Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-03-23
Sends Out Primary instructions.

Sends Out Primary Instructions.
w. s. Allen. secretary OF state, Is
sending out the form of official in
structions for the presidential pref
erence primary election which will
be held April 10.
Among the important instructions
are:
Voters may absent themselves from
their employment for two hours on
election day in order to vote with
out being liable to any deduction from
their salary, but application for such
absence must be made to the employ
er the day before election.
Absent voters may vote by mail
at this election, providing they are
duly registered, where registration Is
required.
Voters who spoil the first ballot,
may secure second one; II that be
spoiled, a third may be secured; but
no more than three shall be permit
ted.
Persons who are intoxicated shall
not receive any help from an cleo.
ton official in marking a ballot, or
in operating a voting machine.
Voters shall not remain in voting
booth, or at voting machine more
than FIVE minutes, nor outside the
guard rail for more than ten minutes
and shall leave the voting place i'm.
mediately after voting.
In cities where registration is re
quired by law, the polls shall be open
from a. N. to p. m. and in all
other precincts from 9 a. m. to
p. m.
To Reproduce Frisco Exhibit.
Fred Heathershaw. who construct
ed the horn of plenty, which was the
main feature of the Iowa display al
the Pacific exposition at Sar
Francisco, is figuring with the state
fair board with the view OF reproduc
ing the exhibit at the Iowa fail
which opens Aug. 20.
The board is planning on placing
the horn of plenty in the center Of
the agricultural building, directly In
front of the two center entrances
where it also may be seen to good
advantage from the entrance at the
end of the building. The horn Of
plenty will be forty-fve feet high and
the pile of corn which will flow from
1t will be sixty-five feet wide at the
base. All of the grain and other ex
hibits which were shown at the Sar
Francisco exposition will be display
ed also.
LITER May Be Released.
Henry Furry, after serving thirt!
years in the Iowa prison at Anamosa
may soon be released to enter thu
soldiers home at Marshalltown.
Steps are being taken in behalf o
| the old man. which are expected Il
result in a full pardon for him.
Furry is the most unusual convic
the Iowa authorities have ever known
He was convicted in the Polk coun
ty District court OF the murder OF hi
brother-in-law, using an ak. He serv
ed thirty years of the sentence with
out making application for pardon
or Communication of sentence.
He saw hundreds of convicts en-
ter the prison and leave by the parol,
route, but never asked questions con
corning the system Officers of tn
prison became interested and calle'
the attention OF the state officials Z
him.
Barney Favors State Diaries.
| In an address at the quarterly cor
ference of state institution heads a
the board OF control rooms, w.
| Barney, state dairy commissioner
urged the institutions to pay more a
tention to dairying and especially I
put trained men in charge of tn
herds. The dairy business in conne'
ton with state institution can b
made to yield profits, he said
Plenty of Seed Corn
Iowa institutions under the boar
OF control have plenty OF good see
corn. the superintendent reported q
their conference at the Office of tn
board. Most of the institutions hay
farms in connection.
Seed corn and dairy herds were diI
cussed by the executives.