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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-09-11
THREsHING ENGINE ExPLoDEs
Engineer Only Man Hurt i'm Bad
Accident

Hampton, Ia, Sept. 9-The Jacob
Marken farm in Ingram township
was the scene Saturday afternoon, OF
one of the worst accidents that ever
occurred in that locality when a
threshing machine belonging to
stock company of farmers of the
vicinity blew up.
Only one man, the engineer, Geo.
Murphy, % years old, was injured
and physicians say that he has fair
chance of recovery.
A piece of the engine cut the
throat of one of team of horses
belonging to C.. Laudner instantly
killing it, and the same missile broke
two legs of its mate and it had to
be killed. The team was valued at
$500.
The force of the explosion is de-
clared by visitors to the scene to
have been terrific. Both ends OF
the boiler were blown out, and d
large tank on the front end filled
with water was blown over the Sc
parator and fully fifty rods away.
Registration is the one and only
duty of male American citizen.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-09-11
Walt Cummings, One of Uncle Sans
Corporals Says Public Opinion
Fills the News Bill Fine.
is IN THE HEAVY
FIELD ARTILLERY
Gums Pulled by Small Tractors, and
They Travel Seven or Eight
Miles an Hour. Can Turn
Around on Less Ground
Than They Cover
Camp Jackson, S. C.
Sept. 2, 1913
Dear Editor:

Dear Editor:
Having just received last weeks
issue of your good paper, and as this
is Labor Day and nothing else to do
will try and write few lines and
thank you for sending me the paper.
Any news from home looks good to
to the boys, and / am no exception,
and whenever l get Public Opinion
also get my eyes full of news. AL
though / hear pretty regular from
home it is more family news than
town news, so the paper fills the bill
fine.
suppose I could give you des-
cription of this camp, but as you get
lots Of letters from boys at different
camps you know pretty well what
this camp is like, as they are all cut
off the same piece.
This camp is an artillery replace
ment depot, heavy and light field. 7
am in the heavy, which is motorized.
The guns are pulled by small trac-
tors of the caterpillar type. Trucks
are used to carry the ammunition
and other equipment instead of hors-
es. 1t is quite sight to see one of
the tractors in operation. They are
not very big, but can handle about
six tons of guns and shell carriages.
The tractors can be turned around
on less ground than they cover
nearly. They also travel right along,
about six to seven miles per hour.
The guns that we use here are the
six inch howzer, the largest used by
the United States in the field. They
shoot six to eight miles, using either
gas or high explosive shells.
My duties here is trying to start
the new recruits along the right
track. We get them fresh from civil
life and keep them about month
when they sail overseas. They get
only foot drill and little work or
the guns, also learn how to roll a
pack and pitch a pup tent. We also
give them a little drill in manual OF
arms, but an order came down q
couple of weeks ago that rifles had
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-09-11
Baby Hanged to Posts Of Bed.

Lois, nipe months old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. William Duncomb, of
Fredericksburg hanged herself to the
posts of bed on which her mother
had placed her to sleep, while she
went outside to do some work. In
the mothers absence the child
awakened and craYled to the foot
of the bed, catching herself between
the posts, where her mother found
her hanging when she returned. A
physician was called but the child
could not be revived. Her father
was at work when the accident hap
pened.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-09-11
Girl Truck Driver.

AS the young men leave Harrison
county to take part in the war, wo-
men are taking their places in Offices,
stores, fields and as auto drivers.
Hazel Johnson, daughter of August
Johnson of Missouri Valley, drives a
heavy truck for her father, taking
live stock to South Omaha, and in
addition, hauling other products of
the farm to market.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-09-11
Privates Sentenced.

Private F. d. Pemick of Peters
burg, ILL.,, a member of the depot
brigade at Camp Dodge, was sem
fenced to ten years in prison at Fort
Leavenworth for refusing to submit
to medical examination after he
had refused to do military duty on
the grounds that he was i'll.
Private ]. E. Thompson of st.
Louis, ILL.,, another member of the
depot brigade, was sentenced to one
year in federal prison on a charge
of using drugs and for disorderly
conduct in Des Moines.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-09-11

some sort of prize or honor mark
to him who saves the most during q
week or month.
The sugar thus saved at the end
of the day from each individual dish
should be emptied into a common
jar for cooking purposes only.
No sugar saved, no cake nor pie
nor anything cooked with sugar.
BY religiously measuring out six
level teaspoonsful every morning
during the month to each member of
the household, you will have sugar
to cook with, for everyone will be in
terested in saving for the honor prize
and also saving for the food cooked
with sugar Here is where the cook
can save more sugar. BY using the
combinations of sugar and other
sweeteners as per following tables:
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-09-11

The community near Elkader was
shocked last week to learn OF the
death of Mrs. John Geraghty OF
Read township as the result OF gun
shot wound. At about IL o'clock yes
terday morning Mrs. Geraghty's little
son. Lawrence, returning from the
field where his father was working.
found her lying on the floor OF the
dining room in pool OF blood ana
her clothes on fire about a wound In
her side below, the heart. With rare
presence of mind for six-year-oid
he got water and put out the fire and
then ran to his father. Neighbors
were called and DIR. G. G. White
summoned from Elkader, but death
came in little while, and although
apparently concious for time sne
was unable to speak.
A shotgun belonging in the house
slav beside her and various tninss
seem to indicate that she had at
tempted to take shell out OF the
barrel, and in so doing the gun had
been accidentally discharged. The
sad details will never be known "A
baking of bread was in the kitchen'
still warm from the oven, and the
partially prepared dinner showed that
She had been busy with her house
hold work almost up to the momen.
30 the accident. Elkader Register.
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Union Suits
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-09-11
CONSERVATION IN THE HOME.
A Guide i'm Using Sugar

Monthly Ration, 80 or 81 days,
2 pounds for each person.
Daily ration, ounce or
level teaspoonsful.
8 level teaspoons for beverages,
for one person for one day.
8 level teaspoons for cooked food,
(using average household teaspoon) !.
Have the housewife measure out
6 level teaspoons of sugar / ounce>
and place in individual dishes every
morning before each guest at her
table and have them contest with
each other as to who can save for
that day and every day the most
sugar. from their daily ration, giving
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-09-11

Buy Your Suit
now if you want quality, as well as
plenty of different models and color
ings for selection. BEARS.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-09-11

Registration is the one and only
duty of a male American citizen.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-09-11
Table of Weights.
If you use

The resulting product contains in How
total solids the equivalent of one tutes
pound of sugar. This is for all place
practical purposes using "a times as glue
much of the other sweeteners by salts
weight as the weight of the sugar whel
replaced For example, in line B.
OF. of sugar are replaced by OF. of If
corn syrup, which is / u times OF. cups
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-09-11

The resulting product contains the
equivalent of one pound of sugar
In substituting by measure, cup of
sugar is replaced approximately by
u cup of the other sweeteners on
the basis of total solids.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-09-11

lie Changes in liquid. If these substi-
r tutes are used in recipes where
Of amount of liquid is an important
by factor decrease the liquid % cup for
IN every pound, or "A cup for every
cup of liquid sweetener used.
ed -Sept.1, 1918 at Davenport by
M. ID. PARKER,
u. s. Food Administration.
State Merchant Representative
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-05-22

stay. Just as you planned planned,
ana l said to myself: "When the time
comes for us to part I Shall make him
promise" Dear one, this is nv
promise. and make it for the term
Of your own-"for the duration of The
present war"
promise YOU that while YOU are
away, whether it Is months or years,
nothing except what can give YOU
and give all the others Shall, fiji NV
life. promise you that Shall de-
vote myself, here in safety, to the
work OF making what you do easier
and stronger and safer for YOU.
promise you that shall give-and
give and give-for the Cause! Not
the money | can spare, not the time
| have left when everything else Is
done, but all the money, all the time,
all the energy | have!
Your whole life has been altered,
has been set to sterner and graver
music. SO shall mine be. You will
know self denial, privatIon and fatigue
while the war lasts. So Shall | know
them. Even If black news comes, even
If the blacklist comes, Shall rcmcm-
ber that against your brave heart this
promise Is resting, and Shall go on.
And while there Is one man among our
million 0nd among the millions OF our
allies who needs clothing and nursing
and comforts and sOlace for your sake
| shall not fail him.
Perhaps in Gods goodness this note
will come safely back to me In the
olive drab pocket, and we will smile
over 1t together. But. remember, until
that hour comes shall be always busy
filling my own small place In the great
machine OF mercy and as truly under
the colors over here as you are over
there. God bless youl
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-05-22
A MOTHERS PROMISE,
TO HER SON
BY KATHLEEN NORRIS

My Dear One-rm writing this very,
very small and on the thinnest Of pa
per, SO that tightly folded 1t may slip
into one of the olive drab pockets OF
your new uniform without cncroachiny
for the tinies; part Of an inch upon all
the new things that you must lave
there-the passports and identiiica-
tion slips and photograph, the knife
and pen and writing pad. the lists
and numbers and names and ciphers,
the address book and the thin manual
you have been studying so hard and
the slim little Bible, for this letter Is
part OF your equipment, too, or. at
least like to think that 1t Is.
I'm going to tell you in 1t Just one
or two OF the things we've been try
Ing not to say In these last days. You've
said to yourself, haven't you, that
there were possibilities that /, thank
God. hadn't seemed to think OF
You've marvelled gratefully, haven't
you, that I could say goodby with
dry eyes and talk about what we
should do when the war is over. Nv
dear, there Is nothing-nothing- that
can happen to you that haven't fore
seen in every detail since May, since
the very beginning Of Il all. I know
that some of Guy men are not going TO
come back. l knOw-as ! write this
In the room you love~--tlat your fin
gers may tumble for this little piece
of paper in some dreadful hour n
month or two months or six months
from pow, just to read 1t over once
more for the last time. Just to feel
In your fingers out there in shell
lighted battlefield something that
have touched-for goodbye
And thinking OF all this for almost
q year while you've been getting
ready to go I've been getting ready to
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-05-22
WHEN A CUP OF :,
COFFEE TASTES LIKE
A MILLION DOLLARS
lie Got His Cup and Then
Went onto Death.

Through the establishment Of the
line of communication cnnteens in
France the American Red Cross is set.
ting records in serving hot coffee, CO.
Goa and sandwiches to the troops. One
of these rrfrcShmcnt units made an.
other new record recently, serving
more than $4,000 meals in one week.
AT another cup Of coffee was served
every ten seconds for period Of two
consecutive hours
In single week these lines OF com.
munication canteens often serve 10000
American and French soldiers.
Soldiers In Box Cars.
DO our soldiers and their allies real.
~ want this form Of Red Cross sery.
ice? A letter from ii young American
aviator, 1917 graduate of Princeton
University is probably typical. It
might be added that this man has since
been reported killed after bringing
down German Taube. "a 80 mile
train ride over here" he said, ''instcad
OF taking Il few hours may take days
When we stop ut Red Cross can,cen
you can bet that cup Of coffee tastes
like million dollars"
Ii Is not always possible for regi.
ment TO provide sufficient food ana hot
coffee on these long journeys. where
the men must often be packed stand
Ing into unheated box cars ordinarily
used for carrying horses So imagine
Tor Yourself the warmth, the cheer, the
comfort That piping hot coffee and
good sandwiches hrinV IN our knu. y, ..
er night on such Journey You
can Just bet that II stiffens mans
courage. Your Red Cross Is handing
out this renewed courage by the plrtng
hot .cupful.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-05-22


a . s"a net q 9" mercy mercy @a, draw" through
The Greatest Mother i'm the World
Stretching forth her hands to all in need to Jew or
Gentle, black white knowing no favorite vet fav
oring all.
Ready and eager to comfort at a time when COM
fort is most needed, Helping the little home that is
crushed beneath iron hand, by showing mercy in a
healthy human way; rebuilding it, in fact with stone
ON stone replenishing empty bins and empty cup
BOARDS bringing warmth to hearts and hearths too
long neglected.
Seeing all things with mothers seventh sense that's
blind TO jealousy and rneanness; seeing men in their
true light naughty children --snatching biting Bit
terbut with hidden side that's quickest touched bv
mercy.
Reaching out her hands across the sea TO No Mans
Land to cheer with warmer comforts thousands who
must stand and wait in stenched and crawling holes
and watersoaked intrenchments where cold and wet
bite deeper, SO they write than Boche steel or lead
She's warming thousands feeding thousands, heal
ing thousands from her stores the Greatest Mother in
the World-- the Red Cross
Your help is needed-17give till the heart says stop.
Fund o... 70, Wa, Relief
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-05-22

The American Red Cross is the largcsf and
most efficient organization for the relief # suf-
fcrng that the World has ever seen.
IT is made mp almost entirely of volhTsto or
workers, the higher executives being Without
exception men accustomed TO large affairs. who
arc in almost all cases giving their services
without pay.
1t is Supported entirely BY It's membership
fees and by voluntary contributions.
!: is today bringing relief TO suffering hu.
manity. ootn mili;ary anl civil, in every WaI
torn allied country.
It plans tomorrow to help in the work OF
restoration throughout the world.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-05-22

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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-11-09
Home is Where the Boy Is
in the War

| visited home where Sci.
vice flag hangs, and while We ate
we talked of the boy WHO Is oyer
there. I wonder il he ID cold to
night the mother said, Il won
OAR II he has place TO warm him
self and dry his clothes, aud some
thing good to eat. Wha, wouldn't
I give TO be with him. she said
and we were silent knowing her
heart,
But thought OF the Soldiers of
FrieudlinesS who that very night
would crawl out across 40 Man
Land to take chocolate and ho,
coffee TO that boy... OF the huts
with their warm fires burning, of
the great lecturers and preachers
and actors and motion pictures
that are over there. Aud | thought
to myself; There is difference
between this aud every other war.
For when the boys have marched
away before, the influence of their
homes has stopped at the front
gate and could go no farther. But
in this war it follows the flag over
the ocean, over the shell torn bat.
tie land. straight up to the front
line trenches.
Home is where the boy is in
this war. FROM every town aud
village the liues of helpfulness run
out. And no boy leaves his home
behind him; step by step it travels
with him, financed by the folks be.
bind him Ia token of their love.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-11-09
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

In the District Court Of the seventh Ju-
dieia District OF the state Of Nevada,
In and for the county OF Mineral
In the matter Of The Estate Of Willinm
condron deecasod
Edward Pitcher and Anna Condron PHI
cher, the Administrator and Adntini.tra-
ttiS of the estate of William Condron de-
ceused, having filed in this court aud the
cause, their ilnal account OF their adj
minlstratlon Of said estate. together with
a petition praying for tho disMibution Of
said estate 10 The persons eutitled therolo
Ii soraered TINT Saturday on HE 9th
day ot November, lols,at the hour of 100
o'clo Ii AN of said day at the court house
In the town OF hawthorne County OF Min
erai, State OF Nevada, be the same is here
by fixed us the time and place tor he
hearing Of said final account and petition
for distribution when and where all per
sona Interested in aaid estate GTc hereby
commanded andseie1 to be aud appeal
and show cause, If any they have, Why
said final account should not be approved
and said estate dis tributed
Il Is further ordered. that q copy Of this
order be published al ienst once Week
for three consecutive weeks. next pieceeds
ing the day Of said hearing,i in the Walker
Lake Bulletin weekly newspaper printed
and Published in the town Gf HawtAorne,
it'onnrv'of' Mineral, state Of Sev:cla. and
shat copies thereof be posted in three OF
lie most public and conspicuous places in
said county for the same period OF time
Dated this 1Hh Cay of October, 1918
j. EaIMfTr WALSH, District Judge,
First pub Oct, 4 1918
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-11-09
Death Of Mrs. Summerfield

The people OF Hawthorne were
shocked and grieeed last Wednes.
day morning when the news
reached Our town of the death OF
Mrs. S. NJ Summerfeld at Nina
TIE immediate cause of death
was pneumonia superinduced by
an attack of influenza.
Her early childhood and girl
hood were spent in Hawthorne
and She is remembered by many of
Us as a most attractive and charm
ing girl.
She was the eldest daughter of
]. II. Mcbride, formerly roadmas-
ter OF the c. & c. railroad.
Deceased was a native Of Calf.
ornia aged SO years.
Besides a grief-stricken husband
and three little girls, Mrs. Sum.
merfield leaves her father a brother
aud two sisters, Mrs. Laura Ferr.
etti and Mrs. Edith Eckley and a
q host of friends to mourn her uu-
timely death.
The funeral, which took place
in Nina Thursday, was the largest
ever seen in Nina, the procession
reaching from tie Sumnerfeld
residence to the cemetery. A truck
load of flowers was sent by sorrow
ing friends.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-11-09
The Election

The results Of the election oI
Tuesday were not materially al.
tered from early reports The al
eetion OF Governor Boyle seems q
certainty. Charles Henderson has
been sent to the Senate aud Charles
Evans goes to the lower house.
The fight for justice OF the 9u
preme court has resulted in the d6
feat CT Judge MeCarren. From all
appearances Judge Ducker will lead
him nearly a thousand votes
Fowler beats Green to the Attof,
ney Generaiship Judge Downe,
is out of the race for Congress, and
the only clean cut victory that is
recorded for the republicans is thai
Of Andy Stirson tor Mining II,
spector.
One OF the state surprises is the
defeat of John Edwards Bray for
superintendent of public instruc-
ton Hunting. who trains With
the republicans has from the re-
turns so far gained that position.
The republican headquarters las
admitted the election of Henderson
and the list above quoted. The
state as a whole went democratic
by considerable majority.
Reports received late yesterday
indicate that Governor Boyle main
tains his lead over Oddie in the
race for governorship. The latest
report shows Boyle leading by
nearly 900 votes.
The county officers elected for
coming two years are;
G. B. Sttunard, assemblyman.
Henry Boerlin Short Term Com
missioner.
B, F. Beker Long Term Com
missioner.
F. B. Balzar, Shea iff and Assess
or.
Rita D. Millar, Auditor aud Re
carder.
J. II. White, District Attorney
S. y. Kelso, Clerk and Treas.
urer.
Mrs. Ruby Ashby member OF
County Board of Education.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-11-09
True Age of Man.

How old is slan! Measured IN yeara
no one knows. But he Is as old as
thought as mind. When mans ances-
tor first began to think, that day man
was born. AS man has progressed in
the last million years, or half-inillion,
so we may hope he will progress in the
next -half-million or million, and the
time may yet come when, as a great
scientist has said, he will stand upon
this earth and touch the remotest
stars.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-11-09
Never a Night Before Away
From Home

The whole town was gathered on
the tsla,torm tdat uorning to see
the trctin pull out, all wa ing and
cheering aud trying hard to beep
on smiling through their tears.
Out of the car windows leaned
the boys to wave last goodbye.
Just average, clear eyed country
town boys; twenty of them alto
gether. And seventeen of them
had never slept night away from
hcme before. They are dwelling
in a strange land tonight, whose
language trey cannot understand
But 2cross the mud and the snow a
light. CLEANS warm from a hut on
the edge of the town. and inside
good cheer and happiness are ready
for who ever will come in to claim
them. Friendship dwells in the
hut; keeps its warm fires burning
bright this winter. Let it be per-
fectly clear 70 the men over there
that you have not forgotten.
to the men that only little while
ago had never slept a night away
from home.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-11-09
Sorlat Numboi 0i0s73
NOTICE rCR PUBLICATION.
Cnited States Land Office
Carson City, Nevada,

United States Land Office
Carson City, Nevada
October 10, 1913
Notice Is hereby givon that Joseph 6i-
raud Of Reno, County III Washoo, State Of
Nevada. has nied III this Office his applica-
tion to onter uEder the provisions of ssc-
tions 23O6 OF. RSt IS. the following de-
scribed land. viz; SW4 SWl4, Section A,
Township North. Range 2s East, NJ DBM
Any and all parsons ohllmng adversely
the lands de crihel, or desiring 10 object,
because OF the mineral character OF the
land, or any other REASON, TO the disposal
TO applicant, should fle their aflidavits OF
protests in this office. on or before the 5th
day OF December. iDls.
SHoBER J. RoQERs
Register
First publication November ,, 1918
Lust publication November 30, 1918,