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The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-05
ing to say to Congress:


 ing to say to Congress:
 Gentlemen, you have invested more money in a railroad into the Interior of Alaska by over 100 per cent than all of the land north of the Gulf of Mexico and west of the Mississippi cost you.
 When you paid old Napper Tandy $15,000,0O0 for the French title to Louisiana, you made a mighty fine investment, but when you put s35,OOO,O0O into this Alas kan railroad you made better one, if you will only do as you did with your Louisiana purchase develop the latent resources and possibii- ties.
 "You spent hundreds of millions opening up the Mississippi river to navigation and on its levees and jetties. You have spent literally billions of dollars on public works on your S15.0O0,OO0 purchase, to hold it, to protect it, to make it profitable.
 "Now here is your s35,0OO, 900 investment.
 You've got a railroad without traffic.
 You must have traffic for it.
 You can't get that unless you develop feeders for your line. To develop these there must be cheap power.
 Power can be transmitted more cheaply over a copper wire than on rails through an unsettled noun tainous district. Build transmission lines from Lignite into the Kantsh- ma, the White river, the Gibbon, the Rampant, the Hot Springs, the Fairbanks and other districts and uuli lHe Codi IlSul llleIe WueIe IL comes out of the ground to create that power.
 Do that and then build a shelter at Nenana and you will have more traffic than your rails can carry. i Fairbanks mines will all be re- opened then. Fairbanks population will grow by leaps and bounds. Her people will need food to eat, clothes to wear, automobiles to drive over her splendid highways, steel for her new skyscraper buildings, her high schools and her colleges, her big hurrying, bustling, thriving, thous- ands that will line her magnificently paved streets; all these your rail road must haul. Her farmers will need all kinds of farm machinery and will be shipping their produce to Nenana to feed the smelter em- ployes.
 "Your railroad will be carrying goods to Fairbanks and coal to Fair banks and people to Fairbanks, and will be hauling the ore to be smelt- ed back to Nenana (instead of empty cars). At Nenana these gold and silver and tungsten ores will be converted into money, for the enrichment of Fairbanks people.
 And all Nenana asks for is the shelter end the payroll of that shelter"
 Now, neighbor Thompson, don't you think it would be better for both communities, if we stopped this tumble-bug game of calling hard names and got down to brass tacks and pulled together for the benefit of not only Fairbanks and Nenana, but the whole of the In- terior of Alaska. ~ ..:: | Nenana has no hard feelings against Fairbanks.
 Nearly all of us are Fairbanksans We are just as gloriously anxious i that Fairbanks shall grow to be great as we are that Nenana shall not perish when the construction payroll is exhausted We need you. You need us. We each need the other and both need
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-05

ball rolling for a government smelt- CT, nice little ball to start rolling no matter where it stops, if we can only keep it from getting run over and crushed.
 A government owned and operate, Ii smelter would be big thing for the Interior. The biggest thing, ever. for the permanent develop ment of the mining interests of Alaska. And particularly beneficial to Fairbanks.
 But Thompson, with the short vision of the tumble bug, would have us believe that
 This is only railroad town. It will always be a railroad town. It will never be any better than its payroll. The railroad payroll will be growing constantly smaller" and this is exactly what your News Miner says and believes.
 But MT. Browne added: If you want permanent and prosperous town you must get other payrolls beside the railroads. Why not go out after government owned and operated smelter?"
 And therein lies the sum of his offending.
 Thompson is frightened. or pre- tends to be.
 He screams with rage
 He sees neither above, around or through that little ball we have started rolling.
 He cannot see that if the ball continues to roll it will get bigger and bigger and finally become a reality of enormous importance.
 What means could possibly be sug- gested that would be more certain to revive Fairbanks moribund min ing interests?
 All Thompson can see, however, is that prosperity for Nenana means diversity for Fairbanks.
 Nothing could be further from the truth.
 O. man, man, man, dear! Can't you see that if a government-owned shelter should come to the Interior it would help Fairbanks, no matter where it is located?
 Nenana might not be the logical nor the best place for it. It might possibly be better located at Fair banks. or at Gibbon, or at the mouth of Lignite, or over near the coast. near Matanuska.
 No matter where it was located Ii 1t was nearer than the nearest trust smelter it would not fail to benefit Fairbanks in great degree. The nearer the better, provided it IS cheaper to haul coal than ore. But of course, it isn't because of the empty back haul.
 Of course Nenana wants that shelter. and is going after it with all the energy of which we are cap- able.
 We are going to go after it in perfectly legitimate logical way.
 We are going to set forth to Congress the great need of cheap and economical method for recov- ering the values in Interior ores, not only the gold ores of the Fairbanks district, but the galena ores of the Rampant district, the tin ores of the Hot Springs district. the tune- sten ores of tn Kantishna, tn copper and the molybdenite of the Mckinley Park region. and all the other ores with which nature has so plentifully endowed the Interior.
 Then we are going to point out the necessity for big electri. power plant at the coal deposits on Lignite creek to help develop these big ore deposits, by taking cheap power over to them on copper transmission lines, and we are go-
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-11-27
THEY WANT TO GET MARRIED.
Matrimonial Fever Is Sweeping
Over HunIand.

New York, Nov. 20.-Martial
ardor has been supplanted by mar
ital zeal in Germany. This is evi-
denced by the advertising columns
of German newspapers received here
Matrimonial ads cover whole
pages and inserted by people of all
ages and walks of life.
A peculiar feature of these adj
yertisements is that many make ap.
peals for husbands or wives for re-
iatives. Parents, brothers, sisters
and even friends of those who seek
mates invite correspondence from
those matrimonially inclined.
War invalids, wealthy physicians,
manufactures and rich widows are
among those who resort to publicity.
One advertiser says he is a
widower who has poroperty amount
ing to several million marks. He
admits he is 5S years old but says
,he looks younger"
A physician who has an annual
income of 100000 marks seeks to
arrange a meeting with "a beautiful,
stately woman, object matrimony.'
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-11-27
TWICE TOLD TESTIMONY.
DEBORAH People Are Doing All The,
Can for Fellow Sufferers.

DEBORAH testimony has been pub
lished to prove the merit OF Doan's
Kidney Pills to others in DEBORAH
who suffer from bad backs and kid
ney ills. Lest any sufferer doubt this
evidence of merit, we produce con-
firmed proof-statements from De-
corah people who again endorse
Doan's Kidney Pills-confirm their
former testimony. Here's a case:
Edw. b. Herwig, barber, Maple
Ave., DEBORAH, says: II stand a great
deal and this strains my back. My
back ached terribly and the kidney
secretions were profuse and I was
tired out many times before the day
was half over The only thing that
relieved me in any way was Doa1's
Kidney Pills, procured from Wang.
lers' Pharmacy. They surely did their
work well and ! can't say enough
for them.
OVER THREE YEARS LATER
Mr.. Herwig said: "My former en-
of Doan's Kidney Pills
holds good. use Doal's when I have
my kidney ailments and they always
TX me up in quick order"
60c at all dealers. Foster-Milburn
TO-. Buffalo, N. Y.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-11-27
A Novel Halloween Stunt.

A number of the boys gathered at
the Quinn barber shop in West Union
Friday evening, October 81 to make
plans for some Halloween stunts.
Mr.. Quinn listened to the plans and
then suggested that instead Of des-
troying property they carry large
pile of wood belonging to Miss Nellie
Green up to her fiat and pile it in the
hall. When the work had been COM
pleted and the wood was in neat
pile in the hall Miss Green came out
and thanked the boys very kindly
for their work, and all concluded
they had pulled off novel Hallow-
cen stunt. West Unicn Gazette.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-11-27
New Way of Getting Booze,

] Waterloo, Ia, Nov. 16-Display
of stars by young men posing as
deputy sheriffs has been the means
of procuring liquor from illegal
transporters and also blackma,l
money, according to information
which has come to Sheriff d. B. Hen
derson.
The official badges were bought
from an out of town house dealing
in policemen's supplies.
1t is reported young man who
paraded as deputy sheriff and dis
played star, stopped an automo1
bile a few days ago and compelled
the driver to turn over the cargo:
The phoney sleuth took the booze
home for his own consumption.
In another instance, on threat of
deputy sheriff, compelled young
man from Oelwein who came to call
on a young Waterloo wodow to
shell out" $40. The demand for
money was made under threat of
revelation Of some sort which might
the visitor.
Mr.. Henderson says he has re-
covered three stars which have been
illegally worn. He gives notice that
the next violator will be prosecuted
to the limit of the law for imper-
sonating an officer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-11-27
Given IS Hours to Leave.

The Rev. John Reichart, trouble.
some pastor of a German church at
Lowden, Iowa, was taken in hand
by a crowd of peace celebrants and
given 4S hours in which to leave
town. The minister promised to get
Sut, but didn't, and had to be steered
cut in an auto into the next county.
Some of those sanity ours have a
full dose coming to them, despite
their chuckling and ranting now
about loving the flag so dearly all
Me time! Just as though every COM
munity doesn't know who its yellow
ones Waukon Democrat.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-11-27
Shirt Wife Made for Him Drawn by
Yank i'm France.

English, Ind-Mrs. Omer L. Rob
erson, wife of soldier in France
several months ago made a shirt for
the United States army quartermas,
ter's department. At the time her
> husband was at home. He laughingly
remarked he might possibly wear the
very shirt when he Joined the army
and she had better make second
one, as he would need two. Mrs.
Robertson, however, returned the
materials she had to the quarter
masters depot with the one shirt
she had made, properly tagged.
Not long ago Robertson landed in
France. He drew supplies Of cloth
ing, and one of the shirts issued to
him was the one made by his wife.
He has returned to her the tag she
placed upon it when sending it TO
the quartermaster's depot.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-11-27
WELCOME OVERSEAS BOYS.
Dubuque Plans Series of Demon
strations for Returning Soldiers.

Dubuque, Iowa.-Plans for cele-
brations for returning Dubuque sol
diers are being discussed by mem
bers of the commercial club and ac-
cording to preliminary arrangements,
the boys who left Dubuque for the
front will have the time of their
lives when they are mustered out.
Especial efforts will be made II
honor the local men who are mem
bers of the famous Rainbow division,
which bore the brunt of the early
American fighting in France. Under
the plans every contingent will be
honored as it arrives in the city
from camp or abroad.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-11-27
Said He Was Some Frenchman.

Francois deLacqueseaux-that Is
what he called himself, the youth
with the wondrous story, who has
been working in the vicinity of Sum-
ner the past couple weeks and who
disappeared suddenly on Friday. He
claimed to be a veteran of the Europ-
can war and member of the French
flying corps. He had been wounded
times without number, had lost his
entire family during the conflict and
had tale that held his listeners
spellbound.
Saturday night word came to a2-
prehend him for breaking into and
robbing box car at New Hampton
recently. 1t is understood that he
has since been taken at Oelwein.
When this news began to flicker
out, his erstwhile auditors began at
once to pick flaws in his story, even
the one in which he fell 1000 feet
in an airplane and escaped from the
wreckage to tell the story.
Advices from Oelwein disclose the
further fact that the notorious
French soldier" who entertained
Sumner last week, has since his ar
rest there developed to be dope
fiend. Gazette.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-11-27
1t Was Written Before the War End
ed and He Tells About the Good
Work of the Americans
Over There
WAS PLEASED TO SEE
AMERICAN TRAINS THERE
Leo Paine's Company Was i'm the
Same Big Drive That His
Company Was i'm When
They Routed the Ger
mans.
Somewhere in France

|
Dear Folks:
Well here we are again. Got the
Huns on the run at one place Sept
| IL and are now ready to give them
another start on another sector. Our
big guns sure tore up the trenches
and the infantry boys said We fired
as pretty barrage as they had ever
seen. | found this sheet of paper in
their trenches, so it is sort of a
souvenir. You should see how their
trenches are fixed Had been there
| for four years in those trenches. ]
have a few buttons that / got, but
that is all / kept, as fellow has too
blamed much to lug along the way it
is, now. We have been hiking four
tnights and resting during the days.
The first night we hiked about Is
miles. Can hear the roar of the big
guns all thesscme now days and see
signal lights during the night. Leo
Payne's outfit was in the same drive
we were in, but / did not get to see
him. The way understand the Huns
are being driven back all along the
lines to beat the band and / don't
think it will be many more years be-
fore we get back.
In the drive we started the boys
on there was only six German artil-
lery shells fired on the German side
after we commenced our noise, 50
naturally we had no causalties in our
bunch. There were few shells fired
before we began but / guess our
regiment only had three men killed.
/ guess.
| The United States has a railroad
running up about one-half mile
from here, and it sure seems good to
see those big engies run up here
after seeing those dinky French
trains. The best of it all is they all
have U. S. printed in big letters or
them. 1t rained quite bit here late.
ly, so it isn't bit nice. just heard
they had Metz surrounded, and thai
lis big railroad center in Germany
Oh, you should see the prisoners they
are capturing. think i will be back
in year more, at least, if it contin-
ues the way they say it is going, sc
don't worry. ! see by the paper they
have got the ground where the big
gun was firing from that bombarded
Paris. Say write me when you get
my Liberty Bonds. They were paid
up in July and were to be sent 70
you.
Well have nothing more to write
only to let you know / am we'll and
right in the middle of it. l am writ
ing on my knees, so excuse scribbl-
ing, if you can read it,,
So long for now,
Pvt. GUY r. HARDWOOD.
1913 II. F. A. Battery +.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-11-27
Notice to Patrons.

Owing to the death OF Ludwig c.
Winger a member of the firm OF
Winger Bros, shoe merchants, in De-
corah, it becomes necessary in the
probate of his estate that all ac-
counts owing to the said firm of
Winger Bros, be adjusted at once.
All persons indebted to said firm are
therefore requested to call and make
payment to Jacob Winger, surviving
partner, at the store one door north
OF DEBORAH Posten Building.
JACOB WINGER,
Bertha NJ. Winger, Administrators
of estate OF Ludwig c. Winger, De-
ceased. 47-3w.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-11-27
Thief Fills Gas Tank; Can't Star
Machine.

Waterloo, IA. F. Gates, presi
dent of the Waterloo Business col
lege, is feeling no resentment toward
the thief, who stole his auto Satur-
day.
Gates is looking for him to express
his thanks personally for favors be-
slowed.
The car was found near filing
station several blocks from Mr.. Gates
residence, with the tank filled to
Overlooking with gasoline. 1t was
almost empty when Mr.. Gates ran It
into his garage Friday night. An ex-
pensive robe also was left in the car.
1t is supposed the thief prepared
for long journey and was unable
to start the car afterward.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-11-27
SORGHUM PRODUCED HERE.
County Agent Watrud Gives Sum.
mary of Production i'm Winnie
Sbiek.


Winneshiek county has a large
production of sorgum syrup. Many
office callers asked the question re-
garding the amount of sorghum pro-
duced in Winneshiek county this
year. At this time, We are in a po-
sition to report on a survey which
was made in ascertaining same. A
QUESTIONABLE was sent out to forty
five cane mill owners. 1t was sent to
forty within the county and five
outside the county who did custom
work for Winneshiek county farm
ers. Twenty-Five of these forth-fve
missionaries were returned, nr
practically two-thirds. The question
naire was returned from large and
small operators in about the same
proportion as would be indicated b.
those who did not report. The twer-
ty-nine report production of 1907
gallons. This production was made
from an estimated acreage of 124
acres. Using these figures as repre-
senting approximately two-thirds OF
the total production of the county,
we have the following figures: Ap-
proximately 10000 gallons were then
produced in Winneshiek county on
a area of about 1S6 acres. Since the
acreage is very small, it is difficult
for farmer to make an estimate
that is of much value. We know that
these estimates invariably run high
since they generally deal in fractions
of an acre. Granting that this acre
age is large, we can assume that the
yield of sorghum syrup of about
1000 gallons per acre.
Again Winneshiek county deserv-
es recognition in going over the top
in doing its bit toward increasing
the production of sweets. 1900 gal
Ions of sorghum syrup is an equiva-
lent to 100000 pounds or 70 tons of
sugar in sweetening value. Besides
it's value as conservation war meas
ure, it has an actual economic value
to the people in the county of $780,
10000.
A campaign was waged all fall TO
assist in the selection and saving of
cane seed for the 1919 sorghum
crop. Seed was selected from the
highest sap-producing pieces of cane
to the extent that sufficient seed has
been saved within the county for a
very large increased planting next
year. This seed selected, will not only
mean that most of our cane next
year will be planted from high pro-
ducing strains, but also from locally
produced seed. If this seed would be
planted earlier than was the case on
most farms last spring due to the
large amount of extra work called
for with less help, much larger sap
will be produced which will result
I'm higher quality sorghum as well
as larger production per acre.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-11-27
Sells $4,000 Pounds of Popcorn for
Nearly $1,000.

Waterloo, Ia.-Twelve thousand
sounds of popcorn from four acres
which sold in Chicago for total OF
1890, is the record of F. B. Har-
mon along one line of his intensified
farming program, according to wore
which has come to w. F. PARROT
county food administrator.
Mr.. Harmon lives at the southern,
edge of Black Hawk county. He hoed
the plants once, cultivated them
seven times and removed the suckers
four times. He allowed only three
clean stalks to grow in a hill. The
yield was nearly sixty-three bushels
an acre and the corn sold for 16
cents pound.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-11-27
is Steers Average $500 a Head.

Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 20.-A
herd of fifteen Hereford steers from
Eureka, Kansas, sold this morning
at the local stock yards for $500
Per hundredweight, a new high re-
cord. The best previous price paid at
Kansas City is said by officials to be
$3.50. These Kansas steers aver
aged between 1850 and 100
pounds each, bringing around $500 d
head. They were raised entirely on
alfalfa, cottonseed cake and grass,
having been fed no corn whatever,
according to the owner.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-11-27
His Potato Crop Yields Average of
$50 Bushels an Acre.

Charles City, Iowa, "A record
war garden yield of potatoes was
made this year by Frank Harrison
in his garden at Nashua. One-forty-
ninth of an acre was planted to
White Lady Finger potatoes, plant
ed in rows, and from this there was
harvested seventeen bushels of po-
tatoes or the equivalent of $40 bu-
shells to the acre. And this variety is
not usually considered prolific
yielder. Several of these potatoes
were large enough for one meal for
two people. The garden was well fer
Allied, partly by wood ashes.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-11-27
Let Me Cry Your Sale.

l have decided to take up the
general farm auctioneering and viii
be pleased to confer with any farm
er contemplating sale this fall or
winter. l will guarantee satisfac-
ton, or no pay. Write or call on ME
for terms.
o. B. JOSVANGER,
r 5, DEBORAH, Iowa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-11-27
Attention Car Owners.

! have now moved into my new
location where / am able to store a
great number OF batteries for win
ter, ] also have man in charge of
this department who will be glad to
call for your battery at any time.
Exide Battery Service.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-11-27
NOTICE.

Have got few mills and towers
and will sell at bargain if taken
soon, so we can get them set up be-
fore bad weather.
C. e. MCKINNEY,
47-2w. DEBORAH, Iowa.
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