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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-12-05
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT.

Notics of the appointment of exc
cutrices of the estate of : Christine
Wick deceased.
Notice is hereby given, that the
subscribers have been duly appointed
executives of the estate of Christine
Wick late of DEBORAH township, in the
county of Winneshiek, state OF Iowa
deceased, testate, and have taken up.
on themselves that trust by qualifying
as the law directs. All persons having
demands upon the estate of the said
deceased are required to exhibit the
same; and persons indebted to said
estate are Gale upon to make pay
ment to
MARY WICK.
INGE LRARSON nee WICK.
Dated at DEBORAH, Iowa, Dec. Sd,
1917. 49-4W
WILLETT & NELSON, Attorneys.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-12-05

Mrs. Billion tat the theater) -
Mr.. Tilton goes out between the
acts, doesn't he?
Bilton-No, dear; he comes in be-
tween the drinks.-Life.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-12-05
Steers Bring Big Money.

StCVrS r'rrHg HIS 7HVHt!.
NJ. l.. Hertges brought to town
twenty head of steers Monday which
he sold to Torrance Finnegan. They
brought him the sum of $1,873.eo.--
Ossian Bee
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-12-05
Freedom Of the Seas.


"From every point of view, there
fore. it has seemed to be my duty to
speak these declarations Of purpose, to
add these specific interpretations to
what took the liberty of saying to the
senate in January. Our entrance into
the war has not altered our attitude
towards the settlement that must come
when 1t is over. When ! said in Janu-
ary that the nations of the world were
entitled not only to free pathways up
on the sea but also to assured and I'M
molested access to those pathways l
was thinking, and / am thinking now,
not of the smaller and weaker nations
alone, which need our countenance and
support, but also of the great and pow
erful nations, aud of our present enc
mics as we'll as our present associates
in the war. I was thinking, and am
thinking now, Of Austria herself,
among the rest, as well as of Serbia
and Of Holland. Jusuce and equality
Of rights can be had only at great
price, We are seeking permanent, not
temporary, foundations for the peace
OF the world and must seek this can
didly and fearlessly. AS always, the
right will prove to be expedient.
So Declare War on Austria.
"What shall we do, then, to push
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27
BILL TO REDUCE NUMBER
 OF SALOONS IN BOSTON. Would Limit Liquor Licenses to One to Each 1900 inhabitants.

Boston, Feb. 26.-Temperance advo< cates today urged the legislative com rrlittee on legal affairs to pass bill increasing from 1000 to 1,500 the number of inhabitants required for each apportionment of a liquor license in a license community, and reducing from 1000 to 759 the maximum num- Der of saloon licenses in Boston.
 Sanford Bates of this city, chairman of the legislative committee of the Boston Federation of Churches, told the committee that the Boston licens- ing board always had issued 1000 li- censes and had thus violated the spirit of the law by granting the mSx- irnum He added that the board also had ignored the requests of people in the residential districts who objected to the location of saloons near their homes.
 Robert A. Woods. former member of the Boston licensing board, sent the committee letter advocating the proposed bill and stating that at least 25 hotels and 50 saloons in this city were being conducted in violation of the law.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27
RIOTING RESUMED ON
 EAST SIDE, NEW YORK
Police Reserves Called Out and Sew
 eral Arrests Made.

New York. Feb. 26.-Mayor Mitchell announced tonight, following the re- sumption of rioting on the East Side, which resulted in the police reserves being called out and seberal arrests being made. that a bill would be in troduced in the legislature tomorrow to empower the city to purchase food supplies and sell them at cost as a means of ameliorating suffering among the poor here due to the high cost of living.
 Governor whitman. prior to his de- parture for Albany earlier in the day asserted that he did not expect to send an emergency measure to the leg islature as he was convinced the sit uation was not critical.''
 Joseph Hartigan. city commissioner of weights and measurers,- predicted a material drop in the prices of potatoes and onions before the end of the week It would come, he said as the result of relief freight congestion and the fact that virtually all the potato and onion growing states of the country roads in fifteen states. MT. Hartigan asserted, have arranged to rush "onion specials to this city
 Information furnished to him by wholesale produce dealers, District Attorney Swan announced, Indicated that the farmers were respohsible for the increase in the prices of potatoes farmers were receiving $1.47 a bushel for potatoes, double the price in De- cenber, 1915.
 MT. Swann declared there was no Justification for the increase in the price of poultry. There is no scarci- ty. he said and farmers are not charE- Ing more than last year.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27
RETIREMENT OF GERMANS
 IS PUZZLING BRITISH
Greatest Retreat on Front in France
 Since the Battle of the Marne.

From a Staff Correspondent of The Associated Press, British Headquarters London, 11.30 D. m.-The full extent of the German retirement in the Somme area has not yet developed. Outpost fighting continued today be- tween strong British patrols pressing forward over the newly yielded ground and the German rear guards who fell back under the fire of their h. aYie.st caibred guns
 There has been comparatively little light artillery fire, the Germans eVi- dently depending on their heaviest mounted on railway truck which would be rushed away at the last n.2ina1t in case of necessity.
 The British continued to move for ward all along the line from just south of Gommecourt to Le TritEslCy, the latter point apparently being the piSot from which the German retreat swings backward. The line has been carried well to the northeast of Serre, while Irles and EVsrlenccuriar in British possession. Serre. PyS, Warle- court and Miraumont, like other fla mous points in the Son1me battlefield, such as PoZieres, Courcelette and Con- talmaison long ago ceased to have form villages The artillery ire they endured for months pulverized them to bits of stone and brick, the remnants Of which vii now be used by the British in restoring rhe @oa.iS to a passable condition.
 The weather cleared today aud She airplanes. quick to take advantage of flying opportunities were up, closely observing the GeIman movements The British line today was creeping nearaf Bapaume, the famous German strong hold, regarding which there were re- ports that the garrison had blown up what had been proclaimed impreg- nable fortified cellars and other vari- ous underground works, on which they had labored for the greater part of two years.
 No official hint as to the probable line the Germans propose taking up could be obtained tonight from any member of the British staff
 The German retirement, coming so closely on the heels of unrestricted submarine warfare, forms one of the most interesting phases of the great war
 The backward movement has become the greatest retreat on this front since the battle of the Marne-
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27
WATCHING CONDITIONS IN
 LATlN-AMERIcAN REPURLIcs
To Avoid Embarrassment in Case of
 Hostilities With Germany.

Washington, Feb 26.-Aware of 4ba enparrassment that revolutionary conditions in nearby Latin-Amerfcan republics might cause the United states in the event of hostiIities with Germany, officials of the state depart ment nave surveyed carefully the sit uatlons in Cuba, Mexica and Central America. It has been assumed that any active and powerful enemy would seize the opportunity to organize act- ual operations in those countries or at least agttate such factions as could be reached to such activity that the United States would be forced to di- vert a part of its energies in that di- rection.
 Reports to the department indicate that in all but one case the constituted strengthening their control of affairs The administration feels that with the maintenance of legal authority danger from that quarter is ninimized and it has been indicated that 1t was that danger which influenced the president somewhat in sending to Havana. and to the capitals of all the Central Amer ican states the declaration of the pol icy of non- recognition of any govern ment attaining power by illegal means.
 Minister Gonzales reports from Cuba today increased the conviction of the American government government that the Menocal administration is gaining the aScendancy in that situation, and different reports from Mexico indi- cate slowly improving situation in that country.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27
TRAIN STRUCK AUTO AT
 CROSSING NEAR MIDDLEToWN.
Mir. and Mrs. John c. Beckett of Hig-
 eanum Were Killed.

Midd1etown, Conn. Feb. 26-Iohn c. Beckett and his wife of Higganum were killed and a man named John was seriously Jured when their auto mobile was st . ck by a passenger train tonight at a grade crossing on the New York. New Hayen and Hartford rail- road at Mapilvnof. Beckett and his wife were each about 25 years old.
 It is thought the engine of the au- tomobile may have become stalled when the car started over the cross ing, as the engineer of the train is quoted as saying that the first he saw of the car was when he was within a short distance of it and at that time 1t appeared to be standing still. The car was smashed and the bodies of the victims tossed some distance away. The injured man was brought to the hospital here.
 Mrs. Beckett was at one time post mistress of Higganum.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27
eoMPERs PUBLICLY PROTESTS
 PROHIBITION IN DISTRICT.
Claims It Would Have Injurious Effect on 100000 Cigar Workers.

Washington, Feb. 26.-Samuel Com pers, president of the American Fed eration of Labor, today made public a protest against the enactment by con- gress of a prohibition law for the DIs- trict of Columbia In letter to Chairman Johnson of the house dis trict committee he asserted that such a measure would have an injurious in fluence upon more than one hundred thousand workers in the cigar indus try, on whose behalf, as first vice president of the Cigarmakers' Inter national union, he protested
 He declared prohibition by law to be ..an iniquitous proposition' that "vio- lates the fundamental principles of human freedom and fails to accom- pIish the curing of the drink evil.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27
26 Americans on
 1orpGdOed LaCOnia
SIX CABIN PASSENGERS AND zs
 MEMBERS OF CREW
ONLY ONE CASUALTY
Cargo Included 1000 Bars of siIven
 10000 Bushels of Wheat-carries
 5000 Bags of United states and ca- nadian MaiI-Had One Defense Gun,

New York, Feb. 26.-Twentv- americans, six of whom were cabin passengers and twenty paid members t I. @ Ine crew, were on board the Cunard liner Laconia, from New Work EsaL,,.,,- v ary lS for Liverpool with 75 passene- CTS and crew of 216 ,when the vessel was sunk by a German Submarine SuIioay iy night. One casualty, as vet sl Ine Liverpool office of the line to of- dcials here.
 Names of American Passengers.
 Ine names of the American passenR- CTS and their addresses as eiven bv Ine nne here, and confirmed in part as follows: ~
 Floyd P. Gibbons, of the Chicago Tribune. sN
 MrS. A E. Harris, wife of Lieuten- ant Colonel Frank E. Harris IT e
 Continued on Page 8, 9th coL)
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27
British Continue to
 Advance in France
PUSH FORWARD TWO MILES
 OVER ELEVEN MILE FRONT
ARE NEARING BAPAUME
They Are Now But Three Miles From German StronghoId-British Capture From Turks the Line From Sannai- vat to Kut- -Amara.

President Wilson's address to a joint session, asking for authority to place the United States in state of armed neutrality as a counter to Germany's submarine warfare; a con- tinution of the British advance against the Germans in France, the sinking of the Cunard line steamer Laconia, on which Americans were passengers, and the recapture by the British of Kut- el-Amara, in Meopotamia, from the Turks are the outstanding features in the world war.
 Germans Pushed Back Two Miles
 Over front of eleven miles from the region of Gommecourt north of Ancre River, to the district of Gueu- decOurt, south of the river the British have pushed forward their lines to a depth of two miles, according to the British official communication The manoeuvrc has served to throw for ward the right and left wings of the British in an enveloping move toward Bapaume the German stronghold in this region, and to place the British center at Warlencourt- a scant three miles from Bapaume.
 Raidins Operations.
 Bombardments and rafding opera tions are still in progress on the greater part of the remainder of the front in France and Belgium and il, the Russian and Austro Italian the atreS.
 Turks Losing Ground.
 Tn Mesopotamia the British have captured from the Turks the entire line from Sannaiyet to Kut-el-Amera. At the latter place the Turks have been forced to evacuate the position they captured from he British nearly a, year ago and are now being driven back, harassed by British cavalry, says the British war office. Large cap lures in men and war stores were made by the British.
 In admitting a retreat from Kut-el Amara a Turkish official communi- cation says the movement was pre- arranged and was carried out unnotic- ed by the British.
 The Cunard line steamer Laconia, bound from New York for Liverpool, was torpedoed Sunday night, pre- sumahly off the. coast of Irelspd.
 22,e79 Tons of Shipping Sunk.
 Including the Laconia, vessel of 1S,099 tons, the latest reports show that known tonnage aggregating 22.G79 has been sent to the bottom in the last 24 hours. An official report from Germany says that since the com mencement of the war 4,9Ss.500 tons of shipping belonging to entente and neutral nations has been destroyed or condemned by the cciral powers
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27
OBITUARY.
Mrs. Mathew Maury.

Roanoke, Va. Feb. 26.-Mrs. Mathew Maury, sister of Mrs. Woodrow Will son, died here this afternoon after an operation for peritonitis.
 George J. Clark.
 St. Stephen, N. B., Feb. 26.5Former Premier of New Brunswick George J. Clarke died today. MT. Clarke, who retis ed from office a month ago, had been in i'll health for some time
 Prof. John Edward Russell.
 Williamstown, Mass, Feb. 26-The death of Prof. John Edward Russell at the Williams college inflrmary here late last night was announced today. He was 69 years old and for 29 years was a member of the Williams college faculty, having been for all but one of those years Mark Hopkins professor of mental and moral philosophy. He was professor of Biblical theology at the Yale Divinity school from 1885 to 1889.
 pr. William e. FenneII.
 Suffield, Conn, Feb 26.-Dr. WILL jam G. Fennell. pastor of the Asylum Avenue Baptist church In Hartford, died here tonight as result of a stroke of apopfexy, while on a trip to his summer shome in Sufiield. He was found unconscious In his summer horne and taken to the home of a friend where death occurred. He was b8 years old.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27
PRESS COMMENTS ON
 PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
Meriden Record,


 It is a foregone conclusion that the power which President Wilson asked of congress to use the forces of the United States to protect American ed. The time for quiD DbIing has passed and the United States must risk the consequences of years of unprepared- ness and sidestepping.
 New London Telegraph.
 The president has reached the only conclusion possible from the trend of events since the declaration of Ger fare, viz: that we may be called upon at any time to defend, in fact and not merely in words. our elementary rights as neutral nation. Congress can do no less than grant him the au- thority that he asks for.
 Waterbury Republican.
 With such an uncomfortable weapon. and such orders. the maintenance of peace with Germany is not worth in suring over night The news which met MT. Wilson on the way to the cap- itol must have made him regard a breach as inevitable. MT. Wilson commits himself to no definite policy, but his use of the phrase armed neu- trality" seems unfortunate Right now the Dutch are armed neutrals and Ger many cares little enough for them Bridgeport Telegram.
 
 making this request. He should be given the power at once. If our ships cannot cross the ocean where they have a right to go. without escort, then let them go with escort If they are to be sunk by submarines on sight, let them sink submarines on sight. If it is not time for America to de- clare Gwar on Germany, it is at least time for America to declare war on the German submarines-war to the fullest extent.
 New York Times. The president is right $ The time and the occasion for action have come We must defend our people and our seamen in the exercises Of their rights or make a cowardly surrender to the power that has forbidden us to exercise them.
 All partisianship, all pettiness, all thought of any other interest than that of the nation, now so seriously threat ened, must be laid aside and the au- thority he asks for conferred upon the president.
 Providence (R. I.) Journal.
 The presidents recital of our rights and of the violation of those rights is unanswerable. Is there any req son why we should not assert and defend them? Why should we not protect our merchant vessels, the crews that man them and the pas sengers who wish to sail in them by arming them or providing them with conveys, or both?- American life and property on the high seas, must be guarded. not by words alone but by material means of defense
 Springfield (Mass.) Union.
 Congress should back up the presi- dent with a will, in measures neces- sary to sustain the American honor. The right sort of legislators will grate- fully respond to the chief magistrate in this endeavor. At the same time the legislative department will be wise not to tie it's own hands or place it. self in the position of weakly passing along to the executive those responsi- bilities that by right rest upon con gress. Extraordinary situations call for extraordinary measures some times, but let us not be in haste to dispense with the established forms
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27
AMERICAN BOARD NOT
 TO RECALL MISSIONARIES
In Control of Missions and Mission
 Colleges in Turkey.

Boston, Feb. 26.-The American board of commissioners for foreign missions and other boards controlling
 in Turkey have decided not to order the American missionary workers to leave that country. Rev. pr. James L. Barton, secretary of the American board, announced in a statement to- night. All American workers in Fur key have been given permission to leave, but it is expected, he said, that none except those whose term of ser vice has expired will quit their posts.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27
TWO SLEEPING CARS
 TELEscoPED BY FREIGHT
On the Pennsylvania Railroad Near
 AItoona-DetaiIs Are Lacking.

Philadelphia, Feb. 27-Two sleep ing cars of the Mercantile Express weer telescoped by a freight train on Union station, near Altoona, early to- day. according to information recefv- ed at the general offices of the com pany in this city. It has not yet been learned whether there were any fla talities. The express left Pittsburgh at o'clock last night and was due here at 4.18 a. m.
 Railroad officials expressed fear that a number of passengers had been killed. Two sleeping cars were so tightly damned together that little hesdway had been made fin extricat- ing the occupants half an hour after the accident. Relief trains bearing physicians and nurses left Altoona at a. m. and should arrive at the scene very shortly.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27
BOND ISSUE OF s1,ooo, 100000
 TO PROTECT OUR COMMERCE
Bill Introduced in House by Chairman Flood of Foreign Relations Committee.

Washington, Feb. 26-After confer ences with democratic and republican leareds, Chairm2n Flood of tine foreign relations committee, introduced late today a bill authorizing the president to arm merchant ships and use such other instrumentalities as necessary" to protect them on the high seas and providing for a special bond issue of s1O0, 900 ,00O.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27
FIFTEEN TO TWENTY
 YEARS FOR WIFE MURDER.
Bernard J. Early of Nashua, N. H.
 Pleaded Guilty.

Manchester. ". H., Feb. 26.-Bernard J. Early of Nashua pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter in causing the death of his wife at Nashua Dec. last, when arraigned in the superior court here today. He was sentenced to serve from IS to 20 years in state prison Mrs. Early's throat was cut with bread knife. Early is 55 years old
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27
cerard Party at corunna.

Madrid, via Paris. Feb 26. $40 D. m. -Ambassador Gerard and party >ave arrived at Corunna, according to a message received here from the gov ernor of Corunna this evening The ambassador left Madrid yesterday aft ernoon and will take steamer from Corunna for the United States.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27
nchief,, Bender Exonerated.

Philadelphia, Feb. 26.-Charles A. cChief) Bender, the Indian pitcher, was today exonerated by the coroner's iurv of blame in connection with the death of John J. .Curran. who was re- gently knocked down and killed by a motor car driven by Bender.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27
PRESIDENT AWAITS
 ACTION OF CONGRESS
On Request to Grant Him Authority to Use Forces Of
 United States to Protect American Ships
TO PUT NATION IN STATE OF ARMED NEUTRALITY

Bill Introduced House Empower President to Furnish Guns and Gunners for American Merchantmen- vies for Bond Issue of OO0OO0O be Used at His Discretion for That Purpose-Republicans Gave Evi dence of Opposition Granting Powers Asked by the President-May be Supported by Paci6st Democrats
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27
TWO AMERICANS
 LOST ON LACONIA. According to London Daily Chronicles Queenstown Correspondent.

London, Feb. 27. 400 a. mt has been definitely ascertained that two
 Americans were lost on the Laconia,
 according to the Daily Chronicles Queenstown correspondent.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27
peIaware Reieets suffraae.

Dover. Del, Feb. 26.-The Delaware senate today rejected the woman suf- frage amendment. to 6.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27
New Italian War Loan.

Rome. Feb. 26. via Paris. 4-2o p. m. -Odcial announcement was made here today that the subscriptions thus far received for the new war loan amount to 2.200. .0O0. 900 lire. Of this L. 470, ,000, 900 lire is new money.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27
CabIed Paragraphs
Two British Steamers Sunk.

London. Feb. 26. s.s0 p. m.-L1oyds announces that the British steamer sunk.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27

Bishop Greer of New York declared himself as in favor of abolishing the death house at Sing Sing.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27

The anti alien bill is again before the Idaho Legislature despite the pro- tests of the governor and Washington officials.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27
Movements of Steamships.

Bordeaux, Feb. 23-Arrived: Steam CT Espagne, New York.
 Liverpool, Feb. 23.-Arrived: Steam CT Lapland, New York
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27

The American steamship Dochra, the first American ship to defy U- boats reached Naples.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27

The British army will soon mum Der 5,OOO,0OO men, exclusive of the In- dia troops.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27

Mary Anderson returned to the staao in London to play Juliet for charity.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27

The Department of Agriculture is experimenting with Chinese plants with view to reducing the cost of fod production.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27

Wooden shoes are beconnina popuIar in London. They cost 73 cents a pair.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27

German U-boat captain have been warned by the home government that many British ships are loaded with poisoned food.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27

Boycott eggs and use milk in stead" advises the New York HealtI Board in it's fight on high cost of hv. ing.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27

The House adopted the bill givins United States citizenship to Porto Ri- cans.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27

Melvin cedrose escaped from sanitarium in Hastings and was later caught by Herbert Storms, a motor man, in Yonkers.