Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-01-13

ed through the Des Moines postoffice
in 1915, according to the record of
the stamp cancelling machine used on
first class packages. This is sever
al million more than in 1914. Besides
these there were millions of pack
ages bearing precancelled stamps,
millions of newspapers, photographs,
postcards, magazines, calendars and
parcels post packages. Second class
mail in 1915 weighed 1874 100
pounds, while in 1914 it weighed only
16,5o4,sS1 pounds. The receipts from
second class mail in Des Moines last
year was $1S7,741, while in 1914 it
was s165,049.
Atlantic laid twenty-five blocks of
paving this year at a cost of $1.l4 a
yard, including twenty-one blocks Of
streets and eleven blocks of alleys,
and twenty-one blocks of curbing at
AZ cents a foot. The paving is of
concrete, which has been used in most
of the paving laid there during the
last several years. With the paving
put down this year, Atlantic has eigh-
teen miles Of paved streets and al
leys, by far more paving than any
other city of its size in the west. The
people desire the paving to go on
next year and it is likely that three
or four miles more will be laid In
1915.
With the passing of the saloons
from Waterloo 1t is believed the S5,-
1920 collected in fines by Police
Judge Myers in the twelve months
ending Nov. 30, 1915, will stand as
record for long time. The effect
OF saloon closing is well evidenced
by a comparison of the amount of
the fines collected before and after
the saloons reopened last March. The
fines collected in March nearly equal
led those of the three preceding
months. One-half of the 2,617 arrests
made during the twelve months were
due to drunkenness.
A break in the main steam pipe
leading from the heating plant, which
flooded the county engineers office
in the Iowa City court house with
hot water and steam, occasioned
damage of hundreds OF dollars re-
sulting from woodwork and plaster
warped and loosened by the heat. The
engineers staff had left the room
not Is minutes before. Any one with
in radius of the escaping steam and
hot water could not have escaped
death. Many valuable charts in the
Office OF the engineer were ruined.
Crime Is on the decrease in Des
Moines since the saloons closed.
Grant Henry, clerk of the grand jury,
has filed his annual report showing
SO less indictments were returned in
1915 than in the preceding year. In
1914 there were 37S, last year 2S5.
There were 622 cases investigated in
1914 and COZ last year, decrease OF
20, There were $50 liquor indictments
last year compared with 6S in 1914,
an increase of 62 in 1915. Witness fees
dropped off. $1,453.70 from 1851 in
1914 to s1,697.30 in 1915.
In 1914, according to the govern
ment estimates, Iowa produced 5,319,-
900 pounds of wool, and in 1915 the
production was 100000 pounds, and
the average weight of the fleece was
rs pounds in each case. Iowa stands
fifteenth among the states Of the
union in wool production, being ex-
ceeded by eleven western states, Mis-
souri,, Michigan and Ohio. The aver
age weight of the fleece, rs pounds,
is greater than in all but six other
states, all in the west.
The year 1915 in Waterloo was a
prosperous one. Improvement statis-
tics show that $2,230,000 was spent in
new buildings and other improve
ments. Two hundred and thirty new
buildings were erected, the most i'm
portant being the Leavitt & Johnson
National bank building, ten stories
high, the Plymouth Congregational
church and the new building of the
Black Hawk Fruit company. The city
and public service corporations also
made Intensive improvements.
Two miles OF new paving will be
laid in Rockwell City during 1916,
according to plans now entertained.
There is now about five miles of
paving in the city with about eight
miles of sidewalk. Additions will be
made also to the sewerage system,
which cost $4,000. An evidence OF
the city's prosperous condition is the
fact that between $1,000 and $4,000
is on hand in the treasury.
Uncle Johnnie" Phipps of Farra-
gut, who will be 104 years old in
another month, is confined to his
home with an attack of grip. Mr..
Phipps has always lived an outdoor
life and having to stay inside while
afflicted with the grip is proving irk-
some to him. He was initiated into
the Elks' lodge when 100 years old
Hog cholera has broken out in Dali
las county again, according to the
advices received by the state veter-
marian from the federal agent who
has been in charge of the special gov
eminent fight against the disease in
Dallas county for some time. He
states that the county has been prac-
tically rid Of the disease until this
new outbreak which has infected the
northern part of the county. Eleven
cases have developed recently.
Throughout the state as a whole,
however, there is but very little of
this disease, there being less of it
than for several winters past
Luverne Impson, aged seven, is the
heroine of Auburn and Clayton
Brooks, also aged seven, and his pa
rents, are thanking her for his life.
The children were playing on the
ice on the Raccoon river. The boy
got too close to rifle and fell in. Luz
verne raced down the bank, crawled