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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-08-14
MUST TALK AMERICAN
No Foreign Language Goes i'm
Crawford County.

Denisons lathe managers Of
the different telephone companies
of Crawford county met with the
military affairs committee at the
federal building in Denison and dis
cussed the use of foreign languages
over the telephone lines. The man
ayers were anxious to conform to
Governor Harding's proclamation in
regard to speaking English, and de-
cided to enforce the order.
All persons unable to use the Eng
lish language and who desire to use
the phone lines must make applica-
ton and get permit, said applica-
ton to be signed by three citizens
who are acquainted with applicant.
The permit may be revoked at any
time at the option of the phone COM
pany.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-08-14
Say Carnival spread Disease.

A carnival was staged for Algona
last week. 1t met warm reception,
the commercial club making every
effort possible to keep it out. Weeks
before the carnival had secured a
license from the mayor, and here
was the difficulty. The directors
gave principal attention to the moral
aspects of the carnival, claiming
that the presence of the shows en-
couraged liquor selling and vice.
Nine ,af1davits were filed by the pc
titioners. Drs. Kenefick and Hart
man filed affadavits claiming that
cases of social disease followed the
last appearance of the carnival here.
Clear Lake Reporter.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-08-14
Bees Have Foul Breed.

Most of the bee colonies in John
son county are affected with foul
breed, was the statement made by
F. E. Miller, state apiarist, at a
meeting of the beekeepers here last
last night. He said that one bee
keeper near here had lost as many
as fourteen hives this year from the
one disease.
Mr.. Miller recommended that a
campaign be put on this winter in
order to rid the county of the
trouble. He states that the infec-
,tion is one that is very easily spread
to bees in the same groupe or from
one place to another within several
miles but that with systematic eff
fort 1t can be eradicated.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-08-14

Bucknell, that the city clerk anc
mayor make an order on the city
treasurer directing him to transfer
park and library fund balances to q
separate account. Motion carried.
Motion by Engbretson, seconded
by Bergeson, that the city attorney
draw up an ordinance fixing grades
on north end of River Street. Motion
carried.
Mayor E. ]. Hook gave a detailed
report on his trip to Des Moines as a
delegate to the meeting of the Iowa
League of Municipalities and OF
Public Service Corporations.
Motion by Bergeson, seconded by
Engbretson. Whereas: 1t is neces-
sary and advisable to oil River Street
from intersection of Water Street and
running south to intersection with
Broadway in the City of DEBORAH,
Be it therefore resolved by the said
City Council that such oiling be and
is hereby ordered done and that the
cost thereof be assessed against the
AUDITING property as provided by law.
Roll call vote Ayes: McAndrews,
Mckay, Bucknell, Willis, Hislop,
Bergeson, Engbretson. Seven ayes,
no nays. Motion carried.
Motion by Mckay, seconded by
Willis, that the resignation of City
Clerk L. S. Dale as rendered by him
be not accepted. Roll call vote. Ayes:
McAndrews, Mckay, Bucknell, Willis,
Hislop, Bergeson, Engbretson. Seven
ayes, no nays.
Motion by Hislop, seconded by
Engbretson, that the mayor be, in
structed to notify L. s., Dale that his
resignation as presented was not ac-
cepted and that it is the sense of the
Council that Mr.. Dale's services be
retained. Motion carried.
Motion by Hislop, seconded by
Mckay, to adjourn to Aug. 21st, 1918.
Motion carried.
JGlMcANDREWS,
Clerk pro tenn.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-08-14
Sorry and Pious? Rats!

Are those German autocrats be-
coming tender hearted? They say
they're sorry they shot up that
Paris church on Good Friday, but
ask how the deuce the French could
expect German gunner seventy-five
miles away to distinguish between
church and other buildings. But,
they add, "our piety was evidenced
by our not bombarding Paris the
day the victims of that church in
cident were buried"
Those Germans may become both
tender hearted and pious, as "the
yilest sinner may return" but we
we guess it will be after trying the
effect of blowing to pieces a few
funerals. Only funerals, added to
the hospitals, ferries, passenger
boats, schools, churches, nurseries
and maternity homes, are needed to
complete their list of vile deeds. and
the Germans are sure thorough,
even in their ,yillanies.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-08-14
Thirteen of His 25 Living Sons Now
in Service of Uncle Sam

Goldsboro, N. c., Aug. 3.-John
Ward, a Negro, called as witness
in a recent trial held here, told the
court he was the father of thirty-five
children and that thirteen sons were
in the military service. Ward, who
is 81 years old, has been married
three times and has twenty-five liv-
ing children.
The Negro says his first wife bore
fifteen children in six years-quad-
ruplets twice, two sets of triplets
and one single child. The second
wife. he said, gave birth to twelve
children, twins twice. The third
wife gave birth to eight children.
Five sons in military service are in
France and eight others are in
training camps in this country.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-08-14
Ring Tears Girls Finger or.

Henry Huber's 10year old daughter
met with a very painful accident
last week, She was on top of load
of hay. When she started to get
down from the load, the ring on her
finger caught on nail on the rack,
causing the skin to be almost en-
tiEely removed from the finger and
the finger torn off at the last joint.
She was brought to town as quickly
as possible where the hand was dre-
sed. and later the finger had to be
amputated about half an inch from
the main part of the hand. This is
a very unusual accident.-Clear Lake
Reporter.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-08-14

! E. ]. Hook, expenses to Des
/ MONIES convention .. 237s
X. Bucknell, cash paid O. To-
/ biaSon for street labor 1890. 2.30
| E: V. harrington, cutting weeds 1.50
| Theo. Olson, services at the
Schimming fire ..... 500
Hook & Ladder Co., services
[ at the Schimming fire.. 900
Hose So. No. l, services at the
| Schimming fire ......... 1875
Hose Co. No. 2, services at the
Schimming fire ..:........ 1475
b. M. Graham, hauling hose
cart and II. & L. Schimming
nre .................. 400
j. T. Burns hauling hose cart
No. 2 Schimming fire. 1.50
Hose Co. No. 8, services at the
Sehimming FIRE ~........... 1125
X. q. Price, hauling No. 8 hose
cart Schimming fire ....... $50
Frank Arneson, hauling hose a
cart No. 2 Schimming fire !. so
Harry Hislop, sweeping streets $500
A. K. Bailey & Son, Inc, Print
ing council proceedings -. 5.o3
Geo. Hill, Sr., grading and re-
pairing streets ........... S5.l5
/ hoeich ny buShlGll, SGGOIQGu DY
Willis that the resolution of the
Finance Committee be adopted. Roll
call vote. Ayes: McAndrews, Mckay,
Bucknell, Willis, HisIop, Bergeson,
Engbretson.. Seven ayes, no nays
Motion carried.
Motion by Hislop, seconded by
Bucknell, that the matter of claim for
repairing broken service water pipe
1ac NNa.A
front of the Ammund Severson and
Geo. Drummer estate properties be re-
ferred to the city attorney Motion
carried.
Report of city treasurer for month
ending July 3lst, 1918, was read.
Motion by Hislop, seconded by
Engbretson, that the report be ac-
cepted and placed on file. Motion
carried. n
Motion by Hislop, seconded by
McAndrews, that the councilmen
from each ward provide for the cut
ting of obnoxious weeds along streets,
alleys and public places in their re-
spective wards, and to report all such
work to the street commissioner.
Roll call vote Ayes: McAndrews.
Mckay, Bucknell, Willis, Hislop,
Bergeson, and Engbretson. Motion
carried.
Motion by Bergeson, seconded by
Mckay, that the mayor, city attorney
and street commissioner proceed to
take the necessary steps TO collect the
poll tax for the City of DEBORAH for
1918. Roll call vote. Ayes: Mean
drews, Mckay, Bucknell, Willis, His
lop, Bergeson, Engbretson. Seven
ayes, no nays. Motion carried
: Motion by McAndrews, seconded
by Mckay, that the certificate of
library tax levy for the ensuing year
be received and placed on file and
acted on at next meeting. Motion
carried.
Motion by Mckay, seconded byi
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-08-14
High Prices During C.vil War.

Some one has dug up an invoice
of bill of goods sold by firm of
wholesale grocer of Keokuk, Iowa,
in June, 1862, says the PHILADELPHIA
Record, which shows that sugar was
$58 barrel and rice $3S, while tea
sold at SOL for a twenty-five pound
chest. Coffee was four times the
present price, and the same bill It
groceries which then brought $644.-
IA could be purchased today for
s291.61
Those were the days of the Civil
war, which accounts for the soaring
prices. Nowadays when people kick
over paying 8 and 10 cents pound
for sugar and moderate sums for tea
and coffee. they may find some con-
ISOLATION in knowing that their grand
parents were in much worse plight
Compared with most of the world,
the United States is standing the
stress and strain of the present war
with comparatively little discomfort.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-08-14

The press notes that the doctor
at the Rosencrans at Prairie du
Chen was attending an injured wo-
man who had come into the surgery
with her arm severely bitten. He
dressed the wound and as he did SO
said II cannot quite make out what
sort of an animal bit you; the wound
is too small for a horses bite and
too big for dogs" "oh, It wasn't
an ANIMAL" exclaimed the patient,
at was another lady.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-08-14
Throwing Away Road Money.

Bows Advocate: Frank DeForest
says he has been kept busy the last
two weeks pulling cars out of the
mud on the west side of section II,
Franklin county. He says there
has never been any efficient work put
ON this road for twenty years, either
under the new law or any other law,
and to cap the climax the authorities
have recently caused fresh dirt to be
placed on the roadbed on top OF soft
mud which was a positive damage
besides throwing away the taxpay-
ers' money.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-08-14

Supervisor ]. Park Bair brings in
an early report of the result of the
harvest that is at once interesting
and gratifying. From a field of
nineteen acres he threshed 1920
bushels of oats. This average of
101 bushels per acre confirms the
appearance that field indicated Of
raising an abnormal crop of grain
Storm Lake Pilot Tribune.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-08-14
German Bible starts Fire.

Grandma Shiek of West Union,
last week became so disguised with
the doings of the German kaiser
that she used her German bible,
which had been in the family for a
good many years, to cook her dinner
with. 1t made very good fire, and
was used for good purpose
West Union Union.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-08-14
Gives an Interesting Description of
Army Life in South Carolina
Camp
BUSY WITH MOTORCYCLES
TRUCKS, TOURING CARS
Says Soldier Has a Wonderful
Variety of Work to DO, That is
Most Of Them
Motor School,
Camp Jackson, F. A. r. d.
Columbia, S. c.
Aug. 6, 1918


DEBORAH, Iowa.
Friend John:
am not receiving the Public
Opinion. News from home is very
scarce around here. Are you using
the correct address? Please look
this up. / am very anxious to re-
ceive the paper, so far none has
reached me.
The work around the camp con-
tinues about as usual. There are
special trains in and out every day.
New men coming in. The regulars
going out. The camp is becoming
more and more complete every day.
We receive new equipment and
more supplies right along. In the
last few days we have gotten in 200
Indian side-car outfits, 40. Nash
trucks, 40 F. w. d. trucks and about
so Packard trucks. Sixty men
from the camp went to Philadelphia
and drove back with these Packards.
They just came back Sunday night
about 1890. Said they averaged
about 10 miles day. They used
10 gallons of lubricating oil the
first day. They had gasoline tank
truck with them all the way. Made
most of the minor repairs ION the
rum" If the engine was dead, the
truck was pulled along by another
one while the mechanics made the
repairs. For example one of them
was pulled 20 miles before the
adjustments were finished. The one
big idea was to keep moving. They
covered 500 miles.
A soldier certainly has wonder
full variety of work. mean most of
them have For example,. many of
them do carpenter work, painting,
take care of horses, drive trucks,
do table waiting, wash dishes, scrub
floors and tables, take care of the
fires, etc. Many of them get day
of each kind of work each week.
Then of course we all have our
regular drill.
/ am very fortunate. My work is
nearly all along my regular lines.
Am doing repair work on motor
cycles, trucks and touring cars.
Once in a while / do some driving.
Recently We received 10 new
Write touring cars. They are used
for transporting officers only. They
are a big heavy, hard working piece
of machinery, using 36x6 Goodyear
cord tires. All new equipment Is
looked over, inspected and adjusted
before it Is used.
They try to keep these outfits in
good condition at all times. But the
use they are put to makes 1t impos-
sible TO keep them in the best of con-
dition. At first it seemed to me that
the drivers deliDerataly trled TO rum
this equipment, but the main idea
is to get there and back at all times
of conditions or cost.
The motorcycles and trucks also
come in for their share OF abuse It
really does not seem right that gooi,
machines should be used in this way.
But it is part of the soldiers train
ing. We learn lots of funny things
in the army.
There are many things 4 could
write about, but / just hayen't got
the time. Sometime later / shall
try to find more time time.
Yours very truly,
SAIEX GRJNNA.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-08-14

Father-Yon're late again, Sylvia.
This won't do, you know. You must
tell that young man of yours that
late hours are bad for one!
Sylvia-All right, dad. But they
are splendid for two.-Cassell'
Saturday-Journal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-20

as rule have not been state con-
scious. That is, their thoughts
have fluttered in curious interest
over the United States and Europe
and they have rarely realized that
concentrating effort in definite
state units where workers can
easily get together would
strengthen and define anything
they may undertake. The dan
ger Of failing to concentrate on
unit work is illustrated by the fact
that bigness of women's organiza-
tions has sometimes been mis-
taken for strength, and chains of
state branches Joined too quickly
into national organizations have
shown many weak links.
1t is a joy to call attention to
New York State and to plead for
fuller knowledge Of it, be-
cause Of it's wonderful beauty.
Rivers, lakes, seashore, mountains,
forests, canyons, give endless
variety and, rightly used, should be
the abode of very sturdy people.
But here, as elsewhere, there lie
close together prosperous towns
and poor mountain farms, wealthy
cities and appalling slums, the best
possible educational facilities and
dense ignorance, patriotic Ameri-
cans and dangerous aliens. The
cooperation of state officials and
volunteer workers can lessen these
contrasts.
GERTRUDE SHERMAN TROWBRlDCEE.
Chairman Woman's Committee Stuts
Defence Council
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-20
Your State:
What 1t Means You-What You Can Do for It

The following collection Of facts
about our state was made principally
from records in the Legislative Manual,
copies of which have been supplied to
the county charmen Of the Woman's
Committee, State Defence Council.
through the courtesy of the Secretary
Of State. Mrs. Trowbridge New York
State chairman of the Woman's Com
mittee, will tie glad to conduct from her
office any inquiry desired further to
elaborate any of these statements or TO
give information Of the vast amount of
state work now carried out in other de-
partments.
For CHILD WELFARE the state offers:
Record of birth, supervision of milk
and other food. Prevention of blindness
and, where that is impossible, treatment
and instruction of blind children, pro-
vision for operations, training in occupa-
tons providing positions for blind work
ers. Children's courts, children's insti-
tutions, safe custody and treatment for
IDIOTS and epileptics. Special hospitals
for deformed and crippled children. Free
education, free dental clinics, free IL
oTalies, state camps and free camping
sitcs. Special training, for backward or
}''- 'f- ''T - rf'ice nDed children. Children
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-20
TO New York Women

AVING recently become
aware of the extent and of
the high quality of work
carried on in New York State for
'the preservation of the peace,
safety and freedom of the people,"
the author has experienced deep
interest and pride in what the peo-
pies representatives have accom-
plished and feels that even a slight
outline of their work will arouse
other women citizens to adequate
appreciation Of it.
These activities comprise the
most important Items Of cost in
the work of the state, yet they are
not as we'll advertised as are
purely political efforts. Women
have accepted as a matter OF
course the fact that they are in
many ways privileged and pro-
tected. Such advantages came to
them unasked and without effort
and are an old story, whereas
citizenship is to them a novelty
won after long struggle. Having
won citizenship, however, they are
now eager to prove how, useful
they can be to the state. This
usefulness should be founded upon
correct information not only of
election methods but of the means
whereby the state cares for the
social needs Of it's people: the
work which might be called the
"heart"of state work.
'The Legislative Manual" pub
lished annually by the Secretary
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-20

Shinnecock Reservation, near South.
hampton.
Tonawanda Reservation, in Erie and
Genesee counties.
Tuscarora Reservation, in Niagara
County.
The state has charge of great system
OF parks and reservations. Niagara Res
ervation, preserving the American side Of
the falls, cost 81 100000.
The State Forest Reserve, of l.Sl4.55O
acres, is valued at $40,000,00O, but cost
the state approximately only $4,000 600
The Palisades Park Commission has
acquired lands on the Hudson River
from Fort Lee to Piermont, and will in
crease this park land to connect with
Hartman Park and the state reserva-
tions. making a superb stretch of beauti-
full land and riverside for the use Of the
pubic IN perpetuity.
1t is Immediately accessible to a popu-
lation of nearly 100000 people and
consists Of wild forest and mountain
land, laid out with trails and drives and
studded with natural and artificial lakes
OF wonderful beauty. In 1916 it was Wis
tied by 100000 persons Boy Scouts,
working girls and sick children were
greatly improved by living outdoors in
these free camps.
The highest mountain in the state is
Mount Marcy, in the Adirondacks. 1t is
5,344 feet high.
The Catskills average $500 feet in
height.
The Conservation Commission main
tains fifty-two observation stations on
mountain tops. to report fires and to see
that they are combated on private and
pubic lands. 1t supports also six nur-
series, having capacity o. 100000
trees, 100000 being turned out each
year to reforcst lands, and for purchase
at cost for home planting.
The new Erie Canal, now known as
the Barge Canal, opened May, 1918, is
446 miles long, minimum depth IL feet,
maximum width 200 feet. It is built of
concrete etc and operated by electricity. 1t
has tifty-seven locks, and the engineering
problems involved in its construction far
exceed in number those encountered at
the Panama Canal The cost of con.
structon was $4,000 900. 1t connects the
Hudson River with Lake Erie. The GEN.
tennial of its beginning was celebrated
July 4, 1917
The New York State roads in extent
and quality are the best in the world
For YOUR PROTECTION the state
offers:
To protect rural communities there are
nov tour troops oi StdCe ponce, consist
ing of forty-five men each. headed by a
superintendent.
All boys between the ages of sixteen
and nineteen are now required to undergo
military training.
Every minor between sixteen and
twenty-one years of age who does not
speak, read or write the English Ian
guage must attend school until the com.
pletion of fifth grade work
Legislation Is before the Assembly
providing that after January i, 1920. no
older non-English- speaking person can
vote, unless he learns the English Ian
guage and is familiar with the princinles
OF American government. This should
make New York state of English
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-20

" Are
''' TO This Need
5l54f Children eWHh a LauLu
forbaAing Of More hooAou the End -

ways left at the school, and "home work"
IN our sense was unheard of.
l have known teachc swamned with
classes OF fifty or sixty no, left to their
own devices, would divide the class. nut
the faster travellers in one section. the
slower IN another, and give each class
OF twenty-five half days teaching. It
would mean for the teacher longer hours.
but infinitely less nerve strain: and tho
children. taken in smaller lots. would
learn more, and more easily.
Home work is far more serious evil
than part time" If it were the old
fashioned kind of home work and con-
sisted in fetching home the COWS. or
chopping wood, or doing other chores for
parents-that would be one thing. and
wholly beneficial But "home work"
means more lessons added to the five
hour day, which is already quite long
enough. Many parent dislikes to ask
any service of a child because "I have
done my arithmetic And vet home
chores are very valuable part of a
child's education.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-20

During the war state, county, town or
municipal officers and employees who are
members of the National Guard or the
Naval Militia are given indefinite leave
OF absence, receiving from the state the
difference between their usual salary
and that paid in the army or navy, and
upon their return are to be given their
old positions at the same salary.
The New York College of Forestry. at
Syracuse, trains students for scientific
management of forests and for planting,
raising and selling trees and other tim
Der.
The State Institute for the Study OF
Malignant Diseases studies cause. pre-
vention and cure of cancer and allied
diseases free of charge. 1t receives into
ITS hospitals cases of cancer and allied
diseases when patients are unable to pay
tor treatment. This institute may re-
celve legacies and requests for use in
advancing its purposes.
There are 1O7 justices of the Supreme
Court, $50 members of the Assembly and
flfty-seven members of the Senate.