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TWELVE PAGES
Vol. XXVIII.
COAL SITUATION
IN DECORAH
Fuel Administrator Ben Bear Gives
Some Information and Advise
on Coal Situation Here.
ADVISES LAYING IN
OF SOME WOOD
It Seems Apparent That Soft and
Hard Coal Will Not he Plenti
ful for Some Time to
Come.
After a shut down of three month:
or more, we are informed that <the
coal mines in Illinois and lowa have
again been opened and it would ap
pear on the face of it that some
coal would come our way in the
near future, but at the present time
there is no immediate assurance of
it. From all information that can
be secured, even though the coal
mines are worked at full time, soft
and hard coal will not be plentiful
for some time to come. We must
not lose sight of the fact, that on
account of the closing down of a
great many coal mines the production
was cut down very materially, and
no matter how strong work will be
rushed at the mines, at the best
there will be a big shortage of coal.
Wood makes good fuel, and there is
plenty of it in our own county, and
as a precaution, it is woJ! for our
people to “think pf cold weather
now’’ and lay in some wood to tike
care of their early need-. The Fuel
Committee of Winneshiek county, ap
pointed by Fuel Administrator Web*
ster, will keep in touch with head- 1
quarters, and will do everything n
their power to procure our full
share of coal, but the unsettled con
ditions even now in the coal fields,
as well as the railroad strikes, make
The -m*- - transportation very
limited, and it is hard telling just
when normal condit ; ons will again
prevail; so we believe to procure
some wood will -urely help matters
for the time being. Anything that
may be of interest to the public in
connection with the coal situation,
will be given through the papers.
The writer will be away to New
York for a little while and Mr. Ray
Algyer, of the Winneshiek County-
State Bank, has kindly consented to
act in my place until my return.
Very sincerely,
BEN BEAR.
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Methodist Church Notes
The Epworth League devotional
meeting and the regular evening
preaching service will be resumed
next Sunday. The Epworth League
meeting will begin at 6:30 o clock
and the evening preaching service
at 7:30 o’clock.
The Ladies Aid Society will hold
a special business meeting in the
league Room, Wednesday, Aug. 30th
at 2:30 o’clock. Officers for the
ensuing year will be elected at this
meeting and it is desired that every
member be present to take part in
the election. It is requested that
money for the quilt blocks be brought
in at this meeting.
The Women’s Foreign Missionary
Society will meet at the home of
Mrs. James Price, Friday afternoon,
Sept. Ist, at 2:30 o’clock. All mem
bers are urged to be present as there
will be an election of officers.
Services next Sunday include.
Sunday school at 10 A. M.;
ing Worship at 1 A. M.; Epworth
League at 6:30 P. M.; Evening Wor
ship at 7:30 P. M.
Regular mid week services will be
resumed Wedne.-day evening Sept.
6th. The hour will be 7:30 o’clock
and the public is invited to attend.
This meeting i» held in the Epwoi.h
League room.
Canoe Methodist Church
Regular services next Sunday af
ternoon. Sunday school at 1 o’clock.
Preaching at 2 o'clock by the pastor,
Rev. George Woodall. It is request
ed that any who have not paid theii
Centenary pledges please do so by
next Sunday as the pastor has to
complete his annual report and sen i
it in by Sept. 10ti«.
A.tty. E. J. Hook has had his left
hand wrapped in a bandage since
Sunday. He was with a picnic putty
at the James Marlow farm Sunday,
and while going thiough a fence,
carrying a cup, tripped and fell, the
cup cutting a big gash in the pi m
of his hand.
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Cuts Hand on Cup
DECORAH, WINNESHIEK COUNTY, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30,1922
l "4L CONCERN
GEII.’CONTRACT
Decorah Furniture o. Gets Contract
For Furnishings New Decorah
High School.
MANY COMPETITIVE
BIDDERS IN FIELD
Growth of This Well Known Concern
in the Past Thirteen Years
Has Been Remarkable.
The D'ecorah Furniture Co., one of
Decorah’s big furniture dealers and
home furnishers carried off the big:
end of the furnishing for Decorah’s
new' high school building. The con
tracts for these furnishings were
competitive and bidders from all over
the country were here with bids try
ing to land the big order, but the
merchandise and prices submitted by
the Decorah Furniture Co. couldn’t
be touched by these out of town con
cerns, and they were awarded the
contract.
The growth of this well known
concern during the past 13 years has
been remarkable. The big double
store occupes three floors and all are
loaded with one of the finest stocks
of furniture, rugs, housefurnishings
of all kinds that can be found in any
furniture establishment throughout
the great northwest.
Scarcely a day passes that their
big auto delivery truck isn't on the
road with a big load of furniture.
Their territory is almost unlimited.
Last Friday they sent a big truck
load of furniture to Luana, lowa.
Last month they furnished a. com
plete flat in Duluth, Minn.
These out of town shipments
speak well for the quality and bus
iness methods of this establishment
and also speaks well for Decorah in
having such a firm located here.
The landing of the'big contract in
furnishing the new Decorah hgh
school building, in such big compet
ition, naturally calls forth congratu
lations from the firm’s many friends
throughout this section.
SMALLGRAINCROP
RI6 IN IOWA
Wheat Y ield is Largest And of- Best
Quality on Record Making
35 to 50 Bushels to the
Acre.
MUCH OF IT GRADES
EITHER NO. 1 OR NO 2
Farmers Use Judgment in Growing
More Wheat During Corn Price
Depression—lowa Corn
Crop Advancing
Rapidly.
Des Moines, lowa—lowa’s small
gra n crops this year will be ’lie
greatest in yield in history, while
prospects for a bumper crop are ex
cellent, according to George A. Wells,
secretary of the W’estern Grain
Dealers Association.
The wheat has been making 35 to
50 bushels to the acre and is of the
best quality ever raised, ranking with
the No. 1 and No. 2 product, wheat
used in milling the best flour, Sec
retary Wells says.
“Oats are short, with little straw,
but have a large hard kernel, weigh
ing out between 28 to 34 pounds to
the bushel. This is considerable
heavier than last year, when 2S
pounds to the bushel was the best of
the crop.
“Corn is maturing rapidly,” Mr. j
Wells says, “and should escape frost.
Of course, it is impossible to say the
crop is safe until the first frost ha*
appeared, and then what hasn’t ma
tured will be soft.
lowa’s yield of corn this year will
be about 14,000,000 bushels less than
last year when 414,000.000 bushels
were raised, according to Mr. Wells.
Farmers were true to predictions
when corn sold for 25 and 30 cents in
the fall of 1921. Instead of saving
ground for corn they planted winter
wheat.
Secretary Wells says the wheat
crop will total 12,000,000 bushels.
Last year’s field was 7, 934,00 c
bushels. The oats crop last year was
about 157,000,000 bushels. This year
jit is estimated it will reach 180,000,-
1 000 bushels. . ,
Weather conditions have been >der.’.
i for farm crops this year, according iO
i Secretary Wells, and especially fine
for small grain. Rain and sunshine
were about equally proportioned to
develop a bumper crop.
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FARMERS PICNIC
LAROR DAY
Big County Wide Farmers Picnic
Will be Held at Wenzel Lans
ing’s on Labor Day
BIG PROGRAM SPORTS
WILL BE GIVEN
Motion Pictures Will be Shown by
the County Agent in the
Evening.
Arrangements are nearing (Com
pletion for a county-wide farmers’
picnic at the home of Wenzel Lans
ing, north of Ossian, on September
4th. The main address of the day
will be given by Mrs. Elsworth Rich
ardson, of Pella, lowa, at 1:30 P. M.
Mrs. Richardson has a national re
putation as a speaker for farm
audiences.
Local ball teams will put on a
good ball game and the usual field
sports, such as tug of war, races,
etc. will be carried out. Music will
be furnished by the Ossian band and
everything bids fair for one of the
best picnics ever held in Winneshiek
County. - *
Everyone is invited to bring their
baskets at 12:00 o’clock for the big
picnic dinner.
Motion pictures will be shown by
the County Agent in the evening.
This set of films is one of the best
sent out by the Visual Instruction
Service, two reels which deals with
the eradication of the round w’orm
in hogs is perhaps one of the best
educational films on the list. Every
farmer should see it.
Soil Erosion Demonstrations
One of our big problems is the
maintaining of soil fertililty and pre
venting the washing of our soils and
the cutting of gulches and ditches on
oui farms. Demonstrations in the
construction of dams to prevent soil
erosion will be conducted by A. W\
Clyde of the Extension Service) co
operating with the Winneshiek Coun
ty Farm Bureau as follows:
September sth—Washington Twp..
Fred Tekippe at 9:30 A. M.; Spring
field Twp., John Jordahl, at 2:00 P.
M. .
September 6th —Hesper Twp., R.
J. White, at 9:30 A. M.; Orleans
Twp., Carlton Gager, at 2:00 P. M.
This work of unusual importance
in Winneshiek County and all farm
ers having trouble with soil erosion
should arrange to attend one of these
demonstrations.
Gov. Preus 39 Years Old
Gov. J. A. O. Preus of Minnesota,
former Decorahian, spoke at the
lowa State Fair last Saturday. In
cidentally it was the governor’s
thirty-ninth birthday. He met many
of his former boyhood friends and
classmates while in Des Moines.
Governor Preus is growing bigge’
in the political world every day, and
he is one of the men who has the
metal to make a good ride towards
the white house in Washington.
Death of Mrs. A. J. Miller
Mrs. Albertina Miller passed away
Saturday afternoon at five o’clock at
400 River street. The was
born in 1 ommerania, Germany, Oct.
28, 1858, and came to United States
with her parents at the age of 13,
locating in Chicago. She was mar
ried there to Peter Miller on Oct.
12, 1878. The same year they 'mov
ed to Postville, residing there J 2
years, conducting a bakery and rest
aurant. After a bref residence a.
Nashua and Victor, lowa, they mov
ed to Grandview, lowa, where 22
years of her life was spent, her hur
barxl engaging in the geiteral mer
chandise business. In 1919 they
moved to Wheaton, 111., and after the
death of her husband the folowing
year moved to Decorah, at which
place she passed away. She is sur
vived by two daughters, Lemma and
Mae, *lso two sister, Mrs. Fred Dj
\el, of Ludlow Twp., and Mrs. Paul
Tope!, of Postville, and they have the
sympathy of many in their loss. The
funeral services were held yesterday
from the home, conducted by Rev.
J. A. Saathorn, of Postville, and
interment was in the Postville ceme
! tery.
Journal Office Moved
Editor F. E. Biermana moved his
Journal office into his fine new
building on Water street last ween.
He now has a very tine location
and the new home of the Journal is
fixed up in a very up to date and
modern manner.
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SCHOOL HOARD
LETS CONTRACT
Equipment for the New Decorah
High School Purchased
Last Week.
LOCAL FIRM GETS
BIG SHARE CONTRACT
"Contracts to be Awarded Later for
Equipment for Gymnasium and
Manual Training Room.
Contracts for the equipment of the
new high school were awarded at a
series of meetings of the Board of
Education and bidders and architects,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Following is a resume >f the con
tracts awarded and prices:
Decorah Furniture Company.
3 manual training benches,
total 5120.64
6 physics tables, total 468.50
1 instruction table 364.63
1 apparatus case 133.76
4 chemistry tables, total 069.60
1 storage case 137.69
1 key cabinet 17.75
2 Domestic Science tables 129.14
1 supply cabinet 83.61
On tjie above prices there was a
discou/ 7 per cent.
Metropolitan Supply Co.
289 Opera Chairs at $4.32
Durabilt Steel Locker Co.
130 steel lockers at 53.00
F. O. B. Decorah.
Northwestern School Supply Co.
100 stationary desks and seats
at $6.25
30 pedestal tablet arm chair*
at 6.40
Electric Service Company.
Lighting Fixtures 51505
Partridge & Company
Stee Library Shelves $l9B
Contracts for the gymnasium equ
ifr* jard for manual training
room equipment have not yet been
let.
DAIRYMEN BACK
HAUGEN DILL
Measure Provides for Single Stand
ard in the Manufacture
of Butter.
BILL IS CALLED
THE SINGLE STANDARD e
" 1 s
Bill Defines Butter as a Food Pro- f
duct Made Exclusively From I
Milk or Cream. (
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Des Moines, lowa,; —Representa-
tives of the dairy and butter making i
j interests have gone on record as |
favoring the Haugen “single stand- ' t
lard” bill in congress, R. G. Clark, ,
dairy and food commissioner an-j (
j nounced yesterday. (
At a meeting of representatives of (
[ the lowa Butter Makers’ association •
jthe Butter Makers’ Manufacturing l
1 associaton and the Co-operative
Creameries association in the ortices;
of the Chamber of Commerce a re
j solution was passed indorsing the
bill introduced in congress by Re
presentative G. N\ Haugen of lowa,
! providing for what is known as the
“single standard.”
| This bill defines butter a- a food -
produot “made exclusively from milk
or cream, or both, with or without j
common salt, and with or w.thout ail- i
ditional coloring matter, and contain
-1 ing not less than *0 per centum by i
"weight of milk fat.”
The double standard, which was
recently indorsed by the Minnesota
creamery organizations, not only culls
[for not less than 80 per cent of milk
fat, but provides that butter shall
contain not more than 16 per cent of
moisture.
There is now a ruling in the treas
' ury department that 16 per cent of
i moisture in butter constitutes ar
“excess,” according to Commissioner
Clark, and while the double standard j
provides that an excess would be over
i 16 per cent, the lowa butter inter- 1
! ests object to any standard for mois
s ture.
The position of the lowa butter
• people is that since at least 80 per
l cent must be milk fat, from 1 to l's
• per cent will be casein and from 2
to 3 per cent will be salt, there can
not be much more than 16 per cent of
water in any event. To fix a limit ot
5 16 per cent moisture will, they say,
“ i compel them to put in more than SO
• 1 per cent milk fat or run the risk of
1 being prosecuted by unfriend!> it.ter
s ests for a fractional excess of mois-
I ture which might be found n any
sample of butter.
JURORS FOR THE
SEPTEMBER TERM
Trial Jurors Summoned to Appear
at Court House in Decorah at
3:00 O’clock Tuesday,
Sept. 19.
HON. W. J. SPRINGER
PRESIDING JUDGE
District Court Will Open on Monday.
Sept. 18, Jurors Reporting
Following Day.
The September term of the district
court for Winneshiek county will
open in Decorah on Monday, Sept.
18. Hon W. J. Springer, of New
Hampton, will be the presiding judge.
The following trial jurors have been
drawn for the term, and they are to
appear at 3:00 o’clock p. m. on Tues
day, Sept. 19.
Ernest Boulet, Burr Oak.
Helge Jacobson, Hesper.
Amund Amundsen, Highland.
R. H. Burr, Orleans.
Billie Brown, BlutTton.
Mart Leonhard, Bluffton.
D. E. Wise, Pleasant
Stanton Erickson, Pleasant.
John Berg, Pleasant
Oscar Ellingson, Pleasant.
Ed. Dresselhause, Pleasant.
Spencer Bakken, Lincoln.
N. O. Rue, Lincoln.
C. O. Blekeberg. Madison.
N. H. Owen, Madison.
T. K. Neste, Madison.
Sam Anderson, Decorah.
Vinnie Coughlin, Decorah.
Will Kreuter, Decorah.
Oscar Riste, Decorah 2d.
Harold Swenson, Decorah 2d.
Nels M. Ramsey, Decorah 2d.
A. E. Holm, Decorah 3d
Ed Sellman, Decorah 4th.
G. Oehler, Decorah 4th.
George Beer, Decorah 4th.
O. Bauder, Decorah sth.
O. A. Ask, Decorah sth.
Melvin Graves, Glenw r ood.
Andrew Dalen, Glenwood.
John Lannon, Glenwood.
Iver Anderson, Sumner. f
Rob Vooava, Sumnef.
Bertha Anderson, Calmar Ist.
Frank J. Swartz, Calmar 2d.
W. A. Kubik, Calmar 2d.
W. J. Shilhacek, Calmar 2d.
Hartvik Ask, Frankville.
Harry Goddard, Jackson.
Frank Jacobs, Washington 2d.
John Broghanler, Military.
W. F v Heiwig, Military.
Berge Benson, Military.
Jas. Floody, Bloomfield.
Fred C. Shara, Bloomfield.
Popular Couple smrried
The marriage of Mr. Fred Worn- I
eldorf to Miss Freda Josvanger was 1
solemnized last Saturday evening at
five Vclock at the parsonage of the i
United Lutheran church, Rev. O. <
Glesne performing the ceremony.
They were attended by Miss Emma
Womeidorf, sister rJ the groom,
bridesmaid, and Mr Oscar Jos van g?',,
brother of the bride, was best man. <
After the ceremony a reception was
tendered the happy young couple at
j the home of the groom’s parents, in
Curtin’s addition. This is a union
of two most estimable young people,
i The bride is a daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Hans Josvanger, of
i Madison Twp., and she is one of
| the county’s finest young women, a
young lady of grace and refinement
anil her friends are as numerous as
her acquaintances. She is a gradu
ate of the HU6 class of the Decorah
ihign school, and has been one of the
efficient teachers of the county. The
groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Nel
son Womeldorl of this city, and is
a young man of sterling worth and
character. For some time past he
has been one of Uncle Sam’s rural
carriers on route five. He is poss
eted of a sunny dispositon and
counts his friends on every hand.
They ’eft on a honeymoon trip to
Forest City to visit the bride’s sis
ter, Mrs. Oscar Aspenson. On their
return they will make their home on
Washington street.
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German Police Dog Arrives
Emil Rosenthal received one of the
i German police dogs Sunday morning
, by express, that he brought back
. as far as New York with him on
his return from Germany. He had
' j two dogs and Will Kern one. The
animals were kept in New lork for
, inspection before being released. One
r was shipped, and a report came yes
terday that the other two had diet!,
i but Mr. Rosenthal is not sure the
. information is correct yet.
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Banks to Close Labor Day
The banks of Decorah will be clos
j ed Labor Day, Monday, September 4,
r a legal holiday.
Decorah State Bank.
National Bank of Decorah.
’ ' Citizens Savings Bank.
Winneshiek County State Bank.
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NO. 35
FOOTRALL AT
DECORAH HIGH
Coach Kelton lo Begin Early This
Season in Rounding Fp Candi
dates for High
School Team.
PROSPECTS FOR WINNING
TEAM ARE BRIGHT
Season Will Open Here on Sept. 22
With Calmar, and a Fine
Schedule of Games Hus
Been Booked.
Decorah High expects to make the
first call for football candidates the
first week in September. This call
is expected to bring out the Largest
crowd of prospective candidates in
the history of the school. From
forty to fifty men will be on deck for
the initial work out.
Prospects for a winning team are
bright from one view point and
slightly dark from another. The line
this season will be as strong as last
year if not stronger. Price and
Grant, ends, McKeag, Henning, Peck,
Thorson will all be back in school
this fall. Prospective candidates for
positions on the line will be Leonard
Anderson, a husky 190 pounder.
Holm, Haslip, Ringdahl, all who have
had some experience. These line
men will have enough beef to take
care of the opposition. A new group
of prospects appear to be a sturdy
bunch and if they develop enough
should give good account of them
selves. The back field outlook is not
so bright. The loss of Olson, shifty
half, Jewell, a consistent punter and
Handley, the spaed king, will be
holes hard to fill. Only Algyer,
quarter back from last year is back
but in Captain Bauder who broke
his shoulder the first day of
last- ye:u —a—lover of ■ efcw.gth ha a ’
been added. His speed, experience
and battering ram tactics will give
all opponents plenty to think about.
The local high school team faces one
of the hardest schedules ever under
taken and will have to work harder
than ever to uphold last year’s re
cord. The opening game of the sea
son will be played hero September 22
with Calmar, followed by the New
Hampton game on the 29. New
Hampton’s three successive defeats
have caused them to put forth un
limited efforts to reverse the tide.
It will be a hard defeat. The
next game with Charles City here
on October 6 will be the big test of
the season. Charles City, last year,
was one of the strongest teams in
the state going through the seu«on
undefeated and have this year their
anti re team back with the exception
(\ two men. Lowe, 190 pound quar
ter back and all state star is again
with them and is said to be a team
in himself.
The schedule follows:
Sept. 22—Calmar at Decorah.
Sept. 29—New Hampton at Decor
ah.
Oct. f>—Charles City at Decorah.
Oct. 13—Preps at Luther.
Oct. 21 —West Union at Decorah.
Oct. 27 —Oelwein at Deco rah.
Nov. 3 —Waukon at Waukon.
Nov. 10 —'Fayette at Fayette.
Nov. 17 —Preps at High School.
Nov. 30—Cresco at Cresco.
Stilled Another Still
Monday afternoon about five o’clock
County Attorney J. A. Nelson ami
Marshal Tavener went out to the
Henry Brandt farm in Canoe town
ship, where they discovered a still.
It was found in an old log building.
They found a still, made out of a
copper boiler, with the necessary
coils attached, also a 7 burner gaso
line stove, 50 lbs. of sugar and a big
barrel of mash. They took a sample
of the mash and destroyed the rest.
The other contrivances were taken
to Decorah. The county attorney ifl
awaiting certain developments before
making any arrests.
Shoes From All Nations
The John C. Hexom & Son shoe
store windows contain a very unique
display of shoes this week. A great
many of them are not for sale, but
they are attracting lots of attention.
They are a display shown through
the courtesy of the Luther college
museum. There are wooden shoes
and straw shoes and various other
kinds, from Holland, Norway, India,
China, Japan also Persian and 'Kgy
tian shoes. Its a great display and
worth seeing.
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