Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-11-04
happenings

Chris Bauer paid James Neal $152
an acre for eighty acres near Arthur.
In Austria the detailed formula of
every patent medicine has to be filed
with the government.
Two farms near Cumberland were
sold recently to Frank Lutter and Ell
lott Bros. for Sl75 per acre.
Frank Aeinzman has sold his farm
near New Sharon for 1852 an acre.
The farm consisted of 1856 acres.
George w. Day ton of Burton, Ohio,
died recently aged S4 years. He lived
his entire life in the house in which
he was born.
Governor Carroll is an advocate of
the simple life. He is said to milk
his own COW and raise strawberries in
his suburban home.
New York City has 1877 men on its
police force whose business it is to OPP
en- and close doors and watch the per
sons who enter and leave.
Marion Finley, farmer east of Lo-
gan, produced nine wagon loads of
sweet pumpkins and 500 worth of po-
tstoes on one acre of land this year.
The soya bean is said to be nearly
three times rs rich in albunoids as
oats and wheat. Experiments are be.
ing made in England and Germany in
its cultivation.
Louisiana produces two-thirds of
the worlds supply of sulphur. Much
of it is pumped from the mines after
being melted by steam six hundred
feet under ground.
AT the Charles A. Long sale near
Monroe team of mules sold for $3.50,
Toe sale amounted to over $4,000 and
within an hour after the sale over So,
600 of it was paid incash.
In Japan government physicians
make thorough examination of all
school children once year and there
is monthly inspection given them by
the medical corps. There is also q
thorough investigation of all school
buildings once month.
A granite boulder which was
washed out by the rains on the farm
of W. ii. Dunn, southwest of Clinton,
bears this inscription: "To the mem
DRY of Indian Tom, killed by Big Elk
May 10, 1879" A similar stone near
by bears the words: 'Rest in peace"
A deputy game warden confiscated
Y muskrat skins in camp of Indians
near Cedar Falls recently. The Indi-
ans were from the reservation of Tama
county. Under the game laws of Iowa
the fine for trapping out of season is
10 dollars skin which makes the fine
1920.
In Japan the burden of taxation for
the present year, including national
and local taxes and contribution to
works of irrigation, and to the repair
of damage caused to public works by
floods, averages thirty-two dollars for
every man, woman and child in the
empire.
At the close of each year the gradu-
ates of Haskell Institute, school for
Indians, take the government civil
service examination and so per
cent of the 139 graduates last spring
passed it and are now in the service.
Some are in the land and forestry bu-
reaus, and many in the offices of the
regular Indian service.
In st. Paul and Minneapolis there
are hundreds Of houses equipped with
outdoor bedrooms, open to the pure
air where the owners sleep in the cold
est weather. Many Of the wealthy ae
we'll as those OF the poorest classes see
the necessity of living closer to nature
and observing her laws. The simple
lite is great nerve restorer.
In potato growing contest in Eng
land one competitor raised 229 pounds
of potatoes from one pound of seed
which was cut in eighty pieces for
planting. This shows Conclusively
that the size of the pieces in which
seed potatoes are cut has no bearing
on the yield. 1t is demonstrated that
one eye in a place is sufficient.
Ira Davis real estate man of Des
Moines has five jersey COWS that bring
in net profit of about $3.50 per COW
each year. The stables are kept per
fectly clean and in the best sanitary
condition and he always milks his
COWS himself never varying more than
fifteen minutes in the time he milks
them night and morning and the
milk is 80 rich and creamy that he gets
fancy prices, and can not supply the
demand. Edward Lytton, a clerk at
the state house is paying his way thro
college on the products from two Ter