Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-07-19

III lCSelI ana gldnCe al llsl o!
some of the material needed in its
construction will give an idea of the
gigantic task. 1t will take 26,000,00e
feet of lumber, 20 carloads OF nails
and hardware, 60 carloads or roofing,
five miles of railroad siding, and five
thousand barrels of cement
The movement started some time
ago to put stained glass memorial win
dows in the Little Brown Church"
at Bradford, immorialized by the song
Little Brown Church in the Vale"
has aroused great deal of protest
from all over the country, as it is
thought that modern stained glass
windows would be out Of keeping with
the rest of the old church.
About a thousand negroes have
started training at Fort Des Moines
and have taken the federal oath.
These men are from the colored regi-
ments of the regular army and from
civil life, and are in training for COM
missions to take charge of the 10000
colored troops that will be included
in the first draft army. Many of these
men are college graduates.
A membership campaign for the
Navy League of the United States
is to be started in Iowa soon and Of
icers are to be located in every
county. This league is composed of
civilians who will carry on the work
of securing recruits for the navy af-
ter it is necessary to call all of the
enlisted men and officers to active
duty on shipboard.
The soldiers in training at Camp
Dodge this fall will have the benefit
of eight Y. VI. c. A. buildings, fully
equipped for their use. The buildings
will be larger than the ones erected
at Brownsville last summer. One
building will be required for each s..
600 men. Des Moines preachers will
have charge of the Sunday sermons
at the camp.
Red Cross auxiliary to the Nc
Gregor chapter has been organized at
North McGregor. The membership to.
tails 50. Clayton county's quota of the
Red Cross fund is 5000. 1t is ex-
pected that this will be oversub-
scribed.
Des Moines banks which have had
notices of various kinds in foreign Ian
guages posted in conspicuous places
have taken them down. This is in
conformity with the movement for one
language, the American.
A man giving the name of Wilson
has been arrested at Council bluffs
for investigation relative to a sus-
pected plot on the part of Germans in
this country to sell court plaster i'm.
pregnated with disease germs.
Twelve hundred dollars worth of
liquor was siezed by state officers near
Baskerville recently. The liquor was
being shipped into the state in % au-
tos from Ceylon, Mimi, and consisted
OF whisky, wine, gin and alcohol.
Miss Ruth Kreiger of Burlington,
who recently took the civil service ex-
animation, has been ordered to report
at Washington July l, the order COM
ing from General Crozier of the ord
nance department.
Charles A. Fraser, director of the
Ell Kahir shrine band of Cedar Rapids
has been appointed to the position
OF bandmaster of the Third Iowa in.
fantry band.
DR.. c. S. Kennedy, chairman of the
big financial drive to be conducted at
Logan, has appointed his committee
and the Red Cross canvass is meet
ing with success.
The city finances of Davenport are
in bad shape and the mayor and coun.
Gil are making an endeavor to map
out an economy program.
Grandma Newell, 81 years old of
Waukon, has done her bit by knitting
pair Of yarn socks for the Red
Cross supplies.
A new Red Cross chapter has been
established at Bellevue. DR.. E. A,
Hanske is president. A membership
canvas will be launched.
Plans have been laid for the intens-
i've organization of Henry county
along Red Cross lines. Active work
has begun.
The construction of the wooden city
that will house the 10000 conscripts at
Camp Dodge will be in charge of Maj.
NJ. A. Butler of ST. Paul.
The town of Dana with a population
OF 200 has Red Cross membership
of ia
Forty bridges and culverts in Van
Buren, county were washed out in the
recent hard rains.
The oiling of the streets in West
Branch has been completed and the
work of oiling between there and
Springdale has been commenced.
Delegates in attendance at the
Iowa A. o. U. w. convention at Du.
buque voted to buy $4,000 worth of
Liberty loan bonds.
Plans are being perfected for a
county wide food conservation cam
paien in Grundy county.
In an auto tour of Clinton county
subscriptions TO the Liberty Loan in
the sum of $4,000 were secured.
Woodbine and the farmers along
its rural routes subscribed s1,146 to
the army "Y" fund.
Three men have been arrested at
Waterloo and held under bonds for
failure to register on June 8.
A campaign has been started by
the county agent of Webster county
to prevent hog cholera outbreaks in
that county. He is urging the farm.
ers to act at once upon the discovery
of the first symptoms of the disease.
According to instruction received
from Washington the ambulance unit
organized at the State University has
been ordered TO report at once to Al