Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-09-21

The higher prices for foodstuffs is
causing the state board of control
considerable concern, inasmuch as
the board has to contract for food
supplies for 10000 persons who are in
the state institutions. Especially
large amounts of -four and potatoes
are used. The board expects to let
the contract within few weeks for
$4,000 barrels of -four and from fifty
to sixty thousand bushels of potatoes.
II the board is able to buy potatoes
at 81 per bushel it will expend about
100000 for its supply Of spuds. Large
quantities OF meat, butter and similar
products are also consumed at the
state institutions. Many of the in
mates who do considerable outdoor
labor are big meat eaters. The board
expects to let its contract for a years
supply of meat within a few days.
This is contracted for and is then de-
livered as needed. In some seasons
the board has been able to buy po-
tatoes as low as so cents. bushel,
which means from $4,000 to $4,000
less than will be paid this year.
A fifty mile stretch of gravel road,
connecting the Lincoln highway and
the River-to-River road, is one of the
projects taken up by the Perry Bureau
of Commerce and which will be car
r.ed out this fall. The road is to be
not only graveled and put in the best
of condition for tourists but is to be
plainly marked throughout Its entire
length and registered under an appro-
pirate title with the secretary Of
state. The plan Is to start the road
at Beaver or Ogden on the Lincoln
highway. pass through Perry and join
the River-to-Riyer road at Guthrie
Center. West bound tourists over the
Lincoln highway will find the route
between the junction point and Oma-
ha shortened by a considerable dis
tanoe in addition to having better
roads.
Tho establishment of a psychopath-
ic hospital at the state university at
Iowa City in connection with the medi-
cal school, received the unanimous in
dorsement Of the superintendent of
the Iowa institutions under the state
board OF control, recently at the state
house. Col ]. H. McConlogue, mem
Der OF the state board, was one of
those who gave the strongest indorse-
ment to the proposed hospital In
his opinion\the state legislature at the
next session should make an adequate
appropriation for this purpose. Be-
tween 100000 and 100000 may be
needed, he said.
Messrs. Chi Chun Lin and Flu Liu,
two of the fifty-five students who are
being sent this year from Using Hua
college OF Picking, China, to colleges
in the United States, by the Chinese
government, will register at Iowa
State college this year. Word to this
effect has just been received by
President Pearson from the president
of the Chinese institution. Mr. Lin
will study chemical and ceramic enc
cheering, and Mr.. Liz viii enroll in
agriculture.
Norman D. Scott and Robert M.
Stephenson. who won Rhodes schol-
arships. expect to sail for England
soon to enter Oxford university. Nor
man d. Scott is graduate of Drake
University. Robert M. Stephenson is
a graduate of Depauw university in
Indiana. The scholarships cover a
three years course and $1,000 per
year. SCOTS grandfather was Nor
man Dunshee, who for years was pro-
lessor of ancient languages at Drake.
Mrs. George Wallace of st. Charles,
cleared 1925 in the course of last
year, raising turkeys as sideline to
her domestic duties. She sent to Ohio
for pure bred stock. About so per
sent OF the eggs Matched. The young
turkeys we're domiciled in large
came she bled and plucked the birds
thus increasing their value about 5
cents a pound. She marketed 1852
pounds of turkey in Des Moines.
Katharyn Kennedy, 20 years old,
daughter of John P. Kennedy and
riece OF Congressman Charles A.
Kennedy, is i'll at her home in Mon
trose with infantile paralysis. She
was teaching school at Denmark and
contracted the disease there. She
was brought home and the disease de-
veloped with paralysis of the lower
limbs.
Frank o. Lowden, former Iowan,
and graduate Of the law department
OF the State university of Iowa, is
the Republican nominee for governor
OF Illinois with a plurality of more
than $4,000 over the two other Re-
publican candidates.
Edward l.. Brown, the new president
of the Minneapolis & st. Louis rail
road, was brought up in the railroad
business at Pclla. He has been in
the railway service for long time.
He was head of the Denver & Rio
Grande for several years.
c. T. Simmons, assistant cashier of
the Ames National bank. has been ap-
pointed state bank examiner. Mr.
Simmons will make his headquarters
at Cedar Rapids, and win have as
his territory the eastern and south.
eastern parts of the state. The new
state bank examiner has been with
the Ames National bank for the past
three years, coming there from Macks-
burg.
Iowa City which lost $4,000 revenue
when the saloons closed, has been able
to overcome the loss of that money
each year and this season has reduced
It's tax levy from ~ to AIS mills.
An infantile paralysis scare which
developed with the ouarantining of q
case Of the disease In Iowa City cut
the attendance at the opening day of