Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-12-02

Minnesota is at the head of the list
as q barley producing state.
Robert Smiley bought a farm Il
80 acres in Guthrie County for 800 an
acre. Six hours later he sold it for
$3.50 an acre.
Seventy thousand farmers have
moved fIom Iowa and other western
states to Alberta, Manitoba and other
parts of Canada during the past year
As q result of the mine disaster at
Cherry, Ill. at least 200 widows: and
1000 children will be dependent upon
charity with an Illinois winter ahead
of 9hem.
M. S. Kirkpatrick sold his farm two
miles south of Montezuma to John
Bradley for $l76 per acre and John
Fritz bought the Henry Voss farm of
IS acres near Holsteln for 5000 per
acre.
The little log schoolhouse is not ex-
tinct in Minnesota. The tables pre-
pared by the State Superintendent
show that 90 log schooihouses were
built last year which makes a total of
216 such buildings in the state.
A Manona County farmer was called
upon recently by a post office inspec-
tor and compelled to pay a fine of $40
for placing his sale bills in rnral mail
boxes without postage being affixed.
Every country mailbox is q part of the
post office and everything which is
put into it is subject to postage.
Each member of the Chinese caval-
~ receives about four dollars a month
and out of this he is required to fur
nish fodder for his horse. In case of
the disability or death of his horse he
mnst supply a new n at his own ex-
pense. The Chinese soldier liz neces-
sarily very careful of his horse.
There is perhaps no single class
which will suffer more from the new
tariff law than the publishers of news
papers. The present duty on Cana
dian paper sent Into the states is $l.67
a ton to which is added 25 per cent,
advalorem, making an additional du-
ty of SIS, which makes the total duty
$6.67 a ton.
George Rinehardt who lives near
Magnolia, is exhibiting a petrified CT
gar which shows the ash where
burned and is perfectly preserved as
the smoker left it. Mr.. Longmeyer,
who until recently owned the place
where it was found has remembr ance
of the cigar being left at a sandpit
three year before it was found petri-
fed.
Representative A. F. Dawson went
to Washington, to be in his place
when Congress meets, in an automo-
bile. His wife and three children az.
companied him. The distace is some-
thing over 1000 miles which they COW
cred In ten days: The machine was
a four cylinder thirty horse power ca
dlllac. All arrived at their destina.
sion in excellent health having en-
joyed the trip to the utmost,s
A farmer near Glenwood, la. sold
$4,000 worth of apples this year off a
seventy acre orchard. 1t is not neces-
sary to go tc Colorado or Oregon to en-
gage in the frnit business. Iowa is
nearervthe market and it has been
proved this year that fruit growing in
Iowa is profitable if the trees and
fruit are given the same attention they
are in the western fruit section.
In the eastern part of Arizona is
Chalcedona Park which consists of
petriffed forest. More and larger
petrified trees are found there than in
any other one place in the world. One
of them forms a bridge Of solid agate
as it spans a dry creek forty feet wide.
There are thousands of such trees. In
n part of this Park petrified logs 3
and A feet through are being washed
out of the side of the cliffs. They lie
Ill q OCPOclU VI uAO Gay CWOhVy ACCl
deep and above them is a layer Of
sandstone thirty feet thick.
Within the last thirty days land
has changed hands near Webster City
for S135 per acre, near Audubon for
$3.50, neal Traer for Sl30, near Sac City
for $40, near Rockwell City for
$122.5O, hear Marshalltown for $3.50;
near Milo for $l57, nesr Mitchellville,
for $3.50, near Montezuma for $l37.50'
neal Marion for $40, near Lake City
for 1922. 80, nea Knoxville for $l52
neal Indianola for $129 so, near Imo-
gene for $l55, near Dover for $l35,
near Bows for $3.50, near Cascade for
$ll5, near Brooklyn for SIG and 40
acre farm for $3.50 per acre.
The neck of the moose il SO short
aud his legs are so long that he usual
ly kneels in eatin g grass, and the APP
pearance of this huge and owkward