Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-06-06

One and ninety nine-hundredthS OF
an inch of rain fell in the vicinity of
Des Moines in less than "a hours re-
Gently.
The board of education of the Sioux
City schools authorized the introduc-
ton of compulsory military training
In the entire high school course.
A decided reduction in prices for
wheat mill feeds has been ordered
by the United States Food admins
tration, according to bulletin from
Burlington.
Carl Caviness, of Charlton, report
ed killed in action in France, is prob
ably the first son of civil war
veteran to give up his life in the
present fight.
Mrs. Mary McConnellee Of Atlantic
has been officially notified Of the
death of her son, Private Irwin o.
McConnellee, from wounds received
in action in France May 10.
Soldiers at Camp Dodge are read
ers. This camp stands third in the
United States in the number OF
books in circulation. Camp Sherman
is first and Camp Funston is second.
Coe college, Presbyterian, OF Cedar
Rapids, and Leander college, United
Brethren, formerly known as Western
college of Toledo, will consolidate be-
for the next college term, according
10 recent announcement.
Thousands of dollars worth OF
damage resulted from hail and rain
storm that visited the southern part
Of Burlington recently. Some of the
hailstones by actual weight tipped
the scales at over half pound.
Gustav Schultheise, 20 years old OF
Delta, although born in Germany has
asked the Des Moines recruiting Of
fee for permission to enlist. He came
to this country in 1913 and has taken
out his first naturalization papers.
The state fuel administration hae
made request to the federal fuel
administration for a supply Of an.
thracite coal as nearly equal to that
Of the season 1916-1917 as possible,
which appropriated 100000 tons.
In line with action taken by mum.
erous other Iowa societies, the Iowa
Osteopathic Association, in conven
zion in Des Moines recently adopted
resolutions boycotting German-made
goods and supplies for the next fifty
years.
Fifty-two head of Aberdeen Angus
cattle recently sold for $4,000 at Pat
rick Donahoe's farm at Holbrook. Two
of the animals brought more than
$4,000. This sale breaks all price
records for such sales in Iowa and the
world.
Every young man in the state who
arrived at the age of 81 at any time
from June 5, 1917, to June 5, 1918,
was required to register on the latter
ate. Failure to do so will likely re.
suit in arrest and immediate Undue.
ton into army service.
Crops in Iowa are two weeks ahead
OF what they were at this time last
year, in the opinion of C. E. Cam.
eron, of Alta, president of the state
agricultural department. Most of the
corn is planted" says Cameron, land
much of it is up.
Private Daniel Mederhoff, Wells.
burg, a member of the Three Hun.
dred Fifty-first infantry regiment at
Camp Dodge, died in the base hos.
pital following an operation. An
autopsy is being held to determine
the cause Of death.
Six Winterset churches will receive
$4,000 each from the estate of the
late A. w. Crawford, according to
terms of the will which has been
hled for probate. A bequest of S25,.
600 to the city is to be used for the
purchase Of additional ground for the
city park system.
w. l. Atkinson of Waterloo, former
speaker of the lowe house of repre-.
sentatives; II. B. Kelly, secretary OF
the Waterloo chamber of commerce:
Ellis p. Wilson, leading attorney,
and the Rev. DR.. John Robertson Ma.
cartney, pastor of First Presbyterian
church of that city, have volunteered
for 7. M. G. A. service in France.
Iowa gets the Red Cross banne,
again. Like its boys in the trenches,
Iowa jumped the first trench easily
and went over the top and then some,
in the second Red Cross drive. Kos.
suth and Wayne counties helped to
do 1t, and number OF patriotic towns
like Eldora and Nevada and Villisca.
Iowa was asked for 81, OOO, 1000. 1t viii
give more than $2,000,0OO.
A government weight car, sent out
by the federal agricultural depart.
ment at Washington for the purposes
OF testing railroad scales, is making
the rounds of Iowa. E. C. Lytton, in
charge Of the weights and measures
department in the Office of the state
food and dairy commissioner, is as.
sisting the government men in their
work in this state.
Five persons were killed and a
score injured, some seriously, when
Illinois Central passenger train No
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