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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-06-25
FARM BUREAU GLEANINGs.
VIII Make Farm Tour About the
County Soon.

For several years the Agricultural
Extension Department has furnished
specialists to discuss important pro-
jects on different farms thru the
medium of a farm tour.
One Of these tours was worked up
in this county few years ago, many
OF them have been worked up in
other counties from time to time.
The State Department will furnish
us three specialists, one for each of
the following topics:
Animal Husbandry, Farm Crops,
Horticulture or Soils.
The cooperation of several farm
ers is being secured to the end that
a definite route will be made out
so that points of special interest will
be reached. We have nice fields of
alfalfa, good herds of pure bred cat
tie both dairy and beef; good pure
bred horses, sheep and hogs, espec-
tally good farm conveniences, such
as water and lighting systems, all of
which will be of interest to every
body.
Farmers are constantly taking
tours Of this character to points and
places of interest in much the same
way as embodied in this idea Of a
farm tour. In this idea we have the
advantages Of having with us special
men to talk on the topic at hand and
in which they are especially trained.
The tour will be scheduled in this
county one day during the week Of
July 8.
Watch the papers during the next
two weeks for more definite an
nouncements. Plan to take this tour!
Bring your family with you and pre-
pare a lunch basket. Take day with
the crowd and make it a profitable
one. Cali the tour to the attention of
farmers and city folks, all are wei
come.
Home Demonstration Department.
The demonstration team of Fort
Atkinson Junior Canning Club will
demonstrate the Cold Pack method
of canning fruits and vegetables at
the Fort Atkinson school, Tuesday,
June Gath at p. m. This will be the
opening meeting for the canning
club.
In connection with this, there will
be a small exhibit of canned pro-
ducts. Everyone interested is invited
to be present.
ESTHER E. CHRISTENSEN,
Home Demonstration Agent.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-06-25
9ubltf DpInipu
War and Horses.

The farmers and stock D:eeders of
the United States furnished to the
war, all told, about 1900 900 horses,
of which, however, only about 49,
900 went to Europe in the service of
the United States government. Save
Eor a certain number Of divisional
headquarter troops and small special
corps, the United States sent no
cavalary to Europe, and its horse
drawn artillery, ammunition trains
and other vehicular services bore a
not very important relation tc the
vast motor service. But the horses
and mules of America have for all
that played an important part in the
winning Of the war. the contribution
which the country has made in that
respect to the great cause has been
vital.
1t is proof of the wonderful pro-
ducing capacity Of the United States
that the horse population Of the
country has not been sensibly dimin-
ished by this contribution, this sac
rffice. Already this population had
not been decreased by the enormous
growth in the use of motor cars. In
1900, before the great motor devel-
opment, the horse population Of the
United States was 1927 ,020. By
1910 it had risen to 19,883,113. In
1918, in spite Of war demands-per-
haps on account of war demand-it
had risen to 21,563, 000; and the
governments last estimate Of the
present horse population is almost
the same as that-21 ,534, 900. Since
1915, the increase has been more
than three hundred thousand.
Although hundreds of thousands of
horses have fallen in the war, the eff
feet of the sacrifice has been, there
fore, to bring still more horses into
existence. The war has meant, in
the aggregate, life for these beauti-
full creatures rather than death. And
IL is safe to say that the record in
this respect has not yet been made
up, for the development in breeding
already recorded will result in still
further production. The battle scar
red modern world is a Richard who
says: "Give me another horse-bind
I'D my wounds. Boston Transcript.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-06-25
HoyNTo REpuCE LIZ H. c. Z.
The Cash and Garry Proposition Said
to Take Some of the ii. out OF
the III. g. l..

Cash and carry in the retail trade
will take some of the II. out of the
H. G. L. If it does not eliminate the
II. altogether it will reduce it.
Various large retail merchants are
doing good work in putting before
their customers a circular which
reads in part as follows:
IF a man should go into a store
and ask the proprietor to lend him
from $40 to 500 in money he would
probably risk being turned over to
the police for examination as to his
sanity. yet the . sane man goes
into store and 'borrows' goods to
an amount often exceeding many
times the figures named and COM
placently walks out feeling that he
has done the merchant favor by
according him the privilege of writ
ing the mans name on the stores
books and hoping that some time in
the future the goods will be paid for.
And the merchant is expected to
be pleased with the opportunity of
delivering his goods without payment
or security and without any under
standing that payment will be made
at definite time.
mo mans credit is as good as his
cash, and when goods are sold the
seller should either have the money
in his drawer or have some definite
time fixed for payment"
The American Grocer is urging re-
tailers to come to a cash basis, not
only for their own protection, but
for the good of the customer.
THE situation" it says, calls for
the exercise of some grit and con-
siderable diplomacy on the part of
the retailer, with the possibility that
a few of the slow payers thru fail
ure to appreciate the position in
which the retailer is placed, may take
offense; but such customers usually
return after they have had time to
think it over.
'In any event, the long and indefi-
mite book account seems doomed and
no good merchant will regret it's pas
sing
There does not seem to be SO much
need for grit and diplomacy as COM
mon sense and cooperation.
Woolworth never would have
built up 100000, O00-a-year bust
ness in the five and ten cent store
trade and left fortune Of SOS, 0O0,-
600 If he had extended credit.
His success was possible only be-
cause his patrons paid cash and car
ried their purchases home with them. !
He eliminated bookkeeping, bad
debts and delivery costs. Thru those
economies he was able to sell so
close to cost as to have tremendous |
advantage over the merchants who |
loaded their goods with the excess |
charges which are so common to |
Americas retail trade
The retail merchant who extends |
credit is not just to his customers |
who pay cash, for they have to pay |
not only for the bookkeeping Incl
dental to keeping track of the credit |
customers, but for the losses that
come thru the deadbeats.
Furnishing the cash customer is not
just and businesslike.
IT is about time the retailer real
lied this fact and got his business
in order. This is the time, if ever,
when living costs are so nigh as to
demand the earnest attention of
everybody Philadelphia Public
Ledger.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-06-25
Cow Goes Mad.

Last week COW belonging to Wes-
ley Moses developed a case Of rabies
and was ordered shot. The animal
showed the usmistakable symptoms
of the malady, frothing at the mouth
endeavoring to attack anyone who
came near and acting generally in
the manner of an animal afflicted
with rabies. DR.. Graf, veterinary, was
called and he pronounced the case
and ordered the COW shot So far as
is known the cow had not been bit
ten by mad dog or otherwise SINH
larly inoculated.- Recorder.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-06-25
Those With Enterprise.

The enterprising person Is the per-
son who is always learning and then
putting that learning 10 use, who is
making the Very best of opportunity,
and creating all the opportunities
which seem TO offer themselves TO
his or her molding. In other words,
what is enterprise but busy mind
and a. busy person properly directed
by sane Soul.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-06-25
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CONVINCING TESTIMONY.
Given by Many DEBORAH People.

Experiences told by DEBORAH peo-
pie.
Those who have had weak kid
neys-
Who used Doan's Kidney Pills
Who found the remedy effective
Sush statements prove merit.
You might doubt an utter stranger.
You must believe DEBORAH people.
Here's DEBORAH proof. Verify it.
Read Investigate. Be convinced.
You'll find why DEBORAH folks be-
lieve in Doan's.
G. G. Bucknell, retired farmer,
404 Day ST., says: "My kidneys act
ed irregularly and gave me no end
of annoyance. Many mornings when
stopped to put on my shoes / could
hardly straighten up because a sharp
pain caught me in the small of my
back l read how others had used
Doan's Kidney Pills with good re-
suits, so ] bought a box and they
gave me relief"
Price coo, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doal,s Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Bucknell had. Foster-Milburn
Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-06-25

Be a business woman You have
the natural ability. Supplement it by
q course in Mankato Commercial
College, Mankato, MINI.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-06-25

When Europe plans to start some
thing hereafter it will see America
first.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-12-06

death bead. The story of the red
headed round house boy came in here
where an ambitious boy learns tel
egraphy at odd moments, and how to
run an engine. Up the line an engin-
eer left his little boy in the cab for
a minute and the lad opened the
throttle. The engine was awaiting a
coupling. 1t tore away with the boy.
The wires were kept busy. The red
headed boy CHANGED to be in the office,
otherwise deserted and caught the in
struction to clear the line. He rushes
to the round house and gets on the
line ahead and the runaway over
speed. Then he reverses, climbs over,
boy back on his knee The Kansas
City Star said in relating the incident,
He. was made an engineer in seven
minutes" No, said DR.. Bulgin, the
testimony of the young man was that
he had taken long time to prepare
for just such an emergency. Oppor-
tunity does not make the man, it
simply brings out what is stored up
within. We need back bone. Let it
come to the front. The third arRu-
ment was that character is a personal
thing. The reason in the story that
the wise could not divide with the
foolish is just this. You can't pass on
to another your character I can
divide my $1.75 with you and what
little / know, but not my character.
This was shot through and through
with the daylight Of pungent illustra-
ton. The last contention of the
preacher was that the opportunity for
gaining character will close. Here
came the story of Nettie Littleton, the
beauty of her Kentucky city. On high
school night she came forward and
confessed Christ. Never in the evan
gelist's experience of 81 years was
there such beautiful sight. The
mother was determined that she
should be society star. Dr. Bulgin
goes to the home to plead for Nettie
that she might be allowed to Join
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-12-06
SUNSHINE CHORUS
CHANTS BIBLE TEXTS
INTERESTING MEETING OF THE
YOUNG FOLKS HELD IN THE
TABERNACLE FRIDAY

| Interest in the Sunshine chorus
grows greater as the days go by.
''The Bible of our fathers is the bless
ed word of God,
Its pages are inspired; by it's light
our fathers trod.'
Chorus.
sThe Bible of our fathers is the book
for me.
The Bible of our fathers let it ever be.
The Bible of our fathers is good
enough for me,
The Bible of our fathers, our hope
eternally."
Fifty points was promised to the
side of the boy or girl who would sing
the first, second and third verses Of
this song perfectly. Many came for
ward but Lillian Christensen was the
first. Lillian Mitchell also gave one
song. Then came. songs, yells and
drills, all given accurately and quickly
Then from more than 800 voices
came the texts from the Bible, giving
the following texts and telling where
to find them: John 3:16; Matthew s.
16; John 146; Epheseans 6:1; John
1-12; PHILIPPIANS Alb; Galatians ST.;
Romans 6:23; 1st John lit; Roman
1919.
Then all Bibles are closed and the
text 1st John 1:9 is given for the next
time. Doris Mack on the blue side is
the first to find it and read it,
The Reds were % ahead in attend
ance. The Reds had Ill Bibles and
the Blues 1O9
The children seem much interested
and it is with great reluctance that
they say good night" and leave for
home
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-12-06

Gods people in the church. All in
vain. Three years pass. The evan
gelist is again in Kentucky, thirty
miles away Telegram. Nettie dead.
He goes to preach the funeral Mys-
terry is over all Crazed mother asks
that casket be taken from grave that
DR.. Bulgin can see. By Nettie's side
lay an Legitimate child. The product
of the dance.
The delegation of business women
occupied the center section and pre-
scented Mrs. Lewis with a great show
er of yellow NUNS. Mrs Eunice
Knapp is behalf of the women, thanks
Mrs. Lewis for all the courtesies.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-12-06

columns of the Star Mirror their sin
cere appreciation for. the bountiful
and delicious luncheons which were so
efficiently served by the ladies of the
various churches, for the enjoyable
music, and for the interesting and
helpful talks by Mrs. Lewis.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-12-06
BUSINESS WOMEN ARE
THANKFUL FOR LUNCHEONS

The business women of Moscow
have so much enjoyed the entertain
ment accorded them this last week
that they wish to express through the
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-12-06

The business women of Moscow.
Committee:
LILLIAN SKATTABOE,
IDA M. YATES,
LULU E. VANCE,
Mrs. M. L. KING,
MARIE L. OSNESS.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-12-06

Buy Red Cross Seals.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-15
OTHER VIEW POINTS

In the rush of gettingNthe news on teh wire some of the correspondents neglected to include what Wilson said to the cook when he arrived at the White House. Everybody else was in- cluded.-M Middletown Press.
 When not much building Is being done, the cost of construction rises much of the time. and when a lot of building is being done. then the cost rises because the builders can get IL. -Meriden Journal.
 Bristol voted down the proposed ap- propriat,on of $100.000 for a soldiers and sailors memorial building with a bond issue 10 raise the money. The total vote was only 656 out of more than 5000 registered voters. The vote stood i97 yes. 459 no The small vote indicates not want of patriotism so much as indifference and weariness with this sort of, appeal great ma JorIty of the Voters were evidently ready to abide by the decision of the ballot but were not positively enough in favor Of the appropriation to vote for it.-Wa terbury American.
 Why should the United States be bound" where Great Britain '''con- sents'' to go to the aid of France in case of unprovoked attack is. a ques- tion that interests the Springfield Re publican. If the Springfield paper had better Knowledge of the man, or should we say men, who represented our country at the peace conference, it would have no need of asking such a question. Or the answer might be the question would never have arisen had we been represented by men of greater streng ngth.--Waterbufy Repub- lican.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-15


 9DunA AuuDWsn - 1annha uunu at fux ndUs1ue ee suSuales as thfs cbun- EtkJM MA4 166d 1xs6a. 16 kn6M vftnin rth@rp<st few HeaEA> How 1t would hzyersh h1enssp stD~meet1 some of Ftzaersfeu EthztS ShzEres ak1sen< wf1ffs sdnt$ Nl16 aid bf GEe-.HaCt0fs tEllok no
 ezeSss sIfkee< Tu1ls contlz uzztes and 3e is kweIE .thatFt thnsesss swihosrare expected to fuEnfsh. Hhta vexy service should Flkkeess Jaenty. eE4s8ek
 In rguing s3accnes tho vcnzifanfemt an lk5nz1sr 7ofs lfund vtn1 be e1zc011tered. EAlInsorfa30f psoh1enrss wi1l. hAuA to be rnet ssuazxzss it sz1n be- -pds11b1s~ t0 test -outf badz features Of the ic4zA 6efn6adstfa sAts tlsss san1e time the impoFtance of E6od r0ea1s not
 Ecf0rs nzesflnEs x1es4 rsdadffelnentB of
 m army but. fort handling evesy day
 btfsiness. And while it is intended
 for army purposes it win nesexfheless
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 try ina c0nreetion wixh the M1ktef Of
 transportation.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-15
IN THE DAYS NEWS
 ; WIESBADEN.

WieSoaden, seat of the provisional government for the proposed Rhine re- bulletin from Washing gton fleaduuarters Of the National Geogra phfc Society: In her time Wiesbaaen. nesting in mild nook Of the Rhine Valley ha fortified outpost of the far-f1un Ro-
 man empire. later a febrile Monte Car 10 until the government suppressed her notorious games Of chance, and then many.
 With normal population less than that or Richmond, Va, the city ex- banded to the size of Washington. D. Y. when her season was at it's height in the late spring. She was versatile hostess Coquetting for the visitors whose entertainment was her princi- pal industry. she aIlured those youne and nimble enough to explore the hooks and crannfes of the hills about her, /and played the old mans darling to the rheumatic, the gouty and the obese who sought relief by her boiling alkaline springs.
 .'Her municipal dress vas Bay and colerfui. Her broad streets radiate in fan-like plan. sumptuous villas formed a 5ewelled half circlet about her. and for p1unage she had the most thick1y wooded district, except that of Coblenz. in Germany. Of her enyirons it was said almost every mountain has ruin and legend Leest' German like, perhaps, among German cities, visitors were reminded that tf,ey were in the land of 'verbo- tens and taxes by having to pay a tax for staying there after four days.
 Weisbaden is five miles north of Mayence. and 20 miles east of the fabaed rock of the siren Loreiei. It is three miles removed from the Rhine but near enough to have participated in the history Of that region, to which Victor Hugo ascribed a tprovidentfal in European destinies, for it was traversed by Caesar, Attf- Ia, Clovis, Charlemagne and Napele- on, before Foch and Pershing won places in it's gallery of heroes
 The city's churches attest Its cos mopolitan. appeal. The Protestant is in Gothic style, with hve towers. There are two syna- gogues, Russian and Anglican places of worship, and it's Roman Catholic church of St.. Bonifaee memoralizes the Saxon missionary who, conarnis- stoned by Charles Martel, went into Frrisia in the early eighth century to cverthrow the idols of the heati1en Germans.
 Two men of letters are identified | with Wjesbaden. Both lived and died there and are the subjects of con-
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-15
WHAT FRANCE pRoposes.

This country is not the only one that is having it's troubles with the food profiteers. The fact is that they are disposed to operate wherever they get chance. whether they have ii offered to. them Or are forced to cre-
 ate it.
 some progress is being made here
 in bringing to light such people and punishment that varies from lines Id Imprisonment is being Imposed, though it is to be realized that they are being made to suffer to no such
 degree as those who are gouged by
 their operations.
 While we have been taking care of
 wool and fish profteers in this coilTi-
 try, France has been giving attention to those who have bsen engaged in illicit speculation in sugar with tha result that four have been sent to
 b months Imprisonment and fined
 100, 900 francs, but France appears to be thoroughly aroused over the rev. citations that are being made there 10 such m extent that a bill has been introdua,sd n the cfianbet b* depu- ties calling for capital punishment of nerchaf,ts who are coSvfcted Of taking exec ssive profits of attefhn!ing to correr the market.
 That seems like decidedly drastic aeeIon but 1t must be e.htent that there would certainly be less willing ,Ies<: to take chances with aach a pen alty than there would when fines ana sentences are imposed that amount only to a slap on the &fist. For those 1ho quickly gateeT ln millions ines are no obstacle. fs F simply a case of paying a high license. Iafi sentences, especially if they are stiff ones and the convicted are made to serve them and not given pardons, are likely to have beneficial effect, but there could be no question how thoroughly prohteering would be if there should be a law adopted making death the penalty.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-15

might be spared by a process of ir1- trospection. When have the people Of this town had a high school prin- cipai whom they did like1 For the most part found MT. Kutscher we'll liked and respected, the. criticisms coming from those who had selfish motives or lacked the power to com pfehend just what he was doing for them. feel sure that the expendi- ture of so much money rankIes with in some citizens, thus causing little Internal revolution, the blame for which is laid on an innocent man. | sincerely hope the people of Thomp- son will look into this whole matter feeling, and take steps to remedy it without hurting their own interests.
 T would like to finish by correcting one or two gross mis- statements con- tained in your article. I cannot see what the changing of superintenlents of the grade schools has to do with the approval of the high school by the state, unless someone is sore because the state system has been busted and takes this method of criticism as a means of revenge. At any rate it would do no harm to investigate this possibility. The state money com ing to the school does not depend upon NIT. Snyder's report. This may clear up the Question some. The school will get the aid as usual
 Of the report, itself have no com ment to make. MT. Kutscher I know can answer it very effectively if he so chooses. I only wish to state that l do not believe any man is qualified on the basis of one day spent in a school, to criticise on the basis he has. He has not looked into things thor oughly enough. Nor do I believe that he can judge a teacher nor a class by spending from two to five minutes in a class room as he did in some case
 NEWTON W. LARKUM
 hartford, Connecticut, July 12 1919.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-15

spicuous monuments. Gustav Freytag was one of the scant' company of Ger man novelists known beyond the former empires borders, for Germany has had few fiction writers whose works are widely read in other lands, After his first successful work, Soil and Haben,' had attracted attention in 1855 Freytag wrote another up holding Prussia's ambitions for Ger man domination and thus won place on the staff of the Prussian crown prince. He saw the French disaster a Sedan.
 "Weisbadens poet, Frederick von Bodenstedt, wrote a book of oriental poetry which has been compared to the Omar Khayam' of Edward F'itz- Gerald, and he also translated Shakes peareS plays into German. German scholars insisted that the translat tion into the German tongue greatly i'm proved the bard's drama"