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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-15
Two More New Teachers.

The list of teachers for the De-
corah public schools for next year
has been completed with the election
on Saturday of Miss Sadie Nj. Hanna
of Manchester for the third and
fourth grades of the west side school,
and Miss Bertha o. Finch of Cedar
Falls for the seventh grade, east side.
Miss Hanna is a graduate of the
Manchester high school and the
School of Education of Drake Uni
versity, Des Moines, and Miss Finch
is a graduate of the State Teachers
College of Cedar Falls. Both hold
state certificates. The matter of the
new normal course, provided by the
last legislature, is under considera-
tion by the board, and will be thor
oughly investigated until decision
is arrived at as to whether to in
augurate it or not.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-15
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.
Items of Interest From the DEBORAH
High School, Reported by Our
Special Correspondent.

The Senior class play, "The Cir
With the Green Eyes," is progress
ing rapidly under the supervision OF
Mr.. Morss, and bids fair to be what
the class is trying to make it, the
best class play ever given in DEBORAH
The Glass of 1912 will furnish
their own music for commencement
on June 9Th.
The Senior class has ordered their
commencement announcements.
On account of the rain the base
ball game with Cresco was postponed
until Monday, May 13.
The base ball team will go to Fay
cite on May II, to play the high
school of that town.
The boys basket ball team had
their pictures in the st. Paul Pioneer
Press on Sunday, May 5th.
The girls basket ball team had
their pictures in the Des Moines Reg
lister and Leader for April IA.
Miss Emma Jewell was a visitor al
school Friday.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-15
BANKS AID FARMERS.
Cooperation of Government and
Farmers i'm Financial Matters
Asked by DEBORAH Banker.

The following is from the New
York Sun, and describes the meeting
of the members of the Executive
Council of the American Bankers AS
ISOLATION in New York, which Mr..
and Mrs. E. j. Curtin Of this city are
attending:
1.-The spring meeting of the Execu-
tive Council of the American Bankers
Association for the advancement of
banking and allied interests through
cut the country opened yesterday at
Briarcliff Lodge, Briarcliff Manor.
The day was devoted to committee
meetings on finance, trust companies,
express companies, federal legisla-
ton and agricultural and financial
development.
More Llan 100 bankers represent
ing about $4,000 banks throughout
the United States were present and
were entertained by Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank A. Vanderlip in the afternoon
and evening. The reports of commit
tees will be read today at the open
ing of the general executive council.
The most interesting of the re-
POllS VI lllG lidl lnCl Co
terday was that of the agricultural
and financial development and edu-
cation committee, of which Joseph
Chapman, Jr., of the Northwestern
National Bank of Minneapolis is
chairman. This committee was form
ed to consider the agricultural meth
DDS of the country and to cooperate
with the farmers for better farming.
The report of the committee also
points out that the agricultural col
leges of this country are on the aver
age twenty years ahead of the farm
er, and that the committee is endeav-
oring to bring theory closer to prac-
tice by the starting of demonstration
farms in every state, and the men,
bers hope in every county.
They desire bill in congress that
shall give government aid to state
agricultural colleges, and E. j. Cur
tin, committee member, and presi-
dent of the Iowa Bankers AssOcia-
ton, said last night that a bill pro-
viding funds for this purpose was
likely to be passed by congress in the
present session. He said that Senator
Hoke Smith, Senator Page and many
other leaders were interested in the
project.
Mr.. Curtin told of the enormous
financial results that would come
from a slight increase in the yield
in corn from his own state, Iowa. He
said that if an increase of ten bushels
an acre could be brought about it
would represent yearly profit OF
$S0,OO0,000 and that such an in
croaco Wac DOcsibfa
This afternoon Mr.. and Mrs. Van
derlip held a reception at Beechwood
and this evening they entertained
230 persons at dinner at the Sleepy
Hollow Country Club. The dinner
was informal and an exhibition of the
kinemacolor pictures of the durbar
took the place of speeches"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-15
A Musical Triumph.

Had you been at the Grand opera
house last Wednesday night and not
known the musical organization
rendering the program you would
have wondered if you were not lis
tening to one of the world-famous
bands of America, instead OF the
Luther College Concert Band, COM
posed entirely of students, the per-
sonnet of which is changing constant
ly with the passing years. Prof.
Sperati has done remarkably well
with this organization. He has dem
onstrated his wonderful ability as an
organizer and director, and the band
is a credit not alone to him but to
the college and city as we'll. the
program contained several classical
numbers, such as are seldom II ever
attempted by organizations of this
character, and the rendition was
marvelously correct. Local interest
rose to its highest pitch when Al. b.
Conig.skys new march, "The Vlk-
| ing was offered. 1t is Mr.. Conf
gisky's best composition, full OF
spirit, and was Interpreted so well
that the audience clamored for ar
encore. The finale, THE Musician
Hold-Up." was a comedy in music
that brought forth much laughter
The program was but another OF the
many musical triumps of Prof. Sper
att and his organizations.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-15
Accents Road Position.

Alfred Blagsvedt, who has been
assistant freight agent of the c., NJ.
& st. P. Ry. for some time past, has
resigned his position and next Mon
day will start out on the road Tor
the HORNED Packing company OF Aus
tin, MINI. His territory will be
south and east of DEBORAH, and Is
arranged so as to permit him to be
home Sundays. We have no doubt
that he will make good. He Is fine
young man, of good business ability,
and will no doubt prove valuable
salesman for this company.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-15
sOLOIsTs FOR ORATORIO.
Four Chicago Singers of National
Reputation to Sing Solos
i'm Elijah"

The list of soloists for the oratorio
Elijah which will be offered by
the DEBORAH Choral Union on Tues
day evening, June 18th, at the Grand
opera house, is now complete, and
includes without doubt the best quar-
tette of vocalists of national reputa-
ton ever heard in DEBORAH. Mr.. Marion
Green of Chicago, former DEBORAH
boy, son of Rev. H. H. Green and
brother of this editor, is well known
here. He has sung here on previous
occasions, in DEBORAH, and perhaps
has been in greater demand for ora
torio work during the past few years
than any other singer in the United
States. He is director of the Sunday
Evening Club chorus of eighty of
the best singers in Chicago, and the
others who will come with him are
members of his organization: Mabel
Sharp Herdien, who will sing soprano,
is said to be one of the best lady
oratorio vocalists in the country. She
recently sang THE Messiah" with the
famous Chicago Opollo Club and
with the Thomas Orchestra, and is
without doubt the best soprano ever
appearing here in oratorio. Mrs.
Downing, alto, and Mr. Elias Bredin,
tenor, are also singers of wide repu-
tation and the four will doubtless be
heard with much pleasure by our
people. The chorus of one hundred
of the best voices of DEBORAH and
Luther College and the orchestra OF
twenty pieces, all under the direc-
ton of that master of oratorio, Prof
Carlo A. Sperati, will render a pro-
gram of rare merit and entertain
ment.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-15
Business Changes.

The following business changes
mentioned in these columns a few
weeks ago have taken place this
week. Otto Anderson has moved mis-
candy store into the Mrs. Anderson
building east of his former place.
which he has purchased, II. II. Worth
has moved his music store into the
room vacated by Mr.. Anderson, ana
]. l.. Hamre is preparing to move
his shoe store sinto the room on
Washington street vacated by IA. H.
Worth. All of these changes are IN
the nature of improvement.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-15
Memorial Day Observance.

The forty-hftn rational enca.Ii4q-
ment, held at Rochester, New YORK,
in August, 1911, ordered that, as
part of the public observance OF
Memorial Day, bells be tolled from
twelve o'clock until twelye-five, and
that flags be placed at half staff. In
conforming to the order the Com
mander of Col. Hughes Post would
respectfully ask church officers TO
assist him and request the janitors
to toll the bells from twelve O'Clock
noon until twelve-five.
He also requests that the hags on
the public buildings be placed at half
staff on Memorial Day.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-15
CONVICTs ON IOWA ROADS.
Warden Does Not Believe Such a
Plan Practical. Would
Crush Stone.

There is much talk over the state
the working of roads by
but to those who have
watched the convict labor question,
the question does not appeal very
strongly.
In speaking of the subject, Ward
en- McClaughry of the reformatory at
Anamosa brings out some phases OF
the question that have never been
brought to the attention of the pub
lie before. The principal thing to
'keen in view all the time, says Ward
en- McClaushry, is tAat in working
the roads of thicl<ly settled state,
like Iowa, is the fact that through
morbid curiosity alone more harm
would result from the distribution of
a number of convicts over the state
than would be gained in the expert
ment.
The labor could not be performed
at all cheaper than with free labor,
for the reason that 1t would take
many more men to properly guard
the camps than ii does to do the
work with free labor. 1t is true that
in the western states they have made
a fair success with small groups of
convicts whose time has almost ex-
pired, and who are placed on their
honor" to stay under guard away
from the thickly settled districts the
balance of their time.
If the money was forthcoming to
establish an adequate stone crusher
plant at the state quarries an un-
limited amount of stone for road
work could be furnished, according
to the warden. In this way convict
labor could be utilized in making the
roads OF Iowa the finest in the coun-
try.
During the past year small
crusher was installed at the quarry,
and some rock furnished for road
purposes, but the crusher is entirely
| too small to do much for the roads
and furnish the crushed stone for
other purposes. If a larger plant was
Installed the quarry could be cleaned
up, which would mean many miles
of good roads, as the refuse stone
mas been accommodating for years and
the future supply is unlimited.
A plan something like this would
work, but the plan of scattering the
prisoners all over the state would
never prove beneficial nor would Ii
reduce the cost of keeping up the
roads.
Crushed stone is one of the prin-
cipal parts of good roads, and with
the cost OF this material reduced to
the transportation charges only, a
great amount of work could be done
in places that will never be good
roads until macadamized with this
material, it is said.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-15
To Auto Drivers.

The school board requests drivers
of automobiles to slow down their
cars while passing the public school
buildings, during school hours. The
lives of the children are endangered
by too fast driving while the little
ones are going to and returning from
school and during recess.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-15
Ahattoir Burns Down.

Thursday afternoon the Rock Is
land passenger train emitted sparks
from the engine which set fire to
the grass and the Bollinger G. Goltz
slaughter house southeast of the fair
grounds. The building burned to the
ground, and it was only with diff
Guilty that the live hogs on the place
We're saved. The loss will probably
be taken care of by the railroad COM
pspy,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-15
Automobile and Carriage Painting.

l am now ready for business of
painting of automobiles, carriages,
buggies, wagons and sleighs. Also
refinish pianos and furniture. All
work guaranteed. Shop on the COR
ner, east of Miller's wagon factory,
Calmar, Iowa.
Blacksmith with repair shop in
connection. Your patronage will be
greatly appreciated. Frank Kuhn,
Proprietor. 1872
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-15
Flower Beds on Court House squar,

During the session of the Board of
Supervisors last week w. T. Symonds
of the DEBORAH Greenhouse was au-
thorized to place two large flower
beds on the court house square, one
on each side of the front approach
walk, which will greatly improve the
appearance of our handsome court
house square, the cost being insig-
nificant.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-15

]. A. Alderman, West Plains, MO-,
was in bed with kidney trouble and
rheumatism, but Foley Kidney Pills
put him on his feet. He says:
was no better when friend recon-
mended Foley Kidney Pills. They
benefited me from the start and In
a few days | was out OF bed and In
Is days / threw away my cane.
cheerfully recommend Foley Kidney
pills. r. A. Engbertson May
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-15
Died i'm Minnesota.

Joseph Rastetter was called to st.
Cloud, Mimi. Sunday night, by the
receipt of telegram announcing the
death of his sister, Mrs. Jacob Huber.
She will be remembered by old
friends here.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-15
Notice to Bidders.

Sealed bids will be received at the
Office of the city clerk until June /,
1912, for the extension of water
mains on East Main street-S50 feet
more or less also from Main street
across Broadway street on Oak
street-370 feet-more or less.
BIDS to be made for furnishing all
labor, pipe and material, in. OF
6 in. as the city council may deter
mine, with two Mathews fire hyd'
rants. The council reserves the right
to reject any and all bids. A certi
fed check of $50 must accompany
each bid.
F. NJ. HUGHES,
1872 City Clerk
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-15
The Bonds of Matrimony.

Friday afternoon Rev. DR.. M. Will
lett officiating, at the Congregational
parsonage, Mr.. Charles d. Halsey Of
Hesper and Miss Cora Rank of Rice
ford, Mimi. were united in marriage.
They will make their home at Hes
per. Both are estimable young peo-
pie who have many friends who unite
with us in congratulations
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-15

to sell cheap goods, in fact we would
rather not sell any goods at all if
our customers demanded the inferior
grades. There is no satisfaction in
selling goods of cheap quality;
there is no wear TO them, and surely
no money is saved by the transac-
ton. Come TO our store and get
quality, fit, workmanship, as we'll as
the cheapest prices in the northwest
BEN BEAR.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-15

There are people in this town who
unthinkingly neglect mere cold"
though they would not otherwise ex-
pose their children or themselves to
danger. Yet cold neglected may
develop into contagious diptheria,
bronchitis, or pneumonia. Use Foleys
Honey and Tar Compound promptly
for it stops coughs quickly and cures
colds. II contains no opiates and Is
safe for children. r. A. Engbert-
son. May
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-15

Poor appetite is sure sign OF inn
paired digestion. A few doses or
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets will strengthen your diges-
ton and improve your appetite.
Thousands have been beneftted by
taking these tablets. Sold by Eng
bertsons Pharmacy. May
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-15

A splendid lot of 100 mems suits
lust in at $1,000, $1,000 and $500,
worth 40 per cent more than the
price we sell them at. BEAR s.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-02-22
Misleading the People.

Advocates of the Aldrich central
bank plan say that the law establish
ing it can easily be repealed II the
plan is found to be impracticable. In
SO declaring they are misleading the
people, for they know as well as any
INT that 1t is more difficult to repeal
a law than 1t Is to enact 1t, Very few
laws passed by congress or state legis,
latures are ever repealed.
To, repeal a federal statute would
necessitate the election of a president
and a majority of the members Of
both branches of congress favorable to
such action. At the present time this
would amount to a revolution of gov
eminent, SO firmly entrenched at
Washington are the very interests pro-
noting this central bank. 1t would
even mean more than this, for control
of the government could not be Sc
cured until after the money power In
this country had been destroyed. This
would he a greater undertaking than
the abolition Of slavery was.
There is no occasion for thus mis-.
leading the people, or, rather, for at
tempting to do so. The Aldrich plan
is either right or wrong, which must
be determined before II is made law.
This must be insisted upon by the
people in self-protection. 1t is time
that they were awake to this fact.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-02-22
FLAX GROWING
is PROFITABLE
WESTERN CANADA FARMERS BE-
COMING RICH IN ITS
PRODUCTION.

So much has been written regarding
the great amount Of money made out
of growing wheat in the prairie prov
inces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Alberta, Western Canada, that many
other products of the farms are over
looked. These provinces will always
grow large areas of wheat-both
spring and winter-and the yields will
continue to be large, and the general
average greater than in any other
portion of the continent. Twenty, thir-
ty, forty, and as high as fifty bushels
per acre Of wheat to the acre-yields
unusual in other parts of the wheat
growing portions of the continent
have attracted worldwide attention,
but what of oats, which yield forty,
fifty and as high as one hundred and
ten bushels per acre and carry off the
worlds prize, which, by the way, was
also done by wheat raised in Sas-
~katchewan during last November at
the New York Land Show. And then,
there is the barley, with its big yields,
and its excellent samples. Another
money-maker, and a big n is flax.
The growing of fax is extensively car
ried on in Western Canada. The
writer has before him a circular is
sued by a prominent farmer at Saska-
toon. The circular deals with the
treatment Of seed fax, the seeding
and harvesting, and attributes yields
of less than 20 bushels per acre, to
later seeding, imperfect and illy-pre-
pared seed. He sowed twenty-five
pounds of seed per acre and had a
yield Of twenty-nine bushels per acre.
This will probably dispose of at $3.50
per acre. Speaking of proper prepa-
ration of seed and cultivation of soil
and opportune sowing, in the circular
spoken of there is cited the case of a
Mr.. White, living fourteen miles
south of Rosetown, who had fifteen
acres of summer fallow a year ago
last summer, upon which he produced
thirty-three bushels to the acre, when
many in the district harvested for
want Of crop. Now, there can be no
proper reason advanced why such a
crop should not have been produced
on all the lands Of the same quality
in the adjacent district, provided they
had been worked and cared for in the
same manner. This year (1911) the
same man had n hundred acres Of
summer fallow, had something over
$500 bushels of wheat. He also had
1900 bushels of oats and 300 bushels
of flax"
There are the cattle, the horses, the
roots and the vegetable products of
Western Canada farms, all of which
individually and collectively deserve
special mention, and they are treated
of in the literature sent out on appli-
cation by the Government agents.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-02-22
CURED OF ECZEMA

while attending school at Lebanon,
Ohio, In 1882. l became afflicted with
boils, which lasted for about two
years. when the affection assumed the
form of an eczema on my face, the
lower part Of my face being iniamed
most Of the time. There would be
water-blisters rise up and open, and
wherever the water would touch it
would burn, and cause another to
rise. After the blister would open,
the place would scab over, and would
burn and itch SO as to be almost un-
bearable at times. In this way the
sores would spread from one place to
another, back and forth over the
whole of my upper lip and chin, and
at times the whole lower part of my
face would be a solid ore. This con
dition continued for four or five years,
without getting any better, and in fact
got worse all the time, SO much SO
that my wife became alarmed lest it
prove fatal.
During all this time of aoils and
eczema, I doctored with the best ply.
sicians of this part of the country, but
to no avail. Finally I decided to try
Cuticura Remedies, which / did, TAX
ing the Cuticura Resolvent, applying
the Cuticura Ointment to the sores,
and using the Cuticura Soap for wash
ing. In a very short time I began to
notice improvement, and continued to
use the Cuticura Remedies until ! was
well again, and have not had a re-
currence of the trouble since, which Is
over twenty years. I have recon-
mended Cuticura Remedies to others
ever since, and have great faith in
them as remedies for skin diseases"
(Slgned) A. G. Brandon, Attorney-at-
Law, Greenville, o., Jan. II, 1911.
although Cuticura Soap and Oint-
ment are sold everywhere, a sample
Of each, with 32-page book. will be
matted free on application to "Cuti.
cura," Dept. l., Boston.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-02-22
Ladies', Diplomat.

Miss Lillian Russell, more beautiful
than ever, was serving tea at the Pro
fessional Woman's league bazaar at
the Waldorf-Astoria A member OF
the Spanish legation passed with two
charming girls, and Miss Russell said:
mo wonder that young mar is SO
popular with the ladies'. He Is a Ia
dies diplomat"
How a ladies' diplomat? a com
poser asked.
Well" explained Miss Russell, he
Is the sort of chap who always remem-
bers a woman's birthday and forgets
her age"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-02-22
$500 in RAD Bag 40 Years.

Miami.-Ira A. McClelland of De
Witt, five miles north of here, found
$500 in gold q few days ago while
looking over the personal effects of
the late Miss Amanda Sanderson, of
whose estate he is administrator. The
money was wrapped in a ball of yarn
found in a bag Of old rags. Accord
ing to a memorandum found with the
money, the gold had been placed
there more than forty years ago. Mrs.
Amanda Sanderson, mother Of Miss
Sanderson, does not remember any
thing about the money. Mrs. San
derson is 104 years old. The daugh-
ter died January "a. She was rs
years old.