Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-07-05
|0WANS To co FIRST
Department Plans to Send tho
Iowa Guards in First Lot.
RECRUIT TO WAR STRENGTH
Reason for Iowa Guard Being Chosen
Among First Is That Its Brigade
May B. Used to Supplement
Illinois Brigade.

way D. USED 10 supplement
illinois Brigade.
Des Moines.-The Iowa National
Guard will in all probability form g
part of the first 100000 troops which
the war department plans to send tC
France, according to information re
ceived by the state guard officials.
1t has been definitely decided thai
the next big expeditionary force sem
to France will be made up of nationa
guard troops. General Pershing's di
vision of $4,000 to $4,000 men viii! first
be sent. This force is now being mob
ilized. The next step will be to or
ganize three to five national guart
divisions for service abroad.
The reason Iowa guardsmen stand
the best chance of going in the first
contingent is that its brigade will be
needed to supplement the two bri
gades of infantry in the Illinois ma
tional guard to form division. There
are now but two organized divisions
of the national guard, those OF New
York and Pennsylvania.
There are enough national guard
troops now to form seven divisions
| but they are not organized into d.
visional units. This will be done
when the troops are modified in the
south and southeast.
When the national guard IS called
out July Is, July 25 and August ., all
organizations will be assembled in
state mobilization camps for a short
period until the southern tented camps
are ready. While in state camps they
will be expected to recruit to wal
strength. The divisions will be form
ed when they concentrate in the south
State Builds Many Bridges.
Fifty-seven contracts for bridge
| construction in the state amounting to
$755, 1922 were approved from March
10 to April "a by the highway com
mission. The number of contracts
for bridge construction approved by
the commission since Nov. /, 1916, to-
tails ninety-eight, and the total amount
of such contracts approved, up to ST.,
1868 ,94S.72.
This about equals the amount OF
contracts for bridge construction
which were approved from Jan. / to
July /, 1916. This increase in the
amount of contracts approved in 1917
over those approved for correspond.
ing period in 1916 may be attributed
to several reasons. The reasons sug.
costing themselves are: A greater
building program, increased price of
material and labor, or letting of con.
tracts earlier in the season. 1t Is
probable that the last named reason
is responsible for the greater part of
the increase reported.
Indications at present do not indi.
cate that boards of supervisors are
cutting down their building programs
on account of industrial conditions,
though it is evident that public SER
vice corporations and others are be.
ginning to restrict their improve
ments to those that are necessary for
continued service.
Appraisers Named to Buy Land.
A board to appraise and condemn
800 acres of land adjoining Camp
Dodge for additional military train.
ing grounds was named by Attorney
General Havner as follows: George
E. Call. Sioux City; Alfred E. College,
LeMars; Smith Brookhart, Washing.
ton; James F. Harvey, Leon; r. B.
Wallace, Souncil Bluffs, and w. H.
Schumacher, Des Moines.
The recent legislature authorized
the purchase of this land for train.
ing the military forces of the stale
and is needed now.
Road Patrol In Effect July a.
Considerable interest is being mani
tested in the Foster road patrol law
and inquiries are being sent to state
officials as to when 1t goes into effect.
This law will take effect July 4th.
Under this law boards OF supervis.
ors must appoint road patrolmen who
will have charge of certain roads
which they must keep in repair.
Polk County In Lead.
There are but II counties in Iowa
which do not contain one or more
paroled convicts, according to map in
the office of the Board of Parole in
which those counties having at least
one parOled man are marked with col.
ored pins. Polk county has the high.
est number, about 80.
Delay Naming Of Board.
Charles Witt, Governor Harding's
secretary, reports that Harding will
delay appointing an arbitration board
for settlement of the strike of the Fl.
Dodge tile and brick makers, pending
an attempted settlement by the com.
missioner of labor, A. l.. Urick.
More Liquid Than Food.
People who buy the Union Cabinet
brand Of canned hominy may expect
to get soup instead of solid food.
The dairy and food department has
examined can Of this hominy and
found that it contains one pound and
one-fourth ounce of hominy and one
pound and three-fourths ounce of liz.
uid. This makes the label on the can
misleading and the department has
notified inspectors to prevent its sale
The food department is pushing in.
vestigation Of all canned goods this
spring.
Williamsburg Boy Wins Contest.
First place in the Iowa state fair