Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-11
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Interesting Items Of News Xxx
Gathered From all Parts of Iowa

MILITARY STATUS LOT COlleSe STUDENTS IOr
the coming year, by instituting a spe.
cial training school for college pro
fessors and students at Fort Sheridan
ILL.,, July IS to September 16. Drake
University is asked to send one stu,
dent for every 25 men in the univers
ity last year and one professor for ev.
cry 250 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 a fire.
cracker at Wallace.
George B. Stewart, county food ad-
ministrator of Lee county, has anoth-
er official Job. He has just been ap-
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 a supply
Of certificates upon which he is to
designate the needs Of the farmers in
that vicinity.
For the last several months prlss-
ure has been brought to bear upon
lowe 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. l no overdrafts will be
permitted. Other banks of the state
are expected to take similar action.
Instructions from the surgeon gen.
erals office directing the preparation
of 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 a means
OF providing more women for this
work
The state board of railroad commis-
sioners in message to Director Gen
eral McAdoo recently declined to COM
ply with the latter's request that they
place Iowa in the zone system adopt
ed by the interstate commerce COM
mission some time ago for the fixing
of express rates. This would make
the express rates in Iowa 29 per cent
higher than they are now, II the zone
system were adopted"
Col. E. r. Bennett is proud Of the
performance of the Iowa soldiers In
the action Of June 81, in which Cap
tain Fleur was killed, and he has re-
commended several heroes OF this at
tack for decoration, according to a
letter from Bennett to Major Lyman
OF the adjutant generals office. He
said that the men have had hard fight.
ing and at the tim. OF writing were
In need of rest.
Coal miners Of Iowa, who received
deferred registration In the selective
draft because of their occupation but
who are now out of employment be-
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,
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 was
heard, the Cass county council OF de-
tense rendered a decision completely
generating Emil Rothschild, veal
thy Atlantic grain merchant OF charg-
es Of disloyalty and criminality. Roth
schild's grain company at Atlantic is
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. of
Minneapolis, when he spoke before
the Iowa State Bar association in Des
Moines recently. "The non-partisan
league which started in North Dakota
and which has spread to Minnesota
and Iowa is purely a Socialist move.
ment and is lining up pro-Germans
and Socialists in every community"
Brown said.
A community flag, presented to
Primghar by Ralph Human, presi-
dent of the First National bank, was
received with appropriate ceremony
at a community union service. me
presentation service was held on the
school house lawn, and all the church
es Joined.
Fire discovered shortly after noon
Manufacturing company of Dubuque.
makers Of casket hardware, resulted
in $4,000 damages. The flames started
in the boiler basement in the rear OF
the plant and are believed due to a
defective flue.
Every effort is being made by the
war department to reduce the quaint.
ty of unnecessary parcels sent to Am.
erican soldiers in France by rela