Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-04-11

consumers to begin Lying in stock
OF coal this spring, and is thinking OF
sending out speakers over the state
to tell people the seriousness of the
situation. Representative Arch W. Nc
Farland,> OF Waterloo, coal jobber,
called on Administrator Webster and
informed him that he had been all
through the southwestern zone Of
Iowa, where consumers can secure
Iowa coal only. And he was able to
sell but one carload OF coal in all this
zone.
Everywhere in Iowa lawns and
hedges are harboring @fkaiser-ally"
which some years helps to destroy
millions of bushels Of wheat in the
state-enough to make many tens of
| millions of loaves of bread That
! destroying enemy is the COM
mon barberry bush which may be
found almost anywhere in parks, Gem.
eteries and private grounds. Ut helps
to spread the black stem rust of wheat
and other cereals, which is perhaps
the most destructive of the plant dis
eases that attack growing wheat.
If you knew of community or city
of thirty thousand people, where, for
a period OF one month, not single
violation of the laws had been COM
mitted, what would you think? II you
are the average man or woman you
would say that,was an ideal condition.
Yet one who has been at Camp Dodge
for some time made the statement
that not single member of the new
National army had been in the guard
| house since the last quota arrived.
A carload Of hogs were taken to
the Omaha markets from Missouri
Valley recently by auto trucks as a
result of Harley Fraizer's being UNI
able to get railroad cars to ship stock
from his farm southeast OF Logan. A
large number Of livestock men are
trucking their hogs to the Omahs
markets from Harrison county be-
cause they are unable to get railroad
cars.
A challenge Is Issued to the world
for towns Of West Liberty's popula-
ton, 1900, to meet the Red Cross auc-
ton sale held there recently, which
totalled $4,000. A service flag, made
by Mrs. ]. L. Peters, whose two sons
are in the service, one at Camp Cody
and the other in France, sold for $12,-
| 785.
Clarence Dykstra, a graduate of the
State University in 1908, has been
made head Of the department Of DO
ltttcal science at the University Of
Kansas. Until recently the work in
| political science and history has been
together and Professor Dykstra Is the
first head OF the new department
caused by the separation.
4 English river township in Washing
ton county, claims to be the first town
ship an the United States to go "oyer
the top" in the third liberty loan, cam
paign. With the formal opening OF
the campaign four days away, the
townships quota Of $49,500 already
had been oversubs cribed fifty per
| cent.
| Someone sealed up the front and
rear doors of the German hall in At
lantic with large American flags and
| warned the owners or occupants of the
building or anyone else against tear
ing down or In any way molesting the
\ flags. The side door was left unseal-
ed so the members of the German Aid
society can still enter the building
Ptomaine poisoning has stricken
down between forty and fifty girls at
Iowa university. All OF the goods
thus afflicted partook of certain
quantity Of pork at Currder Hall, and
1t is believed that this food caused the
germ to spring into being. ALL are
improving.
1t would be good thing for us as
well as our allies II more farmers
would do what Rolf Arenholz of near
Grundy Center is going to do to help.
He is going to plant 40 acres Of wheat.
That is more than has ever been
planted by one man in Grundy county.
The Rockwell City reformatory for
women Is practically ready for occu-
pancy, and the superintendent is to
be there early in May to prepare the
place for about 20 women from ana
mosa, who will be the first to occupy
the new reformatory.
w. B. Baird, a farmer living near
Dunlap, who had been an inmate of
st. Bernard's hospital at Council
Bluffs, wandered away sometime dur.
ing the night recently, and was killed
in the railroad yards.
Four-year-old Virgil Harold Mics
of Shenandoah, fell from an oat drill
or distance of three feet. His neck
was broken.
Iowa's origin as French territory,
part of the Louisiana purchase, Is
commemorated by the Iowa flag, de-
signed by Mrs. Dixie Cornell Geb-
hardt, state regent of the Daughters
Of the American Revolution. It will
be presented to the legislature in 1919
with the request that it be officially
adopted as the Iowa flag. The design
consists nf f1nraa varfioal stri-an IN