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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1921-09-07
PAUL sWEZEY MARRIED
Former Decorahian Takes Marietta
Ohio. Girl for Bride on Aug u.


A copy of the Marietta, Ohio
Times reaches our desk with the
interesting news to DEBORAH friends
of the marriage of Mr.. Paul Swezey'
son of DR.. and Mrs. A. J. Swezey'
former Decorahians, but who now
reside in Huntington, West Virginia
Paul's many DEBORAH friends VIII
ioin with us in extending cOngratu-
Iations and best wishes. The mar
riape took place on August "a at
Marietta, and the Times gives the
following interesting particulars OF
the event:
Pretty Wedding
The wedding Of Miss Helen Mar
guerite Gerken Of this city and Mr..
Paul Howard Swezey Of Huntington,
w. Va, which took place on We'd
nesday afternoon at a quarter to
five o'clock was one of the prettiest
of the season though one of the
simplest. Rev. W. L. Goldsmith,
pastor of the Congregational church
ofiiciated at the ceremony, perform
ing it at the residence of the bride
on Third street.
The rooms of the Gerken resi-
dence were bowers Of flowers, golden
rod, gorgeous red dahlias and babys
breath being utilized to great adj
vantage.
At the appointed hour the bride
and bridegroom took their places be
fore the officiating minister. There
were no attendants and no one wa.
present except the members of TIT
families. The bride was becomingl.
attired in a stunning one-piece frocl
of navy blue tricotine with hat an
other accessories to correspond an
a bridal touch was impaired to tn
costume by a corsage of orchids. FoI
lowing the ceremony wedding dir
ner of handsome appointments wa
served, the table having lo'
mound of pink zennias and smilax 9
its centerpiece. This was SURROUND
ed by crystal candlesticks and hgh
ed tapers and shades.
Mrs. Paul Howard Swezey is ii
daughter of the late Mr.. and Mr.
John Gerken and is one of the mo
admired girls in the younger sc
| She is a graduate of Marietta His
school and Marietta Academy al
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1921-09-07

by her charming manner and radiant
personality has won for herself q
large circle of friends.
Mr.. Swezey is the son of DR.. and
Mrs. Swezey of Huntington and is
young man Of admirable character
istics, which win for him the esteem
of those with whsm he is associated,
Mr. and Mrs. Swezey will leave on
the 1st of September for Des
Moines, Iowa, where they viii reside
as Mr.. Swezey is attending the
School of Osteopathy in that city,
Their friends are sanguine that THEN
future will be as roseate as their
wedding indicates.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1921-09-07
Home From ENJOYABLE Trim

Mr.. and Mrs. T.. w. Oxley and
son arrived home Saturday from a
delightful automobile trip to Duluth,
MINI. The J, B. Reed family who
accompanied them on the trip re-
manned at Duluth, where Mr.. Reed
viii take treatments for asthma,
which he has been bothered with for
some time. Miss Catherine Reed ar
rived home with Mr.. and Mrs. Oxley,
and goes to Chester where she will
teach this fall.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1921-09-07
Germann Home From Market

F. A. German, proprietor of the
Mems Shop and his family, arrived
home last Wednesday from their
trip to Chicago, where Mr.. German
made fall purchases for his clothing
store here, and he reports purchas-
ing one of the finest stocks he ever
bought. They made the trip by auto,
and on the return were compelled
to leave their car at McGregor and
make the balance of the trip home
on the train, as they encountered a
heavy rain storm around McGregor.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1921-09-07
Congregational Church

A foreign missionary sermon next
Sabbath morning. Subject in the
evening "a Symbolic Glimpse of the
Heavenly Life" Sabbath School
again in full operation in all classes
at u.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1921-09-07
Ladies Hair Dressing ParIor.

Shampooing, massaging, manicur-
ing, switch weaving, stems and ear
puffs made to order. A full line OF
Marinello creams aud powders. Over
brick store, West DEBORAH, Phone
Red 447. MRS. NJ. w. HARTMANN.
Att
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1921-09-07

We want our customers to understand
that we are giving values which absO-
lutely can not be matched anywhere
i'm America. NO OLD GOODS ON
SALE-WE HAVEN'T ANY!
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1921-09-07
Brother Died in Wisconsin

H. NJ. Cummings departed Satur-
day night for Fort Atkinson, Wis
consin, called there by the death of
his brother, John H. Cummings, who
passed away Friday night. He was
70 years of age, and the funeral was
held Monday.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1921-09-07

Many Hart Schafner Marx Suits which made up TO opr
special order haze been very low prices have
marked, saving finn SIS to SIS your purchase
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1921-09-07
Get Your Chimneys Cleaned

Now is a good time to have your
chimneys cleaned before cold wea-
Their sets in. Phone No. 459, or drop
card. Bob futile, DEBORAH. 36-2wpd
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1921-09-07

"A large shipment of wall paper
just received, and prices are re-
markedly low at Prastmark's. 35-2
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1921-09-07

-Prastmark's for wall paper. 35-2
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-06-27
g. g. $50, 900 Raised i'm
u. S. for Chinese Relief
Thomas W. Lamont Says Fund
Was Obtained at Cost of
Only 3 Per Cent

America contributed S7,25O,000 for
Chinese relief, mainly as result of
the campaign conducted by the Amer
lean Committee for China Famine
Fund, which closed June g. according
to an informal report issued yesterday
by Thomas w. Lamont, chairman of
the committee. The total cost of rails
ing this sum is estimated to be about
3 per cent.
In the report attention is called to
the response of the Chinese people to
appeals for help from the people in
the Northern provinces affected by the
famine. Excluding proceeds of the
government loan, S6,000000 gold was
obtained through volunteer relief or
CARNATIONS and the provincial authori-
ties. Mr.. Lamont said, in part:
'The American Commit for China
Famine Fund, in making it's report at
the close of the campaign, desires to
express once more to the Anne rican
public its profound gratitude for the
quick generosity that has rendered
such widespread and effective relief
throughout the famine provinces in
China, and that has resulted In the
saving of perhaps millions of lives of
this great people, thus even more
closely than before bound by ties of
lasting friendship to America"
Any available funds still on hand
Mr.. Lamont said, together with any
further contributions, will, if a feasible
program can be devised, be devoted to
the study of methods to prevent future
famines
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-06-27
list Leaves for Camp
AS Goth Comes Home

The fist Regiment, with thousand
men in line, left the armory at Park
Avenue and Thirty-fourth Stree. yes
terday afternoon, and marched to the
Grand Central Terminal, where it
boarded two special trains for the
Peekski1 cantonnent and rifle range.
The specials left the station at
O'Clock
Colonel J. Hollis Wells was in COM
mand. The training period will be for
fifteen days and will follow special
program that viii take into considera-
ton the service of the men in France
and on the Mexican border. The Gus
tomary field maneuvers will be modified
and more time devoted 80 machine gun
merry, scouting and mapmaking.
Before the fist arrived the seth, hav-
ing finished its two weeks tour of duty
at Peekskill. detrained at the Grand
Central ard parGded to the armoey at
Twenty sixth Street and Lexington
Avenue. Led BY the band, the regiment
marched dorm Lexington Avenue from
Forty Street Colonel John )
Phelan in complimenting his men said
| that they had Just finished one of the
most successful training periods that
any military organization had had
since the end of the war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-06-27
President Again Pledges
Mid for Manned Soldiers
Harding sends Message to Dis
abled Veterans Assembled
for Detroit Convention

DETROIT, June GA tribute TO
wounded soldiers from President Hard
ing was received tonight by national
officers of the disabled American vet.
Grams of the World War on the eve OF
the first annual convention of the or.
ganization.
Ten thousand disabled veterans are
expected to attend the convention.
The message from President HARDING
expresses regret that he could not at.
tend the convention and continues:
II will be glad il you will convey
to the gathering the assurance of my
deepest interest in their work in be.
half of the disabled veterans, to whom,
the nation owes debt that it will
never be able to pay in full. They are
the ones who have made the greatest
sacrifices in behalf of our national lib
erty and of human freedom.
AT least, they can be assured that
the gratitude of their countrymen will
always go out to them and that it will
be the determined purpose of the gov.
eminent to insure the fullest measure
Of justice and of humane consideration
fer them.
Il hope your convention may be as
successful in the accomplishment OF
results as it's purpose is inspiring te
every patriotic sentiment"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-06-27
Government Paws
$226 486 ,391 i'm
Soldiers Claims
Disability Disbursements to
Date $192,677,5 $50. 43;
Death Awards to Depend
ents Are S33, 800 ,3Ol.86
From The Trioune's Washington Bureau

From The Trfbune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, June 26.-According
to an announcement made to-day by
Director c. R. Forbes of the Bureau of
War Risk Insurance, the government to
date has disbursed 1926, 486, 891.34 in
meeting both the compensation claims
of former service men disabled by rea-
son of wounds, injuries or disease in
Cured in the World War and the death
claims Of the dependents of those who
made the supreme sacrifice.
The disbursements for disability have
aggregated $192,677, 5s9.4s, and the
death disbursements $33,809 ,301.86.
For the month of May the amount
disbursed by the bureau for compensa-
ton purposes was S10,575,416. The
monthly payments on disability com
pensation claims for that period
amounted to $9s145,28S, and the month
ly payments to the dependents of dead
soldiers aggregated 81 1901 Between
June l and June Is the bureau mailed
221,612 checks to cover disbursements
to former service men.
Mr.. Forbes says the increase in the
number of claims filed with the bureau
has exceeded any estimate. The mum
Der recorded from the inception of the
bureau to May, 1919, was 200, ZOO, while
on June /, 1921, the total on file was
631,980, an increase during that period
of 422,280 The number of awards for
death and disability for the first period
was 41,o7S; the number at the end of
the second period was 323,415, an in
crease during the second period of
282 ,342. For the first period the ratio
was one claim pending to every two
filed; for the second one claim pending
to every eight filed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-06-27
State Bonuses Held Up
BY New Legal Questions
Appeals Judges to Fix Another
Date for Ruling ON Constitu-
tionality of Act
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

ALBANY, June 26-While the State
Bonus Commission is marking time I'M
til the Court of Appeals shall have de-
cided the question of the constitutions
atty of the state soldier bonus act, sew
eral points Of law will be cleared up.
One question is where the commits
sion has the right to assign bonuses to
the State Veterans Relief Fund.
Examination of the act has revealed
the possibility that veterans of the
Spanish American and other wars might
apply for aid from this fund, but
under the provisions of the bonus act
no bonus money may be assigned to
the relief fund unless it is to be used
by World War veterans.
Colonel H. j. Cookingham jr., d.
rector of the state soldier bonus, has
asked Attorney General Charles E
Newton for ruling on this point.
On account of the death of Judge
Emory Chase, associate judge of the
Court Of Appeals, special term set
for tomorrow for consideration of the
validity of the bonus law has been
postponed until later in the week, prob
ably Wednesday.
The Appellate Division last Monday
declared the law constitutional.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-06-27
British Veterans Unite

4 more powerful association of Brit
Hh veterans has come into being IN
he British Isles and from now on It
nay be that the ex-service men of
nat country viii have more to say in
Is affairs than they have in the past.
When the war ended several organl-
ations were formed, among them the
National Association of Ex-Service
Ven, the National Federation of Dis
charged and Demobilized Sailors and
soldiers, the Officers Association and
he Comrades Of the Great War.
L mas been proved to the satisfac-
ton Of these men that by dividing
aemselves into so many groups they
AVE lost their power for good in the
community, and, therefore, they have
inaigamated The announcement was
aade recently by G. H. Creighton,
sserss;ary of the new organization in
Belfast. Ireland, who declared that the
regotiations for the merger had been
Ender way for two years.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-06-27
ST., 900, 900 *. of C. School
Former Service Men To Be
Taught by Correspondence
Speciel Dispatch to The Trib

CHICAGO, June s.-Establishment
of correspondence school for former
service men by the Knights Of Column
bus at New Haven, Conn, with an mi
tial investment of $1,o00,00O, was de-
cided upon to-day at meeting of the
Board of Directors here.
The school will provide free educa-
ton for men from remote and rural
sections, who served in the war and
who, because of the great distances
from their homes to cities where
Knights of Columbus schools are stu
ated, have been unable to attend. The
project will be placed before the ma
tional convention at San Francisco in
August.
Formal announcement was also made
that Chicago will be the place where
the Knights Of Columbus will entertain
Marshal Foch when he visits the
United States late in the fall. The
tentative date set is November 6.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-06-27
Citizens Unite to Back
Military Training Camps
Leaders in Many Fields to Aid
in Recruiting for Piatts-
burg Course

The Military Training Camps Asso-
citation, Of 10 West Forty-fourth Street,
which is aiding the War Department in
recruiting for the Plattsburg Citizens
Camp, which will open on August an
nounced yesterday the appointment of
a civilian cooperating committe for
the I'd Corps area. The object of this
committee, said Captain Arthur f.
Cosby, executive secretary of the as
ISOLATION, is to show the widespread
interest among representative citizens
in support of these camps.
The committee for the I'd Corps
area. which includes New York, New
Jersey and Delaware, is composed of
Governor W. D. Denney, of Delaware;
Senator Wadsworth, of New York :;
Senator Frelinghuysen, Of New Jersey;
the, Right Rev. Patrick ]. Hayes, Arch
bishop of the Catholic Diocese of New
York; the Right Rev. William T.
Manning, Protestant Episcopal Bishop
for the Diocese Of New York; Grayson
NJ. P. Murphy, Colonel William Bar
clay Parsons, Major Archibald G.
| Thatcher, president Military Training
Camps Association; Major Julius o.
Adler, Albert Wilcox, DR.. Joseph A.
Blake, DR.. George <. Brewer, DR..
George Draper, Granville Clark, Ben
jamin JOY, vice-president, Bankers
Trust Company; De Lancey Koantze,
F. M. Weld, William Fellowes Morgan,
president of the Merchant Associa-
ton; Colonel Charles W, Whittlesey,
Major George G. McMurtry, James
Byrne, James D. Williams, George T.
Adee, Major Herbert Barry, National
Security League; George l.. Wrenn
Everett Colby and Hugh Frayue, gem
eral organizer, American Federation of
] Labor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-06-27
Claims Death and
Coolies Spared All
"A. f. Z. spirit,ialists
Medium Diynlges News al
Closing Session of Assem-
bly, Marked by Lively Chat
Ter From Many Shades

lively series of communications
between the material world and the
realm of spirits marked the closing
of the twenty-ffth annual convention
of the General Assembly of Spiritual
lists at the Waldorf Astoria last night.
John Slater, the favored medium en-
ployed by the majority of spirits to
deliver messages to those left behind,
was in perfect control of the situation
and proved the life and soul of the
party. The spirits, too, appeared to
be especially communicative and Cos
siped copious1y
Before delving into the spirit world
MIR. Slater divulged secret that might
have been Of vast interest to Grover
Bergdoll at one time. Mr. Slater de-
ciared that SIT followers of spiritual
ism were included in the A. E. +. in
France during the war and that
through the guiding influence of the
spirit world not one as much as re-
celved single scratch Just to prove
that the spirits were extraordinarily
careful with the spiritualist soldiers
Mr. Slater declared not one of the
number was ever once infected with
cootie. He did not say whether it was
spirit idea or just the natural mature
of the ''varmint."
Several other spirits DESTROYS of I'M
parting secrets were given hearing,
but for the most part the closing SEES
sion was rather tame. A challenge
from Joseph T. Rim, a Washington
Street importer, to Mr.. Slater to prove
that he could perform the things that
he claims to be able to, was delivered
during the evening meeting. The chal-
lenge was in response to a statement
made yesterday by the medium that he
would meet Mr.. Rim "anywhere, any
time, providing the latter paid him
$1,000 if he succeeded, paid the rent
on hall for the staging of the party
and turned the entire gate receipts over
to Mr.. Slater" Mr.. Rim offered to hire
Carnegie Hall and let a committee of
newspaper men decide whether Slater
delivered the goods or not and accept
the remainder of the terms laid down
in Mr.. Slater's challenge.
When asked last night what he in
tended to do about it, Mr.. Slater told
members of the press that he wanted
to think it over a couple of daya.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-06-27
The American Legion
Neus: Local, State, National
Funds Still Needed to
Send Dying Mar, Home

Several days ago Walter T.
Hamilton, chairman of the Wei
fare Committee of the American
Legion in Bronx County, made an
appeal through The Tribune for
fund Of s40o to defray the
travelling expenses of tuber-
GUAR veteran new a patient in
Seton Hospital, who wished to go
to California and see his aged
father before he died.
There have been many re-
sponses but more than half the
necessary amount is still required
and the chairman asks that con-
tributions be made with as little
delay as possible.
Checks will be received by
Chairman Hamilton at AIT East
142d Street.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-06-27
California Kind ia Vets

:. california is far in the lead of the
galfed States quota in providing legis-
auye reward and rehabilitation for
aerviee men If the World War. accord
mg TO Governor William ID. Stephens,
sao aas just signed FIVE welfare bills
Introduced and sponsored in the state
leglslature by the American Legion.
oae bill provides for the creation OF
veteran welfare board and for aid TO
s'efans in obtaining farms. The
ward consists of FIVE members, four
y ,Wnem are ex-seryice men. A million
s0'lar fund is appropriated TO be used
revolving fund for land settle
4sat q former soldiers.
another bill provides for the issu-
saee OF bonds not to exceed 81 ,00o,00o
:. - the furtherance of the operations
y y she soldiers welfare board, and q
s.leu 5iii provides for the sale Of lands
z The state to veterans in amounts
az exceeding $4,000, and to be paid
" with interest in forty years. Each
s sssa VIII be loaned a minimum of 49,.
rs Tor the purchase OF livestock ana
arm equipment.
aIAeeaslon of educational counsel tt
sssrans and assistance in vocational
~ ihg, with monthly allowances e
aaose taking vocational training not to
ssAssea $40 month, is provided in the
1917 I'LL measure, and the fifth gives
H.. men the same preferential rat,
as N all state civil service tests IL,
now accorded Civil War veterans
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-06-27
saranac Demands Hospitai

Members Of the Saranac Lake Post
ave begun campaign to bring about
,as establishment of government
asspital in that section. They have
gEt circular letter TO each post ask
ING that its officers direct to Cornelius
= Wickersham, chairman Of TIE
LegiOn's Investigating Committee, a
stser demanding such disqualification.
They ask:
|. Immediate hospitalization fer the
zen IN Sarnnac Lake now who have no
soFernment maintenance.
Temporary hospitalization in
earanac Lake for at least 400 men, or
. many as are suffering from tuber-
ssalosis and are located in hospitals like
sex Hills and in the immediate neigh
aorhood.
:. The establishment of one OF the
tuberculosis hospitals in the Adiron-
aaeg Mountains near Saranac Lake
shich were covered and provided for
" recent appropriations.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-06-27

the national Legislative committee Of
the Legion are effective.
John Thomas Taylor, vice-chairman
OF the Legion committee. has been con-
1erring with Postmaster General Hays
and First Assistant Postmaster Cen
eraI Works, and states that they have
promised to favor veterans certified by
the Cavil Service Commission to every
instance possible.
The Postofice Department has more
consistently favored former service
men IN its appointments than any
other department of the government.
About 80 per cent of the new post
masters designated since the close of
the World War have been veterans. in
eases where they have been among the
elglbles certified by the Civil Service
Commission for appointment. There
have been s25 appointment in such
cases and $50 of them have gone to
former soldiers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-06-27
Information Wanted

Former members of Troop NJ. 9Th
esvstrv. are asked to communicate
slth Anagnostis D. MAESTRO, their com
nde, who lost an arm in the service
Isl result of an accident. He must
Eve witnesses who will testify that
d was injured in service before he can
raw his compensation. He can be
cached either at State Headquarters,
rom S02, Hall Of Records, or by ad-
lressing the American Legion editor
d The Tribune
Information also is wanted by State
Heaeuarters from persons who know
he whereabouts Of Robert F. Brown
iag, formerly second lieutenant with
G5mpany G, 318th Infantry, 80th Di-
|asion. Communicate with Eugene B.
|'ssey, adjutaut Of Kingston Post,
ginsston, n. Y
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-06-27
Unofficial Delegate ON Way
to White Slave Conference

Major Bascom Johnson, of the
American Social Hygiene Association,
VIII represent America in an unofficial
capacity at the international Confer
cnce on White Slave Traffic, which
meets at Geneva June 80. He left for
Switzerland June Il.
Unofficial representatives will be per-
mitted to address the conference, but
voting power will be reserved for Of
fetal government representatives.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-06-27

cofnpsni9d by their wives, sisters aIid
daughters, arrived Yesterday. The
party passed the day sailing around
New York harbor aboard the municipal
ferry boat Correction. Ellis Island was
visited. Frederick A. Wallis, Comr1is-
sioner of Ii..-4rigration, conducted the
station.
The Vicc-President and big wifo will
arrive at the Pennsylvania Station ~