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New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-11-05
Must Paw for Sunken Fleet.

Paris.-Germany must deliver TO-
900 tons of shipping to the allies as
compensation for the sinking of the
German fleet in Scapa Flow, the rep
arations committee has decided.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-11-05

The Postoffice at Pennington. n.
Mex, sold over $1,000 worth Of stamps
during the month of September. The
big increase in the amount Of the
parcel post is thought to be the rause
of the increase in sales
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-11-05

Characterization; creamery,
37654c-
Eggs-Unsettled- Receipts. 2.s60
cases; firsts. 57hd5shc; ordinary
firsts. 51d54c: at mark, cases included.
4ed5sc; standards. SEQ 6Oc; storage
packed firsts. s0h de1c; refrigerator
firsts. 4sG48Hc.
Poultry-Alive. higher: fowls. gen.
eral run. 23c: springs. &c: turkeys. 40c.
Potatoes-Steady. Minnesota and
wisconsin white. bulk. s1.5OdI7O;
sacked. SIS LIS: Minnesota and Da-
kota Early Ohios. bulk, sIs5dlS0;
Michiean, bulk, sI656I75.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-11-05
RED SOLDIERS
join REBELS
BOlSHEVISTS RETIRING FROM
KIEv AND PREPARING TO
EvAcUATE ODESSA.
REVOLT IN P0D0L|A
REPORTS SHOW RUSSIAN SOVIET
GOVERNMENT IN DESPERATE
FINANCIAL CONDITION.
western Newspaper Union News service.

Western Newspaper Union News service.
Copenhagen, Oct. 30,-A dispatch to
the Berlingske Tidcnde from kovno,
%lithuania, reports IA revolt in the re-
gions of Podolia, kherson and Odessa.
Red troops Were sent TO quell the re-
bellions. OF these half joined the de-
lection and the others were decimated
in the fighting.
The dispatch adds that the Red
forces are retiring from kiev and are
preparing L evacuate Odessa.
The revolt is said to be extending
toward Ekaterinoslav.
WashingtOn.-With estimates from
two departments missing and reports
received from fifty different commits
sariats, the soviet budget for 1920
shows an income of from 50,0O0,O0O,-
900 to 16O,OOO,O 600 900 roubles and ex-
penditures of from 100000 100000 to
l,l50,000 100000 roubles, according to
an article appearing in E%konomitohas-
kaya Zhizn, or Economic Life" pub
lished at Moscow, Sept. %, says a re-
port received here.
These figures, the report states,
(which reveal clearly the desperate
condition of the Bolshevist treasury,
were arrived at by consolidating the
statistics sent in from the various de-
partments and the fifty different com
missariats.
"The departments of justice and ma
tiOnal economy had not reported their
estimates at the time of publication of
the article"
The report continues:
THE emphasis placed by the Bolshe-
visits on propaganda Is evident from
the fact that the budget contemplates
an expenditure for propaganda and
education practically equal TO the com
bined expenditures for agriculture and
the interior.
Further evidence that the financial
situation is daily growing worse was
revealed AT the meeting of the commits
saries in charge of the different banks
Of Petrograd, called ON oct. s. The
main subject Of discussion was the
lack of paper money. II was disclosed
that the demand for paper money,
which in the first week of September
had been 2.JO0,OOO,OO0 roubles, has in
creased in the first week of October
To 5,4O0,OO0,000 roublcs."
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-11-05
Money Market.
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.
At Chicago.


Chicago. - Good to choice steers
steady 10 rs cents higher; others slow,
% cents lower; top handy weight steers.
s1SOO; bulk good and choice. $3.50 to
si7OO; bulk grassy kinds, 5000 to
si4.25; early sales best cows ana helIers
steady: general market unevenly lower;
bulk. SAYS to slO.25; good bulls steady,
others rs cents lower; Gamer cows.
$3.50 to s3.75; calves 80 to IS cents
rysssy calves, $3.50 to $500; stockers
and feeders steady to IS cents higher:
receipts Westerns, 1000. market
steady to shade stronger; bulk so's9 10
sS.75.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-11-05

Market opened is to rs cents lower
later mostly rs to SO cents lower imam
strong: top. one load. 1880: bulk light
and butchers. s12.50 to siSl5; BULK
packing sows. s11.75 to Sl2.i5;, pigs
steady TO 10 cents lower; bulk desirable
kinds, s12.65 to $685..
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-11-05

Direct
station
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-11-05
lsutter

Eggs, strictly fresh. cas- ,.oa,-
count
Loss off. per doz. ....' 'foP
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-11-05

Fat lambs closed active. fully Is
cents higher: top. western lambs,
siIOO TO s12.O0: fat sheep n yearlings
steady; top yearling wethers. 1850:
TOP ewes, se.25: bulk native ewes. 1928
Tat feeder lambs. s12.75.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-11-05
Buying price (bulk) Carloads f U d.
Live Poultry.

Turkeys, 10 lbs. or over...'.
Hens, small. lb........:...,.
Hens, good, 3h lbs. and over
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-03-17
LOOK OVER IOWA FIRST.

+
If the recent failure of a land
company dealing in high priced lands
thousands of miles away from Iowa
brings lesson ii is that home in
vestments are safe and faraway
specalations ticklish places to put
money earned in Iowa. How much
loss will follow those purchases OF
far west acreages, made in good faith
and betrayed, depends upon the
kind of settlement possible to make
but those who accepted the forld
promises and false assertions CT
statesmen bought trouble.
Iowa land is high, no doubt of
that, but Iowa land is still a good iu-
vestment. 1t is safe.
The purchaser of an Iowa farm
demands abstracts and has title
Thoroughly investigated. That does
not seem to follow in some purchas-
es of foreign lands. The glib sales
man oftens gets by.
Yet there are good investments in
lands outside of Iowa and honest
firms that sell them. II man is to
make investments Of that character
outside the state caution should
send him to buy Of statesmen whom
he knows and Of firms whose integ-
rity has been proved to his own
satisfaction.
But when all is said and done no
land investment made as an invest
ment and not as gamble beats
Iowa soil and Iowa opportunity. says
the Marshalltown Times-Republican
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-03-17
wINDFALL FOR NATE"
Wife of n. f. Kendall Is Left Large
Fortune.

Centerville, lathe will of A. E.
Wooden filed in the office of the
county clerk, gives his entire fortune
to his widow. and daughter. Mrs
Nate Kendall, of Abba.
According to the terms of the will
Mrs. Wooden receives the homestead
where they have lived since their
marriage. In addition she receives
two-thirds of all his estate, both
real and personal property. The re-
naming one-third of all property,
both real and personal, goes to Mrs.
Kendall.
No. one has been able to estimate
definitely the Wooden fortune. which
will not be known until the will has
been probated. Mrs. Wooden is
named administrative of the estate
without bond. supposition is that tho
estate Will run in the neighborhood
of the $500.000 mark. Some think
it may run considerably over this.
Mr.. Wooden's inheritance from the
estate of his father, the late }. R.
Wooden, was understood to be abort
$500, 900. The grandchildren of j.
R. Wooden were given $4,000
each.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-03-17
CALDWELL GREETED.
THEM WITH SMILE
Another Interesting Item About Our
Good Citizen l.. l.. Caldwell Given
BY Brother Grave, Of
Waverly.
IT HAPPENED IN
AUTUMN OF 1875
Moral of the Story is as Good Today
as 1t Was Fifty Years Ago.
Pays to be Courteous.

Below We publish a little story
forty-five years old told by Brother
Grave, Of the Waverly Iowa Inde-
Pendent Republican, which will in
terest the many friends of Major
Caldwell in this community:
The Decorah Public Opinion pub
lished the story about L. L. Caldwell.
as conductor, running the first train
over the Milwaukee tracks from Call
mar to Algona, on the 18th of Aug
ust; 1870. Comrade Cadwells home
is now in Decorah where he has been
conducting himself very nicely ever
since he quit as conductor of trains.
And this reminds us of another Jour-
ney on run" which "Cad" conduct
ed. and we want to tell it while all
the performers are still acting.
1t was in the autumn of 1875 A
GOOD woman, then living at Nashua.
with her son about 10 months old
got on the train at Ionia to visit rel
atives at Waukon. The conductor.
who was "Cad," greeted them smil-
ingly and carried the baby boy to
their seat in the car. When the lady
changed cars the conductor was
again there to help to make the
change safely. When the good woman
and her boy returned home they
We're again lucky because CALDWELL
was the conductor and he was again
cheerfully helpful. When the woman
with her baby reached home safely
the first thing she spoke about was
the' kindness of that conductor on the
Milwaukee road. And those whom it,
concerned most have remembered
that kindness for 40 years. We tell
Ii now because the moral of this
little story is as good today as it was
fifty years ago. 1t pays to be court
eous and thoughtfully helpful. no
matter what business We are engaged
in. The "boquet" in this item is in
tended for Comrade Caldwell whom
we are always glad to meet. He is
remembered here as good friend
ever since that good woman told the
story of his kindness.
OF course. We expected such couy
Gus gallantry, knowing the splendid
record Comrade Caldwell made as
soldier for the cause for which the
good old flag of the Union stands.
BY the way, that baby has help
ed to make fairly good country
newspaper for many years and that
is what he is doing now"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-03-17
The Americanizing Teacher.

The child OF an emmigrant is a
child or hope. II only he can be
brought close to the warm bosom of
the real America. The American plan
is that he may be so received and
speedily, too Put an immigrant child
of six years into the care Of real
American school teacher and the
Nances are that in short term OF
years you have reused in him an un-
dying love for America. No ordinary
child can resist the power of love. 1t
is the American idea that all public
school teachers shall be lovers OF
children.
A few years ago there died in a
western mining city teacher notab-
ly successful as superintendent OF
primary grades. Tho she worked con
tinuously among the miners children
most of them almost raw immigrants
and many OF them dirty, she took
great pains to dress prettily and with
more than ordinary neatness. When
asked why she dressed so carefully
for such unclean work. she replied.
II do it for the children. They like
to see me with clean, new and pretty
things. If have pretty shoe. some
times the tiny ones will stop and
pat 1t. Often little girls in passing
me brush against my dress half af-
fectionately; and oh. / love it!
love it,"
If all the children of the strangers
within our gates could touch "the
healing dress" Of teachers OF this
spirit, we should have little trouble
in assimilating immigrants. They
would melt into model Americans in
our primary schools.-Minneapolis
Journal.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-03-17
"TlSH' NEXT
BIG ATTRACTION
May Robson Will appear Here at the
Grand Monday Evening, March
22.
SEATS WENT ON
SALE LAST MONDAY
Miss Robson Is one of the Most Pom
ular Actresses on the American
Stage Today.

There is possibly no actress of the
stage today more firmly established
in the affections of American play
goers than May Robson, and when
she comes to the Grand opera house.
Monday, March % in her remarkably
successful new comedy "Tish'', 1t
Will be the unanimous opinion OF
theatregoers, that this charming
eomedienne, at no time during her
career, has been provided with a
starring vehicle of the befitting quail
tiles OF this new play.
After a short preliminary tour
Miss Robson will return to New
York in "Tish," and if the opinion
OF out-of-town audiences may be ac-
cepted as criterion, the metropoli-
tan success of the new comedy is al
ready assured.
"Tish' is an adaptation of the
Letitia Carberry stories recently ap-
pearing in the Saturday Evening
Post and written by Mary Roberts
Rineheart. The adaptation of the
stories for the stage was made by
Edward E. Rose whose remarkably
successful "Cappy Kicks" and "Pen-
rod are two of the present seasons
greatest successes.
August Pitou Inc, the producer
of "Tish" have spared nothing to
make the production perfect in every
detail, and the company in support
of Miss Robson in this new comedy
Is most capable.
Z The engagement of Miss Robson in
"Tish" In this city will be limited
to one night. The sale of seats opeu-
ed March 10. Secure your seats early.
Prices so, s1.00, $3.50, s2.O0
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-03-17
A Pretty Old Boy.

Uncle John Smell cannot read or
write, has never been to a moving
picture show and remembers the
death of Gerge Washington in 1899,
Shell is FIVE feet and five inches tall
and weighs 10S pounds. Were it not
for his venerable countenance he
would be listed as man half his
years. Remembering the death OF
George Washington in 1899, and ad-
mitting he was rated at too old" to
fight in the Civil War, Uncle" John
Shell, who has records to prove ne
was born in Tennessee in 17ss, pur-
sues his quiet life at "Greacy Greek
an unmapped spot in Kentucky. And
most remarkable of all, he has a son
aged five years by his second wife
Davenport Democrat.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-03-17
BUILDING PROSPECTS s LABOR
Much Needed Work Held Back by
High Cost of Labor and Materials

=" n'me authorities say that as many
IaA Nr 10000 new dwellings are need
ed use the American people
comfor. But while much build
ing is belng done, needed work is
held back by high cost of labor and
materials.
In some places complaint is made
that the workers in the building
trades demand wages far above those
paid to the general run of mach
snics. If such an attitude prevails.
it will check the building program.
The American people want the
building trades workers to be fairly
paid. but they want wages governed
by law of supply and demand, and
enough workers in those trades to
supply public needs. In many places
it is claimed that the number who
are allowed to work at the building
trades is strictly limited by the
unions. If the unions put prices so
high that the people are deferred
from building, and if they hold down
the number who can enter the trades
so as to create scarcity of workers
and no competition, it is difficult to
see how their practices differ from
those of the trust monopolies, and
they will be more burdensome on the
public.
If these conditions prevail, the
people are likely to ask the same
kind of action against such unions
as they demand against other forms
Of monopoly. II this situation is put
up reasonably to the wage earners,
they should see that it will be an in
jury to the whole community.
All elements should take hold to
build these million homes in spirit
of cooperation Contractors should
be satisfied with minimum profit,
and the workers should not ask a
higher wage than is paid in othec
occupations requiring equal skill.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-03-17
PRICES AND PUBLIC WORK.

Almost prohibitive prices for paw
ing are giving the new road law a
set back in Iowa which may require
years to overcome and should force
a change of policy so far as control
of federal funds are concerned, says
the Marshalltown Times Republican,
The vote in Webster county refusing
to accept federal aid for paved roads
is an indication of the state of public
mind and there is no question bat
what present prices make it poor
time to make permanent public inn
lproyements.
1t has been announced from Wash
ington that federal aid road projects
would not be approved hence federal
aid is not extended for anything but
pavement on primary roads in the
vicinity of large towns where traffic
conditions make paved roads the
most economical in the long run. As
a policy in normal times this would
be wise and sound but for year or
two it would be better to permit fed
eral money to cooperate with auto
mobile license money in putting the
primary road systems to permanent
grade preparatory to paving when
costs of construction find their per-
manent level.
Most states have reached their
paved roads via gravel az an educa-
tor and the leap from mud to pave
ment 1t too far for an overly con-
|servative public to go at one bound.
So long as paving remains at its
present prohibitive cost reactionaries
have undue influence with their ar
gument OF high cost. Road elections
that fail are worse than those that
are not held and yet the federal aid
and auto money continue to pile up.
II federal aid projects are not ap-
proved the auto money remains i'm
pounded until all other approved
projects have been paid.
1t would be wise for counties IN
which paving must come soon owing
to density of traffic to be permitted
to go ahead with permanent grading
OF their primary roads so as to De
prepared for paving when the price
is right. This would permit ROAD
elections to be deferred until the vot-
er is satisfied that paving can De
done as cheaply as it ever Will pc
and it will give progress a fau
chance to function. Recent paving
bids even tho they were rejected
upon advice of state engineers have
given the mud road crowd a pre-
ponderance of armament
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-03-17
Going Higher.

Woman's skirts, the Chicago con-
vention of drossmakers tells us, will
be higher the coming spring. Yes,
higher around the bottom. And from
the New York garment makers
comes the report that waists Tor
summer twill be cut even lower
about the neck Husbands should
take heart. II this thing only keeps
up, 1t will be only short time be-
fore the household item Of expense
for woman,s clothing will automatic
ally eliminate itself. Dubuque Tele-
eraph Herald. -------
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-03-17
The Big Fellow PAYS the Tax.

Most of us have been kidding our
selves about the income tax. We
have been rejoicing that the "bis
fellows" have had to bear the burden
of war taxation. However, We are
gradually coming to realize that IL
doesn't quite work out that way,
True. the ''big fellows" pays the tax
all right. but he turns right around
and collects 1t from us through
higher prices. A good big part OF
the high cost nowadays are made by
the income tax. The manufacturer
has to add on some to get his in
come tax money; the wholesaler does
likewise then the retailer, If he Is n
big one in the city, follows suit. Re-
tailers in small cities and towns
aren't bothered much by income tax
What little they have to pay. If any,
isn't big enough for them to bother
with making it up. Anyway, by the
time the finished article gets TO US,
It has couple of extra income tax
profits on ii besides the regular cost.
It's the consumer who pays the bill,
as always.-Northwood Index,
b.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-03-17
WHY LEAP YEAR.
How the Extra Day and the Leap
Were Put in Years Having 386
Days.

Why leap year? Why has every
fourth year that is divisable by four
one more day and the February oi
that year one more day than other
years and the other Februaries? Why
is the year with 366 days called lean
year? These questions of where the
year acquired it's extra day and was
named leap year are explained in the
following:
Leap year, more properly known
as bissextile, is the name given to the
year containing 366 days. The as
tronomers of julius Caesar, As B. c.
settled the solar year at 965 days
six hours. These hours were set
aside and at the end of four years
made day which was added to the
fourth year. The English name for
the bissextile year is an allusion to
the result of the interposition of the
extra day; for after the 29th of Feb
ruary date ''leaps over" the day OF
the week on which it would fall in
ordinary years. Thus birthday on
the 10th of June, Monday, will in
the next year, il a leap year, be on
the 10th of June. a Wednesday.
OF the origin of the custom for
women to WOO, not to be wooed, dur
ing leap year, no satisfactory expla-
nation has ever been offered.
In 1888 law was enacted in Scot
land that ''it is statut and ordaint
that during the reign of hir maist
blissit megeste, for ilk years knowne
as lepe yeare, ilk mayden ladye of
bottle high and lowe estait shall hae
libertee to bespoke We man she likes.
albeit HE refuses to talk hir to be
his lawful wyfe, he shall be mulcted
in We sum ane pundis or less, as his
estait may be; except and avis gise
he can make it appeare that he is
betrothit enc ither woran he then
shall be free"
A, few years later like law was
passed in France, and in the fifteenth
century the custou was legaiized in
Geona and Florence.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-03-17
The Unmarked Hero.

Duluth Herald: Do you know who
is the greatest hero of this. hour? Do
you know who is doing the most to
lower the high cost of living? He
holds no Office. His name does not
appear on the front page headlines.
He does not figure in the pre-cam-
paign charts Of the politicians. Yet
he is doing more than all the orators
and statesmen and agitators and
theorists combined. He is the man
who is giving his best to HIS job, who
is producing all he knows how TO pro-
dnce. and who is spending his earn
ings sensibly, leaving a marsin OF
507cent dollars not to be spent until
they will buy hundred cents worth.
He and no other is the hero of this
troubled hour.