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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-06-06
Four Miles of Sewer for West Union

The sewer work here to be done
during 1917 covers about three
fourths of the town, as about one
fourth, including the business part
was put in some years ago. The
work to be done this year is about
four miles in length. There is also q
second septic tank to be installed,
but that is a separate contract, at
1851, awarded to Comstock & Han
son of Cedar Rapids. The contract
price on the sewers is $12,S56. The
contracts call for the work to be
completed August 1. This is the big
gest public improvement in West
Union since the paving was put il
three years ago.-West Union Ga
zette.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-06-06
Perfects Automatic Gun.

Waukon, Ia, June a. Hans
Johnson. a local inventor, has per-
fected an automatic gun for use in
trench fighting that only weighs
three pounds. 1t is made so it can
be attached to the bayonet of an or
binary rifle and will do the work of
machine gun. Each shell will con-
tain about twenty-five buckshot eff
fective at a range of about seventy
Ave yards.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-06-06
FOOD PRODUCTION
ARMY OF $4,000
Huge Force of Volunteers Responds
to Call For Labor.
..ANKS MAY BE SWELLED
TO MORE THAN $4,000
Campaign Results in Corn Fields OF
Iowa Being Increased by
100000 Acres This
Year.

Ames, June 4.-Thirty thousand
volunteer food producers have alrea-
dy responded to the call sent out by
the agricultural extension depart
ment at Iowa State College, and some
sixty farm labor bureaus have been
established in the state in some for
ty-five counties. Enlistments still
pour in by the hundreds daily and it
is expected that $4,000 volunteer
food producers will have enrolled in
Iowa within the next few weeks.
OF the 10000, some 1000 have
signed up for farm work; 5000 for
garden work; 5000 for canning; O.
900 for poultry production, and the
remainder for active work in seed
selection and storing pork produc-
ton, fighting insect and other pests
and health conservation. Each per-
sou enlisting is sent "V. f. p"
badge of honor and printed instruc-
tions to help him in his particular
line of food production. Two hum
dred thousand emergency leaflets
have been printed for this purpose.
Million Acre Corn Increase.
ut means that with favorable
weather conditions Iowa will pro-
duce enormous crops this year" say
the extension men. "She will have
an increased corn acreage Of at least
/ 100000 acres, which means a.
100000 bushels increase at the low
est estimate"
Labor bureaus are being formed
daily over the state. OF the sixty or
more organized Delaware county
leads with eight; Page, six; Dallas,
three; and Lee, three. From thirty
to sixty men have been placed for
farm labor by the bureau in each Of
the twenty-eight organized counties.
A farm labor bureau in every COM
munity in the state is the aim and
expectation of the department with
in the next few weeks.
Club Members as Farmers.
The commercial club of Bloomfield
has promised that all Of its $50
members will donate their services
on farms for two days this summer;
banks in Creston will allow their
employees two weeks extra vacation
in which to work on farms and will
pay the difference between farm and
bank wages; some manufacturers
have signified that they would prob
ably allow some of their employees
leave Of absence to work on farms.
About 1900 boys and girls have en-
rolled in the acre corn contest and
LOO in the pig club.
Five Hundred Leave Ames.
Practically 500 students have left
Iowa State College since war was de-
clared il this country, according to
the statement made Friday morning
at special student convocation by
Acting President E. w. Stanton. OF
these, some 200 have enlisted for &C
tive military service and about 800
for work in agriculture and indus
trial fields. or those who have en-
tered military service ninety-1ve
have enlisted in the regular army,
fifty-three have gone to officers
training camps, thirty-six have en-
tered a hospital unit and four the ma
tio1al guard.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-06-06
s T A T F. NJ f. N T
of the condition Of the
WinneSheik County
STATE BANK

Organized under the laws Of Iowa, located
at DEBORAH, Iowa, in the County OF Win
nesheik at the close OF business on the 81 st
day OF May 1917, made to the Auditor of
State as required by law
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-06-06

Amount ofcapital stock 49,. $3.50, 0OO. 90
Amt deposits subject to chec+ 324, 403.44
Amount demand deposits..... 1885. O6
Amount Time Dep sits ...... b9l, O50.l7
Amount savings deposits -. l69,3l542
Amount deposited by Banks 1855, 1886
Postal Savings Deposits,.... l,5S9.N
Total Deposits 1882 039 II
Surplus fund. ...................... s 100000
Other profits after deducting
Expenses ......... 4o,Sll07
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-06-06
Slushy Stanzas.

There once was q lady named
skinner,
Who seemed to grow thinner and
thinner.
And she was q sight
When dressed for tho night,
In avsuing Clothes bouad for q din
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-06-06
TOTAL LIABILITIES 1882 $50 10
STATE OF IOWA, GO
WINNESHIEK COuNTY 90


We, G. ]. Weiser, President, r. Algyer, Vice
Pres't, A. Atkinson, Cashier. and A. {. Whalen,
ASS, t Cashier OF the bank above named, 90
solemnly swear that the foregoing statement
Is full, true and correct, to the best OF our
knowledge and belief, that the assets therein
set forth are bona fide the property OF said
bank in It's corporate capacity, and that no
part OF the same has been loaned oradvanced
to said bank for the purpose OF being exhibit
ted as q portionof its assets.
G. J.WEISER, President
Il. ALGYER, Vice.PresideRt
A. ATKINSON, Cashier
A. c. Whalen, Asst Cashier
(( Sworn to before me and subscrib-
J sHAI ed in my presence by @. ]. Wells
err, .R. Algyer, A. Atkinson, and
~ A c. Whalen, this s0th day Of May,
1917
BERNHARD w. OLSON,
Notary Public Ia and for Winneshiek Co.
Attest: c. J. WEISER,
NJ. NJ. ALGYER
r. ALGYER,
ABBIE B. WEISER
Directors
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-06-06
ASSETS
LIAB ILITIES

TOTAL ASSETS.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-05-09
IMPORTANT DISEASE OF APPLE AND PEAR

(By LEONARD r. HARTILL. Instructor
In Fruit Growing, New York State
School of Agriculture on Long Island,
Farmingdale, n. "
Economically, apple and pear scab
are probably the most important dis
eases affecting their respective hosts.
The diseases are common throughout
the world, wherever apples and pears
are grown extensively and during sea-
sons favorable to their development
may result in losses of from % to so
per cent of the crop.
Description.-Scab commonly cf-
fects the fruit, but it may be found
on the leaves, stalks, flowers, and in
the case Of the pear scab on the twigs
On the foliage the spots are more or
less circular in outline and olive green
or brown in color. AS the spots ma
ture they become darker and more ir-
regular in outline. When the spots
are abundant considerable defoliation
may take place, results in the fail
ure of the fruit buds to mature nor
mally.
On the fruit the scab first appears
as small, circular, greenish black
spots which change in appearance as
the fungus spreads, eventually devel-
oping into large or small rough, rus
seted spots. The fruit often becomes
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-05-09

When infected leaves fall TO the
ground in the autumn, the mycelium
of the fungus causing the disease does
not die, but develops during the win
ter, and in the spring produces sexual
spores which are disseminated at
about the time the blossoms open, and
injecting the young leaves, blossoms
and fruit produce the first Scab spots.
The disease is later spread by a new
generation of spores produced in these
spots. In the case of the pear 1t Is
not unlikely that the disease lives over
the winter on the twigs as well as on
the leaves.
Weather conditions greatly influence
the development of Scab, as moisture
on the surface of leaves and fruit
is essential to the termination of the
scab spores.
ControI.-AS the disease is carried
over the winter on the leaves, 1t is
advisable to pillow early in the spring
to turn under all the leaves before
spores are given off from them. In the
case of pears it is also we'll to rake
together and burn all prunings. For
apple scab spray just as the apple
buds begin to show color and sepa-
rate in the cluster, using one part of
concentrated lime-sulphur testing 80
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-05-09
CHAPTER KYLE.

Sidney went into the operating room
late in the spring as the result of
conversation between the younger Will
son and the Head.
when are you going to put my
prOtegee into the operating room?"
asked Wilson, meeting Miss Gregg in
a corridor one bright spring afternoon.
'That usually comes in the second
year, Doctor Wilson"
He smiled down at her. "That isn't
q rule, is it?"
mot exactly. Miss Page is very
young and of course there are other
girls who have not yet had the expe-
rience. But if you make the request"
II am going to have some good cases
soon. I'll not make q request, of
course; but, If you see fit, 1t would be
good training for Miss Page"
Miss Gregg went on, knowing per-
fectly that at his next operation Doc
tor Wilson would expect Sidney Page
In the operating room. The other doe
tors were not so exigent. She would
have liked to have all the staff old and
settled, like Doctor O'Hara or the old
er Wilson. These young men came In
and tore things up.
Sidney went into the operating room
that afternoon. For her blue uni
form, kerchief, and cap she exchanged
the hldeous operati~ groom garb: long,
straight white gown with short sleeves
and mob cap, gray-white from many
sterilizations. But the ugly costume
seemed to emphasize her beauty, as the
habit of q nun often brings out the
placid saintliness Of her face.
The relationship between Sidney and
Max had reached that point that oc-
ours In all relationships between men
and women: when things must either
go forward or go back, but cannot re-
main as they are. The condition had
existed for the last three months. 1t
exasperated the man
AS matter of fact, Wilson could not
go ahead. The situation with Carlotta
had become tense, irritating He felt
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-05-09
Do you think that X. ought
to swallow his personal feelings
and tell Sidney exactly the truth
about Wilson, Would she think
him caddish and hate him If he
tried to do so7
(TO BE CONTINUED.D
GRAVEST0NEs PUT TO USE
Many instances Known Where Frugas
New EngIanders Have Utilized
Them In Various Ways.

The Waterbury American moraliZeG
on the fact that In England some roads
are paved with old gravestones, taken
from graves of forgotten generations,
and crushed for use on the highways
IT seems brutal thing to do and yet
one need not go overseas to learn q
like utilitarian uses of these memo
rails. Almost 100 years ago Guilfore
turned its old graveyard into a yillaSs
green and many tombstones becanaa
derelfcts at once. Frugal representa-
tiyeS OF old families took home the
stones and used them In constructing
pavement from the front door to
the horse block. Many stones were
used in paving the cellars of local
churches and the caves of one church
still drip upon a row of gravestones
laid for that purpose.
Later instances might be cited from
more than one community In the state
beyond a doubt and Courant man
has knowledge Of at least one frugal
soul who, having bought farm which
included private graveyard, tore up
the gravestOnes and used them as
flooring In new creamery. Possibly
this sort of thing would not happen
outside New England, for the man
who would utilize secondhand grave
stone must have had a long training
in economy or else thorough one In
the modern science of efficiency and
the prevention of waste.-Hartford
Courant.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-05-09
CHAPTER Xix.

Put, Sidney, I'm asking you to mar
ry mel"
"T-I know that / am asking you
something else, Max"
II have never been In love with her"
His voice was sulky. He had drawn
the car close to bank, and they were
sitting in the shade, on the grass. 1t
was the Sunday afternoon after Sid
ney's experience in the operating room.
''You took her out, Max, didn't your"
"a few times, yes. She seemed 4"
have no friends. was sorry for her,"
THAT was al?"
Absolutely. Good heavens, you've
put me through catechism In the last
ten minutes"
"If my father were living, or even
mother, lone Of them would have
done this for me, Max. I'm sorry
had to. I've been very wretched for
several days"
1t was the first encouragement she
had given him. There was no coquetry
about her aloofness. 1t was only that
her faith In him had had a shock and
was slow of reviving.
"You are very, very lovely, Sidney,
I wonder If you have any idea what
you mean to me?"
you meant great deal to me, too"
she said frankly, until few days ago.
thought you We're the greatest man
l had ever known, and the best. And
them think I'd better tell you what
I overheard. I didn't try to hear. It
just happened that way"
He listened doggedly to her account
Of the hospital gossip, doggedly and
with sinking sense of fear, not of the
talk, but of Carlotta herself. Usually
one might count on the woman's ST.
lence. her instinct for self-protection.
But Carlotta was different. Hang the
Girl, anyhow! She had known from
the start that the affair was tenn
porary one; he had never pretended
anything else.
There was silence for a moment af-
ter Sidney finished. Then:
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-05-09
Told Truth for 146 Years.

On LincOln's birthday, an aged man
was brought into the jail at Butte,
Mont, for drunkenness. When he
proved that he had voted and fought
for Lincoln, Jailer Lavell sent him
home in Il taxicab. Word of this got
around town, and on Washington's
birthday a drunk" announced that
he had voted for Washington.
''You must be pretty old man." the
jailer said.
past eighty" ventured the drunk.
you'll have to come again." de-
clared the jailer.
II didn't say how much past eighty"
cautiously replied the alleged drunk
ard.
whats Washington famous fort"
asked Lavell as he continued his work
of writing the mans name down on
the blotter.
'He never told lie," promptly an
swered the old fellow.
'And 1 suppose you are following his
example?"
'You bet your life" said the drunk
ard
Bring this fellow to Jail and Wen
charge him with lying" instructed the
jai.er to one of his assistants.-Butte
Post
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-05-09

pride. He had been n love with Car
iotta and had tired OF her. He was
bringing her his warmed-Cver emotions.
She remembered the bitterness of her
months exile, and its probable cause.
Max had stood by her then. Well he
might, if he suspected the truth.
For just a moment she had an illumi-
mating flash Of Wilson IS he really was,
selfish AID zelf-indulgent, just trifle
too carefully dressed, daring as to eye
and speech, with neutrality-suspicious.
daring, frankly pleasure-loving. She
put her hands over her eyes.
The voices In the next room had
risen above their whisper.
Genius has privileges, Of course"
said the older voice. 'He is very
great surgeon. Tomorrow he is TO do
the Edwardes operation again. l am
glad | am to see him do it"
Sidney still held her hands over her
eyes. He was o great surgeon: in his
hands he held the keys of life and
death. And perhaps he had never
cared for Carlotta: she might have
thrown herself at him. He was man,
at the mercy of any scheming woman.
She tried to summon his image to
her aid. But curious thing happened.
She could not visualize him. Instead,
there came, clear and distinct, pic
ture of X. LIE Moyne in the hall Of the
little house, reaching one of his long
arms to the chandelier over his head
and looking up at her as she stood Oh
the stairs.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-05-09

that she stood ready to block any move
he made. He would not so back, and
he dared not go forward.
If Sidney was puzzled, she kept it
bravely TO herself. In her little room
at night, with the door carefully
locked, she tried to think things out.
There were a few treasures that she
looked over regularly: dried flower
from the Christmas roses; label that
be had pasted playfully on the back
OF her hand one day after the rush of
surgical dressings was over and which
said: ''R, Take once and forever"
There was another piece of paper
over which Sidney spent much time.
1t was page torn out of an order
book, and it read: "Sigsbee may
have light diet: Rosenfeld massage"
Underneath was written, very small:
You are the most beautiful person in
the world,
Two reasons had prompted Wilson
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-05-09
Somewhere East of Suex

Hotel life is bad enough anywhere,
but it Is worst in the Orient. You hear
the mother of a twelve-year-old girl
tell her to run away while mother
smokes or tell her husband that she
will have whisky and soda and the
little girl can have small one, as the
weather is hot Such things happen
IN America. but they are not the nor
NAL thing, as they are in these poly
glot trade ports. The commercial class
accuse the missionaries of being too
exclusive and the missionaries assert
they are not going to run a fancy bar
70 attract their compatriots-so there
you are!
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-05-09

An earnest appeal has been made by
for the preservation of one of the most
beautiful of wild flowers, the colum-
bine, particularly along tourist routes.
This appeal will find sympathetic sup
port everywhere throughout the states
In which the columbine is a natural
annual, but it should be broadened to
include all wild Towering plants that
are needlessly, and often wantonly
pulled up by the roots. TIE cOnser-
vation of wild flowers is a patriotic
duty.-Christian Science Monitor.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-05-09

distorted and when the scab spots are
abundant often cracks open.
AS already noted, pear scab, unlike
apple Scab, causes a disease of the
twigs. In this case the fungus pro-
duces mycelium beneath the epidermis
Of the twigs. The mycelium finally
breaks through the epidermis and
gives to the twigs a roughened ap-
pearance.
cause.-Apple and pear scab are
caused by two closely related fungi,
Ventura pomi (apple scab) and Ven
turia pyrina tpear scab). With both
apple and pear scab there are two dis
tinct stages, the conidial or summer
Spore stage and the sexual or ascus
spore stage. The summer spore stage
develops on both fruit and foliage in
the spring and summer, giving rise
to the characteristic spots on the fruit
and foliage from which the disease
takes it's name.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-05-09

after three doctors said / never would
stand up straight again. was mid
wife for seven years and recommended
the Vegetable Compound to every wo-
man to take before birth and after
wards, and they all got along SO nicely
that it surely is godsend to suffering
women. If women wish to write to
me will be delighted to answer them"
Mrs. JENNIE MoYER, 342 E.North St.
Lima, Ohio.
Women who suffer from displace-
vousness, backache, or bearing down
pains, need the tonic properties of tho
roots and herbs contained in Lydia f.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-05-09

baume to 25 parts of water. Spray
again just as the petals fall, using one
part of lime-sulphur to 40 parts of
water. Spray again from ten days to
two weeks later, using the same mix
ture as for the second spray, three to
four pounds of arsenate of lead may
be added to each so gallons of the
spray mixture In the second and third
spraying for the control of codling
moth.
For pear scab spray just after the
fruit is picked, using bordeaux mix
ture $3.50 (6 pounds quick lime, 6
pounds copper sulphate, so gallons of
water). Spray again just as the buds
begin to show color, using nme-sul-
phur 1 In 25 Il part of lime-sulphur
testing 81 baume to 25 parts of wa
teri. Spray again just as the pet
ais are falling, use lime-sulphur In 35,
and again with the same spray from
ten days to two weeks later.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-05-09

lady friends came to
see me and she adj
vised me to COM
mence taking Lydia
E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound
and to use Lydia E.
Pinkham's Sanative
Wash. ! began TAX
ing your remedies
and took SIS. 00worth
and in two months
was a we'll woman
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-05-09
Men and Women

Women as well as men are r1ade miser-
able by kidney and bladder trouble. Dr.
Kilmer's SwampRoot, the great kidney
medicine. is highly recommended by thou-
sands.
Swamp-Root stands the highest for the
reason that so many people say 1t has
proved to be just the remedy needed in
thousands OF even the most distressing
cases.
At druggists in SOC and 500 sizes You
may receive a sample size bottle OF
Swamp-Root by Parcel Post, also a pam
phlet telling you about 1t. Address DR..
enclose ten cents. also mention this paper.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-05-09

The lamp was not lighted In his
room, but the street light glowed
through the windows. Once again the
waving fronds Of the ailanthus tree
flung ghostly shadows on the walls.
There was a faint sweet odor of bios
SONS, so soon to become rank and
heavy
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-05-09
A Sad Experience.

Bill-Don't you believe there Is &
time for everything?
Jill-Surely; but I've discovered
that the time to ask a father for bis
only daughters hand in marriage ia
not just after he has been In the kitch-
en- kicking the everlasting daylight cut
Of the cat.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-05-09
Lice Keep Busy.

Keep fighting the lice. Use white
wash freely. Do not think that be-
cause it is cold weather that the lice
have frozen up. They are still there,
sapping the life blood Of the hens.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-05-09
FARMING AS A PATRIOTIC DUTY


BY Franklin K Lane, Secretary o the Interior.
WE ARE with
w training the work of
navy
all fighters. addition Of
with the food
famine.
Of
compelling call
grow life the
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-05-09
SIDNEY LEARNS SOME VERY PAINFUL TRUTHS AND FEAR
ENTERS DOCTOR MAXs SOUL

mysterious LeSioyne, a a
Sidney
Max
Wilson, a smitten Sidney
Sidney
s jealous
Sdneys chum Christine Lorenz marres Palmer Howe
they with the Howe
a
Rosenfed
dies Doctor Wilson discovers that LeMoyne
ncognto,
Johnny patient the hospital the blame
K
Wilson who she thinks would the
married her When this instlment K is trying
Celestne why he interfere
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-05-09
SusceptibIe to Salt Poison.

Fowls and swine are very suscepti-
BILE to salt poisoning. Too large
amounts will cause sickness or death.
But they need some salt, same as other
animals
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-05-09
Strawberries.

Strawberries should be planted on
clean, new land, which has been under
cultivation for two or three years and
is free from weeds and insects. It
should be well fortified, preferably
the year before planting strawberries.