Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-12-19

| The Sioux City jury which heard
| the evidence to the breach Of promise
| suit of Miss Marie Hanson against
/ George P. Johnson, stock and bond
salesman, awarded the young woman
| $1,000. She had sued for $4,000.
Dutch Cross, famous bank robber
and bandit, was killed in fight with
Des Moines policemen recently. Chief
/ Of Police c. C. Jackson, of Des
| Moines, was severely wounded in the
shooting fray. The fight took place
when the police cornered Cross at
his home in Des Moines.
The first evidence that Camp Dodge
is to be continued for at least several
months as convalescent camp for
soldiers returned from overseas came
recently with the arrival of 100
wounded soldiers on special hos
pital train. The majority are from
Iowa.
Announcement was made recently
that $1,000 members of various aero
squadrons included in the first Amer
lean troops to return from England,
leave Camp Mills, N. j., for Camp
Dodge, to be mustered out The con-
tingent comprises men from Montana,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa
and Illinois.
| After two years of unrelenting war
against bootlegging, white slavery,
public official grating and all other
forms Of law violation Attorney Cen
eral Havner is able to make public
the astonishing summary Of $131 ,206.-
95 collected in fines; liquor seizures
with an aggregate value of 1926, 222.05
| and the recovery of stolen property
worth $10,625.
More than 100000 men in Iowa reg
| istered for the draft in the four draft
registrations which took place in
Iowa during the world war. In June
1917 and 1918, the total registrants
numbered 217,914 In August, 1918,
the number of rebistrants was 2l,671,
and on September ~ the total regis
tration was 2S3,S93. These figures
have just been compiled by the state
adjutant generals office and are Off
cial.
In the summing up of land for re-
clamation primarily for the use of re-
turning soldiers, Secretary OF the In
terror Franklin K. Lane, in his an
nual report brings forth the startling
! fact that Iowa has 930,5O0 acres of
land, which is non-productive for va
rious reasons: 100000 acres are given
as permanent swamp land; 100000
wet grazing land and $4,000 acres
] of land periodically overfowed; SO,-
+ 500 acres of land is periodically
swamp land
1 Lieut.. Samuel j. Jones of Iowa City
i has been made a colonel on the staff
! Of Grand Army Commander Claren-
den E. Adams. This is merited rec
ognition of the worth and services
of most conspicuous and valuable
soldier who served more than three
years in the war Of the rebellion. He
enlisted in Company A of the 22nd
regiment Iowa volunteers and served
in this company to the end of the
war. After the Vicksburg campaign
he was made first lieutenant.
Vern L. Havens, born in Atlantic
in 1881 and WHO worked his way
through school carrying papers, has
been delegated by the government to
go abroad as trade expert. Ravens
will sail January l, for Europe where
he will be an instructor to American
soldiers who will on their return
home, lbe engaged in foreign trade.
Ravens, as a young man took up the
study of civil engineering Following
his profession he has spent several
years in Mexico and South American
! republics.
A basket ball game between the
boys and girls teams of Bayard and
Glidden is credited with being respon-
sible for new outbreak of the flu at
Glidden. The epidemic had been al
most stamped out, but Immediately
after the contest the Glidden physi-
clans reported twenty new cases,
and although the lid was put back
that night, $50 cases have developed,
most Of them directly traceable to the
game. Members Of all four teams
have died, and a number of the other
players nave pneumonia.
John W. Barry, widely known lum-
herman and one of the most promin-
emit Masons in Iowa, died at hia
home in Cedar Rapids recently. He
had been i'll for some time and had
/ been taking treatments at sanitari-
UNI IN Michigan up to few days
previous to his death. He was GIL
years old and a native of Belvidere,
I'LL. Mr.. Barry had long been deeply
interested in Masonic affairs. He
! held the office Of grand master last
year, and enjoyed wide popularity
among the Masons of the state.
4 Cedar Falls claims to have more
odd descriptive proper names than
any other town of its size in the
q mud NFfo III.