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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1915
Page
4
In Decorah Iowa two deputy game wardens arrested seven men for using trot-lines before May 15 and for minnows with undersized seines. All but one appeared before Justice Whalen. Bucknell sided with enforcing the law but the men were released after discussion. No deliberate violations found.
The state executive council approved buying twenty five acres along Spirit Lake for 38500 to enlarge the fish hatchery from five to thirty acres. Warden E C Hinshaw announced preparations to increase equipment and hatch one million young pikes by next Sunday with eight million pike eggs received from the government for fall release.
Early Monday frost covered the low lands along the river while higher ground saw lighter the frost. Gardeners report strawberries undamaged and only slight damage to plums and apples. W T Symonds estimates a three fourths strawberry crop if no further trouble arises. The sass in the gardens suffered little or no damage.
The record recalls frost on May 9th 1914 ice formed on May 12th frost on May 22nd and a light frost on the 26th as George Hislop kept daily notes on the window. The piece notes May was milder than last year with no fruit produced.
Robbers entered the Chicago Great Western freight office in Mason City on Tuesday night and attempted to seize the safe. The dial was knocked off with a wrench but no other damage occurred. An estimated $1200 was in the safe.
The Jewell case ran for over a year with court costs totaling 1149 dollars according to county clerk records. Lawyer fees and other incidentals are not included in this figure.
The Town Journal of History and Politics notes the first steamboat on the Mississippi two years after the river’s exploration. The Virginia’s May 1823 voyage to St. Anthony Falls marked an enterprise of boldest and extraordinary nature.
A canvass of 168 Fort Dodge high school boys finds 22 unable to swim. Athletic instructor Daubert of the Y M C A has begun a campaign to teach every boy in Fort Dodge the art.
Bishop Wim and A Quale of St Paul led a dedication ceremony for Fort Dodge's new Fire 000 Methodist church. An appeals drive at the event raised 40000 dollars in five minutes for subscriptions toward paying for the edifice.
The ad promotes boys knee pants suits with attractive items on sale. A J Wood suit is priced at 2.00 and the text highlights very low prices and pretty selections from the shop of J A Wood and 8 Larsen.
A recap notes negro suffrage debates in Congress, the Atlantic cable completion in England, and preparations to lay it across the ocean. Montgomery hosts 12th Town infantry, habeas corpus actions loom, Decorah bridges move forward, McHenry Packard opens Express office, and local tax payers list leaders Easton Weiser Bullis Bradish. Luther College closes for summer. rail to Calmar finished.
Billy Hoy treks through the White Forest as fear latches onto him after a mysterious blow to the head. Elf Tinker Teedle Tee reveals a pine cone bitten by Frisky the Red Squirrel, whose chisel teeth expose edible seeds inside.
A London Field writer recalls a foot journey from Innsbruck through Landeck to the Stelvio and back across Tyrol. He admires peasants for honesty and piety, noting no barn locks and crosses marking storm deaths. In Longarone a hotel keeps the lone lock for the travelers.
Two Quakers visiting in 1842 documented the Winnebago tribe in Iowa. They traced the School Band village near the Turkey River close to Fort Atkinson, home to about two thousand people living in bark and mat lodges with central fires and smoke vents.
Winneshick county teachers can attend summer sessions at Town State College without tuition to learn practical home economics for rural classrooms. The program focuses on noon lunch preparation and uses a domestic science cabinet designed for country schools. Last year 300 teachers enrolled and praised the training, which offers direct certificate credit from the state board. two six week terms start June 14 and July 26.
The city of New York consumes over 10 million tons of anthracite annually, about two tons per resident. The Coal Trade Annual notes 67.6 percent of anthracite exports go to New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Major hubs include New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh Buffalo Newark Jersey City Rochester Syracuse Scranton Paterson Albany, with combined populations in the hundreds of thousands.
The piece argues that while it is an unwritten rule that a sovereign cannot compel subjects to spy except in rare cases, nations will always have spies because the work is adventurous and well paid, attracting thousands to secret service roles.
The article explains why birds sing with science, noting male birds sing to woo mates and support nest building. Song softens after eggs hatch, turning to croaks signaling responsibility, and would resume if a nest were destroyed to encourage new offspring.
An advertisement promotes Barker's Antiseptic for babies baths described as refreshing and sweet. It is offered for sale by John G Schimming and R A Engbretson.
A Kansas City Journal report explains that mail locks nationwide share the same pattern and keys are numbered with government records tracking each key. Every six to seven years locks and keys are replaced with new patterns, and old keys are destroyed to maintain security.
The Pacific Limited of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway offers through service to San Francisco and Los Angeles with no extra fare. Departures include connections at Decorah and Marion, with optional excursions to the Pacific North Coast and Puget Sound, plus a return via the North Coast line. Local agent supplies schedules and details.
A Milton quotation argues that virtue requires exposure to challenge and action, not cloistered honesty. It asserts that true virtue seeks the arena of competition and dust and heat, not retreat from trials, framing honesty as a policy rather than a genuine virtue.
A tobacco odor remover lozenge recipe uses chlorate of lime vanilla sugar and gum arabic mixed with water into a paste and cut into lozenges. Historical note says Newfoundland caught 221 whales in 1913.
A color panel 11 by 22 inch reproduction titled The Secret of Beauty by artist C. Allen Gilbert is offered free to Gourand's Oriental Dream readers. Send stamps to cover wrapping and postage for this calendar and picture from Ferd. T. Hopkins & Son at 37 Great Jones Street New York.
The text claims the banana plant yields 40 times more by weight than potatoes and 135 times more than wheat. It is said to bear two crops annually and to resist insect attack and disease.
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