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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-07-18
272 SUITS SEEK $5,5O5, 900
Assault, Beating and Wounding Are
Charged in Bisbee, Ariz., De-
portation Case.

Bisbee, Ariz., July 1.-two hundred
and seventy-two suits were filed at
Tombstone in the Bisbee deportation
cases. The total amount of damages
sought is $5,5O5OOO. Damages are
sought on the ground of alleged as
sault, bruising beating and wounding
by the plaintiffs; 1855 cases ask for
$4,000 each; seventy-five cases ask for
$4,000 each and thirty-one for $4,000
each. Many of the cases were hurried
~ rushed to Tombstone Thursday for
filing, as the time limit was drawing
to close, the statute of limitations
in the Arizona courts providing that
such suits must be filed within two
years.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-07-18
First publication July IL, 1871
Notice of Sale,

STATE OF WISCONSIN,,
In County Court for Rock County.
In the matter of the estate of Eliza
beth E. Sprague, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that by virtue
and in pursuance of IN order of license
made in said matter by the County
Court of Rock County on the 9Th day
of July, A. d. 1919, the undersigned
James H. Ryan, as administrator, will,
on the End day Of August, A. D. 1919,
at 2 o'clock p. M, at the westerly
front door of the Court House in the
City of GAINESVILLE in Rock County, Of
fer for sale at public auction the fol-
lowing described land, situate in the
County of Rock and State of Wiscon-
sin:
Lot Number Three ~ of Block
Number Four (4) of Lawton's Addition
to the City of Edgerton, according to
the recorded plat of said addition, all
in the City of Edgerton.
Terms Of sale will be Cash.
Dated July 9Th, 1919.
James H. Ryan, Administrator.
Edward H. Ryan, Attorney for Ad-
ministrator.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-07-18
First publication July Is, 1871
Notice of Hearing.

STATE OF WISCONSIN,
County Court for Rock County. In
Probate.
Notice is hereby given that at a reg
ular term of the County Court, to be
held in and for said County, at the
Court House, in the City of Evansville,
in said County, on the first Tuesday,
being the End day of Septemher, 1919,
at 9 o'clock a. m, the following matter
will be heard and considered:
The application of L. H. Towne
to admit to probate the last will and
testament of Gustav Bruhn, late of
the Town of Fulton, in said County,
deceased, and for the appointment of
an executor or administrator Of said
estate. Z
Dated July 10, 1919.
BY the Court:
Charles l.. Fifield,
County Judge.
Grubb & Towne, Edgerton, Wis, At
torneys for Petitioner.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-07-18
CHICAGO WOMAN is GUILTY
Jury Gives Slayer Of p. r. VoIland
Year to Life Sentence In
Penitentary.

Chicago, July 16.-A jury in Judge
Brentanos court found Nine. Vera
Trepagnier guilty of killing Paul r,
Volland, commercial art publisher. II
fixed the crime as manslaughter, car.
rying sentence of from one year to
life in the penitentiary.
The aged woman-she is f1fty-nine-
showed not the slightest emotion. She
seemed to take her conviction as a
matter of fact.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-07-18
Venetian GondoIas.

It was not until the end of the sew
enteenth century that the Venetian
gondola assumed it's present simplicity
and s0mberness of color. A vain at
tempt has been made to introduce it
in other countries, but it has appar-
emily resisted all efforts at acclimatiza.
ton.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-07-18
IL Reported Killed by Oil Blast.

London, July 16.-Twelve men are
reported to have been killed in an ex-
plosion on board the American oil
carrying ship Rose Lei (Rose LeafO
at Cardiff, Wales. The vessel was In
drydock at the time. The cause Of
the explosion is unknown.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-07-18
To Advance Cash to Exporters.

Washington, July 16.-Application
will now be received from response.
BILE American banks and exporters for
advances against cattle and cattle
product shipments, the war finance
corporation announced, the purpose
being to stimbulafe expectation and
broaden the demand for these prod
ucts.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-07-18
BALLOON TRAVELS 223 MILES
Government "Bag" No. 1 Lands at
RowIey, Ia, After Flight Through
Storm From Omaha.

Cedar Rapids, Ia, July 16.-Govern-
ment balloon No. /, on flight from
Omaha, which landed near RowIey,
Ia, was packed and shipped back to
Omaha by freight. The balloon passed
through heavy storm and was forced
to land 223 miles from its starting
point. 1t was not damaged.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-11-19
WOMEN URGE
new LAWS
National Council Advocates Legiti-
IMITATION for Those Born Out
of WedlOck
ASK OTHER LEGISLATION
FOR THE CAUSE.
Want Wage Boards i'm All States
and Equal Guardianship
Over Minors.

Laws legitimizing children born
out Of wedlock were urged before
the National Women's council in the
resolutions presented by Mrs. Ellen
Spencer Mussey, chairman of the
department of legal status of women
and children at a meeting in ST
Louis last week. The resolution,
which was unanimously adopted, in
cluded the rights of the child to the
fathers name and to inherit property
of both parents.
Other resolutions presented by
Mrs. Mussey advocated the estab-
lishment of minimum wage boards
in all states, urged laws giving joint
and equal guardingship of parents
over minor children and for raising
the age necessary for making con-
tract, and appealed to congress to
pass laws allowing women marrying
aliens to retain their citizenship.
Mrs. Mussey said that approxi-
mately 10000 alien brides of Ameri
can soldiers are now in this country.
She proposed that all alien women
should be required to elect whether
they would become naturalized or
desired to retain their native citizen
ship.
The report of DIR. Elizabath Thel-
berg, chairman of the public health
partment, urged compulsory no.
tification of venereal diseases to
health authorities. She advocated
the laboratory method of examine
tion.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait and
Miss Lucy E. Anthony were elected
governors of the international coun-
Gil which will be held in Norway IN
September, 1920. This council meets
every FIVE years. r {.a
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-11-19
AN AMERICAN PREACHER.
Burlington Hawkeye." :"


An American preacher-an Iowa
preacher-went over to London, re-
mained there one year and then came
home, He admitted that the expert
ment had not proven success. Well,
perhaps he quit too soon. And per-
haps he began wrong Instead OF go
ing from town in Iowa to London
he might have had success if he had
tried an English town of $4,000 in
habitants. Had he proven big sue
cess there. the fact would soon have
been discovered in London.
But the man who goes from a small
town can scarcely expect all Lon
don to be on tip-toe and anxious to
hear him. 1t is just possible that
there are number of people in Lon
don who have never heard of Iowa,
and surely there must be vast num-
bers who never heard of the Iowa city
that sent this minister to London. If
they did, they may have asked
whether that minister had accom-
plished all that is expected of the
cloth at home. They might have sug-
gested that they had plenty OF
preachers of their own and that thev
had no real need of importing thai
kind of talent.
On the other hand. the Iowa min
lister. if he had great message, and
was convinced that the English need
ed that message, would have perse-
vered and would have gone on and on
and on. until he got the hearing that
he desired-until he got results. And
he would have been sure that he had
done all the work that he could pos
sfbly do here, that there was no more
wrong to right here, no more sin to
combat here, before he went to work
in other fields.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-11-19
DELAY IN AUTO
PLATE DELIVERY
The Coal Strike and the Steel Strike
Is Have Combined to Stop the
Manufacture and Shipment
of Auto Plates
400, 900 PAIR
CONTRACTED FoR.
The Work of Registering Cars for
1920 Under the New Law is
Being Delayed.

Des Moines, Ia.,-The coal strike
and the steel strike have combined
to stop the manufacture and ship
ment of automobile plates contracted
for by the state automobile depart
ment and the department now finds
itself unable to continue the deliver
ing of plates to county treasurers.
The states contract with the manu-
features was to have all plates de-
livered by Nov. 20, 100000 pair hay-
ing been contracted for.
Secretary of state w. C.. Kansas
reports that sufficient plates were
received and forwarded to counties,
according to alphabetical order, up
to Linn county, but the state is at
present unable to secure plates to
fill the balance of the counties needs
The state is also held up thru the
lack of printers stock in sending ont
all of the blanks needed by the coun-
ty treasurers in registering cars
Some of the blanks have been sent.
Hence the work of registering cars
for 1920 under the new law is being
delayed.
The new law states that this act
shall take effect Dec. 1, 1919, except
that application for registration may
be had and number plates and licen-
ses issued at any time within thirty
days prior to said date, to be effect.
i've thereafter" Hence all regulatory
provisions of the law do not take
effect until December 1 but registra
tion may start thirty days prior Il
that, date. New cars now beins
bought must be registered under tas
old law for the balance Of this year
and under the new law for the yeal
1920.
Secretary Ramsay states that ht
has hopes the factories may secure
the necessary coal and other supplies
to forward the remaining plates due
the state on it's contract within q
short time and that the printers
supplies may also be obtained Sc
registrations can proceed for 1926
under the new law.
Many inquiries are being received
/ by Secretary Ramsay concerning this
delay from county treasurers wht
are unable to proceed with regis
trations in their home counties with
out the necessary plates and sup
plies.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-11-19
SENATE DEFIES PRESIDENT
WILSON.
Adopted Reservation Qualifying the
Obligations of United States
Under Article Ten.

Washington, d. C.-Squarely
joining the issue with President Will
son the senate adopted Thursday a
reservation qualifying the obligations
Of the United States under article
ten of the league of nations cove
nant.
A solid republican lineup, rein
forced by four democratic votes. put
the reservation across exactly as il
came from the foreign relations COM
mittee and in virtually the language
which the president declared on his
western tour would cut the heart out
OF the covenant and mean the rejec-
tion of the treaty. The vote by which
the reservation won was 46 to SO.
The fight for reservations having
thus been carried to a climax, the
republicans presented for future ac-
tion cloture proposal designed to
bring final action on the question of
ratification within a week.
A less sweeping measure, propos-
ing limitation on the reservation de-
bate only, had been put in by the
democrats earlier in the day. but re-
Jected when the republicans voted
to sustain a point of order against
it.
The article ten reservation as
adopted by the senate follows:
THE United States assumes no
obligation to assure the territorial
integrity or political independence
of any other country or to interfere
with controversies between nations
whether members of the league or
not-under the article ten or to en-
ploy the military or naval forces
of the United States under any
article Of the treaty for any pur-
pose, unless in any particular case.
the congress, which under the con-
stitution has the sole power to de-
clare war or authorize the employ
ment of the military or naval forces
of the United States shall act or
Joint resolution so provide
In only two particulars does this
language differ from the proposed
reservation which, the president de-
clared at Cheyenne. Wyo., he would
be obliged to regard as a rejection.
AS read by Mr.. Wilson the phrase.
under the provisions of article ten
occurred at different place and the
final word provide" was changed
to declare.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-11-19
FATHER-IN-LAW PAYS ALIMoNY.
Unique Divorce Case Ended at
Gutherie Center.

Gutherie Center, Ia.-Something
unique and entirely out of the ordi-
nary in divorce cases has just been
decided here, and resulted in the
father of the husband instead of the
husband, being required to pay the
|alimony.
Myrtle McGinnis, OF Stuart, was
granted divorce from Charles G..
McGinnis, with j. A. McGinnis, his
father, as intervenor. The Judge also
granted her $4,000 alimony for
which she was praying. At the time
the younger McGinnises were mar
ried the father gave the son forty
acres OF land adjoining his own,
with the understanding that the
couple should improve it and do
chores and generally look after Nc
Ginnis' parents. This they did for
three years, building house, barn
and garage on the acreage. Then,
1t is alleged, the young man got a
little weary of hard work and the
simple life, and left his wife for an
other. In the meantime, he had got
ten in debt to his father and when
he finally left his wife the father
took back the stock, land, etc., as
Payment of the debt. Then the wife,
who had worked hard during her
three years of marriage, sued for
absolute divorce and $4,000, which
she considered her share of the i'm.
provements on the land. Judge
Dugan considered her claim just and
proper and granted the decree and
alimony.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-11-19
Hayseed. or Plutocrato

Not so many years ago the tern
"hayseed" was jocularly applied to
the American farmer. And the farmer
didn't resent it-because he coutssh't.
He lived from hand to mouth, and
often there was little left by the
time it reached the mouth.
But now? Say just watch the old
boys smoke! There are no plasters
on his farm. He is out OF debt, with
a comfortable surplus stored away.
His stock is fat and of the best
grade. His acres are teeming with
the products of the soil and the re-
suit of his fertile brain.
He comes to town in his automobile
smokes the best cigars, and his fam
lily has college education and buys
the best clothes. Once he went into
the bank with his hat in his hand
Now he owns its stock. is a direct
or, or perhaps the president. In other
days he asked favors. Now he issues
orders. A hayseed? Well, hardly. a.
Plutocrat You bet! Horse sense and
did it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-11-19
THE SLUMP IN
HOG PRICES
Ii Hogs Stay at $12 Bacon Should go
Down to 4Oc and Lard to "a,
and Other Things Naturally
i'm Proportion
PRICES OF OTHER THINGS
HAVE REMAINED UP
But They Must Begin to Come Down
or it is the Farmer Who VIII
Have Kick Coming

The slump in hog prices according
to H. A. Wallace of the Wallace Far
mer has cost or will cost the farm
ers of Iowa hundred million dol
lars compared with what they might
have received. Hog prices were the
first to respond to the drive started
against high prices last August. And
they are about the only ones that
have responded at all. The prices Of
other things have remained up, in
Guiding cotton, which has been
maintained at three times the normal
and that in the face of larger crop
in bales. Mr.. Wallace says that:
IF hogs stay at $12, the retail
price of bacon should go down to 40
cents and the retail price of lard
to "a cents. Labor of all kinds should
come down to so per cent above the
1913 price level, soft coal should sell
at $5 ton, delivered, an ordinarily
good suit of clothes for $3S, and a
pair of shoes for ST."
Mr.. Wallace rightly says that the
farmers do not object to selling their
hogs for twelve cents, provided they
can buy coal at five dollars a ton and
fence wire and other things on cor
responding scales. They do not want
their prices to come, down while
other prices remain up. That is one
reason why the farmers cannot en-
dorse some of the present labor
movements in the cities and in the
mines and on the railroads. They do
not believe that mule drivers at
mines who now get five dollars day
are entitled to eight dollars more a
day while they can buy their pork
for one-half, or nearly so, of former
prices. They do not want the output
of coal to be decreased by six hour
days and the costs increased sixty
Ler cent on top of that.
Other things, in short, must be-
gin to come down, or it is the farm
er who will have a kick coming
and one of the kicks he has now is
the city prices put on labor which is
resulting in drawing all the boys as
well as the hired men from the coun-
try to the city.-Cedar Rapids Re
publican.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-11-19
FORM WHITE CROSS SOCIETY.
Methodists Organize Association To
Maintain Hospitals.


Des Moines, lathe White Cross
new association of philanthropic
character, planned primarily for
the people of Iowa has been organic
ed by Bishop Homer C. Stuntz, and
special commission of laymen and
ministers representing the Method
list Episcopal conference of Iowa.
The fundamental purpose is to pro-
vide for steady annual income for
the maintenance of the Iowa Metho-
dist Episcopal hospital and similar
Institutions elsewhere.
The proposition will be presented
to approximately 80 Methodist
churches in Iowa on Nov. 80. Officers
for the first year will be. president.
Bishop Stuntz; vice-presidents E. r..
Higley, Des Moines; A. B. CALDWELL.
West Liberty; ID. A. McBurney.
Sioux City; Dilman Smith, Des
Moines; secretary, l.. o. Jones, and
treasurer, Leo Stevens, Des Moines.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-11-19
FEEDING HIS STOCK TO SAVE
MUCH TIME.
None Wasted on the Farm of F.. a
Soukup of Harrison County

Woodbine, Ia.-F. z. Soukup of
this county has perhaps one of the
best arranged cattle feed lots In the
state. He has arranged his feeding
with view of a minimum of effort
and labor. He provides grain and mill
feeds, with lots Of good corn silage
and all the alfalfa or clover his ami
mails can eat.
1t is only about thirty feet from
his big farm granary to the grain
bin nearest his house. There is 4
similar bin across the feed lot. Those
two bins are connected by carrier
track that runs across the lot above
the feed hunks, through a small feed
room, between pair of silos, locat-
ed in the center of his feed yard. The
track is higher than ordinarily plac.
ed because it is necessary to drive
under when filling the silos.
The feed hunks divide the lot
north and south and the stacked
hay and hay hunks divide it again,
east and west. In this way Mr.. Sou
kup has secured four very good feed
lots with but little fencing. This is
also convenient, since 1t is generally
conceded to be good practice to feel
"a rather uniform bunch of animals
in a single pen. If the best results
are to be obtained. The hay is stack
ed in the open, between the hay
hunks, making it easy to keep plenty
of hay always within reach OF the
feeders.
The long sections of feed hunks
at each end of the lot are set firmly
in place, being built on posts set
firmly in the ground. But the short
sections on either side of the silo
are removable, making it possible
to work around the silos in filing.
These hunks are built up so that they
clear the ground about two feet.
This arrangement allows the hogs to
WoIh Ddck ana IOflh as mucn as tney
please in the four lots. =
You start at the north end of the
lots for feeding; fill the carrier with
grain at the bin; feed this out on the
way to the silos. Here you take on a
load of ensilage, which you feed to
the cattle on the way to the other
grain bin. You load up another load
of grain and feed back to the silos
Now is good time to see that there
is plenty Of hay in the hunks. You
pick up the last load of ensilage and
feed in on the way back to the grain
bin where the carrier is left in readi-
ness for the next feeding.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-11-19

THE "wHITE COLLAR MAN"
He Has Trouble i'm these High Cost
of Living Times.

Magazines and newspapers have
been printing articles with semi
humorous touch, telling about the
troubles of the white collar man"
in these H. G.. of l.. times. AS they
define it, they include in this class
subordinates who work in offices,
banks, stores, and in all places
where rough manual labor is not re-
quired. Their task is largely cleri-
cal. Also teachers and college pro-
fessors would be included. These
callings used to have a certain CLAM
or of respectability. They did not
call for much dirty work, consequent
ly such workers could dress with a
little more style than the mechanic.
This class of people have suffered
severely under the advancing prices.
Their wages have not risen anywhere
near as much as the manual laborers
What is wrong with the position of
this highly useful and necessary class
of workers. The supply has exceed
ed the demand. The great majority
of these positions could be taken by
young women who have no families
to support. There is not much fu-
ture for the fellow of average ability
in mere routine office work. II he
is country boy he would do far
better to stay on farm. II he Is
a city or town boy, he would be
5etter off to learn some productive
trade.
Young fellows should not be afraid
OF getting their hands dirty. The
world will pay higher price than
ever before for the necessary rough
and coarse tasks Of civilization.
Teachers and college professors
constitute an exceptional class Their
work is of the most vital necessity,
and should be amply paid, to attract
a high class of thinking men and
women. But the time has gone by
when an ambitious boy can see any
hope in a career OF adding up fig
ures or selling ribbons and dress
goods over the counter.
. T
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-11-19
THE SATISFIED
CUSTOMERS VIEW
No Merchant Can Hope to Grow i'm
Business If He Depends Upon
His Customers to do His
Advertising for Him
GOT TO KEEP CUSTOMERS
INFORMED ABOUT STORE
Housewives Do Not Spend Time Like
Once Reputed Leaning Over
Back Fence Telling Where
Brooms and Calico
Dresses Were
Bought

Some old time merchants used to
say that the satisfied customer"
was the best advertisement, and
would give them all the new business
they wanted. They depended upon
this more or less mythical creature
to spread information about their
store, and believed they could build
up trade as the result OF favorable
reports given by their customers to
their townspeople. The practical re-
suit of that style of merchandising
was that stores that practiced it
stayed in the rut and were mighty
lucky to even hold their old trade
Elmore Peterson of the University
Iof Colorado in addressing the
Rocky Mountain Shoe Retailers the
other day, warned them not to place
dependence upon the satisfied GUS
toner" for their advertising. He. said
that the satisfied customer is the
stores best ad for holding trade,
but 1t is not SO for getting new
trade. mo Merchant can hope to
in his business he said. "if he de-
pends upon his customers to do his
advertising for him."
The above quoted speaker might
have put 1t much stronger than that
The fact that purchaser Is pleased
with a purchase does not by any
means indicate that he will go to
that store again next time.
Housewives do not spend time, as
they We're once reputed to do, in
leaning over the back yard fence tel
ling where they bought their
brooms and calico dresses. Most peo-
pie have no idea where their neigh
bors buy stuff anyway.
A purchasers impulse to go to a
certain place is largely influenced by
two forms of suggestion: First.
having seen an advertiseme in
some recent newspaper telling OF
something needed at that particular
(! time; Second, the cumulative result
of constant advertising, creating the
| impression that a certain merchant
/ is always playing the game and run
ming his business in an enterprising
way likely to attract the public.