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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-31
COULDN'T EVEN
UP IN BED,
SAYS FATHER
Texas Farmer Declares His
Daughter Was Helpless for
a Long Time.
CONDITION
II Sure Rejoice Over What
Tanlac Has Done for My
Daughter" He Says.

Il believe in giving everything IT'S
due, and ! want TO tell you right now
sure rejoice over what Tanlac has
done for my daughter" said {. Hast
ings, a well known farmer living at
Aliei, Texas.
Two years ago" he continued. she
began TO 20 down hill with stomach
trouble and neuralgia and the agony
she suffered was something awful. Most
everything she would eat disagreed with
her and gave her no end Of trouble
Many a time she would wake up IN
the night with such terrible neuralgia
pain in her neck, chest and shoulders
that she wasn't able to speak or raise
heryelf up in bed, In fact, she wa
helpless and was so tired and worr
out by morning she would hardly b'
able TO get up at all. She got to thu
point where she spent most OF her tim'
in bed and had to give up her house
work and | was really afraid she woul'
never get well.
Il read in the papers where one o
my. friends had taken Tanlac and tina
caused me TO get a bottle for M
daughter and | want to say right no.
that she has got hold of the right met
icIne for her case at last She sa,
she feels like a different person sine
she started on Tanlac. Why, instca
of lying in bed like she had to do be
fore, she is the first person up on tn
place now and is strong enough TO tax
up her homework again. ! haven
heard her complain in some time and /
| didn', know it was relieving her
wouldn't be here buying more of it 70
her. | have so much faith in Tanla
that | exect to keep it in the house al
the time"
Tanlac is sold in Oklahoma City cx
clusively by Westfall DrnR Co, unde
me personal direction OF a special Tan
lac representative adv.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-31
This i, rank unauthorized s~eliishness
for which there is no excuse.

This is rank unauthorized s~clt,shneSs
for which there is no cxcus
TO the woman who is letting her good,
kind, generous husbands little faults
blind her to all his big virtues, so that
1t IS turning what should be a happy
marrigc into a miserable one, ! can
otter a sovereign remedy that never
fails. Let her 60 away from him, go
away among strangers for a while. Sep
aration is the cure for nine -tenths OF
domestic misery, and it's a pity that
people haven't enough intelligence to
realize this and apply IT themselves
without calling in the divorce court
doctor.
Two people, especially when they are
of entirely different temperaments, are
practically sure TO get on each others
nerves when they live together day III
and dly out. They see each other AT
such close range that every fault and
ioiblc becomes exaggerated, every weak
ness IS magnificd A personal defect
becomes a deiormity, a personal idio'yn-
| Grassy a crime. Their affection dies
down to ashes aud nothing but the
breath Of absence will fan it to life
again,
Let this woman who finds her huS-
band SO lntolcrablc go away from him
OF let him save his domestic happiness
and help save his country at the same
time, by enllStlng IN the army, and il
less than six months the wife will he
down on her knees praying God to send
him back to her, and give her the priv.
lege once more OF picking MP after him
around the house, and putting his but
tons on HI, shirt, and doing all the deal
little homek duties a devoted woman
does for the big laundering careless
man to whom she is both wife ant
mother.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-31
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Open Till $50 O'clock

and remember tia, we are not only head.
quarters for this Great South Iend Watch
hut for Diamonds and Solid Gold Iewelry
az werl-sll on cnsy terws.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-31
Dorothy Dix Says
TIN. PEBBLE IN THE SHOE.
By Dorothy Dix
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
TINE PEBBLE IN THE SHOE.
By Dorothy Dix


Der and industrious and sweet tenn
pered-but that she is perfectly miser-
able and has become n v wreck
because ne docs all the little things
that crate upon her.
She is very neat and tidy and or
DERBY and he throws things around the
house and drops cigar ashes N the
floor and scatters newspapers as he
goes.
She Is very particular about her
clothes and takes good care Of them,
He will wear his only pair Of silk
socks to work, and she has to watch
him like a hawk to see that he changes
his shirt and collar every day and has
4 fresh handkerchief in his pocket.
She cher,shes her furniture and her
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-31

Thomas Hubbard and followed it
to what the Eskimo said was DR..
Cooks iartheresi north camping
place. This camp was about II
days march from Cape Thomas
Hubbard and from there to the pole
would have been a journey OF many
DAYS, according to Macmillan.
Macmillan also interviewed All
pel-Lah, another Eskimo who was
with Cook. He said ON a map All
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-31

Pcl-Lah traced Cooks route and
that it was identical with the one
that had been traverSed by Mac
MILAN and E.Took- A -Shue.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-31

WOMAN writes me that she is
married to a man who IS a
model Of all the v~irtues-who Is
md kind. moral and upright. so
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-31
Old Doc Cook Was
Long Way From Pole
Macmillan Believes

FRFEPORT. Maine, Aug 81
The route of DR.. Frederick Cook in
his Journey toward the North pole
was retraced by Donald MacMil-
Ian, the explorer who has just re
turned from the Arctic, according
to a statement by Macmillan at
the home Of relatives here tonight,
Macmillan said that accompan-
led by + -Took-A-S hue. an ESki-
mo. who travelled with DR.. Cook,
he picked up the trail near Cape
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-31

Seventy thousand bells have been
received by a bell foundry in Hanover
10 be fecast into war materials
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-31
mother SAID
n TRY IT
LYDIA E. Pinkham's Vegs.
table Compound Cured
Mn. Gopher after
Doctors Failed.
Cincinnati, Ohio.-"I want You 70
noW ths good Lydia E. Pinkham's

~m-
pound has done for
me. | was In such
bad health from f.
male troubles that
! could hardly get
Of my bed. had
been doctoring for
. long time and my
mother said, i want
you to try Lydia E.
Pfnkham's Vege'
tablet Compound 81
u did, and It has GER
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-04-25
Total deaths during the war 49,
Karl ID. Fisk Buys Jewelry Store

A business deal of much more than
ordinary interest is announced to-
day, the sale OF Miss Ella Parrotts
jewelry store to Karl ID. Fisk, the
optometrist. Miss Parrott has been
il business in West Union, as jewel
er and optometrist, for thirty-four
years continuously, for the past
twenty of which she has been sole
proprietor of the store.
Mr.. Fisk, long a successful OPTIC
metrist, will make his new line OF
business fit we'll with that which he
has followed in this community Tor
over half his lifetime. Mrs. FISK
and their daughters, Misses Dorothy
and Helen, Will look after the store
during Mr.. Fisk's absences while
making other towns in his optometry
work. Good wishes for the success
of the new firm are universally ex-
.tended.-West Union Gazette.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-04-25
TOWN IMPROVEMENTS.
Average Town Improvement Society
Has Few Meetings, With Much
Talk But Little Action.

Almost every community in the
United States has had at some time
or other some form of Town I'm
proyement Organization. 1t NAV be
called the Board of Trade, the
Chamber of Commerce, Business
Mems Association, or simply the I'm
provement Society. 1t is constituted
with a lot of oratory and parlimen-
tary form.
a constitution and by laws, elabor-
ate enough for the fundamental law
OF a state, are drawn up. A long list
OF committees is appointed. Most of
the committee members go home
swelling with pride at the recogni-
ton given, but the majority of them
never do anything. The scheme is too
elaborate.
Boards of Trade and Business
Mems Associations very frequently
prove permanent without much eff
fort. Their necessity and Usefulness
Is too obvious to need argument.
The dollar is tangible basis for
their activity. Business men see that
some such basis for cooperative ef-
fort is provided, town can not ad-
vance commercially. And these as
sociations often do exceedingly use
ful work along the line of town bet
termelt, but this is more or less in
cidental.
There Is room in every town also
for separate organization for town
identification, tree and shrub plant
ing, park development, removal of
unsightliness, promotion of order,
betterment of housing conditions, in
short for the multifarious ends
grouped under the word Improve
ment. Such society has two func-
tions, to promote public sentiment,
and to create working systems by
which these ends can be permanently
accomplished.
The average Town Improvement
Society has few meetings at which
there is much talk and little action.
Usually one or two positive things
are accomplished. After that inter-
est languishes and soon the organi-
zation ceases to meet. How can
public interest be stimulated so that
such work can be a permanent force
in the life of every community
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-04-25
my KILLARNEY ROSE"
NEXT FRIDAY
Al II. Wilson, Popular Singer of
Irish Airs Will Appear Here in
His New Play.
SEATS ON SALE
AT f.. j. PARMAN'S
Number Songs Wilson Has Popu.
larized Are as Difficult to
Count as the Sands
of the Dessert.

MY Killarney Rose" is the char
acteristic title of the new Irish song
play Sidney r. Ellis is presenting
that gifted character singing come
dian Al H. Wilson this season and
which will appear at the Grand next
Friday night, April 27th.
Mr. Wilson does not require any
extended praise as a clever enter
tainer for he has earned his proud
position by making good and his
large following of admirers hold
him at the head of his profession
| from their love of an artist who has
delighted them so often.
This new offering MY Killarney
Rose gives promise of being the
best of plays in Mr.. Wilson's career
for both press and public have pro-
claimed it such. Tom Carey the
leading role is wonderfully suited to
Mr.. Wilson's personality and comic
abilities-being Irish in theme one
can imagine the wit and romance
abounding in the lines and situations,
and such is the case-and the result
is performance, for varied delights
rivallng any other before the pub
lie today. OF course one of the great
features are the songs, and they are
of nature that reflects the atmos-
of Tcyn
are entitled My Killarney Rose"
The Love l Give to You" Mary
Houllihan". Where the Shamrock
Crows" and The Yodel that Stole
my Girl Away.
The prices will be $1.50, 81, 75c
and soc. Get your seats at E. j. Par
mans drug store.
Following is the musical program:
March, "The Stars and Stripes
Forever" ..... .Sousa
fe-overture cns Naticnal Airs.
America Moses
S-March, "53rd Regt. Band, l. N.
u. Hanley
dedicated 20 Bandmaster Benz. 0.
Marsh).
descriptive Fantasy, "A Day at
West Point" Bendix
Synopsis.
6 A. M.-Drum Assembly; Sun
rise Gun; Devotional Exercises; The
Cadets sing Army Blue: Adjutants
Call; Dress Parade; Fife and Drum
Corps; Assembly of Buglers; Boots
and Saddles; Cavalry Drill; Cadets
oh fd
ouD Auld Lange Syne; Finale
Yankee Doodle"
B. o. Marsh, Director.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-04-25
Freak Legislation in Kansas.

Kansas is the home of freak leg
islation. Every man who gets elect
ed to the legislature thinks the
world and mankind needs reforming.
and the task devolves upon him to
see that the job is done, and Kansas
has become noted for its freakish
legislation. Having made the state
air tight on liquor, they are after the
tobacco interests. A bill has been in
troduced in the legislature prohibit
ing smoking except under certain
conditions. A bachelor can go to his
club and smoke in special room. A
man can smoke his pipe or cigar in a
secluded room in his own house, but
woe to the man who ventures to
smoke on the street or his front
porch. For some reason they did not
include chewing of the weed in the
law. What's next?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-04-25
TAXPAYERS WIN BATTLE.
Enioin City Council From Use OF
Brick for Pavement.

Clinton, Ia, April 23.-The tax
payers of Clinton who brought suit
for an injunction to restrain the city
council from paving several miles OF
the streets with brick, have won their
case il the District court.
Judge A. ]. House has issued an
injunction prayed for sustaining most
of the contentious of the property
owners.
The property owners along the
streets in question insisted on asphal-
tic concrete for paving material
while the council passed il favor OF
brick paving, the contract for which
was at higher figure.
The case has been hotly contested
for months.
1t has not been announced wheth-
er the case will be Appealed to the
state Supreme court or not.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-04-25
Richest Young Man in United States
EnliStS.

Marshall Field III, of Chicago, who
enlisted in the First Illinois cavalry
last week, is believed to be the rich
est young man, he is 23-in the
United States. His grandfather, who
died eleven years ago, left a fortune
of 100000, 900 to a large slice OF
which his grandson, the present
rookie, was direct heir. and much
more to which he is heir presumptive.
The medical examiners record OF the
First cavalry, however, indicates that
Field is just as healthy as If he were
poor, as Major Orr put it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-04-25
CLEANUP CAMPAIGN.

Pursuant to custom, and for the
purpose of getting all private
grounds as well as the streets and
alleys cleaned and placed in sani-
tary condition at the earliest posi-
BILE moment, cleanup campaign is
now inaugurated within the city OF
Decorah, Iowa, to be conducted un-
til a general cleanup is effected.
Every person within the city who
is a resident is earnestly urged to
aid in cleaning up the private prem
ises he or she occupies by removing
from the grounds all accommodations
of dead grass, ashes, and all forms
of rubbish, brush, tin cans, and 9TH
er accumulations that are unsightly
or unsanitary to leave about the
premises during warm weather. Ar
range to paint all buildings needing
it as soon as outside painting can
be done.
All civic, patriotic or other or
CARNATIONS, including all Women's
Clubs and the pubic and private
schools, are especially invited to CO.
operate in every way possible to
make this cleanup campaign work
out so that the lots, streets and al
leys may be cleaned AID kept free
from rubbish, filth and distractions
of every kind.
Under the ordinances Of the city
every person who deposits, or throws
any ashes, manure, straw, refuse,
cans, or garbage of any kind in any
street or alley he shall remove the
same, and upon his failure to do so
the city may do so at his expense,
and may assess fine in addition.
The cooperation of everyone is
desired-not compu.sion but coop
Grafton is and should be the watch
word for every one. You will feel a
greater pride in your town, will feel
bigger and better yourself, and best
of all you will have well-founded
right to feel so, after the cleanup
has been effectua,ly carried out.
Make il easier for your neighbor,
your townspeople and your own
family to be clean, healthy and
right in thought and action as well
as physically and the courts and jails
will be source of much less ex-
pense to you and your community.
Set an example and be proud OF your
own property,
Very respectfully,
ELLIS ]. HOOK,
Mayor
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-04-25
WHERE SHALL TAXATION FALLc
Everyone Naturally Will Want Some
One Else Hit.

The government rightly plans to
raise large share of the war cost by
taxation. Everyone naturally will
want some one else hit. But there
are certain general principles that
everyone should ascent to. These
are that wealth should pay in pro-
portion to its ability, and that special
taxes should be laid upon play rather
than on work and business, upon
luXuries rather than necessities.
One proposal is to tax advertising.
That places direct tax on the sell
ing of goods. The business men no
doubt expect to take their share of
the burden, but it would be equally
fair to tax every employer for the
number of statesmen employed. Eth
er proposition would hamper busi-
ness, tend to restrict trade, and
would impair the economic sound
ness of the country.
Another proposed tax placed con-
trary to the principles enumerated
above, would be to raise letter pos
tage to three cents. This would hit
business concerns heavily, and would
be al impost on work rather than
| luxury So far as heard from, how
ever, no one has objected to a tax or
picture post cards.
The more legitimate subjects fol
taxation are luXuries like liquor, to
bacco, soft drinks, candy, chewing
gum, and a wide range of notion:
and frivolitics which people car
easily do without. The amusement'
of the people are legitimate tie''
for assessment, including theaters
baseball games. movies, all enter
tainmeats for private profit, countr.
clubs. billiard rooms and bowling al
lleys, and all kinds of sporting events
1t is not a hardship 10 the peopl
Ito have to cut down their expense
a little in these respects. 1t OF cours
means higher prices on all such di
versions and luXuries. But If tn
people will but restrict themselve
a little, their expenses will be non
1.-The greater War is serious business
and we must all expect our dali
habits to be affected. Large income
must of course pay a heavy tax, an
the people of wealth expect 1t.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-04-25
"DO YOUR BIT"
Presidents Call Tells How Everyone
in Nation Can Serve During
Crisis of War.

President Wilson appeals to all
the people of the nation urging them
to join the great service army.
TO FARMERS-Increase the pro-
duction of your land and cooperate
in the sale and distribution OF your
products.
TO MEN AND BOYS-Turn in
hosts to the farms to help cultivate
and harvest the vast crops impera-
lively needed.
TO MIDDLEMEN-Forego unus-
ual profits and organize and expe-
dite shipments of supplies"
TO RAILWAY MEN-See to it
that there shall be 10 obstruction
of any kind, no inefticiency or slack
ened power" of the arteries of the
nations life
TO MERCHANTS-Take for your
motto, Small profits and quick ser-
vice"
TO OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES con-
SlI GCllOI VI loi thS AAAO ~
the war depends upon" you.
TO MINERS-If you "slacken or
fail, armies and statesmen are help
| less
TO MANUFACTURING MEN
Speed and perfect every process"
for your service is absolutely indis-
pensable'' to the nation.
TO GARDENERS-By creating
and cultivating gardens you can help
I"greatly solve the problem of feed
ing the nations"
TO HOUSE WV E S-Ehminate
wastefulness and extravagances.
TO EDITORS AND ADVERTIS-
ING AGENCIES-Give widespread
circulation and repetition to this ap-
peal.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-04-25
Can't Shoot Migrating Fowls.

Deputy state game wardeIs nave
been instructed to enforce, beginning
Sunday, the state law on migratory
birds. the closed season on which, un-
der the state law, is April 10. There
have been violations of the federal
law on spring shooting up to the
present time, but no attempt has
been made by the state TO enforce
the federal law. Duck, geese, brant,
mud hens, snipe, power, rail, and all
other marsh and beach birds are pro-
tected under the state law.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-04-25

THE war is on and now there are
but two classes in this country-pa-
triots and traitors. stephen a. Do
uglas in 1861. The above statement
applies to the present time. In the
past as a neutral nation the people
have had the right to sympathize with
either the central overs or the en-
tente allies, but now there is vir-
tual war with Germany we must all
be for the good old U. S. A. first, last
and all the time, says the Maynard
News.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-04-25
DIR. FLEMING DEAD.
One of IOwa's Best Known Methodist
Ministers Stricken Fatally
While on Street.

The Rev. Thomas Easton Fleming
d. D., who after being in the Metho-
dist ministry for forty-one years,
gave it up TO enter the business
world, died suddenly on the streets
of Cedar Rapids Friday evening,
shortly after his arrival il the city
on a business mission.
When Mr.. Fleming quit the minis
try few years ago he became asso-
ciated with the American Securities
company Of which his son-in-law, A.
NJ. Cloud, is one of the chief agents.
He went out on the road for this
company and it was on one of these
trips that he came to Cedar Rapids,
registering at the New Pullman ho-
tel about { p. NJ. Friday. In less than
an hour thereafter his body was
found by two boys lying in the en-
trance of the Armstrong & Moehl
grocery in Fifth street. The boys
lighted a match and seeing the pros
trate form OF man and blood on
the body, they rushed to the Lin
coin Bowling alley to call the police.
While absent two men, C.. G.. Arthur
and c. A. Suits, came across the
body, notified Beattys undertaking
parlors and there the body was TAX
en-.
Born in Scotland in 1850, he came
to Iowa in 1868 and most OF his life
had been devoted to preaching in the
Methodist church. He became
member of the Upper Iowa confer
ence of the Methodist church in the
seventies. He he'd pastorates at
Fayette, Waukon, Davenport, Cedar
Rapids, Eldora, and Maquoketa. So
devotedly did he labor for the
church that his health gave way. For
a time he was compelled to rest but
later he again took up pulpit duties.
About two years ago he decided to
quit the ministry and go into the
mercantile business. He had served
as superintendent of the Davenport,
Dubuque, Decorah and Marshall
town districts, giving him a wide ac-
quaintance in the state. His presid-
ing eldership Of the Davenport dis
trict dates from 1877 to 1892. From
that date until 1896 he was pastor
sof St. Paus's church in Cedar Rapids.
A graduate of Upper Iowa univer-
sity, Fayette, he later took a post
graduate course at Illinois Wesleyan
university, Bloomington, ILL.,, and
was given the degree OF Phi. d. Iowa
Wesleyan university, Mt. Pleasant,
gave him the honorary degree OF D.
D. He was a member OF the board
of trustees of Cornell college, Mt.
Vernon for some years. His Masonic
membership was in Manchester lodge
No. 165, A.. F. and A. NJ. and he was
also member Of Iowa Consistory
No. 2, Scottish Rite Masons.
Surviving Dr.. Fleming are his wife,
one son, Herbert E. Fleming, pub
Usher of the Civil Service News, Chi
cago; and four daughters, Mrs. A
Nj Cloud, Misses Lillian. Bess and
Susie Fleming, all of Manchester.
His wife was Miss Isabel Jones
daughter of H. E. Jones OF Cedar
Rapids.