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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-01-03
MINNIE SHOWED THEM HOW.
Grundy County Girl Baby Beef Win
ner Real Live Stock Feeder.

When a 15-year-old girl, Compel
ing against boys, feeds a baby beef
calf that wins the county prize, It
puts her in the ought1toLbe-t talked
about class.
Minnie Rohmer, aged Is, Beaman,
Grundy county, not only fed a calf
from an initial weight of ass
pounds, to final weight of 1850
pounds in 366 days, making a gain
'of 695 pounds at cost of $646 a
100 pounds of gain, but she knew
how to tell about it afterwards. She
says:
I'm all feeding work, especially of
baby beef, the most important thing
is to have well bred calf with
good ancestors. The next thing is
to have good individual
Beginning with October Is, / fed
my calf pounds shelled corn and
II pounds oats a day and allowed
it to pasture until Nov. 1, when the
feed was increased to pounds
.shelled corn and pounds oats. On
December 1st the feed was changed
hfsem< shelled corn ts ground corn,
giving pounds corn, pounds sill
age with clover for roughage. She
was fed this until April, when feed
was changed from ground shelled
corn to corn cob meal and silage was
omitted.
I'm May she was allowed to run
on PASTURE and | discontinued oil
meal and fed 4 pounds corn and cob
neal and 2 pouads oats. This was
fed to Sept. 1st, when corn and cob
meal was increased to Z pounds and
cats to A pounds and linseed oil meal
l pound day. All during the con-
test when not in pasture the calf
was allowed plenty of exercise"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-01-03

Miss Thora Swenson returned
Monday to her school duties at Hes
per.
Prof. Walter j. Swenson left
yesterday for school duties in La
Moure, N. d.
MIR. and Mrs. j. c. Murray OF
Maquoketa were guests at the Ur-
ban home a few days last week.
! Horace and Charles Weiser de-
parted Tuesday night for Trenton,
IN. IT,, having spent the holidays
here.
Leo Roman will return to Du-
buque tomorrow after ten days
vacation here with his parents.
Mrs. Frank Adams went to
Minneapolis Saturday, where she
will spend a week with friends.
Francis Murphy of Waucoma
spent few days here last week with
friends. ]t'f
Misses Jane and Pauline Carnz
departed for Chicago last Friday
night.
Miss Kathleen shannon went
to- Sioux City Friday, where she will
visit relatives few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Blakemaa
arrived here Sunday morning from
Dubuque on a visit to the formers
mother, which was quite a New
Years surprise to her. Mr.. w. W.
Thompson. of Dubuque was also a
guest of Mrs. Brakeman New Years
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-01-03
Parents Past 100 Years.

Muscatine, Jan. Ira Holiday
of this city, engaged on the William
Fletcher farm on the Burlington
rpad. left for Dayton, Ind, to spend
the holidays. At first glance that
may not be regarded as any particu-
lar news to become excited over. Not
eyen when it is stated that he will
spend the Yuletide season with his
parents.
However, when it is remarked
that he is 60 years Of age and his
father los years and mother 1OS
years, well-that's the story.
The aged couple, both of whom
were pioneer settlers of Blooming
ton. as Muscatine was once known,
are said to be enjoying excellent
health. They were married here
more than eighty years ago, when the
city was hardly important enough
to be called hamlet.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-01-03
A Woman Dog-Catcher.

Miss Lenore Cawker, Milwaukee's
official dog-catcher, is millionaire
1t is quite evident that she did not
take the job for the money there is
in it. Ten years ago Milwaukee had
a dog pound, but the conditions I'M
der which it was operated were
nauseating. When Miss Cawker
heard of this; she started a move
ment for more humane treatment OF
dogs and cats and other animals. I'm
officially, she has been Milwaukee's
dog-catcher since that time, and it
was only last year that she received
her official commission. 1t costs APP
proximately $4,000 a year to run
the department as Miss Cawker
wishes it run, and the difference be-
tween this sum and her salary she
pays out of her own pocket. She es-
Inmates that she has spent more
than $4,000 on the work in the last
ten years. Miss Cawker has fitted UP
part of her stables as a kennel, VITA
an asphyxiation room in which she
guarantees painless death to dogs
and cats that must be disposed of.
In this kennel there are usually from
twenty to fifty dogs and cats await
ing Identification by owners or the
alternative, asphyxiation The dogs
OF pedigree, or pure blood, are saved
whenever real owner can be found
for them, while the mongrels are as
phyxiated after the shortest time in
which they might be claimed. Last
year Miss Cawker and her men han
died 5000 dogs alone, and the best
testimonial to the efficiency of her
department is the fact that Milwau-
kee has had no serious hydrophobia
and comparatively few cases of stray
dog nuisances since she took charge
OF 1.-THE Christian Herald
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-01-03

Mrs. Pat Hogan was a passen-
ger for Calmar Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Swenson of
Ossian were shoppers here Thurs
day.
Fred Gross arrived home We'd
nesday from trip to st. Paul anil
Hills, MINI.
Miss Eva Bartholomew arrived
home Saturday from a visit at Ce-
dar Rapids.
Mrs. Frank dams went to Min
neapolis, FRIDAY for weeks visit
with friends.
Mrs. L. o. Nosby went to st.
Olaf, Iowa, Thursday, where she will
spend few days with relatives.
MIR. and Mrs. E. A. Waterbury
returned home Saturday from their
visit with relatives at Kimball, S.
d.
-AAhert Wingate and mother de-
parted yesterday for Long Beach,
CAL, where they VIII spend the Win
ter. n
MISS Hilda Birdsell arrived
home Saturday from Cedar Rapids,
where she had been on a visit to her
sister.
Edgar Thorsen of HespeI
township was DEBORAH visitor yes
terday and we acknowledge a pleas
ant call.
Editor H. J. Green went to Des
Moines yesterday, after spending a
few days here looking after bust.
ness matters.
Mrs. Lizzie Colville returned to
st. Paul, Thursday, having conclud
ed a short visit here with her broth
er, e. c. Bailey.
Mrs. Andrew Moen and chill
dren came home Thursday from
Calmar, where they spent Christmas
with her parents.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-01-03
Good Habits

Good habits are acquired as easily
as bad habits. Evangelists may not
think so, but it is so. The majority
can prove it. All that is needed is
the will-to-be. Ring out the old, ring
In the new. Resolve something and
do 1t quick for the new year is al
most here, thus philosophers the
Times-Republican.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-01-03
Soft Job.

Hannah heah you alls got a
fine job up to Mrs. Calvert's.
Chlorinda-Yes, Miss Hannah,
Use got cinch. All has ter do is
ter push around one of dem newfan-
gled baby percolators, Judge.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-01-03

Living straight is like building q
railway-there are a lot of cuts and
fills to be made.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-01-03

There are over 5000 ruined towns
to be rebuilt in France after the war
is over.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-01-03

Fannie Ward, STAR, Today.
Circus Day, Star, Saturday.
FWm. >. Hart, STAR, Monday.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-01-03
"See what the STAR has first
SI'AR

We have heard nothing but praise
for IAN ALIEN, our New Years
Attraction, starring GEORGE BE-
BAN. MIR. BEBAN is now a PARA
MOUNT star and will be seen from
time to time in these pictures.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-21
SEPTEMBER SIGHS
September weather, we're agreed
Is nearly indefacfihle

September weather, we're agreed,
Is nearly indefectible,
Inimitable, and indeed
Deliciously delectable;
But, since it's loveliness contains
The signs of summers decadence,
We greet 1t with lugubrious strains,
BY all poetic precedents.
The color of the turning leaf
Outvies all soft vernalities,
And yet we greet the thing with
grief,
And marked uncordialities.
The nights are fine for sleep, we
know,
The days are free from tor
ridness-
Then why these wailing words of
woe
And plaintive howls of horridness +?
To treat September thus, betrays
An intellectual aridness;
Why mourn the season that displays
The virtues of preparedness?
1t is the best of all the year,
Nor heat nor cold can pen you In |;
And when ] hear you grieve, fear
Your sorrow isn't genuine!
Now hopes the squirrel to confide
His harvest to his granary-
Unless the hunter gets his hide
And sends it to the tannery.
Now go our apples to the mill,
And to the school our progeny;
o lovely MONTH Who hates thee will
Plead guilty to misogyny
Ted Robinson in the Cleveland
Plain Dealer L.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-21

who remain at home it will be de-
feated. If Its munitions do not ar
rive on time the soldiers may be
left helpless In the face of German
attack. The folks back home who
are guilty of holding up supplies not
only endanger the lives of our SOL
diers, but they give laid and COM
Tort to the enemy. That being true,
there must be no lockouts or strikes
during tho war In industries upon
which our soldiers are depending.
Arbitration should be made compul-
sorry. Americans would have little
sympathy for either employers or
employees who would place the lives
of our soldiers in jeopardy in ordcr
to thresh out by lockout or strike
differences that could be- settled by
Congressman Kreider is we'll able
TO speak in this vein. He has never
had serious labor troubles in the
factories of which he is the head,
FOR the reason that he has been and
Is always ready to listen with reason
to any proposals that are made to
him. He had in operation a we'll
tried workmeH's compensation sys-
tenn before the State law enforcing
such q system was enacted. He
knows the value and the wisdom of
intelligent arbitration. Others less
wise must learn the lesson during
this war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-21
CHEER UP

THEER up, you friends and rela-
tives of the lads who yesterday
marched away to do their bit"
for Uncle Sam. These lads are not
going to be led like helpless lambs
to the slaughter. If the statistics
of the French army are carried out
in our own, nine out of every ten of
them will come marching home
again all the better for their expert
ence. OF course, this is poor con-
ISOLATION for the mother or sweet
heart who fears her boy may be the
unlucky tenth, but even at home.
at least, one out of each ten of them
would suffer injury, sickness or death
in one form or another, so that the
risk of war, under modern condi-
tions, with disease reduced to a mini
mum and hospital care of the most
highly developed character lavished
upon the soldier who needs 1t, is not
so precarious as in some lines of in
dustrial endeavor.
Indeed, the health of the man in
the ranks will be far more studiously
cared for than had he continued in
civic life. The dentist, the physician.
even the chiropodist, are on his trail
continually. The dread of typhoid
has been removed. Other diseases
have been reduced to a minimum.
His food Is plentiful and wholesome.
carefully devised to meet the neces-
stiles of his healthful outdoor life.
The only big chance he takes is with
the death-dealing devices of the
enemy and these he will not be called
upon to face until he is trained to
the point where he can fight under
conditions that will make him a bet
ter soldier than those he must op-
pose. But even then he will be in
danger only part of the time. The
soldier is not always under fire. A
brief period at the front and a long
rest back of the lines is the order.
knowledge of these conditions, of
course, will not fill the vacant place
at table nor bring back the lad who
has gone away. The thought that the
young soldier is happy and healthy
in his new life will not cure the ach-
ing heart nor lull the lonely soul.
but 1t ought to go a long way to-
ward comforting those who have
been called upon to send their loved
ones to the training camps,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-21
I From the Literary Digestl

Il L rom Lne Literary DlSeSl1
A full garbage can is a good sign
that the family does not know how
to make the most of its food supply.
The contents of our cans should be
reduced to a minimum. Our food
controller, Mr.. Herbert Hoover, re-
Gently sent a letter to several cities.
asking for data regarding the com
parative amounts of garbage collect
ed this year and last. A reduction
will be looked upon as indicating
diminution in food waste. Further,
after the quantity of garbage has
been made as small as possible, it is
desirable to dispose of it in such
way as to utilize all the valuable
substances that it contains. either for
feeding animals or for the extraction
of fats and fertilizing materials. The
following circular letter. addressed
to the mayors of large cities having
no reduction plants. by the United
States Department of Agriculture, is
quoted by an editorial writer in The
Municipal Journal (New York, Au-
gust 81:
This department desires to bring
to your attention the matter of the
conservation of the garbage in your
city. At the present time there eX-
lists throughout the world a short
age of both fats and fertilizer ma
terials. This situation promises to
grow more serious as the war in
Europe continues. 1t is, therefore,
matter of prime importance that all
available sources of both of these
materials should be used to the best
advantage. Garbage contains on the
average about per cent. of grease
and about 20 per cent. of tankage,
the latter having valuable properties
as a fertilizer material. Any method
of disposal of garbage in large cities
which does not recover both the
grease and the tankage is uneconom-
ic and particularly deplorable in the
present circumstances. We wish
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-21
BROKEN EGGS
From the Columbus (Ohfo) Dis
match


patch.1
A Boston man who is apt at
mathematics has figured 1t out that
if greater care were exercised in the
matter of handling eggs they would
not cost nearly so much as at pres
ent. In other words, his calculations
show that while we pay for dozen
eggs, we get only nine and half of
them, the breakage in transit
amounting to two and half eggs to
the dozen, and, of course, the con-
sumer of the unbroken eggs. If the
expression will be allowed, must pay
for the eggs that are broken before
they reach the consumer,
There is a good deal in the con-
tention. The reckless handling of
freight is a heavy burden of expense.
Carelcssness costs u lot of money in
more directions than eggward. All
of us are annually called upon to
pay for broken crates, and spilled
beans, and lost articles of hundred
kinds, just as those who pay their
accounts at the grocery must also
pay the accounts of those who refuse
to pay.
The foreigners have long COM
planned at our carelessness in Grating
and packing. In fact, the attention
paid to Grating and packing by the
foreigners gave them the markets of
South America. To this day one can
hear the merchants and Importers of
South America claiming that they
would deal in this country but for
the fact that our exporters do not
know how to crate and pack goods,
with the result that the goods In
variably arrive In bad shape. We are
not familiar enough with the egg
trade to offer suggestions as to crat-
ing, but the chances are that i'm
provements could be made in present
methods just as costs could be les
sened by more care being exercised
in handling all kinds of goods.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-21
Full Garbage Can Sign Of Waste

therefore, to urge upon your con-
sideration the advisability of so
treating the garbage from your city
as to insure the recovery of it's val
liable constituents. That this may
be made a source of profit to a mu-
niclpality has been proved by num-
bers of cities in the United States
where municipal rendering plants
have been erected, and in a number
of others private plants are now
operating and paying dividends on
the investments. We shall be glad
to furnish you with any further in
formation at our disposal on the sub
ject, upon request"
The editor who quotes the above is
of the opinion that the utilization of
garbage for animal food, where pos
sible, is to be preferred to the meth
cd advised by the department. He
says:
"A garbage reduction plant is a
very expensive one to construct, and
it requires several months-possibly
a year-to build one. 1t is not, there
fore, q matter to be decided upon
hastily, and we advise each city to
give careful consideration to all
phases of the subject before it adopts
such a plan. For instance, the fact
that the amount of garbage is known
to have been reduced by 20 to 25
per cent. this year in several cities
very probably means that the fats
and other matters in the garbage
that furnish the valuable products
are being reduced by at least double
this percentage-enough, possibly
to wipe out all profit from the pro-
cess. We do not believe that even
the Secretary Of Agriculture would
advise cities to go into a losing ven-
ture for the purpose of saving an
uncertain amount of food waste,
say) that the war will be over before
the plant could begin to operate
The hog seems to us a more favor
able method of utilizing garbage"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-21
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

R. Scott zimmerman, former
member of the Legislature from
Danville, was in the city YESTERDAY
In connection with State draf
matters.
IS. r. Tarner, active in legisla.
tive matters for railroad brother.
hoods, is Democratic candidate fol-
Sheriff in Allegheny county.
j. C. Rodgers, who becomes as.
sistant to the president of the Penn.
sylvania railroad, has been connect.
ed with the company since boyhood
and worked his way up.
DIR. J. w. Murray, prominent
Methodist clergyman, may become
superintendent of the Erie district
DIR. George B. Moreland, new
president of the State Homeopathic
Society, lives in Pittsburgh, where
he has practiced for years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-21
LITTLE GRAY SHADOWS

LITTLE GRAY SHADOWS
Fair is the story that our nursey,
Mamie.
Tells to the little ones crowdfng
about;
Little brown Buster-Lad, Buzzy and
Annie,
And Ragsy, the pup, with his ton
que hanging out.
Fair is the story of echoes of laugh
Lying asleep till the shadows come
down,
Bringing the drowsy notes following
after,
Waking the echoes by Sunderland
Town.
Hunting their silver notes out of the
grasses,
Weaving them into a mantle of
dreams;
Stealing the sleep from the wind as
1t passes,
Cleaning the magic of fairy moon
beams.
Down the brown hedgerows the
shadows come creeping,
Bringing the echoes of laughter,
and things
Meant to deck cradles where babies
are sleeping,
Riding as noiseless as butterfly
wings.
Pausfng to rest on the window ledge
lightly,
Failing where curtains are stirred
by the breeze,
Little gray shadows come visiting
nightly.
Lured by the magic of low melo-
dies.
Falling and spilling their burdens of
slumber,
Echoes they found where the long
grasses creep,
Drowsy Notes, telling their dreams
without number
That Is why babies go nodding to
sleep.
This is the story that our nursey,
Mamie,
Tells to the little ones, crowding
about:
Little brown Buster-Lad, Buzzy and
Mamie,
And Ragsy, the pup, with his ton
que hanging out
SsE r Idan.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-21
ECONOMIC CROPPING

1t is true, as stated by President
Rhett, of the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States, that business
has been cropping in the dark because
it finds the very foundations of COM
merce have been upturned. and de-
mand and supply can no longer be
permitted to control prices, because
the extraordinary demands of the
Government have completely unbal-
anced the scales
With the ordinary laws of COM
merce suspended, the search for u
substitute has necessarily been diff
cult. Such pricefixing as had oc-
Cured Is largely experimental. The
great meeting of farmers in Chicago
AYERS that the price fixed for wheat
is so low as to discourage produc-
ton, although a few years ago half
the price would have meant an era
of abnormal prosperity. The buying
power of dollar changes rapidly
in these days. There Is readjust-
ment in terms rather than in the
exchange value of commodities. If
six pounds of cotton still buy a
bushel of wheat, there is little change
In basic relations so far as the cot
ton producer and the wheat grower
are concerned. But it takes time
for the whole Industrial establish
ment of the nation, and in the mean
time many suffer. The government
is attempting to equalize conditions
as fast as possible. Too much should
not be expected. 1t is right and
proper, however, to expect from
leaders of business help and guidance
and the government is getting both.
We are living indeed in an age of
American miracles, the half of which
have not been told; and not the
least of these miracles will be the
employment of fair and equita BILE
artihc,al administration as a substi-
tute for natural laws which have
been shaken into numbness by the
world castrophe.-Evening Ledger,
Philadelphia,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-21
EDITORIAL COMMENT

War was not forced on the Kaiser,
but peace will be.--Wall Street
Journal.
As a sinecure in weary hot wealth
er days that of German Minister of
the Colonies has it's unquestioned
charms. - Philadelphia Evening
Ledger.
It is now announced that the
Kaiser has decided to wage a more
relentless submarine warfare. Let 'er
go, Bill. It'll all be in the itemized
statement at the end of the war
New York Morning Telegraph.
OF course, we are confident that
our Army will ultimately sock it to
the Hindenburg host, but so far fif-
teen citizens of Houston constitute
its toll.-Houston Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-21
WHERE AUTHORITY LIES

X CONSIDERABLE attention has
been given the past few days TO
the quality and character of
theatrical and outdoor amusements,
in Harrisburg and apparently with
very good reason. But has it o.
CURED to those who are criticising
the authorities for permitting
such a state of affairs that the
man they have been urging for
mayor of Harrisburg is acting
mayor at this time, and that word
from him would put an end to the
trouble? Would Mayor Gorgas be
any more careful about the quality
of our amusements than Acting
Mayor Gorgas?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-21
KEEP THE ARMY SUPPLIED

n CONGRESSMAN KREIDER, ad-
I dressing the Chamber of Com
merce conference in Atlantic
City Wednesday, advocated the pas
sage of law which would permit the
arrest on charge of treason of any
employer who locks out his men en-
gagged either in the manufacture or
shipment of goods designed for the
United States Army during the war.
or any set \of men engaged in such
work who go on strike. Mr.. Kreider
said that all such disputes should be
settled by arbitration. so long as war
exists, at least, and that the Fed
eral conciliation board should be
charged with the work of bringing
both parties to an agreement.
Congressman Kreider's views will
be accepted by most Americans. We
have an army in the field. If it Is
not properly supplied by those of us