Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-10-28
NEW AUTO PLATES
Order Placed by Secretary of
State for 200, 900 Pairs.
ARE GOOD FOR THREE YEARS
New Plates viii Be Pullman Green
With Cream Figures and Same
Size as Heretofore-Wilic Cost
$4,000 To Send Out.

S'%S 80 SSSh
$4,000 To Send Out.
Des Moines.-The automobile plates |
FOR 19l6-1S will be Pullman green in |
color with cream figures, w. s. AL
en-, secretary OF state has announced. |
An order for 100000 pair of plates has
been given. The first shipment is ex-
pected to arrive early in November. |
The new plates are heavier than |
the plate in use in 1915 and the cost |
Of sending them out will be $4,000.
The new plate will be used for |
three years. The series will expire |
Dec. 81, 1918. In size the new plate |
will be the same as that now in use,
SKIS inches. The face of the plate |
will bear only the number and the alb |
Ga" No indication OF the |
year will appear. The color Of the |
1915 plate, yellow with black figure. |
was distasteful to hundreds of auto |
owners. Protests were received re- |
peatedly and the Office was asked IL |
Il could not supply the number plates
in other colors.
In picking the colors for 1868,
the secretary of state called into con-
sultation a number of experts. Their |
opinion was that green with cream
figure will be suitable to virtually all |
Of the automobile drivers.
Costs Less for Inebriates.
Salconless- Polk county continues
to show a dwindling number OF in |
ebriates sent to the state hospital at |
Knoxville. The expense OF mainten-
ance OF inebriates at the hospital con-
tinues to decrease at rate which
Is encouraging to the temperance fac
ton.
The report filed in the office Of r.
s. Shaw, auditor of state. calls for |
an assessment OF 1918 .aeainstu Polk
county for maintenance OF fneBffates |
from this county at the Knoxville in
stitution, for the quarter ending Oct
l, 1915. For the quarter previous the |
inebriate expense taxed to this coun-
ty was sS72.50. i
The record for the last quarter |
shows reduction OF s299.50 over the
quarter previous, and shows reduc-
ton of sl,245 over the corresponding |
period of 1914 when saloons we're in |
operation in Des Moines and Valley |
junction.
Apple Situation.
Ivan Whitfield. publicity agent for
the state board OF agriculture. has
returned to Des Moines from south |
western Iowa, where he studied the |
apple situation. He declares that
the greatest need the Iowa apple |
growers are facing is organization to
market the apple crop, and the build
ing OF cooperative cold storage
plants with provision for by-products
such as cider, apple butter and other
things.
Trying to save Armoy.
The October number OF the serv- |
Ice bulletin Of the Iowa highway COM |
mission contains an article telling OF |
the road work being done by Iowa |
convicts on the highways. There are |
100 prisoners now at work In three |
gangs-at Ames, Cherokee and |
No record for economy |
can be made by the convict labor sys-
tenn, the chief value of the system
being from the humanitarian side. the |
commission asserts.
May Be Made State Lecturer.
w. E. Cloves, secretary Of the |
Iowa Society for the Prevention of
probably will be named
state tuberculosis lecturer by the
state board of control, IL the proper
arrangements can be made. The state
board demands that 1t have super
vision over the lecturer and dictate |
how his time shall be spent, II he il
employed by the state.
Expert Here.
W. e. Cloves of New York City,
the new executive secretary Of the
Iowa Association for the Prevention
Of tuberculosis, has arrived to take
up his work.
Mr.. Cloves came direct from the |
association headquarters. He |
will open offices in Des Moines at |
once. The association will seek to
sell 100000 Red Cross Christmas
seals to finance the work for the year.
Renew Hunt for Murderer.
The hunt for the Villisca murderer
! rot zee andoned. Word was
re vef = -rt at the department
% r7.ire ~ nv w. j. Burns agen-
CIV is sg''r scti .. 1t inserted an
liz !. vil,isca paper ask
ing for information concerning the
murder of the Joe Moore family OF
June ., 1912.
Insurance Law.
State Insurance Commissioner EN-
DRY H, English has been investigating
in other states which have
nti-discrimination laws similar to the
new law in Iowa, and finds that these
states are also having troubles in ad-
justing themselves to the new meas
ure. He found. too. that Iowa has the
lowest rates Of any states having such
laws. The commissioner says that the
law has not been in effect long enough
to determine its strength or weak
ness. but he is confident Of its ulti-
mate success.
Adjust Tax Values.
w. II. Williams, chief clerk in the