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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1914
Page
5
With three major Expositions in 1915, demand for beer will soar and barley needs will double. Growers are expanding acreage or choosing high yielding varieties like Extra Heavy Select and Oderbrucker as prices rise. dealers quote 60c and 65c respectively, while others seek 15c to 25c more per bushel.
Seed oats listed include Adams English Oats with potential over 75 bushels per acre, noted for stiff heavy straw and non lodging. Price range 65 cents per unit, quantity dependent. Also Swedish Select Oats offered at per bushel pricing.
Pure seed flax offered at two dollars per bushel. Stop is carefully cleaned extr a clean and tested and guaranteed. Many customers plan to sow flax again this year expecting profitable returns.
Goddard's Silver King seed corn originated in this county and has been sold for 20 years. The ad touts high profitability and a 10 day test period with a 95 percent average, offering field seeds and garden seeds with guaranteed low prices under the Seed Law. Calls to the C M and St P elevator for seed grain are invited.
County Treasurer Jorgenson reports March tax receipts totaling 173 579 39 the largest since he took office. First three months total 215 842 03 up 33 869 09 from last year amid stronger receipts and early payment by many delinquent taxpayers. Also listed are numerous disbursements to state and county funds and local towns, plus lawsuits against Lehigh Portland Cement Co and American Brick and Tile Co seeking damages and debt recovery.
Feast day honors eighteen martyrs of Saragossa and saints Turibius Fructuosus Magnus Druon and Joachim. Luther arrives at Worms in 1521. Narvaez to Florida with Franciscans seven years later. Births of Hans Sloane 1660 and Charles Montagu 1661. New Jersey sale 1681. Unions and plays, battles, and rail milestones through 1912. Wins, laws, and disasters marked in this chronology.
A president issued an executive order requiring competitive civil service exams for postmaster positions at fourth class offices with annual pay of 180 dollars or more where the current holder was not civil service appointed. The Decorah post office will host the exam on May 16. Candidates for Burr Oak Castalia Fort Atkinson Hesper Ridgeway and Spillville are expected.
Glenn Gulliver of Osage avoids prison after the supreme court allows a choice between a $500 fine or 150 days in jail. He was accused of assaulting EK O Clapper, a banker of Orchard, with intent to rob. The court’s ruling followed a vigorous appeal to save the young man from incarceration.
Jim Booth drove Dr. J. A. Gray to Postville in a Ford in under ninety minutes but became mired for two hours in Postville streets. H. W. King rode a motorcycle to Decorah finding only a half mile of dragged roads on the way and little dragging all spring. Roads on the pike are generally praised as good.
The semi annual meeting of the Northern association of Iowa Congregational ministers and churches will be held at the Congregational church of McGregor on April 20 21 and 22. The association covers thirty seven churches reaching west to Waterloo and Manchester and south to Bellevue. An address titled The Movement Toward National Prohibition will be delivered by W G Harber of Des Moines.
A March election on buying the mill site and dam and constructing a electric light plant with $12,000 bonds was found illegal. A new petition led to another election set for May 11 to revote the issue.
A finger of a larger blaze broke out at the Sylvester Foote home in West Union last week. A ten year old son sustained severe burns to the inner leg after filling a lamp with gasoline instead of kerosene, then going to the cellar. The child was removed from danger and sent for treatment.
A Mason City lawsuit challenges the Webb Kenyon liquor law. Police found a Wells Fargo Express marked beer case in a house with an undesirable occupant. the agent was arrested and the case will go to trial and reach the supreme court.
Cyprian Martel a hunter and trapper was found dead in his boat above Harpers Ferry last Friday with his face torn and two bullet wounds in his chest. The sheriff of AllaMakee county is investigating a possible murder and is leading the case.
H. E. Cover, station agent for the Rock Island railway at Ossian, has been promoted to agent at West Union. The change is described as a well earned advancement.
A Mapleton Iowa resident Lee L Chapman writes he suffered rheumatism for two years and could not bring his right hand to his mouth. He credits Chamberlain's Liniment, used for five years, with ending his pain and sleep troubles in two months. Sold by Engbertson's Pharmacy.
Fifty years ago hopeful backers still sought a ten thousand dollar fund for a branch railroad to Decorah. Rebels seized Fort Pillow and killed three hundred black soldiers. Local firms McHenry Packard and Co plan a new cellar at Water and Winnebago, where Citizens Savings bank now stands. Company G of the 12th Town infantry braces for twenty five to thirty recruits next Monday. Charley Allen teams with C E Dickerman in new mercantile venture. A veterans festival last Friday night drew praise. Jeweler Mr. French of McGregor rents the H H Eaton store, Sanford’s plain price shop now occupies the site.
A large amount of jewelry and silverware was found wrapped in a table cloth in a Mason City meadow by passersby who kicked the package and heard jingling. The items, weathered and damaged after a year, included a lady’s gold watch chain bracelets rings silver bowls and various carving knives. The finder identified the owner as the L. A. Page family now in California.
Irvine Meyer twelve years old of Giard won a gold prize at the Mc Gregor Farmers Institute in late February for ten ears of yellow corn. The Philadelphia Farm Journal awarded the prize, noting Irvine planted cultivated harvested and selected the corn, competing with adult farmers.
The Prohibition convention in Mar shalltown nominated M. L. Christian of Clinton for senator and Malcolm Smith of Cedar Rapids for governor. The platform calls for woman suffrage and direct action without beating around the bush. The ad promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and Cham berlain's Tablets from Engbertson's Pharmacy, with advice on plumbing and digestion and Dr Thomas Eclectic Oil as a household remedy.
Maurice T. Halloran files in Winnebago County Iowa a district court complaint alleging defendants including the Commercial Club of Decorah and officers conspired to destroy his business since September 1900 and damaged mineral land. He seeks four thousand dollars plus seven percent interest, costs, and attorneys fees, and requests compulsory evidence and court action to recover damages.
Prof. R. B. Herrick of Iowa State College argues that Iowa land offers lower costs and shipping, with less irrigation and spraying, than western orchards. He warns against oversized plantings, recommends 32-foot tree spacing with crops between, and notes top grafting as a boost to apple production using stored fall stock.
State auditor sent warrants for S57L.258.24 in automobile taxes to counties by townships rather than population. In this judicial district Winneshiek 6953.50 Allamakee 6258.24 Chickasaw 4172.16 Clayton 8758.96 Fayette 6993.00 Howard 4172.16. An apportionment will occur September 1. A girl paid 50 cents for a whitening recipe and received a reply advising soaking hands in dish water three times daily.
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