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


fields the first day of the high water.
When the water began to rise Mr..
Johnson and his boy and hired man
went across the inundated fields to
get the cattle. The COW referred to
was wading toward the Johnson home
and her calf was following The calf
got tangled up in barbed wire fence
and began to bawl for its mother. The
old COW, hearing the calf, went back,
ducked her head under the water and
caught the wire on her horns and rails
ed it up, releasing the calf.
According to the statements OF
bankers from various parts of the
state at their annual convention in
Des Moines recently the crop condi-
tons over the state are excellent.
They report that the people in their
respective communities have money
and are spending it and that business
conditions are normal. The only
thing they mention as bad feature
of conditions is too much rain.
At the annual encampment of the
G. A. r. veterans in Davenport it was
voted to hold the 1918 meeting in Des
Moines. j. l.. harrington OF Iowa
Falls was elected commander of the
and drum corps led by Joseph Deemer,
so years old, created great enthusiasm
in the parade in Davenport.
David Elrenberg. a merchant OF
Sioux City, has meen arrested by
agents of the federal department of
justice, charged with selling liquor
to the Indians. There has been good
deal Of liquor furnished the Indians
lately and the federal authorities are
endeavoring to stop it,
Six hundred and eighty-three thou
sand dollars was subscribed by Ma
rion county for the Liberty loan
against an allotment of $4,000. The
county also raised S3,700 at a special
meeting in Knoxville for the benefit
of the Red Cross.
The city of Dennison has purchased
20 acres of ground, a large college
building and large dormitory, prop
erty of the Dennison Normal school.
"he city will use the property as a
Junior college for college preparatory
work.
At their annual meeting in Des
Moines the optomotrists of the state
elected C. N Patrick of Monticello,
president of the association for the
coming year.
John z. Hughes of Boone has been
arrested charged with reasonable
conduct. He was wearing a badge
which read, mot a man nor a dollar
for war"
Red Cross kits are being made in
large quantities by the women of Har-
rison county and will be shipped soon
to the various mobilization and train
ing camps Of the country.
All athletic schedules for next year
will be carried out as usual at Grin.
nell college, according to the an
nouncement by the head of the ath-
letic department.
James Berry of Belle PLANE was
killed and his two companions serious.
ly injured when as they were return.
ing from a dance, their auto ran off
a bridge.
Tho thirty-six men composing the
Ames ambulance corps are now in AL
lentown, Pa, receiving training for
their work in France, where they will
be sent soon.
Dubuque hit the Liberty bond sub.
scription hard and subscribed $780,
goo, several hundred thousand dollars
above the allotted sum.
The fifty-second annual convention
of the Iowa state Sunday School as.
ISOLATION was held at Council Bluffs
recently.
An interesting relic of the Civil war,
sword taken from Confederate
captain, is on exhibition at the Iowa
Soldiers home at Marshalltown.
Mrs. c. ]. Core of Audubon was ter
ribly burned as the result of the ex-
plosion of a gasoline stove and died
three hours after the accident.
The board of supervisors at a spe-
cial meeting has arranged to build
100000 worth of bridges in the coun-
t. during the year 1917.
A special election will be held at
Dixie July to vote on a proposition
TO issue bonds in the sum of $4,000
for a new school house.
The streets of Oxford Junction,
which were recently treated to a
heavy coating of oil, remained in good
condition through the heavy rains.
Membership in the McGregor Red
Cross chapter has passed the 500
mark A thousand members by July 4
is the slogan.
Massena has organized Red Cross
chapter and at the first meeting 10
mem bers were secured
Although the army "Y" allotment
for Greene is $1,000. 1t is expected
that more than $4,000 will be sub
scribed
When his automobile turned over
near Eldon, c. A. Saunders, travelling
salesman for the Des Moines Auto
Supply company, was instantly killed.
Taylor county expects to raise con.
siderable more than the $4,000 allot-
mont for the "Y" fund. A committee
Of fifteen has been appointed.
The Y. NJ. C. A. fund campaign has
been started In Osceola county with
good success. Sibley responded gen
frously.
Col C. c. Ballou in command of the
Negro training camp at Fort Des
Moines has received word from the
war department 10 enlist a field hos
pital and ambulance corps at FIT. Des
Moines.
W. F. Baker, farm hand near Mar
shalltown, appeared at a bank and