Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-03-28

OF $4,000 in less than a week.
Contracts for seventy-four bridges
and culverts, totaling cost of $780,
TAG have been let by the board or
supervisors of Marshall county.
Five cars of -four, in excess of a
thirty days supply, held by jobbers
in Marshalltown, have been turned
over voluntarily to the food admins
tration.
Taxes in Webster county touched
the high water mark this year when
they went over million dollars. This
is 100000 more than they were last
year and twice as high as they were
five years ago.
A box containing 1866 surgical
dressings was shipped from Shells
burg recently. These had been made
In two weeks and the shipment was
the largest ever sent from there. In
terest in the work is increasing.
Three Iowa City soldier boys, dis
charged, after many months Of serv-
ice, because of physical disabilities,
have returned from Camp Cody, Dem
ing. N. NJ They are sergt. John F..
Sueppel, Corp. Raymond Peli, and
Private Earl w. Copsin.
Governor Harding spoke in Water
loo recently before branch organi-
cation of the service league, which
has just been formed. Employees of
various factories in Waterloo have
organized to stimulate patriotism and
to put a stop to disloyalty.
The Rev. l. H. Benedict, formerly
pastor of the Baptist church in Iowa
City, and in later years a New Eng
land states clergyman, has been
placed in charge of the Red Triangle
work at Fort Greble, R. l. He will
sail for France ere long, for similar
duties.
The Iowa fire loss during the
months of January and February OF
the present year is more than $780,
600 less than it was for the same
months in 1917. So says Ole o. Roe,
the Ctate fire marshal. Thus far in
March, the reports indicate a light
fire loss for this month also"
A strike Of eighty mi1lwrights en-
ployed at the Northwestern Elevator
at Council Bluffs occurred recently.
The men walked out in body. Iron
workers and electricians had been
allowed, it was claimed, to do work
OF millwrights at wage much less
than the scale.
An indictment which charged that
he had carried concealed weapons
was returned against /. J. Orr, Of
Miller by the Hancock county grand
jury. Orr is the man who drove into
Garner recently and defied the citiz-
ems after making pro-German re-
marks.
Opposed to the study of German in
the high school, even though the
school board had decided to do away
with the study at the beginning of the
next school year, Is or 20 boys of
the State Center high school entered
the school building at night, removed
all the German textbooks used by the
classes, and burned them.
D. F. Goodell of Tama has been
named state counsel of the Lincoln
highway in Iowa to succeed the late
w. F. Coan of Clinton, it has been
officially announced. The headquar.
tiers of the association will be moved
from Clinton to Tama A meeting OF
the state and county counsels of the
Lincoln way is to be held at Ames
shortly to take up the matter of &C.
cepting federal aid for road work in
this state.
Seven-year-old Charles Reese found
cooked and loaded Enfield army
service rife on the grounds of ST.
Iary's school, Des Moines, where he
attends. He took the rifle to Rev
Dominick and told him that one OF
the other pupils at the school wanted
him to discharge the rife and that
he punched him in the nose" There
was one cartridge in the chamber OF
the rifle and four more cartridges in
the magazine.
The following Iowa boys have been
reported as killed in action or havine
died as the result of wounds or dis
ease: Corporal Albert E. Behmer
Sutherland; Bugler Harry Anderson
parents, Oskaloosa; Private Cecil M
Conley, Atlantic; Private Fred H
Turner, Atlantic; Private Fred c
Brummett, Clarinda; Ted A. Butler
Sutherland; Corporal Charles M. Nc
Chord, Burlington; Corporal Russell
G. Hughes, Co. L, Council Bluffs
Lloyd Culp, Co. M, Red Oak; Rober
L. Clausen, Mason City; Merrill B
Morrison, Unionv;lle; Ira j. Rogers
Unionyille; Ray c. Walden, Center
Vile; Corporal Marvin Dunn, De.
Moines; Private Dan p Bracelin, Nor
walk.
Governor Harding was in Ottumw:
recently to attend the exercises con
nected with the presentation of tn,
state flag by the Daughters of tn.
American Revolution. The governo
received the flag on behalf of the