Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-10-17

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wounds during the last week: Charles
E. Hartshorn, Farragut; Alva G. Grow
yer, Council Bluffs; Stanley NJ Krell,
Winterset; Vernice E. Watson, Hazle.
ton; Rennie e. Henry, Villisca; San.
ford A. Severson, Kanawha; Fred T..
Wild. Carbon; Arthur H. Berges, Bur
lington; Laurence F. Cooper, Clarin-
da; Romeo Petty, Council Bluffs; Au-
gust Van Oyen, Fairfield; Leslie w.
Darling, Shenandoah; Louis Weiss,
Woodbine; Elmer Grove. Laddsdale;
Edward Haut, Davenport; Hugo d.
Shultz, Davenport; Hilmer W. Stellar,
Buckeye; Clyde B. Kilgour,. Council
Bluffs; Garland B. Teel, Columbus
Junction; Paul Paulsen, Council
Bluffs.
Des Moines is quarantined. Church
es, schools, moving picture houses.
theaters, dance halls and amusement
places, closed. Club MEETINGS, parties,
private dances and meetings of what
ever sort were asked to be called
OFF" by the city FLU" committee.
Street car riders, motormen, and con-
ductors will be asked as war meas
ure to wear face masks. This recon-
mendation will be made to the Des
Moshes City Railway Co., with
further request that no car be loaded
beyond seating capacity.
A special call for men in the chem.
zeal warfare service of the United
States army, which gives chance
for commissions, has just been issued
by the Iowa Military Training Camps
association. Applicants must be be-
tween 80 and 40 years old. possessed
OF energy executive ability. courtesy
and good character, college education
preferred, and have had some military
training and some knowledge of
chemistry.
Albert Johnson mail clerk in the
Qes Moines postoffice was fired re-
Gently upon his refusal to buy Lib
erty bond. He claimed he had con-
scientious objections to aiding in the
conduct Of war. He is single man.
He has enjoyed deferred classification
because of the fact that he was an
employe of the postoffice. 1t is
thought he will be at once indicted
into the army.
Ten years in the state pen1tentiary
at hard labor was the sentence meted
out in District court to DR.. c. Allen
Snyder, Dubuque physician who was
recently convicted of murder in the
second degree. DR.. Snyder was held
responsible for the death of Mrs.
Grace Wolfe Of Lansing, who died fol-
lowing an alleged illegal operation
said to have been performed
o. w. Witham, prominent lawyer
Of Greenfield, who was recently in
dicted by the federal grand jury in
session in Creston, has given bond of
$4,000 for his appearance in court for
trial, which has been set for the
March term Of court. Witham, who
was formerly county attorney Of
Adair county, is accused of activities
In securing deferred classifications for
draft registrants.
State Health officers have been no.
titled by the Surgeon General of the
U. S. Public Health Service that
whenever necessary the Public
Health Service will aid local commun.
tiles in combating the Influenza edi-
demic All appeals for aid must be
made to the State Health Depart
ment. The Red Cross will then be
called upon for local work.
An1nno ciYfnon wiz 49,
influenza epidemic at Camp Pike
whose deaths were announced at the
base hospital were three Iowans:
George Tull Of Waterloo, ByYl Basher
of Deyer. and Coert L. Bunger of Sells
burg. The camp quarantine has been
broadened and now officers cannot
leave camp.
Forty thousand Iowa automobile
owners are enjoying immunity from
paying their annual auto licenses, ac-
cording to reports at the state house.
so far the list has not been sent out
to county attorneys for action, 1t is
said, though the license tax should
have been paid by May 1.
Attorney Frank Lingenfelder. his
son, Frank M. Lingenfelder, and Wal
ter Lingenfelder of Charles City have
cast off all connections with their
Teutonic origin, and have had their
names changed to Linnell.- The Ling.
enfelders have been lawyers there
for years.
Iowa received a draft call from
Washington recently for entrainment
of $500 white men, qualified for gen
eral military service, in the five day
period beginning October 81. Twenty
five hundred are to go to Camp Nc
Clelland, Admission, Ala, and 1,4OO to
Fort McArth1r, Cal.
Delaware county subscribed 60 per
cent of its quota on the fourth liberty
loan without solicitation. Centrally
located places throughout the town.
ships We're open all day and most Of
the people came and made their sub.
scriptions for the amounts the com.
mittees had figured as their quotas,
The method Of taking subscriptions