Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-09-02
ro Make Dairy rest Publle.

To Make Dairy Test Public.
"The state dairy department has
almost reached the point of making
public the monthly milk tests that
are now made under its auspices"
says Dairy Commissioner Barney.
ut has been our policy to make
tests and examine and inspect dairies
with view to inducing the owners
to straighten things out when we
found bad conditions and we have
been very liberal in the matter Of
giving them time to do the business.
Patience, however, sometimes ceases
to be virtue and feel that the time
has come when the tests should be
made public and the people then
will be able to determine for them
selves which diaries they would better
patronize on the basis of the informa-
ton that is officially gathered by the
state department. II the dairies have
profited by our recommendations to
them and have Strengthened them
selves up so as to conform to the law
in every particular they will have
no trouble. do not say that there
are any which have not. But our re-
ports to the public will disclose the
facts as to EACH"
Soldiers Get 10000.
Adjt. Gen. Guy E. Logan OF the Iowa
National guard and Maj. E. E. Lucas.
representing the war department. paid
off the |. N. G. at the close of the en-
campment in Iowa City, $4,000 being
required to meet the bill. The in
fantry received $4,000 and the cav
airy the balance.
General Logan paid the soldier boys
a high tribute, and declared that they
behaved like veterans. The work at
Camp Howell delighted him. Col. R.
P. Howell's newly formed cavalry. he
said, is wonderfully veteran like. in
view of its youth, and Colonel BARLEY
of Upton has made the infantry's
showing at camp really brilliant. THE
camp was credit to both officers and
men," declared General Logan.
Child Welfare Center.
Iowa is to be the center OF national
interest in child welfare work dur
ing the year Of 1916.
DR.. Florence Brown Sherbon of
Colfax, one of the originators of the
baby health contest in Iowa, has ac-
cepted the position OF assistant to
Miss Julia Lathrop OF Washington, d.
c., director of the federal children's
bureau. Dr. Sherbon's child welfare
investigation viii be done in Iowa. Her
work begins Jan. 1. The office carries
with It salary OF $500.
Dr. Sherbon has recently returned
from San Francisco where she acted
as assistant at the baby health con.
test at the exposition.
Refund for Gas Consumers.
The signing by Federal Judge Mar
tin j. Wade of an order according to
which the Des Moines Gas company
will begin on Dec. 1, 1915, to refund
to its consumers approximately $l15,-
900 closes the nve year fight OF the
city for 80 cent gas in Des Moines.
The refunds from the excess
charges during the time In which the
case has been in litigation will be
made by the company directly to the
consumer through checks dated Nov.
10. 1915. Payment will be made in
alphabetical order OF the consumers
names and about $4,000 checks in all
will have to be issued.
Supplement Ready for Distribution.
Secretary OF State Allen has an
nounced that the supplemental sup
plement to the code of 1915, with the
index to the supplement OF 1913 is
ready for distribution. There has
been much delay in the publishing OF
this volume, which contains the acts
of general nature passed by the last
legislature. The volume will sell for
$780, A volume containing the sup
plement Of 1913, the supplemental sup
plemsnt Of 1915 and Q complete index
Of each division will soon be ready for
distribution. This is to sell for IS.
Ask Cosssn's Aid. u
Attorney General Cosson has been
asked to aid in capturing Lewis
Thompson, who escaped from the Da-
kota City, Ia, jail on Aug. 10. He
was being held on a charge OF as
sault with intent to main. A reward
of $50 has been offered for his cap
ture.
Six Weeks to Mature Corn.
w. J. Dixon, chairman Of the board
OF control, has returned from Mount
Pleasant, where he inspected the
state hospital. He says that the farm
ers in that locality say they need six
weeks more without frost in order
that the corn may mature. sr.sf
Trying to Locate Building.
The treasury department Is still
bordering on the question where to
locate the site Of the new federal
court house in Des Moines. Assistant
Secretary Newton hopes to make a
decision in the near future.