Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-07-11

mllltary status Tor college students Tor
the coming year, by instituting spe-
cial training school for college pro-
lessons and students at Fort Sheridan,
ILL.,, July Is to September Is. Drake
University is asked to send one stu
dent for every rs men in the univers-
ity last year and one professor for ev-
cry $50 men. Men going to the camp
will have military standing for the so
days in the camp and then will be dis
charged to return to school until they
have completed their education.
Ralph Wallace of Des Moines, was
badly burned by an exploding IRE
cracker recently which, he told the
police, was thrown by a young Ger
man boy who came into the neighbor-
hood. Young Wallace's left eye was
burned painfully, although not seri-
ously, 1t is thought. According to the
story told the police Wallace and his
playmates were playing with fire.
crackers when one lad, whose name
he didn't know, announced his senti-
ments as pro-Hun and threw fire.
cracker at Wallace.
George B. Stewart, county food adj
ministrator Of Lee county, has anoth-
er official job. He has just been app
pointed local representative of the
United States employment bureau to
assist in finding farm workers for the
farmers of that section Of the coun-
try. He says that threshermen and
separator men are most in demand
just now. He has received supply
Of certificates upon which he is to
designate the needs of the farmers in
that vicinity.
For the last several months press
ure has been brought to bear upon
Iowa banking institutions by the comp
troller Of currency and George H. Mes
| senger, superintendent Of banking, to
! eliminate oyerdrafts from Iowa banks.
To comply with these demands all
national, state and private banks in
Polk county have joined in an agree
ment, in which they agree that on and
after Aug. no oyerdrafts will be
4 permitted. Other banks Of the state
are expected to take similar action.
| Instructions from the surgeon gen.
erals Office directing the preparation
| Of a course in nursing for women from
civil life, who desire to enter the
army nurse corps, are expected at
Camp Dodge soon. The apparent
shortage in the number Of graduate
nurses for service in the army nurse
corps, medical officers say, will ne
cessitate some such action as means
Of providing more women for this
work
The state board of railroad commits
sioners In message to Director Gen,
eral McAdoo recently declined to com
4 ply with the latteras request that they
place Iowa in the zone system adopt
1 ed by the interstate commerce com.
mission some time ago for the fixing
of express rates. This would make
4 the express rates in Iowa 20 per cen
higher than they are now, If the zone
4 system were adopted"
/ Col. E. r. Bennett is proud of the
performance of the Iowa soldiers In
the action of June q, In which Cap.
4 tain Fleur twas killed, and he has re-
commended several heroes OF this at.
tack for decoration, according to q
letter from Bennett to Major Lyman
of the adjutant generals Office. He
said that the men have had hard fight,
ing and at the Tina Of writing were
4 In need of rest.
i Coal miners Of Iowa, who received
deferred registration in the selective
4 draft because of their occupation but
who are now out of employment be
i cause of closed mines, must either
work or fight. This was the declara
ton Of N. D. Ely, chairman of the
southern district exemption board
i who said there was no reason why
miners could not be working at some
thing else II the mines were closed.
After an all day session in which
the testimony of fifty witnesses wa.
heard, the Cass county council Of de
Tense rendered decision completely
generating Emil Rothschild, veal
thy Atlantic grain merchant of charg
es of disloyalty and criminality. Roth
schild's grain company at Atlantic l.
the largest in the state and he holds
membership on the Omaha exchange
and the Chicago board of trade
Invasion Of the state by Socialism
was predicted by Rome G. Brown, O
Minneapolis, when he spoke befor,
the Iowa State Bar association in Der
Moines recently. "The non-partisal
league which started in North Dakota
and which has spread to Minnesota
and Iowa is purely Socialist move
ment and is lining up pro-Germanl
and Socialists in every community
Brown said.
A community flag, presented Il
Primghar by Ralph Hinman, presi
dent of the First National bank, wa
received with appropriate ,ceremon.
at a community union service. TN
presentation service was held on tn
school house lawn and all the churc]