Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-03

The most extensive use of motor
trucks In the transportation OF i've
stock that has been known in thai
section is being made by the farmers
and shippers of Pottawattamie county.
The Iowa Short Line railroad recent
ly suspended operations and it was
necessary to supply means of trans
portation during the hot weather, at
least. The first farmer to make any
extensive use of the motors marketed
one car load of hogs. Seven trucks
were sent out from Council Bluffs at
night and an early start made for
market, the run to South Omaha be-
ing made in two and one-half hours.
A charge of IS cents per hundred
pounds was made and 1t is declared
that both the shipper and the owner
of the trucks made good thing. The
did not suffer from the heat. Later
in the week FIVE other farmers ham
died their hogs in the same manner,
one man marketing full car load by
auto truck.
Instructors in the state school for
the blind at vinton will cease to teach
the New York point system of alpha
bet and will adopt the English Braille
alphabet on Sept. l. This change will
be made as part of a general plan
adopted at the convention of the
American Association of Instructors
of the Blind, held at Halifax, N. 8.
All over the United States the Ameri-
can Braille and New York point sys-
TENS will be discarded in favor of the
English Braille, in order that there
shall be one uniform system of read
ing for the blind. Iowa was repre-
scented at the Halifax convention by
w. H. Gemill, secretary Of the state
board Of education; George d. Eaton.
superintendent of the college for the
blind, at Vinton, and Mrs. Eaton.
The infantile paralysis plague is
spreading in Iowa. The physicians
admit II, and are becoming somewhat
uneasy over 1t. In spite of unusual
precautions to prevent the spread of
the disease, new cases are developing
in territory heretofore free from It.
Within twenty-four hours three new
cases were reported to the state
board of health. A month ago Iowa
was free of infantile paralysis. There
are now fourteen cases and three
deaths have resulted. The cases are:
Two at Ottumwa; two at Ames; one
case each at Grand Forks, Hardy,
Traer, Inwood, Denison, Pleasant Val
ley township in Scott county; Rose,
Moulton, Bettendorf and Berwick.
Apportionment among the state OF
the first years appropriation of $5.-
100000 carried by the new good road
act announced by the department of
agriculture which has certified the fig
ures to the treasury department and
state officials. To be entitled to its
share, each state must provide an
amount equal to that put up by the
federal government. Iowa's share of
this fund is 7146,175, this state rank
ing among the leaders for large appor-
tionments. Texas gets the largest
share, s29t.927; New York second,
$250,720; Pennsylvania third, $780,
GA. and Illinois fourth, $220,926. Iowa
is in fourth place.
AS chairman of the committee in
charge OF the exhibits of the state in
situations for the state fair, Warden
Sanders Is being kept exceedingly
busy. He is in touch with all sixteen
of ths institutions, encouraging prep
arati0ns of exhibits that will surpass
any previous endeavor in that line
The booths will be built inside the
tents on the grounds. the plan being
to have exhibits that reflect greatest
credit upon the institutions and dem
onstrate the various industries there
in.
Officers searching for Robert ]. Will
Hams, suspected OF completely in the
murder OF Mrs. Matilda Stewart, an
aged blind woman, near Marshalltown.
used blood hounds in an effort to find
q trace of the missing farm hand.
They were unsuccessful. Although
posses have made thorough search
ing of the Foote farm, where the muir
der was committed, but no trace OF
Williams has been found.
A Joint commission of miners and
operators made tour Of Indiana
mines for the purpose Of obtaining
data for firing the prices Of machine
coal mining In Iowa. The operators
are represented by Edward Smith,
Des Moines; John Canty, Oskaloosa;
TnAw be ~,
Samuel Ballentyne, Abba; Thomas
White, Colfax, and Clinton Gibbons,
Sheridan.
Thirty cars Of equipment, FIVE huge
locomotives, thirty-four horses and
other material to match has arrived in
Manila with the contractors who are
to build the Milwaukee's $1,000, 900
terminals there. Two huge hills are
to be cut down and the course OF .
stream is to be changed.
Iowa progressives assembled In
state convention at Des Moines NOM
mated 8. H. Bashor Of Waterloo to
all the vacancy for the Office OF gov
ernor on their state ticket. They
went on record in the platform adopt
ed for universal military service and
the enactment Of a corrupt practic-
es" law to prevent the election OF
tools" Of the large interests by the
expenditure of great sums of money
for campaigning.
Michael Pullens. 50 years old, and
q teamster died at Dubuque from the
effects Of the extreme heat. This In
the fifth heat death there this year.
The contract for the twenty mile
drainage ditch along the Dos Moines
river in Palo Alto county, has been