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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-06-02
Jury Undescored Word Guilty.

Keokuk, Ia, May 31.-A jury
returned a verdict finding Orville
Pulls, 17-year-old boy, guilty of
larceny. The foreman underscorcd
the word guilty
Today in the district court a mo-
ton was filed by Pulls attorney
asking for new trial on the ground
that the underscoring of the word
showed passion and prejudice on the
part of the jury.
This case was heard before Judge
Bank, who will take up the motion
at once.
If he sustains the objection this
will be the second verdict to be set
aside at this term of the district
court. A week ago, before Judge
Hamilton, jury returned an IN
signed verdict, and the finding had
to he set ASIDE.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-06-02
MAKES RECORD RUN.
Maxwell Car Makes Long Trip Thru
Mud Roads.

The publicity crew of the Maxwell
Motor Sales Company arrived in
Dubuque Saturday afternoon shortly
after ore O'Clock after making a
record breaking trip from Waterloo.
The Maxwell car used in this cam
paign, the purpose of which is to
inspect the Maxwell agency service
stations enroute from Fargo, North
Dakota, to Chicago, was driven by
&c. Zimmerman, and was covered
with mud from one end to the other
The trip was started about three
weeks ago at Fargo at the end of a
week's publicity campaign at that
city. The run to Sioux Falls, South
dakota, was then made where an
other weeks publicity campaign We:
held, followed by quick run tc
Sioux City, Iowa, where the sans
program was again carried out. The
car travelled on second speed for {
distance of fifty-four miles from
Sioux City east, owing to the almos
impossible condition of the road
This unusual test spoke highly fol
what the car can accomplish.
From Sioux City the crew went tc
Fort Dodge, then to Iowa Falls anc
from there to Waterloo. Dubuque
was the next stop made and Satur
day afternoon Zimmerman hit fol
the river and went straight over tc
Chicago.
Mr.. Zimmerman reported that the
roads all the way from Sioux City
were for the most part in very bad
shape and that in some places an
ordinary automobile could not have
made any Roadway at all.
The Woldum Motor Car Co. of De-
corah and Nasset have sold in the
neighborhood of % Maxwells here
this spring. They took string OF
five out last Thursday in the vicinity
of Frankville to customers whom
they sold. The Maxwell has proven
a great car, and Woldum's only have
two or three left.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-06-02
Palates Too Much for Her.

You can imagine the schoolmarm
establishment when Tommy returned
to school with this note from his
mother:
Dere Teacher: You keep telin' my
boy to brethe with his palate. May
be rich children has got palates, but
how about when their father only
makes two dollars a day and has got
six children? First, it's one thing,
then it's another, and now it's pal
ates. That's the wurst yet.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-06-02
Fleming Bros. Farm Sold.

Fleming Bros. held the auction OF
their farm in Fremont township yes
terday. The farm consisted of $50
acres, and was purchased by A. H.
Scheidemantel of near Ossian. $40
acres were sold at $101 an acre and
40 acres of timber land about a mile
from the farm went at S35 an acre.
1t fine farm and Mr.. Scheideman-
tel certainly got it at cheap price
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-06-02
ANUNDsEN CHAPEL DEDICATED.
Rev. Otto +. Schmidt Preached Dedi-
cation Sermon Before Large
Gathering.

The beautiful chapel erected in the
Norwegian cemetery by the late Edi-
tor B. Anundsen, of this city, was
dedicated last Sunday. The cemetery
is owned Jointly by the Synod and
United Lutheran churches of Decor
Iah, and when Mr.. Anundsen died he
left funds for the building of this
beautiful chapel.
The weather was very beautiful
and very large gathering of mem
bers of both congregations were
present. In dedicating the chapel
Rev. Schmidt spoke in English. He
chose as his text Psalm XXIII, verse
A.: Yea, though l walk through til I:
valley of the shadow of death, l will
fear no evil for thou are with me;
thy rod and thy staff they comfort
me-.
A quartette of the church choir
of the United church furnished the
music, and rendered a number of an
thems very beautifully.
Robert B. Bergeson as one of the
executors of Mr.. Anundsen's estate
then presented the keys of the chap
ell to Rev. 1. B. Torrison who is the
chairman of the cemetery commit
tee.
In doing this he stated that it had
been Mr.. Anundsen's intention to
have this chapel built before he died,
but that his long illness had pre-
vented it. He therefore willed sum
to the two congregations for this
purpose and instructed the executors
of his will to have the chapel erected.
Mrs. Anundsen had also donated a
sum of the same amount. The exc
cutors had on their own responsible
ity decided On the inscription over
the door: I'm Memoriam Anundsen.'
He stated that the plans for the
chapel had been drawn by Mr.. Nor
vim Hanson, a son of Mr.. and Mrs
Berger Hanson, that the necessary
changes in the plans were made by
Mr. Anton Arneson and that the
building had been erected by Con
tractor A. r. Coffeen, all of DEBORAH
Rev. l. B. Torrison in accepting
the keys for the chapel, thanked the
| donors in behalf of the two congre
cations and referred to the Gettys
burg speech of Lincoln, which ht
said was usually read on this day
Decoration Day. We could not
strictly speaking, dedicate this chap
ell, these grounds, but we shoulC
rather dedicate ourselves to bet
ter and nobler life.
The chapel is made of concrete ant
steel and is entirely fireproof. Il
consists of one story and basement
Size 1Sx22. The chapel itself is Ii
feet high and the basement 9 feet
1t is built of white Bedford lime
stone, the roof is covered with rec
Spanish tile and has the usual chap
el appearance.
The entrance to the basement is in
the rear. The basement is divided
into three compartments, each with
a steel door. In each compartment
is space for two collins.
The chapel cost in excess OF
S3,2OO.O0.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-06-02
Attending Rebekah Convention.

Josie F. Cutting, Vice Presiden;
of the Rebekah Assembly of Iowa,
took the train Tuesday afternoon
for Havelack, Iowa, to attend Re-
bekah county convention to be held
today, at which she is one Of the prin-
cipal speakers. From there she goes
to Wall Lake, Iowa, for a like Rebek-
All convention on Friday, where she
again appears on the program.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-06-02
Death in Pleasant Township.

Ole Holland passed away last
night at the Eldine Ellingson home
in Pleasant township. Mr.. Holland
was kicked in the abdomen by a
horse last Friday, and the injuries
resulting caused his death. He is
well known in DEBORAH, as he con-
Quoted the old foundry feed barn
here a couple of years ago. The fu-
neral will be. held tomorrow from the
Big Canoe church, Rev. Seehuus Of
floating.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-06-02
Base Ball Next Sunday.

A game of ball has been scheduled
to take place next Sunday at the fair
grour DIS in DEBORAH between Pros
per and DEBORAH. Shelley and Tufte
will be the batteries for DEBORAH,
and the game promises to be fast
one.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-06-02
Family Was Large Enough.

/ am told of a picture salesman
who was around recently canvassing
for the charging of pictures. He
stopped at house where there were
thirteen children and asked the
fond mother if she would not like
to have her family enlarged; Heav-
ems, no. she said. Our family is
large enough already.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-06-02
Agent For Washington Silo.

j. w. Daubney of DEBORAH, has
taken the agency for a Washington
Silo, and will be pleased to give any
one interested full particulars re-
garding this silo. 1t is said to be
one of the very best on the market.
Look up the advertisement in this
issue.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-06-02
Bargains i'm Automobiles.

Gust Haugen the Buick agent in
DEBORAH advertises some big bargains
in used cars in this issue of Public
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-06-02
4 New Express.

Perry Rima has put on new pas
senger express wagon on the streets.
1T is a commodious affair and Mr..
Rima will get a good share of the
patronage.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-06-02
Canned Fruit For Sale.

Tomorrow, Thursday and Friday
June 3 and 4 there will be sale of
canned fruits, pickles, preserves,
jellies, etc., inathe Domestic Science
room at the DEBORAH public school
building. All of the above products
will be sold at cost.
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which would probably strike home as
closely as it's use in cake and biscuits,
if it's identity could always be recog-
nized. Without soda ash and caustic
soda the household would be minus it's
lamp chimney and the glass in the
front window, for these two compounds
are used to large extent in glass
making. They are used as extensively
in an article which is quite as indispen-
sable-soap and soap powders-as well
as in the manufacture of wood fiber for
use in paper making. An inferior grade
of the blcarbonate is used as source
of carbon dioxide in charging soda
water.
An interesting phase of the exhibit
is the intermeshing of the various
steps of the process. A quarry in a
when burned, produces the carbon di-
oxide of gas. The coke which fires the
limekiln in it's turn is product of
the burning of bituminous COAL which
makes ammonia gas, the second essen
tial element in the chemistry of baking
soda. Illuminating and coal tar prod
ucts come from the same coke oven
gas lighting the city of Syracuse and
the other products sold for other pur-
poses.
Perhaps most persons are not aware
that most of the plaster used on house
walls nowadays is not the old lime
mortar. but wall plaster made of cal
<cined gypsum mixed with various sub
stances to form a ready-mixed mortar.
After one has made a study of the
gypsum exhibit set up in the same room
with the model baking soda plant, he
will have found out that not only the
plaster which covers the wall but also
the adulterant In flour, sugar and bak-
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ing powder, molds for hats and pot
terry, casts for broken limbs, artists
material, and the material in buildings
at eXpositions. all come from this nat
ural rock. occurring in beds or layers
in the earth called gypsum
The gypsum model is one-fftieth fun
size, with buildings made in open sec
ton. and illuminated to enable the
visitor to see the arrangement of the
machinery and the methods employed.
The plant is complete, even to the tiny
cars which are set up near one of the
buildings to receive the finished prod
ucts.
Starting with the hoist and cage
which brings the rock from the mine,
the observer follows the crushing of
the stone, the series of screenings and
further crushings which put it in shape
to be dumped into crucibles: the cal
ching or burning by which the mois-
ture is driven off and the crude gypsum
is converted into what is called plaster
of paris, the separation of the finer
grades of plaster of paris for dental
and surgical uses from the coarser
grades adapted to plaster uses. and
making partition tile and plaster
board.
Crude gypsum is used in Portland
cement manufacture to retard the set,
for soil dressing, commonly called land
plaster, as an adulterant in food. and
in blocks of clear white gypsum, called
alabaster by artists and sculptors. Cal
cined gypsum. or plaster of paris, by
virtue of the fact that it is very little
affected by dampness and heat. has
been found to be superior wall
plaster, when mixed with shredded
asbestos, goats hair or wood fiber This
mortar poured into molds becomes
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be fused and metamorphosed. Before
the change into graphite takes place,
however. the mixture is poured into
molds of the desired form. These are
then subjected to the heat which con-
verts them into graphite.
Few people realize the range of uses
to which graphite is put. Without
graphite, the derby hat as we know it
today could not be. 1t is also the ma
terial used in polishing the kitchen
stove: mixed with linseed oil, it is p
so-called black lead" used by painters;
it is the lead in pencils; anywhere I'M
fading blackness. heat resistance. cleo
trcal conductivity are desirable proper
ties, graphite is pretty sure to be pres
en- in some form or other.
There is a native graphite as well as
the artificial. 1t occurs in flake forms
in many mines in the United States. as
vein graphite in the Tunkinsk noun
tains of Siberia, in Sonora, Mexico. and
in Ceylon. A case showing the occur
which it is put is now being arranged
by Mr.. Gilbert.
The largest model in this-unique divi-
sion of the museum is the replica of
collery and coke plant at Fairmont,
w. Va. Five minutes every half hour
the machinery is put in motion, cars
run, belts revolve. hoists and chains
are in motion. 1t is impossible to use
coal in illustrating the various screen
ings dumps and what-not. as it would
fill the room with dirt, but samples of
the various grades of coal as they are
turned out from the chuteS are dis
played in miniature cars backed into
the company railroad yard.
The coal is brought to the tipple, the
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partition tile. which. on account of its
lghtness and resistance to heat. is
superior to the ordinary clayfire tile
Combined with felt, it makes the
plaster board, which is a substitute for
plastered walls; mixed with coloring
matter, it is used as the finishing as
well as the first coat on house walls,
and as a filler it plays a part in the
making of paint and paper.
At first thought one would say that
a lead pencil is made of lead. but such
is not the case. and five minutes study
of the graphite exhibit in this same
hall will show just how the useful
pencil is manufactured.
The exhibit shows the raw materials
anthracite coal. coke or other form
of carbon-a model reproduction of the
furnace in operation, the product as it
comes from the furnace and the gen.
eral range of preparations for use. The
striking feature connected with the
procedure is the furnace, which is
unique. 1t is simply a long rectangular
open trough constructed of some heat
resisting substance. such as carborun-
DUN. The trough holds up to six tons
of anthracite coal. A powerful electric
current is fed in at one end of the
trough. 1t jumps from lump to lump of
the coal, just as it does from one car
bon to the other in an arc light, only
instead of the single electrical jump
there are thousands which generate a
tremendous heat. 1t takes about TWEEN
ty hours to convert coal to graphite,
and the working temperature of
around 1900 degrees challenges full
comprehension.
If the graphite is not to be used as
powder. but in some specified form. as
for the so-called lead pencil. pitch is
added to the coal and coke which is to
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Government Goes About Building Its Sea Fighting Graft

well as with original construction, and
repair work is. in the aggregate. quite
as heavy as construction, for ships are
ever being made over, to a greater or
less extent, and every alteration or re-
pair requires the most delicate plan
ming and the most painstaking super
vision.
Just now the bureau. in its planning
activities, has two big things much to
the front. Plans for the six destroyers
and other minor craft authorized by
the last session of Con gress are well
out of the way, and the work now
concentrates on the detailed and final
plans for the battleships and the two
large cruising submarines-the six
teen smaller submarines are already
planned. D..
Planning these two submarines is
somewhat of a problem. Nothing Just
like them ever has been built before,
at least in this country, and there is
no evidence that they have been built
abroad. Heretofore submarines hay"
been of a defensive character, not over
large nor of remarkable speed. This
year it was determined to build two
big ones. competent to travel with the
fleet. Congress, in the final hours OF
making the navy appropriation bill,
slipped in the requirement that each
of these two vessels should be so built
to have n surface speed of twenty
five knots an hour. So far as known.
no existing submarine has such sur
face speed. So. departing from the
procedure of having the contractors
furnish the plans. the department has
determined to design these craft itself.
Hence the big problem Admiral Taylor
has on his mind just now is how TO
build just that type of underwater
boat.
And presently there is to come on the
bureau the task of preparing the
tentative plans for the new building
program for next year-a program
which even now is being worked out
by the higher naval authorities One
thing is certain, the work is all going
to be done on time, and done well.
And possibly il will produce some more
ideas that will assist in the evolution
of modern naval warfare.
.cIINJI-N BROWN
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facture under this method are lost.
and, real Zing the wastefulness, scien-
lists developed in the last quarter CEN
fury what is known as the by-product
coke plant which catches the volatile
products resulting from the slow burn
ing of coal and separates them into
gas for household purposes, tar and
ammonia, and the so-called coal tar
products, among them naphthalene. or
moth balls; tar. used on top OF mac
adam roads: benzcl. Photographic chem
icals and drugs, dyestuffs and phenol
or carbolic acid
This is graphically shown hv
model made in the museum work shop
in the form of a relief panel. twenty
eight feet long and seven feet hugh,
on scale one-thirtieth actual SIZE,
with the different processes following
in sequence along the panel.
The mining of coal is illustrated by
miniature mine showing the earths
surface. with power house, tipple and
home of miner, well as the under
stratum from which the coal is cut.
The hoist or shaft lets down into the
mine direct from the tipple. bringing up
coal, as we'll as serving as lift for the
miners. The system eXemplifed Is the
room and pillar system OF mining: Ehe
coal is first removed, with the idea or
making a network of passages. From
these passages, rooms are carved out
by the further removal of coal deposits.
enough coal being left to make stout
walls, holding up the superintendent
earth. AS the mine is worked down
the coal used as wall support Is re-
placed by stout pillars, and these. in
turn. by waste materials in the form
of shale and dirt which is left from the
coal and which eventually fills in the
stratum formerly occupied by the coal.
Unless extreme caution is observed in
keeping support under everything
ground. caving occurs. ruinous to the
mine as well as to the town and plant
above.
Models which the division is either
making or has plans for making are
the drilling and preparation of oil and
natural gas, the making of Portland
cement, methods of mining sulphur,
mining and refining zinc ore, and min
ing and smelling lead ore. The setting
up of model is necessarily slow and
painstaking task. MIR. Gilbert does not
intend TO fill up the exhibit rooms has
tily, but to see that each model it Is
put up satisfies every requirement OF
clearness and accuracy.
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Torrance at Annapolis; he led his class
and established a new record for high
marks. All of his English CLASSMATES
he left behind.
1t was about that time, it might be
remarked parenthetically, that Eng
land began to find the presence OF
American students at this naval col
lege embarrassing.
Not that the English officers We're
jealous of young Taylor; far from it
He is held in the highest esteem in the
British service, and the British lnsti-
tute of Naval Architects has conferred
it's gold medal on him. the very first
American ever SO honored Another
instance of British regard for him
came four years ago.
The fact will be recalled that in
1911 the liner Olympic collided with
the British cruiser Hawke in the Mer-
sey and badly damaged the warshfp.
Thereupon the admiralty sued the own
ers of the Olympic for damages, as
serting that the suction from the Olym
pic had drawn the Hawke into the col
liSion. The owners defended on the
ground that the Hawke blundered into
the liner, and that there was no sue
ton.
The contention Of the admiralty was
new in British Jurisprudence. although
miral Taylor was borrowed by the
British government as it's chief expert
in UNFOLDING its suction theory. His
testimony won the case for the govern
ment. reinforced, as it was, by PRACTICAL
demonstrations which he conducted in
the British navy's model tank at Green
witch before the trial judge, Justice
Evans, who, by the way, has been hear
ing the American prize cases recently
in England Justice Evans, in finding
for the government. would not go so
far as to accept the simple American
language describing the theory, the
word suction but clubbing it 'hy-
draulic interaction," and decided Adj
miral Taylor's explanation OF the acct
dent was correct.
Following his graduation from Green
witch, Admiral Taylor, as a junior Off
Ger, returned to this country and
plunged into the work of building the
new navy His earlier jobs were as an
assistant experimenting the construc-
ton of the Baltimore. Yorktown and
Bancroft. obsolete craft now. but in
their day the prides of the navy.
Followed years of work In various
navy yards and various parts of the
country and various shipbuilding plants
and the upbuilding of a reputation as
among the worlds first naval archi-
tects. It was he who, during his long
years of service at the Washington
navy yard, before being made chief of
the corps, installed the first expert
mental tank ever constructed in this
country. Taking for the basis the orig
inal tank built by an Englishman at
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Poor Father.

IT, RNEST p. BICKNELL. the national
10 director of the American Red
Cross. was talking in New York about
the splendid work that his organiza-
ton Is doing in Belgium.
I'VE are supplying the Belgians." he
said, with $12.O0O.Ooo worth o. food
a month. We are also supply!n food to
the inhabitants o. Poland. whom Ger
many has taken over.
1--WE have a good deal to ia. ehc w
are like the father WI" said
LAT last, at last. I've got ny hTn
daught-rs off my hands Now u r.t
my five sons-in- ~ p- ihclr feet
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The BaIky Balkans.

a LLAN r HAWLEE. president O.
~ he Aero Club. "a as talking in He%
Yolk about the Balkans
The allies need have no fear about
the Balkan situation" he said. Ger
many wooed Italy and got left. She is
now wooing the Balkans but in vain.
1.-The Balkans will answer Germany
as the pretty girl answered the old
banker.
could you be happy with a man like
me?' an old banker quavered on q white
beach.
"'Yes. perhaps, the girl answered, if
he wasn't too much like you"
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Navy Made Seventyve Highly Trained Naval
Architects Plans Construction of All Vessdnr David Watson
Chief Architect Whom Other Nations Look Eo
Naval Greenwich He Established
Submarine With
of