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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-28

SECOND DISTRICT 62 Kiefer Street.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-28

FIFTH DISTRICT. 611 Norman Street.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-28

Corner of Main and Arch Streets
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-28

THIRD DISTRICT 2097 Fairfield Avenue.
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tation we can ask for"
twenty-five minutes after ten"
said Mrs. Forrest, evenly. Almost as
she spoke there came the sound of a
peculiar whistle. Bleekers gave a lit
for him, Ell? ,r
switched on the lights, and con-
irving to turn the big car without
capsizing, steered up the drive to the
clubhouse. Within. the tide of joy
was swelling: a roaring chorus was
vying with the band. A Struggling
flushed and hurried committee es-
corted the governor across the wide
piazza opened the door of the car;
his wife shrank as far in a corner as
she could. Still. fancied he caught
a glimpse of woman's figure, and he
could hardly miss the alcoholic bou-
quet. !.
Hope you don't mind. sir. Stewards
wife's sister-promised her a lift to
town." said !. delivering the message
In which Bleekers had been schooled.
don't know what passed in the
tonneau. I was busy. keeping the ma
chine well within the legal speed; for
I was uncertain where the trap was
set. 80
An arc light showed a rope stretch
ed across the way and group of
men. some In uniform. some in plain
clothes. Yes. there was Allen of the
Record. and there was Henshaw of
the Day. to say nothing Of q couple
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but the name Of his principal There
he baked. but fancied could find
out for myself. As for the frame-up,
1t was simple but clever; it fred
imagination and emulation.
'MaiOne,'' said I. put Bleekers back
on his throne, He's going to run THIS
machfne,to the gate. If. the motor
snorts, choke him."
Then l climbed In beside the lady.
The interior of the car was reeking
with whisky, but she was sober. There
was more suggestion Of a bottle emp
tied on the floor, for advertising effect.
SO to speak. ass.
Say, Willy, where do get Off" she
was brazening 1t out. but. was fright
ened. for all that.
You're the Palometta, believer
oh, then you've heard Of me?" said
she. and Isiggled. nervously.
ITS not a selfshiy rare privilege. 1
reckon." I told her. but where do you
get ON! Why. right here. No more
work or worry on this Job for you'll
you're good. that 10. And, being good.
tell me.. who's the charterer"
/ did not press the point; somehow
that Idea that was to learn for my
self still held me. III you'll take
we'll wlsher's tip" said /, ut Is that
this affair is breaking so that 1t ought
to be worth a steady income to YOU
to keep still. There ought to be plenty
OF money. Go to it,!
I'm hep! said she promptly.
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back in the car and bade her stay
put. Then bent over the man.
whats the game?" said l. "Show
DOWNFALL cards on the tablet"
He told me where could go to find
out. but the place is no bureau of
information. I bent lower and whis-
pered two words--a mans name. They
had wonderful erect-happened to be
his own name, you see-name any
court in the state would honor on a
fat time draft. He stopped swearing.
Trust a professional to distinguish the
real thing from bluff. In fifty words
he gave me all I wished to learn-all
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"Thanky, Solomon! You're reading
right out of my dream book. Will be
good? Watch my smoke!'
The machine had drawn alongside
the governors car. Ladies. change!"
cried I. and helped her to alight. Then
turned to Mrs. Forrest.
EXCUSE me, ma'am. but I wish
you'd swap cars. You see. kindly
hands have arranged little surprise
party for the governor. Between here
and Enderbury there's an auto trap.
aching to catch big game. If we can't
dodge 1t. you'll be the most perfect
protectress of a gubernatorial repu-
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porters will write anything for money.
II you will keep quiet about my send
ing for you I will give you this ring
no; this bracelet. 1t is larger and
cost more"
She tore the thing from her wrist
and offered it to me. And to this
day 1 can't understand why I didn't
knock her down. Yes, l do, too-yes,
L do.
1t was because in the little old
place called home there was
painted ancestor gentleman all diked
out for war with red rose on his
shield. And in an invalid chair was
little sister who wore what the red
rose stands for in her heart. And on
bracket I called my shrine there was
red rag rose that looked equal to
real. If you didn't look too hard
and the red rose meant that you
must never fight foeman unworthy
of your steel. So now you know.
All the same. not being in the angel
class. I was huffing off when she
jerked my hand from the doorknob.
How do I know that you won't
go away and shame me to death?"
You. will have to take my word for
1T. l am leaving theis IS on this
chair. 1t is a big chunk out of my
salary and there are two of us. One of,
us is dying. 1 am lending it to you as
I would like any one to lend it to my
little sister If she needed 1t, as you
do. l would no more traffic in your
suffering than in hers"
Then l went out and slammed the
door-bang!
The next day got back my be-
loved in note written by a woman
who felt that she ought to be decent,
but couldn't help being the other
thing. And that is the end Of REEL one.
The paper was sold, the charity
bunk sent glimering and dear. clever
Miss Medler, If I do say 1t myself,
was promoted to society editor with
a raise in salary to-but only anna
teurs brag.
One night I put on my black net
gown--a black net woman is always
genteel-and went to the White
diplomatic reception. Naturally, you
know without my telling that a dip
Is the most imposing Of the whole
push Of presidential levees. Fortu-
mates who get cards buy extra papers
so that their folks all around may
see their names in print. And il
woman's gown gets a write up4Glory
be!
damned in with forty eleven other
reporters. 1 had diked out the first
lady and her receiving line from the
State Department down to Mrs. La
Dor; put court costumes on every last
dignitary of the foreign corps and
was arraying the headlights of gen.
eral society when. my gracious, who
should happen but my Mrs. v!
She had sailed down the line with
Senator Blink Blank, and, having
been shook by the President and bow
ed at by the cabinet, was about to
overflow into the east room, when
showing she knew her little book
she turned back to glance ingratiat-
ingly to where us dear society re-
porters were tabbing down the vital
things that unfeeling editors call
rags.
And Mrs v. recognized Miss Medler
Of the Moon.
1 could tell by the way her eyes
sizzled into mine. Honest, that woman
would have raised blisters on me, ex-
cept that I am tough! oh. children.
you don't know how tough I am. But
Talk about your Queen Of Shebas!
You may know, when tn 9 entire
press of the country clamored for her
name. But I wasn't going to boost
any woman who had tried to bride
me with her old secondhand dia-
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"l Ol-tOWn MOON.
lv She can tell, you everything
about everybody and a whole
lot more-thrilly stun that she gets
direct from a certain little bird and
through the equally reliable news
bureau conducted by the we'll known
Walls that have Ears. And when it
comes to exciting company! Listen
at this bark back of hers to the time
she and the wolf came together at a
door in Vanity Fair. He showed the
sharp white Of his teeth and She had
a pencil and both were calling on
l bet that woman remembers it to
her dying day Happened way back
when 1 was running the reliek de-
partment of paper 1 worked on,
never mind when. Dates are so de-
pressing. 1t was "relief depart
ment' just like that, front page dis
play. with a boxed-in invitation for
anybody who was poor to come and
be helped without pubiicity-and
that's where the department ended.
There was no middle. could stop
and explain, but l won't, for two good
reasons. One is that it isn't fair to
tell tales out of school and, also, this
isn't my regular day for getting into
trouble.
My salary was only fifteen per
editor didn't know good thing
when he saw it--and, as the Office
never gave me the first cent to run
the thing and as have a fairly
human heart, my little old fifteen
went and went, and went, until-oh,
well, you wouldn't catch me doing it
again. l think too much Of my
butter.
In the middle of the muddle re-
ceived letter-fine hotel stationery
penned in the kangaroo-jump style
that fashion proclaims her own. The
writer's remittance was overdue; she
was ashamed to go to the table with
her bill unpaid and would the man
ager of the department kindly ad-
vance her a few dollars to be return
ed with interest. etc. Signed (con-
fdentiaD Mrs. -. Don't let's worry
over names.)
Plainly, the lady stood in need of
menus. and, being pay day, I trotted
Off to one of the finest hotels in town
and was bell-boyed to her room.
When she saw me-a plain woman
in a plain frock-she fairly glared
remark-no use trying to put fork
lightning into words:
II sent a note to the manager of
IA department of your paper. What
are you doing here?"
Because / am the manager Of that
department, madam"
"Then oblige me by getting out.
supposed I was writing to man
who could understand. certainly
would not have put myself at the
mercy of scandalmongering wom-
an scribbler to be-"
Well, dears. she kept on flinging
bouquets, racing up and down the
room like mad. And there I waited
to get in a word, with my little old
Ave dollars that / had drawn three
hours in advance. Honest. it was like
play, except that 1t was more like
something whole lot worse--and
by the. time she could stop long
enough to give me another look her
eyes were like MISUNDERSTANDING
red.
I'D thank you to know that am
no common beggar"
"Your diamonds prove 1t. Why didn't
you pawn one Of your rings"
/ thought 1t a perfectly helpful sug-
gestion. but 1t started her off again,
som ething fierce.
III only had thought of tiff
only ! had! Here. woman. you re-
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Of chaps I set down as from the En-
derbury papers.
You don't want to stop me-" said I.
"Pve got the governor along. He's
making a train"
'Governor-Hades! Why don't you
call him the PRESIDENT" He pulled
open the door and caught a Whit of
the whisky. That's it-president Of
a distillery, more like"
Gas tank leaking. maybe" growl-
ed; but Forrest, bending forward, in
tervened. why are we detained?"
he demanded sharply. 'Overspeed-
ing? Sergeant. assure you our pace
has been very moderate"
The newspaper men closed In. AL
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1t worked out beautifully. We sent
the corn to mill and the opposition
papers had to grind our grist. Then
our papers took up the case. and ev-s
cry corner Of the state heard Of the
devotion of our gubernatorial couple.
Why, when the governor filled an ems
gagement out of town his wife went
visiting in the same neighborhood for
the pleasure of riding home with him.
Those ugly. whispered stories lost
point and interest; this new story did,
not have to be whispered. 1t could
be shouted from the housetops.
Truth to tell, the Old Man saw to ~
that 1t was. megaphoned.
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-08-11

hopes in favor of Larger
issues" but as the years
slip by she begins to see
that affairs outside her
realm are insatiate. Per-
haps she lacks the cour-
age or the tact to seek
benefits that would aid
immeasurably to the gen.
eral comfort. It seems
almost futile to discuss
the subject under a cloud
of that sort.
7 Given convenience, ed
ucational and social fa-
cilities, adequate help
and a way to mingle with
their city neighbors when
they choose, it seems log
ical that a farm family
which prefers the rural
setting would reject the
idea of tearing up the
roots Of home and trans
planting them in the
city. By the time the
farmer is ready to re-
tire, his community is
usually built up to in
clude a church and other
public meeting places
within range of his car.
And if he is so feeble
that he can not be his
own driver for a short
distance without regard
to weather, he will need
a personal aid anyway.
To meet the needs of
the farmer who has
reached the retiring point
but lacks finances for his
program, the one remedy
would seem to be state
establishment Of public
utilities in the country;
and the eyes Of the world
are upon North Dakota
as her torch Of leader
ship grows brighter.
MRS. C. d. CROUCH.
Grover, Cal.
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-08-11
MOVE TO TOWN

After reading Mrs.
Sam Deans and Mrs.
Ella Olson's letters, !
thought ! would write
my opinion. I certainly
agree with Mrs. Dean
about retired farmers
moving to town if they
care to. If any one needs
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-08-11

must be paid Tor hrst or
because the crops failed,
or because of overpro-
duction when the returns
did not meet the ex-
penses were hardships
which they faced.
Today their children
go cheerfully into debt
for the auto, for home
improvements and labor
saving devices. The farm
wife of today who takes
herself and children out
in the auto for an hour
or so every day, who
goes some distance once
in two weeks to a good
lecture, theater or music
al treat, can get through
a large amount of work
each day and has not
that dread enemy, mo-
notony, to weigh her
down.
AS to their problems,
the debts for these i'm
provements to be paid
off, the high cost Of pro-
duction and the high cost
of buying finished prod
ucts, there is a DISPOSE
tion on the part of the
younger generation to
inquire into the causes
and to use their heads in
the solution. "a
MAUDE PETTYJOHN.
Dayton, Wash.
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-08-11

that it demands individual solution.
AS for two castles growing out of
the farmers decision to stay in the
country and the city mans preference
for his profession, it is a theory that
appears wholly visionary to me. The
farmer and his family soon learn to
meet their city friends on an equal
footing and the intercourse is of mu-
tual benefit and diversion.
In many cases, needed improvement
might easily be brought about if hus-
band and wife worked toward COM
mon goal. But too often their aims
are divergent. The wife knows what
she needs and wants to make her life
easier and happier. For period of
probation" she sets aside her own
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-08-11

rest it is the farmer and his wife,
who have worked on the farm most of
their lives. I would rather see them
spend their money for things of COM
fort and pleasure than work all their
lives only to be able to leave some
thing for their children. I do not
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-08-11

agree with Mrs. Olson about moving
to town to have better schools for the
children. I think they can learn as
much in the country and they are bet
ter off than on the streets Of a town.
s........ MRS. JAKE WAREHIME.
Fort Benton, Mont.
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-08-11

In the midst of the discussion and con, whether
retired farmer should the city stay the farm,
G. Quame president of the Federal Land bank of
St. Paul, and gives all the arguments jolt.
There is no argument necessary he says the state
those in the cities make possible for farmer make
decent living the farm he won't to the city under
circumstances, for he'll be happy the far
Therein he rectes how the people Of North Dakota
through their state bank, the right track
II" the farmer is allowed to make decent profit, he will
fix up his home comfortably, improve his farm, till his land
and live happily he adds
he state should loan to the farmer at low rates.
that he could clear the debt incurred during hard times and
still have money left for profit"
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-08-11
DON'T QUIT FARM

The two letters Of
Mrs. Dean and Mrs. o.
son both show optimism,
a sort of "I want some
thing better than the old
way"
Both letters aim at the
same thing, happiness
and rest from the eternal
grind of the economic
struggle. Men and wonn-
en- working in the double
harness of married life
under the present sys-
TEN have had and are
having to travel a hard
road to Tipperary, espe-
cially the woman. Town
life for me, says Mrs.
Dean, because of the
many conveniences. Sure,
CONTINUED on page 15)
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-08-11
Farm Is Best
Logical to Wish to Remain in
Rural Setting

IKE all debated topics,
the question Of where the
retired farmer shall live
retains its status despite
pro or con. So purely
personal is the problem
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-08-11

side, they have been SO isolated be-
fore the advent of automobiles and
good roads that it seemed neces-
sity to their welfare to retire to the
towns in their old age. Their children
are managing differently. With new
improvements and covering distance
as quickly as they do doubt whether
they will leave the farms as they
grow old.
Their parents had heavier burdens
to bear, grinding toll and monotony
so terrible that it broke the nerve Of
the hardest constitutions. Trips in
buggies and wagons over rough, mud
dy or dusty roads over 20-mile or
more trip to town, lack of conven-
fences in the home because the farm
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-08-11


Of
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-08-11

S TO the advantages of
town or country life for
the retired farmers, in
the case of the large
wheat farmers in the
country in which I re-
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-08-11
New Conditions

improvements to Keep Younger
Generation on Farm Is View
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-10-22

trail DIVISION headquarters in Chicago
calling upon the men and women of ev-
cry community to enlist for the ten-day
campaign to secure dollar annual
memberships. With approximately
600 chapters in the division, this mum.
Der will allow for about 400 workers to
a chapter. Every chapter will be a
recruiting Office for these workers.
Workers Will Wear Badges.
Each worker will be supplied with a
badge proclaiming that the wearer is a
volunteer worker for the Red Cross
The success of the campaign will. in
reality rest upon the shoulders of
these volunteer workers, as the third
roll call cannot be success without
a complete organization.
The purpose Of the campaign is to
obtain, as nearly as possible, univer-
sal enrolment in the Red Cross as an
expression of confidence in the past
performances of the Red Cross and a
reafiirmation of allegiance to the prin-
ciples which will guide its work In the
future. In order to do this every man
and woman in the territory of each
chapter must be asked to join the Red
Cross, and this will require the serv-
ices of hundreds Of workers. The
Central Division wants at least 4,0OO,-
900 enrollments for 1920. Special
stress during the campaign will be
placed upon the annual one-dollar
memberships in order to make the roll
call an appeal to all the people.
Past Campaigns Successful.
Success has attended all Red Cross
activities In the Central Division In
the past. In the the last war fund
drive this division, with quota OF
$13,SOO,OOO, subscribed $21, 3o7 ,6O2.83.
In the second roll call, more than A.
100000 were enrolled.
The money quota for the Central
Division is $3,0O0,000. Throughout the
nation, the Red Cross will enlist 20
100000 members and raise $15,OOOOOO
to carry on it's international, national
and local work.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-10-22

Roll Coll will be conducted from Nov.
2 to IL to obtain 100000 members
and $15,0O0,OO0.
Plan Survey Of Supplies.
Since 1900 disasters of peace have
cost many thousands of lives and
have brought personal injury or prop
erty loss to 1900, 600 persons. destroy
ing property valued at $1,0O0,000, 900.
During 1917 eighty disasters were re-
ported to the American Red Cross,
81 tornadoes, floods, great fires,
two earthquakes, two serious mine
disasters, two munition plant explo-
sions and the tragic calamity which
befell Halifax.
Under the direction Of the Red
Cross the entire resources of all COM
munities will be modified for instant
use when needed. Chapters every
where will create committees to make
surveys, locating emergency food sup
plies, drugs, hospital supplies, cots,
mattresses, blankets, clothing, armor-
les, schools and other buildings for
housing refugees and will canvass ply
sicians, nurses, social workers and
others prepared to respond instantly
to calls for their services in disasters.
National Resources Available.
The thirteen divisional organiza-
tions will establish disaster relief sup
ply centers and take charge of opera
tions when assistance is needed. In
cases of major disasters where the
resources of the division in which it
occurs are overtaxed, the entire
strength Of the Red Cross In the coun-
try may be modified through national
headquarters.
Fifty base hospitals organized by
the American Red Cross and turned
over to the government for use with
the military forces will be ready for
immediate service.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-10-22
gnblif 0plulOr.
The Way / Feel About 1t.


/. BY the National Republican. B.
You never hear any more of bull
chasing a woman because she has on
a red flannel petticoat.
Praise softly and without gush. A
gusher is like an overripe tomato
without substance and very, very
mussy.
A good many rungs in the ladder
of life seem to have been sawed part
ly in two just ready for you to step
on.
The war may have been fought 10
save the world for, democracy, but
under the peace treaty the two re-
naming active empires seem to have
grabbed most of it.
II coffee goes to dollar pound,
as predicted, very few people will
have any grounds for using it.
You talk about your daily grind"
If it's grind" you'd better get out of
It.
Some day poem will re written
about the beauties of forgetting. A
good memory is poor article if it
causes you to retain hatred and jeal
ousies and gossip.
If some young people we all know
were to die suddenly, about all that
could be put on their tombstones
truthfully would be, They were good
dancers"
Another mystery is why anybody
with a pleasant home in which there
are no flies, bugs nor ants, and where
there is. clean table linen and chairs
should never go picnicing.
AS a matter of fact, the meek don't
seem ever to inherit the earth" or
much of anything else except kicks.
Probably it's because they always
seem so glad just to be alive and not
in anybody's way.
A pedestrian in these automobile
days doesn't seem to have any more
rights than an innocent bystander.
It's all right to shoot folly as it
flies" but your better off If you can
shoot it before it's old enough to fly.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-10-22
Modified FOR
DISASTER CALLS
Red Cross Machinery of Organ
ization Ready for Any De-
rnand for Service.
so BASE HOSPITALS READY
Chapters Provide Emergency Relief
Committees and Establish Supply
Centers to Answer Appeals.
Nov. 2 to II
x &c ~ q =,

Preparedness for disaster relief on
q scale never before possible is being
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-10-22
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT.

Notice of the appointment of an
executor of the estate of Sven Peter
son, deceased.
Notice is hereby given, that the
subscriber has been duly appointed
executor of the estate of Sven Peter
son. late of Lincoln township, in the
county of Winneshiek, state of Iowa.
deceased, testate, and has taken up
on itself that trust by giving bonds
as the law directs. All persons
having demands upon the estate Of
the said deceased are required to
exhibit the same; and persons in
debted to said estate are called upon
TO make payment to
First State Bank of Ridgeway, Iowa,
Executors.
Dated at DEBORAH, Iowa, October
7, 1919.
o. o. RUE, Attorney. 424.