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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-25
AVIATOR KILLED IN IOWA.
While Making Flight Mt Shenandoah
Strikes Air Pocket and Plunges
Fifty Feet To Ground.

Shenandoah, Ia, Sept. 21.-Avia-
tor Russell Blair of Kansas City,
aged 21, met death here yesterday
afternoon while giving an exhibition
flight under the auspices of the local
fire department, his Curtiss biplane
plunging fifty feet to the ground
while he was attempting to ascend.
An air pocket was the cause of his
accident The machine dropped like
a plummet and Blair was dead before
the wreckage of the machine could
be removed by those who were near
at hand when he fell.
Blair's engine had not been work
ing well and he had descended in a
field to investigate. He again arose
in the air and started back to the
field from which he started. He had
not gone far, however, before the
machine whirled over and plunged
to the earth. Blair's neck was brok-
en- by the weight of the engine and
he suffered other internal injuries,
! the propeller slashing his body in
a horrible manner.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-25
Greeks Assault Engine Grew.

Marshalltown, Iowa, Sept. "a
Because they fancied that the en-
gineer of Chicago-Great Western
freight tain was jolting them unne-
cessarily when he was switching their
boarding cars at Green Mountain
camp, party OF forty Greek track
laborers attacked the engine crew
and severely beat E. j. Roth of Des
Moines, the engineer. Roth would
probably have been killed had it not
been for the fireman, William Perez
field, of st. Joseph, Mo-, who attacked
the engineers assailant with a coal
pick and felled him.
The Greek dropped from the en-
CINE like a dead man and his country
men, believing MIN dead, gathered
and surrounded the engine, stonine
the enginemen. Order was not re-
stored until the townspeople ap-
peared and quieted the Greeks.
The Greek who was injured viii
recover. Percifeld's pick tore open
the mans nose and upper lip and
knocked him unconscious.
Further trouble is feared as the
Greeks say they will revenge the in
jury to their coutryman. The engine
crew has been armed, it is said, and
will resent any further intrusion
while they are on duty.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-25
OLD TIME REVIVAL DOOMED.
Methodist Conference at Boone OPP
poses ''Billy" Sunday Methods.

Boone, Sept. 23.-Bishop Hughes
and the Des Moines conference of
the Methodist church members have
not much faith in the old-fashioned
revival. The 5000 conversion plan
of doing business doesn't appeal to
them and it isn't likely that this con-
ference will have many more reviv-
ais of the billy" Sunday kind.
Bishop Hughes said that the minister
who depended for his accessions to
the church on the yearly revival
would soon fail. The bishop said
that the time was at hand for hand
to hand campaign, a man to man
affair, and to keep everlastingly at
it. The church must have more men
of this kind who will do personal
work and the bishop emphasized the
need of this personal work in the
churches of the Des Moines confer
ence.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-25
The Only WAY.


u smoke your favorite cigar, or
pipe, or cigarette
n hide a special motor car in
weather dry or wet.
u eat some toasted grain or flakes,
or use a special -four,
ID wash with soap an expert made
and drink as suits the hour.
II shave with raZors keen of edge,
and hunt with standard guns,
a with cash registers you pledge
your men as honest ones.
you chew gum, you know the kind
that always suits you best,
ID if you travel you've in mind the
roads that stand the test.
,u never buy thing you need by
guess or in the dark;
,u scan the lads" quite close, in-
deed, for this or that trade mark
Id those who have good things to
show, if on your cash intent,
i'll find stocks going mighty slow
without advertisement.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-25
ARREST ROAD BOSS.
Township Road Boss i'm Dubuque
County Arrested For Permit
ting Bad Roads.

The arrest of Ed Stoltz, the Cen
ter township, Dubuque county road
boss, on the charge of having per-
mitted the construction of water
brakes and allowing such brakes to
remain in the roadways in his road
district is a case of much more inn
portance than usually attaches to
such actions.
The last session of the legislature
enacted a law which provides thai
these brakes are not only unneces-
sary but are nuisance and should
be obliterated. The law specifically
stated that the brakes shall be done
away with and county attorneys
throughout the state have repeatedly
notified township and road officials
of the provisions of the law
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-25
Neteran, 100, Once Met La Fayette

Iowa City, Ia, Sept, 23.-John NJ.
lAnson of Johnson county, approach
lkng the age of 100, believes he is the
Tony living man in the middle west
lwho clasped the hand of Marquis de
Lafayette. when the French patriot
revisited America in 1924. Mr.. An
|son is attending the joint reunions
|if the Twenty-second Iowa and Twen-
Ity-eighth Iowa Veterans association
/ in Iowa City. He is one of the few
Survivors OF the "Graybeard" regi-
lment, famous in the civil war history
Iof Iowa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-25
Auto victims win Recover.

Mason City. Ia, Sept. 23.-All the
five people who were so badly in
bured in the automobile accident on
Friday last will recover. Two of
Them have been lowering between
life and death, but these are improv-
Fng now and the doctors announce
they will recover. Manager Bailey
|pf the Flying Squadron made an
announcement today that the races
which caused the injury of these
people will be pulled off soon but
|the North Iowa Fair management
IWill have nothing to do with them
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-25
Iowa Couple Married 30. years.

= Marshalltown, Iowa, Sept 20
8abably the oldest married couple
Iowa are Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
3elly of this city, who Thursday cele-
rated the seventeen anniversary of
peir wedding. Kelly is 80 years old
IND his wife will be 90 in April.
they have lived in this country since
1884 when tehy came from England,
heir native country. They were
(harried at Newcastle-on-Tyne Sept.
10, 1912. They settled in Chicago
II 1850, and were burned out by the
n fire of 1871.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-25
Town without a Lawyer.

Gilmore City, Sept. 23.-While
tany of the towns of Iowa have as
amy as a dozen lawyers, Gilmore
ity, a town of 1900 inhabitants
bes not support a lawyer. This has
ways secured very strange as the
lwn is growing very fast and has a
cry bright future. 1t is thought to
ye the ony town if it's size in Iowa
lithout a lawyer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-25
Directions for Girls.

j. Ogden Armour, apropos of leap
year, said at luncheon at the audi
forum in Chicago:
"A girl can take advantage of leap
year without being at all unmaiden-
ly. There are subtle and delicate
ways of doing things, and such ways
are just as efficacious as brutal,
knock-me-down ones.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-25

Mrs. J. n. Hill, Homer, Ca, has
used Foley's Honey and Tar Com
pound for years and says she always
recommends it to her friends. IT
never fails to cure our coughs and
colds and prevents Group. We have
FIVE children and always give them
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound
for a cold. We would not be without
it in our house" Sold by Z. a. Eng
bertson. Sept
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-25

There's a girl named Jones who
having been engaged altogether too
long, took advantage of leap year to
hurry on her voyage. But she ac-
complished this delicately. She sign
ed letter to her fiance AS always,
Edith Jones, and she underscored
always and Jones very heavily.
The marriage in consequence was
the next month"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-25

Our English check all wool craven
cite at $3.50 is trade winner.
BEN BEAR.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-25
DO Ii Now.

Some time you mean to amend youl
ways,
Why don't you do it now?
You hope to win the whole worlds
praise
Why don't you do it now?
You've always read in prose o.
- rhyme,
THE present is the golden time"
If you are ever going to climb,
Why don't you do it now?
Successful men are never late;
You'll fail if you procrastinate;
If you have vowed to conquer fate,
Why don't you do it now?
Anon.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-05-01

The political situation at the present
time is the most badly mixed since
the Civil war. The republican party
which has been drifting apart for
some years seems to have just about
reached the parting of the ways. The
stand-pat portion of the party is
rallying to the support of President
Taft and demanding his re-nomlna-
ton, and the progressives are divided
between ex-president Roosevelt and
Mr.. La Toilette, with Mr.. Roosevelt
a long ways in the lead. The fight
has become so bitter that the republi-
can prospects are decidedly discourage
ing, with either Mr.. Taft or Mr..
Roosevelt as a candidate. Probably
the best interests of the party may
demand that both shall give way to a
clean compromise candidate who IS
not a radical on either side. The
democratic situation is almost as de-
moralized as that of the republican.
The party is divided along stand-pat
and progressive lines almost as badly
as the republican. From the present
outlook 1T would seem that Mr.. Bryan
had the best chance OF his life as a
compromise candidate. The main
fact which stands out clear in this
great political contest is that the
people are demanding to have greater
voice in the management of the
government. They have become tired
of grating politics and demand
more efficient service aud honesty
from their servants.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-05-01

The state suffered a serious loss
last week with the burning OF the
Normal school at Cheney. The prin-
cipal school building was an entire
loss as we'll as the splendid library,
there being practically no insurance.
What is the matter with our state
administration which allows this kind
of carelessness? Is it the governor
or board of control who should look
after this? Whoever is at fault should
be condemned, as there is absolutely
no excuse for such thing as this to
happen. The building, which was
burned, cost S65, 900 in 1896, but many
additions and improvements have
been made, so that at least $3.50, 900
has been expended. This was all lost
save the heating plant and water
system. There we're about 900 pupils
attending the school at the time and
the work is now being carried on in
the churches of the city.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-05-01

suage the bitter sorrow, and will not
replace the millions of loss, but it
may teach lesson. 1t should teach
that the brain of man cannot conceive
boat which is absolutely safe,
and the greed of ship owners should
not allow them to go to sea with
fewer life boats than will carry every
person on board.
Perhaps at the bottom of this
terrible event the speed mania of the
American nation is at fault. The
desire to break records on the part of
the passengers and the management
was to blame for this wreck. Though
the captain had been warned that he
was in field of icebergs, the vessel
was speeding along at the rate of more
than twenty miles an hour, in dark,
foggy night. Nothing could have
been more unwise and an awful
penalty was paid for this disregard of
the elements.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-05-01

selves for the Office of county com
missioner OF course, the politician
desires all the candidates that can
possibly be induced to run, for this
will divide the vote so that a small
vote will name the nominee. Every
neighborhood seems to have some
man ambitious to become county
commissioner and rather than get
together and get practical business
farmer, they will probably make it
easy for a politician to win. This is
probably true of every commissioner
district in every coun ty of the state.
While it is legitimate for every man
who desires. to run for office, it is not
always wise. SO long as the great
body of voters can be divided it will
be easier for the politician to control
the situation.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-05-01

On another page of this issue we
publish letter from C. B. Kegely,
master of the State Grange. In this
letter Mr.. Kegley issues a warning to
patrons on political questions, calling
attention to the fact that in the con-
test for presidential nominees, voters
are apt to overlook the more impor tant
questions of local politics. He very
wisely states that the matter of elect
ing a president is of less Importance
than the election of a governor, at
torney general and other state officers.
He might have gone farther and
brought the matter even closer home
in such matters as the election of
county commissioners. A larger per
cent of the Taxpayers money is eX-
pended by the county commissioners
than any other part of their taxes.
1t is, therefore, of greater Importance
that the qualifications OF county
officers, and especially county com
missioners, be studied more carefully
than even the standard bearers of the
parties. One unfortunate feature of
American politics, at least SO far as
it pertains TO the farmers, is that he
is too suspicious of his neighbors.
They are more liable to follow some
political boss from town than a
neighbor. This is especially true,
also, of the members of the state
legislature.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-05-01
A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.

Since our last issue one of the
greatest tragedies OF history has been
enacted. A thousand miles from land
in the high way of the great Atlantic
traffic, the magnificent steamship
Titanic, upon whose building money
was lavished, and the most complete
boat of which the mind of man could
conceive, struck an iceberg and sank
with some sixteen hundred pas
sengers. The Titanic was hailed as
the unsuitable ship. 1t was believed
by experts that the vessel would float
under any circumstances, but on her
maiden trip from England to New
York, with twenty three hundred and
fifty souls on board, she was destroy
ed as easily as an eggshell in an eddy
filled with wreckage. Flowing
through the ocean at midnight she
struck mighty iceberg and in two
hours, carrying with her her great
cargo of human souls, she sank, and
les buried in thousand fathoms of
water.
The world has been aroused by
stories of this wreck, and it was
proven that but twenty life boats,
capable of carrying less than 800
people, were provided. These boats
we're lowered orderly, and women and
children placed therein and sent
adrift to be picked up in few hours
by sister ship and saved. The men,
however. were doomed, and sank
with the great vessel.
Among the passengers were hun
dreds of distinguished American
citizens, among them being Col. John
Jacob Astor of millionaire fame,
Chas. M. Hayes, the great railroad
builder, Col. Butt, famous soldier
and aide to President Taft, Isador
Straus, the great Jewish philanthropy
ist and hundreds of lesser known.
The tragedies enacted on board of
the vessel almost beggars description.
though they reflect glory on man.
Wives were torn from their husbands
and sent adrift with the probability
of rescue, while the husbands remain
ed aboard, knowing that death was
absolutely certain. Hundreds of
them jumped over board with life
preservers on, but in that awful gray
morning in the midst of icebergs,
death was certain from exposure
within few hours.
REORGANIZATION at this time will not
bring the dead to life; will not as
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-05-01

1t looks as though the summer agri
cultural school at Puyallup was going
to be a hummer. The people are wide
awake and leaving nothing undone to
make it success. AS Puyallup is in
the m idst of one of the finest farming
sections of the state, the place is an
ideal one for summer school. We
believe they will have larger attend
ance than the summer school of the
State College.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-05-01
Oregon primaries took a

Oregon primaries took a strange
course on the senatorial question.
Mr.. Jonathan Bourne, one of the most
progressive republicans in congress
and a leader for a parcels post system
was defeated by Mr.. Selling, a Port
land merchant. The peculiar feature
of this was the fact that Mr.. Selling
won in the country districts where
one would have expected Mr.. Bourne,
who represented the farmers, should
have been strong.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-05-01
NO BONDS AT THIS TIME.

In the last issue of The Ranch we
discussed briefly the proposed bond
issue for fifteen million dollars for
road building in the state of Washing
+ ton. The proposal at that time had
lust been advanced by the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce and since that
time has been taken up in many parts
of the state. Most of the commercial
bodies of the state have Endorsed the
plan.
such an issue is most ill advised. We
do not want to pose as an opponent
of good roads for we are fully aware
that there is nothing more important
to the farmer than to be able to reach
market at small expense. The reason
we oppose the fifteen million bond
| issue at this time is that road build
| ing in this state is still in an expert
mental stage. Practically every
county commissioner, every county
engineer and every road supervisor
has his own ideas as to how roads
should be built and maintained.
Scarcely two of them agree and the
result is that millions Of dollars have
been squandered in the state of Wash
ington on roads. The taxpayers cry
loudly for relief but their is no relief
in sight.
The county Of King, in which Seat
tie is situated, is paying about $780,
600 year into it's road fund. The
best roads it has are the gravel roads
where judgment has been used in road
making When good gravel can be
obtained and the roads properly
drained. a gravel road is an ideal
road. The advantage of such road is
that it gets better every year as gravel
is added to it's surface.
Through the White River Valley,
south of Seattle, for some years an
effort has been made to build hard
surface roads, extending from Seattle
to Tacoma, distance Of about forty
miles. The last section built cost to
exceeding thirty thousand dollars per
mile. 1t is a handsome looking road,
but owing to the nature of the soil,
will not wear Already it is breaking
through and will require an immense
amount for up keep. The taxpayer
who is paying thirty thousand mile
for roads must be making money
easier than a farmer can make it to
stand the drain. The farmer should
hesitate long time before approving
any such bond issue for road build
ing purposes.
1t is believed by the promoters of
this new scheme that hard surface
roads could be built for fifteen
thousand per mile and the issue
would therefore build approximately
a thousand miles of road. Fifteen
thousand per mile for a hard surface
road is double what it should cost.
The road students in the state, who
have given this subject the most
thought, believe that an average of
seven thousand five hundred dollars
per mile can build the best road
possible. Good gravel roads can be
built for half that amount and they
answer practically every purpose.
T ,at tha bond iSSua wait nntiI Wa know
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-05-01

The situation in King county at the
present time is worthy of copsidera-
ton. In the north district at Least
fifteen men have announced them
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-11-01
DiaS at MonteYue.

Charles Knapp, who came here from
Philadelphia to work at the Frederick
CITY Abattoir, died at the Montevue Hos
nital October 26 Word has been sent to
a firm in Philadelphia which recommend.
ed the workman to the Frederick plant.
When committed to Montevue he was in
a very serious condition. 1t IS said that
drink was one Of the causes of his death.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-11-01

See that every voter is in line
on Tuesday next. November 9th.
Get busy. - 1snEE-g.sll
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-11-01
Woodrow Wilson's Message to the American People

control it would set industry free. The enter.
prise and initiative OF all Americans would be
substituted for the enterprise and initiative
of a small group Of them. Economic democracy
would take the place of monopoly and selfish
management. American industry would have
buoyancy Of hope, new energy, a new variety.
With the restoration Of freedom would the
restoration Of opportunity.
Moreover, an admin STRAIT + on would at last be
set up in Washington, and legislative regime, ,
under which real programmes of social better
nent could be undertaken as they cannot now.
The government might be serviceable for many
things. 1t might assist in a hundred ways to
safeguard the lives and the health and promote
the comfort and the happiness Of the people; but
it can do these things only if its actions be
distinterested, only if they respond to public
opinion, only if those who lead government see
the country as whole, feel deep thrill OF
intimate sympathy with every class and every ina
terest in it, know how to hold even hand and
listen to of every sort and quality and
origin, in taking counsel what is to be done.
Interest muse not fight against interest. There
must be common understanding and a free ac-
tton all together.
The reason that I feel Justified in appeal
ing the voters Of this country to support the
Democratic party at this critical juncture in
ats affairs is that the leaders OF neither Of
the other perties propose to attack the problem
of a free government at its heart. Neither pro-
poses to make a Fundamental change in the policy
of the government with regard to tariff duties.
1t is with both of them in respect Of the tariff
merely quest ion of more OF less merely quesO
tion of Topping off a little here and amending
little there; while with the Democrats 1T is
a question of'princip1e. Their object is to cut
every spec1a4 laVoF OUT, ana cut II OUT JUST as
fast as it can be cut out without upsetting the
business processes OF the country. Neither does
either of the other parties propose seriously to
disturb the supremacy Of the trusts. Their only
remedy is to accept the trusts and regulate
them, Notwithstanding the fact that most af the
trusts constructed to insure high
prices, because they not based upon efftct~
ency but upon monopoly. Their success lies in
control. The competition Of more efficient oom~
petitors, not loaded down by the debts created
when the combinations we're made, would embarrass
and conquer them. The Trusts want the proteotton
Of the government, and are likely to get it If
either the Republican the so-called Progress
sive' party prevails.
Surely this is cause. Surely the quest ions
Of the pending election, looked at from this
point Of view, rise into cause. They not
merely the debates Of casual party contest.
They the issues Of life and death to MAJ
tion viii CHI must be free in order to be strong..
What Will patriotic men loS