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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-14
PLYMOUTH ROCK.

March u, 1917.
The roads are very bad, almost
impossible.
Mr.. A. G. Monsen and Will O'Brien
attended the funeral of Mr.. H. c,
Burgess in Cresco Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Wilbur and Miss
Dell Hemstreet and oliver Monsen
attended church at Morgan school
house, Friday night
John Lunningda1 is loading a car
of household goods in Cresco and
expects to leave about Wednesday,
for Montana. where he has purchas-
ed some land.
The assessor Will Middlebrook was
in our burg Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Stenson, Mr..
and Mrs. liver Skogmark and Lenora
Stesson and Hans Ellingson visited
at the John Ellingson home Sunday.
Orvil the little son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ole Anderson had his head cut
quite bad, Wednesday by a door
slamming against it.
Joe McCabe and son Richard
called at Will O'Brien's Sunday.
The Ladies Aid met at A. Moore's
Thursday.
Hugh Mcbride is patching it these
days as Mrs Mcbride is away visit
ing her parents south of Cresco.
Sever Stinson expects to leave soon
for Warwick, n. d., where they VIII
make there future home. Mrs. Stin-
son will go later.
Mr.. and Mrs. Skagmark and Hans
Ellingson leave today for their home
at Turtle Lake, N. D., after spend
ing the last three months at the
home of A. Steenson.
Mrs. A. G. Monsen and daughter
Mabel called at the A. Stenson home
Tuesday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. John DAILY mourn the
death of their little babe which oc-
Cured Sunday afternoon. They have
our deepest sympathy.
A gloom was cast over this village
when news reached here of the death
of II. C. Burgess at his home In
Cresco. Mr.. Burgess was well known
in this community as his summer
home was here.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-14
FRANKvILLE.

March IL, 1917.
Frank Kneeskern was over from
Castalia on business Monday NOR
ming.
John West, Yeoman deputy, was
over from Waukon the first of the
week, working in the interests of
the order here.
Arthur Brandt visited relatives
in Postville several days the first of
the week.
Hobert Waters visited relatives
in Waukon the first of the week.
The V. I. S. met at the home of
Mrs. Ida Bollman, Monday evening.
Claude Van Wey hauled goods for
his fathers store from Postville,
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. August Stumble of
Waukon, were callers in town the
first of the week.
Harry Harvey returned Thursday
from several days visit with rela.
tives in Castalia.
Mrs. Nell Spaun has been sick the
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-14

past week with appendicitis.
Lewis Meikle made a trip to Wau-
kon Friday.
Mrs. Kate Peck was shopping in
Postville Thursday.
John Swenson of Ossian was a
business caller here Thursday.
Herb Paddin has rented Mrs. EN-.
ma Birdsell's house, and lis moving
in today.
Gerald Moose hauled goods from
Postville Thursday for j. A. Peck's
store.
Dan Peck and Irving, were bust
ness callers in DEBORAH Tuesday.
The w. C. T. U. will meet with
Mrs. Ruth Paddin Thursday after
noon of this week.
James Ewing came down from
Mason City the first of the week,
| for a few days visit with relatives.
]. d. Mullaney of Mason City, was
transacting business in this locality
Friday.
Ray Waters, was business caller
in DEBORAH Friday.
Miss Alma Leer came over from
Waukon Friday for an over Sun
| day Visit with 1rlendS.
Eugene Owens went to Postville
Friday, his daughter Mildred, and
Bessie Birdsell accompanied him
home for an over Sunday visit.
| Mrs. Flora Birdsell of Ravena, Wis
1 tied at Mrs. Rachel Birdsell's Fri.
day.
Miss Hattie Hagar spent the past
week with relatives in Ludlow.
DR.. McNutt of New York, gave a
lecture at the Presbyterian church,
THURSDAY. His subject was. Glow to
Better Conditions in Rural Commu-
mites"
Miss Hazel Meikle spent the week
end at home from Waukon.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Irving Hughes, Mrs.
Frances Paddin, Mr.. and Mrs. James
E. Kneeskern. were among the cal
lers in Postville Friday.
Carl Letchford was an over Sun
dav visitor with friends in Postville
Harry Oleson and Clifford Hughes
made a trip to DEBORAH Saturday
afternoon.
Walter Van Wey arrived home
Saturday evening from a trip tC
Cedar Rapids, Waterloo and Gel.
vein.
Mr.. Folsom, the Veterinary Of
Postville. was business caller III
this vicinity Sunday.
The pupils of the village schOo
have decided to have a weekly news
paper. Anyone who can furnish any
items of interest, please hand then
to Ruth Bollman. Myrtle Van Wey
or Curtis Bollman. the editors.
Clarence Snitker, son of Mr.. ant
Mrs. Will Snitker of Ludlow wa!
operated on at his home Sunday af
ternoon. for appendicitis, by Dr. Kie
sau of Postville and a surgeon from
Dubuque.
Cards were received here las
week, announcing the marriage o
Alfred Crabtree to Miss Grace
fSchoonmaker at Oskaloosa, las
Monday, March 3. Friends here ex
tend congratulations.
Ruth Paddin taught in Miss Rutl
Meikle's place in the Primary room
Monday and TuestSy.
Little Georgia Waters who ma!
been very sick with pneumonia, il
better at this writing.
Arlo Crabtree came home Satur
day, from a visit with Waterloo
relatives.
Rev. Healey made trips to Post
Vile Thursday and Friday.
David Baldwin, Mrs. Wagner
Mrs. Sawyer, Mrs. Anna Broullet
an Dean Kneeskern are all sick with
la grippe.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-14
BURR OAK.

March IL, 1917.
Willie Winters returned Thurs
day, from Sheboygan, Wis, where
he has been working the past few
months.
H. E. Miller of DEBORAH. spent
Tuesday night at the R. j. Gossman
home, and conducted an agricultur-
|al meeting at the school house that
evening. and the articles made by
the class in manual training were
exhibited.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Smith, Mr..
and Mrs. VIM. Hilleman, Mr.. and
Mrs. Merle Smith and Mr.. and Mrs.
j. B. Reed, were entertained by Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur Smith Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Headington
from near Canton, were guests part
of last week at the Frank Nash home.
AIRS. Ella Anderson of Prosper,
visited last week at the A. A. Seelye
home.
The next meeting of the L. A. s.
will be held March % at the NJ. E.
parsonage.
A large crowd attended the L. A.
S. sale Thursday. The receipts for
dinner and sale amounted to about
$4,000.
Miss Bertha Wade who has been
staying with her aunt. Mrs. f. NJ.
Reed the past few weeks, spent Sat-
urday and Sunday with her parents.
r. Torgeson of Ambrose, S. D.,
arrived Saturday for visit with
relatives and friends.
Mrs. Emma Decker spent lastweek
with her daughter, Mrs. George
Emery near Prosper.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Reed. Mrs. r.
f. Harris. Mrs. Alvin Rollins, Mrs.
Robert Stead, and Mrs. Ernest Ok
ley. of DEBORAH. attended the l.. A.
s. sale Thursday.
| The remains of Joseph LaValley
of Bonair. were brought here Fri
day for burial
| Charles Dawley received news Sat-
urday of the death of his father C..
Dawley at Cresco.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Wanless went
to Cresco Sunday to attend the flu
neral of C. Dawley.
Miss Florence Reed went to De-
corah Sunday to spend few days at
the home of her uncle J. B. Reed.
Rev. Edie wishes it announced
that a lecture will be given here the
last of this month by DR.. Taylor OF
st. Paul, Dist. superintendent OF
the Winona District. The date will
be announced later.
| Mr.. and Mrs. r. J. Gossman visit
ed Saturday and Sunday with rela-
tives at DEBORAH.
Mrs Charles Reed enjoyed a visit
Friday with her uncle, George
Benedict and wife from Ida Grove,
Iowa. They were called here by the
death of Mrs. Benedict's father, Jo-
Iseph LaValley. of Bonair. but had to
return home at once on account Of
the illness of their son.
Mrs Ben Ward and daughter Mrs.
Clara Graham are staying at the
Steve Pierce home.
DR.. Emmons, e. Kippe. and Ezra
Reed, were DEBORAH visitors We'd
nesday evening.
Fremont Cox went to Council
Bluffs, Saturday.
! On Monday. March 10. 1917. at
2 o'clock p. NJ, the Burr OAK Farm
ers' Cooperative Creamery Co. will
sell to the highest bidder at a pub
lie sale to be held at the I. o. o. F.
hall it's prospective produce of but
termilk, of the six months from
April 1st to the end of September.
Also the cream routes will be let to
the lowest responsible bidder.
! -e
Old Sol is the greatest hot air ped
dler we know of.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-14

Miller in DEBORAH the last of the
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harmon Logsdon of
Trout Run, and Mr.. and Mrs. Thorn
as Logsdon Of DEBORAH, were enter
tanned at the j. j. Rosa home Sum
day.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-14

amount one years time will be given on
cent interest.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-14

TEDr1C. All under $1,000 cash. Sums that i
In IL. good, approved bankable notes drawing pen
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-14

/ Hay Loader.
1 Three-Section La Crosse Drag.
l Hay Rake.
l Deering eft. Mower.
l 2-Seated Top Buggy.
l. 1-Seated Top Buggy.
MISCELLANEOUS.
800 Blu. Corn, More or Less
375 Blu. Oats. (No. 1850, More or
Less.
175 Blu. Barley, More or Less.
About 10 Tons of Hay.
20 100-lb. Sacks Middlings.
/ Feed Cooker
Sets Work Harness.
l Set Light Harness.
l Single Harness.
Blu. Seed Corn, More or Less.
80 Chickens.
OTHER ARTICLES TOO NUMER-
GUS TO MENTION.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-14

MfShlNER1.
l High Wagon, Nearly New.
i Wide Tire Truck Wagon.
J Combination Wagon Box. With
Hay and Hog Rack.
/ Combination Wagon Box With
Hay Rack.
l International Manure Spreadef
New.
l Wagon Box.
2 Bob Sleighs.
l Cutter. |
Deering Binder. ~
l Minnesota Binder, New, Cut Only
25 Acres.
l Kentucky 16 Disc Drill, Nearly
New.
Disc.
1 Corn Planter.
2 Corn Plows.
Sod Breaker.
/ John Deere Gang Plow.
l Diamond Sulky Pillow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-13
BOOKS FOR SOLDIERS
 IN BIG DEMAND

Let your idle books help the sol- diers" This Is the slogan in Birming- ham all this week, as the call goes out from the public library for books and magazines for the soldiers. In every camp, cantonment and army post there must be books The soldiers are call ing for them already and they must be forthcoming. Library buildings will be erected in each of the 32 camps, with trained men librarians provided by the American library association in charge. You are requested to provide the books.
 Books of fiction, books of travel books about the war, popurar technical books and others not SO popular. books of es- says, books of humor, all are wanted, and in great number. Bring, too, your magazines of recent date; don't bring the old ones.
 At the public library a special room has been secured and shelves are being erected to care for the books that will come in during the week.
 Books may be left any day this week at the central library in the city hall or at any one of the branches in Avon del, East Lake, Ensley, West End and Woodlawn. Those who cannot take or send the books to the library are asked to call the library, Main 65S3, and give their street number so that the city au- tomobiles and Boy Scouts can call for the books on Friday and Saturday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-13
ATTITUDE OF FARMERS
 FOR COTTON EXCHANGES

with result that the farmers could not learn the market on cotton and the price declined to ruinous figures and caused people of the south to lose over s6O0, 900. 900. do not believe there is a bucket shop in operation in Alabama, as they cannot operate in the state under the Alabama law of 1915 and General Martin referred to this law in his opin- ion to the state board of equalization. If there is a bucket shop operating in Alabama the Farmers union will gladly aid General Martin in getting rid of it. We do not want bucket shops; we have always been against them, and are against them now; what we do want is legitimate exchanges and legitimate brokerage firms through which the farmers can get quotations
 We will thank You to please give space to this as it is very important that the farmers and the general public under stand this very vital question, and I had quite a satisfactory conference with General Martin on August 8, and he is thoroughly in accord and sympathy with the views of the Farmers union on this subject. Yours very truly.
 o. P. FORD. Secretary-Tr Treasurer Alabama Division Farmers Educational and Co-Opera- tive Union of America, 1161 Twenty second Street.
 Birmingham, August 10, 1917.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-13
A NEW MOVEMENT

as one not so much relative to the ne-
 gro as to humanity.
 All phases of dominant questions
 brought Into prominence by existing con-
 ditons were presented in their bare and
 often shocking badness. Nor was there
 the slightest excitement or extravaga
 of expression. The utmost deliberation
 prevailed throughout. Men and women
 were too serious for excitement. It was
 recognized that we are facing crisis in
 the south which Is eating its way like
 a hidden gangrene, to the undoing of
 law and order. and which. if not ar-
 rested, must work ruin. Agencies were
 named that were rallying to the arrest. and among the papers mentioned in this list was The Age-Herald. Along with it were named the Louisville Courier-Jour- nal, the Atlanta Constitution, the Hous- ton Post, and a few others. The regret was general that these grave matters so little claimed the attention of the pulpits of the south. All the clements that lent aid to the destructive tendencies | of the times were reviewed, as well as those that were constructive and aidful The type and representative character | of those thus brought together, the tone l of serious earnestness, the freedom of expression in which the utmost plain
 
 strong undertow of resolution showed that these conservative men and women were determined on change in the drift of southern current The meeting was cemented by singular unanimity of een- ument, and 1t was resolved to make it the dawn of better day. The influence and effect of the gathering were not to be dissipated, but plans of enlarged or ganization were effected and facilities were laid under tribute for the execu- tion of measures looking to practical con- struction. These facilities need not now be named. but as every member left | the meeting on adjournment, there was a profound seriousness possessing each | that was full of promise of practical re-
 suits. The organization was perfected. | so far as was possible, in an initial meeting, with plans for the consummat ton of great organization of active workers, and not of speakers and readers and | takers.
 | The meeting was the fulillment of the conception of some in the south. a. con- ception long cherished but one now com | ing to completion. B. F. RILEY. ] Blue Ridge, N. C., August ', 1917
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-13
GOOD ROADS DAY
 WILL bE OBSERVED Volunteer Workers Will Aid In Putting Public Roads
 In Good Shape

All the Birmingham and Jefferson county citizens who will volunteer their services for the good roads eel ebration next Wednesday afternoon are asked to meet in front of the Jeff erson County bank building at l o'clock, Wednesday. where they will be assigned places to work.
 c. F. Mosely, who has been arrang- ing the Ensley end of the affair, stated that a large and enthusiastic crowd had promised to assist him. This crowd will begin to work the road leading from Ensley to Birmingham just a 8 d crowd from Birmingham begins on the same road at the other end. The two parties will meet somewhere near the fairgrounds.
 The entire motorcycle association has promised to assist and a committee from the automobile men has secured all the cars that will be needed to carry out the workers and they will be on hand promptly at l o'clock. Picks, shovels and any other tools that are required will be furnished by the county and the regular road super yisers will see that the work Is done properly. Dinner will be served by the ladies in the afternoon and there will be plenty of water boys.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-13
A. P. WELLS TO OPEN
 READY-TO-WEAR SHOP

A P. Wells formerly connected with the Wells company on Second avenue and more recently employed by a New York concern, travelling, will open Bir- mingharn's new ladies' and mems ready to-wear clothing store at S11 Twen- tieth street. north, or about September 15. Wells Quality Shop" will be the name of the new concern which Mir Wells announces will carry only the bet ter grades of correctly styled clothing for men and women.
 Since August of last year MT. Wells has been out of Birmingham in inter ests of the New York concern. He states there is no place like home to him ex. cept Birmingham, and that he arranged to open the new high-class shop or Tw entieth street, where his many friends who knew and patronized him when in business here before, will find him al their service again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-13

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 l notice publication In some of the newspapers to the effect that Hon. VII liam L. Martin, attorney general, had decided that bucket shops" in Alabama were not liable to tax.
 This is an error.
 General Martins opinion states plainly, in effect that bucket shops are prohib- tied in Alabama.
 For years es years the Farmers union of Alabama and other states have labored to get rid of bucket shops, and finally we succeeded in having an act enacted by Congress known as the United States cotton futures act. In 1915 we succeeded in having enacted a law in Alabama which is in conformity with the federal statute on this sub jeot. These laws prohibit bucket shops, but they legalize legitimate cotton ex- changes and legitimate brokerage firms, through which channels farmers can re- ceive quotations.
 In 1914 interests adverse to the farm CTS caused the closing of every cotton exchange in the United States and all tkeir correspondents in the various states
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-13

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 Immediately following the fifth annual
 session of the Southern Sociological con-
 gress. which closed at Asheville on Au-
 gust ?, was held a conference of men
 and women to consider the correction of
 alarming evils prevalent in the south.
 Many of those in the subsequent meet
 ing were not in attendance on the Socio-
 logical congress, as this meeting was de-
 signed to be apart and independent of
 the Sociological congress, though in no
 way other than that of harmony and help
 fitness The purpose was to give pro-
 nounced and practical emphasis to the i'm
 portance of specially seeking to arrest certain economic ard social evils.
 This meeting was quietly called to
 gather at Blue Ridge. few miles out from Ashevllle. where the proceedings could be conducted without interruption,
 and where the sessions could be held con- tinuously for three successive days By means of private correspondence from 4C to 50 sane and serious men and women were brought together from throughout the south The meeting was made up of
 strong men of affairs, merchants, plant CTS, educators, publicists, philanthropists, judges, statesmen, authors, ministers and editors of both men and women. a suffi- cient number of whom, by quick pre-
 arrangement, had been invited to pre- pare papers or deliver addresses.
 For three days. hy day and night, the sessions went on in the discussion of topics relative to mob violence. the san itary conditions of the negro, his wages, the treatment accorded him in the courts, in private transactions, in waiting rooms. on the street cars, on the trains, the disparity in public education, the terror produced in his mind by threatening attitude and mobocracy. The utmost free dom was indulged in debate and discus sion, and things were called by theii right names There was no radicalisn indulged, no maudlin sentlmentality nc extreme views, only as extreme and as- tonishng facts were presented from wide and varied observation by observart men and women who regarded the situation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-13
INSPIRING SERMON
 BY DR. ). s. BAYLEY
Associate Pastor Speaks at Lyric on "The Parting of
 the Ways"

The Rev. Dwight S. Bayley, associate pastor of the Independent Presbyterian church, preached to large congregations yesterday morning at Temple Emanu-El and last evening at the Lyric theatre pr. Henry M. Edmonds, the pastor. was absent on vacation.
 The subjects of the sermons, Free donl' in the morning, and the Parting of the Ways" at night. were discussed in the intellectually entertaining man. ner by Dr. Edmonds' able assistant We are all confronted day by day." said Dr. Bayley, at the Lyric last night, with the necessity of choosing between right and wrong; sooner or later along iife's road we come to the parting Of the ways, and 9, for the man whose vision is clear enough to say instantly:
 This is right; this is wrong'
 "The rich man, when enjoined by Christ to sell all he possessed and give te the poor, had reached the parting of the ways, and Moses, when called upon to
 lead the Israelites out of bondage; and Ruth. in giving up her own family and accompanying her mother-in-law into a strange land, there to become the great grandmother of David, and David him. self when he decided not to avail him. self of an opportunity to slay Saul, ir order to succeed him as King of Israel
 'The mutual companionship resulting from happy married life Is a blessing which every young man and woman should avail themselves off, Mr., Bayley said, but far more important is tn, companionship of Jesus Christ who when we arrive at the forks of the road-the parting of the ways-will take our hand and show us which is the right road"
 Hold Thou My Hand" was sung al the evening service by Mrs. l.. B Crowder, whose beautiful cUntralto voice is attracting more and more attention The musical programme is a feature at the Lyric services. The song service with pr. Bayleys instructive and enter taining sermons is expected to insure large attendance at both morning ane evening services during Dr. Edmonds absence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-13
TRAINING CLASS ID CONTINUE DRILLS. Men Selected For Officers Camp Invited to Join
 Classes

Members of the training class being conducted by Virgil V. Evans and Lewis Railes of applicants for admission to the officers reserve training camp. went
 through & long drill practice at the Boys Industrial school at East Lake yesterday afternoon. where the weekly drills are held.
 The class is rounding up the final drill programme and training in the | last two weeks that remain before the young men depart for the camp. It was announced that over 75 per cent of the class passed the examination and
 were appointed to go to training camp at Fort oglethorpe.
 In order that the class may be as large as possible, and that all Birmingham
 men who are to go to the camp will
 receive some training before entering work there, the class and those conduct ing il have invited all men who have been appointed to go to the camp to join the class and attend the drills for the coming two weeks. The class is to drill tonight, starting from the city hall.
 Headquarters are in the armory at the city hall.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-13
DENTAL SURGEONS
 ELECT OFFICERS

The Birmingham District Society of Dental Surgeons held it's regular an nual meeting at the Tutwiler Saturday night. Dr. J. c. Westbrook was re- elected president; pr. J. F. Brothers. vice president; Dr. George P. Cousins. reelected secretary and treasurer
 pr. w. D. Lanier. pr. R. Y. Jones and Dr. J. c. Hoppings were elected as the executive committee. The same board of censors were elected, Dr. Charles Lokey. pr. c. A. Merrill, Dr. Frank L. Whitman and Dr. Robert Be- will.
 Those present were Drs Brothers, Yielding, Westbrook, whitman Jones, Bevill, Hagan, Taylor. Hopping, Dil- lion, Glass. Blue. Gross. Lanier, Cous- ins. Gross. The out-of-town members present were Drs. Chandler and Perry of Montgomery