Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-04-18

WIN, bCSl anu hO,S INNS NoA W A&ANSs
the world demand. Prof. R. X. Bliss
of Ames college also spoke.
Judge Henry T. Read of the Federal
Court of Cedar Rapids. has ruled that
persons who refuse to abide by the
new daylight saving law are liable
to severe punishment. The Rev. Mr..
Smith of the Methodist church at Clar-
ence, who has not yet accepted the
new time. and who is said to have de.
clared that he would not recognize
it. has been warned he will be prose.
cuted unless he does
Jessie INNINGS, farmer. living near
New Hartford. committed suicide re-
Gently BY hanging himself in he barn
OF a neighbor. He had. II is said. told
friends recently that he would be un-
able 10 purchase Liberty bond dur
ing the mex; campaign. and il is be-.
!ieved that he brooded over the fact
Mrs Harriet ] Prescott OF Meri-
den, In a will bequeathed $4,000 to
he city OF Cherokee for the founding
and maintenance OF Y NJ c. A
The Wright County Farm Bureau,
under he supervision Of Mise Grace
Richards. home demonstration agent,
az Clarion. opened me campaign for as.
certaining the amount Of surplus vege.
tables and wha, use can be made OF
.hem. Meetings for that purpose are
20 be held N each town and township.
The immediate work undertaken is
the saving or surplus fruits and vege'
tables and making room in the cellars
fer the summer garden stores.
Miss Catherine Bolton. OF State Ag.
ricuitural college has oeen chosen 10
succeed A. l.. Persinger. OF Onawa.
who has resigned to take up farming
as the COW tester for Bremen county.
Miss Bolton has the honor OF being
the first woman COW tester in Iowa
She will have one OF the best test as.
sociations in the state 10 supervise. 1t
being located In Bremen county. which
produces more butter per square mile
than any other section OF country that
size In the world.
The first demonstration at Hamp.
ton TO remind any wavering ones that
this Is the time to be loyal TO Uncle
Sam took place when a company OF
high school boys armed with sup.
ply OF flags. drums and flies. marched
about the streets with eyes keen for
those places where suspicion II not
acts led them TO believe that nor too
much loyalty 10 the y. S A. abided
Three places Of business conducted
by Germans were visited and United
States flags placed on the fronts or
the stores
Miss Greta Preinitz OF Des Moines
had acquired the Washington. ID c..
idea along with many other Des
Moines girls and. being an expert
stenogra decided to enter civil
service All was going well until the
question OF citizenship came up Miss
Preinitz came to this country from
Sweden with her family when she was
years old. Her father took out nat
uralization papers, but after Miss Pref.
nitZ had become OF age. that necessi.
tated papers OF her own. which she
had never thought OF taking out
The upper Mississippi will not be
used as commercial highway this
season. Capt John Streckfus OF Nc.
Gregor has notified the up.river towns
that the Streckfus line steamers.
Quincy and Dubuque. will be taken
over by the government during the
war and will probably be placed in
trade between St Louis and New Or.
leans. The steamer Morning Star.
which for years has been in passenger
and freight business between Daven.
port and st. Paul. has been taken TO
the Ohio river. where ii will be used
during the war.
Coe college has received another
substantial gift from Mrs Elizabeth
r. Voorhees,. in the form of a cheek
for 5000. which will be used in the
completion OF the Voorhees, girls
quadrangle. This makes the NTH gift
that Mrs. Voorhees, has made TO Coe.
the amount of her contributions total.
ing $ls6,000 This money has been
used in the erection Of the Voorhees,
quadrangle. which is rapidly nearing
completion. Part OF the building is in
use at the present time. and II will be
open by the time that school ccnvenes
in the fall
His name is Arthur George william
Rinderknecht. He was never sick IN
his life. never suffered any severe &C.
cident. and has not missed a days
work in years. BY profession he is a
lumberman. For diversion he chops
down trees, takes ten mile walks and
the like. He towers feet. IL inch
es above the ground and. when ne
was weighed for entrance into the
navy. it was necessary to put him
down at $50 pounds because that was
as far as the scales went. He Gays
his weight approximates 219 pounds
But Arthur. etc, couldn't join the
navy. Upon this nearly perfect man
Otis Grooms. local navy recruiting OF
ficer. found deficiency which barred
him. He has broken arches Kinder
knecht. who was rejected from the
army for the same reason. lives IN
Atkins
Nearly a million dollars was repre-
scented in the federal court. at Cedar
Rapids. the wealth of German.Ameri
cans. whose loyalty to the Cnited
States has been questioned by a mum
Der OF persons. and who were brought
on the carpet at the suggestion OF
Judge Henry Reed The men owning
this wealth live IN the northern fed.
eral district and among the number