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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-04-25
Two Kinds of Burberry

There three different varieties Of babery commonly plant
ed in Wisconsin which represent two distinct kinds of plant
Cd The tall European barbeny of which there
FORMS the with green leaves and the with purple
leaves. Both of these are dangerous.
GU The low spreading japanese babcuy which harmless
The tall babe1y always be told by its upright
growth to 10 feet high gray branches and the fact that
spnes usually in thees and the red to ppsh berries hang
in clusters There practically difference between the
purple except color leaf Both harbOr the rust
dangerous and should be removed
The Japanese barbery low, spreading much-branched
shrub feet in height the brown branches bearing spine
in place and bright hanging singy
This does not bear the rust therefore harmless and
be safely In recent this has been planted much
than the dangerous Kind
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-04-25

cnlropodlsts In German Army.
Every German regiment has a CHI
ropodist In itn ranks.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-04-25
Eliminate the TAN Barberry

In the food situation possibilities check
wheat and other grain losses by getting rid of this dangerous
babey the State Council of Defense requests that nurseymen
park commissioners, and all others growing tall barbe1y
Immediate steps to destroy these bushes and that be
planted in the state
The State Council is recommending that County Councils Of
Defense take appropriate action in their respective territories and
agricultural agents emergency agents weed commissioners school
officers commercial clubs boy scouts and last but not least the
before Arbor Day that the propagation Of this disease and
transmission to this years crop of grain effectively prevented
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-04-25
MANlTOwOC MARKET

The following are IN current prlc
Jf the various articles OF produce as re
ported for the Pilot on April Is, 1918.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-02-06
BIC HERDS CONE
World War Wastes Europe's
Meat Supply.
American Stock Raisers Cooperate
With Food Administration in Con-
servation Measures.

\ 1t is probable that Europe for many
( Jears after the war will look to a
great extent to America for it's meat
supply.
EurOpe's herds are dwindling under
wars demands faster than they can be
replenished.
When the German armies retired
from occupied portions of France and
Belgium approximately 100000 head
of cattle were appropriated. This adj
dition virtually safeguarded Germany
from cattle shortage other nations now
suffer.
In England some 100000 acres of
grass lands have by compulsory meas
ures been forced into grain production,
thus reducing pasturage and hay lands.
A declining scale of maximum meat
prices for live cattle was ordained in
England, as follows: For September,
$17.76 per hundred pounds; October,
SIPS; November and December,
$16.0S, and for January, $14.40. The
evident intent of this measure was to
drive the beef animals into market as
soon as possible.
According to official French figures,
the cattle of France have decreased to
total of 12,341 900 as compared with
1907, 900 in 1913. Today, due to lack
of forage principally, France is pro-
ducing only one gallon of milk where
before the war two and One-half gal
Ions were produced.
Meantime the United Ste 'es food ad-
ministration has taken ste. to con-
serve our flocks and herds and to in
crease their numbers. The stock breed
ers of this country show a disposition
to cooperate with the government in
this.
For many years it has been a prac-
tice among many of the dairy people
of this country to kill male calves at
birth and in many instances the fe-
males il not needed to replenish their
herds rather than go to the expense of
maturing them into veal. The high
prices of meat caused the virtual dis
continuance of this killing. Another
encouraging fact Is rs per cent Of
calves killed for veal this year were
males. ..s4
Somebody has very aptly said that
the wars Of the world have been won
with grease, meaning that bacon and
lard have been as essential to success
in war as powder, which is true.
The hogs Of Europe have been very
greatly sacrificed to present day needs.
This makes the American burden all
the more heavy and makes doubly es-
sential an increased pork production
in this nation. In Italy grain is now
forbidden to be fed to hogs In Den
mark under recent order one-fourth
of the hogs were ordered to be killed.
1t is estimated that one-half have now
been killed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-02-06
WHITE BEAN LOSING PRESTIGE.
Discarded by Army and Some Sec
tons Except New En-, and.

The white bean has lost it's pres
tige in the army ration, but New
England and the east refuse to adopt
substitutes. The supply departments
or the army and navy report that col
! ored beans are being used extensive
ly and are meeting with great favor
According to reports to the food
Administration, the pinto and other
colored beans are becoming quite
popular" in the west and middle west
as substitute for the common white
bean. In most of the larger cities in
those sections colored beans are used
almost entirely. In the New England
and Atlantic coast states the demand
for the white bean almost exceeds the
supply.
Reports from the two largest white
bean producing states, Michigan and
New York, indicate that this years
crop is far below normal, according
to the food administration In Color
ado the estimated production of col
ored beans exceeds last years crop
by 400 per cent and in New Mexico
by from so to 100 per cent. This is
surplus of more than 5000 cars
above the needs west of the Allie
ghenies.
"Colored beans are at least equal
to white in food value and many
claim that they surpass them in flaw
or the food, administration states.
1.-THE housewife in the east may save
considerable money! by purchasing
colored beans, for they are from 80
to 40 per cent cheaper than the
white. X. P. Kimball, head expert
with the food administration, states
that the supply of colored beans Is
ample to meet our needs"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-02-06
WAR BREAD COSTLY TO
BRITISH GOVERNMENT

Every year the British government
pays $200,000,000 toward the cost OF
that nations war bread. That is the
principal reason why English bread
prices are lower today to the consumer
than In America. Incidentally the
British bread is much poorer than the
American.
Great Britain has taken over all
home grown grain, bought at an arbi-
trary price, and all imported wheat
bought in markets of the world at pre-
vailing prices. This is turned over to
the mills by the government at price
that allows the adulterated war bread
loaf of four pounds to sell at Is cents.
The two pound loaf costs 8 cents, and
the one pound loaf sells for cents
In milling, however, IA per cent.
more flour is extracted from the wheat
than In America. And there Is a COM
pulsory adulteration Of 20 per cent.
and an allowable adulteration of so
per cent.
Compared with American bread, the
British product is only about 60 per
cent. pure at it's best.
In France, under conditions some
what similar, but with a larger extrac-
tion, the four pound loaf sells for is
cents.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-02-06
EUROPE NEEDS FOOD
Food Administration Declares IL is a
Absolute Sin to Waste Food-Food
Has Become Sacred.

Europe is still sending an insistent
call for more food. We must send IL
If the war is to go on efficiently. If
we eat it all we cannot ship it, and
the food administration has already
tried to picture how much that Wheat
is needed by people who will starve If
they do not get it, the food administra-
tion states.
For the least bit of heedlessness
on your part In food conservation some
one somewhere in the world must sui
fer privation," an official statement
declares. 1.-THE food administration
has mastered the problem of Ameri'
cas- food in such way that every
ounce Of food conserved and kept II
the currents of trade goes to an empty
stomach in Europe.
at is an absolute sin to waste food
Food has, become sacred.
"Food means life; it means some
body's life, and sou cannot escape re-
spohsibility.
"There is no waste Of food among
the allied nations"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-02-06
AMERICAN Savings WILL
MEASURE wheat EXPORTS

"We have already exported the
whole Of the surplus Of the 1917 wheat
harvest, over and above the normal de-
mands of our own population. 1t is
necessary, therefore. for the food ad
ministration to restrict export of wheat
so as to retain in the United States
sufficient supplies to carry our own
people until the next harvest.
Therefore all exports of wheat
from now forward are limited entirly
to volume Of saving made by the Amer
lean people in their consumption OF
wheat and wheat products.
"We continued wheat shipments fol
December as far as our situation al
lowed, but even with. all the conserva
ton made we were still unable to load
several hundred thousand tons of food
stuffs urgently required by the allied
nations during the month of December
alone"
HERBERT HOOVER.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-02-06
PATCHES FOR BURNED SKINS.
Discovery of Remedy Easy tO'Get
and Painless in Relieving
Pain.

DR.. Max Stailer of Philadelphia
announces surgical discovery that
should appreciably lessen the sum
total of human pain. He finds that
the membrane of egg shells can be
used as substitute for human skin
in grating operations. This mem
brane is actually the skin of embry-
onic chickens and contains cells SINH
lar to those of human skin. When
placed on a burned surface the cells
multiply and the membrane spreads
until eventually it joins the uldes-
troyed surface and replaces the burn
ed area. DR.. Staller tried his first
experiment. on woman suffering
from severe burns on the upper part
of the body. No one could be found
at the moment willing to part with
enough skin for grating purposes,
and so DIR. Staller procured several
dozen fresh eggs, cut the membrane
into small pieces and applied them
in the usual way. The experiment
was completely successful. The new
skin appears to be finer than the
human skin, but strong and healthy.
Perhaps DR.. Stailer has done more
than he supposes. II the new skin Is
actually finer than the old there may
be a chance for Ladder who are in
quest of. beauty to repat the raw
ages of time by an entirely new skin
of the chicken variety. The remov-
al of the old skin would OF course
be painful, but everything is compar-
alive and what can be more painful
than the defacing hand of timer
Argonaut.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-02-06
SEIZURE OF HOUSEWIVES
FOOD STOCKS IMPOSSIBLE

The government has never cOnsid-
cred any plan of Selling foodstuffs
owned by househOlders. Nor is there
any policy of this kind suggested for
the future.
In spite of this fact, the United
States food administration has been
obliged repeatedly to issue official de-
malls of rumors that the government
intends communicating preserves ana
canned goods put up in American
homes.
These rumors were originated partly
by pro-German propagandists and part
ly by conscienceless grafters, who
sought to profit through buying from
misinformed housewives.
The year 1918 will see home canning
and preserving practiced on greater
scale than ever before in the nations
history, officials In Washington believe
And they are assuring all patriotic
housewives that foods so saved are
theirs, and theirs alone.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-02-06
Wait for Warmer Weathre.

There seems to be a friendly scrap
on among some of the democratic
newspapers of the state over the kind
of man who must be nominated for
governor on the democratic ticket
next year. Some say it must be dry
and others that he must not be too
dry. Since the voters are to decide
that in the primary, how would it be
for the extremists on both sides to
keep their shirts on, especially in
this below zero weather, says the
Mount Pleasant Free Press.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-02-06

To The Boys and Girls Of /
Winneshiek County
asked by the Iowa State Dairy Asso
citation help promote and finance Dairy Calf Club for the
County, and accepted the labor and responsibility
connection with the proposition and asking both
boys and girls assist in making it success 8
The Dairy Calf Club first taken up in Iowa
1917 supervision of the Iowa State Dairy Assoca
tion 1t is nationwide movement for the conservation of
dairy calves lin order dairy
being slaughtered by the nations of the world has
France alone will need after
war; and Germany and Austria hundreds of thousands
Good dairy cows will highest priced world has
known in short time. .
The protection of the boy or girl given consida-
ton sold the actual purchase price
plus They remain the possession of
the children eighteen AT the end of this
calf is entered show in which prizes offered
girl who has made the greatest development in their
At this time each member the choice of either
receiving their profit the difference between the selling price
and the amount note retaining the calf their prop
erty by paying the amount of the note
Each boy girl allowed make their choice of breed,
understanding that all abide by the choice of
the majority The calves purchased from between four
months old by representative of the Dairy Asso
citation and the community where the calves
go.
The distribution of said calves will be by lot each calf will
be tagged with and the club members will draw for
duplicate numbers before date of delivery. 9
The experience clubs other counties is that calves
old bout
PAYMENT:
Note will be taken for the cost price at per
cent interest due in eight months. In calf
dies the will be cancelled.
Delivery be made uul warm weather in the spring,
probably not before April
Boys and Girls We want you with 1t is good prop
ositon We ask the creameres and dairymen give the
movement lift 1t will benefit ALL Are you with us'
Call write for application blanks.
III
: NATIONAL BANK OF DEBORAH /;
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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-02-06
APPENDICITIS AND BELTS.
Fifteen Years Ago Abdominal Trou-
sles Were Not so Serious as
Now; Back to "Galluses''

New York, Jan. 8.-After examin-
ing mores than 81 90, 900 drafted men,
local physicians have come to the
conclusion that a certain famous Ro-
chester surgeon was right when he
condemned the modern practice of
wearing belts. The chief of one of
the examining boards today summar-
lied the opinions arrived at by him
self and his fellow physicians.
Until we were forced to examine
hundreds Of thousands of men," he
said, II never took the question seri-
ously of whether it vas better to
wear belt or suspenders. Now / knew
that this is vital question and that
the innocent belt is responsible for
many of the abdominal troubles so
prevalent in this country.
Start at the beginning. Fifteen
years ago you hardly ever heard of
appendicitis. Fifteen year ago nearly
90 per cent of American men wore
domens free AID uncontrolled. Then
came the fad of wearing belts and
appendicitis operations became more
common. Before the advent Of the
belt you seldom heard of stomach
troubles and when they did happen
they were usually the result of over
Indulgence. Nowadays more men are
wearing belts than wear suspenders
and it is almost the exception to find
a man who has no trouble with his
abdominal regions.
There is 40 excuse for using
belt to keep the trousers up and con-
scrict the stomach. 1t is almost dis
loyal to wear belts since cloth con-
servation was demanded by the gov
eminent, calls for the elimination of
cuffs about the ankles. Smart men
all know that the best way to make
cuffless trousers look right is to hold
them up with suspenders. They avoid
the 'suspendered look by wearing
the uader-the shirt invisible kind
which work in secret, as it were.
Then everyone knows that shoulders
we're given men to carry weight from.
There are more than 20,000,000 sol
diers in the field who carry practic-
ally all their equipment on various
kinds of suspenders, even their cart
ridge belts being suspended from
their shoulders.
American men should drop the
belt. Suspenders will mean increased
efficiency, better. health and longer
lives, and l expect to see them in
crease it's use. They were good
enough for our fathers and now we
know the odd gentlemen weren't
so foolish as we thought"
Proof that this physicians state
ments ring true are afforded by
the increased number of New York
ers who are forsaking belts and 60
ing in for better digestions and few
er surgical operations.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-02-06
WHEAT-CORN YEAST BREAD.

Wheat-corn bread Is more nutritious
than bread baked with wheat flour
alone. Thousands OF American fam
lilies today are using this mixed flour
bread, and in so doing are enabling
America to provide more wheat -four
for the allies. Here's a tested recipe
for this bread: Take one and a half
cups of milk, water or q mixture of
the two; one-half cake compressed
yeast, one and half teaspoons salt,
one tablespoon sugar, one tablespoon
of fat If desired, one cup cornmeal
and two cups wheat flour.
Pit one and half cups of water,
the cornmeal, salt. sugar and fat az
used) into a double boiler and cook
twenty minutes. The water is suffi-
Client only to soften the meal a little.
Allow the meal to cool to about the
temperature of the room and add the
-four and yeast mixed with the rest
of the water. Knead thoroughly,
make into loaf, place in pan of stand
ard size, allow to rise until nearly
fills the pan and bake As or 80 min
utes. 1t Is hardly practicable to use
a greater percentage Of cornmeal than
this even In emergencies, for bread so
made differs very little from baked
mush. Less cornmeal can be used
and In sucn case the general meth
cd given above may be followed.
1t is possible to make yeast raised
corn bread without first cooking the
cornmeal. In this case not more than
one cupfui Of meal should be used to
four cupfuls Of flour. In other re-
spects Tie bread is mixed and baked
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-02-06
ORIGINAL NOTICE.

In the District Court of Iowa, in and
for lWinneshiek County.
Emma Miller, Plaintiff, VS.. Ole Chris
topherson, Martin Christopher
son, Mable Christopherson, his
wife, Clara Longvold, SEVERN
sLongvold, her husband, Karn
Maria Ward, William Ward, her
husband. AmasA Miller, husband
of Emma Miller, Otto Christie
pherson. Edward Christopher
son. Mrs. Edward Christopher
son his wife, and the unknown
heirs of Edward Christopherson.
DEBORAH State Bank, Admins
traitor of the estate Of A. l..
HaakeIson, deceased, C. Chris
ten, administrator of the estate
of Gilbert Christopherson, de-
ceased, Carl Gerhard Christie
pherson, Defendants.
To the above named defendants and
each of you:
You are hereby notified that there
is now on file in the office of the
clerk of the District Court of Iowa, in
and for Winneshiek county, petit
ton in equity Of the above named
plaintiff, claiming that she is the
daughter of Martha Christopherson
and Gilbert ChristophersoI, deceased,
and claiming that the defendant Ed
ward Christophersol, that piaintiff
and the defendants Karn Maria
Ward, Clara Longvold, Ole
Christopherson. Martin Christie
pherson and Otto Christopherson are
each entitled to an equal undivided
interest in and to two-thirds share
in and to lots four, five, six, seven,
eight and nine, in block nine in Paine
& O'Colnor's Addition to the city OF
DEBORAH, Iowa, after the payment OF
costs and attorney fees in this action
and that said defendants last named
are each entitled share and share
alike to an undivided interest in and
to lot three of said block nine, after
the payment of debts owed by the
said Gilbert Christopherson at the
time of his death, funeral expenses,
costs and attorneys fees in the pro-
bate case, after deducting hfty dol
lar bequest to the said Clara Long
void AID to Carl Gerhard Christie
pherson in the sum of One Hundred
uloo ooho
from the shares of the parties as
above alleged in and to said real es-
tate and asking that partition be
made and that if the same cannot be
equitably divided then that sale OF
all of such premises be ordered. eth
er at public or private sale, and d.
vision of the proceeds made be-
tween said defendants according to
their respective shares and for an at
torneys fee and costs OF said action
and that the same be made lien up
on the respective shares of the par
ties in the above described premises
in proportion to their interests and
for such other and further relief as
NAV be deemed equitable il the pre-
misses.
Now therefore, unless you appear
thereto and defend on or before noon
of the second day of the next term OF
said District Court, to be held at the
court house in DEBORAH, Iowa, COM
mencing on Monday the Attn day Oh
February, A. ID. 1918, your default
will be entered and judgment rem
dered against you in accordance with
the prayer OF said petition.
Il. n. ACRES,
"A Attorney for Plaintiff.
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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-02-06
NUTRITIOUS CORN BREAD,

One New York hotel has arranged
thoroughly patriotic corn bread
recipe. 1t combines cornmeal with
rye flour, both Of which are being con-
sumed In greater quantities this year
In order to release wheat -four for the
allied nations. This recipe fills a
large pan-16 by % inches-and con-
tains the following ingredients: One
quart milk, four ounces butter substl-
tute, ten ounces light syrup or honey,
three eggs, pinch salt. two pounds
cornmeal, one pound rye -four and two
ounces baking powder.
/ The butter and syrup are thorough
~ mixed. Then add the eggs gradual
ly, pour in the milk, then add the rye
-four mixed with the cornmea) and
baking p0wder. Bake In q hnr ny~~
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-02-06

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