Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-07-05


many. The money was left to rela-
tives in Germany by Mrs. Mary
Grumme Turner of Marshalltown, who
died short time ago. Her second
husband, George A. Turner, was
named executor of the fund and he ap-
piled to the district judge for per-
mission to invest the money in Lib
erty bonds, as it was impossible to
communicate with the heirs on &C.
count of existing conditions.
Potato planting and culture is to
be the only sport allowed at the new
Manchester country club. This club
was organized by the members of the
acres of ground near the city were
donated by the president of the or
ganization with the condition that it
be used for the raising of some USE
full crop and that no labor be hired.
The business men of the town planted
the potatoes themselves and will do
all the work Of cultivation.
Fifty-nine millions is tho amount
Iowa should subscribe to the Liberty
bond fund, according to Watkin n.
Kneath, chairman of the Liberty loan
distributing committee for the state.
The state has been divided into
eighteen districts by the Federal Re-
serve bank under which the Liberty
bond committee is working. Each
county in each section will have a
separate organization.
The first group of non-commissioned
officers who are candidates for COM
missions in the regular army have
arrived at Fort Des Moines. These
men are non-commissioned officers in
the Tenth cavalry of the regular army
and are the men who won fame in the
Carrizal massacre in Mexico last
year.
The price of Carroll county real
estate is still on the rise. Adolph Ko-
tas sold his eighty-acre farm, two
miles south of Glidden, to S. G. Lath-
rop for $3.50 per acre. Eleven years
ago the same piece Of property chang
ed hands for $50 per acre. The in.
crease in value was in part due to
the thing done in the last few years.
The war department has ordered
Captain NJ. C. Mumma, commandant
Of the cadets at the state university,
to report to Fort Russell, Wyo., imme-
diately after the close of the school
year. He will aid in training two new
regiments Of recently recruited cav.
airy which have been sent there to
be prepared for active service.
-Four Mile creek near Des Moines
recently jumped from a five foot
stream to flood half mile in width
during the heavy rains and forced
about two hundred people living in
the lowlands along the stream to
leave their homes and seek shelter on
the higher ground.
The little town OF Otley is not 60
ing to be at the foot of the list of
towns in the state in the matter of
subscriptions to the army Y. M. C. A.
fund. At q recent meeting held there
$160 was raised and a campaign
started in the surrounding territory
to raise Q lot more.
q
OF the old time river towns of the
state, show that in 1873 -four was sell.
ing for 1925 hundred; wheat 81 per
bushel; corn 25 cents to % cents
bushel; butter ~ to Is cents a pound;
lard s cents eggs 10 cents dozen
and potatoes 20 to 40 cents a bushel.
While working for the Bell Tele-
phone company at Greene Island, Ne.
braska, Charles Torrey, the only son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Boyd OF Boone,
sustained broken back in a fall from
a telephone pole. Relatives hurried
to his bedside, but it is feared that he
will not live long.
The ambulance corps units organ
lied recently at the State university
are to be examined by Captain Ed.
ward G. Huber, of the regular army
medical corps, now stationed at Fort
Smelling. AS soon as examined the
university units will be assigned to
duty with some of the regular corps.
r. ]. Twitchell of Des Moines was
the driver of the automobile which
struck and killed James Thomas re-
Gently. Although it was in many ways
an unavoidable accident and Twitchell
was driving slowly he was bound over
to the grand jury on a charge of man
slaughter.
Several million pike will sQon be
sent to Maquoketa by the state game
warden, in response to a request from
the citizens of Jackson county. The
fish will be used to replenish the
depleted waters of the Maquoketa riv-
er.
+ Harrison county is planning to dis.
tribute $4,000 worth of Liberty
bonds.
An explosion OF unknown origiS
wrecked the Newton municipal gas
plant recently. w. E. Carpenter and
Emmett Mcclure. employees OF the
plant, were badly burned about the
face and arms and the plant was COM
pletely wrecked. The loss is esti-
mated at close to 25,000
Reports from the vicinity of Rock
Rapids indicate that the corn pros.
poets are excellent Although the
weather has been rather cool for corn,
1t has not appeared to affect this crop
as much as was expected. The acre
age of corn is somewhat larger than
last year.
Registration day was very quiet
one all over the state, and the only
demonstrations were those of a patri-
otto nature. No disturbances were re.
ported and the total registration for
the state is expected to go far beyond
expectations.
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