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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1922-07-05

The honor of being chosen the
prettiest girl in Winneshiek county
in the Des Moines Register-Iowa
State Fair Beauty contest went to
Miss Margaret Schremser, of De-
corah, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. H.
A. Schremser. The selection of coun-
ty winners was made from more than
5000 pictures of pretty Iowa girls.
The next step will be to select the
prettiest girl from each congressional
district in the state. Miss Schrem-
ser along with the winners from
other counties in the district will be
competitor for the honor in this
district. Each county winner will
receive a handsome medal and each
district winner a beautiful loving
cup. After the IL congressional dis
tr.ct winners are chosen, including
one from Des Moines which is count
ed as a separate district, they will
be invited to the state fair in Au-
gust where they will be feted and
honored and a committee of judges
well known Throughout the state
will choose one of the IL as the
prettiest girl in Iowa. She will be
awarded the $1,000 prize and be
crowned queen of the state fair.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1922-07-05
A Prophet Not Without Honor

Kansas City Star: Over in Cape
Girardeau is a man so years old who
spent thirty odd years of his life aGd
large sums of money writing a his
tory of Missouri which wouldn't sell.
After a few sets had been sold he
withdrew it from the market. though
IL is complete and accurate. It's fail
ure to Ego" is a reflection on Mis-
sourians rather than the book. ia,
pan bought more sets than the whole
state of Missouri. The Hague bought
.welve sets, Germany a number Of
sets, and other foreign countries like
wise. The author is Louis Haucll
who even sent to the old countries t,
verify facts concerning the begin
ming Of Missouri that Were alob
,ain;.ble in any other way.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1922-07-05
Getting Rid of Political Bunk

America is going to get nowhere
until we can shake the bla.hersk,te
and get rid of political bunk. We
need more appeal to reason and less
appeal to prejudice. The average
man today votes his prejudices IN
stead of his common sense. The
average man votes with his spleen
in place of his brain. As long a.
this condition prevails we are not
going to have good government, nor
sound economic principle in the con-
duct of our public business. Heaven
help us.-Jeiferson Bee.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1922-07-05
Integrity

youths CompanI0n: me wUru n
its original sense means wnoleness;
disintegration is the breaking up of
the whole into it's elements. When
we speak of a man of integrity we
mean that he is a man who has
maintained his Wilderness of char
acter and who can be counted on not
TO part with any of. its elements or
principles for any consideration.
Shakespeare line, ITO thine own
self be true, is an exhortation to
preserve integrity. If you betray
any part of yourself, you lose your
integrity. If you descend to mean
ness or trickery in order to obtain
personal advantage, you lose it. If
thru motives of vanity or self-inter-
est you resort to pretense, you lose
it. Failure to be industrious and to
make the most Of your capabilities is
failure to maintain your integrity
An indolent man may be honest, but
his Incidence robs him of his int.
gritty.
Can a man who is conscious oil
some loss of integrity regain what hi
has lost? Surely it must be possible
to heal wounds to the character a!
we'll as wounds to the body. But tn,
healing process in either case re
: quires surgical treatment and the ut
most care to guard against furthe
infection. And as there is a limit t,
the power of the body to resist in
juries and infections, so there is
limit to the power of the characte
to renew itself after a succession o
weakening and disintegrating at
tacks upon it. The person who want
to keep his integrity had better no
be always making small compromise
with himself.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1922-07-05
Home COMING
FESTIVAL WEEK
Nor, a IN One Thusand Invitations
Hase N Sent Out To Former
Vim Il, 'ek County People.
MANY REPLiw
IN RECEIVED
Committee Still Wants. lanes of
Former Residents s.. As to
Send An Invitation.

More than 1000 invitations have
been sent by the Publicity Commit
tee to the friends and acquaintance
of former Winneshiek County peo-
pie that have moved elsewhete.
Many replys of acceptance have
been received and from all reports
thousands of people will be here te
enjoy the Festivities of the week.
All the Committees are hard at
work to make the Home Coming
week Of August 7th, one long to
be remembered in the doings of Win
neshiek County.
Many who attended the Home
Coming in 1909 will be here to again
talk over the times of their early
youth and indeed it will be Home
Coming to many who have not visit
ed their boyhood homes for great
many years. DEBORAH the County
seat of Winneshiek, logically will be
headquarters for visitors, but all the
people of the County will give a
hearty welcome to those who may
come to the. Festival. There will be
plenty to see and do as we are deter
mined to make everyone feel at home
and we will see to it that everyone
will have a good time.
The Committees are still at work
and again remind the people if they
nave any names of relatives and
friends that they wish invitations
sent, to send the list in care of the
Home Coming Festival Committee
and the matter will have immediate
attention. This is a County affair
and any assistance or suggestions
that are offered VIII De giauTy re.
ceived.
Home Coming buttons have just
been received and will be ready fol-
distribution very soon. Think OF
Home Coming, talk Home Coming
and urge your friends and relatives
to come and have the real time OF
their lives.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1922-07-05
GREETINGS TO THE
old DRUM CORPS
Frank Nj. Coleman Sends Greeting
to the Members of the Old
DEBORAH Drum Corps.
WANTS TO MEET
THEM ALL HERE
On Monday Aug. at the Homecom-
ing and Bring Back Sweet
Memories of the Past.
To the Members of the Old Decoral

To the Members of the Old DEBORAH
Drum Corps, Greetings:
Dear boys, again we're called to
go to the home of our boyhood days
to meet THE friends of long ago, and
drive the blues away. And so
want to meet you all and grasp you
by the hand, and play again in the
"Old Drum Corps"-the finest in the
land.
The days of our youth have passed
away, never to return. | have in my
heart, in my older years, "a longing
and yearning to meet again, and have
a time, as in the days of yore when
we marched and played upon the
streets in the Old DEBORAH Drum
Corps"
So tune up your drum and your
piccalo, and prepare for merry old
time--just think of the days of your
boyhood (oh gosh, for a time that
will rhymeD discard all things of the
days of yore-the days when we
marched and sang and played, in
the "Old DEBORAH Drum Corps"
"Decorah Drum Corps!"-Those
magic words bring memories sweet
and dear; want you there and so
l urge that att the old home you
appear on Monday the seventh of
August, to greet our friends once
more and join with me, and let
them hear the ".Old DEBORAH Drum
Corps"
EDAArK NJ col IMAM
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1922-07-05

We'd rather go out and camp
alongside some running stream,
where at least the birds would affect
some sign of friendhness and neigh
borliness, than hang up our hat in a
house located among people who have
forgotten how to smile, and how to
visit among each other as our fore
fathers did. When you no longer
care about your neighbors, when you
shut yourself up with the castle OF
your own conceit and defy anybody
to break into your heart or life, you
no longer amount to much in your
town or community, thugh you may
have plenty of money and consider
yourself a very important parsonage.
Storm Lake Register.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1922-07-05
Iowa Has Eight Ex-GOyernOrs

Iowa has eight living ex-governors.
The oldest of these is Horace Boies,
now of California, who is 95 years of
age. Others are Frank d. Jackson Of
Des Moines, who defeated Boies in
1898; Leslie M. Shaw, who divides his
time between New York and San
Diego, Calf, A. B. Cummins, now
U. S. senator; Warren Garst of
Des Moines, governor only a few
months; B. F. Carroll, Des Moines;
George w. Clark, of Abel; w. l..
Harding, Des Moines. -
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1922-07-05
Millions i'm Junk

The junk dealer is your real COM
mercial scavanger. He gathers ma
terial that otherwise would represent
proftless waste. junk has become
an asset of large proportions. Mil
lions of dollars are represented and
the industry has taken on a financial
Importance that places the lowly
junkster among the real business men
CT the country.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1922-07-05
Man Loses Scalp

Clear Lake, Iowa-Jay Hansell, 40,
married, scalped himself on Peter
sons slide at 80 o'clock Sunday
afternoon. Turning in the air as
he went down the slide in a boat
his head hit against roller. He
nearly drowned before he was rescu-
ed. His wife was with him. He
lives at Hardy, Iowa. Almost six
inches of his scalp was removed. He
twill live.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1922-07-05
Deaths and Births i'm Iowa

More deaths resulted from apo
pleXy or cerebral hemorrhage during
the month of April in this state than
from any other cause as revealed by
the report of the vital statistics de-
partment of the state board Of health
under Secretary Rodney p. Pagan.
There were 181 deaths from this dis
ease in April. Second in the list
was tumors, which caused IT'S
deaths. Influenza was third with
1913 deaths, pneumonia fourth with
143, Brigth's disease fifth with 49,
and heart disease sixth with los
deaths. tuberculosis of the lung:
caused 80 deaths.
Births exceeded deaths in Apri
by 1872, there being 3,56S births
and 2,196 deaths. More girl babe
were born than boys, the number o
girls born being 1912 and boy
LIPS. More deaths are recorded o
males than of females, the total mum
Der of males being 1907 and female
989.
There were twenty EIGHT death
from suicide, nine from drowning
ten from automobile accidents an,
nine from railroad accidents during
the month.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1922-07-05
FRANK NJ. COLEMAN.
Vote Swapping Becomes a Scandal

The accepted practice of swappin.
ed a pass where it is akin to ma
tional scandal. The public interest is
sacrificed on the altar of county cupid
ity, though as a fact the home folks
in the long run pay dearly for their
supposed favored legislation. "You
vote for my bill and I'll vote for
yours" is the battle cry. "The pro-
visions of my bill will not affect
your territory, and nobody cares any
how" The custom, of course, is the
outgrowth of the Washington pork
barrel scramble where favored noses
are so brazenly thrust into the ma
tional money trough. There it is bad
enough, but when the practice is
brought more nearly home the effect
is demoralizing. Unprincipled legis-
lators are enabled to entrench them
selves in office so firmly that it soon
becomes next to impo ssible to up
root them. They always make
good" for the home folks, and that
is as far as the vision goes. The
rest, to quote the melancholy Dane
is silence. The practice lowers the
moral fibre of the people and legis.
lures become simply distributing cen
tres of graft and special favors
state budgets are swollen beyond al
necessity, genuine expenditures dc
not count, nothing counts, indeed, bu
moves that will keep the tawdry pol
itician in his Legislative job.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1922-07-05

The Davenport Times recalls that
"for many years it has been insist
ing that the only kind of primary
needed is one by which the delegates
to the county convention shall be
elected under the protection of law
so as to prevent contests. The con-
vention would then name a county
ticket and select delegates to a
state convention, and there would
be no contests at the state conven-
ton. State nominations and county
nominations would reflect the com.
b.ned wisdom of the party. Eacf
party would be able in this way t.
control its own affairs"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1922-07-05

be held at Calmar on July IS were
selected
E. j. Hook, E. w. Oxley, Mrs. N.
Willett, H. F. Barthell, o. H. VOL
dun, C. Christen, Mrs. H. P. Mich
olson, Fl. Logsdon, w. M. Allen,
NJ. A. Harmon, Geo. Bieber, Ed.
Nordhem, 3. j. Geving, j. A. Nelson,
E. C. Bailey, Elmer Ringoen.
The democrats met in convention
at the same hour and were called to
order by Chairman F. f. Biermann.
They selected the following Senator
ial delegates who will meet July Is
James Draper, Mrs. Nora Larson
Goheen, Phil j. Carolan, Miss Mary
H. Gossman, Curtis Miller, Geo. E
Cooney, B. f. Jewell, j. P. Kuhn
and Fred Biemann.
State convention delegates selected
were Fred Biemann, j. p. Kuhn, j
w. Neuzel, John ]. McManus, Mrs
Cora Soltow, Mrs. Nora Larson Go
heen, John DAILY, Albert Wingate
Allen Wise.
State judicial convention delegate!
were 7. H. Goheen, Z. P. Shea, Wal
ter Jewell, NJ. j. Carter, Franz
Sayre, DR.. A. f. Fritchen, c.
Krumm, Chas. Altfillisch, G. A
Meyer.
f. +. Hermann was re-electe,
bounty cha rman, J. W. Neuzel, sec
rotary and Allen Wise, treasurer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1922-07-05
Guessed He Would Start Hotel

A man was asked what line of
business he would follow if every
body was dead but him and his fam
lily. He said he guessed they would
start hotel. That seems to be the
idea some people have of running
any kind of business. They seem
to think they could get on very well
it it wasn't for other people. But
no business would get on very far
if it We're not for the strong pull
that comes from the combined efforts
,1r q lot&of business men with COM
haala i,..s~@ -, ar ,o4G.--ss ~ ----
same direction. 1t takes many lines
of endeavor to meet the wants Of a
community. 1t isn't necessary for
each one to approve of everything
the other fellows does, but it helps
his own business to boost little for
the other fellow when he can. Com
petitors and neighbors are very gen
orally underestimated. We ought to
be ready always to tell the good
things we know about others in our
community and not too ready to cri-
ticize them, just as we think of the
best things we know about our own
folks in our own families and over
look their faults.-Clarinda Cmmun-
ity Club.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1922-07-05

The Sac Sun says: "There is only
one man in Iowa who can prevent
the swing of thousands Of republi-
cans to the support of the Des
Moines man and that man is Smith
w. Brookhart. If he accepts and
stands upon the platform his party
adopts at the state convention, which
will be held within a few weeks, and
pledges his support to the national
administration, he will be unbeatable
If he persists in running as an H.
dependent, he will have to look to
Independents for his support. The
republicans of Iowa naturally would
take his course as license to be
independent also, and he woult
lose ten republicans where he woult
gain one democrat. 1t is Brookhart':
move next"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1922-07-05

Women may rot know their own
minds, but they generally have a
pretty fair line on their husbands
minds.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1922-07-05

Flies from the sick room of the
typhoid or the tuberculosis patient
are messengers of death.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1922-07-05

The following delegates 10 the dis
tIict judicial convention which will
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SfsEmmonssge yebrowss zen kupssssslA
thief What heEdeu There's:
Esome misund erstanding here
guess sIna five mfnutes&heg had:
picked itSa1l! OUT herw hat Col
lard had told her at which he.
looked grimlyS grave 4 the shock It
had been o$her. at which he hid a
whimsical ssmi lie. AL 80
! Now letFme tell Syou something,
young &1ady.nss aid EEmmons. Bob
Lane was not dtscharged.aHetw
out of this business for a 5reason*of
his etherSi It was good or,
not remains to be seen He went
out a time when 1t took nerve to
tthrowaup a job. land he went out
practically dead broke, for he'd
just finished paying for a ter
rib1y costly operation on his sis-l
ter's crippled boy. He'd had a
pretty. rough time OF it this win
ter, take it, though he didn't
complain. You see..sI% had a talk
with him just after you snubbed
him, and he came back here only,
because the sister has been very
i'll and begged for him to come
But the point is, he knew very
well when he went that he was
likely to have rough shedding.
| Bob is coming back into the
store. Business is enough better
to warrant it. and told him to
come in tomorrOw5 But nj w that
I've had this talk with you, he
lisn,t coming back as Ia Junior
clerk; he's going to take Collard's
job Collard's plumb right about.
one thing-I won't keep the thief
in my employ; = OF even the kind
Of a thief who can manage to keep
his fingers off his boss money
but can't keep from stealing a
rival suitor's good name!"
Rose was staring at her employ
er-her color coming and going
Like a lightning flash had come
su id en-. illumination. N So. En-
mons.''s she trembled. '.if9 Bob
didn't have another position and
wasn't discharged, why did he.
leave % 7s55
Cant you guess?" asked EN-
mons.
'.oh, oh, yes-yes. And I beliey-
ed such awful things. Just because
that-th at beast told them to mel
What shall ! say to him What 'Ill'
shall do?' .s5
81 don't know, my dear. But
Bob toad me ne had tramped and
ridden the bumpers and starved
and been threatened and had an
altogether wretched experience.
since he went away, but never
went down under anything TIL a
few minutes ago. II were YOU
Rose, Nd just5lift him up. -
"Oh, if there's any way i can Z
will, 1 will He has been wonder
full
Then dry your eyes and go
j 49,
with his whimsic smile. "For8if T
know anything Of life, Bob will
soon show you the way.
copyright, 1920
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s.
The sixth OF the Seven Valleys
that the Twins had to go through
on their way toAthe Land of the
tKorsknotts was called the Valley
Of the Movies. But Nancy and
Nick did not. know this as they
looked down into its depths from
the top Of a hill. ss8.
..Oh, ho!'"' said Nick to the dove,
who was guiding them We don't
need to stop here, do we All I
see is a building and Nancy and "
can go right past it,
The dove shook his head sadly.
Don't think that you can fool
Twelve Toes, the Sorcerer..' said
ihe.s"Tw elve Toes knows all about
you. Just VIII ere you are and what
you are doing and il he cannot
stop you altogether, he is going to
delay you all he can. He has a
magic machine which can, throw
pictures over the Seven Noun
stains and all the valleys to this
place, and he intends you TO see
them. The, building is a movie
theater."
.'But well shut our eyes and
not look" protested Nancy.
@S But I tell you they are magic
pictures and that you cannot help
yourself" cooed the dove mourn ::
Copyright. 1922. r.
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B CyIIE II2Sf
BRfDEl

become So Edomineerings And
what couIdfa bride of&spir .hoI
ignore a young husbands hist 50
harsh scommand ;
che posrmap had left nothing y
our box. I gave it q swift glance sll1le'
and rushed out Of doors
~ I had just enough col mon
sense left to realize thatSJ acks mao
not seen the postman. had not
understood why + was going down
stairs. without him, had not asked
have let me go Toe
the mail had he know, would have
gone himself.
Moved J. know not by what
streak OF stubbornness. I flew out
OF the house, hearing Jack on the
stairs just before the door slam
med behind me. A score of steps
took me around the corner Of tn e
building.
n wanted to get away from Jack.
wanted to think alone, wanted
him to miss me.
How could make him feel that
h e needed me, that already Is had
become Indispensable as long as
* stayed at lone and made him
as long as I amused
him 2 That had been woman's an.
Scient way What had it got for
herr For my own mother; 1t had
ended in divorce & /
I We'll, il had learned from moth
er'sSexperience. 382.
Is would not forgive Jack too.
easily. that decided, although BY
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I strung my beads on q linen
thread acks finished his
We hadn't expectedEto
find each other erfect,I thought
I WASH Il But I did most things
the best Z could II ere fell4a few.
tears almost as largesas my beads
and Il had believed that Jack
had married me because he pre-
ferred me to all 9th er9womenl s, $
more stears--b but what Jack really
wanted was to sit opposite Mrs.
iHerrodF and make life one contm-
ual game OF chess
tied the ends of my thread as
neatly as possible I heard my
husband go to the closet for his
coat. From my third story win
dow, saw the postman coming
up the street. and without speak
ing to Jack, i started Town stairs
after the mail. 81 .3
..Peggins.!P' I heard lack call,
I did not answer. Peg Come
back here!'
NY husbands voice was stern.
Never had$I heard him speak so.
My prolonged silence of the morn
ing had produced some reaction, !
was &plased to note.
a5 But II Jack was exasperated, at
last, SO was T.! I proceeded on my
errand down stairs and paid no
attention whatever to Mr. John
Cuth bert Madison
83s To be rdered-by husband -7--
like that. Who would have dream
ed that my considerable ] ackS could
ii ~ n +
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Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Shuman and
little son Of Barrackville spent the
past week here with Mrs. Shuman1s
mother. Mrs. S.. x. Poe
Luther Fletcher and son Lester
were in Redsville visiting one day
this week
Virgil Robe was visiting Bessie
Hawn last Saturday evening g.
Mrs. Ida Fletcher was the guest
OF her daughter last Saturday after.
noon
Henry Stevens was in Morgan,
town recently on a business trip.
Miss Bessie Hawn was visiting
Ellen Smyth last week.
Mr. and Mrs. S. D.. snnyth and
family and Mr.. and Mrs. Lester
Fletcher were visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Elijah Summers of Halleck last
Sunday. 81. 5..
Mr.. and Mrs. William Keener
were visiting MIR. and Mrs. Luther
Fletcher last Sunday. 81
Mr.. and Mrs.f Larney Carlow
were visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Luther
Fletcher last Sunday. evening.
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SHRINE CLUB HOLDS
MEETING LAST NIGHT Nj

A meeting Of the F'airmont
Shrine Club was held last evening
at the Masonic Temple The con
stitution and bylaws We're redrafti
ed. and the initiation fee and dues
we're lowered for 1922. " commit
tee OF nine was ppointed to acs,S:a4
a reception committee. for the Wis
5iting Shriners to Fairnlont OIL
THURSDAY May rs, when Os1rl
Temple, MOBILES of the ,Mystl
Shrine, Wheeling, will hold : cere
monial session, in the East Side
High School. The dinner will be
served in Masonic Temple and II
officers, band and patrol will dine
al First Presbyterian Church, a
6 o'clock. :,
The ceremonial session will
start at 1880 o'clock in the Eas$
Side High School. Vaudeville
shows will be- given at the Blue
Ridge lTheater at $3.50 and u p.
m.
Harry l.. Smith will be marsha
OF the parade. which starts from
the East Side High School at 3
O'Clock i.$