republican: In
mentioning possible candidates for
state offices next year a Des Moines
paper stumbles, inadvertently and
Internationally, on the name of e.
ID. CHASED for secretary of state and
Emory English for auditor of state.
These two men are the retiring state
printer and state binder. Each has
had six fat years in Office, but fat
ness in office is apt to breed also
appetite for Office. These names are
part of the old slate, the slate of
the Kitchen cabinet" which includ-
ed Ex-attorney Byers for the Office
of senator. But we advise all poll
tical cabinets to go slow with states.
The people have enjoyed slate
smashing of late and they may want
to do more of it. Why not try new
men, young men fresh from the peo-
pie, not warped and weather worn
in the great game of politics? The
more we think of new men as well
as of new ideas the more we become
infatuated with them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-05-03
MINSTREL AT l.. c.
Annual Public Program of Amphic-
tyonic Literary Society Cele-
brating Anniversary.

Friday last was the twentieth an
niversary of the organization of the
Amphictyonic Literary Society of
Luther College, and the event was a
gala one for the members of that
society and in fact all who were in
attendance at the public program
given by them. The fact that the
boys were to give minstrel show
attracted a large audience, and they
were most delightfully."- entertained
The music, the jokes, the speeches
and the whole evenings entertain
ment was fine, and the society GER
tainly scored a success on this oc-
casion and fittingly celebrated the
anniversary.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-05-03
MAIL TO BE COUNTED.
More Work For Post Office EN-
ployes Provided by
Hitchcock.

Every piece of mail and the num-
Der of times it is handled in the To-
cal pest Office every day is to be re-
corded during May by the POSTAL en-
ployes. Orders for such counting
have been received from Postmaster
General Frank Hitchcock. 1t is taken
here that Hitchcock is trying to find
what mail is the most profitable to
the department and that the investi-
cations are a part of those ordered
by congress at the last regular ses-
sion.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-05-03
Cresco Defeats Decorah.

The high school base ball team
was defeated at Cresco Friday by the
score of 20 to II. 1t was the first
game for the local team, and they
are mostly new players, while their
opponents were largely seasoned
men, and in view of the circum-
stances, the local team made good
showing.
The lineup of the home team is
as follows: Royal McClaskey, catch
err; Norman Quandahl, LIST base;
jamie Croft, I'd base; Alfred Tufte,
shortstop; Gavin Hjerleid, Sd base;
Sigurd Hanson, right field; Sigurd
Arneson, center field; Will Thor
crimson, left field; George Baker,
pitcher.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-05-03
APPROPRIATIONS LARGE
Recent Legislature Spends Over
Two Millions of
Dollars.
WHAT IT WILL BE SPENT FOR.
Some Interesting Facts Concerning
Outlay of Money for Pur-
poses of the State.

The coming two years of the state
administration will be by far the
most expensive in the history of the
state. The extraordinary appropri-
ations go far beyond record of any
recent legislature. Something over
two million dollars was appropriate
ed. The record of the last four leg
islative sessions is: :.
31st General Assembly. !. 81, $50, 200
32nd General assembly. 1880, 1000
33rd General assembly. 1,121, 900
34th General assembly. 2,100, 900
The 31st and 32nd General AS
semblies each ordered state tax to be
collected to the amount of S2,250,-
600 year; the 33rd ordered
100000 year and the saith put
it up to $2,40O,G00 a year.
The appropriation bills have not
as yet been arranged for the session
laws and the state officials have not
figured out exactly how. much money
was spent in the bills just signed,
but the sum is approximately as CIV
en-. There are a number Of items
net included, however, because of
uncertainty as to how much will be
used.
The appropriations for the state
educational, industrial, penal and
charitable institutions amounted to
S1,520,050, which is S620,250 larg-
er than two ears ago, the increase
being almost entirely for the use Of
the board of education.
Aside from this set of appropria.
tons the larger items are: Institu
ton deficit s26,5OO; legislators in.
creased pay, $4,000; state fail
buildings, $4,000; state fire mar.
shall $4,000; employers liability
commission, $4,000; expense state
agents, $4,000; serum laboratory
$4,000; dairy and food commission
$4,000; railroad commission, $51
900; tax commission, $4,000; ad'
ditional judges, S21, 900; library
support, $4,000; board of parole
increased expense, $4,000; STATE
aid to high schools, $4,000.
In the omnibus appropriation bill
passed on the last day there wa
over 100000 carried; but onl.
$4,000 is counted, because the re
mainder is either re-appropriated OF
contingent. The total is about $1,000
900 that will be spent the next two
years.
When the legislature adjourned
no statement was possible as TO the
exact amount appropriated. Chair
man Mates Of the appropriation
committee had figures very neari.
complete but on the last day change:
were made affecting the totals.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-05-03
Electric Lights.

Electric light is now cheaper. The
last argument of other lighting sys-
TENS is gone and they can no long
er offer even the claim of economy.
With Mazda Tungsten Lamps, cleo
trio light becomes at once a greater
luxury and also much cheaper. The
distinctive feature of the Tungsten
Lamp is the metal filament, which
gives a greater quantity of clear,
white light with about one-third
the electricity required by old style
lamps giving the same candle pow
err. 1t will pay you to investigate
this new lamp whether you are now
using electric light or not. We would
like to tell you about these new
lamps. Upper Iowa Power Co.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-05-03
Health Notice.

Residents Of DEBORAH are hereby
notified to clean up their alleys and
put them in sanitary condition. Do
net dump refuse any place until you
are instructed by street commission
er Protheroe or Alderman-at-large
Peter Jensen. A. j. Swezey, NJ. d.,
City Health officer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-05-03
Graduating Glass Photos.

Luther College people have al
ready given photographer Reynolds
a large amount of work this spring
and at meeting held at the college
last week they decided to have Mr..
Reynolds make the photos for the
graduating class.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-05-03

This does not take into oonsiaera-
ton the interest on the investment
or taxes because these are such vari-
able factors. This system of farm
ing may as we'll be practiced on $50
an acre land close to small market
as upon $500 land close to a larger
market. Neither does this take into
account the increased fertility Of the
land which adds materially to the
value of the farm.
This system of farming will be
practiced more in the future on
account of the limited land avail
able. At the present time it offers
fine inducements to the small land
owner.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-05-03
A WindfaII.

Husband-Did the cook you hired
show up?
Wife-No. Wasn't it fortunate?
Another one rang our bell by mis-
take looking for Mrs. Gillet next
door and I kept her instead.-Har-
per's Bazaar.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-05-03
Domestic Wrappers.

Your friend is rather indicate,
remarked Mrs. Wombat. Says he
gave her husband some panatellas
for Christmas"
what's wrong with that?"
Il wouldn't think of mentioning
sleeping garments in public. -
Louisville Courier-J ournal.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-05-03
A Crusher.

Gerald-My dog knows as much
as / do"
Geraldine-Why don't you get an
intelligent dog?-Chicago Record
Herald.
Now is the time to get Md of your
rheumatism. You will find Cham
berlain's Liniment wonderfully effec-
tive. One application wQl convince
you of its merits. H1W It. For sale
by all medicine dealers. May
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-05-03
Rear View Exhibit.

Doctor-You must put porous
plaster on the small of your back.
Lady-That's impossible, doctor.
I'm going to the opera tonight-how
would / ?'-Milwaukee News.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-05-03
BOW-WOW! Wow!

Sauerkraut, we are now assured,
contains the longevity germ, and is
the proper food for man. Now a
good word for the frankfort that
holds it down.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-21
LARGEST IN THE WORLD.
Young Woman Weighs Over Eight
Hundred Pounds.

Miss Gertrude Burke Of Chicago
largest woman in the world, is visit
ing at the home Of Mrs. H. W. Hayes
at Alton, III. Miss Bu.Ee is twenty
two years of age, weighs S25 pounds
stands five feet, seven inches, and
some of her measurements are: Arm
IS inches; waist, 54; bust, rs. She
wears No. - shoes anl No.
gloves.
When she was born Miss Burke
weighed fifteen pounds, and at eight
years of age weighed $50. At the
HAYES home she sits on two chairs
placed facing each other. Miss
Burke goes through doors by turn
ing sideways, and it is pretty hard
squeeze at that.
Efforts have been made by show
men to get Miss Burke to exhibit
herself, but she has never been
tempted. Her parents left her an
estate and she does not need the
money.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-21
KILLED BY 4 SNOW SLIDE.
Man and Wife Overwhelmed in Home
by an Avalanche.

Stanley Mcclellan and his wife
were killed recently by snowslide
that demolished their home at the
Patridee mine on the West Of Lake
Atlin, Y. T.
Victor Carlston, who was standing
near the house, was caught up by
the avalanche and carried thousand
feet down the mountain. He suffered
several broken ribs, but will recover
Mcclellan had just gone into the
house to aid his wife in preparing
dinner, when the snowslide swept
down upon them, crushing the stone
building into bits.
Mcclellan was peeling potatoes
when the snow overwhelmed his
home, and when his body was recov-
cred the knife was firmly grasped
in his hand. When Mrs. Mcclellan
body was uncovered it was found
that her glasses were unbroken.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-21
SEVERAL PARDONS GRANTED.
Governor Blease's Pardon Mill Still
in Good Order.

Aaron Williams, a white man VINO
was convicted in Kershaw county in
1903 on the charge of murder and
upon recommendation to mercy SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment in the
state penitentiary, has been parcled
by the Gov. Blease during good be-
havicr. He left the penitentiary after
a service of only eight years for
murder.
Dewitt Rogers, who was convicted
in Spartanburg county in JUNE OF
this year on the charge of violating
the dispensary law and sentenced to
six months or a fine Of $500, las
been paroled by the governor.
Ella Jernigan, who Was convicted
in Marlboro county in October OF
1910 and sentenced to two years in
the penitentiary on the charge OF
mansiaughter, has been parcled.
The sentence of c. w. V. Benton,
who was convicted in Beaufort coun-
ty and sentenced to six months i'm
prisonment or a fine of $500 or six
monthn on the chain gang.
Since assuming office or January
II OF this year the governor has ex-
tended clemency in 25o cases as fol-
lows: Paroles 1874; pardons lis.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-21
KILLS Ills D.,..ls321
MOST DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT
NEAR SUNis1ERTON.
Mr.. Henry B. Richardson Accidental
ly Shoots and Kills His Young and
Newly Welded Wife.

A special dispatch from Summer
ton says one of the most deplorable
tragedies in the history Of that Sec
ton occurred near that place Thurs
day morning when the young and
newly welded wife of Mr.. Henry b.
Richardson was accidentally shot
and killed by gun in the hands of
her husband. From the testimony
brought out at the corners inquest,
neld at the home a. noon, it appears
tnar Mr.. and Mrs. Richardson were
preparing % drive into Summerton
Immediately after breakfast.
The deceased was in her bed room
when her husband entered and pick
ed up a double-barreled shotgun
from a corner, intending 10 kiH a
chicken with it. While speaking TO
his wife he examined the gun to see
if it was loaded, and as he closed the
breech there was deafening report,
followed by cry of pain, and the
young woman fell mortally wounded
to the floor. The entire load enter
ed her left side, just beneath the
arm, tearing her heart entirely a
way and causing immediate death.
Just a few days ago the young
couple surprised their large CIRCLE OF
friends by announcing their mar
riage, which took place in Augusta,
Ga, on the 10th instant. The de-
ceased was a young woman OF is
years of age, and was widely known
and deservedly popular hereabouts'
She was the daughter of Mr.. James
Douglas Deas, formerly of Camden,
but now living at SumD1erton. Mr..
Deas is in the West at the present
time.
Mrs. richardson had several bro
theirs and sister, all Of whom have
been notified of the accident. The
husband is young man Of great
promise and is completely over
whelmed by the terrible tragedy.
The interment was at St. Mark S
Chuuch, Clarendon, at 9 o'clock on
Friday afternoon, goth instant. The
sympathy of the entire community
goes out to the young husband and
groom in his grief.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-21
COUPLE WHO WE'RE DIVORCED
Remarry After Living Apart for Fiji
ty Three Years.

j. S. Norman, resident o. Fuller
ton, Neb., remarked his first wife
on the fifty-third anniversary of their
first wedding day, after having been
married to. two other women.
After living together for fifteen
years, Norman and the woman he has
i lst remarked were divorced. Norman
then married Mrs. Lasy Townsend,
of Fullerton, with whom he lived
for twenty-five years. She died flf-
teen years ago, and ten years ago
he married Mrs. Margaret Houser,
who died recently.
Recently Norman wrote his first
wife, and two weeks ago she came
to see him. She responded to his ad-
vances and promised to remarry him.
They are living at the home where
they began housekeeping.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-21
SOLD HER FOR CAIN
WOMAN MAKES THIS CHARGE
AGAINST HUSBAND.
Three Months After Their Marriage
She Declares He Bartered Her to
Chicago Millionaire.


my husband-that serpent whom
i killed last week-repeatedly sold
me-sold my body-to Chicago
millionaire. Once rich himself, Pat
terson resorted to the worst when
he lost his money. He sold me on
one occasion to that millionaire for
$1,000. The purchaser took me to
Europe and there we-well, I'll drop
the curtain on what we did there
Do you wonder that I shot Patter-
son?"
This will form the line of defense
for Mrs. Gertrude A. Patterson, now
in jail at Denver, Col, for shooting
and killing her husband, Charles Pat
terson, in the Phipps sanitarium in
that city last week. 1t means she
will plead temporary insanity, the
climax of long series Of unspeak-
able brutalities."
"He spat in my face, struck and
called me the vilest name man can
call a woman" she declares, and
shows a bruise on her cheek, which,
she said, resulted from her hus-
bands blow. Il have evidence in
my husbands own handwriting that
will undoubtedly clear me before
jury" declared Mrs. Patterson.
Mrs. Patterson told her hideous
story without reservation to her at
torney, concealing nothing concern
ing her relations with a Chicago man.
and, at the same time, overlooking
nothing which would serve to dis
credit the character of her husband
According to Patterson's diary
found among his effects, he knew
his wife was in Europe in Jan,
uary and February, 1909, and
could not have left her husband in
February on excuse of going to visit
her family in St. Louis, as he al
legged in divorce suit he had filed
against her.
Three months after we were mar
ried," said Mrs. Patterson in telling
her story, "Chales Patterson told me
to go to a Chicago millionaire for
$1,000. He told me he might take
me where he pleased, that he might
have me as long as he pleased and
that the sum paid in cash was his
compensation. Four weeks later
when the Chicago man and l were
in Europe, Patterson wrote me that
unless I returned to him by first
boat, he would follow me and kill
me He had spent the money then
and he wanted me back that he
might secure more That was the
life to which he led me. He sold me
at time when l did not know where
my next meal was coming from.
Three months after we were mar
ried my husband arranged with the
Chicago millionaire to take me of
his hands for as long a time as he
cared to. keep me. We went abroad
at once. Our stay in Europe, espec-
tally at Paris, was just what you
might expect that it was. Why &C
into details?"
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-21
WERE NOT THE ONES.
Quest for Capt. Jarvis Results Tn
successfully.

The News and Courier says after
a two-day search of the islands about
Stono Inlet in an effort to discover
the bodies of Capt. Edward l.. Jar
Wis, of the schooner Margaret A.
May, and his two brothers, who lost
their lives when their vessel was
wrecked in the great hurricane OF
August 81 and IS, the Custom House
launch Sumter returned to the city
Wednesday afternoon. The bodies
were. exhumed by the search party,
and the evidence failed to substan-
tiate the report that one of them was
that OF the gallant and popular sea-
man, whose many friends in Charles
ton have never ceased to deplore his
untimely death.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-21
MURDERERS TO BE HANGED.
Two Negroes Will BE Executed fol
killing Negroes.

At the conclusion of the Court OF
General Sessions at Chester on We'd
nesday, Judge Watts passed sentence
on Henry Kee, for the murder OF
Sam Dye; and Mack Hood, for the
murder of Walker Dunlap, sentenc,
ing them to hang on December s.
These will be the first legal hang
ings in Lancaster county in twenty
one years. The last hanging was
that of Roach Catoe and Will ely
burn, for the murder of Gus Hem
mis-. Out Of the twelve murder cases
tc come Up at this term, all except
two were tried. Two were convicted
OF murder in the first degree, one
with recommendation to mercy, and
one of manslaughter.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-21
Two Killed About u Hog.

T. l. Hill and J. NJ. Reveis, farm
ers, living near Adel, Ga, were shot
and killed in a quarrel over 4 hog
belonging to a tenant on Hills place
which had gotten into a field be-
longing to Revels. When the men
met hot words were passed and Hill
shot Revels. A son of Revels then
shot Hill through the heart.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-21
Birth Rate Low in France.

For the five-year period from
1901 to 1905 inclusive the number
of births a thousand of population
in six leading countries of Europe
was as follows: In Holland, 155;
in Germany, 149; in Great Britain,
121; in Austria, 113; in Italy, LOG,
and in France, Is.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-21
Eugene Ely, the Famous Aiaman's Ca.
rser Ends 10 Fall al hacon
JUMPED TO his DEATH
Loses Control of Machine, which
Plunges Downward, and Endeav-
ors to Jump to Safety-Bcdy Brok.
en- in Many Places, End Coming
Eleven Minutes Later.

Eugene Ely, the we'll known avia-
tor, was fatally injured at the State
Fair grounds her shortly after 3
o'clock Thursday afternoon, when his
aeroplane refused to rise after sem
sational dip and plunged with him
nifty feet to the earth.
In the presence OF nearly 5000
people he fell to the middle of the
inclosure of the mile track, almost
clearing the machine by desperate
Jump he made when he realized his
peril. His body was broken in a score
of places, and he died eleven mlnu-
tes after the fall. Just before the
end came he regained consciousness
and muttered.
81 lost control; I know I am going
to die
Ely made "a remarkable Hight
Thursday morning shortly before
noon, ascending to an altitude OF
800 feet. At .2.45 o'clock he began
his second flight of the day., rising
gracefully from the track inGlosure
which he circled in few minutes
travelling at about thirty miles an
hour. AS he was completing the cir
Gle. he made one of his famous dips
apparently to startle the thousands
beneath him who were watching with
straining eyes. The birdlike machine
shot down with tremendous velocr-
ty, the crowd applauded, thinkig that
the aviator would rise, as he had
done countless times before. But
Ely seemed to lose his grip on the
lever, for the machine continued its
downward plunge to the earth.
Realizing his peril, Ely released
the lever altogether and half jumped,
barely clearing the aeroplane as 1t
crashed to the ground. 1t was demoi"
sshed, flying bits of wood and metal
aying hundreds of feet. Ely struck
with terrific force. Scores rushed
acoss the track to where he lay, a
broken, bloody, inert mass, to offer
him aid. He was tenderly removed
from beneath the wreckage which
covered him, and carried to his quar-
terS.
The vast crowd, excited and GU
rious, rushed forward, but, were
kept in order by the policemen. Ell
forts were made to resuciate the
aviator, but he only regained con-
sciousness for moment, before his
death. Even in his unconscious state
his physical agony was manifest.
Ely left his wife in New York
two weeks ago to come to Macon to
give a series of flights for the Geor-
gia State Fair, in his Curtiss bi-
plane. En- route he stopped at Dav-
enport, La, to visit his relatives. He
had been giving spectacular aerial
demonstrations at Macon for eight
days, going up on one occasion amid
a shower of rain.
Thursday he even offered to make
flight by night, painting his craft
with PHOSPHORUS, $50 as to startle
the natives" he told the Fair direc-
tors. The offer was declined.
Ely was the first man to alisht on
the deck of a warship with an aero
plane. During an aviation meet, held
in San Francisco, distance of about
twenty miles, and alighted, on the
deck of the cruiser Pennsylvania,
which was anchored in San Francis
co Bay After holding reception on
board the warship, Ely flew from
the ship back to the camp and land
ed safely.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-21
Monument to Gen. Morgan.

Lexington, KY, was the Mecca
Wednesday of Confederate Veterans,
their sons and daughters, from all
over the West and South. The oc-
casion for the gathering was the un-
yelling of an 1Sfoot bronze eques-
trian monument to Gen. John H
Morgan, the Confederate leader.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-21
Was Killed on Street Car.

At Montgomery, Ala, A. G. Jami-
son, a fruit vender, shot and killed
John Bice, a street car conductor, on
the rear end of a street car in the
heart Of the city. Circumstances
leading to the killing are unknown.
Jamison has been arrested on a
charge of murder.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-21
Will Beat Them Both.

That the next President Of the
United States would be Democrat;
that Mr.. Taft would be the nominee
of the regular Republicans, with La
Toilette the possible nominee of the
insurgent faction, were the view en-
pressed at Lake Charles, La, We'd
nesday by Speaker Champ Clark.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-21
Killed Il Huge Rattler.

A rattlesnake that had as its
caudal appendage 23 rattles and a
button was killed in Saltkehatchic
swamp, several miles from Barnwell,
by D. Z. Aldrich, last week. The
rattles were cut off and brought to
Barnwell. They measured five inches
in length.