Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-11-18
BUILDING IS 4 Loss.
Iowa's Structure at Frisco Will
Not Bring Salvage Price.
ORIGINAL COST WAS $4,000
Work Of Tearing Down State Build
ings Starts After Close Of Fair
Try to Exchange Material
As Pay for Wreckage.

Das Moines.-The Iowa building at
the Panama Pacific exposition in San
Francisco, which cost approximately
$4,000, including furnishings, is de-
stined to be almost a total loss, with
out chance of even a salvage price
being placed upon 1t, according to a
statement made by one of the Iowa
commissioners.
mission faces is that of getting house
wreckers to tear down the building
without making any charge for their
services other than the material which
they may salvage. Under the orders
of the Panama Pacific exposition
company the work of tearing down
state buildings is to begin immediate
ly following the close of the exposi-
ton. None of the housewreckers
seem to want to offer any cash for the
material they might gain by clearing
the ground.
According to recent report the
Ohio building at the exposition sold
/ for $1,000. This represented the cash
returns from structure costing about
$lT5,000, so that when the Iowa com.
missioners learned of this, they lost
hope of being able to make showing
for the money invested
The Iowa building occupies space
of Go by $50 feet in one of the most
desirable locations on the grounds
The building proper cost originally
s29, 900, the furniture bringing the fig.
ure up to $4,000.
Purchase Horses for I. N. G.
Efforts of the Iowa National guard
officers to induce the federal govern
ment to buy horses in Iowa for the
Quitting of the light artillery bat
teries located in this state. were I'M
ayailing. Word was received at the
capitol that horses purchased in St.
Louis were received by the Clinton
and Davenport batteries and that
horses are on the way for the Musca-
tine battery.
Each battery is entitled to ten
horses to be used in Transporting the
field guns. The animals are furnish
ed by the government. The Iowa Of
ficers wanted Iowa horses, but the
quartermaster declined TO come to
this state to make his selections.
The equipment for the battalion
headquarters of the artillery has been
received by the Iowa military depart
ment. The headquarters will be To-
Gated at Clinton. The equipment con-
sists of signal apparatus. telephone
outfits, fire control paraphernalia.
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Enforcing Pure Food Laws.
Many inquiries are being made o.
the state dairy department as to
whether or not there Is any way OF
treating cider SO that 1t will not fer
ment. The department says there is
only one material which will retard
fermentation and that for only few
days. 1t is benzoate Of soda. This is
not preservative, the department
says.
Some complaints have come to the
department OF merchants selling
"swelled" canned goods and the in
spectors are being instructed to be
on the lookout for them The depart
ment says that no canned goods
which have swollen should be used
and 1t is against the law to sell them.
This comes about through poor ster-
ilization, a defect In soldering or in
the tin in which the goods are put
up.
Policy Holders Complain.
Sen. G. l.. Caswell appeared at the
offices OF the state insurance depart
ment representing 152 policy holders
in mutual hail insurance companies
of Iowa to protest against alleged mis-
Representations by solicitors for the
companies He claimed the solicitors
guaranteed a minimum assessment for
the years protection, which was al
most doubled when the assessment
was levied by the company.
Commissioner Emory Fl. English
stated that no agent OF any of the
mutual companies had the authority
to fix such minimum. He has noti-
fed each company to print on its poll
cies the following: "No agent or Off
Ger of this association has authority
under the law TO limit or guarantee
the cost of this insurance"
County Fair Aid.
In accordance with the bill passed
by the last legislature, the amount
OF state aid payable to county fairs
this fall is very much larger than
heretofore. Thus far this fall state
aid has been paid to eighty county
fairs totaling $45,9S5.53. In 1914 there
was paid to eighty-eight fairs the sum
Of s22,252.S1.
To Encourage Use Of Milk.
: The expenditure per capita for
booze in the United States is $32
The expenditure per capita for milk
is So.
With these figures in mind, the Ma
tional Dairy council decided that the
/ great difference is unjust to the dairy
COW.
The council voted $250,00O to adver.
tise milk as food and necessity.
w. B. Barney. state dairy and food
commissioner Of Iowa, was appointed
on committee to conduct the adver
Using crusade.
VIII Change Population Figures.
A. U. Swan. assistant secretary oil
the state executive council, says that
the census figures as given out few
days ago through the report of the