Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-06-07

Inc extension department OF tHe
state agricultural college at Ames re-
Gently sent out a call for volunteer
food producers and some thirty thou
sand men and women, boys and girls
Of the state have responded. About
1000 have signed up for farm work,
5000 for garden work, 5000 for can
ming, 1000 for poultry production and
the remainder for active work in seed
selection, pork production. fighting
insect and other pests and health
conservation. Each person enlisting
is sent "V. F. p" badge of honor
and printed instruction to aid him in
his particular line of work.
Good Roads" seems to be the
motto and watch word of the towns
people and farmers in and around
Algona this spring. The business
men of that town and the farmers
near there recently donated their
services and proceeded to gravel two
miles Of road leading into the town.
The Red Cross membership cam
paign in Wapello county resulted in
a list of some 5000 for the county.
The city of Ottumwa alone enrolled
1000. All the banks of Ottumwa are
subscribing to the Liberty loan to the
extent of Onetenth Of their capital
stock.
While erecting a toll line near Far
ragut, r. D. Bush, a telephone line
man of Shenandoah, accidentally
touched live wire and was rendered
unconscious and badly burned. When
a fellow workman attempted to res.
cue him they both fell to the ground
and suffered internal injuries.
According to the announcement
from Red Oak the trial of Rev. Lyn G.
]. Kelly has been set for June. Rev.
Kelly, who is an itinerant evangelist,
is now confined in the Logan Jail, un.
der indictment charging him with the
Villisca AK murders.
Ten years attendance at school
with a record of being neither absent
nor tardy is the record of Miss Kath.
crime Ohlsen, who graduates this
spring from the Ida Grove high
school. 1t would be safe to say that
there are not many girls in the coun.
try who can beat this record.
Oliver Kelso, private in Company
2, First Iowa infantry, died at the
hospital at Fort Des Moines of pneu.
monia. He was taken ill few weeks
ago and sent to the hospital Private
Kelso had enlisted from Charles
City.
Jacob E. Conner, a graduate stu.
dent Of the state university, who has
been serving as United States con.
sui in Petrograd for five years and
is now visiting in Iowa City, declares
that 1t is his opinion that Russia
will fight to the finish and that the
allies can depend on her.
On the first day Of the campaign
to raise funds for the Y. M. C. A.
training camp fund in and around Lo-
gan, more than $3.50 was raised and
about 5000 of this was raised in To-
gan and Magnolia.
Clifford Cole, of Webster City, has
invented a gasoline gauge for auto
mobiles that is proving a gold mine
for him. He received $25, 1000 and a
royalty Of $1,000 a month for a one.
half interest in the invention.
Ten thousand dollars worth of dia.
monds were stolen from the Plath
Brothers jewelry store in Davenport
recently. There were SO stones in the
lot and they ranged in size from halt
a karat to karat and a half
Vinton is going out after a record
in the matter of Red Cross member
ship, for towns of that size. The
membership campaign was only be.
gun recently and six hundred have
already enrolled.
When his car turned over in a
ditch, George Hughes of Council
Bluffs was fatally injured and the
other four members of the party were
badly bruised and shaken up.
The business men Of Pilot Mound
took up subscription recently and
with the proceeds bought a Liberty
bond and Immediately turned It over
to the Red Cross.
For the first time in the history of
Webster City motorcycle policeman
has been added to the police force.
Tnis has been done on account of
the great amount of speeding here
About $4,000 will be expended this
ear at Stewart in sewers, extending
water mains, reservoir and city hall.
A Bigger and Better Stuart" is the
logan OF the city council.
Sheldon has completed the new
100000 high school building. The
'hristian Reformed Dutch church is
build parochial school near their
nurch on Ninth street.
A quarter section Of Carroll county
arm land recently sold for the record
rice of $206 an acre. The farm was
wned by ID. w. Garner of Glidden.
When his automobile struck the end
I culvert and turned over, Lee
Nindrem Of Iowa City was instantly
killed. When he was dragged from
beneath the car his head was crushed
to a pulp.
II the city council so DEGREES, the
streets of Clinton may be paved in the
near future. The city engineer has
estimated that $4,000 or $40, 900 would
cover the costs.
The American flag is wildly cheered
wherever seen in France, according
to word from ID. c. Johnston and Ora.
ham Fisher, Ida Grove men, driving
ambulances there.
The stranger who, when arrested,
Missouri Valley recently, said he
rs a German spy, was adjudged in
and ordered to Clarinda.