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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-07-14
StandardiZing the New Dances.

The polite and starched world OF
the ball room has been in confusion
The old term dancing master
seems inappropriate now The pu.
pills have driven that potentate from
his throne of authority while they
have ruled the school, dancing any
thing and everything as seemed good
TO them.
Meanwhile the baffled teachers
nave striven to refine and pru,,s the
tangos and maxiXes to meet the pro
tests raised on aesthetic or mora
grounds. But where the pupils Of
different schools or different cite.
have met, the scene has been one o.
anarchy.
1t has been particularly notice
able at the winter resorts. 1t will
be more so when the summer hote
bathrooms begin to whirl. While
one fellow is castle walking" hi:
girl 10 steps backward in wilt
swoop the length of the floor, he
runs kerplunk into another who /:
universal schottisching'' his cir
forward and back in lazy rockine
motion.
Convinced that these steps marx
a new dance era, the teachers have
now set to work to standardize
them before next winter, so tina typi
cal forms shall be aught the same in
different places. The international
Academy of Dancing Teachers has
met at Paris the past week and Ii
working to reduce the tango to q
universal figure. This very likely
will be accepted by American
teachers.
There are over so different ways
OF dancing the one-step. Manifestly
a hall where SO different figures are
being performed TO the music of one
orchestra will be very much of q
bear garden.
The craze thus has its grotesqus
features. But it has served to linn
Der up many middle aged people whC
had supposed that their dancin,
days were over. While many per
sons do the new figures coarsely, ey
en- the old dances were often per
formed in manner suggestive O
the hammock on dark night.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-07-14
POOR WAR GOODS.
Complaint is Being Made Abroad
About Quality of Some War
Goods.

dispatch from a European cor
respondent reports that much com
plant is being made abroad with the
quality of war goods imported from
this country. 1t is asserted that on
a large order for socks, while the
contract called for 20 per cent wool
yet the goods were found to be 70
per cent cotton. Also a big ship
ment of shoes it is said has gone to
pieces in actual wear.
Now stories like these may be
greatly magnified by foreign produ-
GERS, who dislike to see American
goods getting foothold even in war
time. But there may be some basis
for them. Tricks in every trade but
ours" is common proverb. Adulter-
atoms are common in this country,
and sometimes seem necessary to get
business.
The war ought to make increased
markets for American goods. But il
these goods vary from sample or
agreement, the new bushes will new.
er stick.
American manufacturers can't
build up permanent trade, at home
or abroad, except on honest goods.
If inferior material has to be used
to compete with rivals, the buyer
should be told the fact. He is sure
to find it out. If he buys with his
eyes open, there is no comeback.
Very different standards prevail
in different manufacturing communi-
ties, in this matter. In some factor
les the tradition of strictly first class
material is handed on from the boss
to the men, from father to son.
There is factory sentiment that in
ferior material hurts the business in
the long run, and for the good of the
seller and the workman as well as
the buyer, should be rejected. In
other places the idea of substituting
inferior stock and loose standardized
ton of quality is equally traditional.
A temporary success may be reach
ed on the latter basis. But it is i'm
possible to see how it can become
continuous and substantial.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-07-14
HAS FINE HERD CATTLE.
Emmett County Farmer is Becoming
Rich on Their Products.

Mason City, Ia, July 12.-Checks
month are the returns to Hugh
Luke, a farmer and stockman of
Emmett county. He has a herd of
two hundred and fourteen Holstein
cattle and out of this number he is
milking seventy-five, and each month
there rolls in checks for his milk
to the amount quoted above. One of
his best COWS milks sixty pounds per
day and from three of his cows he
makes three pounds of butter per
day. People who have looked over
Mr.. Luke's herd say that it is the
finest in the state if not in the west.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-07-14
Tuberculosis increases.

Figures gathered by the United
States Public Health Service indi-
cate an increase in the number of
persons who are seeking climatic
treatment for tuberculosis. In adj
dition to the increase in the popula-
ton of newly established open-air
colonies, migration to the old resorts
in west is growing all the while.
1t is now estimated that the tn
berculosis population of western
Texas and New Mexico is in excess
of $4,000. Practically every resort
city in the country is today receiv-
ing more consumptives than ever,
though in most instances the in
crease has not kept pace with that
of the population.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-07-14
How to Raise Good Stock.

Mr.. Wilkinson, operator of a 1906
acre farm in Jasper county, gives
the following as his theory of rails.
ing stock:
Il have always believed that the
crops of Iowa had to be marketed
through live stock. A man may make
more money by selling off the crops
directly to the elevator, but in a
few years he won't be able to pro-
duce nearly so much as the man who
raises live stock of some kind. The
fertility of the soil is something
that will have to be taken into &C
count by the farmers more in the
future. In the east and in the south
many farmers are spending half of
the returns from crop in fertilizer
for that crop. 1t won't be more than
twenty-five years before we will be
doing that in Iowa unless more live
stock is raised than at present. In
the Old Country they have learned
the lesson long ago, and live stock
Is again in a prominent place in the
farming operations of most of the
European countries.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-07-14
PUSH AND PULL.

The Chicago Tribune last week
took census to discover which man
is considered the greater. Lincoln
or Washington. Out Of 900 replies
received from letters sent to school
superintendent and principals, 532
were for Lincoln and 113 for Wash
ington. The two men were consider
ed equally great by 200.
While the result of the census
does not in any measure detract from
the glory of Washington, it indicates
an interesting sentiment. Lincoln
and Washington are two men of
strikingly opposite types: Lincoln
the rough son of the soil, who by
sheer force of ability and character
worked himself to the highest posi-
ton in the country and in the hearts
OF his fellow men; Washington, the
polished, aristocratic product OF
careful training and genteel home
influences. Both men will stand as
long as histories are told or written
as the foremost men of their times.
We hear nowadays much talk of
pull in politics, in society and in
business. 1t is significant therefore,
that at time when many American
youth feel that they have no chance
to succeed unless they have pull
the vote should favor Lincoln, the
man of all men whose success is
based upon push
1t is we'll enough to talk of the
values of influence and friendship in
obtaining a place in the first rank
of mankind, but all America does
honor to the type of man whose
sheer pluck and ability carry him
forward. Not only does it honor
him for his success, but it comedies
that such man is the ideal, whose
example should be emulated by all
who seek greatness.
Pull" will get man a Job but
it won't help him fill it. Push"
will not only get him the Job and
help him to fill it, but it will make
him fill it so completely that his
job will soon be too small for him
and he will be crowded out into the
place next ahead.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-07-14

| want you to try my new treat
ment; | have had marvellous success
in treating patients suffering from
all manner of weakness and nervous
disorders of the heart, such as palpi-
tation, shortness of breath, irrregu-
lar pulse, fainting spells and pain
around the heart.
My success has been remarkable
in the treatment of kidney and blad-
der troubles, also rheumatism and
nervousness. / believe that my treat
ment by absorption and elimination,
will cleanse the system of poisons
and impurities and restore normal
circulation of blood to the body.
This treatment is wonderfully
beneficial in cases of nervous weak
ness and, | believe, will restore these
unfortunate patients to normal
health.
/ am successfully treating many
patients by this new method and
people have come to me from all
parts Of the state, who said other
doctors had failed to help them. They
had about given up hope but have
been restored to health by my treat
ment.
/ do not publish names of my pa
tients, but can give unquestionable
reference to all who are honestly
seeking relief. l believe that every
chronic disease is durable, If proper
ly treated before the tissues of the
diseased parts are too badly damag-
ed by the disease.
Come to see me and let me prove
all this, by giving you relief. | want
to have a personal interview with
you that ! may explain just how tins
treatment acts in cleansing the
blood of poisons and Impurities, In
toning up the nervous system and
all about it.
My method of treatment was not
discovered accidentally, but is the
result of over twenty years of hard
study and constant practice.
If you are suffering from any di-
sease, or weakness of the body, no
matter where, want to help you.
There is no ,eason why you should
Huffer from headache, backache, kid
ney, heart, liver and stomach trou-
BILE; rheumatism, indigestion, consti-
patton and piles; knowing that these
disorders are poisoning the system.
when you can easily be relieved.
| ask you to gee me on my next
visit; there will be no charge, what
ever, for consultation and l will ex-
plain how my treatment is superior
to the old way Of treating chronic
diseases.
If you wish TO make special APP
pointment to see me, you may do so
by letter.
ADDRESS:
DIR. b. A. STOCKDALE,
Des Moines, Iowa.
Utica Building.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-07-14
To Make Orange Custard.

Cut sweet oranges into cubes and
put them, with little sugar, into a
deep glass dish. Pour over them a
thick custard, and on top pile little
meringues. The custard should be
made from the yolks of eggs and the
meringues made from the whites.
Beat the whites and to each add a
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-07-14

DIR. STOCKDALE says: Heart,
stomach, liver, bowel and kidney
trouble, rheumatism and nervous
diseases can be cured.
says: Heart, stomach, liver, bowel
and kidney trouble, rheumatism and
nervous diseases can be cured.
He will be at
Winneshiek Hotel, DEBORAH, OH
Wednesday, July II
and invites you to call to see him.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-07-14

tablespoonful of graIulated sugar
and pinch of cream of tartar. Beat
we'll and pile in little mounds on a
wooden board and brown in the oven,
the custard
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-07-14

The person who dies without ask
ing to have his sins forgiven is, of
course, in grave danger of going to
the hot place.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-07-14

Photo supplies, stationary. Null
Ter Bros, jewelers., Citizens Bank
Bldg. 2O-tt
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-07-14

SO cents for a nice summer
dress shirt. BEARS.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-08-12
Burr Oak Ridge.

Quite a large delegation from
Woodland and vicinity have been at
tending the Apostolic meetings at
Davis City.
Pearl and Eva Rumley and Mrs.
Webster were Sunday visitors at W.
A. Johnson's.
Ed Turner drove up from Davis
City Sunday and took Chas. Chastair
and family down to Apostolic meet
ing, returning home with them in
the evening. Mrs. Mary Brown OF
Ellston also returned with them,
having spent a few days at Davis
City with her brother, W. H. Mccall
la.
Clay Bros. have been in this vicin-
ity with their threshing machine the
past week.
w. H. McCalla, Mr.. Hadley, wife
and children of Aurora, Indiana,
drove up from Davis City Monday
bringing Clara, James and Frances
Chastain home who had spent Sun
day at Davis City with their grand
parents.
Otis Deisher delivered about TWEEN
ty loads of hogs in Leon the past
week.
Mrs. Hampton and children spent
Monday at Chas. Chastain's.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-08-12
A Worthy Appeal.

The work OF the SoCOurS NdClOudl
Committee of New York City in
sending comfort kits to the destitute
children of France, has awakened
the interest of Americans through
out this country. The responses
have been numerous and generous,
but the need for relief is still great.
Many of these unfortunates are
homeless; all of them are helpless
and must depend upon others for
actual existence. They are looking
to those of generous hearts to sup
ply them with the positive necessi-
ties of life. That is what the SecOurs
National, through it's treasurer, Mrs.
Whitney Warren, is trying to do for
the war orphans and homeless waits
Of invaded France.
There are thousands of these lit
tie ones who need help. Many are
babies, born since the beginning of
the war. Many more are those who,
taken captives by the Germans, are
now being turned back to France.
One of the most tragic things
about this terrible situation is that
in the disposal of the prisoners, hun
dreds of small children have been
separated from their parents These
cannot talk and therefore cannot
give their names or any information
whatever about themselves. While
they have been tagged by the Ger
mans, these tags mean nothing to
the French people in those trying
of the mixup of identities that must
follow such system as has been
resorted to by the Germans in the
disposal of these civil prisoners.
One cannot but be reminded OF
revolutionary days by this struggle
in which France is now engaged.
America fought for her liberty then,
and it was the French republic that
helped her to win it. Also it was
the French people in those trying
days who not only sent ships and
men and munitions of war, but VINO
clothed the ragged continental SOL
diers and safeguarded them from
the exposure of icy winter. 1t is the
descendants of these friends across
the sea who are fighting today for
their own liberty. 1t is their little
children who are in need and suffer-
ing; their helpless little children
whom Americans are asked to aid.
These pathetic little figures, in
the shadow of hopeless despair, from
a striking, a tragic contrast to the
happy and prosperous children OF
America.
1t is to these children as we'll as
their elders that the little French
waits are stretching out their hands
in mute appeal. Not in aid OF the
soldiers in the fighting branch, not
for munitions of war does the Sc
cours National ask for aid. 1t is in
the name of humanity that the COM
fort kits are being sent to these un-
fortunate ones 1t is for little chill
drern who cannot help themselves
that the Secours National appeals
for funds.
A donation of two dollars ($2)
means that one of these needy waits
will be clothed and made happy
Y his small sum may be the means
OF saving the life Of one OF these
children.
Will you help them?
All contributions should be sent
to Mrs. Whitney Warren, Treasurer
Secours National, Is East Attn
Street, New York City.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-08-12
FairvieW.

Mrs. Alice Bright and son Arlo
spent Wednesday at the home of Don
Moore.
II. E. Bright helped Don Moore put
up hay last week.
Walter Phipps and Mr.. Taylor of
Morgan threshed for Oscar Peck last
week.
Mrs. H. E. Bright and children
spent Thursday at the Don Moore
home.
Archie Riggs called at the home
of James Ely Thursday of last week.
Don Moore and family spent Sun
day at the home of Milt Moore.
H. E. Bright and family spent Sun
day at the home of her mother, Mrs.
Caroline Slower near New Salem.
Don Moore and family and Mrs,
Blanche Dobson and daughter, Vim
eta attended the show at Lineville
Saturday night.
- Merl Grimes and Agatha Adair
called at the home Of James Ely Sun
day evening.
Mrs. Blanche Dobson and Mrs. Don
Moore helped their mother, Mrs
Pete, Bright, cook for threshers a
couple OF days last week.
Mrs. Pearl Bright and children Wis
tied at the home of Albert Willis
Monday
Pete Bright and wife and Wayne
Lovett and family attended the Apos-
tolic meeting at Davis City Sunday
H. E. Bright helped Willis Dillon
with his threshing Tuesday.
Frank Bright is on the sick list.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-08-12
We have received from Mrs. NJ. L.

We have received from Mrs. NJ. L.
Newman, of Wauneta, Wyoming, a
former resident of Decatur county. a
copy of the Cheyenne State Leader,
telling Of a big gold find at Silver
Crown which has created great ex-
element, and local interest is added
from the fact that number of Deca-
tur county people are located at Sill
yer Crown, and some of them may
find a gold mine under their land.
Mrs. Newman also sends>us a maya
zine telling of wheat growing and
general farming without irrigation
in the Golden Prairie district OF
southeastern Wyoming, where a
number of Decatur county people
have located. One of the illustrations
| in the magazine is a: big fax crop on
the farm of w. E. Gassett, formerly
of Decatur county. Among a list OF
purchasers of land in that section we
ind the names of the following De-
catur county people: B. F. Bledsoe,
]. A. Funk, Irwin L.. Goodman, E. A.
Coo dman, Ezekiel Merryman, John
L. Mendenhall and T. NJ. Stanley.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-08-12
A BUCKING ELEPHANT,
Did You Ever See One?-He is With
Yankee Robinson This Year.

The boys of the west know how to
tackle broncs of all kinds, can handle
steers and bull dodge for fair, but
they have never tackled a bucking
elephant.
Yankee Robinson has an elephant
that ought to be a prize winner at
any stampede. He will carry as high
as twenty-five people on his back ell
day long without a sign of being
naughty. At the command OF his
keepcr-in fact the keeper whispers
in the elephants ear-the big fel-
low starts piling people in every di-
rection.
If there are any good riders in this
vicinity, they will be asked to ride
the big elephant during the per-
formance--At Davis City, Thursday,
August 10.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-08-12

Capt. ]. D. Brown entertaine I
about forty of his gentlemen friends
at his home on south Main street
last Thursday evening He was rs
years OF age on the previous Sunday
but he is still one of the boys and
there is no one in Decatur county
who enjoys having his friends with
him more than the Captain. Refresh
ments were served and the guests
spent q pleasant evening, and extend
ed their congra tulations to him on
his having attained his seventy-f1fth
birthday and still enjoying robust
health.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-08-12

Iowa has All Indians, according to
the United States census report that
was received at Governor Clarke
office. This is little less than .0O2
per cent of the total Indian popula-
ton of. the United States. Tama
county has the bulk of the Indians
of this state. There are 295 on the
Musquakie i. reservation. Pottawat-
TAME county has lis and Madison
county has eighteen. The Indian
population in other counties follows:
Scott 4, Lee, Lucas, Story and Wa
pello, 2 each, Davis, Des Moines, Ere
mont, jefferson, Lyon, Washington
and Webster, each. Polk county
has four Indians. There are eighty
counties of Iowa without any Indians.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-08-12

J. r. Bowsher and wife, Will A.
Brown and wife and Harry J. Vogt
and wife spent a very quiet day out
in the country near Tuskeego last
Thursday. They had started in Mr..
Bowsher's car to attend the reunion
at Kellerton, but had hard luck,
one tire blow out after an
other until their supply of castings
and t es were exhausted and they
finally lad to ph ne ITO Leon and
have Will Kimpo drive out with
more tires. They had good e4ta
with sthem Il and Just camped ~ the
Er6ad5Edv WA 7Sn36ylfa qsiSt Day.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-08-12
Notice..

Woodland, Iowa, Aug. 3, 1915
We, the undersigned, trustees OF
Woodland township, Decatur county
Iowa, hereby notify all parties con
cerned, that we will meet at Wood
land, Iowa, on August 25th, 1915, to
determine the controversy OF build
ing a partition fence between section
81 and section 80 commencing at the
northwest corner of section 80, town
ship IS, range "a, Decatur county
Iowa, running south eighty rods to
the southwest corner of the north
west quarter of the northwest quar-
ter of section 80.
Roy Beavers,
Signed E. ]. Wilson,
S. J. Grogan.
52-2t BY Pearl Coontz, Twp. Clerk
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-08-12
When Ma Is Sick.

When ma is sick,
She pegs away;
She's quiet though,
Not much t say,
She goes right on
A dom things,
An sometimes laughs,
Err even sings,
She says she don't
Feel extra we'll,
But then it's just
A kind O. spell,
She'll be all right
Tomorrow, sure,
A good old sleep
Will be the cure.
An pa he shifts
An makes no kick,
For woman folks
Is always sick.
An ma she smiles,
Let's on she's glad
When ma is sick,
1t amt so bad.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-08-12

! DR.. o. w. Foxworthy, of Leon,
Iowa, spent a day or two in Bethany
last week attending to business mat
tiers. The doctor has fallen into the
latest as to facial fashion, and had
his mustache shaved off, and we
hardly knew him when he stepped
into cur office. He says that Leon IS
a real live town, and that a good
many public improvements are under
way up there. Among the credits
mentioned along rhe lines of push
and progress, he said that something
over nine miles of sewerage was be-
ing Put in this summer. That is
sure "going some" for town the
size of Leon.-Bethany Republican.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-08-12

enc of the big racing cars which
participated in the 500 mile auto
race at Des Moines last Saturday,
passed through Leon Tuesday even
ing. It was No. IA, an Anderson
Special, driven by A. IF. Scott, and
was, one Of the last cars to finish. The
car was being taken to Kansas City
to be overhauled after which 1t
goes to Elgin, Illinois, for the big
race meet there.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-08-12
When Pa Is Sick.

When pa is sick,
He's scared to death,
An ma an US
Just hold our breath.
He crawls in bed,
An puffs an grunts,
An does all kinds
OF crazy stunts.
He wants the doctor,
An mighty quick:
For when pas i'll,
He's awful sick.
He gasps and groans
An sort of signs,
He talks SO queer,
An rolls his eyes,,
Ma jumps and runs,
An all Of us,
An all the house
An peace an JOY
Is mighty skeerce-
When pa is sick,
It's something fierce.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-08-12

e. J. sankey buys and sells Land
on commission, makes farm loans on
approved security ut the best rates,
and does Q general real estate bust.
ness. Has had 20 years experiences
In the business. Once upstairs, north
west corner Main and Commercial
streets, Leon, Iowa
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-08-12

Bert Keller, of near Weldon,
brought us in great big Burbank
plum last Saturday which was raised
on alive year old tree which he had
only set out two years ago. He Sc
cured the tree from Will Mckern,
the Leon nursery salesman and
thinks that it has made a good rec
ord for bearing fruit. 80 -
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-08-12

John Franklin, who is employed
on the, county bridge gang is off duty
for a time, suffering from several
broken ribs, the result of falling over
the side of wagon box few days
ago. John is pretty sore, but will
be as good as ever in a short time.