Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-01-10
WASHINGTON LETTER
Weekly Letter From Our Special
Correspondent.
NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL.
Brief Items of Interest to Iowa Peo-
pie, Written by an Iowa
Man.

we are very mucn 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 =
weekly letter of news items =
from the national capital at .
Washington, d. C.. Mr.. Wood =
is in position to get the facts .
: first hand, and during this most >
important session of congress, .
preceding national election,
his letters will be unusually in .
teresting Editor.
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Washington, D. c., January 8, 1912.
A Virginia horse has established a
jumping record of 32 feet. Probably
saw his first automobile.
At the close of the year 1911 there
We're 7,34O national banks in the
United States with capitalization
of $1,OS3,3O2,135.
A Baltimore highbrow scientist
has decided that man is sweetest
when angry. But you couldn't make
our wives believe it!
There are a whole lot of people
who will not agree with the New
Jersey applicant for citizenship who
said that Roosevelt is dead
Another star was added to the
national ensign, when President Taft
issued his formal proclamation that
New Mexico had been admitted to
statehood.
Moving pictures are dangerous and
ought to be prohibited. A Massachu-
setts woman attended 'movy" and
saw her husbands mug on the
screen taking in the sights of the
midway with lovely young divorcee.
To our unmarried gentlemen
friends we are glad to announce that,
neither DR.. Mary Walker nor Belva
Lockwood intends to take advantage
of the leap year privilege. At least,
they have said so.
Another of the famous old land
marks of Washington, the Arlington
hotel, will soon make way for the
progress of modern improvements. A
six million dollar hotel will take the
place of the famous old hostelry.
An energetic movement has start
ed by the women of Washington, to
compel the street car companies to
lower their steps. Things have come
to such pass that either the car
companies must change the style of
their cars or the women must change
the style of their skirts.
Among the other trials laid up for
us during the coming summer is an
advance in the price of straw hats.
The war in China is causing short
age in the importation of straw
braid, which comes from Shantung,
where millions of rolls of the mater
ial have been burned and destroyed
by the rebels.
The house in which Francis Scott
Key wrote "The Star Spangled Ban
ner" will soon be torn down. The
Francis Scott Key Memorial associa-
tion undertook three or four years
ago to raise funds to purchase the
building, which is located in the old
Georgetown district of Washington,
but the effort has not been success
tfuI and the historic house will have
to 60.
With view to getting in closer
touch with congress and the depart
ments. the National Dairy Union has
moved it's headquarters from Chicago
to Washington. The Union has for
Ats principal objects the determina-
tion of the sentiment of the dairy
men of the country on all questions
and securing legislation favorable to
those engaged in the industry.
The federal aid good roads con-
veation of the American Automobile
association will assemble in Wash
ington January 18th, to draw up a
program for national system Of
improved highways. to which con-
gress will be asked to subscribe.
Forty-two state associations. with
other organizations. business men
and farmers, will be represented.
Rear Admiral Rodley d. Evans,
commanding officer of the battleship
Iowa in the battle of Santiago, and
commander-in-chief of the Atlantic
feet during its famous round the
world cruise, died at his home in
Washington on January 3rd, of acute
indigestion. The remains We're in
tered at Arlington with full mill
tary honors.