Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-12-02


this year by the Iowa Beef Producers
association. The enrolment list
showed on the closing date that 1882
Iowa boys and girls had entered and
expected to feed calves this year.
Eight counties had fifty or more en-
tries each, and thirty counties had
ten or more. Each boy or girl enter
ed in the contest is to feed a calf from
the time of entry till it is ready for
market, or until Oct. /, 1916. II de-
sired The boy or girl making the
best record in the state wins cham
pionship prize of free trip to Wash
ington, ID. C. The county prize win
ner In each of the counties having
fifty or more entries will get free
trip to the 1916 Chicago International
Livestock show.
1t is not the saloon that was closed
this time, for Indianola never did
boast saloon, but 1t is the restau-
rants and ice cream parlors that re-
ceived the blow The city council has
passed a decree forbidding places OF
business to open on Sunday. Every
fee cream parlor will be closed
promptly at midnight Saturday and
will remain closed until Monday
morning. The restaurants will be
given a short time to open in order to
serve their customers, but they too,
will be forced to keep CLOSED shop"
Webster county is paying out $4,000
year to aid widowed mothers in the
support OF their children. The wild
ow's pension fund was created by
the state to enable destitute mothers
whose husbands have died to rear
their children In suitable environ
ments and provide them with school
ing. The money comes out of the
regular county poor fund. Webster
. county spends annually $4,000 for the
poor and diseased of its citizens. OF
this amount, s19,36S is paid out for
treatment of the insane at Cherokee
A campaign to secure $4,000 for
the Council Bluffs Young Mems Chris
tian association closed with all the
desired sums subscribed. The work
was started and completed in FIVE
days. The association has a fine
building, but in recent years repairs
and additions has placed the organi-
zation in debt and 1t was to clear this
debt and permit other additions that
the fund was desired. Many business
and professional men gave their
whole time to the soliciting OF funds.
There are thirty-two distinct soil
types in Scott county, probably the
largest variation of any county in the
middle west, according to report
made by government gad state ex-
perts, who are now completing six
11ontn5 Survey OF every acre of soil
The experts, H. E. Stevens, represent
ing the government and Knute Espe
OF the state department, have added
another man and are planning to
complete the county by January l. Ex-
tensive maps will then be published
Ralph Fits, an employe in the Iowa
Falls laundry, had an accident in
which he narrowly escaped serious in
juries and possible loss OF sight. Mr..
Fits was engaged in mixing batch
Of soap and when he poured some
dissolved caustio into some heated
tallow, an explosion occurred that en-
veloped Mr. Fits with the fluid. He
was badly burned on the face and
on both arms.
Four of the six applicants who took
examinations for the Rhodes scholar
ship at Iowa City October and
we're successful, and one of them will
be selected by the Rhodes board of
trustees in December Those who
passed the examinations were Nor
man d. Scott, of Drake University;
A. w. Palmer, of Grinnell II. W..
Van Pelt, of Cornell, and L. C. Cobb,
of Cornell. The winner will begin
his course at Oxford next October
!. P. Bowdish reports that his farm
In the eastern part of Linn county is
running 20 bushels Of corn to the
acre of which IA bushels are soft. He
declares that he will not feed any
cattle this year. In this he will break
a record He is known as the Oldest
continuous shipper of cattle to the
Chicago stock yards. He began ship
ping in the fifties.
George Eckard, a farmer whose
home is near Yale. was instantly kill
ed in an automobile accident two
miles east of Ogden, on the Lincoln
highway. H. Il. Drafahal OF Grand
Junction, who was with him in the
car, received broken Jaw and other
bruises.
Mark s. Gordon's braggadocio, at
Perry, that he had stolen enough
freight from freighthouses. from time
to time, to fill the federal building
drew him an extra year in Jail, fol-
lowing his conviction in the federal
court on the charge OF stealing a bar
rel Of alcohol.
The use OF the twilight anasthesia
in major operations has been intro.
duced by DR.. Joseph A. Jerger. a gen.
eral surgeon Of Waterloo, and with
very successful results. This anas-
thetic eliminates all the disagreeable
effects OF either toxemia, terrific yom-
fling and other complications, and its
success is being followed closely by
medical men.
When farmers will get out and
raise $50 per mile for crawling the
roads. as they are doing over in Clay
county, II is an indication that there
is decided interest In good roads
among farmers.
Prohibition forces of Iowa have be-
gun movement to celebrate the re-
peal of the mulct law with special
watch meetings in every city in the
state on New Years eve. The action
of the Thirty-sixth general assembly
in adopting the Clarkson law will
close all grug shops in Iowa at p, m.
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