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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1916
Page
4
The state’s claim to a billion dollar status is reinforced by official figures in the agriculture year book for 1915. Field crops totaled 408,166,903 dollars. dairy 75,000,000. poultry and eggs 41,000,000. wool 1,500,000. livestock on farms valued at 451,599,000 dollars. Grand total for crops and livestock is 977,265,903 dollars.
The Supreme Court ruled last week that exaggerated advertising in mail orders can constitute fraud even when buyers receive value for their money. Justice McKenna held that misrepresentation is an offense if the product fails to serve the advertised purpose, regardless of actual value, reversing a Florida District Court ruling on New South Farm and Home Company tenacre farm sales.
Art Healy attempted to light a stove at the Robinson billiard hall when gasoline poured into the damper ignited faster than expected. Healy seized the bottle and moved toward the door as a bystander crossed his path. He flung the bottle upward to shield the passerby, narrowly averting a blaze. He sustained a minor burn on a finger, and only a quick action prevented a disaster.
The state board of control will send a colony of 10 nonviets from the Anamosa reformatory to Marshalltown to improve the grounds at the Town Soldiers' Home. Work will cover the main entrance gate north to the Town river, building repairs, cleaning out the old dry lake bed for a new artificial lake, and cemetery improvements.
J H Meyer of Calmar was stalled on the Larson hill near Ossian last Thursday morning with his oil wagon. It took seven horses four hours to pull it out. The stretch is one of the worst in Winneshick county and requires urgent repair.
Miss Gertie Emma Ness aged about 18 was found dead in a cistern on the Louis Reierson farm near Gunder. Coroner W. J. Beerman and a jury ruled accidental drowning as the cause of death.
Messrs Mathew Duffey and P C Benthem of Esmond North Dakota Farmers' club visited Allamakee county to buy cattle. They closed a deal with John H Logsdon near Rossville for twenty one head of registered milking Short Horn heifers destined for North Dakota.
Waukon declares clean-up week while Cresco plans an Adventist church and Fort Dodge Elks seek a new home. Charles City spends 875 monthly on garbage, Mason City fines four men for Sunday theatres, Frederika schools close for smallpox, and the Mississippi at McGregor reaches a high not seen since 1888. Waverly and Nashua cancel race meetings. Sheldon buys a 1400 power-pressure street flusher. Fayette jail holds nineteen prisoners. Waukon Standard sold to Mason City youth. School closings in Fort Dodge for clean-up week. Fort Dodge sewer workers strike for three cents more. Letters at Decorah post office include C K Kirkeby Hy Snyder John Wheaton. Thieves burn a barn after stealing two horses near Boone. Dorothy Smith, Cedar Rapids nurse, drowns when canoe overturns. Fort Dodge AME plans a mission for city’s 300 Black residents.
James Wilson of Tama elected president of the National Agricultural Society formed in New York last week. The group aims to represent farmers on nationwide agricultural issues, including rural credits and uniform legislation, with headquarters in New York and future plans for a permanent Washington base.
The Dousman house, a well known hotel on the C. M. & St. P. line at Prairie du Chien, was sold at foreclosure a few days ago and is to close. Col H. L. Dousman long owned and managed it. The property later passed to C W Hufschmidt who moved from Lansing to run the hotel in 1882. Mr Hufschmidt died in 1908.
A sink hole was found on the main road near Chas Erickhoff’s country home. Farmers passing to church and returning noon observed a large hole about 4 feet wide and 8 feet long with a nearly 50 foot depth. A water stream about 5 feet deep runs at the bottom.
George B. May of New Albin reports his entire summer ice stock was ruined when floodwater flooded the ice house. The ice house was undermined and shifted, crowding out the ice. There is no salvage, and May will need to buy ice next summer.
Impure blood runs you down makes you an easy victim for disease. For pure blood and sound digestion Burdock Blood Bitters at all drug stores priced one dollar.
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