Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-31

Incomplete reports from 3o7 cream
cries in Iowa indicate that this state
produced 1OO,Oo0,OOO pounds of butter
in the year ending July /, 1916, &C
cording to letter being sent to in
spectors of the dairy and food COM
mission by W. B. Barney, commission
| er. This will show a gain Of 10000
900 pounds over the year previous.
The value of the Iowa butter produc-
ed last year was about $32,000,000. A
big percentage of this butter was
shipped out of the state. Iowa but
! ter has sold a few cents a pound
above the market price at all times
during the last year. The Iowa but
ter trademark is now getting into use
and it is expected to bring even high
er prices for the Iowa product. The
| cooperative creamery at Alta Vista
is the third plant to qualify for the
use of the Iowa trademark. 1t can
be used on only such butter as rates
| SO per cent or better. -FOUR other
plants now are ready for inspection,
having applied for the use of the Iowa
mark.
Another military funeral has been
held in the Iowa camp on the Next
| can border. Second Lieutenant Peter
Hendrickson of Battery A, Clinton,
dropped dead of heart disease while
en- route to San Benito. The funeral
was held at the Methodist church in
Brownsville, Major Johnson, chaplain
of the Second infantry, preaching the
sermon. At the autopsy twenty-four
| officers and men who were with Hen
| erickson on the train testified he
said: 81 feel am going to faint" and
| fell over dead. His brother, Emil
| Hendrickson, Is a sergeant in the
same battery. He accompanied the
90 years old and had been married a
| year.
Regardless of the fact that spring
shooting is forbidden in Iowa and the
game laws are growing more string
ent each year, the number of hunt
ing. The receipts from hunters IL
censes indicate there was an increase
of $4,000 hunters in Iowa last year.
The receipts from the issuance of
hunters licenses at the rate of 81
each, for the biennial period ending
July /, 1914, were $4,000. The re-
ceipts for the biennial period ending
July /, 1916, were 100000. This in
dicates that the average number Of
hunters in the state in 1913 and 1914
| fiscal years was $500 and for the S.
eel years of 1915 and 1916 the aver.
age was 10000.
A party Of about 100 agriculturists,
business men and newspaper CORE
spondents from New Orleans will Wis.,
It Iowa to study crop conditions here.
The purpose OF the tour, states J. z.
George, acting general manager of the
New Orleans Association of Com
merce, is to study the advanced farm
ing and dairying methods used by the
farmers in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa
and Missouri with view to using the
information thus gained in prompting
scientific farming in the agricultural
sections of Louisiana. The visitors
will stop first at Waterloo. From
there they go to Des Moines, then
| to Ames.
A. Vosberg, penniless when he came
! to America In 1884, who worked for
! s1.10 day for the Rock Island rail-
for twenty-three years, keeping his
for twenty-three years,ke eping his
family and saving enough in the
meantime to buy a farm, carried a
bag of gold home with him recently
after marketing carload of wheat
and silver enough to total 81, 02S. The
best wheat yielded forty bushels an
acre. He received record price.
$l.3S per bushel.
| While attending a circus at Iowa
] City with his wife and daughter, May.
or George w. Koontz, who is past 70
years of age, was overcome for the
second time this summer by the heat.
He collapsed in the big tent as he
sat watching the performance, but re.
vived on being carried out of doors
and was taken to his home In an auto
mobile, where his condition is much
improved. Mayor Koontz was former
~ minority leader on the floor Of the
Iowa house OF representatives.
Over 200 members of the Iowa As
ISOLATION for the Advancement of the
Deaf sat intently interested in ad-
dresses given by word of mouth and
by the manual method before the
opening sessions of the state conven-
ton of that body, held in Des Moines.
those speakers unfamiliar with the
language of the deaf, whose speeches
were interpreted by Prof. r. e. Stew
art of the Iowa School for the Deaf
at Council Bluffs.
A $1,000 fire wiped out more than
half the business district of Milo, in
Warren county. The blaze started in
c. d. Monroe's meat market and
spread to and destroyed J. c. Twins
jewelry store, ]. M. Emmons' grocery
and department store and C. A. Rim.
quist's restaurant. The local fire
fighters were hampered in blocking
the fire, the only equipment being
buckets and hand extinguishers.
Racing automobiles along country
road cost the life of Roy McCorkle
nineteen, seriously injured j. w. and
Mrs. McCorkle and hurt the two young
McCorkle girls near Cedar Rapids.
The McCorkles, who are farmers liv.
ing near Covington, were racing with
another car and overturned.
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