Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-02-24
happenings

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The city of Winnipeg is literallv
built over swamp
Two thousand five hundred sailors
IN the American navy cannot swim.
III is said the feathers from wild os-
triches are superior to those from farm
birds.
The maximum wages of brakemen
| on English railways is fixed ST 81 $50
week.
Inc resources of eli the banks of the
country amount to about one.Gfsb of
its wealth.
Inc negroes of Virginia control
eighe thnks and five insurance COM
panles, and are worth $13, 500 900.
Vacuam suction combs are now in
use to curry horses. An electr;ca1,,
driven fan produces the necessary va.
Guam.
"A New Jersey man recently found
nve thousand dollars in bible which
MS grandmother had given him az
years before,
At the sitting of the chamber of de.
puties In Rome Ex-Vice President
Fairbanks occupied seat in the di-
ptomatic box.
Boone has no-gossip club of e,gh-
teen young ladies. They will repeat
no stories that will in anyway reflect
on nybody else.
Harry Levine, New York resident
after living sixteen years in the Uni
ted States decided recently 10 becomf
an American citizen.
d. w. Lounsbury of Des Moines ~
though "a years old conducts an eiph
acre fruit and poultry farm and i,
said to be making it pay. M
What is the color of the American
flag?" was the first question he was
asked. After bordering a moment he
answered Green and white.n 4
In Liberia, coffee trees attain III
nelght of more than twenty feet. y
The price of the product is eight and@
nine cents pound at the plantations
Women have been voting in New;
Zealand for II years. "The Dunedin
Evening Star" says: q
S"Their vote has tended to preserveM
the home, to safeguard their own SEX
and to improve public morals"
Seventeen cars of fatted poultryN
packed in seven thousand boxes weY
shipped from Clarinda recently Az
Glasgow, Scotland. Other orders ~ to
soon to be shipped by the same col snd
pany to Liverpool and London.
AT sale near Shelby last week 81
farm horses brought the neat cum
Sz,Ol9. One mare sold for $685. aAefs
another for $500. Two geldings com1e
ing two years old brought 1915 an3 e
two yearlings sold for 1855 and l5sye
dollars. "
Miss Elizabeth Moore, VassaA.
graduate, hasentered the agricultural
department of the University of Mis-
souri,, and has announced her inten-
ton of following farming as bust
ness. She is member of several
clups in st Louis.
1t is an unwritten law that the
highest salaried positions must be re-
served for voters and although a wo-
man may pass the civil service exam
ination for the best port she does nof
get it. This fact is a strong argumep lie
for equal suffrage. 1lle
Sixty. eight letters and sixty.nir&aa'
postcards were delivered recently he
persons in New Jersey to whom thet
were addressed and mailed four yeafd
ago. They were found among the 81 u
tects of an employee who had beeSsa
discharged forneglect of duty.
At a sale near Maclay, Iowa, fifty
four head of Poland China hogs wer
sold at an average price of 500. rs pei
head. Mr.. George Glum of Sioux Ra
pida, Iowa. purchased the highes
priced sow of the sale, paying $3.50 I'd
her.
One of the prominent clergymen
Pittsburg has announced that he vii
not marry any couples unless the in
tended bridegroom can prove that his
income is at least $4,000. "Poverty
leads to divorce" he declares, land I
do not propose to assist the div orcs|
cause
A committee of the labor unions has
been investigating ii g cost of livingt
in large cities. The committee re-
ports that the lowest amount onl
which a family of average size cani
live in simplest decency in New York
ls $500 year. This is an increase oil
500 in two years.
At an election in Great Britain. a
candidate won by means of an UNI!
i brplla DurinD tho capyos 10 eI