Decorah public opinion., May 10, 1922, Image 1

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VoL XXVIII.
OIL WELL NOW
DOWN 400 FEET
Decorah Oil & Gas Co. Now Going
Along Fine With Their
Drilling.
1500 FEET CASING
ARRIVED SATURDAY
One of the Employees Injured Yes
terday, Had Finger
Smashed.
The Decorah Oil & Gas Co. are
going along in fine 4iape now with
their drilling work and are down
400 feet. The crowds visiting the
lease ai - e growing bigger daily and
as the drills go deeper the excite
ment is growing more intense.
Last week the company received
1500 feet of steel casing from
Pennsylvania and this is being rapid
ly placed.
Mike Minnehan, one of the em
ployees, had the misfortune to get
one of his fingers smashed at the
lease yesterday, which will lay him
up for some time.
CANDIDATES ALL SET
Filing For County Offices * Closed
Last Saturday.
The candidates for county offices
on the Republican and Democratic
tickets have all filed now, the closing
day being last Saturday.
For some of the offices on the
Republican ticket their are quite a
few candidates, especially for sheriff,
five being in the field.
Republican Candidates
For County Attorney
J. A. Nelsen
W. M. Strand.
For Sheriff
Fiank L. Christen, Decorah.
Walter H. Bueknell, Decorah.
Gilbert A. Anderson, Decorah.
Joseph E. Corsen, Decorah R. 4.
Edgar Severson, Decorah R. 4.
For Clerk of Courts
. S. J. Moore.
For Auditor
Oscar Winger
Clarence E. Severson.
For Treasurer
C. P. Seim. , ~
For Recorder
Albert Hammersness
For Coroner
L. B. Willis. • •
For Supervisors
M. C. Bergan, Ist district.
E. F. Bakken, sth district.
Andrew T. Istad, sth district
C. J. Burgess, 3d district.
Democratic Candidates
For County Attorney
Nora L. Goheen, Calmar.
For Treasurer
A. J. C. Wingate, Prosper R. 1.
For Clerk
Chas. A. Whalen, Decorah.
For Sheriff
Geo. E. Cooney, Ft. Atkinsen.
For Recorder
Mary H. Gossman, Decorah.
For Auditor
J. A. Peck, Decorah.
For Supervisor
J. W. Griffith, Ridgeway 3d dis
trict.
G. W. Peckham, Castalia, Ist dis
trict.
Jos. F. Swehla, Spillville, 2d dis
trict.
Joseph Bockmann, Calmar, 2d dis
trict.
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The Federal Blue Sky Law
Congress is now considering a so
called federal blue sky law, aimed at
fraudulent and worthless securities.
Legislation of that kind is more nec
essary than formerly, since people
are buying such investments more.
Before the war most people of lim
ited financial intelligence would
put their money into good banks.
They knew they were not competent
to pass on investments, and wisely
turned over their problems to bank
ers. But increased living costs led
them to seek higher interest rates,
and stories of fortunes quickly made
led many to take big chances. An
enormous amount of money is being
thrown away annuaLly in worthless
investments. The federal government
ought to use its utmost power to
prevent this waste, which depletes
the property of many struggling
families.
q. - -
Somebody no doubt thinks you
are “a man in a million,” and so
you are, bu: so is everybody else.
Dccoml) Public ©pinion
KUHN FAILS TO GET
NA”E ON BALLOT
•5V
Ex-Superviso* P. Kuhn, Demo
cratic Cano\‘e for Senator
Did Not t r >,y. Enough
Sign
v
NAME CANNOT
GO ON Ti BALLOT
Nothing to Prevent Kuhn From Run
ning As An Independent Candi
date at November
Election.
Two candidates for the state sen
ate, who filed itheir nomination pa
pers with the secretary of state be
fore April 26, failed to get on the
primary ballot through failure
comply with the provisions of the
election laws, Secretary of State
Ramsay announced Wednesday, ac
cording to the Des Register.
One of the unfortunate candidates
was a republican and the other a
democrat.
Earl H. Walter of Grand View,
Louisa county, is the candidate
who failed to comply with the law
by circulating his own petitions.
Section lOST-alO of the code pro
vides that the affidavit of a quali
fied elector shall be appended to
each nomination paper stating that
the elector is personally acquaint
ed with all the persons who signed
the petition, knows! them to be
electors of that county, etc., but
“such affidavit shall not be made
by the candidate.” The affidavit
on Walter’s petition is signed by
himself.
The democrat who failed to get on
the pr.mary ballot is Ex-Supervisor
J. P. Kuhn, of Winneshiek, whf> fail
ed to have a sufficient number of
signers to his petition, according to
Secretary Ramsey.
Kuhn’s error was in believing that
James M. Cox was the he id of the
democratic ticket, and he figured the
number of his signers on the Tote of
the democratic candidate for present.
Secretary Ramsay stated yesterday
that he had the verbal opinion of
the attorney general that the gover
nor is “the head of the t : cket,” and
as Clyde L. Herring polled a larger
vote in Howard and Winneshiek
counties than Cox, Kuhn’s petition
was barred.
The law provides that a candidate
for the state senate must have 1
per cent of the vote in his district
for the head of his ticket at the
previous general election, or 2 per
cent of the vote of half the coun
ties. Based on Herring’s vote, Kuhn
should have had 63 signers from
Winneshiek county or 45 from Ho
ward county or 54 signers from both
counties. His petition contained 44
signers from Winneshiek county.
Both of the barred candidates have
the right of appeal to a beard com
posed of the secretary of state, at
torney general and state auditor, but
this does not mean that the ruling
of the secretary of state would be
changed.
While Walter and Kuhn are
barred from the primary and can
not run on a party ticket at the
general election, there is nothing
to prevent theni running as inde
pendent candidates at the election in
November. To do this, they must
circulate petitions asking to be plac
ed on the ballot at the general elec
tion as independent candidates. Each
candidate mnst have 500 signatures
to his petition.
Republican Party Starts Right at
Down in Maine a few weeks ago
the voters of Waterville elected u
Democratic city ticket by a plurality
of 10,000 votes. Then they turned
around and gave 700 plurality for
a Republican for congress. The Re
publicans simply deserted their party
on city mhtters. And yet we have
always heard Democrats say Republi
cans stayed by their party no mat
ter what happened. Here in Chicka
saw county men who are Republican
on National issues have been voting
Democrats into county offices for ovie
excuse or another—at least until late
ly. Now they have their eyes open
and they are through with tbit way
of doing. They have lbamed that
successful national Republican party
starts right at home with Rome offi
cers. And it is their duty as na
tional Republicans to see tHat? good
men are norflinated and eleAed on
the Republican ticket in the county.
—New Hampton Gazette.
DECORAH, WINNESHIEK COUNTY, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1922
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SPILLVILLE WILL
CELEBRATE NIAY2I
Twenty Fifth Anniversary Katolicky
Delnik Day to In* Celebrated
On May 21.
SPEECHES WILL
BE MADE AT 2 P. M.
Big Supper Will be Served at Six
O’clock and an Entertainment
At Eight.
The twenty fifth anniversary of
Katolick Delnik, Catholic Workman
Branch No. 33, will be held at Spill
vine, lowa, on Sunday, May 21.
At 9:45 o’cock the Catholic socie
ties will parade from the A. B. C. S.
Hall, led by a brass baud to the
church, at ten o’clock a. m. High
Mass will be read.
After the services the parade will
march to the A. B. C. S. hall where
a bouritiful dinner will be served by
the ladies of the congregation.
Speeches will be made in the Eng
lish and Bohemian languages at 2:00
p. m. During the day music will
be furnished by a brass band.
At six o’clock in the evening a
big supper will be served, followed
by an entertainment at eight o’clock
by the children of the parochial
school.
The general public is cordially in
vited to attend the program, which
is under die order of the Catholic
Workman Lodge, Branch No. 33.
FIRST PRIMARY
FOR IOWA WOMEN
New Voters to Help Nominate the
Party Candidates in the Primary
Next Jane.
ARE VERY ACTIVE
IN THE CAMPAIGN
“League of Women Voters” M ill Quiz
Candidates Who Aspire to
the Legislature.
Although lowa women voted in the
general election two years ago, the
women of the state have never yet
participated in a s'ate wide primary.
The primary to be held June 5, in
which all parties join, will therefore
be the first time in lowa history that
the women will have a part in nam
ing party candidates.
Women’s organizations are already
at Work calling attention through
the various women’s clubs that the
s»omen voters hare the opportunity
.c name party candidates . r.d not
or.y are they urging tin* women to
be alive to the opportunity, but they
*i !> being asked to’inform themselves
on *l>e candidate-!.
The lowa League of Women Voters
expects soon to pilt out a list of
questions which it will urge the wo
men- to ask the various candidates,
particularly those out for the legis
lature. One of these, already deter
mined on wyuld ascertain of legisla
tive candidates if they will support a
constitutional ameiuJment permitting
women members of the leg slatdti.
The present constitution bars women
from the lowa legislature.
Another cause the league is cham
pioning Ls an appropriation for the
Sheperd Townley maternity bill so
that the provisions of the measure
can be taken advantage of in this
state. It w.ll require an appropria
tion of SIO,OOO on the part of the
state to secure the benefits of this
law in lowa to match a similar ap
propriation by the government and
the league members will seek support
for this appropriation.
The primary is two months away
and it is probable it will not engage
statewide attention either from fhe
men or the women voters until after
April 26, when filing time i 3 over.
Then all the hats will be in the ring,
campaigning will be in full tilt, and
there will be enough political excite
ment to wake ufl the whole state, ac»
cording to pt+?4*t indications.
The vote oast in the primaries in
lowa two years sgfr was only « little
more t&ftn ®oe*fdyj*tli of the vote cast
in the emotion in tlfe fall.
The total *aa# caujt for the candMatas
for gnt-emor in the June primary was
252,040, ▼herds* the vote ca»*t for the
candidates foe pfeKtent in tfcg fall
election Was 875<W6.
This vtjt* for pTfcitdent shows th<:
with til* WO then rtfw voting there U
a great attuy <J toters in lowa if
they can be arougfd enough to get to
the polls.
DRILL FOR OIL
AT BLUFFTON
j
Company Has Secured Leases on
3000 Acres of Land and Wish
to Get 10,000 Acres.
MUCH ENTHUSIASM
IS BEING SHOWN
Oklahoma Company Headed by M. J.
Gill is Securing the Leases
At BlufTton.
Mr. M. Gill, of Tusla, Oklohoma,
president of the Shepard and Tipton
Oil companies who has been in De
corah for several weeks on business
has leased about 3000 acres of land
in BlufTton township, with a view of
prospecting for .oil. His company
expect to drill in BlufTton township,
! after they get more acreage. They
want in the neighborhood of 10,000
(acres, and just *as soon as it is
■ secured will have a geologist come
and go over the most acceptable
spot to open drilling operations.
Mr. Gill thinks that there is oil
here in Winneshiek somewhere, and
regarding what the state geologist
said about there is no oil in lowa,
is true so far as he is concerned,
because they haven’t drilled for it.
The state geologist of Oklahoma
said he would drink all the oil they
got south of the Canadian river.
Since his statement was made there
has been between sixty and seventy
thousand barrels of oil produced, so
consequently he will or would have
some -job on his hands.
Regarding the overproduction of
I oil, R. Sinclair, the big oil man,
said in a recent meeting, “if they
stop producing oil the entire wheels
of progress of the world would be
shut down inside of six months time.
Last year America produced 434,-
000,000 barrels of oil, yet we were
jcompelle*'i to buy barrels
: from Mexico.
Mr. Gill expects to go to Kansas
j City this week to meet several oil
(men, who are connected with him in
j producing oil, and will bring one of
the gentlemen back to Decorah with
I him.
17 Candidates For lowa House Have
No Rivals
Seventeen candidates for the lowa
.louse of representatives will have
no opposition either on the same
ticket or on the opposing ticket in
the coming election.
These candidates are all republi
cans and are as follows: R. O. Gar
ber of Adair county, W. C. Edson of
Buena Vista county, John G. Hempel
of Clayton county, William R. Blake
of Fayette county, J. S. Garber of
Floyd county, E. P. Healy of Han
cock county, John H. Aiken of Ida
county, Brede Wamsted of Mitchell
county, A. V. Brady, of O’Brien coun
ty, J. H. Stimson of Page county,
L. T. Quick of Sac county, H. M.
Donhowe of Story county, W. Wal
ter Wilson of Tama county John A,
Storey of Warren county, J. H. An
deson of Winnebago county, O. Gil
bertson of Winneshiek county and
H. H. Schulte of Worth couht>.
All but Quirk and Hempel are can
didates for reelection.
RAMSAY GIVES MAR VETS
SQUARE DEAL
Secretary of State Employs 43
Service Men.
Veterans of the world war have
received a “square deal” at the hands
of M'alter C. Ramsay of Belmond,
lowa, who is making the race for re
election to the office of secretary of
state on the Republican ticket.
Upon the return of the first trans
port from Europe, after the signing
of the armistice, Mr. Ramsay began
making room in his office for those
who had offered themselves in the
great struggle for democracy.
He has endeavored to employ as
many service men as possible, and of
the fifty-six employes on h:3 payroll,
forty five or all but nine are vet
erans. His record in employing ex
service men is an ENVIABLE one,
and he is recognized as a “square
shooter” by those service men who
are familiar with, his efforts in their
behalf.
After a man has “gone to the
dogs,” nearly everybody barks at
him.
Kings and queens will continue to
be popular as long as poker 13 play
ed.
STILL 30,000 TO
SETTLE AUTO FEES
Number is Much Smaller. However.
Than it Was \ear Ago. If
Fees Are Not Paid (ars
Will Be Turned Over
to the Sheriff.
CAR OWNERS MORE
FAMILIAR WITH LAW
Thi- i- Believed to Have Had Much
to Do With Lessening Delinquents
Failure to Pay License Cost.
Des Moines, lowa—Automobile
owners who have not yet paid their
1922 license fees will 10.-c their cars
in another fifteen days, unless the
fees and fines are paid under the
state automobile law.
The names of the owners who are
delinquent have been published and
fifteen days after publication the cars
are turned over to the county sheriff
to sell at public sale if the fees
and fines remain unpaid at that time.
According to estimates made in the
office of the secretary of state, the
total number of delinquents on May
1 this year is only about one half
of what it was a year ago. It is
estimated by the department that
there are something like 2r>,000 to
30,000 cars on which the fees have
not yet tx%n collected, whereas a
year ago there were more than
50,000.
However, this year there has been
a more thorough reporting of cars
which have been junked than last
year, due to especial efforts made by
the authorities to have all such cars
reported. Car owners are also be
coming more familiar with the re
quirement of the state law in this
respect and are meeting its provis
ions.
Automobile licen.se fees become de
linquent January 1, and there is a
penalty of $1 a month each month
up to May 1, at which time the cars
are advertised. Delinquent owners,
should they then redeem their car,
must pay 50 cents to cover cost of
publication. If the owners name
goes to the sheriff that officer can
collect a fee of $2 and 10 cents per
mile if he makes an eleventh hour
collection. He Is also entitled to $1
per day for keeping the car.
When the car is sold at sheriff’s
sale, the remainder of the sum re
ceived, when all these costs are
paid, will go to the owner of the car.
If cars have been taken out of the
state or placed in storage, the law
requires the owners to report to
the # couyty treasurer. This is one
provision of the law which is often
overlooked officials report.
Kept Their Strange Vow
Years ago when the city council
at Geneseo forced E. Hill, an old
man of that town, to build a brick
sidewalk in front of his home Hill
and his wife both vowed they’d never
set foot on that walk.
They both kept their vows. Hill
died a couple of years ago, and at
his death his widow had the coffin
removed through the kitchen so it
would not have to be carried over
the offensive brick walk in front. And
the widow steadfastly persisted in
keeping the strange vow.
Never was she known to step foot
on the front walk. She lived alone
and neighbors very seldom saw her.
This strange vow may have cost the
life of the old woman.
A few years ago a milkman call
ing to leave milk found her dead
body, fully ciethed, lying near the
front door. She had apparently been
trying in her illness to get the door
open to call for help, but being so
long disused the door had swollen
shut and she could not open it. M’ith
her hand clutching at the doorknob
she had evidently fallen unconscious
and diet! there. But she had kept
1 her vow.—Hutchinson News.
“Hanging of murderers in lewa
will soon begin. There are several on
the waiting list and if the courts
don’t interfere a check will be placed
in the track of the crime wave,” says
the Carroll Herald.
“The wets are after 100 seats in
the next house. Well, there is Mr.
A. C. April, of East Dubuque, who
ought to be a good candidate,” sug
gests the Waterloo Times Tribune.
I: is a pity the world isn’t so
filled with “good sports” that none
of them ever would say anything
about his troubles.
BIG CONTRACT
LET BY BOARD
Bridge Work, Grading and Tiling
Contracts Let Yesterday. Ward
& Teslow, of Decorah
Get Share Contract.
WORK WILL AMOUNT
TO ABOUT $35,000
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Decorah-Waukon and the Decorah-
Ridgeway Primary Roads Are
Ones to be Improved.
The Winneshiek county board of
supervisors were in session yesterday
to open bids for bridge work, grad
ing, tiling, etc., on two primary roads
out of Decorah, die one running to
Waukon and the other to Ridgeway.
One of the large-t number of
hidders in years were on the job,
and we are pleased to note that a
Decorah firm, Ward & Teslow, se
cured a good big share of the bridge
ami culvert work. These contracts
were divided between Ward & Tes
low and the A. Olson Construction
Co. of Waterloo, which firm has
done considerable work in this county
in previous years.
There will be some 64 bridges,
culverts and extensions to be put
in on these two roads, and the work
will'start this month.
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FARM BUREAU NEWS
Pure Bred Breeders Hold Re-Organi
zation Meeting
A meeting of the pure bred breed
ers of Winneshiek County was called
on Saturday, May 6th by the County-
Agent. This call was sent out as
many of the breeders had expressed
themselves as being anxious to get
together in order that proj>er cooper
ation among the breeders might be
i promoted and if possible to arrange
some way in which their animals
could be shown to better advantage
at the County Fair.
The meeting was called to order
by County Agent and Sam Waters
appointed president pm tern and C. C.
Pilgrim secretary protem. Mr. Waters
made a few remarks and suggested
that Col. Mullany- of Waukon, who
was present should make a few re
marks inasmuch as he was president
of the Allamakee County Breeders As
sociation and during his ex|>erience of
the last four years could probably
give us some very helpful informa
tion. His remarks were helpful and
interesting, outlining and describing
their method of conducting their as
sociation.
The question of securing officials
for the re-organized association was
brought up and a motion was carried
to nominate officers by acclamation
and vote by ballot. The result of the
balloting gave Sam Waters the pre
sidency, Fred Gross, vice president,
and a motion was made and carried
that gives the County Agent, whoever
he may- be, the secretary and treas
urer-ship. One director for each of
the different breeds were elected.
They are as follows:
Horses, all breeds—E. L. Beard, De
corah.
Cattle, Shorthorns—Ed. Green, Cas
talia. Herefords—Louis Meyer, Ft.
Atkinson. Aberdeen Angus—Roy
M. Miller, Prosper, Minn. Dairy
Breeds—T. E. Selness, Mabel,
Minn.
Hogs, Poland China—Dr. Schneber
ger, Ossian. Durocs—Nicholas
Ru-hert, Prosper, Minn. Chester
Whites—C. C. Pilgrim, Decorah.
Spotted Polands and other breeds
—Henry Schleuter, Cresco.
Poultry, all breeds—L, C. Bolson, De
corah.
The advisability of having a sales
committee was discussed and the
sales committee for cattle appointed
by the chair as follows:
John Logsdon, Decorah.
Wm. Headington, Decorah.
Lewis Meyer, Ft. Atkinson.
Sales committee for hogs:
R. G. Sandager, Calmar.
Fred Gross, Decorah.
( J. F. Nolan, Decorah.
Committee on constitution and by
laws:
G. T. Pearson, Decorah.
Nicholas Richert, Prosper, Minn.
Dr. Schneberger, Ossian.
C. C. Pilgrim. Decorah
Louis Meyer, Ft. Atkinson.
The date of May 9th was set for
the meeting of this committee and
the committee was further instruct
ed to try to draft some plan which
would meet with the approval of the
Decorar Commercial Club and the
Pair Association for the Improvement
of conditions in regard to showing
livestock and of promoting the inter
est* of agriculture at the County Fair
the thought being brought out at sev
eral times during the meeting that
too much attention is being paid to
the amusements and not enough to
agriculture at out County Fair and
in asnaucb as Winneshiek County ia
purely an agricultural county the ag
ricultural exhibit should be made
more of.
Wool New*
Wool growers of Winneshiek coun
ty should be interested in the follow
ing clipping from the Union Stock
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