Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-06-16
DEBORAH MODEL TOWN.
Local Man Tells About the City in
Recent Issue OF Trotter and
PAGER.


The June 10th issue of the Trot-
ter and PAGER, published at Clifton,
N. j. has an article about DEBORAH
written by M. T. Grattan, the well
nown horseman of DEBORAH. Mr..
Grattan starts out with the fact that
DEBORAH has many claims to distinct
ion, and mentions the Ice Cave, Lu-
Their College and the four newspap-
crs, also four strong banking houses,
spelndidly housed; opera houses
that are gems in appointment and
9rchitecture; galaxy of churches;
public schools of great merit; park
Cf exceeding beauty grand hotels;
picturesque scenery and last but not
least, from my standpoint, cotorie
of enthusiastic horsemen, generous
in their rivalries, keen sportsmen,
without fear and without reproach. /
a year has passed since that ] have
not turned for the word at DEBORAH,
Matched races galore and win or
lose square deal always. and now
am domiciled here, at least for a
time. In my old Minnesota home my
hrother horsemen dropped off until
was the last leaf on the tree They
were not succeeded by younger men.
Here at DEBORAH second generation
Of horsemen has come along to take
the place of John Curtin, Carl Bates,
John Stiles and their contemporaries
with whom ! raced in the old days.
And this younger generation is a
worthy one that has maintained and
increased the good repute of De-
corah in the hores-world.
This screed is prompted by Civic
Club programme at the Star Opera
House recently, a feature of which
was described as follows by Public
Opinion: t"-. >-. ,. &c.
One of the big hits of the even
ing was our esteemed Celt, Larry
Keefe, who delighted the audience
with a string of Irish anecdotes, told
in a way that only Larry can tell
them. Besides the jokes he cracked
be was made up to look like an Irish
man, but the makeup was not neces-
airy, because it would have been hard
for him to even try to disguise the
fact that he wasn't Irish"
Larry ably drives Ed. Curtin's
home string.
Another feature was displayed by
son of Pres. Baker, of the fair, a
liberal patron of harness horse in
terests. Of this Public Opinion gave
the following account:
1.-THE entertainment concluded with
Geo. Baker and his wonderful dog
Ranger, in tricks that were astound-
ing. Ranger is regular fellow and
can do everything, it seems, but talk.
1t was a great act and we are think
ing George and Ranger could go out
TN big vaudeville stuff and make a
barrel of coin. -
1t is almost q misnomer to call
Ranger a trick dog. He is a Level
len Setter of aristocratic lineage and
the smartest canine ! ever saw. He
will do new things suggested by
anything in fact within
the physical capacity of a dog dc
not believe his equal exists in all
dogdom. So DEBORAH adds to its cele-
lrities a monolCgiSt of exceptional
ability and a veritable prince of
canine inteleetuals.
And / am looking for a successor
to Carl Bates Thalburg, a champ
ion in his specially in his day and
generation.
In connection with this article we
might say that Mr.. Grattan has a
race horse in Tell Sir that he feels
can beat any horse that ever went
over a DEBORAH track or any of the
other tracks in a radius of many
miles. He, thinks Tell Sir a better
animal than Thalburg.