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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-03-28
THE MARKETS
Grain, Provisions, Etc.

Chicago, March 25.
Open High Low Clos
Corn ing. est. est ing.
,d ...1.s7A 127A l.27A 1.27A
March 49,. 1895 .90A $685. 80
May ......S5sl -S5A .S5M-M .s494 .S5K ga
: FLOUR-The United States administers
tion flour standards are as follows: Bar
ley flour, 9S lb. cotton sacks. $1,000; corn
flour, So lib. cotton sacks, $1225; white rye
lin jute $145O per bbl., IS lb sack basis;
dark rye, $1425; spring wheat in jute,
s10.6O@10.so; special brands, 5000; hard
winter in jute, $10.6O@10.S0: soft winter,
ils1o.6o@10.SO.
! TAY-No. timothy. s2soo@Sooo; stand
ard. $2s. 00D29.Oo; No. 1 light clover mixed,
s2S. Oo@2s.OO; No. 2 light clover mixed. s27.OO
I1@2S.OO:- No. g. s22.C0124.00; clover. $4,000
$500; threshed timothy. $15.oo@1s.Oo.
BUTTER-Extras. 4Okc; extra firsts,
391al40c; firsts, 39ls@39c; seconds, 35@37c;
ladies', S46DS41ac; centralized, 39M4O14c: pro-
cess, 36G37c; packing stock. 30D32c.
EGGS-Extras, 391sdl4Oc; firsts, 341k@35c:
ordinary firsts 331a@34c; miscellaneous
lots, 321k@S4c; checks, 31@32c; dirties, 31@
32c.
LIVE POULTRY : Turkeys, 25@27c;
young BOOSTERS, 31c; old ROSTERS, 2sc;
guinea hens, doz., S4.50G5;00; ducks, $50
s1c. Indian runners. 21@23c; geese 220
&c.
POTATOES lots, 100 lbs, sl.1Oa1 10;
new, bbls.. No. /, s1o.oO@1o.50; sweet, ham
per. $1.00G2.35.
cATTLE-Good to choice steers, 1920
145O; yearlngs. good to choice, ss.Oo@13.25;
stockers and feeders, sS50Q12.25; good to
choice cows. s9.oo@12.oo good to choice
heifers s9.00@12.OO: fair to good cows. $7.75
Gs75: Gamers. s6.50G7,25; cutters. $1,000
TIE. bologna bulls, Ss0o@9.25: butcher bulls
s9.oOM11.OO; heavy calves. s9.oO@1loo; veal
calves s1s50615.50.
HOGS-Prime light butchers, S1730617T5;
fair to fancy fight. s170o@1765; medium
weight butchers. 2Ood24O lbs, s1720a176o:
heavy weight butchers, 24o@4oo lbs, $3.50
@17.2O; choice heavy packing, sl65o@16s5;
rough heavy packing, s1s.50d16.65; pigs,
Fair to good. sls.oO@1s.so; stays. $1,000
1900
SHEEP-Good to choice wethers, $4,000
1880: good to choice ewes $11.00Q1425;
warnings, s13 5O316.75 western lambs good
to choice, s17.0O018.50; native lambs, good
to choice. s15.oOa1s.25; shorn lambs, $1,000
1895: shorn wethers. sl2O0@R.s5.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-03-28
PRESIDENT GETS WAR NEWS
Chief Executive Has Every Line Of
Battle Information Sent to
Him.

Washington, March 26.-President
Wilson is having every line of informa-
!tion on the German drive received in
Washington from any quarter commu-
lnicated to him at the White House. At
least dozen times since Saturday the
president, impatient because of a lack
!of information for period, has per-
!.sonally called up officials of the war
department and elsewhere to ask the
--latest news. He is thoroughly opti-
imistic over the outlook.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-03-28
Daily Thought.

Degrees infinite of luster there must
always be, but the weakest among US
has gift, however seemingly trivial,
which is peculiar to him and which.
worthily used, will be q gift also to
his race forever.-Ruskin.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-03-28

my health SO can do all my work and
! am go grateful that ] am recommend
ing It to my friends. - Mrs. D. n.
ALTERS, r. r. a, Oregon, Ill.
onlywomen who have suffered the tor OF;
along from day to day can realize tho
remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, brought to Mrs. Alters.
Women everywhere in Mrs. Alters
condition should profit by her recom-
mendation, and II there are any CONF
plications write Lydia E. Pinkham's
Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass, for advice.
The result Of their 40 years experience
10 at your service.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-03-28

The worst feature of divorce 10
that it usually results in two more
marriages.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-03-28
FOR The BUSY MAN
NEWS EplToME THAT CAN SOON
De COMPRISED.
MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED
Home and Foreign intelligence Cen,
densed Into Two and Four
Line Paragraphs.

The lower house of congress voted
for permanent increase in the sal.
aries of all postal employees ranging
from 5 to 25 per cent.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-03-28

It takes Congress to settle strike, but
an unruly stomach is subdued by Garfield
Tea. Adv.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-03-28

Boy Scouts of America are called
upon by the government to participate
in the third Liberty loan campaign.
Eleven days, beginning April 20, have
been set aside when scouts will con-
duct a countrywide campaign in an
effort to surpass the bond selling
record, $102,OS4,1 100, which they made
on behalf of the second loan.
On the face of early reports of the
great battle on the western front
Washington military men were well
satisfied with the display of resisting
power made by the British troops
They are more than ever confident of
the ability of General Haig's men not
only to check the German onslaught
within reasonable limits, but to hurl
it back when it's initial force has been
expended.
Upon Hollands refusal, in the face
of German threats, to put into effect
her voluntary agreement for restoring
her merchant marine to normal ac-
tivity, all Dutch ships in American
and British Waters, total of about
100000 tons were seized by Great
Britain and the United States.
The Delaware senate ratified the
federal prohibition constitutional
amendment by vote of 10 to 8. 1t
had already passed the house. Della
ware is the ninth state to ratify the
amendment.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-03-28

DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the
original little liver pills put up 40 years
ago. They regulate liver and bowels. AID.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-03-28
NOW RAISES
900 CHICKENS
After Being Relieved Of Or
ganic Trouble by Lydia E.
Pinlham's Vegetable
Compound.
Oregon, nl.-"1 took Lydia E. Pink.
hams Vegetable Compound for an or

game trouble Whlc0
pulled me down I'M
til I could not put my
foot to the floor and
could scarcely do my
work, and as ! live
on q small farm and
raise six hundred
chickens every year
it made it very hard
for me. :
II saw the Com.
pound advertised in
our paper, and tried
it. II has restored
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-03-28

If they couldn't remarry few women
would want divorce.
The sun., 1918-09-08

raised mountaineers. In an astonish-
ingly short time they found they liked it,
and began to be proud Of their newly
acquired "larnin'." They went through
the primer by leaps and bounds and were
ready for the first readers almost before
these books, having been sent for, ar
rived at the camps.
Some of the boys have developed an I'M
expected taste for poetry. Longfellow,
Tennyson and Rupert Brookes as well as
several anthologies, are demanded after
Kipling and Service. Nor are the humor-
lists neglected. Tnnocents Abroad and
"Pudd'nhead Wilson" are popular in this
class and there are frequent requests for
John Kendrick Bangs, Jerome K. Jerome
and Irwin Cobb.
The great rank and file seem to crave
tales Of adventure rather than love stories
or realism. They have literally worn out
volumes Of "The Sea Wolf" "The Cruise
of the Shark" "By Right of Sword" and
"Wildfre." Having obeyed the admon-
ishing sign placed in many of the libra
ries, Don't forget to write home," they
pore over "Sherlock Holmes" "Raffles,"
"The Hound Of the Baskervilles," "The
Leavenworth Case" and Poe.
Many of the men consider their new
life in the service an opportunity to I'M
prove themselves. In their leisure hours
they read history, biography, travel and
weighty technical poems. They read
Shakespeare, "Quo Vadis," ben Hur,"
"a Tale of Two Cities" and other books
many might have known ten years ago
had not the call of the girl on the next
block or the game Of pool been irresistible
- Naturally the histories of the allied
countries interest men about to visit
France, England, Italy or Belgium for the
first time. French history is the most
popular, Belgian second. But most of all
the men seem to want American histories
and biographies of American statesmen.
The sun., 1918-09-08
Books of All Sorts in Demand by Soldiers

sent half million books overseas. 1t
has set up small but balanced libraries on
board ships requesting such service. Of
these 2,ll6,O00 are gift books. The others,
biography and science, have been pur-
chased by the library war service out Of
its new book fund.
The overseas department, in the sub
basement Of the New York Public Lii
brary, is in charge of Miss Muriel MacAr-
thur. Aided by eight regular assistants
and many volunteer workers, she super
intends the mending of the bindings, label
FASTING and the sorting of the contents of
each packing case. The cases have a shelf
so that after reaching their destination
they may be turned on end and used for
book cases if desired. The choice of
books depends very much on regular Ii
brary standards and the expressed pref
erences Of the soldiers. One tenth of each
case is non-fction.
When the March drive for books ended
hundreds of volumes were put aside for
repair. The library lent its bookbinder,
who put about 1000 volumes into condi-
ton.
Hundreds of sailors, soldiers and nurses
visit this department every day. To each
is given as many books as two arms can
carry. These may be turned in abroad to
Libraries or hospitals, passed on to indi-
viduals or retained to found new library
for the boys in France. Among the nurses
there is general request for Bibles, hym-
nails, prayerbooks, French grammars and
pocket dictionaries. The men, too, are
reading Bibles, many for the first time in
their lives. ..... o., -. ..
The new distribution centre serving the
camps is at 81 West Fifteenth street.
There Mrs. Marie r. Vail explained the
work and aims of the library war service.
She told of scrapbooks designed to amuse
the convalescing men in the hospitals.
They contain nothing instructive, only
anecdotes and jokes. "Not too old, of
course" said Mrs. Vail Also there are
cartoons, "but not exclusively on the war,
for wounded man likes to forget what
has happened Ia. him." 's~
The sun., 1918-09-08
Kipling the Favorite, but Taste Varies From
School Works to Classics

OF these preference is shown for the lives
Of Grant, Lincoln and Washington. Also
there are requests for books about Joffre,
Haig and other Englishmen and French
men whom the war has brought into prom
inence. ....l
When soldiers reach the stage of sus-
pecting they may sail for an unknown
port any day they begin to take an inter-
est in books on travel. Books about
France, Belgium and England are in
quired for at the libraries and letters are
written to family and friends begging for
Baedecker. Johnson's "By English
Hedge-rows" and the three Lucas books of
travel are especially popular.
College men have different tastes from
the great majority of fighting men-or
at least pretend to have. They ask for
Shaw or Strindberg, or search for tech
meal books on electricity, artillery, trac-
tors and gasolene engines. Large num-
bers of army and navy manuals, tactics,
books on guns, geometries and algebras
are given out to officers and to those who
nave uopcS VI COlninlsSlOH III ING lu-
ture.
The most widely read new books on the
war are "High Adventure" by Norman
Hall, story of life in the Lafayette Es-
cadrille; "a. E. F." by Haywood Broun,
a collection of things he saw with Per-
shing's army, and 1The Fighting Fleets,'
by Ralph d. Paine. These three books,
however, are mostly read ON this side Of
the water, for once in France the men
get the facts at first hand. They would
rather live it than. read it. President
Wilson's speeches on "Why We Are at
War" are bound and have large circula-
ton. ..
The library war service has distributed
about 100000 volumes at camp libraries,
hospitals, Red Cross houses, naval and
marine stations, Y. NC. A. and X. Of G.
huts, barracks and mess halls. II has
The sun., 1918-09-08

4 FTER hours in the trenches, clouds
/ \ or a crows nest there is nothing
like good book. So thought those first
kind souls who, shipping books and maya
zines to the training camps at the begin
ming of the war, formed the nucleus of the
present library war service, with al it's
ramifcations. The services most impor-
tant work these days is sending abroad
fifty tons of books month and constantly
adding to the number of camp libraries at
environments and naval stations all over
the country.
The first question visitors to camp
library ask is, "What books do the sol
diers like best7 What authors do they
readP
Rudyard Kipling is the favorite. Who
SO we'll understands the fighting man?
Naturally he who wrote "Barrack Room
Ballads and "Soldiers Three would be
soldiers choice. No volume bearing his
name gathers dust on the bookshelves.
And unto the number of those who, In
vited or otherwise, used to be able to re-
cite "Gunga Din" without an error are
added others with the passing Of each
day.
Every sort of book is in demand among
the men, from primer to learned treat
ises on strategy, from high school song
book to Carlyle and Herbert Spencer.
But their favorites after Kipling are
Robert w. Service, II. G. Wells, Robert
Louis Stevenson, o. Henry, Rex Beach,
Jack London, W. J. Locke, Mary john
ston, Anthony Hope and other authors
who deal in adventure.
About the primer. When the draft OPP
Grated in the South it brought into the
service many mountain whites from Ken
lucky, Tennessee, the Carolinas and the
Virginias, most Of whom were illiterate.
Schools where the men were taught The
rudiments Of the three RS were at once
established in connection with the training
camps, and lessons began for the embar-
The sun., 1918-09-08

ing these Czechs, met Gen. Semenoff's
westward moving advance guard on the
Onon River (6), and on the following day
the occupation of Chita completed the
clearing of the railroad.
Meanwhile detachment of Gen. Otani's
international force had occupied the stra-
logically important coast town of
Nikolaievsk, at the mouth Of the Amur.
His military base is Hardin.
At Kola, on the Murmansk coast of Eu-
ropean Russia, allied Intervention began
in mid-July. Early in August allied
forces oc' ,pied Archangel and pushed
southwark along the Archangel-V ologda
Railway, apparently with the design of
effecting junction with the western force
Of Czechs. Control Of Archangel and
Kola, the terminals of the two railroads
The sun., 1918-09-08

tween the Czecho- Slovak force working
eastward from the Urals and the allied
American interventionary expedition un-
der Gen. Otani, with the Czecho- Slovak
force in the east, which, hindered by the
Bolsheviki from leaving Siberia by way
Of Vladivostok, made itself master of the
territory east of Lake Baikal (3) in July.
The western Czecho- Slovaks, after des-
pGEste fighting, captured Verkhneudinsk
(2) and then moved rapidly eastward; ar
irving in the Baikal region they operated
in three columns, the main one following
the railway, a second crossing the noun
tains to the south and capturing Selin-
ginsk ~, the third driving northward
around the great lake and finally taking
Khkhta (5).
On September Col. Gaina, command
The sun., 1918-09-08

from the Arctic to the great centres of the
interior, blocks the Russian Arctic littoral
to the German forces occupying Finland
and menaces any army they may be able to
recruit there.
Baku, on the western shore Of the Cas-
plan Sea, has been reached by British
expedition that pushed north across Per-
STA from Bagdad, and north of Bagdad in
Mesopotamia the British Palestine and
Mesopotamian armies are likely soon to
meet, an event that will afford the Turks,
already troubled and disgruntled, food
for serious thought indeed.
AS to Russia, the questions now are
just how strong the various forces must
be made to finish the crumbling Bolshevik-
Teutonic power and how far beyond that
Intervention should be pushed.
The sun., 1918-09-08

A LIED, American and Cxecho-Slo-
n wax forces operating from the
north, east and south have begun to
close in on the Bolshevik strongholds in
European Russia and western Siberia
like strands Of far flung net, tenuous but
unbreakable. 1t appears that these forces
are to be augmented by more Japanese
troops certainly, and possibly by more
Of the other nations.
From Pensa (1) in European Russia
on the Volga, across to Vladivostok ~,
late reports indicate that the line Of the
trans-Siberian railroad is now cleared and
in anti Bolshe,ik control. This means
that the barriers Of Bolshevik troops,
aided by numerous Germans and Aus
TRANS who are former prisoners Of war
to imperial Russia, have been broken be-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-15
WARNS GERMAN
ALIEN ENEMIES
I nited States Marshal Dallman
SAYS Regulations VIII BE En-
forced To Letter.
MUST NOTIFY THE OFFICE
In Case They Change Place OF Res
ident. Authorities Should BE
Told of Ii.

German alien enemies who
change their place of residence,
moving from one place to another
in the same judicial district or
from one district into another,
without obtaining written permis-
sion as required by federal regula-
tons are subject to interment for
the duration of the war.
This warning was sounded last
evening by United States Marshal
V. i. Dallman upon request of the
department at Washington.
Several such unauthorized
changes of residence have been re-
ported to the marshal and arrests
have been ordered.
I'VE are determined to see that
these regulations are enforced to
the letter." said the marshal in eX-
planning the departments attitude.
The regulations positively provide
that a German alien enemy chang
ing his place of residence to anOtn-
er place within the same registra-
ton district shall Immediately re-
port such cham to the registra-
ton officer of the registration dis
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-15

Editor The Argus, Rock Island,
Iu.-The Argus OF Feb. IS carried
an article telling of the action of
MIR. Heney. attorney of the federal
trade commission, asking congress
for special legislation authorizing
the seizure OF papers in the files OF
Henry Needer, attorney for Swift
q Co. Since many people have the
notion that the packers themselves
have refused the trade commission
access to their files, a word of eX-
PLANTATION may be of interest to
your readers
The agents OF the federal trade
commission have not been denied
access to the accounts. records and
private correspondence Of Swift &
Co. nor sf the executive officers
of the company. and these agents
have been going through our rec
ords for the last eight months
F'ragmentary bits of correspond
ence. selected from the private
files of our executives. have been
read into the record in such a way
as 10 grossly misrepresent the &C
tions and motives Of Swift & Co.
Access to files has been denied
only by Henry Veeder, attorney,
who. as a matter of principle, nat
urally stood on his constitutional
rights. and objected to having his
files ransacked.
In a telegram sent by Mr.. Needer
to officials in Washington on Feb.
IS, he said:
Il have afforded to the federal
trade examiners and to Mr.. Heney
full opportunity to examine and
copy every book, document, or
I paper in my files. to which they are
entitled under the law. Their re-
4 ply was a search warrant so gen
eral and sweeping in its character
as to permit a search and seizure
/ OF every paper in my office. | have
! been a practicing lawyer in Chi
! cago for more than twenty-five
years and have numerous clients,
many of them individuals and cor
pOrations in no wise related or
connected with the packing indus
try; and the search warrant which
l am resisting in the courts per-
mits a search of all the confidential
and privileged communications
which have passed between those
clients and myself, as well as my
purely personal and private papers
/ would be false to my clients and
to myself if I did not resist such
fragrant, unreasonable search and
seizure which partakes most
strongly of the outrageous writs OF
assistance which in large measure
inspired the formation of this indie
pendent government"
The decision of the United States
circuit court of appeals. handed
down on March 9. completely up
holds Mr.. Veeder
In conclusion. we wish 10 an,
nounce that Swift & Co. has no rea-
son to fear inspection of it's rec
oTds and correspondence by fair
and impartial Investigators.
We trust that you will find space
in your columns for this letter, and
that this explanation will give your
readers a clearer idea Of the situa-
ton.
Very truly yours,
SWIFT & co.
F. S HAYWARD. Sec
All the news all the time-The
Argus
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-15
HOSPITALS Get
INCREASED FEE
Compensation for County Patients
is Raised From 81 to s1.23
Day by the Board.
REQUEST MADE FOR $50 DAY
Detention Hospital in West End
Will he Allowed Flat Rate OF
50 Day for IA Year.

The county board of supervisors
yesterday afternoon voted to in
crease the fees to be allowed hos
pitfalls of the county for county pa
tents from s per day to $1.25 per
day. ST. Anthony's and the Moline
city hospital had asked that the
compensation be>ncreased TO $3.50
per day.
After some argument on the mat
ter the board members finally de-
cided to split the increase asked in
half. This action pertains to all
hospitals in the county. with the
exception of the Rock Island de-
tent!on hospital. which will be al
lowed a fiat rate of 81 a day, the
offer made by DR.. G. T. Foster, city
health physician, being accepted.
These fees were decided upon with
the understanding that they would
remain in effect for one year, start
ing March l, 1917.
Several of the board members
were at first inclined to grant the
$3.50 rate asked, until it was point
ed out that ordinary patients are
charged only $40 a week after be
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-15
IF KIDNEYS AND
BLADDER BOTHER
Take Salts to Flush Kidneys and
NeutraliZe Irritating
Acids.

Kidney and Bladder weakness re-
suit from uric acid, says a noted
authority. The kidneys filter this
acid from the blood and pass it on
to the bladder, where it often re-
mains to irritate and infiame, caus-
ing a burning, scalding sensation.
or setting up an irritation at the
neck of the bladder, obliging you to
seek relief two or three times dur
ing the night. The sufferer is in
constant dread, the water passes
sometimes with a scalding sensa-
ton and is very profuse; again.
there is difficulty in avoiding it.
Bladder weakness, most folks
call it, because they can't control
urination. While it is extremely
annoying and sometimes very pain
full, this is really one of the most
simple ailments to overcome Get
about four ounces of Jad Salts
from your pharmacist and take a
tablespoonful in glass of water
before breakfast, continue this for
two or three days This will neu-
tralize the acids in the urine so it
nc longer is a source of irritation
to the bladder and urinary organs
which then act normally again
Jad Salts is inexpensive, harm
less and is made from the acid of
grapes and lemon juice, combined
with lithia. and is used by thou
sands OF folks who are subject to
disorders caused by uric
acid irritation. Jad Salts is SPLEEN
did for kidneys and causes M had
effects whatever.
Here you have a pleasant, effer-
Yescent Whitewater drink, which
relieves bladder trouble
tAdy.)