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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-02-12
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS ME-
MORTAL.
Meeting OF Committee Called For
Saturday, Feb. is.

At meeting of the Citizens Com
mittee last Thursday evening it was
decided to call a meeting of the
County Committee at the Court
House, Saturday, February IS, at
1870 p. m. to arrange for carrying
out the plans adopted by the mass
meeting of January 7, 1919.
A general invitation is extended
to all citizens of the County as this
is a matter in which all are intor-
ested.
1t seems that many counties are
taking up the idea as first suggest
ed by Winneshiek county.
The Des Moines Capital of Febru-
airy s, makes the following suggest
ion:
Every county in the state will
build soldiers memorial, and it
should be done as soon as possible.
After the civil war monuments
should have been built, but this
patriotic matter was postponed from
time to time, and in many counties
no monuments were built to civil
war veterans. This experience must
not be repeated in connection with
our own soldiers"
Polk county, we understand is
planning to put up S500,000.OO art
building and in addition expects to
raise $200,00O.0O as a maintenance
fund. 10
The editor of the American City
magazine, published in New York
City has written Mr.. E. J. Hook for
detailed information regarding the
Winneshiek County idea of Me-
mortal.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-02-12
DISTRICT COURT MATTERS.
Case of A. LurOs VS.. Ed Il. Hovden
Opened Monday Before Jury.

The district court is still grinding
The first jury case was that of Henry
Breitsprecher administrator of the
estate of Henry Breitsprecher, de-
ceased VS.. The Ossian State Bank,
defendant, Fred j. Figge, executor
estate of Mari Breitsprecher, de-
ceased. The jury returned the follow
ing verdict: eve the jury find for
plaintiff in the sum of $1525.33,
and we the jury, find for defendant,
Fred j. Figge, executor of will of
Mari Breitsprecher, in the sum of
$762.67.
In the matter of Will Roman VS..
the Iowa Livestock Insurance Co.
the case was withdrawn without
prejudice. Judgement against plain
tiff for costs.
Genevra Minty VS.. Perrin Minty
ct al. Sale real estate by referee to
c. w. Fifield approved. Deed from
said referee to Fifield approved. At
tOrney fee of A. E. Baker fixed at
$136. Referee fee fixed at 500. Re-
port of referee approved and referee
to be discharged and bond exoner-
ated upon payment of fees and costs
and filing vouchers showing distri-
button. q.
Exchange State Bank of Lime
Springs, Iowa, VS.. John A. Vessel
and Agnes r. Vessel. Default
against all defendants for the sum
of S54.2O, interest at per cent and
costs. Decree of foreclosure and
sale against both defendants as
prayed.
A jury was secured Saturday in
the case of Austin Luros VS. Ed X.
Hovden, and the trial opened Mon
day afternoon. E. r. Acres and
Frank Sayre appear for Luros and
E. w. Cutting for Hovden. The case
is brought by Luros for commission
on land sales and wages.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-02-12
Soldier Takes Bride.

Last Wednesday morning at nine
o'clock at the Catholic church in
Harmony, Mimi, Miss Eva Whalen
became the bride of Sergeant James
Casey. They were attended by Miss
Dougherty, neice of the bride and
Robert Welch, cousin of the groom.
Rev. Father Tebeau, of Plymouth
Rock performed the ceremony. The
bride is daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thos. Whalen, of Harmony. She is
a young lady of grace and refinement
and has a host of admiring friends.
The groom is son Of Michael Casey,
of Bluffton township and was born
and grew to young manhood there.
Sergeant Casey is still in army SER
vice and is stationed at Camp Hola-
bird, Maryland. He is one of Winnie
shiek county's fine young men OF
high integrity and worth. Sergeant
Casey returned to duties at Camp
Holabird last night. The many
friends of these young people join
with us in extending congratulations
and best wishes.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-02-12
Death of Edwin HauSen.

Edwin Haugen, the youngest son
of Supervisor o. G.. Haugeh, passed
away Saturday evening at the family
home in Springfield township. He
had been ill for about a year with
tuberculosis, and recent attack OF
influenza caused his death. The de-
ceased was born Dec. 10, 1898, in
Springfield township, where he had
always made his home. He is, sur
vived by his father, three sisters and
two brothers. He was fine young
man and was beloved by all who
knew him and his death brings sor-
row to all. The funeral services will
be held this Wednesday afternoon
at one o'clock from the home and
at two o'clock from the Washington
Prairie church. Rev. Paul koren will
officiate.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-02-12
VIII Re Married Today.

This Wednesday afternoon at two
O'Clock at the home of the brides
mother. Mrs. II. l.. Hanson in Canoe
township occurs the marriage OF her
daughter Alma Christina to MI.
Ernest William Vine. Miss Amanda
Hanson VIII be the bridesmaid and
Theo. Hanson best man. The cere-
mony will be performed by Rev. ..
Glesne, of the Norwegian church OF
DEBORAH. The bride is one of Win
neshiek county's very best young
women, a young lady of grace and
refinement and her friends are
legion. The husband of her choice
is a son of Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Vine,
of Madison township, and is young
man of high integrity and worth, and
one of the county's prominent young
farmers. After the ceremony we'd
ding dinner will be served to i'm
mediate relatives at the home OF the
brides mother. The happy young
couple will make their home on the
T. IT. Istad farm in Madison toWh-
ship, where the best wishes OF most
of friends go with them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-02-12
DID 55.667.97 BUSINESS.
DecCrah Equity association Shipped
9,731 Head Stock During 1913

The Winneshiek Equity Co-opera,
tive Association, under the manage
ment of E. w. OXley, of this city,
transacted a very large business
during the past year in DEBORAH,
shipping $S55,667.S7 worth of live
stock.
The association shipped 1871
head of stock, as follows: 1850 head
of cattle, 15,304 head of hogs and
1867 sheep. All Of these shipments
were made out of DEBORAH over the
Rock Island road, and consisted of
1873 cars of cattle, 100 cars of hogs
and IL cars of sheep.
The huge sum paid out by the as
ISOLATION speaks well for Winneshiek
county as one of the leading live
stock counties of the country. If the
sum total of all the other stock ship
ments out of the county by other
buyers and private individuals dur
ing the past year was totaled up, the
sum would be staggering.
During December Manager Oxley
sent out one shipment of stock that
brought in the neighborhood of
100000. The association is in ex-
cellent shape and Manager Oxley
predicts a bigger business this year
than any since the. association was
formed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-02-12
WILLsIE's DUROC JERSEY SALE
40 Head Sold Jan. %, Best to Enter
Sale Ring This Year.

The following is taken from the
Wisconsin Farmer in reference to
the big sale of Duroc gifts held by
Geo H. Willsie at Prosper, Mimi:
The 46 head of bred Duroc gifts
sold by Geo. H. Willsie, Prosper,
Mimi, January 25th were the best
we have seen enter the sale ring
this year. While the general aver
age was not as large as the sale Of
fering would warrant it was sucn
that man can raise good Durocs
and still make money. The 46, every
one a spring gilt, averaged SIP.
The top was $3.50 sold for the bene-
fit of the Red Cross. A few breeders
were present or represented and they
made purchases that cannot be
duplicated at the price that they
paid. AS stated above, it was the best
gilt offering we have seen this year
and the buyers are going to be boost
ers for Willsie. H. o. Teller did an
excellent job on the block. Note the
uniformity of the prices paid. The
complete list follows:
No. 1, Clarence George, Evansville,
Wis, 1925; 2, Chas Mckay, Har-
mony, Minn.,$1O5; 3, H. w. Mueller
River Falls, Wis, $107.50; 4, w. H.
Wescott, Pennington, Mimi, $102.50
., c. Grimm, DEBORAH, Ia, SOL; 6,
E. A. Headington, Prosper, Mimi,
$3.50; Z, P. w. Hank, Rochester,
Mimi, S100; s, L. Whalen, Har-
mony, MINI. ,s105; 9, Urban Wha1en,
Cresco, Ia, 500; 10, NJ. ID. Whitney,
DEBORAH, Ia, $50; II, Adolph Knut-
son, Canton, Mimi, $50; u, Abe
Pierce, Prosper, Mimi, S112.50; 10,
E. A. Headington, 500; IA, H. c.
Hjerleid, DEBORAH, Ia, sos; Is,
Abe Pierce, 800; 16, Chas. Mckay,
S137.50: II, Urban Whalen, $117.-
so; IS, w. F. Ryan, Cresco, Ia,
500; 10. E. G. Steinland, Mabel,
Mimi, $145: 20, w. II. Wescott,
$3.50; 81, Abe Pierce, $127.50; p,
b. O. Boyum, Peterson, Mimi. $1O5;
%, H. H. Wangsness, Calmar, Ia
500; "a, L. Whalen, sos: %, w. ].
Ryan, $3.50; &c, Glen Elliot. Har-
mony, Mimi, $1O0; q, Julius Skarie
Lanesboro, Mimi, $50; %, Abe
Pierce, 500; 20, H. d. Paine, De-
corah, Ia, 500; 80, Riley Martiny
& Son. Baraboo, Wis, 500; 81,
Tom Knox, Canton, Mimi, 500;
32, Abe Pierce, $112.50; 80, Jas
Johnson, Preston, Mimi, $1O2.5O;
"a, Paul Whalen, Canton, Mimi.
SOS; 35, H. H. Wangsness, $175;
SO, E. G. Steinland. $115; 81, w. T.
Kinney, Canton, Mimi, $3.50
l3S, John Coil, Harmony, Mimi, s112.-
so; 80, Rosco Wicks, Canton, Mimi.
$1O5; 40, B. o. Boyum, $1O5; Al,
H. C. Hjerleid, sos; AZ, c. Lee
Prosper, Mimi, s1O5; AS, C. Head
ington, 500; A, NJ. Brandwick
Prosper, Mimi, $112.50; 45, B. c
Supple, Prosper, Mimi, 800; 46
Chas. Mckay, $3.50.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-02-12
Public Program at the College.

The college will give a patriotic
program at the college auditorium,
Thursday evening Feb. 20. The pro-
gram will consist OF selections by
the band, speeches and community
singing. The public is cordially in
vited.
The program will be as follows:
Tanhouser March $500. Wagner
Luther College Concert Band. &
(Prof. Sperati, Director.)
America .......' E - uulelce
Address The Father of the Republic
Olaf Malmin
Battle Hymn of the Republic.
&C.,. .......... Audience
SelecJlOn DhLiV
Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln
Allen Z. Nelson
Battle Cry of Freedom. Audience
Speech ."Theo. Roosevelt"
Carl w. Strom
America, My Country Audience
Address, History and the Spirit OF
Democracy. Isaac Groulid.
Over There ......... .Audlehce
Star Spangled Banner. Audience
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-02-12
Elks Will Give Dance.

The DEBORAH lodge of Elks will
put on a big dance at Haugen's hall
Monday night, Feb. II. Everybody
is cordially invited to attend. You
don't have to be a member of the
Elks to gain admission. Just bring
your dollar along, the price of adj
mission, and enjoy one of the biggest
and best dances to be put on hero
this season.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-02-12

On the program of the Third Com
munity Sing program to be given at
the Grand opera house Friday even
ing, Feb. 81, march entitled SOL
diers Return" will be rendered. It
will be given for the first time here
and was composed by P. E. Bradrick,
who is one of IDecorah's well known
musicians. Prof. Carlo A. Sperati
gives the march high praise.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-02-12
Welcoming Arch Erected.

The welcoming arch mentioned in
these columns last week, has been
erected by the Winneshiek Red Cross
lust east of the Commercial hotel.
1t has 20 foot span and is 10 feet
high. 1t is electric lighted and pre-
sents a very attractive appearance.
A welcoming sign will be put on TO
soldiers and sailors. The expense OF
the arch and it's maintenance will
be taken care of by the. Red Cross,
1t will be left up for several months,
or more.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-02-12
Miss Cole to New York Markets.

Miss Ethel Cole, manager of the
DEBORAH Coat. and Suit Store depart
ed Friday night for the Chicago
and New York markets to make
spring selections for the DEBORAH
Coat & Suit Store. Miss Cole says she
intends to buy a very extensive line
of ladies ready-to-wear garments
this year, and will visit all leading
the east and make a selection that
will be pleasing to their customers
here.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-02-12
Given Birthday Surprise.

Mrs. Hans Rygg was given a most
enjoyable birthday surprise at her
home in this city last Sunday. A
company of friends called, brought
well filled baskets and enjoyed a
most pleasant day. She was present
ed with a number OF appropriate
and useful gifts.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-02-12
Basket Social Feb. d..

There will be basket social anil
program held Feb. % at the Sharp
school house, district No. 7, about
five miles north of DEBORAH on the
Burr Oak road. Girls please bring
baskets. Everybody welcome. 70.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-02-12
Nj. f.. Church.

Preaching services 1880 a. m.
and 1880 p. m. Morning subject,
Women as Christtin Workers"
DR.. A. B. Curran will preach in the
evening and hold quarterly confer
ence.. Sunday school II noon. Ep-
worth League $50 p. m.
A. r. GRANT, Pastor.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-02-12
Col. 'GOOdn's Auction Dates.

Following are some of the auction
sale dates Col. Goodno has for this
month: ....
Feb. 13-Alf Thomann, 3 miles
south of DEBORAH.
Feb. 14-Will Nelson, s miles
north of DEBORAH.
Feb. 17-Grover Headington'
north of DEBORAH.
Feb. 1S-Opdahl Estate, 3 miles
S. r. of DEBORAH.
Feb. 19-Ole Orange, mile south
of Nordness.
Feb. Coco. Foltz, 6 miles
North of DEBORAH.
Feb. 80. X. Ramberg, south OF
Calmar.
Feb. 25-E. J. Hanson, about 8
miles north of DEBORAH.
Feb 26-B. o. Bakken, 6 miles
west of DEBORAH.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-02-12
Notice.

Now is the time to purchase eggs
for setting, from high producins
egg strain of chickens. Eggs are
money now a days Get the reliable
Leghorn for egg production You
can get them from severt Alstad'
Decorah. Cali or phone.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-02-12
DIR. A. b. Cmran at Burr Oak.

DR.. A. B. Curran will conduct
quarterly conference at Burr Oak
Saturday evening. Feb. 10, and ne
will conduct the morning service in
the church there on Sunday, Feb. 10,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-02-12
Meeting of the Commercial Club.

There will be a meeting of the
Commercial Club at the City hall,
Thursday evening at 1880 p. m. to
discuss such matters as may come
before it. Please come.
1. w. BRUNT, Secretary.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-02-12

By the time you get some folks
talked around they are so confused
they do not know uirefi- peariiaus
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-02-12

The seeming patience of many a
person is merely a distaste for act
ion.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-02-12
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The sun., 1919-02-16

home from Sion one waited for her in q
secret place, she invariably prevailed
against her adversary. The woman was
strong and she was proud of her chastity.
She fastened her door at nights, and drew
a curtain over the window of the room in
which she slept-yet it awaited her moth
ing, for one came by stealth and, had his
way with her.
Though Griffi Wernddu lived to an old
age and was full of religion, Obeying the
pulpit in all its commands, he offended
awfully in his death; and so, as is the
custom with those whose souls go down
into the Fiery Pool, Grifi's body was not
enclosed in White Shirt, but was buried
in the land which is at the forehead of
the Capel, and upon which the congrega-
ton perform privily before entering Sion
Of such men-Job Stallion who was in
struclive in prayer and joyous in song,
though without esteem in Sion; Of such
women-Silah Penlon, who was doitish
virgin whose mother was apprehensive
lest the men who SAT in the Big Seat on
the Sabbath (she sat with her daughter
among the hired people in the loft
should inform against her to God, saying,
Full of sin was her belly when she bore
the weneh'; of Esther, who Haunted her
body before the religious eyes of Hws
Morris; Of Abram Bowen, who married
the daughter of Silas and Nansi and so
inherited one hundred acres of land and
the unborn child Of Joseph Gernos; Of
Bern Dayydd, who said to Amos Essec,
"Come, let as go up into the mountain"
but before he departed, emptied his
mouth of its spittle and laid the pellet of
The sun., 1919-02-16

tobacco that was in his mouth on n stone
that he might speak with God-of such
men and such women, saints and sinners,
Mr.. Caradoc Evans speaks with famil-
iarity that, though it breed contempt in
the mind of the thoughtless gives under
standing to those who are curious con-
corning the ways Of their fellowmen in
the far countries from which our fathers
came.
Nor are their ways, though we protest
in welLfeigned horror, so very different
from our own. l have known, men. aso
lHstful as Amos Penparc praise God for
blessings they had, not of Him, but of the
poor that sweat in vile smelling lofts.
have listened while women as shamelessly
amorOus as Bertha Daviss made mock Of
those who in ignorance have been led
away. Here where freedom is not so
much license as the hrying interference OF
brothers keeper, children die of neglect
and mothers go mad with too much labor.
Though seeing ourselves as we would
seem, We prefer to real of fine ladies
wooed in garish splendor by brokers
whose vice, is gilded past recognition, we
are no nearer heaven than were the men
and women whose sins we inherit, whose
sins will be visited upon our children's
children. Speaking of ourselves as char
acters in Saturday Erenisa Post serial,
we forget that e. but am no Cara
doc Evans TO remind you 81 these things.
MY PEOPLE. BY CARADoc EvASs.- Boni o
Liveright. $50.
CAPEL SION. By CAKApoc EVANS. Boni 8
Iiveright- $1.50.
The sun., 1919-02-16

The Piano and the Patriot
Copyright, 1919. AL rights reserved.

Copyright, 1919. AL rights rcserred.
visionary love for lost nation that has long liter
ally vanished from all the maps Of men, She does
not conceive him as stalking all on scheme that in
wolves the overthrow of the three enormous empires
of the earth.
She does not show him as casting aside artistic
ambitions in order to defy and even Insult the
highest crowned heads Of Europe. And-mOst GER
tainly she does not describe her moody musician as
acclaimed with a clash of swords, as the first
president of the most pcrilous and splendid of the
republics Of the world
Ignace Paderewski.
Yet all this epic of world politics. and highly
practical politics. is happening before our very eyes
to a real professional musician 1t is happening to
a pianist, whom many politician would have
counted as some improvement an organ grinder.
Wethaye always known that Ignace Paderewski
was not only great pianist but great patriot;
and that he had refused the compliments and COM
mands of the Russian and Prussian autocrats as a
protest against the wrongs of Poland. But we have
since seen him called by whole people to play the
part of statesman and a soldier, amid the ruins
of all the statecrat and sodiery Of the two tyrants
he defed. The story is surely sufficient to suggest
that the life of artist need not be quite so in
artistic as our scientific fiction thinks it necessary
to suppose Surely it suggests that realism is rather
duller than reality
l would not be misunderstood as having the
smallest faith in the genius substitute for the
saint, or even for the honest man. ] was never car
ried away by the cult which Carlyle called Hero
Worship, and which -he rapidly turned into Hun
Worship. l will not follow him into the discussion
of whether any man is hero to his valet / rather
suspect that a hero has not got valet. Anyhow,
myself have not the graces even the virtues of
valet; and I certainly have not blind confidence
in the artist as arbiter.
do not think the Polish patriot the only typical
musician; only resist a certain atmospheric as
sumption that sulky German Jew anarchist must
be the only typical musician The truth is, believe
The sun., 1919-02-16

vex not only Nieolette but all that love too
well.
l have liking for dedications, whether
they be Shakespeare's to my Lord of
Southampton or Verlaine's to his mis-
tress, Byron's or Pope's, the fawning of
Cibber, the praise of Fielding i am
aghast before such curt phrases as the
usual "To my mother" or the inexphcable
"To P. D. O., who reads my proofs" We
grow too reticent in our fear Of seeming
human, too much the formal man of let
tiers, too little the wandering minstrel
come to beguile an evening before the FIRE.
May time deal kindly with Mr.. George
Moore lest no successor appear to make
gay his place at the table-and chastise,
as father his child, Mr.. Thomas Burke,
who dedicated Linsehouse Nights to Cara
doe Evans yet told us nothing Of his
friend. Sc.
For Caradoc Evans is, ! make no doubt,
4 man of feeling, one who has looked with
open eyes upon the world in which he
lives, one unashamed of the truth though
she be naked as Venus He has been
hailed with well-nigh unanimous praise in
London; he has puzzled your American
reviewer (as no other since the colleges
took over o. Henry; he is to be compared
with Ludwig Thoma at his best, with de
Maupassant and Hardy. And there is
nothing to choose between his first volume
and his second, little between one story
and another ... ..
There was young man whose piety
was an adage; woman came to labor in
= his house and, his land, 10 be sedueed
and (when, with the passing of time, she
grew troublesome) to be put away with
cunning.
Another was ploughing in the fields
when his wife came to the break in the
hedge, crying, "For what think you, little
mani Dai is hanging in the eowshed."
Having ended the furrow and unhar-
messed his horse (which he led into the
stable and fed, Owen Tygroyn went in
and unravelled the rope that had choked
the breath out of his son.
Ellen Pugh had not known any man be-
fore her age was twenty-six, although her
great thighs, her soft flaxen hair, and big
breasts-which could be seen because her
garments were i'll sewn together-ex excited
the desires of many. If in the hayields
vicious lover fozed her, or if on the way