Decorah public opinion., July 12, 1922, Image 1

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STOCK EXHIBIT
! AT FAIR BIG ONE
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m Greatest Showing of Livestock in
Years Will be Seen at Winne
shiek County Fair
This Year.
f<: BEST BREEDERS IN
THIS SECTION TO EXHIBIT
Midway Space Filling Rapidly. En
tries for Races Close July 25.
Many Prominent Horse
men Will be Here.
The stock exhibit at the Winne
shiek County Fair this year bids
fair to surpass last year’s show,
which was a mighty good one. The
management has already received
reservations for 70 pens for swine,
covering 200 head.
The horse show will be another
good one this year. E. L. Bread &
Son f will show their famous Bel
gian horses, which won all over the
west last year. They expect to
exhibit a dozen head.
The cattle show will be larger than
ever and a great showing of the
finest stock in this section of lowa
and southern Minnesota will be
shown.
M. C. Wilford, \>f Canton, Minn.,
will show his famous Polled Angus
herd. He did not exhibit here last
year, but is coming in August with
a great exhibit.
The management has also been in
corre-pondence with W. J. Camp
bell, of Jesup, lowa, whose Jersey
herd is famous all over the west. He
ah:ps this week to the state fair of
North Dakota at Fargo, then to the
big fair at Grand Forkes, and ex
pects to show in Decorah after that.
After leaving Decorah he will show
at the Mississippi Valley fair at
Davenport and then at the lowa
i ' mmwj un it Marnidirie*.
Among the home breeders who
have already entered are:
G. JT. Pearson & Son, who will
show their recent purchase of
thoroughbred Hereford*.
C. C. Pilgrim & Son will show
Shorthorns, as will S. J. Erickson,
also Shorthorns. •
0. O. Lomen has entered his best
Holsteins.
The exhibit of hogs will be the best
in years, many prominent breeders
having entered.
Wm. Headington & Sons will show
Poland Chinas.
C. C. Pilgrim &Son, Chester Whites
B. N Anderson, Chester Whites.
M. O. Walhus, Mabel, Minn., Po
land Chinas.
Otto Hattlestad, Chester Whites.
E. M. Reed, Poland Chinas.
Henry Olson, Chester Whites.
G. T. Pearson & Son, Decorah, Po
land Chinas.
H. H. Nichols, Cresco, lowa, Dur
oc Jerseys.
N. Richert, Prosper, Minn., Dur
oc Jerseys.
Gross Bros., Decorah, Duroc Jer
seys.
Mat Drilling, Cresco, Duroc Jer
seys.
Geo. E. Durant, Waukon, Duroc
Jerseys.
W. O. Thornton, Decorah, Poland
Chinas.
Herman Logsdon, Decorah, Poland
Chinas.
Wm. Ronan, Jr., Decorah, Poland
Chinas.
The Midway space is going rapidly
and it looks now as if it would all
soon be gone. Four big midway
•shows have been booked, besides the
big Ferris wheel and the merry-go
round for the little ones.
The entries for the races will not
fclose until July 25. But from cor
respondence and present indications
their will be a fine lot of horses on
hand.
Workmen are now busily engaged
putting the grounds and buildings
in order, so that everything will be
in fine shape on Aug. 8.
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“The thing for the courts to do
when they get motor car thieves
and find them guilty is to give them
the limit of the law,” insists the
iSioux City Journal. “Paroling motor
car thieves is the worst thing that
can be done, and light sentences are
about as bad. This tjjj>e of criminal
never will behave until society thru
the courts hits hard straight from the
shoulder. If that is kept up long
enough it Will stop it practically al
together.”
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Some consider a divorce but a de
tour, while others look upon matri
mony as a closed road.
IA
-DECORAH, WINNESHIEK COUNTY, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12,1922
GOLF IS IN THE
FORE RIGHT NOW
It is a Wonderful Health Restorative
And a Maintainer of
Health.
ALSO CLEAN AND
SPORTSMANLIKE GAME
Nothing Anybody Has Ever Been
Able to Say in Last 700 Years
Has Stopped the Golfer
From His Game.
Golf, says an exchange, is receiv
ing considerable attention from the
outside. A Minnesota official of the
federal government condemns the
game as “breeding idleness.” He
pulls the ancient gag that similar
exercise may be had with a hoe. bver
on Long Island the golfers are em
ploying girl caddies. The New York
! Tribune draws a picture of a six foot,
' 200 pound athlete swaggering across
the links while a 10 year old girl
staggers under his load of golf clubs.
As to the hoe and the exercise,
that’s very old stuff. Grandmother
| used to make remarks about house
work when the girls played croquet.
Grandfather imagined he had work
ed long and faithfully to see his
substance dissipated by “those boys
of Bill’s” who insisted on playing
baseball now and then. It’s all as old
as the hills. Doubtless when Cain
and Abel ran footraces Father Adam
made mention of the exercise con
tingent on picking apples or some
other activity of the fruit business in
Eden. Laban probably told Jacob
he could be in better business than
peeling wands and setting them up
by the spring holes but Laban un
derstood later that Jacob’s little
game was no child’s play. Another
ihWtt t-kat- ka »»■>antionp.fi as
fact bearing on the .situation j* that
in ninety-nine cases out of 100 the
person who so glibly recommends
the hoe hasn’t one and wouldn’t use
it if he had. In most Instances he
eats too much and takes a sleep in
the afternoon. And we all know
what that does to* him.
About those caddies now—it does
look like “encouraging laziness” to
see a powerful man striding along
while a four foot kid drags his club.-.;
however it doesn’t encourage laziness
in the kid. On the contrary. More
over the kid likes it. There’s money
in it. It makes for thrift. He or
she has money of his own. There’s
two sides to that also.
Nothing anybody has ever been
able to say in the last 700 years
; has stopped the golfer from his
game. Old Henry VII made the
archers quit it because they were
falling down on punching holes in
Frenchmen at a quarter of a mile
with their arrows. But it came back
strong. It emigrated to America a
few years ago with a mashie and a
heavy Scottish accent and like most
Scotch attained immediate citizen
ship. Not even baseball gained in
strength and standing more rapidly
than golf.
“There’s a reason, and more rea
sons. First ft is a wonderful health
restorative and maintainer of health.
It is also a clean and sportsmanlike
game. It is simple in its essentials
as all great sports are. It requires
concentration, nerve, self control,
mental courage. It is out of doors.
It offers the sedentary man health
with pleasure. It trains muscles, eye
and mind. It creates appetite and
the digestion that sh#uld wait on
appetite. It makes a physically fair
man better and recreates the physic
ally incompetent. So thoroughly has
it won its place in these respects that
municipal links are multiplying and
will continue to multiply.
Never mind what any one says, un
less he says “Well, make it three
o’clock at the clubhouse.”
Fined $5.00 and Costs
Driving an automobile in the
town of Ossian at a greater rate of
speed than one mile in four minutes
fifteen miles an hour—is forbid
den. One gentleman from Waukon
paid a fine of s.'>.oo and cos's yester
day morning for exceeding the .-peed
limit. Others will pay similar or
larger fines unless speeding is cut out.
our cut outs, too, ruust be closed
while in the limits of the town, and
unless you comply with provisions of
the law you are likely to be haled in
to court and fined, liemember— Don’t
speed, and keep your cut out closed.
—Ossiun Bee.
WINNESHIEK FAIR
AND HOMECOMING
Big Midway Space is Practically All
Gone and the Stock Exhibit is
One Real Attractions.
FARM BUREAU AND
EQUITY WILL EXHIBIT
The Floral Hall Will be in Charge of
Competent People as Always,
Exhibitors Will be
Treated Right.
Most all of the space in the big
Midway has already been spoken for.
The exhibit of stock this year will
be one of the real attractions of the
fair.
Space has been reserved for the
Equity Society as well as Farm Bur
eau for the week of the fair, as both
of these organizations intend to have
a tent of their own for the use of
their members and friends.
The free attractions, which have
jbeen booked, for the entire week, day
'and night, are without doubt the
{ best that have ever been seen on our
fair grounds.
The floral hall will be in charge
of competent people, as always, and
those who will exhibit vvil be treated
with cordiality. It has been suggest
ed that all exhibitors bring their art
icles on Monday morning, if possible,
as the big Home Coming parade will
occur on Tuesday morning and ev
verybody will surely want to see it
ami take part in it.
The Drum Corps are busy practic
ing the tunes of long ago and it will
be a real treat to see them and again
listen to their sweet music.
More than 1200 invitations to visit
Decorah during Home Coming have
been sent out to former resident
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The official Decorator, to ureas up
the city of Decorah for Home Com
ing week, has been in the city during
this week and he has secured a good
many jobs to decorate buildings and
stores. This man comes well re
commended and those who want hi
services can communicate with the
Decorating Committee of the Home
Coming Festival.
Pays $25 for Dead Dog
It cost Dr. Coolidge of Charles
City $25.00 last Thursday for killing
a dog belonging to John Bean of
R'verton. Mr. Bean was returning
from work in the field and the dog
a young collie was trotting along
ahead of the team when Dr. Coolidge
pa-sed Mr. Bean and cutting in
ahead of the team he ran over the
dog and killed him. The doctor never
hesitated but kept on his way -and
Mr. Bean got into his car and follow
ed him to get his number and a set
tlement. He chased the doctor near
ly to Charles City when a bum tire
caused the doctor to stop and Mr.
Bean came up with him. After some
argument the doctor handed over
$25 to settle the damage. It might
have been less if he had stopped
when he struck the dog and offered
to make the matter right.—Nashua
Reporter.
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DECORATE FOR
THE HOMECOMING
Expert Official Decorator Has Been
Engaged and Will l»e Here
Couple Weeks in Advance.
WILL DECORATE
STORES AND RESIDENCES
Our People Can Get His Assistance
In Fixing Up Floats For
The Parades.
An official expert decorator, a very
prominent man in his profession, has
been engaged by the Winneshiek
County Homecoming Committee, to
be in Decorah several weeks in ad
vance of the Homecoming and do
the expert decorating of the streets
and business houses for Homecom
ing week.
Besides the general decorating by
the committee our people can secure
his services to assist them in making
floats, etc. for the parades.
A beautiful electrical display will
also be one of the features to assist
in improving the appearance of the
city during the week.
Our people should begin to plan
scon on the * decorations, etc. and
dress the old town up in the finest
dress she ever wore. The decorator
will have various paraphernalia and
designs with him, but residents can
use their own material in the decora
tions, if they, happen to be provided
with such. At any rate decorate and
make the old town ring with a wel
come never heard before.
who desires can arrange
with Philip C. Hexom, of John C.
Hexom & Son, who will be glad to
give ideas, etc., for appropriate de
cy-^ionsj,.
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Will 3 ; no j .r Farm Name
How many farmers who has nam
ed their farms have done so legally.
Merely to put the name on the barn
is not enough to establish the name
in the eyes of the law.
According to an lowa law on the
subject, any owner of a farm in
the state may have his farm name,
together with the description of his
lands to which the name applies, re
corded with his county recorder on
a register kept for that purpose.
This will protect the name from
duplication within the county, but
not outside the countv.
The county recorder is required to
give the owner a certificate bearing
the name and description of the
farm. If the entire farm is sold,
the namejf may go with the title, but
it only a part of it is sold, the name
is not transferal unless the deed
expressly states otherwise.
A fee of $1 is charged for regis
tration of the name, while cancella
tion of it costs a fee of 25 cents.
To cancel, the owner must sign a
written statement relinquishing all
rights to the name. The law enables
farmers, as other business men, to
establish a trade name and to pro
tect it at trifling cost.
THE ANSWER IS RIGHT AT Ills ELBOW
rf£WS PAPERS
OUB MAGAZINE
IS POPULAR
First Issue Brings in Many Congrat
ulations and Words of Praise
By Public Opinion
Readers.
SECOND EDITION
APPEARS THIS WEEK
Subscription Price of the Public Opin
ion Remains the Same, With
Magazine as an Extra
Feature.
The first issue of the lowa Maga
zine Section of this paper sent out
on June 28, was a great success and
many of our readers have expressed
their appreciation of it, and Public
Opinion feels elated over the recep
tion given it. The next edition of
the magazine will appear in this is
sue, and will appear every other
week hereafter.
“The Man With Three Names,” a
most interesting serial story stuited
in the first issue. It is one of Har
old McGrath's greatest pieces of f;c
tion. Any one who now subscribes
for Public Opinion now we will be
able to furnish back number- of the
magazine, so you may be ab ! e to
start the story with the first num
ber.
Many interesting things will ap
pear in this magazine and sub-cri
bers should not miss a copy. It is
made up of many departments of
interest to all, and judging from the
reception of the first edition, the fu
ture issues will meet with more
favor.
The subscription price of the Pub
lic Opinion remains the same 52.00
a year, the magazine going out as
an added feature of the paper.
Henry Ruen Takes Out Fapers
Papers for Henry Ruen as an in
dependent candidate for state senator
in the Winneshiek-Howard district
were taken out Saturday. They re
quire 500 signatures and judging
from the many overtures made to
Mr. Ruen to become an independent
candidate, the 500 signatures will be
quickly secured. Mr. Ruen made a
great run in the primaries and de
monstrated he had a lot of support
ers. H. C. Gross, who was a candidate
in the primaries has announced also
that he will be an independent can
didate, so in that event there will
be three in the field, Senator Carl
Reed, of Howard, receiving the no
mination in the primaries.
Oil Well Down Over 2,100 Feet
The drillers at Bakke Lease No. 1,
are now down over 2,100 feet, and as
they put K getting into real stuff.
The deeper they go the better the
prospects look. The quality of soil
they are getting into now is very
encouraging and they expect a good
strike most any time.
Dempsey and Wills are going to
fight if they can get enough money
to make them mad.
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Under the IJoyd stock-share lease,
that was sent out by the agricultural
extension service in 1915, an attempt
was made to bring landlord and ten
ant into closer co-operation by mak
ing them partners in the business.
The landlord furnished the land and
the improvements on it, the tenant
the labor, machinery and power while
livestock and feed were provided
jointly. The profits were divided half
and half.
Under both the new leases those
pai'ts of the forms dealing with divi
sion of profits are left blank, to fill
in as the circumstances warrant. For
example, a tenant on a dairy farm
may do more work than one on a
similar farm raising beef. Under the
i new lease the farmer may be paid
accordingly.
The “stock share partnership agree
ment,’’ one, of the new forms, is
u .oMteu tnat imn parties can un
derstand definitely that they are go
ing into a legal partnership. The
other new lease,’’ stock share farm
lease," has been devised for use
where partnership is not desirable.
Under this form the relationship will
be that of landlord and tenant, not
partners. Under the Lloyd lease a
partnership was established, though
often the parties to the agreement
i were not aware of it.
Fhe form that Mr. Lloyd perfected
in 1915 has been rapidly accepted
throughout the state until now it is
but little behind the old cash and
share rental systems in its use. Dr.
Holmes estimates that share renting
is most common this year, though it
is closely followed by the cash and
stock share plans.
The rapidity with which lowa farm
ers have adopted the new stock share
system has not only been due to its
merit but to the dissatisfaction of the
cash renter, in particular, during the
period of slumping prices and general
financial trouble. V\ ith the changes
which are now made, allowing a div
ision of profits to fit the circum
stances and offering an alternative
to a partnership, it is predieted that
the stock share lease will become yet
more popular.
Dr. Holmes is just finishing a bul
letin on “Relations of Leasing to
Types of Farming,” which he ex
pects to have ready for distribution
within a few weeks.
One-F‘iece Suit is Enough for Storm
Lake
Storm Lake, lowa—“Girls may
j wear anything they want to while
I swimming as long as they keep with*
! * n bounds of decency, said Mayor
| Herbert this morning in regard to the
I local regulations on swimming cos
j tumes.. “We are not going to be
fussy about the lengths or the kinds
of costumes as long as they are
modest.”
The beaches of Stonn Lake af
ford splendid opportunity to bath
ers to be refreshed during the hot
•'either, and many hundreds are
aking advantage of this change to
escape from the heat every day.
In very few cities are the regula
tions in regard to swimming cos
tumes as liberal as here.
It was evident from the tone the
mayor used that “September morns”
will not be tolerated, but that the
one piece type will. I n fact, the one
piece costume and no stockings are
practically what all the girls are
wearing this summer.
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Physiologists tell us that the body
is being continually burned up by the
oxygen in the air we breathe. Yes,
and on a cold day one can see the
smoke!
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NO. 28
NEW STOCK LEASE
NOW PERFECTED
Certain Improvements Are Made on
Stock-Share Lease Now
Widely Used in lowa.
FORMS WILL BE
READY THIS FALL
100 a Farmers Have Adopted the
New Stock Share System Be
cause of Its Merit.
Two new leases, both modifications
of the popular Lloyd lease and em
bodying a flexible division of profits
to suit varying investments of capital
and labor by landowner and tenant,
have been perfected by C. L. Holmes
of the agricultural economics depart
ment of lowa State college. Both
forms will be ready for distribution
this fall.