Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-07-23
Iowa Insuranee PremIums.

Iowa paid $22, 343, $40 in life, fire and
casualty insurance premiums in 1918,
according to the annual report which
will soon be issued by the state in
surance department. Life insurance
premiums amounted to $11,374,S 1893 "A
and fire and casualty premiums to-
tailed slo,96s, O10.56.
The total claims paid by life in
surance companies in Iowa during
1918 amounted to $3,494, 4O1. 5S or sos
per cent of the premiums received.
The total fire losses were s5.751, 447 SO
or 54.5 per cent Of the premiums re-
ceived.
Iowa fire insurance companies wrote
$104 ,401, 403.59 OF insurance in Iowa
last year and collected $1,419,971 &c
in premiums. The losses paid amount
ed to s74S,33S.49. The percentage of
losses to premiums was 52.2.
The United States and foreign fire
insurance companies wrote $694,949,-
69056 OF insurance in Iowa in 1913.
The premiums received were $7,S9S,-
1920 and the losses paid were s4,-
335,154.26. The Iowa and outside fire
insurance companies combined wrote
$799, 1851 ,094.15 of business and collect,
ed $9,317, S3S.46 The total losses paid
were s5,07s,492.75. The losses incur
red amounted to s5,l1S,595.S5.
The casualty insurance companies
and all other companies except fire
and life received 1851 1926 in 1918
and paid out s672,9S4S4. The total
received by all companies, other than
life, on Iowa business was $10,969 DOL
and the losses paid were s5,751, 47759.
state Game Warden Calls Meeting.
E. c. Hinshaw, state game war
den, says that he will call meeting
of the sportsmen of the state, to be
held probably in Des Moines, to de-
termine the changes which the next
legislature will be asked to make in
the state game laws.
He says that one change will be to
model the Iowa law as nearly as pos
sible after the federal law prohibit
ing the spring shooting OF migratory
birds. Also changes will be asked of
the federal government in the restric-
tion against shooting on the Mississip-
pi and Missouri rivers,
The new hunters licenses which
are being issued in Iowa have been
revised so that no mention is made
Of duck shooting. A note has been
added that the license does not give
hunters permission to violate any of
the present laws or any OF the laws
which may be enacted in the future.
Anticipate Increased Business.
Railroads of Iowa anticipate an UNI
usual volume Of business in the fall
owing to the prospects of record
breaking crop, according to the rep
resentatives of the lines who appear
ed at the capitol before the executive
council Many of the companies are
working their car repair shops to the
limit in order to get the equipment
in shape for the moving Of the grain.
1--WE are expecting a far better
business in Iowa this year than in
1913" said W. ~ S. WINS, assistant
right OF way and tax commissioner of
the Great Northern railway.
The prospect for bumper crop
in Iowa is causing the roads to look
forward to heavy demands for cars.
The crop experts say that the yield
will come up to or exceed that OF
1912, and passing through the state
one is easily convinced that there
will be heavy returns to the farmers.
Bliss Succeeds Kennedy.
X. X. Bliss OF the Nebraska State
university has been elected director
OF the agricultural extension depart
ment of the Iowa State college at
Ames by the state board OF educa.
ton. He will succeed w. ]. Kennedy,
who was retired by the boa:d several
months ago for characterization
The new director was connected
with the agricultural college of Iowa
for period Of eight years, being at
the head of the animal husbandry
department He was taken from the
Iowa institution by the Nebraska UNI.
versity several Yeas ago by an OF.
fer of increased salary. He is to
return TO Iowa as head of the depart.
ment.
1t is expected that Mr.. Bliss will
report at the beginning OF the school
year in September
Hears from Corporations.
Reports of Iowa corporations on
the business Of the year ending July
/, 1914, are being received by the sec.
rotary of state. The firms indicate
that Iowa has felt no business depres.
sion during the last Twelve months.
The secretary asserts that the num-
Der of corporations formed last year
was unusually large, The heavy
months for new companies are Deem
Der, January. February and March.
These months not only maintained the
record OF the year before, but the