Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-02-10
happenings.
Is ten degrees below zero twice az
cold as five degrees below zero?

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How would you like to be the mail
carrier? Still this is the kind of win
ter we are all supposed to like.
In spite of all the new tariff bill has
done to reduce the cost of living ra-
dunn is quoted at $s5, 900 pound.
Roosevelts latest trophies include
an aribi, singing tepi, bohur and
kobu. Now, are we any the wiser?
Superintendent Brendenburg of the
schools of Mason City has been elected
superintendent of The Oklahoma City
schools at a salary of So 600 a year.
For the first time in the history of
Muscatlne county, the grand jury adj
Journed after ten minute session
without q single criminal matter to-
investigate.
The weather bureau figures that
over two and a half feet of snow has
fallen in Iowa 80 far this winter. and
predicts great floods when it melts
next spring.
twenty cows belonging to William
Dear, farmer near Cedar Rapids
we're drowned during the recent storm
They sought shelter on the ice and
broke through.
Theg gold production of this country
just about equals the candy output.
Unlike almost everything else, candy
is never subject to over production.
and the same may be said of gold.
Statistics show that in India more
than 100000 little girls are married
under four years OF age. Over two
million are married between five and
nine and 100000 between nine and
fourteen years old.
Miss Nancy Frey of Sigourney has
taught ninety-one terms of school in
the state. A month ago she suffered
q stroke of paraly sis. At the time
she was teaching school in Keokuk
county. She is 74years old.
For the first time the southern coast
OF Alaska more than 1000 miles long
has lighthouse. Though, this one Of
the most dangerous coasts in the
world it has been wholly neglected
until now. Other lights which are
badly needed will be added next year.
According to precedent Mrs. Grover
Cleveland is entitled to q pension of
$4,000 year and bill has been pre-
sented to the senate making the grant
The amount was allowed to Mrs. Nc
Kinley, Mrs, Garfield, Mrs. Polk and.
Mrs. Tyler, widowed wives of former.
presidents.
Oklahoma has new kind Of CON-
pulsory school law. Inthe case of 8
widow who is dependent on her sons
assistance for support, he being yet of
school age, the law provides that the
son shall remain at school, and the
mother ehall receive from the state, q
sum equal to his wages.
The corporation of Toxic has pre-
sented Mrs. Taft and the city of Wash
ington with gift of two thousand
cherry trees. AS soon as the weather
is favorable they will be set out along
the drive in Potomac Park, where
band concerts were first inaugurated
by Mrs. Taft. The cherry trees are of
ten varieties.
Mrs. Newell Dwight Hills, wife of
the pastor of the wealthy Plymouth
Church in Brooklyn, N. Y, has brot
down walls of wrath on her head by
her recent declaration that American
wives make slaves of their husbands.
that the wives are not doing their
duty and the husbands are worked to
death to pay the wives bills.
"The boycott of meats ia the ma
ton protest. says Senator joseph L..
Bristow of Kansas. The Rev. DR.. w.
M. Wharton of Baltimore said: III
such a great movement does not alarm
the trusts and wake up our congress.
then something else will happen. II
is the first muttering OF the distant
laundering, God save US from the
Storm
The widow of the King of Portugal
was an American girl. Elise Hensler
was born In Boston in 1886, her father
being merchant tailor in that city.
She became a singer of note in this.
country, and went abroad, where she
made success In Lisbon. She met
King Ferdinand at musicale in 1889,
and soon afterwards became his Sec
ond wife.
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, superinten--
dent of the Chicago schools has
dropped algebra from the list of stu
dies in the grammar grades, and in it's.
place has taken up course of study
about the city in which the children
live. They will study the history, to-
Biography, industries, institutions and
social and municipal affairs of Chica-
go.