Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-03
SHORT ON MULES
Iowa Soldiers in Texas Pull
Heavy Loaded Wagons.
BUSY CLEARING OFF CACTUS
Government Has Not Yet Supplied
Mules and Horses to Haul Was.
ons and Ambulances-col.
Bennett Asks for Truck.

Des Moines.-Iowa troops in camp
near Brownsville, Texas, are taking
the place of mules the government
has failed to supply and hauling wag.
ons loaded with cactus. The cactus
had to be hauled. There were TWEEN.
ty-two escort wagons in which to haul
1t. There were no mules or horses,
there were plenty OF soldiers. Forty
troopers had worked two hours push.
ing wagons before rain stopped them.
There are twenty ambulance wag.
cns with no animals to haul them
IF It we're not for the auto ambu.
lances," said Colonel Bennett, eve
would be unable to do even ambulance
work."
Colonel Bennett has asked that the
people of Iowa provide a small truck
for the regiment. The truck Is badly
needed to enable regimental ex
change to be conducted for the bene.
fit of the company funds. There is
no way now Of hauling supplies. Men
are doing sentry duty without cart.
ridge in their rifles and all Of the
soldiers without cots.
These are two notable instances OF
some ones failure to prepare. Militis
officers say it is the war department
No ammunition has been distribute
ed to the men. When the cots will ar.
rive nobody knows. The hay mattress.
es haven't any hay and the men sleep
on the ground with only poncho
and blankets between.
A few scorpions have been found in
tents.
George Bauserman of Des Moines
was bitten by a rattlesnake which
was killed in the tent of Keith Nor.
ton of the machine gun company.
An inch OF rain in less than an
hour, the heaviest in months deluged
the camp.
The field hospital corps, Major Du.
higg, and the ambulance company
under Captain Murphy of Sioux City,
has arrived on the border and gone
into camp quarter of mile west
Of the Third infantry.
Select corey's Assistant.
L. D. Ramsey, estimate clerk for
the state board of control, has been
appointed assistant secretary of the
Iowa board of agriculture to succeed
Clifford Heer, resigned. The salary
of the office 10 $500 per year.
Clifford Heer retires in order to
enter Harvard in the fall as law stu
dent. He has been assistant to A. R.
Corey, secretary of the state fair
board. for two years. having moved
up from file clerk of the Supreme
court. Mr.. Ramsey has been with the
board of control for long period of
years.
The board of control has announced
the following promotions: Miss Mil
dred Ruffner, estimate clerk, 500 per
month; Hildur Stady, filing clerk, $50
per month; Elizabeth Rodgers, parole
clerk, $S3 per month; Anna Greiner,
stenographer, SIS per month.
Revive tuberculosis Publication.
A. E. Kepford, state lecturer on tu-
berculosis, has announced that he
will revive The Campaign, a publica-
ton used by the state board of con-
troll In the fight on tuberculosis.
When Mr.. Kepford left the employ
of the state in 1915 the newspaper
Of the white plague department was
allowed to die. Now that he has re-
turned to his old job, he will begin
publishing The Campaign again.
The lecturer went to Oakdale to
confer with Superintendent Scarbo-
rough, in charge of the state hospital
for tuberculosis, going from there to
the Anamosa reformatory to make ar
rangements for the publication of The
Campaign from the prison printing
plant.
Pharmacy Receipts Increased.
A statement given out by the state
pharmacy commission for the bien-
NAL period from June 80, 1914, to
July /, 1916, shows a gain In receipts
Of $1,135 as compared to the two years
previous. In the past two years the
receipts have totaled s77,566.1S as
compared to s76,431.10 for the years
1912 and 1918. Vendors license fees
constitute the largest single item,
amounting in the past two years to
$65,200.
State Official Injured.
A. M. Deyoe, state superintendent
OF public instruction, suffered sprain-
ed ankle and was considerably shaken
up when an elevator in new school
building he was inspecting at Forest
City fell twenty-five feet into the
basement of the building. Superin-
tendent Charles M. Nevin of the For
est City schools, with whom he was
riding, escaped without serious injury.
Publish Amendment Notice.
Secretary of State w. s. Allen has
sent to two newspapers in each con-
gressional district for official publica-
ton copies of the joint resolution
passed by the last legislature provid-
ing for constitutional prohibition.
This must be published once a week
In two papers In each congressional
district for three months prsceding
the general election.
The constitutional amendment must
be passed by the Legislature next win
ter and then voted on By the people
before 1t becomes q lay.
Joins state Teaeher1 Faculty.
Leslie !. Reed, inspector OF secon-
dairy education for the state board of
education, has resigned that position
TO accept place on the faculty OF
the Iowa State Teachers college at
Cedar FAILS. He will be an adviser Of