Decorah public opinion., June 14, 1922, Image 1

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VoL XXVIII.
EIGHTH GRADE
CLASS DAY
Winneshiek County Eighth Grade
Class pay Exercises Held
Last Friday Were Great
Success. *
210 PUPILS GOT
EIGHTH GRADE DIPLOMAS
Spelling and Arithmetic Contests
showed up Some Mighty Fine
* Scholars From Various
Schools.
The Winneshiek County Eighth
Grade Class Day was a big success.
This -was held on Friday June the (
ninth. Every township in the county
was represented.
At 9:45 the Spelling Contest took \
place at 'the high school buiiding. i
There were thirty-two contestants in •
this contest and it was certainly a (
lively contest. Winneshiek county ,
has many very fine spellers. The
ten winners in the spelling contest,
receiving a diploma are as follows:
F.rst: Caroline Schissel, St. Francis ]
school, Ossian, Iowa; Second. Nora ,
Floistad, Ossian Public School, Os-
Bian, Iowa; Third, Willie Penne, Lm- ,
coin township, district 2, Ridgeway,
lowajFourth, Audrey Rossman, Os
sian public school, Ossian, Iowa;
Fifth, George Rumple, Immaculate
Conception school, Decorah, (Iowa; -■
S.xth, Clara Swehla, SpiHville public;
school, SpiHville, Iowa; Seventh, Mae
"Voegeding, Pleasant township, dis
trict 10, Decorah, lowa, Route 7;
Eighth, Walter Tekippe. Sisters
school, Fort A'kinson, Iowa; Ninth,
Arthur Young, Plea-ant township |
district 10, Decorah, lowa, Route .7; |
Tenth, Philip Huber, Fort Atk nson.
Sisters school. At the conclusion of
the spelling contest, the arithmetic'
contest began.
In the arithmetic contest there
were twenty-five contestants. On ac- j
count of the lack of time, the arith-j
metic contest had to be cut a little
short. Winneshiek county can cer-j
•tainly be proud of her pqpils. The.
ten winners in the arithmetic con-,
test are as follows: First, Clara
Swehla, Spillville Public school, Spill- 1
ville, Iowa; Second, Frank Voyek,
Sumner twp. D.strict 3, and Til;;e,
Lentz, Sumner Twp., District 4, tied;
Third, Bea ha Beucner, Lincoln Twp.,
Di - diet 2; Fourth, Gustav OJe,,
Springftma Twp. District No. l,
Fifth, Zephie Bouska, Sumner Twp.,|
district 5; Sixth, Nora Floistad, Oa-j
s'an Public School, Ossian,
Iowa; Seventh, Evelyn DeCou,!
Bloomfield Tw'p. District 6"; Eighth,
Edna Johnson, Ossian Public school,
Ossian, Iowa; Ninth, Mae Voegeding,
Pleasant township, district 10; Tenth,
Frances Moyer, Sisters School, Ft.:
Atkinson, lowa.
At 11:45 a line of march was form-;
ed at the Court House, each town- j
ship being represented and carrying
a banner. The banners were made;
by one teacher from each township,
and they were all of them works of!
art. Mr.* Longstreet took a picture of j
the pupils of the county with their i
teachers, and banners. Led by the j
I. 0. 0. F. band, the procession of i
twelve blocks long, marched to the
Decorah City Park where a basket
lunch was served, and a' 1:45 a
splendid and interesting and instruc
tive address was given by Mr. R. W.
Eaton of Omaha. After the address
the 240 pupils received the eighth
(grade diplomas.
At three p. m. the track meet was
held at the park. This was to have
been held at the fair grounds, but
on account of the rain the preceding
night, the track was wet and slip
pery so the meet was held at the
park. The winners were given rib
bons on which was printed the name
of the county, the event and the
year. The winners in the events
were as follows:
f'L
Events for Girls
Potato Race
First Place—Evelyn Pilgrim.
Second Place—lnga Swenson
Third Place—Ruth Johnson
Fourth Place—Lenora Johnson
Ball Throwing
First Place —Beatha Beucher
Second Place —Edel Block
Third Place—Evelyn Pilgrim
Fourth Plape—Evelyn Pilgrim
Place—Esther Gilbertson.
s(f yard dash Ist heat
First Place—G. Kjome.
Second Place —Edel Block
Third Place—Alice Sersland
Fourth Place—Geneva Landsrud.
50 yard dash, 2nd heat
*
First Place—Helen Swehla
Second Place—lnga Swenson
Third Place—Ellen Pilgrim
J Fourth Place—Clare Swehla.
Finals Girls’ 50 yard dash
First Place—lnga Swenson, Canoe
Township.
Second Place—Edel Block, Spring
field township.
Third Place—G. Kjome, Decorah
township.
Fourth Place Alice Sersland,
, • Frankville township.
Events for boys
50 yard dash
f
' Ist Place—L. Brown, Springfield
2nd Place—M. Youmens, Decorah
township.
3rd place—L. Gutteno, Springfield
township.
4th place—J. Sorenson, Pleasant
township.
(Continued on page seven)
Hkcocal) Public ©pinion.
MEALS FOR FIVE
SI.2SINGERMANY
Fred J. Rosenthal Writes about Trip
to Germany. Five Enjoyed Fine
Dinner for Only $1.25
W.\ THROUGH PALACE
% OF WILHELM IST
/j r
All the Re. nd Luxuries in Pal
ace Exactly . t Now as When
the Rawer Left it.
Public Opinion
Decorah, lowa.
Dear Mr. Me Andrews:—
Well here we are at last at my 11
brothers home, stood the journey t
pretty good with exception of being n
seasick about three days. It was
a little hard for us to leave our good
old home town but seeing so many *
of our good old friends at the depot r
to bid us goodbye helped us wonder- s
ful’ to enjoy the farewell spirit. v
As soon as we reached Chicago we
had to get busy to get our passport j
visas for France, Austria, Switzer
land, Germany Uind Poland. This
could not be done in one day being p
that the office hours of Consuls were p
only two or three hours a day. At Q
any rate we left for New York the
next day at 4 p. m. This train cer- P
| tainly made great speed and i: was a
shortly before we reached New Yorkji
i that our train received a signal not 0
! to proceed of which we were delayed j
• about three hours. After awhile we!
learned that a station was on fire; F
ahead of us. We reached New York; I
i ra her late in the evening and found |
imy sister Eugenie waiting at the t
i depot for us. We stayed in New
York Saturday, Sunday and Monday t
! and took in all we possibly could, n
i also tried to look up our Decorah v
friends. On Sunday we went down
i to Pier 86 to see the monster s:eam-|
'er Resolute on which we were going |
j to sail, it certainly looked good to.d
jus. One of the officers of the boatJ e
i was kind enough to show us all over| a
the ship. i
We left shore at 10:00 a. m. Tues-I,
1 day and it surely was a grand sight i c
Ito see the people waving a farewell, 1:
|to the passengers on board. For the fc
first three day 4 we bad fine, weather >
! and w« made good a mttfe
1400 miles a day. The sea was very r
| calm and in fact we did not know i
that we were on the ocean. The i
second day mail was distributed on c
| the boat and believe me there were 1
no happier people on board than I
Fred J. Rosenthal, Emil Rosenthal, f
Will Kern and Mr. Wiest when we (
read all the good letters and mess- v
ages from friends at home wishing
j us a bon voyage, happy journey and *
, safe return. There were many other , 1
! passengers who stood near us and;
heard us read the letters, some re-!
j marked, “you must have left some: r
i very good and dear friends at home j
; to write you such wonderful letters.” |
Believe me we did and I shall never j
I forget it.
On the fourth day the sea became \
very rough and the weather cold I.
'and windy so we couldn’t be out on;
deck. Here and there we could -ee j i
men and women not feeling just 1 ,
right (some feeding the fishes). 1 ! .
felt very sorry for these people but ,
it wasn’t long before I had the same ;
sickne-s. I could not eat anything
for three days and one day I thought
surely I would die, they had to carry
me up on the deck. Then Emil and
’ Will Kern commenced feediog the
; fishes but they soon got over it. Tiie
- sixth day on the ocean we began to
‘ tee! a ii.tle better, still the weather
1 was not favorable as it was windy
and cold and the sea was rough, but
| we could eat again and our appetite
; gradually came back again.
’ There happened to be a leader of
a singing society on the steamer
and he organized a singing society
and after a few rehearsals we gave
a number of concerts, charged a
small admission of which the money)
was later distributed among the poor;
on the steamer.
We arrived at Plymouth, England,'
and after stopping there six hours;
we were headed for Boulogne, France. I
It wasn’t very long after leaving;
here when the forts of - Heligoland
were in sight. On Friday, May 12th i
10 a. m. we arrived at Cuxhavenj
bu: we were not allowed to leave the i
boat until about 2 o’clock in the af-1
temoon as our trunks and grips;
were opened in search of goods on
which a duty had to be paid. After
this we left the boat and all the
passengers were transported by :hree
special trains to Hamburg; it was
here where Emil and I had the great
joy of meeting our brother whom
we had not seen for forty years. The
, next day we left for Berlin where
we had the pleasure of seeing a
great opera, and with an admission
of five marks we went through the
j palace of Wilhelm Ist. We were
told that all the relics and luxuries
in his palace are exactly the same
’ now as when he left. Of course this
was very- interesting.
American money surely will buy a
lot in this country, for instance, five
l of us went in*o a cafe, we all really
had a fine dinner. I tipped the por
ter five marks and in all I paid $1.25
j in our money, well we couldn’t help
but laugh. The hotels have learned
j of the great value of American
money and they have advanced their
Continued on last pa^e.
DECORAH, WINNESHIEK COUNTY, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14,1922
FATHER HOGAN
TO IRELAND
Pastor St. Benedicts Cathloic Church
Expects to Sail June 24 on
Visit to Mother in City
of Limerick.
FIRST VISIT IN
TWENTY THREE YEARS
Sails From Montreal on Steamer
“Canopic” in Company With
Two Other lowa Priests.
Rev. Father Martin Hogan, pastor
of St. Benedict’s Catholic church in
this city is planning on a visit to
his birthplace, the city of Limerick
in County Clare, Ireland, on a visit
to his beloved mother, whom he has
not -sen in twenty-three years.
If Father Hogan’s plans go as
planned now he will sail from Mont
real, Canada, on June 24 on the
steamer “Canopic” for, Liverpool. He
will be accompanied by Rev. Father
Maher,' of Ackley, lowa, and Rev.
Father Omeara, of Williams, lowa.
Father Hogan has been in the
priesthood for 35 years, and is en
tering in his 36th year. He was
ordained in, Tahurles, county' Tip
perary, Ireland. His first pastorate
after coming to this country was at
Daugherty, lowa, and for a number
of years he wa3 stationed at Wau
coma. Father Hogan became the
pastor of St. Benedict’s church in
Decorah six years ago, on July 12.
Since entering the priesthood Fa
ther Hogan has had only one vaca
tion, and this visit to his dear old
mother and birthplace is looked for
ward to with a great decree of plea
sure by him.
Since becoming pastor of St. Bene
dict’s church here Father Hogan has
endeared himself tp his parishioners
and has made hundreds of friends
among the non-Catholics. He is
broadminded and has built up a
large and influential congregation
here. The beautiful new frhurch
hunt ninmmhf Cfltfjj,
Kain streets teeth yo
ing his pastorate here ana tne euiiu-e
is a credit to the congregation and
community.
Father Hogan has a multitude of
friends here who will wish him
Godspeed on his journey across the
waters and a safe return home. He
expects to arrive back in Decorah
inext September.
Gleiwitz, Germany,
May 20th, 1922
An Explanation
To my friends: —
It is perhaps a little unusual for a
defeated candidate to come out after
the battle is over and say anything
but in view of the fact that an un
warranted attack was made upon me
in the eleventh hour of the campaign
and circulars sent out among the
voters by my opponent I merely
want to say by way of explanation
that {he political advertisement re
ferred to by my opponent was not
written by myself, but by a friend
who perhaps was too anxious for my
success and hence made claims that
should not have been made.
I wrote an article myself and pub
lished it in nearly all the papers so
am responsible only for what I wrote
myself. Hence the eleventh hour pol
itical coup resorted to by my op
ponent was unwarranted.
As to the statements made by my
opponent they are easily answered.
As far as the campaign two years
ago is concerned I believe I made
a satisfactory explanation at that
rime and need not go into that now.
In answer to why I did not ap
point a service man as. my deputy
■ two years ago can say that I iti
j tended to do so and tried to do so,
1 but as I was advised not to appoint
lone of Norwegian extraction and as
jof course l had to eliminate those
belonging to the Democratic party
! the held became limited and I fin
i ally gave it up. This, however, as
! you know’ has now’ been taken care
I of.
I can therefore truthfully say that
I have no apologies to make and I
am only writing this to set myself
straight with the public as I under
stand there is some misunderstand
ing hi regard to those articles.
I have tried to serve Winneshiek
county well, and I have much to be
grateful for as the people of this
county certainly have shown their
confidence in me in the past.
Trusting that I will not be mis
understood thi3 time, I am
Sincerely yours,
OSCAR W INGER.
“The other day the senate of the
United tSates recessed for the whole
afternoon so that the pages could at
tend a circus. No harm was done”
explains the Cedar Rapids Republi
can. “If the senators had been in
session they would not have done
anything anyway.”
If you kill time, time eventually
will kill you.
ELK STAGE DIG
TIME TOMORROW
One Hundred and Ten New Members
Will be Initiated at Four O’clock
At Elks Home.
BANQUET AT 6:30
AT THE WINNESHIEK
Branding of the Mavericks Will
Take Place at Eight at Grand
Opera House.
Tomorrow, Thursday June 15, pro
mises to be a red letter day in the
history of the Decorah lodge of
Elks, No. 443, when 110 new mem
bers will be initiated into the order.
A big program of fun has been
planned and according to Exalted
Ruler H. B. Winter, the day will
be one long to be remembered in
Eikdom.
Ait three o’clock in the afternoon
a big street parade will take place,
which will contain a lot of funny
features. The marchers will be
gaily decorated and a lot of fan
tastic scenes will be on the pro
gram.
At four o’clock the initiation of
the 110 candidates will take place
at the Elks home, after which a
banquet will be held at the Winne
sheik hotel.
At eight o’clock in the evening
| the Elks will put on the finishing
touches of the initiation at the Grand
opera house, and nobody but Elks
will be admitted and all Elks must
i show’ their cards at the door, as
1 admission can be had only by card.
After this big initiation takes place
! the Decorah Elks will have a mem
bership of 518 members, and makes
the Decorah lodge one of the largest
| in the state.
If the w’eather is nice 600 visiting
Elks are expected from various other
lodge-, many coming from New
Hampton, Charles City, Mason City,
Austin, West Union, Waukon and
lu’tWTfcAcs colons aml Vne
jolly good fellows will have the free-
Idom of the city. The big parade
will start at three so don’t miss it.
At 3:45 a ball game will take
place at the fair grounds between
the Decorah All Stars and the fast
Oelwein team.
135,000 Voted for Brookhart
Cedar Rapids Gazette: Brookhart
gained the nomination as the mere
personification of a sjmptom. The
!great majority of the voters in this
and other states are dissatisfied and
1 sore a: something—they do not
know exactly what. They are in a
remonstrating mood, a punishing
mood. Brookhart came out flatly
l as an anti administration candidate,
and the people of lowa were of an
“anti” turn of mind. So Brookhart
won. A large percentage of those
w-ho voted for him did not know just
; what they were voting for, except
that they hail been told Brookhart
I was the fr ei;d of the farmer and
i the laborer. More :han that, he was
the friend of the service man.
The war bequeathed us innumer
able by products. Unrest is one of
them. Brookhart is the child of
that unrest. But for the war he
never could have gained the nomi
nation, for the war created the spirit
that wafted him to the top. lowa
has decided to make a new experi
ment in politics. We may have to
up, or we may grope our way into
bump our nosas a bit before we wake
Utopia.
“If the republicans don’t have a
successful bonus bill what in the
world will they ask re-election for?”
asks the Washington Democrat. To
which the Webster City Freeman-
Journal replies, “To keep the demo
crats out and that will be a good
enough campaign issue until the peo
ple forget the records of the demo
cratic party during the years from
1913 to 1921. The present genera
tion will put up with anything before
they will risk giving responsibility
again to the democrats.”
Wisdom is comparative. Her
grandmother couldn’t drive an au
tomobile but she could ride a horse
which the modem girl who tries it
is unable to do. Still, her grand
mother had to, and the modern girl
doesn’t.
Most men would be fine fellow's
if they had their theories ampu
tated and real facts substituted.
10,000 PEOPLE
VISIT OIL WELL
Drillers Down 1630 Feet and Have
Struck What is Called
Tipioca Sand.
GULF PRODUCTION CO.
SENDING MAN HERE
Will Check Over the Situation and
Not Improbable That Big Sum
Will be Invested Here.
The drillers at Bakke Lease No.
1 of the Decorah Oil & Gas Co.
are now down 1630 feet, and have
struck what is called a tapioca sand,
the same kind of sand which is
found in the Kansas and Oklahoma
oil fields at a depth of 1200 feet. It
carries gas in some fields. But the
Decorah well has 1200 feet of water
in it now, but when the drillers get
to a depth of 1650 feet they will set
ten inch casing and then will have
a dry hole, and expect to go. some
thing any minute from then on.
They have been passing through
lime, slate, and sand all the way down,
which is exactly what you have to
have to find oil and gas. The log
of this well*so far corresponds with
the Kansas fields.
The head driller for the Decorah
Oil & Gas Co., Mr. Beardmore, stat es
that he is convinced that it is only
a matter of a few hnudred feet un
til we have oil and gas in paying
quantities. In fact, it looks so good to
the drillers that they are willing to
wager a little on it. They seem
to think we will strike it between
2,600 and 2,700 feet.
From all indications now it looks
certain that Decorah is in line for
a big oil boom. Mail enquires are
coming in from all over the coun
try, many from New York and Texas.
The Gulf Production Company are
sending a representative here from
headquarters to check over the situ
ation, and it is not at " ud^nT! ‘
HI In IP ?. re , * ijj /ill TV
In general the situation looks much
better than anybody expected.
Visitors by the hundreds have been
driving to the oil well daily, coming
hundreds of miles. A party from
Oklahoma from the Garber oil fields
I visited the well last week and re
gained three days. This company
! was two years drilling -their wells,
and Garbers are now among the
1 richest men in Oklahoma.
1 Stock in the Decorah Oil & Gas
Co. is still for sale and those who
wish some of it and haven’t yet
bought ought to get in now while
] the going is good, and not be dis
appointed a little later when there is
none left for sale and the oil be
gins to flow.
The company has headquarters in
the former gas office on Winnebago
street. Mr. Oscar Brown, a man of
many years experience in the oil
business is in charge and will gladly
give out any information desired
about the local well. Representative
Decorah and Winneshiek county resi
dents are interested in this well and
the proposition looks right now’ like
one of the best things ever attempt
ed here.
Kissing Road to Divorce Courts
Sioux City, lowa—Girls who permit
men to embrace them and who even
go so far as to indulge in osculation,
are the type of girls whose marri
ages usually end in d.vorce, the Rev.
Lewis Jacobson, pastor of the First
Baptist church here claims.
“I think no girl is of a serious
mind who allows herself to be used
as a door mat and permits a young
man to hug and kiss her for an ice
cream cone,” the Reverend Jacobson
declared. Such action indicates they
are not thinking seriously of a
home and its responsibilities.
The Reverend Mr. Jacobson gives
as the cause of the spread of the di
vorce evil, individualism, lessened
sense of moral responsibility and
newspaper humorists, who, he claims,
treat marriage flippantly.
"hy the Cook Got Sore
“Man-,” said an irritable father,
one morning, “I called Jimmy four
times and he didn’t answer, so I
turned down the covers on his bed
and gave him a good spanking.”
“Oh, John, how could you? That
means I’ll be hunting a new cook.”
“How’s that?”’
“Jimmy stayed all night at Smith’s
and the cook slept in his bed last
night. ’—The Crescent.
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NO. 24
DIG MAGAZINE
SECTION SOON
Will be an Every Other Week Fea
ture of Public Opinion Start
ing June 28.
MANY UNUSUAL NEWS
FEATURES IN IT
News Will Cover Farm. Educational,
Women. Civic, Commercial,
American Legion and
Governmental Inter
ests lowa
People.
The President of the United States
of course, is an exceedingly bu*y
man. The largest and mo3t influen
tial publications in the country would
be delighted beyond measure to have
a contribution to their columns from
-the president. None of maga
zines have had anything from the
pen of Warren G. Harding since his
inauguaration. But President Hard
ing has written a greeting to lowa
especially for the Public Opinion and
this greeting will appear in the first
issue of the lowa Magazine section,
which will be distributed as a part
of this newspaper two weeks from
i today.
Besides this unusual feature, there
l will be many other things of vital
'interest to readers of this newspaper.
jThe first installment of a long serial
1 story, “The Man with Three Names”
bv Harold MacGrath, will appear in
this first number of the magazine
section.
There will be a short story bf
Bernice Blown, an lowa girl who if
now recognized as one of America’s
best short story writers, there will
be many pictures and departments
covering the farm, educational, wo
man, civic and commercial, Ameri
can Legion, and governmental inter
ests of lowa people.
Starting on June 28 the lowa
Magazine section will be an every
other week .feature of the Public
f/pbt r; ,BU . aU iu. ,ll * v
history.
IOWA’ STATE FISH LAW
Warden Albert Issues Synopsis o#
Statutes.
i -
Des Moines, lowa, —On a neat lit
tle card not much larger than an
ordinary business card State Fish
and Game Warden W. E. Albert has
compiled a synopsis of the lowa
fi-hing law as follows:
Open season—Bass, p ke, crappies,
pickeral, catfish or perch, from May
15 to Dec. 1.
Day’s limit—Forty game fi-h of
which not more than twenty bass,
pike or pickeral may be taken.
Legal sizes—lt is illegal to kill,
destroy or have in possession any
game fish less than the following
sizes. Bass and catfish, ten inches dn
length. Pike and pickeral, twelve
inches in length. Crappies, eight
inches in length.
Shipments—Fish may be shipped
but not for sale or profit. Affidavit
must be filed with common carrier.
Non-resident license—Non-resident
males over 16 years of age mu9t se
cure license from county auditor.
Fee $2. *
Lawful methods—Only lawful way
to fish is with hook and line. Two
lines with one hook on each line may
be used. Spoon hook may be used
for trolling. However, in running
streams, a person may use one trot
line extending not more than half
way across steam. Minnows may
be taken with proper minnow seine.
Trolling in lakes from gasoline, elec
tric or steam launch not permitted
when propelled by such power. These
laws apply on inland waters. Sep
arate law’s govern Mississippi and
Missouri rivers.
Life Insurance is Exempt
Life insurance of a bankrupt party
is exempt from seizure for the bene
fit of creditors, according to a decis
ion of the United States circuit court
of appeals, eighth district, in a w’ric
ten opinion through Federal Judge
T. G. Munger of Lincoln, remanding
an order of the United States dis
trict court and affirm : ng the decision
of Fremont Benjamin of Council
Bluffs, referee in bankruptcy, allow
ing the exemption of a $37,000 policy
I held by Harry Jones Jens, a Shelby
farmer, declared a bankrupt in Feb
ruary 1921. Creditors attempted to
have the beneficiary of the $37,000
changed to them in order to satisfy
claims, but Referee In Bankruptcy
Fremont Benjamin, held the policy
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