Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-03-19
TROUBLES OF
NATIONAL LIFE
State Commissioner to Be Named
Will Take Over Work.
SURVEY WILL POLISH DATA


Independence Will Get Its Industrial
School ss Resut of Will of Resident
of That PIace-New Liquor Law Be-
ing Enforced.
Dcs MONIES, March ia part at
least OF til iockeying which has been
going on relative to the National Life
association i'll this city is said to have
| reference 10 L. forthcoming change
| IL. tile mana cement Of the state insur-
ance affairs. This change takes place
July L. AL that time there will be APP
pointed state insurance commission
er, who vii AXE over the entire work
and take t of the hands of the
| auditor of state.
When the affairs of the National
| Life association became critical the
state aiaitor sent a special examine.
| to look into it's affairs. The formei.
| examiner, whose reports had been ac-
copied in regard to the company. i'm
mcliaiely resigned and became con
neeted with the National Life assoc
citation Then it was discovered that
| the association had been issuing irres;-
! ular policies for several years. The
next step was fer the former examiner,
| WHO .,ad just become connected with
| the company. to become a candidate
| for state insurance commissioner.
| But there are other candidates for
| the Eiaoe. The impression is that the
large insurance interests which are
concentrated here desire that the com
missioner shall be one of their friends.
New Liquor Law Being Enforced.
Railroads and express companies in
Iowa are putting the ebb-Kenyon
liquor law decision by the supreme
| court into effect SO rigidly that the
| Shipment OF booze to small towns OF
the state has practically been aban-
doned. John B. Hammond, temper
ance worker, reported to Attorney
| General Cosson.
Hammond's observation of 200 rail
way stations OF the state in the last
two weeks is the basis of his report
He declares that in small towns where
it was a usual sight to see small noun
/
and jugs about the railway station
nothing OF the kind is noticeable now
Inquiry has developed that the express
companies are not carrying the liquor
they did in the past.
Will Get Industrial School.
The town OF independence will ge
its industrial school as the result o.
the will of F. Munson, resident of thai
place, the supreme court has decided
Munson left 100 shares OF bank stoci
TO his sisters and brothers to be en-
ioyed by them until heir death, ther
Manson Industrial Training school O
Independence. He left $4,000 to BIZ
Immediately invested in librar,
building for the school. The cour
finds that if a man wants to leave hi.
money to charity it is his own affair
and the courts will not interfere.
Geological Papers to Be Printed.
The state geological survey will sool
publish a bulletin containing some in
terestlg matter for Iowa people. In
i
J as follows: BY Professor o. P. Ha.
OF Washington on The Extinct Nam
mails OF Iowa." NJ. NJ. Layton on 9Th,
History of the Iowa River Valley" A
W. tlixson on The History of tn,
Coal Bees of the State. and by james
H. Lees on The History OF the De-
Mcines River Valley"
Jones to Stay in Prison.
Earl Jones, Corning musician
charged with having forced Grace
Runyon, daughter of a Corning banker
10 elope with him at the point of ;
gun, was denied release from Anamos;
prison by the board of parole. Jope
Will be given an examination at tn,
,luly term of the board and the boart
will announce a decision in October
in the regular routine through which
the case must go.