Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-11-20
RULING ON SALOONS
SUPREME COURT OF IOWA DE-
clDEs WATERLOO MAY RE-
TAIN DRAM SHOPS.
DESMOlNES THIRST QUENCHasHlT
Speculation Now Rife As to Effect the
Latest Decision viii Have Upon the
Status Of the State Capitals Many
Drink Dispensers.

Status Of the State Capitals Many
Drink Dispensers.
Des Moines.-The LIQUOR dealers of
this city are specializing as to what
effect the Fort Dodge saloon decision
by the supreme court rendered We'd
hesday may have on the Des Moines
saloon case. The court sustains the
Fort Dodge saloons, and finds that
the decisions OF the board of super
visors, and the district court were
correct. The court in the opinion
emphatically states that saloon con.
sents must be based on the city cleo
ton vote and that the names on the
statement Of consent must be checked
with the names on the poll books
at the last preceding city election.
The statement of consent of Des
Moines was checked with the poll
books OF the last preceding state
election. Saloon men are wondering
whether this seriously affects their
petition, and whether the announce
ment OF the court is forerunner Of
a knockout blow.
At Fort Dodge a petition OF con-
sent was secured and the signatures
compared with the signatures on the
poll lists secured at the city election.
Anti-saloon leaders objected on the
ground that the law read last preced-
ing election. They asserted the last
preceding election was school cleo
ton. The court held the school cleo.
ton did not count as the law refers
only to cities Of 5000 or over and
while the word city is not specifically
stated, 1t is understood on the stat
ute. 1t was generally conceded by
lawyers at the state house and in the
city that the supreme court had laid
down a rule of law but that further
Interpretation may be necessary to
understand whether the Des Moines
petition OF consent is affected.
Twenty Million Hogs for Iowa.
The hog is the most vigorous OF all
our domestic animals. He can stand
more abuse and neglect than any 9th.
Ell animal on the farm and still pile
UP the largest bank account, according
to ID. A. Kent Of Jewell Junction. Give
him half a chance and he will get
there. But the trouble is he does not
even get the half chance. There are
scores Of farmers chasing over the
country in fifteen hundred dollar auto
mobiles and at the same time trying
to raise 200 hogs in $40 hog house.
We must turn from medicine to better
feed and care before we can hope to
save the hog. Pure air, pure feed,
pure water, balanced ration, wisely
fed, and clean, comfortable sleeping
sheds win settle the question. OF all
the recent programmes of education
in agriculture none would be so valu-
able as persistent efforts to point out
the errors in hog raising. Whoever
will do It will overtake even Holden
in notoriety, We are producing about
one hog to every acre of corn that is
produced in our state We ought to
PAObuSC WV. iDdI 10 lhcltdu III DTO-
ducing ten million hogs we should
produce twenty million, making two
hogs grow where only one grew be-
fore. A little more brains and little
more energy will do 1t.
New Arbitration Law.
Labor unionists throughout Iowa
are greatly interested in Governor
Clarke's efforts to settle the strike OF
the Oskaloosa street car employees I'M
der the arbitration law passed by the
last general assembly, which has now
been invoked for the first time on the
petition of citizens OF oskaloosa.
II the arbitration law proves prac.
tical proposition many men interested
in the union labor movement through
out the state see the end of the days
OF strikes and lockouts and rioting and
bloodshed These men declare that
labor stands, as it always has stood,
ready to arbitrate it's disputes and
that with a practical arbitration law
on the statute books employers Of the
type who have caused trouble In the
past by refusing to submit their griev-
ances to arbitration win be forced by
public opinion to make their interests
subordinate to the general welfare and
arbitrate.
An Effort to Convert Christians.
1--WE are sending our missionaries
Into India and the Hindus are execut.
ing flank movement by sending their
missionaries into America. There are
Buddhist temples In Chicago, San
Francisco and Seattle and hundreds
of American women have become con-
verts to their doctrines" said Mrs.
Cotton Mather of Fort Collins. Colo.
national field secretary for the Won.
ans Home Missionary society of the
Methodist church, in her address to
the delegates to the convention of the
society for the Des Moines conference
More Butter Produced.
With fewer dairy cows, Iowa dur.
ing the last year has produced near
ly 100000 pounds more butter than
the year before. That is one OF the
surprising facts that will be brought
out In the annual report Of the dairy
and food commissioner, to the gov.
ernor. The increase is one result Of
the growing use OF dairy sires in
breeding. Four or five years ago,
dairymen began to purchase dairy
sires. The result OF that move Is
just beginning to show itself In the
tot al of the butter production.
Patents for lowans.
The following patents have Just
been granted to Iowa inventors:
Silo reinforcement, Sigurd e. An.
derson, Des Moines.
Feeding mechanism, Carey A. Che
shire, Des Moines.
Bowling alley, Herbert F. Cook and
c. c. Hildreth, Lake Mills.
AdjustableA device for uniting
frames, Lemuel E. Gibson, Des
Moines.
typographical machine. Handlin d.
Scott, assigns to Mergenthaler Limo
type company, Eldora.