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

rose,
S. L. Genning sold his ten acre farm
adjoining Menlo receiving $500 or
$3.50 an acre.
In Spain most of the large olive
growers have their own mills for eX-
tracing the oil
The island of Mitylene manufac-
lures $4,000 tons of soap annually
from its olive oil.
James Nicholson sold his farm of
100 acres near Atlantic for 500 per
acre to P. r. Smith and M. P. Con-
way.
An apple which was raised in the
orchard of Clay 4, johnson near Lo-
gan measures seventeen inches in cir
cumference.
Burma is almost exclusively rice
country. OF the twelve million acres
under cultivation, eight millionsacres
are devoted to rice.
Robes made from the skin OF the
musk-ox are very costly but many
are in use in the province of Ontario
for cold weather driving.
Harry shaffer paid $685. per acre
for a farm of 1856 acres near Webster
City, and Dykster Bros. purchased a
farm six miles east of Oskaloosa for
$145 an acre.
A belgian pigeon trainer has been
experimenting with swallows in the
place of carrier pigeons, and says the
swallows have much greater speed
than the pigeons.
Carroll Hix sold his farm of l2O &C
res near Odebolt receiving $3.50 an
acre and Alfred Lindquist sold his
$50 acre farm in the same neighbour
hood for $15625 an acre.
The Bogeslef Islands of the Aieutian
Archipelago, Alaska, have been ordered
by the government, reserved and set
apart for the use of the department of
agriculture is preserve and breeding
ground for native birds.
J. T. Jackson of Routt County, Col.
took 10 potatoes to Craig, which
weighed 81 Y pounds and Jack Ducey
of the same county displayed pota.
to which weighed ponds, ounces
All we're raised without irrigation and
had no care after they we're planted
until time for harvesting.
During the first school month of
each year in Colorado each pupils
sight, bearing and breathing are test
ed. The enforcement of this law is in
the hands of the State Bureau OF
Child and Animal Protection and if
there is any unpleasantness no blame
is laid to the teacher or principal.
Soap sells at from 20 to 60 cents 8
cake in Constantinople. Last year
$500 tons of soap were imported into
the city and it is the dirtiest city
in the world the only street cleaners
being the starving dogs, cats and rats.
1T still burns candles largely, four
million pounds being imported annu.
ally.
A new and magn ificent geyser has
broken out in full force in the Yellow
stone park. This new geyser does not
appear to affect any OF the others in
the vicinity. 1t plays to a height OF
$50 feet to 200 feet throwing off i'm
mense quantities of hot water, mud
and steam. The eruptions occur every
five or six hours and last about an
hour.
The town of Clay Center, Kansas
has 5000 inhabitants and 10000 pee
pie live in the county in which it is
situated, but the county Jail has been
empty since June 18th. 1t had had
no occupant for several months before
that, but June IA the sheriff picked up
a man, who the next day was found
not guilty, and there hasn't been 6
case in police court since August 2Sth
Major Charles CAN'T, who when
not on exhibition lives With his pa
rents at Fairfield Iowa is 18 inches
tall, wears a No, I hat and No.
child's shoe. He weighs 30 pounds
and was born Aug. 81, 1865, which
makes him A years old. He is heal
thy, hearty and of a jolly disposition
and has accumulated quite little
fortune although he never appears or
exhibition in the winter.
Four years ago there wasn't mo-
tor car in London. Now there sseeml
to be nothing else. The taxi-cabs are
automobiles and they take passenger!
quickly and at reasonable fees They
go about much more swiftly thar
they do in American cities owing to
the fact that all vehicles take the lef
side of the street and there is nj
chance of a mix-up, consequently ac-
cidents are of very rare occurrence.