Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-06-08
BEHIND IN REPORTS
Many Iowa Corporations Failed
to Report in 1915.
PENALTIES NOW ATTACHED
Secretary Of State Flnds Many Firms
Negligent About Reporting and
Asks Aid Of Attorney General,
to Collect Penalties.


Des Moines.--Henry T. Saberson,
superintendent of the investment d.
vision of the secretary of states office
reports to the department of justice
that 100 corporations of Iowa are de-
linquent in filing reports for 1915. Each
firm is now subject to penalties Of ST..
The total sum which the state may
collect from the firms is $7,739
The state requires each corporation
to make an annual statement to the
secretary of state, giving the officers,
capital, and value of the stock. No
business details are required. A fee Of
81 is required for filing the statement.
Following the filing of the statement
the corporation is issued an annual
permit.
The corporations which do not send
in the report are subject to fine be-
ginning Sept. 1, increasing monthly
thereafter until the statement is in.
Last year 100 corporations neglect
ed to send the statements in question.
Some of the firms probably have ceas-
ed to operate. Nevertheless the Off
GERS of these defunct firms are held
responsible until the corporation is dis
solved and proof of dissolution is filed
at the state house.
The attorney generals office will at
once begin action against the delin-
quents.
The secretary OF states office Is
preparing to send out notices to 10000
corporations to send in annual reports
for the fiscal year ending 1916.
Must File Expense Statement.
Candidates at the primary have
been reminded by the secretary Of
state that they are required to file
with the state a statement Of expenses
incurred in the campaign. Blanks for
making the sworn reports were mall
ed to every man who filed an affidavit
of candidacy.
There are more than 10000 candi-
dates interested in the results of the
primary, including the persons to be
selected as delegates to the county
conventions and the county central
committee. sl
1t is estimated that the candidates
will have spent between 100000 and
$500, 900 IN campaigning, not including
the estimated cost of more than $780,
900 for the primary. This latter item
will be paid by the taxpayers.
The candidates must file the state
ments of campaign expenses with the
secretary of state within ten days
after the primary.
Fighting Impure Ice Cream.
The state food and dairy depart
ment is continuing its activities
against the sale OF ice cream which is
not up to standard. Some ten or
twelve cases have been brought
against ice cream manufacturers over
the state in the past two weeks.
The state law requires that Ice
cream as finished product must con-
tain at least IL percent butter fat and
that the cream from which 1t Is man
ufactured must contain at least fifteen
percent.
One manufacturer was arrested re-
Gently whose product only contained
Sc percent OF butter fat. This would
give him an advantage OF s2.16 on ev-
cry 100 pounds manufactured over his
cost of production II he were to use
cream testing Is percent. ve
Factory Reports Slow.
A. L. Urick, state labor commission
er, has yet been unable to complete
his statistics on manufacturing be-
cause many factories have failed to re-
port. Some 1000 factories have re-
ported but there are yet about 1900
to hear from. The law requires that
these reports be made. 3
Dental Examiner Appointed.
Governor Clarke has appointed
George Brooks of Greenfield, as a
member of the state board of dental
examiners, following recommends
ton made by the State Dental soci-
ETY.. Brooks is appointed for a five
year term, beginning August 1. He
succeeds G. N. Beemer of Mason City.
Prison Industry Profitable.
According to the May report of the
butter tub industry at the. Anamosa
reformatory, $1,000 was taken in du-
ring that period. The board of control
is satisfied this industry will prove
a good investment for the state.
Plan State Dairy Farm.
The state board OF control plans
to spend $1,000 in equipment for it's
dairy at the Flynn farm near Des
Moines. The board expects to pro-
duce certified milk. There are now
thirty-two men at the farm.
MIX Must Meet Standard.
Hotel and restaurant men and also
boarding house keepers cannot serve
skim milk to their guests or boarders
any more. II they do they are liable
to be arrested and fined by the state
food and dairy department The milk
has to at least test four percent but
terfat.
The department just prosecuted q
case at Thompson against a hotel
keeper on the charge of serving milk
that was not up to the standard re-
quired by the state law. He was fined
SIS and costs.
Encourage Sheep Raising.
The state fair board is making an