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CHRISTEN WINS
THE NOMINATION
Gets Republican Nomination for
Sheriff at the County Conven
tion Last Saturday.
JUDGES SPRINGER AND
TAYLOR ENDORSED
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Delegates Selected for the Various
Conventions to be Held
Later.
The republicans met in county
convention last Saturday. The con
vention was opened at 11 o’clock by
Chairman C. N. Houck, who outlined
the work, and O. O. Lomen, of
Springfield township was nominated
for temporary chairman and Mrs.
Gee. W. Johnson as secretary.
A reading of the names of the
delegates was made by the Chairman
and then the convention got down to
business.
It was one of the best conventions
held in years. All preceincts but two
were represented. The selection of
delegates was given a wider repre
sentation this time and instead of a
committee of five selecting the dele
gates to the various conventions
Atty. E. J. Hook made a motion,
which carried, giving all precincts
representation in the selecting of the
various delegates. It was a motion
which suited practically everybody in
the convention too.
A vote was then taken on adjourn
ment until one o’clock and it prevail
ed 65 to 45.
Shortly after one o’clock the names
of the various delegates were re
ported by E. R. Haines, Chairman
and E. J. Hook, secretary.
Atty. M. A. Harmon made a mo
tion, which was duly seconded that
the full vote of the county be cast for
Judges Springer and Taylor, and this
carried unanimously, and the dele
gates to the district judicial con
vention will go instructed for the
The next order of business was the
nomination for sheriff. The fight
centered between Frank L. Christen
and Gilbert Anderson* The selection
was made by a vote of all the dele
gates present, each precinct casting
their vote for their respective can
idates. On the informal ballot Chris
ten received 78 6-88 votes, Anderson
70 49-88 and Walter Bucknell 4 33-88.
On the formal ballot Christen receiv
ed 82 9-11 and Anderson 79 2-11, ami
Christen was then declared the no
minee of the Republicans for sheriff
of Winneshiek County. He is a son
of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Christen and
a fine young man in every respect,
and one who will make a representa
tive sheriff of this county. After his
nomination he was called upon fog
a speech, and he appeared before the
convention and thanked the delegates
for the honor conferred upon him.
The county Central Committee
met after the convention adjourned
and elected L. C. Christen, Chairman.
Mrs. Henry Ness, Secretary and O.
J. Ness, Treasurer.
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YoL xxvin.
Below* are the lists of the delegates
selected:
State Convention Delegates
The following W'ere selected to at
tend the Republican state convention,
which will be held in De.- Moines on
Aug. 2.
VVm. I.innevold, Frankville.
W. C. Fifield, Fremont.
L. A. Curtis, Orleans.
Geo. Summers, Washington
I. P>. Whitney, Decorah, 4th ward.
FI. P. Nicholson, Military.
O. A. P. Haugen, Canoe.
O. L. Wennes, Highland.
M iss Bess Beard, Decorah Twpw
O. Ruen, Glenw rod.
Morn*. Tweet, Pleasant.
John Hegg, Sr., Springfield.
John G. Hovden, Madison.
J. J. McAndiews, Deco rah, Ist
ward.
Mrs. W. C. McLain, Canoe. *
Mrs. Julia Hobek, Decorah 4th
ward.
The following alternalc delegates
were selected:
Mrs. Oscar L. Olson, Decorah 3d
ward.
Mrs. Geo. Summers, Washington.
Mrs. A. T. Holton, Decorah 2d
ward.
W. A. Clink, Fremont.
Mrs. E. N Logsdon, Decorah Twp.
E. R. Haines, Decorah, 3d ward.
State Judical Delegates
The following delegates to the
Judicial convention at Waterloo on
August 9 was named as follows:
C. S. Boice, Theo. Sheldahl, L. M.
Jack, H. F. Barthell, H. C. Luhman,
W. A. Plunkett. H. Ruen, Edgar Arn
ness, J. A. Nelson, Paul Ode, M. A.
Harmon, N. Willett, Reuben Chris
topherson, O. A. Jacobson, O A. Ten
old, A. P. Curtis, C. O. Blekeberg.
District Judicial
The following delegates to the dis
trict judicial convention which will
Detotah Public ©pinion.
HOME COMING
FESTIVAL WEEK
Mon. a, -»n One Thusand Invitations
hi Sent Out To Former
Win* '*k County People.
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MANY REPL»%
A 7N RECEIVED
Committee Still Want*. T «meg of
Former Residents So as to
Send An Invitation.
More than 1000 invitations have
been sent by the Publicity Commit
tee to the friends and acquaintances
of former Winneshiek County peo
ple that have moved elsewhelp.
Many replys of acceptance have
been received and from all reports
thousands of people will be here to
enjoy the Festivities of the week.
All the Committees are hard at
work to make the Home Coming
week of August 7th, one long to
be remembered in the doings of Win
neshiek County.
Many who attended the Home
Coming in 1909 will be here to again
talk over the times of their early
youth and indeed it will be a Home
Coming to many who have not visit
ed their boyhood homes for a great
many years. Decorah the County
seat of Winneshiek, logically will be
headquarters for visitors, but all the
people of the County will give a
hearty welcome to those who may
come to the. Festival. There will be
plenty to see and do as we are deter
mined to make everyone feel at home
and we will see to it that everyone
will have a good time.
The Committees are still at work
and again remind the people if they
have any names of relatives and
friends that they wish invitations
sent, to send the list in care of the
Home Coming Festival Committee
and the matter will have immediate
attention. This is a County affair
and any assistance or suggestions
that are otrereu mn De giamy re
ceived.
Home Coming buttons have just j
been received and will be ready for
distribution very soon. Think of (
Home Coming, talk Home Coming
and urge your friends and relatives
to come and have the real time of j
their lives.
The Sac Sun says: “There is only
one man in lowa who can prevent
the swing of thousands of republi
cans to the support of the Des
Moines man and that man is Smith
W. Brookhart. If he accepts and
stands upon the platform his party
adopts at the state convention, which
will be held within a few weeks, and
pledges his support to the national
administration, he will be unbeatable.
If he persists in running as an it
dependent, he will have to look to
independents for his support. The
republicans of lowa naturally would
take his course as license to be
“independent” also, and he would
lose ten republicans where he would
gain one democrat. It is Brookhart’s
move next.”
Women may rot know their own
minds, but ithey generally have a
pretty fair line on their husband's
minds.
be held at Calmar on July 13 were
selected:
E. J. Hook, E. W. Oxley, Mrs. N.
Willett, H. F. Barthell, 6. H. Wol
dum, C. Christen, Mrs. H. P. Nich
olson, H. Logsdon. W. M. Allen,
M. A. Harmon, Geo. Bieber, Ed.
Nordhe'm, B. J. Geving, J. A. Nelson,
E. C. Bailey, Elmer Ringoen.
The democrats met in convention
at the same hour and were called to
order by Chairman F. E. Biermann.
They selected the following Senator
ial delegates who will meet July 15.
James Draper, Mrs. Nora Larson
Goheen, Phil J. Carolan, Miss Mary
H. Gossman, Curtis Miller, Geo. E.
Cooney, B. E. Jewell, J. P. Kuhn,
ami Fred Biermann.
State convention delegates selected
were Fred Biermann, J. P. Kuhn, J.
W. Neuzel, John J. McManus, Mrs.
Cora Soltow, Mrs. Nora Go
heen, John Daly, Albert Wingate,
Allen Wise.
State judicial convention delegates
were T. H. Goheen, E. P. Shea, Wal
ter Jewell, M. J. Carter, Fiank
Sayre, Dr. A. F. Fritchen, C. I.
Krumm, Chas. Altfiillisch, G. A.
Meyer.
F. E. Biermann was re-elected
county cha rm an, J. W. Neuzel, sec
retaiy and Allen Wise, treasurer.
DECORAH,
GREETINGS TO THE
OLD DRUM CORPS
Frank M. Coleman Sends a Greeting
to the Members of the Old
Decorah Drum Corps.
W ANTS TO MEET
THEM ALL HERE
On Monday Aug. 7 at the Homecom
ing and Bring Back Sweet
Memories of the Past.
To the Members of the Old Decorah
Drum Corps, Greetings:
Dear boys, again we're called to
go to the home of our boyhood days
to meet ttte friends of long ago, and
drive the blues away. And so I
want to meet you all and grasp you
by the hand, and play again in the
“Old Drum Corps”—the finest in the
land.
The days of our youth have passed
away, never to return. I have in my
heart, in my older years,*a longing
and a yearning to meet again, and have
a time, its in the days of yore whep
we marched ami played upon the
streets in the “ Old Decorah Drum
Corps.”
So tune up your drum and your
piecalo, ami prepare for a merry old
time —just think of the days of your
boyhood (oh gosh, for a time that
will rhyme!) discard all things of the
days of yore—the days when we
marched and sang and played, in
the “Old Decorah Drum Corps.”
“Decorah Drum Corps!”—Those
magic words bring memories sweet
and dear; 1 want you there and so
I urge that at\the old home you
appear on Monday the seventh of
August, to greet our friends once
more and join with me, and let
them hear the “Old Decorah Drum
Corps.”
FRANK M. COLEMAN.
Vote Swapping Becomes a Scandal
The accepted practice of swappin (
vuicn m agate wgiwßutue* no.- :
ed a pass where it is akin to na
tional scandal. The public interest is
sacrified on the altar of county cupid
ity, though as a fact the home folks
in the long run pay dearly for their
supposed favored legislation. “You
vote for my bill and I’ll vote for
yours,” is the battle cry. “The pro
visions of my bill will not affect
your territory, and nobody cares any
how.” The custom, of course, is the
outgrowth of the Washington pork
barrel scramble where favored noses
aie so brazenly thrust into the na
tional money trough. There it is bad
enough, but when the ‘practice is
brought more nearly home the effect
is demoralizing. Unprincipled legis
lators are enabled to entrench them
selves in office so firmly that it soon
becomes next to impossible to up
root them. They always “make
' good” for the home folks, and that
is as far as the vision goes. The
1 rest, to quote the melancholy Dane,
is silence. The practice lowers the
moral fibre of the people and legis
tures become simply distributing cen-
I tres of graft and special favors,
state budgets are swollen beyond all
necessity, genuine expenditures do
not count, nothing counts, indeed, but
moves that will keep the tawdry pol
itician in h ; s legislative job.
• lowa Has Eight Ex-Governors
lowa has eight living ex-governors.
The oldest of these is Horace Boies,
now of California, who is 95 years of
age. Others are Frank D. Jackson of
Des Moines, who defeated Boies in
1893; Leslie M. Shaw, who divides his
time between New York and San
Diego, Calif., A. B. Cummins, now
U. S. senator; Warren Garst of
Des Moines, governor only a few
months; B. F. Carroll, Des Moines;
George W. Clark, of Adel; W. L.
Harding, Des Moines.
A Prophet Not Without Honor
Kansas City Star: Over in Cape
Girardeau is a man 82 years old who)
spent thirty odd years of his life ar.d
large sums of money writing a his
tory of Missouri which wouldn't sell.
After a few sets had been sold he
withdrew it from the market, though
it is complete and accurate. It’s fail
ure to “go” is a reflect on on Mis
sourians rather than the book. Ja
pan bought more sets than the whole
>tate of Missouri. The H ague bought
twelve sets, Germany a number of
sets, and other foreign ccurtrie; like
wise. The author is Louis Hauck,
who even sent to the old countries to
\ erifv facts concerning the begin
i nir.g of Misrou: ' th .t vr.o a.ob-
Lali.ijfcie in any other wa. .
COUNTY, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1922
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Miss Margaret Schremser
The honor of being chosen the
prettiest girl in Winneshiek county
in the Des Moines Register-lowa
State Fair Beauty contest went to
Miss Margaret Schremser, of De
corah, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H.
A. Schremser. The selection of coun
ty winners was made from more than
6000 pictures of pretty lowa girls.
The next step will be to select the
prettiest girl from each congressional
district in the state. Miss Schrem
ser along with the winners from
other counties in the district will be
a competitor for the honor in this
district. Each county winner will
receive a handsome medal and each
district winner a beautiful loving
cup. After the 11 congressional dis
trict winners" are chosen, including
one from Des Moines which is count-
ed as a separate district, they will
be invited to the state fair in Au
gust where they will be feted and
honored and a committee of judges
well known thiougiiout the state
will choose one of the 12 as the
prettiest girl in lowa. She will be
awarded the SI,OOO prize and be
crowned queen of the state fair.
_ Integrity
7ou;n j Confpairnmy *mr vvtrm Trr
its original sense means wholeness;
disintegration is the breaking up of
the whole into its elements. When
we speak of a man of integrity we
mean that he is a man who has
maintained his wholeness of char
acter and who can be counted on not
to part with any of % its elements or
principles for any consideration.
Shake.-peare’f line, “To thine own
self be true, is an exhortation to
preserve integrity. If you betray
any part of yourself, you lose your
integrity. If you descend to mean
ness or trickery in order to obtain
a personal advantage, you lose it. If
thru motives of vanity or self-inter
est you resort to pretense, you lose
it. Failure to be industrious and to
make the most of your capabilties is
failure to maintain your integrity.
An indolent man may be honest, but
his indolence robs hint of his inte
grity.
Can a man who is conscious of i
some loss of integrity regain what he
has lost*? Surely it must be possible
to heal wounds to the character as
well as wounds to the body. But the
healing process in either case re
quires surgical treatment and the ut
most care to guard against further
infection. And as there is a limit to
the power of the body to resist in-
I juries and infections, so there is a
| limit to the power of the character
; to renew itself after a succession of
weakening anti disintegrating at
tacks upon it. The person who wants
to keep his integrity had better not
be always making small compromises
with himself. •
Getting Rid of Political Bunk
America is going to get nowhere
until we can shake the bla hersk te
and get rid of political bunk. We
need more appeal to reason and less
appeal to prejudice. The average
man today votes his prejudices in
stead of his common sense. Ti.a
average man votes with his spleen
in place of his brain. As long ax
condition prevails we are not
going to have good government, nor
sound economic principle in the con
duct of our public busine.--. Heaven
help us.—JelFerson Bee.
The junk dealer is your real com
mercial scavanger. He gathers ma
terial that otherwise would represent
profitless waste. Junk has become
an asiet of large proportions. Mil
lions of dollars are represented and
the industry ha.- taken on a fiducial
importance ‘hat places the lowly
junkster among the real business men
cf the country.
Millions in Junk
TWO GOVERNORS
WILL RE HERE
Gov. N. E. Kendall, of lowa and Goi.
J. A. O. Preus of Minnesota
Coming for Homecom
ing Week.
CONGRESSMAN HAI'GEN
WILL ALSO SPEAK
Another Notable Will be Hanford
McNider, National Commander
of the American Legion.
The Winneshiek County Homecom
ing Committee have received word
from four prominent men ithat they,
will visit Decorah Homecoming week
and give addresses.
Gov. N. E. Kendall, lowa’s popu
lar governor, and one of the finest
speakers in the state will be one of
the speakers of the week. Another
governor, Hon. J. A. O. Preus, of
Minnesota, whom Decorah claims as
one of her own boys, as he is a
former resident, will also be one of
the speakers.
Hon. G. N. Haugen, congressman
from the Fourth distric:, and who
has hundreds of friends here will also
be with us, as will Hauford Mc-
Nidef, National Commmander of the
American Legion.
These men are all prominent
speakers and the committee is to be
congratulated on securing their pre
sence for homecoming week.
Guessed He Would Start Hotel
A man was a.-ked what line of
business he would follow if every
body was dead but him and his fam
ily. He said he guessed they would
start a hotel. That seems to be 'lie
idea some people have of running
I any kind of business. They seem
'to think they could get on very well
if it wasn’t for other people. But
no business would get on very far
if it were not for the strong pull
that homes fror i the combined effort*
«." a Ic l- t>f bu«ln*v men with com
a..' ..„»m . ....
same direction. It takes many lines
|of endeavor to meet the wants of a
community. It isn’t necessary for
I each one to approve of everything
j the other fellows does, but it helps
his own business to boost a little for
| the other fellow when he can. Com
petitors and neighbors are very gen
eially underestimated. We ought to
be ready always to tell the good
things we know about others in our
community and not too ready to cri
ticize them, just as we think of the
best things we know about our own
folks in our own families and over
look their faults.—Clarinda Cmmun
ity Club.
Deaths and Births in lowa
More deaths resulted from apo
plexy or cerebral hemorrhage during
the month of April in this state than
from any other cause as revealed by
the report of the vital statistics de
partment of the state board of health
under Secretary Rodney P. Fagan.
There were 181 deaths from this dis
ease in April. Second in the list
was tuimors, which caused 175
deaths. Influenza was third with
163 deaths, pneumonia fourth with
143, Brigth’s disease fifth with 133
and heart disease sixth with 108
deaths. Tuberculosis of the lung
caused 99 deaths.
Births exceeded deaths in Apri
bv 1,372, there being 3,568 birth
and 2,19 G deaths. More girl babie
were born than boys, the number o
, girls born being 1,842 and boy
1,725. More deaths are recorded o
[males than of females, the total num
i her of males being 1,207 and female
989.
There were twenty -eight deaths
from suicide, nine from drowning,
ten from automobile accidents and
nine from railroad accidents during
the month.
The Davenport Times recalls that
“for many years it has been insist
ing that the only kind of primary
needed is one by which the delegates
to the county convention shall be
elected under the protection of law
so as to prevent contests. The con
vention would then name a county
ticket and select delegates to a
-tate convention, and there would
be no contests at the state conven
i tion. State nominations and county
I nominations would reflect the com
j bhied wisdom of the party. Each
party would be able in this way to
control its own affairs.”
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Flies from the sick room of the
typhoid or the tuberculo.-is patient
are messengers of :U*ath.
NO. 27
MONTE OIL CO.
OPENEDSATURDAY
Fine Filling Station of H. B. Mont
gomery Now Open to the Pub
lic All Fully Equipped.
FREE OIL AND ROSES
GIVEN AWAY NEXT SATURDAY
Company Operating Trucks in the
County With Both High and
Low Teat Gasoline and ,
Kerosene.
The Monte Oil Co. opened up for
business on East Water street last
Saturday and Mr. H. B. Montgomery*
the proprietor has a thoroughly mo
dern equipment.
Two visible gasoline pumps oper
ated by electricity will be used,
carrying five gallons of gasoline up
to the glass cylinder and at the same
time shows the cleanness of the gaso
line and exactly what you get. The
beauty of this machine is there is
one valve by which the gasoline can
be put back into the underground
tank, that only when the hose is
locked at night. The company has
an air post inside the driveway with
a water connection for radiators, air
being kept at a constant pressure of
125 pounds by an automatic attach
ment on the air compressor.
The cylinder oil- are drawn from
glass cylinders similar to the gaso
line pumps, giving exact measure of
a quart a - , a time, carrying out the
visible idea, giving a person an op
portunity to see the quality of the
oil they are getting and be sure of
a full quart.
The company is operating truck*
in the county with bath high and
low test gasoline and kerosene. The
kerosene and gasoline handled if
from the Pure Oil Co., of Minneapo
lis, and are sold at the same price
as otjier gasolines and kerosenes, but
the quality is of the best.
Taken all in all Mr. Montgomery
he. - yury fine filling ** J * and
wifi um...-uicoiy (i u .. .me busmes*.
On Saturday, July 8, the company
will give away free cylinder oil and
want all their friends to drive in
and have their crank cases filled with
Monte oil, pure Peqnsylivania cylin
der oil. There will be roses for the
ladies.
BROOKHART S LEAD BIG
fficial Returns Show Vote 133,102,
Thorne 52,783.
Colonel Smith W. Brookhart’s offi
cial vote at the June 5 primary for
the republican nomination for Unit-
ed States senator was 133,102, ac
cording to figures made public today
by the state executive council follow
ing the official canvass of votes cast
in the senatorial contest.
Clifford L. Thorne was second in
the senatorial race, receiving 52,783.
The vote received by other candidates
follows: Charles W. Pickett, 51,047;
Leslie E. Francis, 38,691; Burton E.
Sweet, 35,406, and Claude M. Stanley
12,593.
Unofficial retrns gathered and tab
ulated by the Associated Press show
ed Colonel Brookhart’s vote to have
been 133,237.
The official canvass conducted by
the state executive council showed
the total republican vote was 323,050
as compared to a democratic vote of
49,929.
We’d rather go out and camp
alongside some running stream,
where at least the birds would affect
some sign of friendliness and neigh -
borliness, than hang up our hat in a
house located among people who have
forgotten how to smile, ami how to
visit among each other as our fore
fathers did. When you no longer
care about your neighbors, when you
shut yourself up with the castle of
your own conceit and defy anybody
to break into your heart or life, you
no longer amount to much in your
town or community, thugh you may
have plenty of money and consider
yourself a very important personage.
—Storm Lake Register.
Man Ibises Scalp
Clear Lake, lowa—Jay Han.-ell, 40,
married, scalped himself on Peter
son's slide at 1:30 o’clock Sunday
afternoon. Turning in the air as
he went down the slide in a boat
his head hit against a roller. He
nearly drowned before he was rescu
ed. His wife was with him. He
lives at Hardy, lowa. Almost six
I inches of his scalp wa- removed. He
I will live.
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