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DECORAH, IOWA, MAR. 30, 1921. MSTRIBUTE NEW APPLES, Ten Varieties, Cream of Thousands, Ames, la.—Ten new varieties of apples, the cream of thousands of aross bred apples of known parent age, which have been bred ami grown by the pomology section of the lowa experiment station under the direct ion of S. A. Beach, head of the sect >n. will be distributed among nur§-1 prynien this spring Names of lowa 'have been l in naming nine of the new varieties. They will be known as Ames, Adel, Afton, Earlham, Edge wood. Monona, Secor, Sharon and Macy. The tenth Variety is called Hawkeve Greening. At present only scion wood is available for distribution. Already requests for scion wood have come from twenty states and from several proviences of Canada For fifteen years Professor Beach and his associates have been working to secure better winter apples for lowa conditions. It is believed that a number of the new varieties will make a permanent place for them selves in midwest horticulture. The undersigned will locate in De corah on April 5, and will have offi ces in the Marlow Bldg, with Drs. Conrad, Kuhn & Davis. I will also ▼isit Burr Oak every Monday and Thursday. —Sanitary Bakery bread on sale Han> on& Jansen’s. m ] , SH • fPuMit (Opinion. BY HARRY J. GREEN, Selected for lowa ANNOUNCEMENT. W. H. EMMONS, M. D. AVES M ILES O F S T E r~r V: LI >'F a > Join Our HOOSIER Dollar Club Are you one of the women who WANTED to be freed from the endless drudgery of kitchenwork—but who have felt they just HAD to go on in useless slavery because “we can’t afford a Hoosier now?” If so—this special sale was put on for YOU. It enables you to have a HOOSIER NOW. During this sale s l NO EXTRA CHARGE FOR THESE TERMS In spite of the unusually favorable terms on which you buy this famous Cabinet during this sale, we do not add a eent to cover “interest charges” or other extras. If you have ever wished for an easing of the burdens of kitchen work—join the HOOSIER Dollar Club today. We reserve the right to withdraw this offer at any time. BIG HOOSIER SALE FROM MARCH 28th to April 2d A beautiful White Enamel Porcelain TB ◄ roe Top Kitchen Table with each Hoosier wit purchased this week. Decorah Funeral Directors | t | , , > f f t g. g_ That if you purchased four sticks of gum a day it would cost you more than the price of a “Federal” acci dent policy which allows you 15000.00 for an accidental death, with $25.00 weekly benefits for loss of time, and and $2500.00 for the loss of each hand, foot or eye. A "FederAi” check amounting to SIOOO.OO was recently delivered to a man who had his policy but sixteen days when he be came injured. When the price of an accident policy is so small will it pay to wait. FEDERALIZE NOW. RENE ROSENTHAL, Dist. Mgr. Federal Life Ins. Co. Decorah, lowa. o the Stock Holden* of the Grand Opera House Company. The adjourned annual meeting of the Decorah Opera House Company will be held at the City Hall, Friday evening, April 1, 1921, at 7:30 p. m. The annual report of the Managers will be read, and there will be the election of three directors, together with other business to be attended to, Your presence is earnestly solicit ed; but if you can not come, please hand youf proxy to the undersigned, that w r may have a 'quorum repre sented. BEN BEAR. President. R. ALGYER, Secretary. Indicted Traer Gamblers. .Traer, la.—The grand jury in the District court of Tama county has returned seven indictments as a re sult of a raid on a gambling house at Tama in which seven men were arrested while engaged in a card game. Frank Hamilton, whose house was raided, is under indictment for oper ating a gambling house and for gam bling. ir= s *f ===^~ Delivers Your HOOSIER Furniture Co. Phone 90 Licensed Embalmers Do You Know DZCOEAH PUBLIC OPINION, DECORAH, IOWA. : HIGHWAY FIGHT IS NOW ENDED Tremendous . Assault .on .Highway Commission in Senate Results in Defeat of Mead Bill. HOT BATTLE WAGED IN SENATE Stocks and Securities Will Have to Be Gilt Edged If Sold in lowa Future Des Moines, Mar. 28, 1921. lowa’s highway laws and the state highway commission will remain al most intact after this session of the General Assembly adjourns. Every effort so far this session to put the skids under the highway commission I or to tear away any of its supports! jias failed. Ji\ the house several bills! to put a nick In the present laws J have met with disaster, and last Wednesday the great highway field j flay of the cession resulted in com-1 plete route of the reactionaries who' daitYY the commission is rotten and : bad, and that it should be obliterated. J The Mead bill in the Senate got l on the calander by a fluke, after the I highways committee had voted to in- J definitely postpone the matter. By one vote it got a place in the sun, and then on Wednesday it was taken up as a special order of business and fought to a finish. On the Mead bill itself, the victory was for the high way commission by a vote of 33 to 18. But on the Price amendment to leave the ,highway commission but move the headquarters to Des Moines the vote was a tie—2s to 25. The Mead bill sought to abolish the highway commission and place all the highway matters in the hands of a single state engineer, with head quarters in Des Moines. The lowa Homestead has favored such a plan for a long time, and its hand was noticed in this fight. Observers of legislation state that not in six years have they seen such j a battle as was waged in the senate | | Wednesday. The first road fight in | the house, where the vote was a tie for half a session, was about equal to it, bat with less oratorical pyre ' technics than at this time. Mead, ;Brookhart. Buser and Pitt all handed the highway commission all the packages of criticism they ami the Homestead had been able to gather in past years. Senators Stoddard of Woodbury county and Whitmore of Ottumwa defended the highway commission, the latter on the ground that to interfere with the state road law. in this way now would rob this state of millions of dollars of federal aid money that is now and will here after be due the state for having complied with the federal aid provis ions. Senator Stoddard presented; figures to show that the highway commission’s work has been as well done as any set of men can be ex pected to do in matters of so great extent and importance, and denied either extravagance or intentional unfairness on the part of the com mission. In all the four hours of talk and .shouting at each other across the chamber, it is not believed a single I vote was changed, but those engaged j j'J assult have made a record, and ;they predict and threaten dire things j m the future for those who did not come to the aid of the Mead bill at this time. Opposing Liberal Bills. Tl.e I-ake boxing bill is being op po-ed by the same forces that are opposing the cigarette and other of the liberal bills in this session. While the bill to legalize boxing bouts in tn:s state has passed the house, it is still on the rocks in the senate, but friends predict it will pass. American legion men are supporting and de manding the bill as a law. They want | to hold athletic exhibitions that will t include boxing bouts without violat- 1 ing the law. Most of the Legion men ! also favor the passage of a cigar- ■ «tte license law that will permit! bill covering the sale of cigarettes I without fracturing the law. A license bill covering the sale of cigatettes has m*en reported in the House, and ( it makes the license fee SIOO for • each dealer, with all kinds of re strictions to prevent sale of cigar ettes to minors. Its passage is re garded as extremely doubtful, though it may lesult in the better enforce ment of the present law—and that is some stringent law if it is en forced, as cigarette users and dealers will find. Rush Days are Here. With but twelve legislative days, including this date for finishing up the business of this session, all members are bending their energies to getting what they can through, i ie house side of the General As sembly has been running smoothly I and without much delay this session. The new \oting machine has help- j .ed keep up with the House calander and but fifty bills of all kinds now j appear unattended to. The Senate’s predilection to vociferating and op position to everything before it has caused obstruction to progress, in spite of Lieutenant Governor Ham mill’s prodding to get business thru Something more than 200 bills are ready for Senate action, and at best, these will get about fifty per cent attention at this session. I big appropriation bills are yet to receive consideration by both houses, but committees are working ; them out and state institutions and colleges will get only what is abso lutely necessary, it is said. The bir thing con idered i how much the cost of supplies for state institutions and the cost of living for employes and teachers will drop in the present ! year ami in the time before the next General A mbly convenes. Some wonderful prophets are engaged in forecasting events. The constitutional convention mat ter has been practically settled with a resolution calling the election for delegates in each representative dis trict for next year, the convention itself to be held in 1923 for revis ion of the state’s constitution. Most legislators believe it is a dangerous tiling to nave such a convention at all and wish there were some way to confine the actions of such a conven tion when held. Thvee JSlllibn dollars and more for the benefit of the school funds of the state and districts of the state are in sight if a bill by Senator Olson pas ses the House as it did the Senate the other day. This bill calls for a head tax of three dollars on every adult person in the state. Employers are to collect the tax of their em ploys, either in store or factory or on a farm or in mines. The idea of the bill seems to. appeal to most everybody because it will require 'some slight taxes from a few thous* 'and peopie who ordinarily do not pay taxes but still have children to I be*educated at public expense. In the .ruining districts it is said the money (thus raised will go a long way to j ward providing better educational 'facilities for the children of the | miners. If there are more than a rr.il | lion adult people in the state, thn law would raise more than three trillion dollars. At about the same ti.me it passed this bill, the Senate earned down the corporation tax bill which was calcu lated to raise about a million dollars through raising the tax on capital stock of all corporations in the state and also to assess a net profit tax on the corporation incomes. After a heated battle on the subject this bill of Senator Newberry’s was defeated. Senator X. —Dress shirts, a fine line $1.35, $1.50 and up to $3.45. A special line of new silk shirts at $7.00. 12-2 S. LARSEN. Milliner Freed of Arson Charge. Emmetsburg, la.—The case against Miss Lulu Littleton who was indict ed for burning her stock of millinery goods at Ruthaven on the night of Oct. 21 was tried Wednesday. The case after the evidence of the state was presentee! was taken from the jury by Judge Lee and a verdict for the defendant was directed. Miss Littleton occupied the Harold Barringer building on North Main street at Ruthven. She had her stock insure*! for SI,OOO and later increased the amount to $6,000. The evening of the fire she accompanied H. A. Wag ner to Emmetsburg on an auto trip. They attended the movies and drove home she going to her room in a resi dence in town. Later she learned that her stock of goods had been damaged by fire. The insurance company adjusted her loss at $2,000 and paid her the amount. Some time later she left Ruthven. She spent some time in Kentucky. After she was indicted by the Palo Alto grand jury for arson, Sheriff Jackson located her in Cin cinnati and brought her back at an expense of $350. » No evidence was introduced show ing that the building or the good* had been deliberately burned or that Miss Littleton was in any way re sponsible for the fire. —Men’s work shirts, a new lot, $2.90, $3.45 and SB.OO. S. LARSEN. 12-2 —Try Our Want Column Cedar Brand OC Oleomargarine , J J Fine F'or Table or Cooking. FRED J. ROSENTHAL S CEMENT BLOCKS We are prepared to make all kinds of Cement Blocks, Well Curb Blocks, and other Concrete products. We will erect your cement block build* ings, concrete foundations, feed* ing floors, cisterns, or any oth er concrete job you may be planning. Our plant is located at Freeport. GIVE US A TRIAL R. O. JAGERSON Decorah, lowa REAL ESTATE BARGAINS If you are interested in buying or selling land, write or come and ,«.ee me. I have some gen uine bargains in land and im proved farms that ure within the reach of everyone. J. C. BEARD 1° [SfT ! H Ml . lull V,, If U I X/'- , Shoes that keep their style fln bD dBSil 9V gv gn MV mmp \S V I^I L 1 Indy of the foot in » lion oi skovn ky mooing picture! and used ky Red Crois Shoe designer!. John C. Hexom & Son FREE DEMONSTRATION! Paints, Varnishes and Stains Wednesday, April 6th We believe that you are interested in seeing: up-to date methods of painting, varnishing and staining. Call at our store during paint demonstration and let the special representatives from THE PATTERSON SARGENT CO. Manufacturers of B. P. S. PAINTS & VARNISHEB show you how this work is done. Let us show you how to do beautiful enamel work at the same cost and with the same labor as ordinary paint ing. Why not make your inside painting beautiful and easy to wash and keep clean; and, How to make an old softwood floor look and wear like a beautiful hardwood floor, also how to make your old furniture look like new; and, How to finish your walls and secure that beauti ful, washable, soft finish effect so much desired; and, How to varnish your floors and produce a finish that stands hard wear and is not affected by hot water or repeated washing; and, How to re-finish your auto and produce a finish that equals fine shop work—do it yourself; and, How you can save money by painting your house with B. P. 8. Paint and at the same time know that you are securing a paint that will be satisfactory in every way; Many other B. J\ S. Paint and Varnish possibili ties. THIS DEMONSTRATION IS ABSOLUTELY FREE. Bring Your Paint Questions With You DON’T FORGOT THE DATE E.J.P ARMAN and Jeweler I 40/ PAID ON TIME 7° CERTIFICATES And on One Year’s Saving's Accounts Decorah State Bank Opp. Winneshiek Hotel We Appreciate Your Business How often have you noticed and deplored that your new shoes, so shapely of line, so close-fitting, soon lose their dainty charm? “Why is it?” you ask. Let us show you. Let us tell you of the Red Cross Shoe —the shoe made to fit the foot in action. Recause it moves with every motion of the foot—not against it, the dainty shapeliness remains, the smart style stays smart. And oh! such comfort for active feet! We are very* anxious to tell you of this shoe achieve ment, to show you our charming selection of new Red Cross Shoe models. Make your visit soon. For comfort, for style—and style that lasts —you cannot find their equal. Their values, too, are exceptional. The prices range from “Shoes That Satisfy ’ 4% fit ■■'Mi c*>- • 1 t. V «. r* ' f ' M VI • v _ I