Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-05-04

figured at December / prices, was
S40S, 166,s03; dairy products, $4,000;
poultry and eggs, 900, and wool,
s1,500,000. This gives total of $685.
666,903 for the value OF farm products
produced last year. The total value
OF the live stock on farms January
this year was $451, 500 900. This
gives a grand total of farm products
and live stock of s977.265, 1903, or very
close to billion dollars.
The board of supervisors of Craw-
ford county has let contracts for per-
manent road work for $4,000 to be
done this season. This will move
about 144,370 yards of dirt and add
some fourteen miles to the permanent
roads Of this county. Last year If
teen miles OF such road was made.
The county will receive $4,000 from
the automobile tax. The board has
also let bridge contracts amounting
to $4,000 and the bridges with the
new road work will add materially to
the improvement OF the roads in this
county.
The Clay County Improvement as
ISOLATION is making a thorough effort
to see that every grain of corn plant
ed in the county will grow. Farmers
are urged to test every ear. Howev-
er, for those who are too busy to do
this the organization performs the job
at cost Of about so cents a hundred
ears. The plan is to take six grains
from each ear and if the six kernels
do not grow the ear is discarded. The
rag doll tester has been explained in
eight farmers institutes in Clay coun-
ty.
Prof. Robert Rienow, dean of men
at the State University, has issued a
statement calling upon the students
and faculty members to subscribe to
a relief fund for the students who
lost their belongings in the recent
dormitory fire. Many Of the fellows
were working their way through the
university and none of them had any
insurance on their personal belong
ings. High school students have sub
scribed about $40 for Henry Ander-
son, high school boy who lost his
belongings.
City authorities at Washington be-
lieve they have solved the tramp prob
lem. No longer do tramps annoy
housewives because of the establish
ment of a municipal bureau to take
care Of mendicants and adoption of
system whereby each applicant for
assistance is put to work on the road.
A ticket good for a meal is given
with each half days work. Two weeks
after the order went into effect neigh
boring towns began to complain that
the "hoboes" were avoiding Wash
ington and coming there.
While Edward Paltani is fighting
with the Italians somewhere in Aus
tria" against the Teutonic allies his
wife is working at a switchboard at
the Fort Dodge telephone office earn
ing a living for herself and seven
months old baby. Edward Paltani is
first class sergeant in the automo-
bile artillery and enjoys fairly lib
eral wage for fighting. OF the
amount. the Italian government makes
a payment monthly to Mrs. Paltani,
of twenty-three cents per day for her
expenses.
The body Of the unknown man who
lost his life near the Altoona GEM
etery when strawstack he was sleep
ing in burned some three weeks ago,
was buried without being identified.
Under the law the authorities are
compelled to hold a body found, for
Identification, for forty-eight hours.
The remains of the unknown were
buried in the potter's field of Laurel
Hill cemetery at Des Moines.
Sergt. Maj. John Hay is back in his
old home at Grand Junction wearing
a distinguished service medal won by
his bravery in the British trenches in
Flanders. Hay was wounded in the
great allied drive in September and
has been spending most of his time
since in the hospital. He is now on
relief duty, recruiting troops in Mani
toba.
Waite Philips. an old time Knox
vile boy and son-in-law of ]. B. FL
lott, president OF the Knoxville Ma
tional bank, is striking it rich in the
Oklahoma oil fields. He is living at
Okomulgee, Okla, and has been drill
ing in that vicinity. According to
word received recently by Mr.. Elliott
a gusher has been struck which made
800 barrels of oil day.
The board of supervisors OF Buena
Vista county has let contracts for the
grading and draining of sixty-seven
miles Of county roads this year and
for crawling thirty miles. The plan
is to complete the graveling Of the en-
tire county road system In three years,
issue bonds within eight years without
any increase in taxation.
Harry Bunting, who came to Logan
and married young lady last Febru-
airy and later went to Minneapolis,
where he was apprehended and
brought to Logan by Sheriff M. d. N.Y.
ers, was taken before Judge Arthur
and entered plea Of guilty to the
charge of bigamy. He was given
FIVE years at Anamosa reformatory.
Word has been received at Ottum-
wa from Washington. d. c.. that the
federal internal revenue collecting Of
flee, discontinued July 1, 1915, will be
re-established at once. Ottumwa has
large number of cigar manufacture
ers who will chiefly benefit from re-
establishment of the revenue station.
II is anticipated that half Of the $780,