Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-07-05
President Hill M. Bell has been re-


en- at the request of the federal gov
eminent. President Bell has been as
ISOLATED with the university almost
since its foundation and was first
elected president in 1908.
Dubuque was chosen as the scene
of the 1918 convention of the harness
dealers of the state at their annual
meeting held in Des Moines recently
Phil Schlatter of DEBORAH was elected
president for the coming year; Harry
Lewis of Walnut, vice president; A.
c. Gregg, secretary and treasurer.
August Feldham, Hartley, was elected
as delegate to the national convention
in st. Louis this summer
Ten thousand dollars in cold cash
was laid down on the counter of Wa.
terloo bank recently by Benjamin
Schultz, a junk dealer of that city,
for the purchase of Liberty bonds.
Schultz. although of alien birth, IS a
loyal American and says that as he
made all of his money in this coun-
try he does not see why he should not
help his country in its time of need.
Seven hundred and fifty dollars
was what it cost Eli Mosenfelder of
Davenport to bring Ida" the Iowa
Red Cross calf, back to the state aft.
er she had been taken to Chicago for
auction. The calf was sent to Chi
cago for auction by Maurice PEARS
of Des Moines, in order that with
the money raised he might purchase
Red Cross memberships for himself
and his nine brothers and sisters.
Franklin township in Marion coun.
ty is going after record in the mat
ter of early bond purchases. The
citizens of the township did not wait
for the campaigners to sell them Lib
erty bonds, but went ahead and sub
scribed S14,150, on their own account.
1t is thought that $4,000 worth of
bonds will be disposed of in the town.
ship.
The city council of Upton has the
cleaning fever and in aGdition to or.
dering general cleanup of the town
has voted to oil about four miles of
Tipton's streets. The council also be.
lieves in passing good thing along
and has agreed to loan the oiler to
West Branch in order that the streets
OF that town may get coating of Oil.
Donald Flynn, the Z year old son
of Mrs. Joe Flynn of Mason City, who
disappeared recently and was found
dead in pile of ties along the Great
Western railroad, nineteen miles
from his home, evidently died from
exposure and not from foul play, az
was first thought. There were no
marks of violence on the body.
John Jenkins of Valley Junction was
arrested by federal authorities follow.
ing his refusal to register. He main.
tanned that he was past the registra.
ton age, but investigation of records
in the county auditors office revealed
that hunters license had been issued
to Jenkins in 1916 on which date he
gave his age as 2S years.
The city of Des Moines registered
total Of 11,137 men for the srvice Of
Uncle Sam. This exceeded the fed.
eral estimate by 100 men. Exemp-
lions were claimed by more than half
OF those who registered and depend.
ent relatives was given by most of
them as a reason for asking exemp.
ton from service.
The burns and other injuries re.
ceived by Wilson F. Carpenter, in the
explosion at the Newton Gas com.
pany plant are likely to result IN his
death. Aside from the burns 1t is
thought that he is injured internally.
The force Of the explosion hurled
him out of the building.
The Des Moines and Raccoon rivers
are on a rampage and are causing a
great deal of damage to crops in the
lOwlands along their courses. MANY
people have been forced to fee from
their homes. A three foot rise of the
Des Moines river took place in twenty
hours.
Roy Allen, IA years old, of Greene,
suffered fractured skull recently
while driving TO school. He was driv.
ing his pony, hitched to a cart. Some.
thing caught in the wheel, frightening
the pony. 1t ran away, throwing the
boy out.
The problem of finding accommoda.
lions for the hundreds of civil war
veterans when they come to Daven.
port to attend their annual state en-
campment, June 1921, has become
serious, according to the announce.
ment of the Commercial club.
Ottumwa registered fifty-nine more
persons on Registration day than the
government had estimated as the
quota for that town. The complete
figures show that 1854 registered while
the estimate was 1895.
Clarence c. Carroll, of Iowa City,
was allowed $3.50 damages against
the Tri-City Railway company. He
was injured in a train-auto accident
last summer.
More than 500 took part in a big
Registration day parade in Newton.
Fire crackers and guns marked the
line of march.
Merchants and professional men OF
Iowa City will be given military drill
this summer by Cadet Major Paul r.
Lockwood of the university.
The young men and women who are
attending the Iowa college for the
blind at Vinton are doing their part
to aid Uncle Sam in his war prepare
tons. Many have joined the Red
Cross chapter and are busy making
soldiers garments and Red Cross ar
ticles.
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