Decorah public opinion., September 06, 1922, Image 1

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GOLFER MAKES
HOLE IN ONE
32. R. Haines, Cashier Decorah State
Bank Makes Flay That
pens Once in a Lifetime.
FIRST TIME ACCOMPLISHED
ON THE NEW COURSE
Harder Job They Say Than Going
Over Niagara Falls in a
Barrel.
The Oneota Golf and Country
Club is coming in for much recogni
tion by golfers throughout this sec
tion, and some of the members are
being heralded for national honors,
especially the experts who have
made a hole in one, a feat which
has been accomplished twice here.
The latest golfer to turn the trick,
which is said to happen to one only
once in a lifetime*!* Mr. E. R. Haines
the popular and well cashier
of the Decorah State Bank. Mr.
H aines joined the club when it was
first organized, and has been a con
eisent golfer since. He puts the
same energy into golf as he does
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E. R. HAINES
into all his business activities and j
consequently has made a success, j
Tvrn'R'ng r a h(We r {n ofttTSWK iT'SWtff j
feat that all golfer? strive for, but
very few accomplish. The distance
the ball is shot is 134 yards, and
when one considers the 'distance, and
the size of the ball, its a trick that
any golfer can well feel proud oi
when he turns it.
This is the first time the feat ha?
been accomplished on the new golf
ing course. Geo. A. Baker, the lum
berman, made a hole in one on the old
course some time ago. Naturally
these two players have been receiv
ing all kinds of congratulations.
Mr. Haines, like Mr. Baker, is a
tennis player, of no mean ability,
and is always able to give the b“st
of them a hard tussle.
When Mr. Haines made his fam
ous shot last Wednesday afternoon
he was playing with Mr. I. W. Brunt,
secretary of the American Drug &
Press Association, who by the way
is making rapid strides on the golf
links also. While Mr. Brunt didn’t
just exactly see how Mr. Haines slip
ped that little ball into the hole at
such a distance he is striving to be
the next one to make this one great
feat that comes to a golfer once
in a lifetime.
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“At Hard Labor” Being Enforced
Over in Allamakee county the sher
iff and board of supervisors have
come to the conclusion that all in
mates of the county bastile must
earn their bread and butter. That
when the judge says “at hard labor”
he evidently means it and from now
on the prisoAers will have to sweat.
But in Fayette county it is some
what different The term “at hard
labor” is being successfully carried
out by the sheriff and his deputies.
The past summer the prisoners of the
county jail have excavated all the
earth from the cellar Of the new
court house. They have proven to
be good workers, too, and are neuiK
finished with this job. •
The local ja 1 is carrying almost a
capacity load at present, having in
• mates of nearly all descriptions.
When court convenes September 18th
a number are likely to ko free and
a majority of them are likely to re
main.-—West Union Union.
Those Peaceful Days
The oldest inhabitant remarks. “I
o»in remember when our casualty list
was published only on July 5 in
stead of every Monday morning.”—
The Christian Register.
Be careful about taking offence
lest you be tempted to return it.
Vol. XXVIII.
Dccoml) public ©pinion.
COST OF PAVING
E. WATER ST.
Average Single Lot on the Street
Cost $369.31. Rock Island
Property Assessed
. $4,459.79. .
%
j % V OF DECORAH
PAID $5,838.83
Few *erty Owners Not Fronting
on • Paving Assessed for
Va s Amounts Also.
The cost of the paving on Water
street from the bridge it the Mil
waukee depot to the hospital has
been made out by the city. The
average lot for the paving and curb
ing cost $369.31. Property within
300 feet of the paving, where an
alley doesn’t exist is also assessed
for certain amounts. This law seejns
1 a peculiar one to us, nevertheless it
is one of the laws of the state. It
doesn’t seem just right where a pro
perty owner has no benefit of the ,
paving neither in front or the side ,
of his property that he be. assessed !
for the paving no matter how small 1
the amount. Nevertheless it is the
law and the assessment stands.
The city paid for half of the inter- j
sections ar.d the property owners the i
other half. The Rock Island rail
road property had the heaviest as
sessment, $4,459.79. The cost to the
city was $5,838.83, outside of the
following various assessments paid
by the property owners:
*Alm, Louise - —$ 46.14
Anderson, Gilbert 1,000.00
Anderson, Maria 93.48 j
Amundstn, E. L. 553.97 j
Anundsmi, Mrs. B. 1,058.22
Boe, Mary 369.31 ,
Rock Island Road 4,459.79 j
C. M. & St. P. - 522.66
Dotseth, John 284.24
Engbretson, R. A. 994.591
| Forde, A. P. 369.31
, J-iiufcg —/•-■*, 4>0.P4
i Haslip, Amds *. 923.23
Smor-tad, Fred 439.00
; Hicks, Ella Marlow 823.78
[Higgins, Mary Ann 553.97
Bruflodt, L. E. —■» 46.74
Jome, E. H * 738.62
Johnson, Andrew 369.31
i Kjome, G. N. 678.69
Keefe, Henrietta 800.00
Lee, Mary 124.49
Maltby, F. G. Est. 390.21
jMcAndrews, J. J. 369.31
O’Neil, John 348.41
I Oxley, E. W. 369.31
jpiiester, F. H. 445.97
| Pfiester, Geo. A. 369.31
Prastmark, H. A.
IQualley, Halvor 369.31
jßamlo, H. T 369.31
I Ramsey, Jennie E - 369.31
ißoberg, R. G 74.35
jßognlien, N. H., - 11.68
Schrubbe, R. 239.98
, Soland, G. E. 232.93
Stoskopf, John 433.44
Swendsen, K. 186.96
Smith, Ammi 271.77
Teslow, Gilbert 762.24
Vangsness, Herb 369.31
; Westby, G 102.96
! Wist, J. B. ■ 701.80
Winneshiek Co. Fair Ass— 744.59
City of Decorah 5,838.83
No Speedometer Needed
A prospective buyer of a Ford car
who had expressed astonishment
when told that no speedometer was
furnished with the car was assured
by the sales manager that such
equipment on a Ford was wasteful
extravagance. “It’s easy to gauge
your speed, the salesman explained.
“When you go ten miles an hour
your lamps rattle; when you get up
to twenty miles an hour the fenders
rattle; at twenty-five miles .the wind
shield begins to rattle, and when you
go fa-ter than that your bone? rat
tle. Naw, you don’t need a speedo
meter.”
Two Dollars Saved
A man rushed up to the home of a
doctor in the village late one night
and asked him to come at once to a
distant farm house. /
The doctor hitched up his horse
and they drove furiously to’ the far
mer’s home.
0 Upon their arrival the farmer
asked, “How much is your fee, doc
tor?”
“Three dollars,” said the phys can,
in surprise.
‘‘Here you are,” handing over th?
money; “the blamed liveryman wait
ed $5 to drive me home.”—Chicago
Tribune.
DECORAH, WINNESHIEK COUNTY, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6,1922
LETTER FROM
KILKEE,CO. CLARE
Rev. leather Hogan Writes Us an
Interesting Letter From Ireland
Where He Is Visiting.
FOUND HIS MOTHER
IN GOOD HEALTH
Says He Misses the Base Ball Games
At Home, And Expects to be
Here Before Long.
We received the following inter
esting letter Friday from Rev. Fa
ther Martin Hogan, pastor of St.
Benedict’s Catholic church, who is on
a visit to hi 3 mother in Ireland.
Planning now on return trip home.
Dear John:—l don’t know if this
reaches you or not. Trains are not
running except occasionally. I would
have written before now, had there
been any means of reaching a boat.
I was in Dublin during the time the
trouble was on, and then when I
got home we had the same in Limer
ick. I got home with difficulty and
many hardships. My mother I found
very well and liable to live a long
time yet. I stayed there until two
weeks ago, when I came here. This
is a beautiful resort, and we have
a number of Americans. The time
passes all too quickly. I got no
letter as yet from the U. S. A.
There is great sorrow for the late
President .of the Irish Free State.
H s piace won’t be easily fillet!.
I don’t know how we are going to
reach our boat, but I expect we can
get to it some way. It rains a good
deal, which makes it very unpleas
ant for Americans. The natives
don’t mind it. I like it here, but
won’t be lonesome when returning.
I suppose the fair at Decorah was
am grand success, ami the crowds
Urge each day*, the base hall
games and wish at times I could see
one, but it won’t be long now. “
The people of Ireland are very
prosperous and happy now notwith
standing their internal troubles, for
they live on the most productive
piece of land in the world. I have
met many estimable people and en
joy every moment of my visit.
I am going to Dublin from here.
When I was there after landing, we
had a nice visit with Mr. Collins and
his cabinet
I will conclude by sending greet
ings to you and to my Decorah
friends from Ireland.
“The evidence seems to show,”
said the detective, “the the thief
wore rubbers and walked backward.”
“Then we must look out for a man
with receding gums,’ l * remarked the
wag of the force.
Victoria Hotel
Kilkee, County Clare, Ireland.
Yours sincerely,
MARTIN HOGA3|
In Accordance With the Evidence
'’*'*£*. - ft*"
785 ENROLL IN
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Largest Enrollment in the History of
the School, Exceeding Last
Year by 36.
FRESHMEN CLASS
LARGEST IN HISTORY
More Scholars Are Expected to En
roll This Week. Kindergarten
Room Crowded.
The enrollment in the public schools
on the first day that school has been
actually in session, that is Tuesday,
September 5, is as follows: fifth
ward school—88; East Side school —
grades—l6s, high school—233. This
makes a grand total of 755 children
enrolled, which* is 36 more than the
maximum enrollment last year. This
number probably will be increased
somewhat within the next two or
three weeks. The enrollment by
classes in high school is as follows:
freshmen 92; sophomores 43; seniors
49; juniors 49. This freshmen class
is the largest in the history of the
school, exceeding last year’s fresh
men class by 26.
It has become necessary to divide
the second grade into two sections,
one of which meets in the morning
and one in the afternoon. This con
dition will probably continue until
the completion of the new building.
The kindergarten pupils from the
West Side are transported to the
East Side thus making it possible
to have the two sections equally div
ided. By the close of school last
year the morning section of kinder
garten had over 60 pupils enrolled
which was entirely too many for the
size of the room allowed.
Although hampered by the exces
sive he"t, the diminished size of the
play ground and the noise from the
construction the* new building,
"*hool start®'! briakto Tuesday morn*
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“The fanner this year”, says the
Sioux City Journal, “has given the
country an example of sportsmanship
that is hard to beat. -He is entitled
to our admiration and he inspires our
confidence. He has done some
grumbling, which was entirely excus
abe, but he has not sulked. What if
the farmer has taken a four and one
half months’ vacation, as the miners
did? Where would the rest of us be
now, if he had?” asks the Journal.
Insure Your Picnic
It is generally supposed that rain
policies are issued in large amounts
to cover big events only, but a re
presentative of a rain insurance com
pany says that pftwnoters of band
concerts, out of door festivals, pic
nics, and the like, are taking out
policies for a few hundred dollars
to cover the expense of preparing
for a doings in case of rain.
All Ready But The Horses
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OIL CO. FORCED
TO BURN WOOD
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Pioneer Oil Co. Burning Six Cord'*
a Day. Buys Standing Tim
ber by the Acre.
WELL NOW DOWN
2650 FEET
Drilling Bit Lost in Hole Sunday,
Which Took Several Days to
Get Out.
The Pioneer Oil & Gas Co. was
compelled to |stop drilling Sunday,
owing to losing the bit in the hole,
which took a couple of days to get
out. They are now down around
2,650 feet, and still in black lime,
but ft is getting softer. G. E. Fagg,
who has charge of the drilling, states
that in this black lime is where they
find oil and gas in all fields he ever
drilled in.
The company has been out of coal
for the past two months, and had
to resort to wood. The
company buys standing timber by
the acre and have ten min chopping,
who get $2.50 a cord for* eyeing it,
and the wood costs the company
about $4.75 a cord put uj> against
their boiler. They use about six
cords a day, which illustrates that
it costs a pretty penny simply for
the fuel for drilling.
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Beef And Its By-Products
During its lifetime, the Qx draws
the cart in mountainous regions and
works at the plow' in the tillage of
the fields. The cow furnishes milk in
abundance. Given the
butcher, the animal becomes a source
of manifold products, each pafc-t of it
body having a value of its own. The
flesh is highly nutritious; the skin is
made into leather for harness and
shoes, the hair furnishes stuffing far
saddles; (.he JcjiloVk, ~
candies and soap, tie bones, half c ;
cined, give a k:fid of charcoal or bone*
black used especially for refining
sugar and making it perfectly white;
this charcoal after being used, is a
very rich agricultural fertilizer;
heated in water to a high tempera
ture, the same bones yield the glue
used by carpenters; the largest and
thickest bones go to the turner’s
shop, where they are manufactured
into buttons and other small objects;
the horns are fashioned by the maker
of small wares into snuff boxes and
powder boxes, the blood is used con
currently with the bone black in re
fining sugar; the intestines, cured,
twisted and dried, are made into
strings for musical instruments; fin
ally, the gall is frequently turned to
account by dyes and cleaners in
cleaning fabrics and 'partially re
storing their original luster.
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The latest thing in ’‘boneless fish”
is the fellow who buys oil stock in a
company far, far away.
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GETS LETTER
FROM N. DAKOTA
Ole Hdie, Former Resident, Writes
( harle> Lee from Ambrose,
North Dakota.
SAYS His CORPS ARE
GOOD THIS YEAR
2650 FEET
Was Sorry He Was Unable to At
tend Winneshiek County’s
Great Homecoming.
Mr. Charles Lee,
Decorah, lowa.
Dear Old Friend—Many thanks for
your ever welcome letter. I am al
way so pleased to receive letters
from old friends. Hope soon to hear
that these lines find you well. Yes,
I am sorry I failed to get to the De
corah Homecoming, for I would liked
so well to have seen the old Drum
Corps, as I used to enjoy to hear
them play about 40 years ago. They
were sure fine boys. I know now
they are old and grey, the same as
I am. It is now twelve years past
since I saw the Winneshiek county
fair, and nearly 50 since I saw the
first one. I was a small k d then,
but I remember a few things. It
was there I saw horse powers mount
ed on wheels or trucks; first time
they had to have some down powers
.they had to hoist up under a long
rdek put on wagons. There was a
power mounted on two wheels, it
was a Case Woodbury, and some
others, I have forgotten what make,
and some self raking reapers. Fa
ther had only one of . these self rak
ing leasts at that time, when one
man had to rake the grain off the
platform. And at that fair their
was also two harvesters, one was a
Marsh and the other I forgot the
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les. That was soil it — jc, -SW.
Then later years I wouid always see
something new, Such as binders an<f
all new inventions and improvements
would be shown at the fair, and to
show how stock improved in that
county was nothing slow. During
the 80s and 90s there was as large
an exhibit of horses as they ever
had there. A lot of fine draft stal
lions were out at that fair. J. C.
Rollins had just imported a lot from
j France, also a lot of fine horses be
! longing near Decorah. I remember
B. E. Jewell had a fine active shire
and lots of standard bred tiotters,
and there is sure one thing I would
miss, that is to see so many fine
driving teams, as they had there in
1885 and 1886, and when I remem
ber how handsome fine buggy
teams Ham Beard showed, a pair of
up-headed browns, fine actors. He
, got premiums on them too, and they
deserved it too. It was sure always
a lesson and well spent time to at
tend a Winneshiek county fair.
But I d'd not dare tackle the trip
now, for fear this railroad strike
| might have bothered, so I would not
i get home, as my harvest wa3 at
hand. We sure have some wheat
this year. I wish you would tell
some of the boys and renters down
there to come out to Divide county,
North Dakota and buy themselves
farms before land goes up in price,
j There are lots of fine, good improv
ed farms at from S3O to S3O per
Jacre, according to improvements an !
distance from town. Best deals i*
j 8 to 12 miles out of town, a!.™
'land, but its all good land, no waste
'either; good plow land or good hog
meadows; nothing lacking; rural
routes, good roads, railroads, two
telephones, churches, . schools and
coals mines in county. FarAers can
dig and haul coal right and even in
case of strikes.
Well this is getting to be a long
letter. Please greet Dave Simmon3,
your dad and brother. Hope th s
i winter won’t be lonesome for you
land Dave. I have lots of potatoes
'this year three acre-, but I do not
think they will yield as heavy as last
| year. Then I got 210 bpshels from
j 132 square rods, over 70 bushels,
‘that every potato weighed from 1 to
12 pounds. They were of a good
blue kind. There are thousands of
i acres planted here this year, and I
also have 150 tomato plants, five
varieties, some ripe sweet corn.
Some Calico corn that I got the
,;eed fiom the Adams Seed House at
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NO. 36
Ambrose, N. D.,
Aug. 26, 1922.
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