Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-24

PlanS for new buildings at the state
University of Iowa began to take
shape at the last meeting of the build
ing committee of the state board OF
education. The next legislature will
be asked to approve plans for new
hall of botany and geology. The
building will be of fireproof construc-
ton, with the material and cost de-
pending upon its location on the cam
pus. One of the sites considered is
the present location of the two de-
partnents, west of the law building.
IL is expected that the next building
to be erected will be the first wing of
the $4,000 library building which
has already been authorized by the
legislature. 1t will be of Bedford
stone, to cost 100000 and will be d.
rectly east of the law building. The
second and third installments of the
building will not be constructed for
some years.
The late rains have produced Q
wonderful effect upon the vegetables
on the sixty-acre garden at the hos
pital for the insane located at Clarin-
da. It is doubtful IL anywhere in the
state q more diversified culture can
be found. There are about five acres
OF tomatoes, three of onions, four Of
melons. two of sweet potatoes, FIVE
OF cabbage, three of parsnips. two OF
carrots, two of cucumbers, FIVE of
beets, four of squash. six of turnips,
four Of beans and lot of ground de-
voted to other smaller vegetables. A
crop OF about 600 or 700 bushels of
onions will be gathered. OF strictly
farm crops the institution this year
has full granaries. The orchard is al
so going to bear well and fruit that
is perfect. There are in the institu-
ton now 1924 patients; 692 men and
532 women.
There are people who have found
that Iowa's high priced land will pro-
duce something more than corn and
hogs, and do so at good profit. One
man who has learned this is ]. F.
Tawney of Adel. Mr.. Tawney quit
the grocery business few years ago
and started to raise pigeons. On a
farm of less than five acres Mr.. Taw-
ney raises more pigeons than any
other man in the state. His estab-
lishment is said to be the largest OF
its kind in the western section Of the
United States. Every day in the year
he ships pigeons. He has sent birds
to every state in the union and to
Canada
The prohibition state central CON-
mittee has selected a complete list
OF candidates for state Office. At the
convention held at Oskaloosa in July,
candidates were named for all places,
but several of them refused to accept.
The ticket as 1t will appear on the
ballot in November win be composed
OF the following: For governor-W.
o. TRANSPORTER of Waterloo; lieuten-
ant governor-O. D. Elicit of Mar
shalltown; secretary of state-Carl
Lewis of Marshalltown; auditor
Morris Bailey Of Des Moines; treas
urer-M. D. Evans of Des Moines.
Ten or twelve swarms of bees have
taken up their abode in the farm
house occupied by Guy Fessler and
been compelled to abandon the Sec
ond floor of the house. Boards were
taken of the house and about fifty
pounds of honey secured. Later
some of the flooring of an upstairs
room was removed and the space be-
tween two of the joints, eight inches
deep and eight feet long was found
. packed with the finest kind of honey.
In all there was about 400 pounds.
Iowa corn land In some parts of
Iowa, worth 5000 an acre, can be in
creased in value to $500 an acre, II
devoted to onion raising, according
to Prof. c. L. Fitch, truck crop ex-
pert. After examining soil in various
communities Of the state, Fitch de-
clared that II promoters would en-
ploy onion growing experts, onion
fields could be made to produce crops
worth from $500 to $1,000 to the acre.
Fitch believes onion growing could
be made a large commercial success
II managed In the right way.
The 1916 state fair will be policed
by student cadets from the Iowa
State college at Ames, under the d.
rection of Adj. Gen. Guy z. Logan,
who will be chief Of the public safe
ty department of the exposition. Gen.
]. r. Lincoln is organizing the force
of cadets for Adj. Gen. Guy e. Logan.
Between 100 and 100 cadets will make
up the force. Il is believed that suffi-
cient numbers of students from the
state college will volunteer for the
work to fill the entire list.
Recent deals In Poweshiek county
land by William Doonon, are at high
figures. He bought 100 acres near
Barnes City, for 1925 an acre, then
sold 40 acres of it for $265 an acre.
An adjoining acre was purchased for
$500.
Era Bond, a Minneapolis invest
ment broker, and his associate, R. f.
Hawley, arrested at Davenport, were
taken to Chicago in connection with
the recent daring automobile thefts
extending over the middle west and
northwest. The men were arrested
upon orders from the Chicago police.
in salesroom, rented by Bond. II is
charged. five automobiles were found.
er number OF them.
Dan Wessling, farmer living near
Grand Junction, has the prize yield of
oats for the community thus far, get
ting yield of 104 bushels per acre
from four acre tract.
More than seventy per cent of the
animal husbandry graduates of Iowa
state college in 1916 have gone back
TO the farm, according to statistics
gathered by w. H. Pew, head of the