Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-05-12
Happenings
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In Waterloo, Neb., it has been made
an offense punishable by fine of 90
for barber to eat onions between
a. m. aud 9p. m.
The United States forestry service
consists of force of 5000 persons.
Ten years ago there were only ten
men in the service.
Twelve of the teachers of the Des
Moines schools have resigned to get
married and seven more will be mar
ried at the end of the school year.
The divorce court seems to be ahead
of the matrimonial bureau in Des
Moines. On Thursday May 5th, %,
divorces we're granted and only four
marriages recorded.
Twelve thousand Immigrants re-
Gently passed through Ottawa. Cana
da, bound for the Canadian North.
west. 1t required seventeen special
trains to carry them.
st. Peters church in Rome has re.
Gently had an electric elevator in.
stalled in its stairway which leads to
the cupola. The elevator has capac-
lty for carrying ten persons.
All motor vehicles used In Wash
ington D. c., must be registered even
though owned by people who reside
in other states and who have had
them registered in their home state.
The pearl button industry is Lam
gushing because of the scarcity of
clam shells and the government is
going into the business of propapa-
ting CLAIMS to supply the deficiency.
The first station will be established at
Lacrosse, Wisconsin.
The states of Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Delaware and New Jersey
could all be put inside the boundaries
of Custer county, Mont, or San Bar.
nardino county, Cal. Each of these
counties is q little more than $4,000
square miles in extent.
The census enumerators find ccndi-.
tionsin Reno Nevada unlike any con-
fronted before in the history of the
country, There are many wives with
legal residences in Reno while their
husbands residences are in the east,
necessitating double enumeration.
Edward Payson Weston has com.
pleted his ocean to ocean walk. Mr..
Payson started from Los Angeles,
February LIST last and walked the en-
tire distance from that city to New
York, 3;4s3 miles, in u walking days,
averaging more than as miles -day.
He is Y years old.
]. r. Davis, an experienced oil
prospector, has found large oil depos-
it's near Eddyville. He, with party
of Illinsis men expect to drill along
the creeks between Eddyville and OF
tumwa and if oil is found in sufficient
quantities, wells will be put down.
The outcome is eagerly awaited, by.
the people of this vicinity.
The stars and stripes floated above
the royal palaces in Copenhagen last
week for the first time in the history
of Denmark. During ex-president
Roosevelt's visit one of the palaces
was placed at his disposition with his
family. The king being absent they
) were the guests of Crown Prince
Christin Christian.
Thirty Filipino boys, members OF
Uncle Sans navy, have arrived in the
United States and will be assigned to
duty onatbe steamship Independence
In broken English they say it is war
mer here than in the Philippines.
Mr.. Mihan of the cruiser Maryland
has charge of the boys. "They are
valuable acquisitions to the Navy"
he said, "because they are loyal, apt
and not bit lazy as one might sup
pose. They're proud and neat too
and are all of high class blood.
A party of sixty Japanese are sight
seeing Iii the United States. There are
bank ers, merchants. physicians, law
yers and Journalists. A Toxic news
paper organized the trip which is IN
der the guidance of tourists firm.
> The gentlemen of the party expect to
return home with ideas that will as
sist in developing the progress of their
country. They seem to be most i'm.
pressed by the agricultural richness
: of the west and the bigness of things
everywhere. They visited Washing
ton and paid their respects to Presi-
:, dent Taft.
y The Northern Pacific railroad COM
a pany has purchased 5000 acres of land
in Washington, in order to supply the
dining cars of their road with milk,
b butter and eggs, fruit and garden
truck. A herd of 800 dairy cows, Sc
veral hundred steers and large
amount of farm equipment have beer