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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-01-20
MAY BUILD STATE ROADS

The state of Iowa faces a serious
situation in connection with the con-
vict labor question. The contracts
which the state has for all of the la
Dor of the convicts at Fort Madison
will expire within short time and
there has developed such an opposi-
ton to the use of convict labor in the
manufacture of goods, that it is not
deemed advisable to renew the con-
tracts until the matter has been thor
oughly Investigated or some other
method of utilizing the time of the
convicts has been found.
With this end in view Gov. Carroll
has been in correspondence with the
governors of other states in an effort
to ascertain what methods are pur-
sued in those states in the matter of
handling convict labor.
From the replies which have been
thus far received it is found that most
of the state employ their convict la
Dor in the building of roads. This
phase of the question has been sug-
gested to the Iowa officials and is be-
ing seriously considered. In fact there
has developed a strong sentiment in
favor of using the convicts to build
public roads. Governors of states
where this method is in vogue have
written that 1t has proved very sue
cessful. This is particularly true in the
southern states, where most of the
roads have been built by convict la
Dor.
Gov. Shafroth of Colorado writes
that for every month which the con-
victs spend on road building, they re-
ceive ten days off their sentence and
that that method of handling the con-
Wet labor problem has proven most
successful, besides giving the convicts
an opportunity to shorten their SEN
fences.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-01-20

M. Mortensen, professor of dairy
ing at the Iowa state college at Ames,
delivered very forceful address be-
fore the Iowa State Dairy association
convention in Cedar Rapids recently.
The address is of such interest to the
average rural citizen of Iowa that we
reproduce it here in part:
There are two problems confront
ing our creamery men to-day. The
financial success and that of making
Improvement In the quality of our
product Some years ago it was re-
quired that buttermaker be able to
make fancy butter and yet have a sat
isfactory overrun. To-day there is
something more required as nearly
every one making butter at the pres
ent day is familiar with the mechan.
ical processes of manufacturing. A
good buttermaker of to-day must also
be business manager. He must have
an eye keen enough for business so
he will be able to make his profit from
sources which have never been consid-
SICu ny Jul Olu-llI1lC
"We are usually too apt to confine
our energy in the creamery exclusive
ly to butter manufacturing. 1t is true
that this is the most important line
Of our work but 1t is equally true that
it is necessarily the most profitable
part of our business. How much but
termilk and SKINNED milk are we not
wasting daily at our creamery? But
termilk and SKINNED milk If fed to
hogs are worth in the neighborhood
of 20 cents per 100 pounds. If manu-
featured into cottage cheese which is
sold at seven cents per pound, 1t is
worth 81 per 100 pounds. We cannot
convert all of our buttermilk into cot
tage cheese, but we can sell certain
amount of cottage cheese daily as
even the most of our cream or milk
customers would be pleased to buy
where the creamery has it for sale.
II is up to the creamery to create a
demand therefore.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-01-20

Some creameries, but only a few,
are selling sweet cream in their own
town. A demand can be created for
a certain amount of sweet cream If
we keep our eyes open for business.
This cream can be sold at SO cents per
pound butter fat. Few people real
lie the scarcity of sweet cream in the
larger cities and last year some of the
larger ice cream factories were offer
ing 40 cents per pound fat F. o. B. the
country creameries for sweet cream
without being able to secure all they
needed. Will it pay the creameries
to look for an opportunity to dispose
of a part of it's products in this way?
How many creamery managers re-
alize the Importance of the ice cream
industry in the state of Iowa? How
many realize as to the amount that is
consumed in his own town? How
many of us have really considered
how closely this business is related
to the creamery business. In town
with population of 1000 people from
ten to 20 gallons of ice cream will be
consumed daily during the summer
season. BY making profit of 30
cents per gallon, we would by supply
ing our home town of size mentioned
clear from SO to Sc daily The work
required for handling this amount IN
a wholesale way will amount to from
one hour to one and a half hours
daily. believe we are staying too far
away from the ice cream makers of
our state. Would it not pay us to get
better acquainted with them? / be-
lieve we could learn from them and
they could learn from us. Would it
be out of place if we invited them to
membership in our association?
But if we expect to make ice cream
or to supply ice cream makers with
cream we must insist on getting sweet
cream from the farmers. 1t will per-
haps have the effect that we will have
sweet cream to use for ALTERNATING
as well and / do not consider it un-
reasonable If the Iowa consumers de-
mand that the butter they buy must
be made from cream of the best quail
ity. Iowa is noted for its agricultural
wealth. It's people want the best that
money will buy and are willing to pay
for it whatever it is worth. VIII it
therefore not be policy for the Iowa
creamery men to furnish them with
what they want? !.
1--WE all agree that Iowa is produc-
ing good butter and at one time Iowa
did produce the best butter in the
world Some years ago Prof. Mckay
sent our Iowa butter to England and It
ranked even with or was superior to
all fancy brands on that market. Can
we duplicate that to-day? Yes, so far
as 1t depends on the ability and skill
of our buttermakers we can, but we
are not giving him the material from
which he can make 1t. In Denmark
they deliver their milk to the cream
cry every day of the week except
Christmas day. In New Zealand in a
number Of their creameries they deliv-
err the milk to the creameries twice a
day, morning and evening, and butter
is churned from each separate lot BY
adopting this system the people OF
New Zealand have been in position
to establish reputation for their
products. On the English market the
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-01-20

ening the ages-packed dirt, and ex-
plosives were used with highly salts
factory results. From May 1, 1908, to
date over $4,000 cubic yards of clay,
black loan, sand and stone has been
moved and used for filling about the
institution. During this same period
about $50 feet of old wall, formerly
the north wall, has been demolished
nd the ruins used for backing up on
the outside of the new wall.
Some idea of the amount of labor re-
CURED in the erection of such a
building may be gained from the
amount of material to be used.
The house completed will meas
ure 343 feet long and 81 feet wide. 1t
will contain $50 cells. These cells
are to be SKI inside There will be
four galleries ranged tier on tier.
These cells are made of Bessemer
steel. The walls separating them
will be cork lined and floors will be
cement. The cells are formed into
block, on each side of which cor.
ridor of 20 feet will admit circulation
of air and give space for gallery and
stair approaches.
1t is estimated that $4,000 tons of
steel will be used in the cells; be-
sides, there are Is iron trusses each
weighing over two tons which are to
be used for support Orders. Each
cell door will be of chilled ribboned
steel and the window gratings of
three-ply Eliminated steel
About 10000 cubic feet of stone,
flag" "rubble," will be used. One
half of this is cut stone for floors and
runways and outside walls. The roof
will be of concrete with slate sur
face.
Perhaps no like institution may
boast of a more modern cell house
when the structure is completed. 1t
will have an east and west ventilation
with sunlight both morning and aft
ernoon. Each cell will be electric
lighted and contain hot and cold wa
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-01-20
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SUNNI MARY
Of A
WEEKS EVENTS |
Latest News of Interest
Boiled Down for the
Busy Man. :
PERSONAL.

President Lowell of Harvard uni
versity has invited Maj. B. M. Harrod
of New Orleans, confederate veteran,
to deliver the Memorial day address
at the university on May 30.
Edward Moore Robinson of the
banking firm of Drexel & Co., Phila-
delphia, died at his home in Villanova,
Pa, his death occurring just nine
days after that Of his wife.
Oscar G. Murray, president OF the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company,
rendered his resignation at a special
meeting OF the board of directors Of
the road held in New York city Dan
Eel Willard, vice-president of the Chi
cago, Burlington 2 Quincy railroad.
was elected as his successor.
Ex-Premier Clemenceau of France
IN the coming spring will make a
tour of South America and deliver lee
lures on socialism at Buenos Ayres
and Montevideo. He may also visit
the United States.
In a lecture before New York club
women Prof. Charles Zuehlin, former
ly of the University Of Chicago, said
the west was ahead OF the east In
everything except cleanliness
d. o. Mills, the famous banker and
philanthropist of New York. died sud
denly at his winter home at Millbrae,
in San Mateo county, about twenty
FIVE miles south of San Francisco.
Death was due to angina pectoris and
was not expected.
President Woodrow Wilson OF
Princeton was elected president and
President Edmund ]. James Of the
University of Illinois first vice-presi-
dent of the Political Science associa.
ton at its New York meeting.
Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver of
Iowa has been i'll il bed at Washing
ton for several days. He will be
taken to New York for treatment. His
ailment is not supposed to be Of a
serious nature.
Robert Bacon, former secretary Of
state, who now succeeds Henry White
as United States ambassador to
France, presented his credentials to
President Fallieres at Elysee palace.
The traditional ceremony connected
with the presentation of a newly APP
pointed foreign ambassador was OBJ
served.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-01-20

The following article was written by a
reformed inmate of the penitentiary at
Fort Madison.
Without question the rapid progress
made in the erection of the new cell
house under the present administra-
ton has more than met the expecta-
lions of the board of control and
lowans in general who are interest
ed In the care and keep of the inmates
OF the Iowa penitentiary.
Ground was first broken for this
mammoth work in 1904, but owing to
extenuating circumstances and lack of
push, little was accomplished under
the past regime.
The pressing need of more sanitary
sleeping quarters for the inmates,
coupled with the fact that the old cell
house was fast becoming unusable be-
cause of it's age and having been
branded "a disgrace to the state"
by an investigating committee ap-
pointed by the Fifteenth general as
sembly, spurred Warden Sanders to
put forth his best efforts and make
results rather than padded reports
show that something was being done.
BY appointing George Spencer, ex-
state building inspector who had sue
cessfully served a three years term
at the institutions at Council Bluffs,
Knoxville and Glenwood, a young man
full of life, energy and ability, as con-
structing engineer, the work of get
ting results was assured.
On May l, 1908, Mr.. Spencer with a
force of rs men and four teams be-
gan the excavations and the removal
of Prison HILL" which is the grave
yard for the institution. This hill
towers full 200 feet above the peni-
tertiary and is situated just north of
the institution. BY the plans for the
enlargement of the space within the
new walls and the erection of the cell
house it was necessary to remove half
of this mountain of clay.
To rush the work it was found that
blasting was the best manner of loos-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-01-20

New Zealand butter is a close com.
petitor to the Danish butter. Large
quantities of New Zealand butter are
sold on the Pacific coast and wher.
ever it is sold it is noted for it's quail
ity. The American butter has today
splendid reputation, but I assure
you, gentlemen, that unless the deliy-
cry of sour cream to the creameries
is prohibited it will mean a great in.
jury to the reputation of our dairy
products.
Concerning the question of com
petition, if dozen or more of the So
called cooperative creameries adj
jacent to one another or in the same
country, would organize and hire a
competent dairy expert to look after
the leakages in the different plants
and see that each creamery secured a
just overrun, uniform quality of but.
ter would be the result. Then the
organization could sell this butter az
one lot to the highest bidder, and IL
they bought the supplies for all the
plants at one time, which is possible.
they could secure them at the lowest
prices. Such an organization could
meet competition from any source"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-01-20
GENERAL NEWS.

President Taft has opened war on
the insurgents, and Is withholding
patronage from senators and represen-
ton measures. He is reported as TAX
ing the attitude that If an obligation
rests upon him to give certain patron
age to a representative of his party,
there is reciprocal obligation upon
the representative to support the
president
Eleven Of the IL persons who ate
preserved pears at a dinner at the
New Years family reunion at the
house of Mrs. Dionicia Garcia Deval-
DEE in Sawtelle, Cal, are dead from
ptomaine poisoning.
The suit inaugurated by Adrian H.
Joline and Douglas Robinson, former
receivers for the New York City Rail.
way Company, against Thomas F.
Ryan and other directors of that cor.
poration to collect $2,979, 900, is about
20 be called in the United States court
mt New York.
Resolutions looking to the investiga
ton the general land office and the
forest service, growing out of the diff
ference between Secretary Ballingel
and Forester Pinchot, have been intro
duced in both houses of congress, anG
the inquiry will begin soon.
Members of John d. Rockefeller
Jr.'s, New York Bible class contribut
ed an average of 10 1-3 cents per capita
per Sunday to the collections of the
class curing 1869, according to tn,
annual report This is falling off o
two cents from the average of 1908.
The three officers and six member,
of the board of directors of the Kan
sas City (Mo.) Fruit and Produc,
exchange were indicted by the Jack
son county grand jury. The indict
ments charge that the members of tn
exchange are in combination to cor
troll the price of butter, eggs, potatoe
and other foodstuffs on the Kansa
City market
Seventy-six of the "a members a
One Hundred and Thirty-first CON
pany, coast artillery, U. s. A.. SITS
toned at Fort H. G. Wright. Fisher
island, Conn. were placed under a,
rest for refusing orders to take tn
l5-mil hike around the island on Ne,
Years day
The United States supreme cour
in an opinion by Justice Day. hold
that the ordinance adopted by RI
Minneapolis (Minn.) city council :,
quiring the Minneapolis Street Rai
way Company to sell six tickets -
rs cent? is invalid and violates m
terms of a contract.
Fire In the Milwaukee plant Of N
American Bridge Company caused N
death OF four firemen who were burie
under a falling wall. and financial los
OF about s250.000 Several fireme
were injured and several suffere
frost-bitten noses and ears while figb
ang the flames.
The National Wool Growers ass
citation met in Ogden. Utah, for 4
fory.sixth annual convention. wi,
the avowed intention OF making plar
20 combat the efforts of the ..insu
gent" congressman to secure redu
lions In the wool and wooden sche
Jules in the tariff.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-01-20

ter and toilet, with an improved bed.
The foundation of this monster
structure was commenced in January,
1909. and presented great difficulties.
Owing to seepage from countless
springs encountered while digging, 1t
was necessary to keep suction pumps
constantly working. The depth of
the trenches differs, ranging from
eight to forty-eight feet. Over 1900
cubic yards of dirt was excavated for
the footing material. This footing is
cement and rubble.
Around the entire new cell house a
superstructure of stone wall Is feet
high will be erected, under which 500
yards of concrete will be laid for foun-
dation.
Directly in the center of the new
cell house, midway in the center of
the cell block, will be situated the
new Offices of the deputy and assist.
ant deputy warden.
Most of the cutting of stone used
will be done by inmate labor here.
The stone, save water-table and win
dow stills, which are to be furnished
from the state quarry at Anamost,
will be furnished by the Schaeffer COM
pany of East Fort Madison.
At present the work is being pushed
as rapidly as the force of men avail
able and the weather conditions per-
NIT. The new walls are completed and
the new cell house is duly raising into
the air and more than fulfilling the
hopes of it's watchers and builders.
No small need of credit is due
Warden Sanders for the manner in
which he has kept continually pushing
this great work, and the fact that
that through his efforts alone over
5000 hours of labor has been volun-
teered by inmates after they have fin
ished their days task at contract" la
Dor, is worthy the careful considera-
ton of people who are interested in
promoting the progress of Iowa's
largest penal institution.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-01-20

The clay products manufacturing es-
adjustments of Fort Dodge report a
big gain of business over last year.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-01-20

Leon Delagrange, the noted French
aviator, was killed while making a
flight at Bordeaux. He fell with his
machine from a height of about sixty
five feet and was crushed under the
weight of the wreckage.
Matthew ]. Whittak of Worcester,
Mass, the largest individual carpet
manufacturer in the United States,
put his 1900 employees on a 56-hour
schedule with no reduction in wages.
The mills have been running SIS hours.
Representatives Of the Carriers and
the Switchmen's union, in conference
in Chicago for the last month, have
mutually agreed to submit their diff
ferences to arbitration and abide by
the findings and recommendations of
Chairman Martin Knapp of the inter.
state commerce commission and La
Dor Commissioner Neill.
Two members of the Rockefeller
Bible class have been selected to serve
on the grand jury of which John d.
Rockefeller, Jr., Is the foreman, and
which is to make a thorough investi.
CATION of the so-called white slave
traffic in New York city.
One of the Italian bootblacks at a
, New York hotel received a $40 gold
piece as New Year present from a
J guest. He announced that he would
! quit his job for the rest of the winter.
The Chinese naval commission ar
, rived in Berlin to make a study of
German naval affairs. Prince Oscar
met the visitors at the railroad station
and accompanied them to their hotel
Fireman Guy Cameron, while fatally
scalded on his engine, stuck to his
: post at Valley. CAL. and ran down the
track to warn an approaching train
that the line was blocked. thus pre-
venting q wreck.
The Detroit times., 1910-02-05
WHIPS 100 UNRULY BOYS
IN SCHOOL AND WINS RECORD
Principal Of School in Washington, Pa.
CoIlapses When He Tackles
1O1st Lad.

WASHINGTON, Pa, Feb 5.-Prin'
cipal W. ID. Hathaway, of the Seventh
Ward school here is hailed as the
champion boy trouncer of the world
and when he appeared at school this
morning there was great bowling and
scraping Of pupils who had been on the
receiving end of bundle of switches
that helped establish the record. Here
is the record that will probably be
hung somewhere in the building:
Boys trounced, 100.
Boys untrounced, /.
Time consumed, hours 80 minutes.
Switches worn out. %.
There was considerable regret ex-
pressed today that Prof. Hathaway
could not have come out of the whip
ping Marathon with an entirely clean
record, but when he came to the one
hundred and first boy he was showing
some distress. No. 101, a 17-year-old
youngster, showed a spirit OF playful
ness and pushed the principal gently.
He collapsed and the boy sat on him.
The whipping bee was brought about
by the refusal OF the boys OF the school
to obey an order that there should be
no snow5alling. Prof. Hathaway was
al his desk as usual today and his
friends believe he could get away with
the one hundred and first boy on an
other try.
The Detroit times., 1910-02-05
BREAD LEADS IN
INCREASED PRICES
Retail Cost Has Advanced 49.4
Per Cent in Ten Years--0ther
Interesting Figures.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.--A general
and substantial increase in the price
of food during the ten years from
1859 to 1908 is shown in the answer to
the resolution of Senator Crawford
rep. s. d.. received by the senate
fl ON the department of commerce and
labor yesterday.
The percentage OF increase In the
wholesale prices of few necessaries
Of life In the ten-year period were:
Bread % per cent; Elgin butter, 29.S;
Rio coffee, SO; new laid eggs, 1913;
fresh beef. 11.S; slat beef, 41.9; bacon,
545; ham. 21.9; milk. 80; potatoes,
70.6; beans. 597; cheese. 26.9; lard,
1878 and dressed mutton. 21.4 per cent.
The percentage of increase in the
retail prices OF these articles was:
Bread, 49.4; Elgin butter. 30.6; Rio
coffee. s.; new laid eggs, 36.2; fresh
beef, 14.9; salt beef. 1916; bacon, $40;
ham. 31.S; milk, 1871; tea, g; potatoes.
ISIS; beans, 1872; cheese. 203; lard,
3S.1 and dressed mutton. 21.5.
Some comfort Is offered the consum-
or by the report showing the whole
sale price of sugar dropped 81 and the
retail 81 per cent. The wholesale
price OF tea was reduced 31.6 and OF
spices 35.9 per cent.
The Detroit times., 1910-02-05

KEY WEST. FSa., Feb. 5.-A wire
less fash sent broadcast saved tho
lives of Capt. Moore and his crew OF
&c men, OF the steamer Kentucky,
which is now at the bottom of the sea
OF Cape Hatteras. The signal IS. o.
s." the new international alarm OF
distress, was recorded in all wireless
stations from Capt May to Jackson
Vile and then followed a mad race
by steamers to reach the Kentucky be-
fore she sank.
The Alamo. OF the Mallory line,
which was 200 miles east by north OF
Savannah, was the nearest to the Ken
lucky and she dashed at top speed 10
her rescue. Nothing was heard for
Ave and half hours after the Ken
lucky flashed the signal OF distress.
Then another message was sent
through the chartered void announc-
Ing that the Alamo had taken on Capt
Moore and his crew OF 46 men. The
Alamo headed for Key West after the
Kentucky had gone to the bottom.