Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-09-16
Board Of Control Meeting.


to the conference of the officers OF
the Iowa institutions underNthe board
of control, declared that the state
should use its farms to breed better
seed. He told of experiments in seed
corn in which seed which looked
alike, varied in yield from As to 10
bushels to the acre.
Max E. White, superintendent OF
the Clarinda State hospital, and DR..
H. G. Lampson of the division OF
preventable diseases of the Minnesota
state department OF health, talked to
the Iowa officials. DR.. Lampson is an
applicant for the position of lecturer
on tuberculosis, made vacant by the
resignation OF A. Z. Kepford.
Time Set for Appeal.
The appeal of the thirty-fivc mas
ter plumbers convicted in Iowa last
March of antitrust law violation, will
be heard by the United States circuit
court of appeals at st. Louis on Janu-
airy 10, 1916, according to the court
calendar received by William C. Nc
Arthur, clerk of the southern Iowa
district federal court.
There are thirty-five defendants in
the case as 1t now stands. However,
only four of them appealed, as a re-
suit OF an agreement OF attorneys up
on the suggestion OF Federal Judge
Pollock, who heard the case.
The thirty-five defendants are
bound by the higher courts decision
as to the four appellants.
Want Gravel Roads.
A movement to gravel every mile
of Polk county's 1870 mile highway
system at an approximate cost Of
$4,000, putting the entire system in
condition unparalleled by any sys-
tenn perhaps in the middle west, has
been started by Harry Barquist, chair
man Of the Polk county board Of
supervisors.
Mr.. Barquist declares the county
roads can be put in condition, grav-
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$1,000 per mile.
The chairman will take the matter
up with the state highway commits.
sion. He declares That the county
will not be forced to pay the entire
cost Of the proposition once 1t is
started.
Asked to Supply Teachers.
Polk county has been asked to loan
teachers to other counties in the
state.
Miss Pearl De Jarnette, county SUI
perintendent of schools, has received
numerous telegraphic requests, but
the most urgent was by long distance
telephone from the superintendent of
Story county, who asked for four
teachers at once.
Polk county, Miss De Jarnette says,
is unusually fortunate this year in
having teachers from Wisconsin,
Michigan and Minnesota in the rural
schools. One of these teachers is a
college graduate, while several 9th.
ers are graduates from state normal
schools.
$4,000 For Horses.
More than $4,000 has already been
spent in Des Moines f.- horses pur.
chased by buyers for the British gov.
eminent. Two train loads have been
shipped to Montreal from the recent.
ly established receiving stables here,
and inspections are being made ev-
cry day. New stables and yards are
nearing completion and buyers are
expecting to double the present pur-
chases.
The first load that left consisted
of thirteen cars; the second of ten.
There were 453 horses in the two
shipments.
Attending Public Health Meeting.
Lafayette Higgins. sanitary engin
eer for the state board Of health, is
attending the convention OF the Amer
lean Public Health association al
Rochester, N. Y. Before returning to
Des Moines he will study the expert
ments recently made in the purifica
ton Of the public water supply al
Lawrence, Mass. DR.. Walter L. Bier
ring, president of the state board Of
health, is also attending the conven
ton at Rochester.
Teachers Are Scarce.
A number of school districts OF the
state which are without teachers have
appealed to the superintendent Of pub
lie instruction as to whether any oil
the young women who took the August
examination received passing grades
to secure certificate to teach. II
was announced that the grading OF
the papers will be finished in the near
future, and that only few OF those
who took the test have not made good
grades.
College for Blind Opens.
The state college for the blind, 10
Gated at Vinton, has opened for anoth'
er school year. superintendent Eaton
has been busy during the summer va.
cation locating blind children who
have not as yet attended this school.
A greater portion of those attending
last year are present again this year.
The attendance will reach figure OF
$50. Most Of the teachers OF last
year have resumed their places In the
school.
Start Conscience Fund.
The state pharmacy commission has
started a conscience fund with $40
sent in by former medicine peddler,
recently converted and who is now
preaching the gospel. or this amount
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