Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-05-25

The Mondamin consolidated school
has been chosen one of the four that
Z will put on an exhibit at the state
( fair. These four were chosen out
q of the 176 consolidated schools in
y the state. The Mondamin consolidat-
/, ed school has been phenomenally sue
cessful. Domestic science and manu-
al training are taught to large classes
, and the school is one of the three in
Iowa to maintain a four-year agri-
cultural course. The school possesses
I a five acre experimental farm plot
: The consolidated school district also
maintains a social center organization
In which the school unit plays an i'm
I portant part The agricultural de-
partment of the school has just COM
pleted seed corn testing campaign
in which 1900 ears of seed corn were
Tested.
Eighty thousand people tried to
lear Billy Sunday and his party at
IN sansas City on a recent Sunday. OF
kQ his number 10000 were unsuccessful
Ind turned away. Ten thousand
card Billy Sunday at the tabernacle
I'm the morning, 10000 in the after
|. Spoon and 10000 at night; 1900 were
tturned away. Mrs. Sunday spoke to
O9.000 in the afternoon and turned
away 5000. Seven hundred boys and
girls heard Miss Gamblin, one OF Sun
j days workers. Four hundred and
seventy-four hit the trail during the
day. making total of 1881.
Iowa soon will be supplying the
butter for the tables of the Morgans
Rockefellers, and other wealthy men
OF New York. The firm which sup
plies the exclusive trade OF the east
has written to w. B. Barney. dairy
and food commissioner of Iowa, tell
ing him to hurry up the reports show
ing that Iowa butter is better than
that OF any other state, so that the
sale OF 1t can start. It will sell from
so to so cents a pound. The pro
Queer will get good share of this in
creased price.
A new consolidated school district
has been formed in Henry county
about four and half miles northeast
of Mt. Pleasant. Twenty sections are
included in the district in a region
where land is worth $3.50 per acre.
This makes 176 consolidated school
districts now in the state. Scarcely
week goes by that one or two dis
=. tricts are not reported. Modern, up
p date buildings are being erected
which are proving to be the social
centers of the neighborhood.
he
vention at Cedar Rapids the Iowa re-
publican delegates to the Chicago
convention met and elected Senator
w S. Kenyon, as chairman: George
&c. Call of Sioux City, secretary;
I James A. Dewitt of Oskaloosa, treas
urer; John Jameson OF Casey, SER
geant-at-arms: JOS. Byrnes OF Des
Moines, assistant sergeant-at-arms.
DR.. G. H. Sumner, secretary Of the
state board Of health, is working on
a plan recommending the formation
of county board of health in every
county in Iowa. The proposed board
would serve with or without pay as
the legislature might direct, accord
ing to the plan. The work of the or
ganization would be to prevent dis
ease as much as to stamp out epi-
denies as they appear.
Twelve interurban lines operating
in Iowa report net earnings In 1915
as S1,146,404, an increase OF s216,094
compared with 1914. The net earn
ings per mile last year were $2,357.
Gross earnings of the twelve compan-
les were $3,24S,9S3. operating ex-
penses $2,1O3,52s and taxes s1O2. 5S4.
Operating expenses were about 81 per
cent of the total income.
A burglar who entered the postoffice
at Comanche secured 500 worth Of
stamps of big denominations. En-
trance was gained through window.
Just as the program Of the Fort
Dodge public school May fete began a
section of the bleachers fell and car
ried 300 people with 1t. Five were
badly hurt.
DR.. A. W. Chamberlain Of Stratford
was found guilty of maintaining a
II liquor nuisance. DR.. Chamberlain is
an old man and has been a practicing
physician in Stratford for forty years.
During the past two years he has been
conducting drug store in connection
with the practice of his profession
The maximum penalty is $1,000 fine.
Iowa pensions granted: Ellen Has
tie Carlisle, $12; Lille Cochran.
Hayesville. $12; Elizabeth Buckley
Clinton, $12; Eliza Watts, Sioux City,
$12; Antoinette Plomteaux, Fort At
kinson, $12.
B. P. Birdsall. better known as
Judge Birdsall," who at one time
was a district Judge and later a con-
gresham from the Third district OF
Iowa, died very suddenly at his home
in Clarion after brief illness.
An Iowa factory may furnish Uncle
Sam with the first aeroplanes for the
new army, according to plans an
nounced by the war department. The
Grinnell School OF Aviation has sub
mitted bids for twelve planes each OF
100 horsepower, at the request OF the
war department. Superintendent
Wells says the government wanted
l25 horsepower machines, but that
because most of the factories are
worked to capacity making aeroplanes
for the allies. the government would
have to take what 1t can get, and the
Iowa factory is the only one in the
country that can handle the order
Harry Shropshire, purchasing agent
for the state boardsof control, is in
ktexus H.. \.