Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-24
FIFTEEN BREWERIES
GO OUT or BUSINESS
Prepare 70 Engage in Other Lines Of
Manufacturing When New Law
Goes into Effect.
FIGURING NOW ON CHANGES


DIES MONIES. Ia, oct. 1s.-Cspecial.)-
there are fiftecn breweries IN Iowa
which win 80 Out Of business January
10. through the repeal Of the Mulct law.
some o. them are already changing
their plants TO 20 into other lines Of
manufacturing They are located a.
follows;
Keokal, one; burlington, three; Dav-
export. two; Dubuque. three; Sioux City,
two; Iowa city. two: Cedsp Rapids. one
and Clinton. one.
The total capital invested az reported
TO the bureau OF labor, statistics il
pSss.ses. Their total products were val
ued at ss.621.5S and they paid out an
nualiy IN wages t4oo.i0s.
The average number Of wage earners
employed by these breweries has been
GA. OF this number rs received wages
Of between SIS and $40; sixty-six, 800 to
SIS. and nineteen, SO per week. These
do not include the salaries paid to the
managers and officers
Think victory in sight.
Iowa suffragists met in convention
yesterday afternoon for the last time as
a franchise seeking hody-they hope. An
ticipstions are high thar the next time
they meet It will be 70 celebrate the VIC
tory won IN the Juno primaries on the
suffrage amendment Declaring them
solves to be favorable 20 world peace. an
International board OF arbitration and to
President Wilson's foreign policy. the
suffragists adjourned their convention
sine die. Confident they viii be voted the
ballot June 5. 1916 the suffragists said
they welcomed the dissolution of the
state organization az it's forty-fourth
annual session. The association VIII be
held together. however. until after the
primaries There win be individual work
for every member OF tns organization.
During the intervening seven months
every precinct in Iowa will be canvassed
for suffrage sentiment aud one or more
suffrage speeches viii be glen by local
and state workers.
Nebraska suffragists have sent the
Iowa suffragista a check for $50 and
letter OF encouragement Tor the workers
in the state campaign. The delegates
raised $500 70 finance the campaign.
New Jersey suffragists we're sent the
sympathy OF the Iowa suffragists yes
terday.
Brewing Company Changes.
The Sioux City Brewing company has
filed with the secretary 81 state an
amendment 10 rs acficies Of Incorporation
changing sts name t. tho 'Isncrai Manu-
featuring company The officers are. b.
"a. Kingsbury. president, and Henry A.
Meyer secretary
The Flint CRUSHED Grave; rompany has
heen incorporasnl with lts offices in JEFF
feiSln township Folk county. TIE COM
Iang is capitalized at $4,000. The direct
ots and officers are: Al. NJ .Poo;e. Buff
falo. N. D.. president; W. ID causcy. Des
Molnea. fise yresbinnt: Y. D. Perry, Des
Morea scoretary-treasurcr other mem
hcrs Of the board ore Andrew Allen. Chi.
cago. and II. II. stipp. Des Moinss.
Prise Corn Growers.
Raymond McDerhaott the. 17-year-oid
son of John MoDermott Of Cass county.
Iowa. has been awarded gold medal BY
the Panama-Pacifie exposition for raising
a greater quantity and better quality OF
corn 10 the acre than was grown any
where In the United States IN 1914. The
medal has been sent TO Governor Clarke,
who VIII present Il 20 the boy At the Polk
county corn show November & Young
McDermott raised ibt bushels and forty
two pounds Of Reeds yellow dent corn on
his acre OF land. He lives on his fathers
far mfive and q half miles southeast OF
Walnut. He knew nothing Of the honor
he had won for himself and Iowa until
yesterday when he received Governor
clarke's letter telling hi mho had been
awarded the prize.