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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-08-01
BUYING AT HOME.

The Clarion Clipper comes forward
with the following, which are only a
few reasons why you should trade at
home:
Almost any day one may see Clar-
ion people going out of town to trade.
Every day fairly large bit of money
is sent from Clarion to mail order
houses.
To those who wish to do their trad
ing in this way, we wish to pro-
pound few questions which may not
have occurred to you.
How much each year do these con-
Germs contribute toward the support
of Clarion institutions?
How long would we wait for public
improvements if we depended upon
those concerns to help?
How much do they contribute to-
ward cur school house and the edu-
cation of your children?
How much do they contribute to-
ward maintaining Police and fire pro-
lection for this community?
How much interest do the institu-
tions take in the work of your
churches and charitable Institutions /?
In sending away your money for
goods that may be purchased here,
has it ever occurred to you that you
are directly hurting the chances of
your husband, brother or son to Sc
cure profitable business or employ
ment?
Did you know that in spite Of all
these things which the local business
man does do, he can sell you goods
at the same or even lower prices,
quality considered than the out-of-
town institution?
Do you give the local merchant a
chance to show you what he can do?
Try it once.
You will find that when you trade
at home your money comes back to
you In some way or another.
You will find that our merchants
will be enabled to carry bigger and
better stocks than before and will be
able to give you even better prices
than at present, if you will treat
them as you do the mail order houses
and buy for cash.
You will find that your town will
begin to spruce up, take on new
life and become truly progressive and
enterprising.
BUY 1T AT HOME.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-08-01
WHEN THEY ARE OFF TO WAR.

What of the boys who are off to war?
What will you do who stay?
What of the lads who return no more
When the boys come back some
day?
What of the mothers, wives and
babes
That they will leave at home,
When they're off to war,
When the cannon roar,
And the deadly shrapnel moan?
What of the boys who fall in the
strife?
Who will care for them?
What of the Red Cross who give their
life
For love Of their fellow men?
What will you give who stay behind
While the boys fight for your home,
When they're off to war,
Where the lannon's roar
And the deadly shrapnel moan?
The answer is simple. and quite to
the point
Though you stay, your money may
go.
Surely it won't put your purse out Of
Joint
To send few hundred or so.
Men, money, munitions,
Each, useless if sent out alone,
When they're off to war,
Where the cannon roar,
And the deadly shrapnel moan.
BY o. ID. Ewing,
Co. E, LIST Iowa Inf
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-08-01
RUTH LAW COMING.
Champion Woman Flyer Will be Seen
at Winneshiek County Fair.

Miss Ruth Law, a slim young wo-
man OF rs, at the wheel of two
year-old, now obsolete type of Curtis
biplale, flew without stop frcm Chica-
go to Hornell, n. Y, a distance of
cross-country and nonstop record
made by Victor Carlstrom il the mad
ern 200-horsepower Curtiss military
biplane says The New York Times -
of Nov. g Carlstrom's Nonstop dis
lance was ASP miles-from Chicago
to Erie, Penn. Miss Law bettered this
by 13S miles. IncidentallyPshe broke
the worlds record for continuous
flight for women pilots. Until her
achievement of last November, she
had never flown greater distance
cross-country THAI twenty-five miles.
Moreover, she flew purely as sport
ing proposition.
Having stopped at Hornell for lack
of gasoline, Miss Law, with replenish-
ed fuel, resumed her flight ald wing
ed ninety miles to Binghamton, n. Y,
where she spent the night.
In reporting her achievement to
the New York Times Miss Law said:
Il have made the longest fight a
woman ever made. But / am not
Boosting about that: the real thing l
have done is to show that it is an easy
thing to fly from New York to Chica-
go without stopping if one has the
equipment. My title machine, even
with it's extra tank, could carry only
fifty-three gallons of gasoline, and
l had to stop in Hornell to get more
fuel.
IF l had been able to carry 100
gallons of gasoline, l would have eat
en- dinner in New York. There was 40
trouble, absolutely none, with the ma
chine, and the stop in Hornell was
as l had planned. There was a man
waiting on the racetrack there with
the cans of gasoline. l had tod him
to bring. That had to stop here in
Binghamton was due to no fault Of
mine or Of the acceptance stopped
because it was dark and l didn't have
any lights AS soon as / can get a
machine that will carry enough gaso-
line am going to make the flight
from Chicago to New York with out
stopping.
Anyhow, feel pretty proud about
it, | don't know just how far l few
and only generally how fast l went. |
just started and few until l had to
stop to get more gasoline. l know I
flew further than Carlstrom did,
Since her flight of last fall Miss
Law has been doing more or less long
distance work, her most recent IN
dertaking in that line being a few
weeks ago when she toured the Mid
die West states in the interest Of the
Liberty Loan Bond sale.
Miss Law is the big head liner of
the Winneshiek County fair this year.
She will fly on Thursday and Friday
Aug. 16 a1d II, two exhibitions each
day.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-08-01
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AUTOMOBILE TOURING.
Many Take Camping Outfits Along
And Camp in the Open.

The custom of automobile vaca-
tion tours il summer is revolution
izing many of our business and So
cial conditions. There are summer
resorts that have been nearly killed
by the change in the customs of their
former patrons. They used to be ac-
cessible enough by railroad, but if it
is not a good automobile country
with roads well kept up and decentIy
accessible, the motor crowd simply
wont come there. AS a result sum-
mer cottages stand empty, and hotels
can scarcely Fay their expenses.
Meanwhile new business has
sprung up Of catering to the automo-
bile travelling public. In the older
parts Of the country little inns that
were fourishing in stage coach days
and then had to quit business, have
opened up again. A golden stream
of travellers descends on them, pro-
vided they have the sense and enter
prise to make the tourists comforta-
BILE. They blossom out with new
paint and new furniture, and acquire
a prosperity startling to the old resi-
dents.
Long distance travelling is popular.
On any day on the favorite roads, you
will see ears from states a thousand
miles away. These cars are not nee
essarily the more costly makes on
which you can slip over rough roads
with the least possible motinn. They
may be the cheapest grade, of ma
chimes. hut the tourists are good for
it, and if they get bumped by rough
surfaces and lack of shock ahsorbers,
they call it beneficial for their slug
-gish livers-
Many of these outfits take along
tents and camp in the open. They put
up with some Inconvenience, but
they acquire an intimate knowledge
of the country, escape tedium, and
see new things every day. They come
home brown as gypsies aid have had
their moneys worth AS vacations
go, it is a pretty inexpensive one. 1t
is a restless age, but a habit that
keeps people thus out of doors is on
the whole very beneficial
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-08-01
DEBORAH BOY IN FRANCE
ANTON BERNATZ WRITES BRIEF
LETTER TO HIS PARENTS
HERE.
Has Been in Paris Month or So Now
With the Regular Army.

Anton Bernatz, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. Bernatz, of this city is now in
France. He is a member of Co. M.
18th Inf, aid has been in France for
some weeks now. The following let
ter, dated July 8, was received by his
parents Monday:
My Dear Father and Mother:
How are you all? am in fine
health. How did you spend the
Fourth? We get a pass for town, as
it is holiday over here like it is in
the states, only they do not celebrate
as much. What is Karl doing, driv-
ing the truck l suppose We get paid
tomorrow. | have two months pay
coming. That $50 raise on one
month and twenty per cent for foreign
services, will have about $45 COM
ing. Am going to have them send
about $40 to you as long as l am over
here so when | get back l will have
some money saved. 1t will be a long
time before you get letter again, as
the mail does not go very often. /
was going to write Agnes but l run
out of envelopes, but will get some to-
morrow if l can get down town. 1t
rained all day today. This sure is a
wet country. Ever since we have
been here it has rained, with the ex
ception of a day or two How Is ev-
erybody at home? Have you heard
from Agnes or Aunt Dorothy? When
you write be sure and tell me all
about what is going on at home, as it
will sure be fine to get a letter from
you. Well I will have to close, as l
haven't any more to write you. just
wanted to let you know that l am
we'll. 81
Your loving son,
ANTON.
My address is Co. M. IS Inf, Am.
Elk. Forces, Paris, France.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-08-01
Suggests Volunteer Work on Street

SUGGESTS tOluutcCT WoIn VII cshVSsS'
Pharmacist P. ]. McCrane comes to
the front with patriotic and sensible
suggestion about caring for New
Hampton's streets.
His idea is for the city to haul
load Of gravel for each intersection
and place it at one side out of the
way.
Then let the property owners at
suitable times take this load and put
the gravel into any holes that may de-
yelop at the concrete crossings ana
see that it is raked in under the tranic
until it is securely AID smoothly pack
ed.
Since so many of the bumps and
holes are at these crossings the idea
looks like good one.
We would like to see it tried out al
few intersections, if the residents
will volunteer the labor.
One thing is sure, the city has nc
money to do this work. Yet it ought
to be done if New Hampton is to keep
her fame as a progressive city.-New
Hampton Gazette.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-08-01
Some Fine Winter Wheat.

= John Blaess brought in a shock OF
winter wheat last Saturday from the
Casper Finholt farm near Satire in
Pleasant township, and it has been on
exhibition in the Public Opinion Of
fee window since. The wheat will go
80 bushels to the acre, and it is said
to be as good wheat as has been rails
ed in this section in years. Mr.. Fin
holt has a number of acres planted
and we understand that all over the
county a large acreage of wheat was
planted and it is all doing fine.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-08-01
FARMERS Buy Milking Machines.

Henry Kittelson and Oliver Lien,
two elterprising farmers living north
OF Locust have just installed Empire
milking machines on their farms, pur-
chased from T. F. Conner, of Decor
ali, who has the agency for these ma
chimes. Mr. Kittelson is milking %
cows, but expects soon to increase the
herd to between 40 and so. These
milking machines work fine and are
certainly great labor savers.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-08-01
An Invitation From POstyille.

Circus day visitors in Postville are
especially invited to notice the we'll
kept lawns in our city. Also observe
that our streets, alleys and vacant
lots are free from weeds or unsightly
Instructions or rubbish, and how
nicely the grass is kept cut, and you
will realize how proud we Postville
folks. are of cur home town.-Post-
vile Review.
The people of DEBORAH and vicinity
observed all of the above last year
when they attended Ringing Bros.
circus at Postville. While we were all
with it, we were still more
impressed with the good people of
Postville. They handled the big
crowd in the finest manner possible
and were about as courteous and
agreeable lot of people to visit with
that we ever came in contact with.
They didn't put us into their alleys or
vacant lots that they refer to above,
but invited everybody onto their we'll
kept lawns and gave them the privil-
ege Of eating a picnic dinner on them,
and not only that they furnished plen-
ty of dishes, water, lemonade, or any
thing the people wanted Oh yes, we
all remember, PCstville people are o.
X as we'll as their streets, alleys,
lawns, etc. The Barnum & Bailey cir
Gus appears in Postville on Aug. 9.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-08-01
Baby Weighed Is Pounds at Birth

Shenandoah, Ia, July 30.-Boone
aad Fort Dodge can both quit dis
putting as to which city is entitled to
the honor Of having the heaviest baby
in the state at time of birth. A boy,
born at Emerson, to Mr.. and Mrs. c.
J. Binan, now of Shenandoah, weigh
ed eighteen pounds at its birth. This
is two pounds more than the daugh-
ter of &. F. Postle of Boone who took
issue with p. E. Larson or Fort
Dodge who claimed the heaviest baby,
weighing fifteen pounds.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-08-01
Married Last Saturday.

Mr.. Andrew B. Gray of Hope,
North Dakota and Miss Edith NJ. Butt
of Ridgeway were married at the NJ.
E. parsonage Saturday afternoon,
July 2Sth, DR.. G. S. Lakeland offici-
ating. Miss Butz is a daughter of
John Butt and is well known i'm her
home locality. The young couple
left Monday for North Dakota where
they expect to make their home.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-08-01
Additional Medical Examiners.

DR.. M. d. jewell and DR.. T. Stabo
were appointed as additional medical
aiming the drafted men in this coun-
ty.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-08-01

Valdez College is chartered by the
State of Iowa. 1t offers strong
courses in shorthand, typewriting,
bookkeeping, and the common bran
ches. 1t has trained more than ten
thousand students for success.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-08-01
Where Sam Got or.

Among the Monday morning cul-
prits halted before a Baltimore po-
lice magistrate was a colored man
with no visible means of support
What occupation have you here in
BALTIMORE" asked his honor.
"Well, jedge," said Sam. Il amt
dom much at present-jest circula-
tin roun' suh.'
His honor turned to the clerk of
the court and said:
please enter the fact that this gen.
tleman has been retired from circula-
ton for sixty days"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-08-01

Special values in mems suits az
s1375. If we asked the real price II
would be $4,000. BEANS.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-08-01

Work shirts of the better grades
made by the best manufacturers. for
sale at BEARS.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-08-01

Subscribers will confer favor upon
us by notifying US at once of fail
ure to receive the paper regularly.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-08-01

This paper presented free of charge
for one year to Winneshiek County
brides who remain in the county.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-03-20
SEWARD SNAP SHOTS

Jim Hamilton, formerly at the Skeen-Lechner mines, is reported seri- ously i'll.
 Work of rebuilding the coach for the U. s. K. R., by BrosiuS & Noon, is going ahead at a good rate.
 So great was the traffic over the U. s. railroad to Mile 40 yesterday that all of the passengers could not be handled and a special train was sent out today carrying the "over- flow" crowd.
 Tommy Jasper, former chef at the Seward Grill, left yesterday with George Riley to the new Toltsoi camp, to be gone all summer.
 C. s. Sinclair, who arrived on the Alaska, left this morning for Idita- rod.
 Mrs. J. Lyon arrived on the train last night from Kenai, to spend few days in town.
 C. E. Martin, popular clerk at Brown & Hawkins, arrived on the Farragut from an extended business trip to the states.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-03-20
$2O,OOO GOLD ROBBERY AT
 CHICAGOFF
Armed Men Overpower Two Guards and Seize
 the Bullion
lBy United States CsbIel

JUNEAU, Tuesday, March 2O.- Masked armed robbers, early yester- day morning, held up and robbed two men of the Chicagoff mines, gagged them and escaped with $2O,OOO in gold bricks. This bullion was under guard awaiting shipment to Juneau. No clues as to the identity of the robbers have been discovered, as the guards say they did not get good look at them.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-03-20
FREE MAN WHO
 SCOLDED GIRL
(By United States Cable)

SEATTLE, Tuesday, March 2O.-E. P. Erchenbrack, whose housekeeper, Mabel Howe, ended her life after be- ing scolded by him, was released yes terday on $l ,OOO bond, pending a com plete investigation of the girls death.
 Miss Howe was declared to have come to her death by suicide by the colOner's jury this morning.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-03-20

Waeerfill and Frazier whiskcy at the Branch.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-03-20

Remodeling of ladies and gents clothes, by a tailor, a speciality, next to Alaska S. S. office. If
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-03-20

Waterfll & Frazier whiskey at The Branch.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-03-20

Andy's Express, phone Madison 14S.
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-12-18

where We spent a day. then by another ambulance train to Calais. on the hos pital boat to Dover, then ambulance train to London.
 We arrived al Victoria Station . ?. M and there was huge crowd ,hat lined the streets. and as you pass in the ambulance they threw flowers in and cheered which. as my nerves had all gone. was vile. have been several days here now and am getting along fine. l think have finished the actual fighting for good, so you may never be afraid Of anything happening. How long I will be in the hospital io nor know. but expect to be up il 3 week. and then will go after have been discharged from here to some quiet country home for quite while.
 The nurses are fine. much s:r.c'er than our Canadian ones.
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-12-18
WHOSE HOUSE IS
 BURNING?
tBy Meredith Nicholson. l

Civilization may be ukened 10 a house where a family live in comfort and ease and the enjoyment Of the privileges and security that represent thousands of years of labor.
 When a house is ou ire f becomes .A- tus.an, duty 0. the ne.ghbors and Of the government Immediately re ] S9ouss1ie for the protection Of the householder 10 render aid-not today or tomorrow bur the moment the flames become visible and il is known that fae house and i-s inmates are threataned
 1 house on fire. We hear cries in .he street the rattle end jar of the 3engiues and hose carts as they hurry 10 the scene Of conharation. The fire ! .s spreading: not one but hundred ] homes are threatened.
 When the Kaiser began his war for world domination he applied torch
 10 thar House ot Civilization I have visualizad as a home. the repository ] 5f every good and perfect gift that has ! been won for humanity. the very ] freedom that is it's foundation and the peace tha- ts lts corner stone.
 The Kaiser is a mad ineendiary. He stole upon the House or Civilization n th4 nigh, and tossed burning ] n brand through an open window. Like -aief who applies a match to -he rear ot 6 house 10 stampede the inmates and dis,rac- their attention while he plunders. the Kaiser expect 70 satisfy Q loagpoadered scheme Of slept the sleep Of peace to awake in terror
 The Kaisers army perfected through years of stern training to aid the pyromaniac lord Of the Hob snzollerns in his Ealign purposes, has resorJed to every conceivable a-roci.y 70 terrorize civilization-not merely 10 destroy it's house but to murder the inmates or reserve them for a more hideous fate than death.
 When We say that this is war 10 make the world a safe place for de mocracy. we mean also that il is to preserve that House ofCiyilization in which democracy is the altar and 1 sanctuary.
 House on fire. It is not for you and me to stand outside and say that il is only neighbor's house that is
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-12-18
Serial o2e24 UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE, Juneau Alaska

Notice is hereby given that Ward's Cove Packing Company, a cofporat- ion. has filed in the U. $. Land Office for Juneau Land District. at Juneau, Alaska. its application to purchase un- der and pursuant to the provisions of Section 10 of the Act of May If, 1898, .as Trade and Manufacturing Site, the following tract of land situated on the Northeast shore of Wards Cove on Tongass Narrows. nayigable arm Of the Pacific Ocean. and on Revillagig- edo Island, at latitude 55' 2S' 30' N., and longitude 131' 4S' 30" w. in the Tarritorw of Alaska. designated as U. :. Survey No. 1907, and more partic- ularly described as follows, to-wit:
 Commencing at corner No. l,
 at line of mean high tide of Wards
 Cove; whence U. S l.. NJ. No.
 bears N. l5S 25' E. 573S chs. dist;
 thence :. 42s 55' E. TIP chs. dst;
 10 corner No. ?: thence s. +7' 05
 w. 1461 chs. to corner No. 8;
 thence x. 42' 55' W. 7.72 chs. to
 corner No. f. situated on line of
 mean high tide on Wards Cove;
 thence along the meander line of Wards Cove. in general North
 easterly direction to corner No. l:
 the place of beginning; containing
 I050 acres. Mag. var. 29' 35' E.
 X duly authenticated copy of the plat of said Survey No. 1207, together with notice Of the said application 10 purchase. were duly posted at a conspicuous place upon said premises on the 2nd day of October A. D., Nine cen Hundred and Seventeen.
 Dated at Juneau, Alaska, Oct. 23, 1917.
 c. B. WALKER, Register. First Pub. No. l. 1917.
 Last Pub Jan. II. 1918
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-12-18

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menaced. The first German soldier who set foot on Belgium soil threat ened your home and mine. He flour .ished his brand at the House of Civilization in which you and l live. He attacked law. liberty, mercy, justice-everything that strengthens and adorns that proud house in which we of America have lived in content ment and peace.
 There are things in he humblest home that the owner -uld not lose gslhout a struggle. Wen the house sets afre the inmates spring toJspro- tect and save those things.
 We of America are in this war to protect and save the House of Ciyili- zat.on and the proud trophies that represent not only our own struggle and sacrifices but those we inherited from sires who shed their blood for them
 Put out the fire. The more quick .lv we realize that it is our house tha. is burning thae more quickly we shall be free to cut away the blackened walls and make the house habitable and secure We want 10 see the fire men disperse. the police hustle the ncendiary to the lookup. and the ad- justers come in and settle the dam ages.
 The way to hasten this consumma- ton is by aiding our fremen-our Army and Navy-in every possible way. r we can't carry water or mie,d the ax on burning timbers, we can stand back Of the men who are doing the work-our work yours and mine. We can pour out our dollars to help them. We can see that the fire fighters are fed and clothed while they are on the job; we can take care Of them when they fall injured in our cause.
 House on fire. Civilization on fre!
 The man who says this is not Americas war is asleep in burning house and does not deserve to be saved by the splendid valorous fire men who are fighting to rescue him.