Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-05-23

Private Wesley C. Wagner, of Wa
terloo, is listed as dead from accident
in recent casualty list.
Iowas quota In the third Liberty
loan was s71,050,O00 and her sub
scription was Sill, 160,050.
The German Telephone company of
Dillon, near Marshalltown, has
changed the name of the company to
tie Dillon Farmers Co.
The state automobile department
has opened bids for 100000 pairs OF
automobile plates which the state ex-
poets to start using in January, 1918.
The state board of health an
nounces that medical examinations
for osteopaths and physicians are to
be held at the state university June
6, and s.
The board of supervisors of Mar
shall county has awarded contracts
for highway Improvements that will
cost in excess of $4,000. The con-
tracts include two large bridges.
Big Eagle With Broken Wing, a
brother of Charles Bender, of major
league baseball fame, was among the
fifty Indians who reported at Camp
Dodge with the last increment. His
army name is Henry Bender.
One man was seriously injured and
six others received minor bruises
and cuts about their faces and heads
when an Inter-Urban passenger train
crashed into an Inter-Urban freight
train two miles west of Boone re-
Gently.
There is no shortage of farm labor
in the vicinity, Of Cedar Rapids ac-
cording to the report of State Labor
Bureaus. In fact there are more ap-
plicants than jobs just at present.
This same condition is true In most
parts of the state
A Marion Crandall Memorial hall"
to honor the memory of Miss Marion
Crandall, the first American woman
to be killed in France, is planned in
Davenport. THE building will be
constructed for st. Katherine's
school for young women, where Miss
Crandall once was teacher.
The Christian school at Sully,
Holland school, is now taking
temporary" vacation and probably
will not be opened again until after
the war. The school had been keep
ing up It's daily school work until or
dered closed by the Jasper county
council Of defense.
Frank Sanderson, a resident Of Ma
Huoketa, was instantly killed when
an automobile which he was driving
went Off the road and into ditch
near Maquoketa. Erwin Anterior,
owner Of the machine, and riding
with Sanderson, escaped practically
unhurt.
Iowa probably has over-subscribed
its quota for the Third Liberty loan
by more than 81 per cent and prob
ably leads all other states in the sew
enth federal reserve district, accord
ing to James B. McDougal, governor
of the federal reserve board for that
district
Burroughs permitting soldiers sta
toned at Camp Dodge to return to
their homes in Iowa, Minnesota,
North Dakota and Illinois for work
on farms have been granted to nearly
$50 men, under the recent order OF
the war department providing for
such temporary release to meet agri-
cultural necessity.
R. N. Holsaple, superintendent OF
the Anti-Saloon league has sent a
letter to every candidate for the
state legislature asking his position
on the ratification of the national pro.
hibitory amendment. The Iowa Pro.
hibitory Amendment Association il
preparing "for" and against" list
for the coming campaign.
Mac j. Randall of Cedar Rapids
died recently at his home in that city
Mr. Randall was one of the mos,
widely known men in the state hav
ing been state representative from
Linn county in 1916 and was a past
grand master of the /. o. o. F. Grand
Lodge of Iowa He is survived b.
his wife and one son.
Three men were drowned in the
Mississippi river a mile south Of Du
buque when launch bound w
stream and carrying six men struck
rock or some other obstruction II
the channel and sank almost immedi
ately. The dead are: Joseph Halla
han, Raymond A. Schrowen, Albert
j. Hird. The three other passengers
on the launch were saved.
August Dohrmann, German farmel
living near Portsmouth, sought ou
Secret Service Officer Yackey ant
turned over to him highly coloree
Autograph which had been presented
to him when he served on the kai
ser's bodyguard several years ago
Dohrmann told the officer that h,
was willing to surrender it, hut h,
didn't want his neighbors to come il
and force him to give it up.
The seyenty-tifth annual communi
cation of the Masonic grand lodge O
Iowa will be held at Ottumwa Jun,