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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-07-02
PROGRAM RURAL GRAD
jAT|HG EXERCISES

At Audubon last Saturday June
20, the program for the rural grad
uating exercise was as follows.
A piano duet by Fiji Goldstein
and Helen Buck.
Invocation. Rev III. Greenlee
Violin Solo. ..... Tilda Schmidt
Piano Solo ........ Juanita Keith
Piano Solo ..... Fife Goldstein
Vocal Solo. 80. Bessie Witthaue
Lima Brinkerhoff, Accompanies.
Address Education OF today by A.
A. G. Fuller.
BY request of Co, Supt. Prof Hoy
man explained what they expect to
be able TO do for the pupils Of EX-
ira and vicinity by means of their
pills Manual Training and Domestic
new $4,000 building, giving the pu
Science
Oakfield township had the largest
mhmber of graduates in Audubon
County.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-07-02
Gill JONES BOUGHT
LEMON GROVE

The tract of land mentioned be-
low is near the grove owned by Mr..
Oscar Hunt of Extra. Mr.. Jones is
known by all old settlers here hay
ing been in business i'm Extra in
the late seventies.
A deal involving $25, 900 was clos
ed yesterday by the Home Realty
company The handsome residence
OF John r. King, ON North Eickerin :
avenue and 3 acres of ground in le-
mons valued at $4,000 were sold "a
G. Ii. Jones of Los Angeles, for the
sum stated above. Mr.. Jones is a
capitalist and was associated with
A. III. Gregg in the Citrus Grove
Heights tract. In the deal Mr.. King
becomes the owner of 100 acres OF
land in the famous Hanna tract
which the Home Realty company il
near Strathmore. and King proposes
selling. The Hanna tract is located
| to improve his holdings there BY
setting out the entire 100 acres tc
| olives.
| Mr.. Jones has placed his new pro-
perty with the Home Realty Co..
and it will be sold in half acre
lots.
When seen at his home today, Mr.
] King verified the sale of his home
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-07-02

and the purchase of the Hanna
land. He states that it is not his
Intention to leave Whittier nor to
get out of the nursery business as
he has other land ON N. Pickering
avenue and a large amount of nur-
sery coming ON for next year. He
will improve his holdings at Strath-
more with olives and then expects to
sell in small tracts.
"Olives," said Mr.. King, seem to
do better in the Strathmore dis
trict than anywhere else dn the state
There is a great future for this i'm
dustry. Many acres are being set
out by the people of Tulare county,
and within ten years that will be-
the center of the industry in
the west Whittier. Cal. News.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-07-02
PROF. cOHGER
IN MICHIGAN

Miss Amy Conger of Silver City
is spending this week with her
friend, Mrs. Late Simpson, who re-
sides south OF Extra, Miss Conger
is a sister of Pro. Conger who for
merly taught in the Extra schools,
She reports that the Professor is
teaching in the Ann Arbor College
in Michigan.
Mr.. Conger was a very popular
Superintendent Of the Extra schools
a few years ago and his many frien
are delighted to hear of his rapid ad
vancement in educational work
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-07-02
MISS VERNA HAML|N
MARRIED AT LINCOLN

The marriage of Mr.. Vernon Ham
lin and Miss Vannie Farrens of
Braddyville, took place on Tuesday,
june 9th, at Lincoln, Nebraska.
Mr.. Hamlin is a son of Mr.. and
Mrs. NJ. d. Hamln of this city and
resided here for many years. His
friends are numerous and they all
join in wishing him a prosperous
future.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-07-02

Walter, the youngest son of Mrs.
Ellis Cannon has been quite sick
the past few days, but is recover
Eng nicely now.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-07-02
WAR WITH MEXICO

Since the war with Mexico ii
about to close they have nc
need for barb wire to keep the
yankees out" SO we will offer ali
you want at $500 per cwt.
John Nelson.
5000 square feet of dance floor
at Elkhorn, the 4th.
OSCAR BoosE,
Brayton, Iowa.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-07-02
CAKE Walk
County.

The Congregational ladies will
hold cake sale at the Fred Cotton
grocery store Saturday July IL.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-10
GREAT WAR IN EUROPE
TO HELP u. S. BUSINESS
One Year of Fighting to Net America
S5oo,ooo,ooo Increase, Says
Bureau Expert.

Washington, Dec. 4.-That one year
of war in Europe viii add s500.000.-
600 to the foreign commerce of the
United States is the estimate of Ed
ward E. Pratt. chief Of the bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce.
Mr.. Pratt has just completed q
study Of the reports of American con-
suls and commercial representatives
abroad, of agents Of his bureau in this
country, and Of the new orders for
American manufactures and products
reported in commercial periodicals.
If the ratio of increase recorded
since August, when the war began, is
maintained until next August, he esti-
mates that new orders placed on the
books Of American firms viii total
half billion dollars.
As specified data upon which to base
his estimates, Mr. Pratt has the report
Of j. Massel, special commercial agent
now en- route to South America to
study the machine tool market there
South American countries, which will
be made available to American manu-
factUrers.
In preparation for his trip he visited
virtually every large manufacturing
plant in the United States and esti-
mated that the machine tool manufac-
turing companies alone have from
$1O,00O,000 to $15,OO0,0O0 in new or
ders from European countries now on
their books.
OF course problems of delivery still
have to be met, but the business is of
the most valuable type, since orders
are as rule accompanied by cash.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-10
,5zozEOEzOzzOEzc
MARKET REPORTS !
Oh LOT O5H OH -
Milwaukee. Dee. s. 1914.


Butter = Creamery, extras, 32c;
prints, S3c; firsts, 27@29c; seconds, "a
Q26c; renovated, 24Q25c; dairy, fam
cy, 2Sc.
Cheese-American, full cream, new
made twins, 1419c; Young Americas,
l472c; daisies, 14h 015c; longhorns,
lac; liInburger, fancy, 141kc.
Eggs-Current receipts fresh as to
quality, 24Q29c; recandIed. extras, rs
926c; seconds, 1561Sc.
1--we Poultry-FowIs, S09c; roost-
ers, &c; springers. 10c.
Wheat-No. l northern, 1.I6; No. .
northern, l12Q114; No. 8 northern,
SocQI.oS; No. 1 velvet. 1.140115.
Corn-No. 3 yellow, 611bc.
Oats-No. white, 4Sc: standard,
47a4 04S1hc.
68@73c. Wisconsin,
Rye-No. I, los.
Hogs-Good heavy butchers, 1850
725; fair to best light, 7.OO@72O:
pigs, 5,OO05.50.
Cattle-Butchers' steers, 6.750S.5O;
stockers and feeders, 425@6.25; cows
and heifers, 5.OO@6:75; calves. 5000
9.75.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-10
Relieve Part of Quarantine.

That the United States department
at agriculture at Washington ap-
proves the plan Of segregating only
certain counties in the state for foot
and-mouth disease and will relieve
the remainder Of the state from the
quarantine, is the effect of a message
received by Dr.. o. H. Eliason, state
veterinarian
The telegram is signed by DR.. a D.
Melvin, chief of the bureau Of animal
industry Of the federal department.
The plan to relieve a part of the
state from the quarantine placed
upon it by reason Of the discovery of
the disease in three or four localities
was the subject Of conference be-
tween the Wisconsin live stock sani-
tary board and the representatives Of
the federal government.
At the conference in the capital the
situation in the state was regarded az
having improved since the first cases
of infection appeared IN Rock county,
November 6.
The prompt action taksn has prob
ably aVerted calamity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-10
Ruling by Insurance Commissioner.

Herman L. Ekern, commissioner of
insurance, issued the following ruling
on federal taxes on fire insurance
policies.
THE stock fire insurance companies
are required to pay the stamp tax on
policies imposed by the new United
States internal revenue tax law. The
insured cannot be required by the
company to pay the tax or furnish
the stamp. He can be required to pay
only the premium which must be writ
ten in full in the Standard Fire Pol
icy as required by Section 1941-43 of
the Wisconsin statutes. If the COM
pany attempts to impose this tax up
on the insured, the agent cannot pay
it without violating the anti-rebate
law, Section 1850"
The stock fire companies are not
losing money in Wisconsin according
to statement issued During the ten
year period they collected from Wis
consin policyholders over 37,500,000
net premiums in excess of paid losses
and the increase In reserve. They
paid in losses only $42.80 for each
500 in net premiums, against United
States losses paid of $500 for each
500 of net premiums. Taking the
five year period, 1909-13, which elm
mates the San Francisco confagra-
ton, these companies returned to pol
icyholders in the United States $500
against only S43.70 losses paid to Wis
consin poIicyholders for each 800 in
net premiums, and against only $500
in 1912 and $344O in 1913 of net losses
paid Wisconsin policyholders for each
800 of premiums.
Neither are the companies losing
money on their business as a whole
throughout the United States. Their
statements Of underwriting profits and
losses omit the interest earned on the
assets. Roughly, one,half the assets
belong to the stockholders and one
half to the policyholders, and this in
terest income is the greatest source
of profit. Without any profit from I'M
derwriting, the companies rate OF
profits on all investments in capital
and surplus will be double the rate Of
interest earned on the assets, as the
stockholders take the earnings on
their own money and on the policy
holders money.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-10
DANIELS REPLIES
To NAVY CHARGE
Challenges Statements of Law
makers Concerning Efficiency.
T0RPED0ES ARE ALL GOOD
Projectiles Built for New Ships Too
Large for Any Vessel Afloat in
u. s. Fleet-More Ships Up
to Congress.

Washington, Dec. 5.-Secretary of
the Navy Daniels issued two state
ments on Thursday, one in answer
to the interview given by Senator
Lodge and the other in reply to state
ments made by Representative Gard
ner in his speech in New York In
these statements Daniels makes spe-
cific answers to the questions raised
by Senator Lodge and Gardner In
his statement answering Senator
Lodge Daniels says:
Senator Lodge was quoted as say
ing, I know myself we are short of
scout cruisers, having only three
Senator Lodge has been a member of
the naval affairs committee of the
senate for many years, and if he
knows, as he says, what we have,
why does he want an inquiry? Con-
gress determines what the navy shall
have"
Senator Lodge also states as fol-
lows:
eve are insuficiently supplied
with aeroplanes and hydro-aero-
planes, which are so essential to mod
ern warfare In my report last year
and in my forthcoming report, De-
cemeber II, have ardently advocated
the fullest development of this branch
of our service. The fact is we have
larger number of submarines in
proportion to our battle fleet than any
nation except France.
II am having one of the latest au-
thorized submarines constructed in the
Portsmouth IN. j. navy yard, and
the department is providing for the
newest ships and the best batteries
that can be had. One of these ships
shall be of the seagoing type, the first
any nation of the world will pos
sess.
Senator Lodge wishes to be in
formed whether it is true that we
have only one torpedo for each tor
pedo tube. This statement is er-
rOneous
in regard to his statement that we
had no fleet maneuvers for two
years, and no divisional drills for one
year, the fact is I myself have at
tended two fleet maneuvers. The
ships IRE just now returnin- from
Hampton roads, where they have
been engaged in the fall maneuvers
and target practice.
I'VE have been making progress
and the navy is in fine shape"
In his answer to Mr. Gardner Sec
rotary Daniels said:
Congressman Gardner is quoted as
saying that of long-range torpedo
tubes there are only So in the navy
This statement standing by itself is
calculated to leave a false impress
sion.
THE So Ignorance torpedoes so
often referred to as the only ones the
navy possessed are of the 21-inch, 81
foot type, and there is no ship on the
United States navy yet in commission
prepared to take them.
''Long-range torpedoes are neither
required nor desired for submarines.
The Aboukir. Cressy and Hogue were
torpedoed recently, it will be recalled.
at a range of 500 yards"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-10
Ask Permission to Move sheep.

The federal authorities have been
appealed TO permit Wisconsin stock
| men ship large consignments of sheep
TO packing centers to relieve the
congestion which, if allowed to con-
tinue, threatens TO result in the in
lection Of valuable f1ocks of sheep held
in Rock, Kenosha and Dane coun-
ties. The situation is summed up in
State Veterinarian o. H. Eliason's tele-
gram last night to Secretary of Agri
culture D. J. Houston at Washington,
in which he said:
The Wisconsin Live Stock Sanitary
board respectfully submits the follow.
ing for your consideration: In the
quarantined counties Of this state are
at least $4,000 finished Montana lambs
ready for slaughter, distributed among
different farmers ranging all distances
from places Of infection. No disease
IN these herds yet but if it should
spread to these sheep the result cannot
be estimated. Abattoirs in state abso-
lutely inadequate. It is the opinion of
your local field chief that this source
of danger should be removed. Is it
possible that an exception may be
made and these lambs loaded under
the supervision Of your inspectors and
shipped in sealed cars to designated
packing houses in Chicago? The sit
uation is alarming and the people re-
spectfully pray for relief"
The state veterinarians Office has
been Desieged for several days with
delegation of shippers and by mes
sages, asking for relief Of the kind
here demanded. Doctor Eliason assured
them that if it were in his power he
would order the release of the sheep
instantly, as this action would tend to
remove a great source of danger of
further infection. He said that once
the foot-and-mouth disease reaches
these large fiocks of sheep the posi-
bility for vast losses is almost beyond
estimate.
Reports have come to the Wisconsin
state veterinarian that the hoof-and
mouth disease has existed in Michigan
for a period covering many years, be.
ing covered up when inspectors visited
the vicinity. This information and cor
roborative evidence have been given to
federal officials in charge of the quar-
antine and inspection work in Michi-
gan and the suspected herds are being
investigated. 1t is declared that the
disease which prevailed a number of
years ago was not entirely eradicated
in the Michigan counties from which
the present reports come. One Of these
herds is said to be near Charming, in
the northern peninsula, and the other
in the northern part of the southern
peninsula.
The report of the disease still exist
ing in Michigan originated about four
years ago. Later a report from Chan
ming indicated the disease had been in
that vicinity for several months, and
that it was being kept hidden when in
spectors came around and that they
had failed to locate it. Michigan has
been visited by the scourge now af-
fiicting the. country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-10

brought there as prisoners Among
them were two generals, six colonies
and IS majors.
German Official Statement.
The official statement of the war Of
fee at Berlin says:
in northern Poland battles are TAX
ing their normal course.
I'm southern Poland the enemy's at
tacks were repulsed.
1.-THE report circulated in the for
eign press that the $4,000 prisoners
taken by US at Kutno are included in
the 10000 Russian prisoners reported
by US previously is untrue.
I'm the battle at Wlaclawek, Kutno,
LODI and Lowicz the eastern army has
taken between November II and De
cember 1 more than $4,000 unwounded
Russian Prisoners"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-10
WISCONSIN STATE
TREASURY FILLED
Finances in Far Better Condition
Than Year Ago.
S2,429,966 AVAILABLE FUNDS
Street Railway Corporations Pay the
State More Than $4,000 on the
First Day of Tax Col
Iections.

Madison.-With 50, 429, 966. 81 in avail
able funds in the state treasury, Wis
consin finances are in far better condi-
ton than they were a year ago, when
the state was forced TO go to the rail-
roads with the plea that they advance
payment Of 100000 on their taxes. to
tide over on current expenses. At that
time there was but $575,124.51 in the
treasury.
There is on deposit in the 15S de-
pository banks in the state $685.
18109, which added to the working
balance on hand of S52,776.12, makes
total of $2,321 ,957.21.
In addition the street railway cor
porations are now paying their taxes.
Today a total Of $720, 062.40 was paid.
Of this, Is per cent, or SOS, 009 SO,
goes to the state and IS per cent,
$612,053, to the towns and villages in
which the property of the utility is
located.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-10
Opening of Short Course.

Opening of Short Course.
With 425 students already enrolled
and many more expected, the short
course of the agricultural school
opened. 1t is expected that when all
of the students arrive, the total num-
Der will exceed last years enrolment
by nearly hundred. Last years en-
rollment numbered 1913. Of the total
enrolment, 257 are men who took the
work last year and have returned to
finish the course.
Only Sc students come from outside
of the state. While the majority of
them come from Illinois and Michigan,
Tennessee, New Jersey, Massachu-
sets, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Mime
sofa, Delaware, North Carolina, and
North Dakota are represented.
This is the twenty-ninth annual ses-
sion Of the short course. 1t started
IN 1885 with a handful of students
and because Of the excellent instruc-
ton and opportunities for practical
work at the university has become
one of the best known features of
the university. The men who attend
the school are, hardly without ex-
ception, young men living on farms
and who expect to go back to the
farm. A large number of the best
known men in agricultural lines in
Wisconsin are graduates Of the short
course. Among them are: Charles L.
Hill, Rosendale, president American
Guernsey association; Ralph Trait,
Whitewater; Eben E. Jones, Rock
land, president Wisconsin Short Horn
association: L. P Martiny, formerly
president Wisconsin Live Stock Breed
ers' association, and H. A. Martin
Gotham, secretary Red PoIed Cattle
Of America.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-10
CHURCH ExcHEoUER MISSING.
David Vollrath, Treasurer of Church
for Twenty Years, Disappears.

David Vollrath, Treasurer of Church
for Twenty Years, Disappears.
Chicago, Dec. A. Friends are
searching for David Vollrath, for
nearly twenty years treasurer of ST..
Marks Evangelical Lutheran church.
Accountants are said to have found a
shortage of between $4,000 and $780,
600 in the funds of the church, COW
cred by false entries going back five
or six years. Vollrath disappeared a
week ago within a day of the &C
countants' filing their report. Voll-
rath rs sixty years old and was so
highly esteemed that the church books
were not audited for II years. His
wife and three daughters are pros
trated at the report of the shortage
and fear he may have ended his life
He is supposed to have been speculat-
ing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-10
Says convicts Are Honest.

Wisconsin convicts are honest.
Three hundred Of them have been en-
gagged in road work under the honor
system since it was instituted two
years and half ago and not one has
tried to escape. This statement was
made by Rev. Daniel Woodward, war
den of the state prison, at luncheon
given by the Greater Milwaukee asso-
citation.
"Of these 800 men, only one has
come back to the penitentiary for a
second offense," said Woodward. cat
present we have II men in two camps.
one of which is two miles from the
prison and the other Is miles away.
These men never will be returned to
the institution"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-10
Board Talks Quarantine.

The state live stock sanitary board
met in Madison to discuss the posi-
bility Of inducing the federal govern
ment to allow shipments of stock from
Wisconsin to other states for slaughter
when such shipments have been re-
moved from all danger from disease.
1t is believed that inasmuch as the
bars against Canadian shipments have
been let down the same thing may be
done on a limited scale, at least, in
this state. Wisconsin is situated some
what differently from other states with
respect to its live stock. 1t leads all
states in this industry and there is
great inconvenience and loss to stock
men whose shipments are greatly de-
layed. Other states, too, are calling
for more beef to supply the popular
demand for food, and the packing
plants can use all the beef that Wis
consin offers. 1t is proposed to allow
shipments only of animals from herds
which have been entirely removed
from all communication with. infected.
herds.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-10
State School Contracts Awarded.

The state board of control awarded
contracts for the erection of the new
dormitory at the State School for the
Blind at GAINESVILLE The general con-
struction work went to A. Sommers &
Son, GAINESVILLE, $2O,832; plumbing to
McVicker Bros, GAINESVILLE, S3,181;
marble and tile work to Birthstone
Marble company, Milwaukee, s575;
heating to Zuelhke Light company,
Milwaukee, $3.50; electric work to
Honald Electric company, Sheboygan,
$40.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-10
500 STORM DOORS OF BANK.
Angry Depositors Become HystericaI
When Refused Admittance,

New York, Dec 3.-Ffve hundred de-
positors stormed the private bank of
Abraham L. Kass at 1856 Madison
avenue and demanded their money
The state banking department took
over the bank. Men and women gath
cred at the bank an hour before the
usual opening time. The depositors
shouted and waved their bankbooks,
and many became hysterical when re-
fused admittance to the bank
The police prevented any riotous
demonstrations and the depositors
were told by bank officials that the
bank was safe and the officials only
needed little time to settle their af-
fairs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-10
LAUDS PLUCK OF OFFICER
German Aviator Describes Attack
With Bombs on English Troops in
Vicinity of Dunkirk.

A German aviator, writing from the
front, says; Yesterday an observa-
ton flight took me to Dunkirk, where
we threw bombs on English troops
that were landing. On the return
flight through the southern part of
Belgium to Lille we made important
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-10
1851 KILLED IN u. S. MINES.

Report Shows More Than 100000 Men
Injured Last Year.
Washington, Dec. 3.-More than one
hundred thousand men we're injured in
American mines last year, while 1861
were killed outright, according to fig
ures given in the annual report of Dr.
J. A. Holmes, director of the bureau
of mines.