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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-08-23
BEES GUST FAMILY FROM HOME.
Remove Siding From House and Sc
cure 400 Pounds of Honey
To Drive Them Out.

Perry, Ia, Aug. 21.-Ten or
twelve swarms of bees have taken
Up their abode at the farm owned by
Mrs. Homer Moody of this city, and
occupied by Guy Fessler and family,
and the latter have been compelled
to abandon the second floor Of the
house. Unless some means is found
to dislodge the bees soon they will
have to move out altogether.
Yesterday a number of men made
an effort to get rid of the bees.
Boards were taken off the house and
about fifty pounds of honey secured.
Later some of the flooring of an up
stairs room was removed and the
space between two of the joints,
eight inches deep and eight feet long
was found packed with the finest
kind of honey. In all there was
about 400 pounds.
Part of the bees have been killed
by the use of insect powder and
similar dope, but there are still so
many in the house that the family
can not use the upper rooms.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-08-23
Tie Street EIirt.

The girl who poses as a street firt
is the girl whose name may be heard
where men congregate to reveal in
idle words. At such gatherings the
girl whose name and actions are
above reproach is never mentioned.
But the girl who gads the streets,
loafs at the corners in molly debate
with men or hangs around in business
houses, who seem to think the world,
and strangers especially, are just dy-
ing in love for her, who attracts the
attention of strange men at every OPP
portunity, and who is bombastic with
her vocal organs when conversing
with male friends-that is the girl
whom the community mentions with
a sheer and whose actions are made
the topic Of lustful conversation
when the red wine flows and the corks
pop from champagne bottles. 1t
seems that many girls do not realize
such as facts but it is too lamenta-
lily true.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-08-23
Empty Barrel EXpIOdes.

An accident that came very nearly
being fatal to the oldest son of Mr..
and Mrs. John Morrison occurred
last Thursday afternoon shortly af-
ter three o'clock There was an emp
ty gasoline barrel in the Morrison
barn, standing near a window thru
which the sun shone. Thursday al
terrioon the weather was extremely
warm and the boy, a Lao about ten
years old, decided to clean the barn
During the process he struck the bar
rel hard blow with a hammer. An
explosion followed, throwing the boy
out of the barn and cutting his head
SO badly that it was necessary to give
him an anasthetic and take several
stitches to close the wound.-Nashua
Reporter.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-08-23
IT'S THE MAN THAT COUNTS.

For the last eight years a young
man has been preaching in the Lib
eral church of Cedar Rapids, Ia. &C.
car Rapids IS an energetic and beau
tiful Iowa city, but it is not one of
the important cities of the country,
and nobody would suppose that one
of its churches would provide a pull
lit with an International audience
Yet this minister from Cedar Rap
ids, Joseph Fort Newton, has been
called to one of the distinguished
rulpits of the world, to succeed the
Rev. Reginald J. Campbell at the
City Temple, London.
1t is a case over again of the man
who made better mousetrap than
his neighbor, with the result that the
world beat a path to his door. Mr..
Newton did not feel that he was bur-
led in Cedar Rapids. His sermons
showed remarkable acquaintance
with literature, combined with nigh
degree of spiritual insight. Plato, st.
Augustine, Bergson, seers, ancient
and modern, all were his familiars.
He quoted what they said, not to lug
in an impressive quotation, but to
illumine his thought He had the
ability to impress his faith on those
who heard him, and people began to
attend his services from other chur-
ches because he gave them the spir-
itual help they needed.
The newspapers got to publishing
his sermons, and there was such a de-
mand for them that the congrega-
ton took up the work and issued
them in amphlets, which attained
a wide circulation. So London
heard of him, and when the City
Temple was looking for a new min
lister it turned, not to New York or
Boston or Chicago, but to this little
city in Iowa.
Once more, it is the man who
counts. He can make any field
worth while if he really finds some
thing to do.-Kansas City Star.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-08-23
A Bronze Button.

Sometimes, in passing along the
street, l meet a man who on the left
lapel of his coat wears a little bronze
button. The coat is often old and
rusty, the face scanned and furrowed
by toll and suffering of years. Per-
haps ABOVE it hangs an empty sleeve
and below it stumps wooden peg.
But when l meet man who wears
that button | doff my hat and stand
uncovered in his presence yea, to
me the very dust his weary feet have
passed is holy ground, for / know
that TIE man in the dark hour Of the
nations peril, barred his breast to the
hell Of battle to keep the flag of our
country in the Union sky.
Maybe at Donelson he reached the
inner trench. at Shiloh held the bro
ken line; at Chattanooga climbed the
fame swept hill; or stormed the
clouds Of Lookout Heights. He was
not born or bred to soldier life. His
count. S summons called him from
the bench, the forge, the loom, the
mine, the Office, the college, the sane
tuary. He did not fight for greed of
gold, to find adventure or win re-
nown. He loved the peace of quiet
ways; and yet he broke the clasp of
arms, turned from the witch
ing glance of tender eyes, left good
bye kisses on tiny lips, to look death
in the face on desperate fields. And
when the war was over, he quietly
took up the broken threads of love
and life as best he could, a better
,itizen for having been so good a
soldier. John NJ. Thurston.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-08-23
THE DUTIES OF MOTHERHOOD.

There is not baby in the world
worth the suffering it's mother went
through to give it birth.-Mrs. Rob.
ert B. Liggett.
Minneapolis Journal: There is
not mother in the world, nor many
childless wives, who will not protest
against such rubbish. 1t is the out
giving of neurotic personality
whose mental processes have been
distorted by fads and cults. Mrs.
Liggett, it appears, is a twilight
sleep lecturer. Twilight sleep is in
every essence a cult and a fad.
In lecture before the women of
Seattle the other day, Mrs. Liggett
advocated, among women of refine
ment and intelligence, an aristocra-
cy of childless wives. If that cannot
be arranged, then let there be an ar
istocracy of refined and intelligent
spinsters.
There must be no more matrimony
unless, along with the marriage GER
tificate, there be given a guarantee
Of painless childbirth. At bottom, in
real pinch, there are probably few
er towards among women than among
men. A woman who is willing to &C
cept the joys and consolation of ma
trimony, and not it's normal respon-
sibilities, is a coward. Yet, in all
the crooked thinking and foolish
talking of this woman, it is possible
to find a grain of truth, of which she
probably has no conception. A
Mrs. Liggett of Duluth would con-
fide motherhood to women of coarse
and hardy type, who WOULD not
wear high heels and corsets and who
do not study music and art" The
latter are too high strung and ner-
vous to become mothers. But if all
women gave more thought to fitting
themselves, physically as well as
mentally, for motherhood, the chill
dren of the world would make bet
ter citizens, because they would be
better born and reared.
Only few days ago, some of the
serious minded young women at
Barnard College complained to the
Dean that there was not a course in
the curriculum from which young
women could get any knowledge of
what those girls regarded as the
greatest work for all women-the
bearing and rearing of children
Those young women were on the
right trail. The childless wives ad-
vocates are wandering in the forest
of foolishness.
A woman's highest duty, as well
as her highest privilege, is to become
a wife and mother. The lack in a
childless home is appreciated only
by those who have to endure it. The
Light of the lives of children is the
greatest light in the world
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-08-23
JUSTICE HUGHES FIRST SPEECH.
Delivered on Test Track of Dodge
Brcs. Automobile Factory.

A former justice of the supreme
court stood within the test track of
an automobile factory the other day
and delivered the first speech on his
campaign for the presidency OF the
United States to a crowd of men in
their working clothes.
Opening a presidential campaign
on the test track of an automobile
factory is no common occurrence
Motor car men and politicians are
talking about it.
The plant was Dodge Brothers
The candidate was Charles E.
Hughes. The speakers stand was sit
uated in the Dodge Brothers oval
test track-the track on which cars
make their first run after being as
sembled and their last before going
on the market. 1t is the TRACK on
which the car must give proof of
quality before going out into the
world seeking public approval
Ten thousand men cheered yilds-
and waved 10000 American flags as
the judge circled the track after his
speech and went the way of the mo-
tor car-out through the immense
building where the car is housed
while under probation, down the
long and now gaily decorated pas
sageway to the factory gates, then
out-out into the world seeking pub
tic approval.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-08-23
Ringing Was Millionaire.

The esate of AL Ringing OF Bara-
boo, who died last January, will
pay an inheritance tax of 500, 406
to the state of Wisconsin,. The es-
tate is valued at $1,137,O0O. OF this
amount the widow is given 1855, 900
and the use of 100000 until she
dies. Each of the four brothers
Charles, John, Alfred and Henry
receives $153,S1S. Mrs. Ringing is
a sister of Mrs. Matt Kelly and Mrs.
Palmer of Waukon whom she fire.
quently visits.-Waukon Democrat.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-08-23
CHANGED METHODS OF CAM
EAIGNING.
Old Torch Light Professions Thing
of the Past.

The seasoned observer of political
battles can remember methods Of
conducting campaigns that would
seem very archaic in this fall cleo
ton.
The most typical feature of the
campaigns of SO years ago was the
torch light procession. A small town
might get up such a parade bigger
than its entire population. If it had
a well drilled company, it could at
tract detachments from miles
around, on the understanding that it
was to send it's company for a return
engagement.
Some terribly long marching
jaunts were taken. If a loyal party
member and contributor was not re-
warded by having the boys march
past his house in their haring glory,
he might get sore on the ticket. The
marChers cheerfully tramped over
the whole town for the reward of
'doughnuts and coffee and the gener-
al romp of the thing.
Not the slightest appeal to public
was made by this form OF
campaigning. If the parade wound
up with rally, as often occurred,
the speaking was mostly funny =sor-
les. These could be applied equally
we'll to the other side by changing the
name. Yet these parades made votes.
The side that produced the longest
line and the most skillful marchers
gave an impression as winners.
If a fellow had drilled and paraded
with the Republicans, he voted Re-
publican, not merely that year but
for several years, and similarly with
the Democrats. The political man
ayers understood perfectly how to
use these associations for political
value.
That these parades have SO large
ly been given up is due to common
sense. 1t was a foolish expenditure.
People became unwilling to burn up
money for something that added
nothing to education, gave no infor-
nation about issues, and turned out
no more intelligent voters. Today the
newspapers are the real political ed
ucators, and campaign funds spent in
print go furthest.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-08-23
Pickpocket Didn't Get Him.

Floyd Seikmeier was certain some
fair follower had picked his watch
from his pocket last Friday, and
three suspects at the grounds were
subjected to search of their per-
sons for the missing time piece
Later it was found in an adjoining
potato patch where Floyd had lost
it when he fastened over to see the
end of one of the parachute drops
Waukon Democrat.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-08-23
We Will Show This Fall

the most beautiful assortment of
young mems and children's suits
that have ever been brought to De-
corah. We know the value of mer-
chandise and assure our customers
and friends in advance that whatev-
er they buy here is exactly as repre-
sented and that their money Is cheer
fully refunded if the goods do not
give entire satisfaction. Be sure and
do all your trading, in the line of
suits and furnishings, at BEARS.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-08-23
Just ReCeived:

Twenty-Five splendid good quail
ity mems blue serge suits which we
will retail at $1,000. We can make
the positive statement, prices consid-
cred, that there are no serge suits
anywhere else at $1,000. Come and
see them. BEN BEAR.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-08-23

A fellow who had been criticised
by the editor of a local paper, applied
to lawyer TO know how to break up
the paper. He was told to buy it and
run it six months. He was charged
50 for the advice.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-08-23

Some folks would give anything
If they could get rid of constipation.
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea will
Go the work and do it quick. Take it
once week to be regular, happy
and free. A. j. Sorenson. Aug.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-08-23
Our Stock of Underwear

this fall will be big and we will offer
splendid good heavy feeced lined
mems union suits at $100 in spite of
the tremendous advance in all lines
of merchandise. BARS.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-08-23

Jimmy, is your father the head OF
the house?"
Eyes, l guess so, but mas the
board of directors. Buffalo EX-
press.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-07-21
Einn Concert

Under the auspices Of the Presby.
terrain legion, on Thursday evening
July az, a concert will be given at the
First Methodist Episcopal church
which will attract a great deal of at.
ftention from a music loving public.
On this occasion Mrs. Forest Fanhaus.
er Of Wheeling, who has spent three
years in Chautauqua work and has
also done sole work in the Pennsyl,
yania orchestra, will be one Of the SOLO.
lists. Miss Fankhauser possesses a con.
.tralot voice Of rar range and sweet.
mes. The other soloist OF the evening
Will be Jackcon Clyde Kinsey, a for.
mer local boy now located In New
York city. Mr.. Kinsey who is a bari.
tone singer of note Is too well.known
In this city to need any eulogy. This
concert 10 for the purpose OF raising
funds to pay OF the $4,000 pledge the
legion recently made to the church
fund.
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WARRINGTON NEWS
'onIey S. Jones, Correspondent, 70 West Main St, Bell Phone 90 NJ
Alta Atha at their home in the Hami,
ton apartments.

Alta Atha at their home in the Hamil-
ton apartments.
G. A. Brown, of Jamison, was a bust.
ness visitor In town yesterday.
Mrs. T. w. Elliott and daughter,
Mildred. have gone to Glover Gap
for a visit with relatives.
The Dixie theatre band gave an ex.
cellent free concert In front of the
theatre Thursday evening.
c. c. Bennett will occup the room
Of the Phillips Jewelry store on Mar.
ket street after extensive improve,
ments have been made. Il new front
and display window will add greatly
to the appearance OF the room and will
make a splendid location for an unto.
date shoe store.
The Box supper given by the la.
dies of the Modern Maocabees at
the Beatty farm Thursday night was
a great success. a fine band was on
hand which furnished good music.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter HOLSTER, of
Weston. W. Va, are here for a visI.
with relatives In the South side.
Thomas Downs has returned from
Pennington where he was looking az.
ter business interests.
Jack White has gone to Broomield
for a business visit. n
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Second Regiment
Is Almost Filled

CHARLESTON, W. Va. July 21.-
Major William Wallace, United States
Army, today reported to the War dc.
department the third battalion of Sec
ond infantry was reasonably equipped
thus completing the equipment OF the
regiment with the exception OF the
headquarters company which is still
awaiting to be mustered into the Fed.
eral service.
The appointment Of a regimental
adtutant also is being delayed. Major
keatly OF the medical corps was re.
LEVIED from duty at Camp Kanawha
having completed all physical exami.
nations.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-07-21
Three Americans On
Board Steamer User

PORTLAND, Maine. July 21.-Three
Americans, George Ivey, Of Philadel.
phia; Richard Neligan of Boston and
Davis Rosseneau Of Old Town, Maine,
were members Of the crew OF the Brit
ish steamship Yer reported today
from London as having been sunk.
The Yer carried cargo Of 257, 730 bush
els OF oats and was commanded by
Captain William Hunter.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-07-21
MANY TH|NGSVENED'
WITH ALARM HERE
Camel Party Platform Is
Against Preparedness and
Stock Deals.


TSlS1. As
81. PAUL, July 21-The row over
The platform which broke out in the
Prohibition party national convention
In session here was compromised
when II was proposed to let the matter
lie over for printing and distribution.
Tneproposed platform leads off with
stronE declarations for nationwide
prohibition and woman suffrage. These
pIanks are followed by antiprepared-
ness and peace planks. Reciprocal
trade treaties with foreign nations
and q federal trade commission Of
Specialists were recommended,
Taking up the Mexican situation, the
platform declared the ~"Democratid
party has blundered, and the Republi.
can party eyaded responsibility"
Mexico needs not a conqueror, but
q good Samaritan" the platform dc.
clared.
The plank on free institutions de.
clared for absolute separation OF
church and state with an absolute CUR
antee OF full religious and civil lib.
erty.. aforementioned and operat-
edStermina1 elevators and warehouses
were urged, together with the abolish
ment OF all, boards OF trade and cham.
beers of commerce dealing in options
a%ndyfutures.
The report Of the committee on Gre
dentials das adopted without objec.
ton. This report showed 1877 dele.
gates and 36 alternates on the floor
Of the convention. Thirty.nine states
and the district of Columbia were rep.
resented. There were 10 complete
state delegations.
Chairman Patton's introduction of
William sulzer, at the opening of the
afternoon session, started a briet
demonstration. Hanly men remained
silent.
-No matter what this convention
does it will be satisfactory to me as
Q prohibitionist," sulzer told the Pro.
hibitionists amid applause. He pledg.
ed himself ~unreservedly to the party.
platform and nominee.
Sulzer's emphatic declaration for
the religious and civil liberty plank
IN the proposed platform was greeted
with applause, which increased when
he said he was ~ardently in favor OF
religious liberty until the church tried
TO interfere In affairs OF state, when
be became as ardently opposed to the
church SO interfering.
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PERSONALS

Andrew Forester, of Cameron, is
here for a visit with Paul and Edgar
Halfast on the Murt hill.
Mrs. L. A. Lindemuth and daughter,
Miss Marion, of Rochelle. formerly OF
Warrington, are visiting with rela.
tives In Morgantown. They will visit
friends here before returning home.
Miss Lindemuth is a student at Vas.
a college.
Miss Amelia Crowl, OF Fairmont,
Is here for a visit with Mr.. and Mrs.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-07-21
Russia Will Fire On
Turk Hospital Ships
fRy Assnciatnd prnssN

LONDON, July 21.-Petrograd dis.
patch says that the Russian minister
Of foreign affairs has informed the
Turkish government through the am.
bassadors Of the United States and
Spain that Russia will h%enceforth dis.
regard the principles OF The Hague
convention as far as Turkey hospt.
tai ships r concerned.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-07-21
Was.

A North of Ireland orator in a Scot
fish county constituency sought to In
gratiate himself with his audience at
the outset thus: Gentlemen. / am an
Irishman. l nm proud to be an Irish
man. but I am not ashamed to admit
that l have n drop Of Scotch in me-
And for fully a minute he could not
understand what the uproar was
about.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-07-21
Rome and Berlin
Are Drifting Apart

ROME, July 21.-A Ministerial de.
cree was issued today placing the per.
sons and property OF Germans on'the
same footing Of those OF Austrians
and Hungarians. The decree does
not directly mention Germans but
states that allies of Austria are to
be treated as enemies and their sub.
5ects and goods are liable to seques.
tration.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-07-21
Shower.

Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Browning were
given a miscellaneous shower We'd
nesday evening by a large number Of
friends at the home of the brides
parents Mr.. and Mrs. F. R. Stewart
on Pleasant street. Many presents were
received. An excellent luncheon was
served.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-07-21
Lake Erie Directors
Cut a Fat Melon

PITTSBURGH. July 21-it became
known here today that directors of
the Pittsburgh and Lake Eric railroad
yesterday declared a nextra dividend
OF ten per cent and voted to increase
the capital stock from $4,000, 900 to
S50t000.0O OF this new stock S6,000,-
600 is to be issued TO stockholders of
record at the close of business July
Both.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-07-21
SALEM DRUGGIST KILLED

HARRISBURG, W. Va, July Ell
Frank Carney. aged 40. a druggist OF
Salem, W. Va, was killed yesterday
afternoon when his automobile drop.
ped W a precipice on Tunnel Hill,
between Bristol and Wolf Summit.
as he was standing on It's seat tack
ms a sign to a tree. The machine had
been stopped too near the edge, and
its weight caused earth and rocks to
cave away. The machine turned over
six or seven times, pinning Mr.. Car.
ney beneath.
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rhe water is tust right to swim in.

Not Seriously lnJured-Harry De-
wore, aged IS years who vas badly
bruised yesterday at the Fairmont
Mining machinery company plant is
resting easily at Miners Hospital No.
3 today according to DR.. ]. w. Nc
Donald at the hospital. Devore was
struck by two falling iron beams each
five feet long. Luckily the beams did
not strike Devore. directly their fall
being broken by q crane.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-07-21

Mr.. and Mrs. Oscare Hays entertain
ed the Misses Josephine and Lois
Clark of this city and Miss Alice Yves.
sells and Dudley Lawrence of Wash
ington, D. c., at their home on East
Main street Tuesday evening. A very
pleasant social evening was enjoyed.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-07-21

Held for Grand Jury-Frank Miller
who was arrested on q warrant charg-
ing %bootlegging at Monongah was held
over to await the action OF the next
Grand Jury. Miller was arrested upon
information furnished by Charles Ea-
KEEL who was arrested at Traction Park
last Saturday night.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-07-21
Saturn's Rings.

A Norwegian scientist has advanced
the theory that saturn's rings are
electrical phenomena, produced BY the
radiation of luminous particles from
the planet, which constantly renews
them.