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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-08
MARKET REPORT.
Correspondent at Kansas
City.

Kansas City Stock Yards, May 6.
Trade in stock and feeding cattle
revived somewhat here last week,
and very few cattle remained in the
pens at the end of the week. The
outgo was 5000 head, only 1000
head less than during the same week
last year. Missouri and Kansas are
getting the bulk of the stuff now, as
feeders, the class that Illinois and
Iowa take usually, are not plentiful.
Besides, they are usually surrender
ed to the killers without much of a
fight on the part of feeder buyers,
although the live stock dailies are
full of accounts of profitable feeding
ventures during the past season.
Kansas and Oklahoma pastures are
well filled this season, but the cattle
will be late in coming to market be-
cause OF the late start the grass got.
Owners believe there will be a short
supply of beef in June and July, and
expect the market to hold up through
those months. The run here today
embraces cattle from many far away
sections, and indicates the general
barrenness of the supply situation.
Sugar mill steers from Colorado and
Nebraska bring 1925 to $40, and
hay fed steers from Oregon, Idaho
and Montana sell at 1918 to $3.50.
Straight grass cattle from southern
Texas bring $500 to $500, and low
grade grass stuff is coming from
Oklahoma and Arkansas. With all
this draining of the producing
grounds total receipts here are run
ming far behind last year, because OF
/ the great shortage in native terri
tory Prime steers bring $3.50 to
$50 here today, and bulk of the
fed steers SIPS to $40, feeder:
$3.50 to $7.15, and stock steers al
$3.50 to S6.75.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-08
DEBORAH MAN IN TROUBLE.
Arrested at Woonsocket. S. ID. For
Shooting a Woman at Nc
Gregor i'm April.

We append herewith three clip
pings from newspapers that are self
explanatory, and in which our read
ers will find interest. The man re-
ferred to moved here from Ossian
last fall:
"A shooting affair occurred down
the track Monday night when a fell
low who had been employed by some
OF the fishermen tried to enter the
house owned by Mr.. Frank. Mrs.
Grace Kessler, who occupies the
house, resented the intrusion and in
trying to prevent the fellows entr-
ance was shot through the side, the
shot going through the screen door.
The fellow was apprehended and
placed in the city Jail, from which
he made his escape. "-McGregor
News, april II, 1912.
Sheriff Bergemeyer arrived here
yesterday from Woonsocket, S. D.,
having in charge l.. c.. Daniels, who
is charged with assault and attempt
TO commit murder on the person of
Grace" Kessler, who. resides in the
Karl Frank house. Daniels appeared
before Squire Sullivan and waived
examination and was bound over to
the next term of court, his bond be-
ing fixed at $1,000. This is the gen.
tleman who escaped from the city
Jail last week and later captured by
Marshal Kramer, but escaped by
jumping across the track in front of
fast moving freight train and took
to the hills. McGregor Times, Apr.
20, 1912.
Mitchell, S. D., May 1.-"Lawr-
ence Daniels, who resides at DEBORAH,
Ia, was arrested at Woonsocket by
Sheriff Bergmeyer of Clayton coun-
ty, Iowa. Daniels was charged with
shooting a widow woman, and MAX
ing his escape Immediately after the
shooting. The sheriff saw the wife
of Daniels leave DEBORAH and follow
ed her as far as Woonsocket; the
fugitive husband went to the town
on a freight train with two other
parties. As he was riding up town
on delivery wagon, the Iowa
sheriff and the town marshal discov-
cred him. He made an effort to
escape, but they caught him without
much difficulty, and returned TO Iowa
without extradition papers. Daniels
declares that he shot the woman only
in self defense. She is still living
but with small chances for recov-
cry. Minneapolis Tribune, May l.,
1912.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-08
Ella NARROW visited rela-

Miss Ella NARROW visited rela-
tives at Cresco Thursday
Mrs. H. o. Teslow was an over
Sunday visitor at Nordness.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. Winger went
to Cresco today, on business.
IS. Cox departed on business
trip to Sioux Rapids, Iowa today.
Hans Roberg departed on Mon
day on a business trip TO Plainview,
Iowa.
Mrs. S. E. Brickner came over
from Calmar Saturday, for a brief
visit.
Mrs. Peter Rosa of Ossian is a
guest at the home of her sister, Mrs.
r. B. futile.
-Mds. ]. w. Gerleman and Lizzie
Lansing of Calmar were shopping in
the city Saturday.
Miss Ethel Trzc,nski returned
to Austin On Monday, after an over
Sunday visit with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Chas. Trzcinski.
Mrs. j. j. Marsh departed today
for a visit with her daughter, Mrs.
Hallenberg of Carson, n. d.
Miss Idella Hover returned to
Austin, Mimi. yesterday, having been
home to attend the funeral of her
bTcther-in-law, A. l.. Lodahl.
| IIoyco, xro,f 70 L,I1ya Ja,
Saturday for short visit, expecting
also to make business trip to Nc
Gregor before returning home.
Mr.. Emil Borseth, one of the
prominent young bachelors of Spring
field township, called and joined the
happy Public Opinion family last
Friday.
Mrs. ]. NJ Boehm and son de-
parted on Monday for a couple of
weeks vis., with her sister, Mrs.
Harry Bandle at Spring Valley, Min
nesota.
Mr.. j. X. Jackson has purchased
the lot, corner Jefferson and Me-
chanic streets, belonging to R. F. B.
Portman, and will probably erect a
fine home thereon.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Kellner
returned to Austin, MINI. on Mon
day, having been called here by the
death of her grandmother, Mrs. John
Henry of Burr Oak.
Doctors T. C. Hutchinson, F. w.
Conover and c. L. Topliff departed
Monday for Des Moines, to attend
the 50th anniversary convention of
the Iowa State Dental Association.
Miss Caroline Bond of South
Bend, Ind. was called home on last
Thursday by the death of her sister,
Mrs. A. B. Wade, after several
months visit with her sister, Mrs. B.
F. Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. ole Aga and chill
dren returned to Leroy, Mimi. Nom
day, after a two weeks visit at the
John B. Jaastad home. They will
soon leave this country. to make
their home in Norway. =
Among those from out of town
who attended the funeral of Patrick
Sherry on Friday were Pat and
Frank Quigley of Goodall, Iowa;
Mrs. John McAlpin, Mat and Miss
Julia Barry of Belmond, iowa; Miss
Mollie Shannon of Chicago.
III. Engbretson and w. T. Sy-
monds were sporting badges marked
81" and a handsome rose on Sat
urday, all because they were both
lucky enough to have been born the
same day, month and year 81 years
ago. Here's hopin' both will live to
continue the custom for many years.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-08
SEED FLAX

The high prices for FLAX prevail
ing the past two years and the prob
ability of continued high prices in
the future make FLAX a profitable
crop to grow. We offer you the
choicest lots that we have bought
during the year, carefully cleaned.
Price $3.50 per bushel. Call at our
elevator-C. NJ. e ST. P. track. If
THE ADAMS SEED CO., DEBORAH, la.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-08
LOCAL ITEMS.

u. S. Price made business trip
to Elgin Monday.
Mrs. T. H. Conner visited rela-
tives at Cresco Friday.
Mr.. Edwin Hover of Locust was
a pleasant caller on Monday.
w. T. Perry made a trip to La
Crosse last week, on business.
j. d. Mullaney was business
visitor from Mason City Friday.
Mrs. C. Peyer of Ossian was
shopping in the city yesterday.
Attorney Frank Sayre was a
business visitor in Cresco Monday.
Leonard Logsdon went to Cres-
co Monday, for visit with relatives.
ALFRED Blagsvedt went to Aus
tin, Mimi. Friday, on business trip.
Oscar Johnson departed yester-
day for an extended visit in Water
loo.
j. w. Mott was down from
Cresco over Sunday, visiting his
mother.
Henry Barth Of Hesper town
ship was DEBORAH bua:asEs visitor
yesterday.
Geo. Matter went to Prairie du
Chen Monday, fer treatment for
rheumatism.
Miss Marie Atkinson arrived
last week from Seattle, Wash, for q
several weeks visit with her mother,
Mrs. S. Atkinson.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. F. B. Portman
spent few days the past week at
Prairie du Chen.
Miss Stella Paine went to St.
Paul yesterday, for a short visit with
Miss Nellie Baker.
Fred Griswold was up from
Oelwein q couple of days last week,
visiting his mother.
Just received another fresh lot
of these celebrated Weber box chloe
olates; every box guaranteed, at
Groves drug store.
Mr.. and Mrs. 3. o. Marsh en-
tertained Mr. and Mrs. Fred Her.
mann of Waukon Sunday.
Banker F. E. Cratsenberg Of
Burr Oak shook hands with friends
about the city yesterday.
Miss Emma Holverson departed
yesterday for a visit with DR.. E. H..
Weber of Lake Mills. Wis.
MIR. and Mrs. E. G. Opdahl went
to Nordness yesterday, to visit his
sister, Mrs. Er.ck Anderson.
Miss Julia AnfnsoR went to ST..
Olaf, Iowa on Monday, fer visit
with her.sister, Mrs. Arvesans
Pure linseed oil. white lead and
B. p. S. mixed paints to be had at
E. j.. Parman's drug store.
John Hitler and son returned to
st. Paul Friday, after a visit at the
home of his father, Fred Hitler
Leave your order for the Ladies
Home Journal or any of the current
magazines at Groves drug store.
Phone No. 10.
Mrs. Frank Headington arrived
home Friday from Bridgewater, s.
D., where she attended the funeral
of Mrs. Punteney.
Consult Karl ID. Fisk about your
eyes. His % years of continual optic
al work has made him one of the
best to consult.
Mrs. VIM. Dresselhaus went to
Charles City yesterday, to attend a
missionary convention and visit her
daughter at the college.
We have been requested to an
nounce a big dance to be held at
Marsh's hall on May 18th. Watch
for particulars next week.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-08

some of the best and finest suits ever
shown, in Iowa at $500 and $1,000.
Not single suit in the lot which is
not all wool; every garment guar
anteed this seasons make, and OF the
latest patterns. Don't spend dollar
for clothing until you see us.
BEN BEAR
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-08
Childrens Suits

of the better quality, the newest and
latest pattern can be had at our
store for less money than anywhere
else. Come to our store for your
bargains. BEARS.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-08
Protection
Against Moths

garments, blankets and furs for the
summer, you should guard against
the ravages OF the moths. Many
expensive garments have been ruin
ed in short time through the ne
glect of proper protection against
moths. Guard against this condition
by using our
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-08
NAPHTHALINE,
MOTH BALLS,
GUM CAMPHOR

these. are anti-moth products, the
cost of which is so little and the pro-
lection so great, that you cannot
afford to take chances by not using
freely any one of these anti-moth
products.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-02

Bert Walker insists that when one
fat woman sees another woman who
is fatter she is almost tickled to death.
An explanation by the Harrington
Times: A bird in the hand may be
worth two in the bush; nevertheless it
is the chase after those in the bush
that keeps the world going.
A young man plays the game of love
only by instinct-no one ever tells him
how or why, says Pip Daniels of the
Howard Courant. An old man plays
it according to rules and experience
he obtained while he was young.
That's why so many young men sue
coed, and so many old men fall down.
Some of the ingredients in Tom
Thompson's most recent Potpourrl: A
man who is a coward generally knows
1t: Everybody laughs at an old
mans love affair except the old man.
The silver lining in another
mans cloud is always much more con-
spicuous than in your own. Some
folks are always so anxious to get
into the bandwagon that they don
particularly care who does the driv-
ing. Not very many folks suffer in
silence. There is no satisfaction in
suffering unless you let others know it
and enlist their sympathy.
Say, my young friend, don't you
think you are worrying too much over
what would become of the old town
should you happen to have to leave
Osborne Farmer, and he continues:
wish you would become recon
ciled to the fact that it would manage
to survive that dire calamity. The
sun would rise in the east and set in
the west just the same; the trains
would get in on about the same old
schedule; the stores and the banks
would open for business just the same
each morning; and I even imagine the
appetite of the average citizen would
remain about normal Don't get the
idea into your head, either, that so
cietv would go into bankruptcy or
that many of the girls would mar
their beauty by letting hot tears
course down their cheeks. No, in
deed. Everything would go on just
the same. Even the girls who you
now seem to think are so wrapped up
in you would be down town ere the
train on which you were departing
was out of the city limits. Ten min
utes later they would be having a
good time with other fellows. Like
the rest of US you are small potatoes
and few in the hill. You don't cut
half the ice you think you do. When
you get the idea into your head that
you stack up about like the rest of
the boys around town you hit the bulls
eye. I know it will be quite a tumble
from your present dizzy height, but
you will rest better when you get
used to the ground TRY If
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[Frou the Chicago News.1

LFrom the Chicago News.1
It is we'll to aim high, but be sure your
gun is loaded.
A blush on the cheek is worth two in
the drug store.
The wheel of fortune has turned many a
mans head.
It's we'll enough TO hope, but don't loaf
on the job wEile doing it.
No, Alonzo, you can't tip a waiter
enough to make him lose his balance.
Also a goodly number of people have
been done in the name of charity.
1t takes a woman to be more cruel to
the man she loves than to one she hates.
Money makes the mare gc-or come or
stay, according to what it says to tho
jockey.
During the ice cream and oyster seasons
the girls manage to forget that this is
leap year.
One of the things a girl learns by get
ting married is that her mother was also
a martyr.
Contentment may be better than riches,
but give the average man riches and he
will promise to be content.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-02
EVENING CHIT
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

lime Is money.
of Doup 2 you have heard that saw so
olten that you think it is good, but is #
apparently that sentiment is supposed
70 make US realize the value of time In
rea5ty II UNDERWRITERS that precious COM
monty. Time Is much more than money.
FOR money is merely one of the good
rn ing OF OF life h time is life itself
Inc a1u yer now very few people have any
time. VI
Almost every careful housewife keeps
an an account OF her household money. She
pans Just how much shall be expende ed
IN each department. she files the hills
she Jots down the expenditures in her
expense account and insists upon tracine
each missing penny to its lair
But how many housewives have the
snghtest system about how they spend
that which is even more precious thar
money, their time?
An alert young college graduate whose
work as librarian has taught her the
vaiue OF system, has recently become a
housewife, and has made system the
watchword of her days. Breakfast is over
at certain hour. The next half hour is
oeVoted to picking up the room. In the
next nfteen minutes the dishes are wash
ed; ten minutes is then allowed for read
ing the morning paper, etc, and so on
throughout the whole day.
OF course the older housewives make
great fun of her, but 1 notice that she
gets more time to herself and a great
deal more out of life than they do.
What use is it to keep account of the
way you spend your timer" says one of
the stick-to-the-rut housewives ''It's
gone and that's all there is to it,
And yet this woman would call anyone
shiftless who did not keep an accurate
account of household expenses.
Why not say, 1.-The money is gone and
that's all there is to it,
The expense account shows you how
you are spending your money 1t makes
you realize if you are devoting a dispro-
portionate sum to any purpose, and it
helps you to stop leaks.
Very well, why shouldn't the time ac-
count do the same.
OF course any housewife knows 1t isn't
possible to stick absolutely to any exact
system. Accidents and Interruptions viii
happen in the best regulated of families.
But to have plan and stick as closely to
it as possible and feasible certainly helps
us to be more economical of Sur time
In the words of Victor Hugo, He who
every morning plans the transactions of
the day and follows out that plan carries
a thread that will guide him through the
labyrinth of the most busy life. The
orderly arrangement of his time is like
ray Of light which darts itself through
all his operations. But where no plan is
laid, where the disposal of time is sur
rendered merely to the chance of incidents
chaos will soon reign"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-02
SAYS UNCLE CAV

We have for some months been en-
gagged in one of our periodical efforts
to prove to the misguided that in the
end graft stingeth like q serpent ard
ibteth like an adder. So long as greed
is strong in the human heart and men
desire unearned money, Wen have to
apply the lesson. Illegitimate short
cuts to aff1uence have been with US
since the dawn of civilization and ev-
cry graft has had its victims. 1t has
been present in one form or another
from the time when Joseph was sold
into Egypt to the last roll call of the
New York police department.
And it has never failed to collect
the wages of sin. Graft honey-combed
decadent Carthage and dissipated the
energies that the Romans could not
conquer. 1t spoiled the glory of Greece
and led the Egypt of Cleopatra captive.
In time it weakened the walls of Rome
herself to the onslaught of the bar
barians.
In those days 1t was so respectable
that no mere member of the Roman
police force had a chance to fatten
his pocketbook with anything bigger
than the Latin substitute for coppers.
The "Gyp the Bloods" of those days
were at least centurions, and Big
jack was always a senator. Governors
were members of the old families and
they could have given the crooked in
Spector cards and spades and left him
looking like a discarded deuce in the
game of lifting the unearned incre-
ment.
Graft was intrenched behind the
seemingly impregnable walls of re-
spectability. Every time rough and
ready citizen with old-fashioned no
lions Of virtue started after a CRATER
he bumped his head against a family
tree that ran clear back to Olympus.
The reforners failed to uproot graft,
but graft finally uprooted the nation.
It's one of these games that can't
be beaten. The CRATER, to use his
own language. is going up against
the pea and shells and doesn't know
it's loaded. In a society inherently
sound as to morals, every mans hand
is against the grafter's.
When society becomes rotten at the
core new and unspoiled people hurls
its legions against the crumbling walls
and the decadents find regeneration
under the yoke.
Our recent graft scandals are not
so much an ominous sign as an in
dication of moral health. So long as
we are shocked by revelations of cor
ruption it is essentially sound. We are
driving home our own lessons rather
than permit some more vigorous peo-
pie to drive them home a century or
two hence.
The big lesson in the graft expos
ures is the old one-the way of the
CRATER is a mighty slippery road and
there is mudhole at the end of it
Copyright, 1912, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-02
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the PMladelphia Record. ]

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Many man aims high who forgets his
ammunition.
Any man with a camera can take a
house in the country.
Misplaced confidence isn't always tho
result of being absent-minded.
1t is better to profit by your own
strength than by the weakness of others.
It's when he is showed under that a can
6jdate can't see the drift of things.
A young girl in the throes of her first
love affair demonstrates how to be happy
though miserable.
Many a woman doesn't know her own
mind because she has never had a formal
introduction to it.
St1iicus-'I wonder why truth should be
stranger than fiction" Cynicus-"Prob-
ably because we don't get so well ac-
quainted with it,
Mrs. Henpeckke-'You never did any,
thing really clever III your life Mr.. Hen
peckke-"You seem to forget, my dear,
that I married you
Nell-.'Mr. and Mrs. Bjones get along
splendidly together" Believes, he
thinks he has the best wife in the world,
and she quite agrees with him."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-02
.erHE SITUATION IN MEXICO"

1t is to be feared that for long years
to come Mexico must stand judged in
the eyes of the world by the disgrace
full and uncivilized conduct of the
various rebels, or socalled rebels, and.
simon-pure bandits who are con-
tributing to the revolt and running
riot over the country; but there is,
nevertheless, in Mexico a class of peo-
pie as educated, as refined, as honor
able as those existing anywhere, writes
Dolores Butterfield, in the November
number of the North American Re
view. And these people-the obreros
(skilIed working men) and the pro-
fessional middle class, as well as the
better elements of the laboring classes,
are supporting Madero-not all in the
spirit of his personal adherents, but
because they realize the tremendous
peril to Mexico of continued revolu-
ton. Last year the revolution was
necessary-the peril had to be in
Cured, because nothing but arms
could move the existing despotism:
but none of the pretended principles
Of the revolution can now justify that
peril when the man attacked is the
legal constitutional, duly elected
president, Overwhelmingly chosen by
the people, and venomously turned
upon Immediately following his cleo
ton without being given even an ap-
proach to fair chance TO prove him
self. All the better elements of the
country realize that Madero no longer
represents an individual or even a
political administration. He repre-
sents the civilization of Mexico strug-
cling against the unreined savagery of
a population which has known no law
but abject fear, and having lost that
fear and the restraint which it i'm
posed upon it, threatens to deliver
Mexico to such a reign of anarchy,
rapine, and terror as would be with
out a parallel in modern history. He
represents the dignity and integrity
of Mexico before the world.
Whether he can win or not is a
question which will probably be de-
cided now in a short time. If he fails
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-02
Scent as am Insomnia Cure.

Scent has other attractions than a
mere appeal to the nose. Anybody,
for instance, who suffers from insom-
MIA may find relief in perfumes.
Collect a number of fresh pine
needles, and fill a bag with them
carefully rip open your pillow, and
place the bag amid the feathers in
the pillow. The perfume of the pines
is often an excellent soporific.
! A bag of dried hops used in the
same way is just as good. Dried rose
leaves. mixed with dried clover heads,
give out delicious perfume. and
helps a weary one to WOO the god of
sleep.
A teaspoonfu1 of eau-de-cologne in
warm bath is most refreshing, while
scent placed on the forehead of any
one who suffers from headache gen.
orally gives relief.-London Answers.