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

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Dodge are sixty-five soldier lads iso-
lated and lonely. They are clad in the
regulation olive drab uniform but they
/ are without commanding officers or
| company organization. No dress pa
rades, drills or field maneuvers break
the monotony of their colorless exist
ence. Since the other troops left for
the border their daily program has
consisted chiefly of the thrilling tasks
of chopping wood or loading and un.
| loading cars at the arsenal. These
are the men President Wilson excused
from service because they had de-
pendent families. The soldiers who
form the present Camp Dodge army
are not slackers. They are men who
took the federal oath in a spirit Of
loyalty. They passed the physical
examination and were ready and
waiting to go to the border-until an
! order from Washington gave them
permission to return to their families.
They are still waiting for the order
that will discharge them from the ar
my.
Plans to reclaim $4,000 acres of fine
counties from the clutches OF the
Skunk river during high water Pc
RODS, which have been in the making
for more than year, are at dead
stand. Petitions of landowners for
drainage district, providing for q
levee along the Skunk river and lat
erals for draining the adjacent land,
have been withdrawn and the work
postponed indefinitely. Supporters Of
the improvement, men who have toll
ed and spent hard dollars in an effort
to promote the project declare they
are not disheartened and will, in the
course of the near future, begin their
work anew.
To provide for family of fourteen
| children on the modest salary of ST.
200, paid by Uncle Sam to a rural mail
| carrier, is the problem that confronts
John c. DAutremont, rural carrier
out of Riverside. DAutremont does
1t, however, and a finer family of chill
dren one would not care to see. More
interesting than ever, in this already
| interesting family, is the fact that the
| father is only AZ years old, the moth
| er, Mrs. Lucy Swift D'Autremont Is
but 3s, and the couple has only been
married seventeen years. The ages of
the children range all the way from
sixteen years down to twin daughters
nine months old.
Mrs. Wilbur Jones, a bride only
since last December, was shot and
instantly killed at her home in Web.
ster City by her brother-in.law, aged
IL years. The lad, who makes his
home at the Odd Fellows home in
Mason City, was visiting at the home
of his brother. He was playing with
20 caliber revolver and the gun
stuck and his sister-in-law tried to
help him. The lad struck the gun q
sharp blow and it was discharged, the
bullet striking Mrs. Jones in the
heart, killing her instantly.
Last years hay crop in Iowa was
valued at $4S,511,00O, which was al
most four times the value of our
wheat crop and more than twice the
value Of our barley, rye, buckwheat,
potato, sweet potato, fiaxseed and ap-
pie crops combined. In fact, the hay
crop last year was worth three.
fourths as much as the oats crop.
which ranked second TO corn. With
hay fully as plentiful and as good this
year the aggregate field crop produc-
ton should come very close to the
half billion dollar mark.
One of the strangest auto accidents
that has occurred in TT. Dodge hap
pened when the big car driven by
George Wright of Eagle Grove ran
backward into the Thompson cloth
ing store. A big plate glass window
was smashed and the car not only
made the jump from the pavement to
the sidewalk, but with its load Of pas
sengers leaped from the sidewalk to
the floor OF the show window, dis
lance Of about twelve inches. Not
one of the passengers was even slight
ly injured.
With the founding of fund for the
relief OF needy commercial travellers
and their families, the selection OF
Chattanooga, Tenn, as the 1917 con-
vention city and announcement that
within three years Bibles would be in
all hotel rooms in the United States,
the national convention of Gideons
ended at Huntington, w. Va. A. B. T.
Moore Of Cedar Rapids was reelected
president A committee of FIVE was
named to formulate plan for a ma
tional home for Gideons to be built
at Chicago.
Corn normal, small grains splendid.
hay crop never better, agricultural
conditions generally excellent; such
Is the Drop report made by a prom
inent Iowa banker, who spent two
weeks on an automobile tour Of north
ern Iowa. The district traversed
comprises thirty counties, lying be.
tween the main line OF the Rock Is
land railroad on the south, Minneso.
Ia boundary line on the north, the
Cedar river on the east and the Mis-
souri, river on the west.
Informations against twenty-one Ke-
okuk men charging violation OF the
state laws against the sale Of liquor
have been fled IN the superior court
there. The informations are the out.
come OF weeks OF detective work by
the Keokuk authorities. Evidence
against the twenty-one was secured
by two paid detectives who made pur-
chases Of liquor.
Demaree Bess, q 1916 graduate
from the liberal arts college Of the
Iowa state university, has gone to
New York, from which port he will
eail TO Athens and on IN Epypt where