Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-10-05

Regular army officers of Browns
Vile district headquarters have as
sured General Hubert A. Allen that
the Iowa troops will be sent home in
. short time. When General Allen
communicated the headquarters as.
surance to his men. the guardsmen
Joined in a wild outburst of cheers.
1t IL reported that the Georgia and
South Carolina troops are scheduled
to replace the Iowa and Virginia
troops in the Brownsville district. At
General Parker's headquarters it was
stated that no definite information re.
garding any intended movement Of
the Iowa troops north had been re.
ceived. The feeling there however,
was that the three regiments would be
ordered home soon to give place to
some of the other 10000 troops being
sent to the border.
The Iowa Soldiers home at Mar
sha,ltown has $50 men who had par
ticipated some war, as learned by, the
semi-annual muster made by Lieut..
Col. o. X. Marshall, of Dayton, o., as
sistant national inspector general.
The muster OF soldiers homes are
made by the government for the pur.
pose of obtaining the amount the gov.
eminent must pay the state toward
the care of veterans who have been
under fire in some war. Regular
army soldiers who have never par
tfcipated in a war are not included In
the government support fund of 500
annually per capita. With the wo'
men members. and few other men
who were never In war. the home has
8l1 members.
Ground has been staked OF for the
foundation Of the new college hos
pital to be erected at Iowa State col
lege. Work ON the new structure
viii be started as soon as plans are
completed in the, Office of the state
architect. The building will cost in
tho neighborhood of $4,000. Owing
to the increasing number of women
to enroll at Iowa State, it is becoming
necessary to construct additional
aOi AAiIOLy IOOul. hO lOuiudllOu lOi
another dormitory will be started in
perhaps another month. 1t will cost
about $4,000 and will be south of the
new dormitory which was completed
this summer. The new building will
be smaller than the recently complet-
ed structure.
District Judge Hubert Utterback OF
Dies Mcspes, delivered to Sheriff John
Griffin court orders calling for the
destruction of 3.944 quarts of beer
and 720 pints Of whiskey. The booze
was dumped into the Des Moines
river by deputies from the sheriff's
Office. This vast quantity Of beer and
whisky. which is by far the largest
amount ever destroyed in Des Moines
at one time, represents the residue OF
the six carloads which were seized
at the Rock Island depot a month ago.
Hundreds of Ames, Des Moines and
other neighboring people were pres
emit at the dedication of the Mary
Greeley hospital at Ames, which Cap
tain Wallace NJ. Greeley, reputed
Story county's richest citizen. built
at cost of $4,000. Captain Greeley
gave the city a warranty deed for the
magnificent monument, and also per-
sonal cneck for $4,000 toward the
equipment and furnishing. Mr.. Gree.
ley built the hospital in memory OF
his late wife.
The Perkins scholarship at Har.
ward university paying $500 a year
for four years, has been awarded to
Carl Samuelson of Shenandoah. He
win enter the academic course at
Harvard preparatory to taking a
course in medicine. The scholarship
10 granted to graduates OF accredited
high schools in the territory served
by the Burlington railroad. There is
only one scholarship given for the
state at large.
Miss Edith Lidd, a student in a
Chicago musical institute lost 800 by
the failure of one of the ten private
banks In Chicago. Miss Lidd, who is
at her home in Shenandoah because
of sickness, received word that the
bank where she had her funds had
closed its doors. She will probably
not be able to return to the school
this term.
A few steel pen points in the vest
pocket Of Carlyle Crane. at Knoxville.
probably saved his life when he acct
lentally shot himself as he picked
up rife by the open end OF the bar
rel. The bullet struck the pen points
near his heart but was DETECTED up
ward, leaving q bad wound.
Twenty-seven counties will be or.
ganized for the prevention and con-
troll Of hog cholera in the state this
year. The work will be done through
federal agents.
In Anamakee county one stock buy
Ing firm bought nearly $4,000 worth
OF cattle in one day recently. The
cattle were purchased from farmers
in the vicinity.
c. W. Owens of Lake City, again
topped the Chicago market with a
car OF cattle Of his own feeding and
raising. This is the fourth carload
Mr.. Owens has shipped in the last
thirty months and every car has top,
ped the market at the time OF ship.
ment. His shipent of last June sold
20 cents per hundred above the top
OF the market. The last bunch
brought an average of s11.10 per hun.
dred. Eight of these animals went 20
cents per hundred over top prices.
Thirty.two head OF the shipment OF
December, 1919, went to New York
City market. t
Just recently twenty.nine cars OF
stock were shipped from Keokuk
county to the Chicago yards. Twenty.