Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-04-18
Iowa News
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GU SOHpauy ~ VI lut oSSOnu loW d
infantry when it was organized at
Mason City and went with them to
Brownsville. Tex, in 1851. He
was about 20 years old.
H. H Beezold, a prominent Water
loo attorney. was arrested recently.
charged with having uttered seditious
remarks. 1t is alleged that he insult.
ed solicitors who approached him IN
the interests OF the thrift stamp cam.
paign He is also alleged TO have
said that the government and al! OF
its officials were a set of grafters
Letters received from a Cedar Rap
ids boy who is driving an ambulance
in France, tells Of the condition OF
Merle Hays body when picked up by
the ambulance. There were II bayonet
wounds on the body. according 10 the
letter. and the head was almost com.
pletely severed. indicating that either
knife or sharp bayonet had oeen
used.
Iowa selected men transferred to
Camp Upton, y. Y, from Camp Dodge,
are disappointed in that camp They
have decided that so far as modern
accommodations are concerned. Upton
is tagging behind the western canton
ment The Camp Dodge men Turk In
the barrack doorways. during the two
weeks quarantine, and wish they
were back home.
Assurance that the eighth annual
May festival at Coe would be held this
spring was given out by Prof Earle G..
Killeen, of the Coe conservatory, at
Cedar Rapids. The dates are May Z
and s. The Minneapolis Symphony or.
chestra has been engaged for the two
days and negotiations are under way
to secure number OF recognized art
lists for the festival
County Food Administrator Charles
l.. Early OF Sac county, reports that
1000 flour report cards have been re.
turned to him by Sac county residents
showing that about 10 per cent OF the
homes in that county have amounts Of
flour slightly in excess OF the limit
set by the administration The amount
Of excess ranges from one sack to
about 20. the average being approx.
mately two sacks. Mr. Early believes
that the entire report will show about
one carload or 200 sacks of excess
flour in the county
Kaiser William" was shot and in
stantly killed, In Davenport recently.
Tho hp
K. j. Kelly and his occupation as trav-
ing salesman, is a hero with the pa
triots of that community. During the
exhibition Of photoplay showing
German atrocities. an impersonation
of the kaiser was thrown on the
screen. Suddenly a man leaped up
from the center OF the house and
shouted, If can't get you over there,
I'll get you here" With that he pull
ed a revolver from his hip pocket
and fired two shots at the screen.
One real patriot has been discover
ed by Johnson county wood fuel ad-
mimic traitor. J. J. Lorack. in the per.
son OF Joseph Aubrecht, a good Ger
man of River Junction Placing love
Of his adopted county over everything
else, Mr., Aubrecht has issued a gen.
eral invitation to johnson county PEG.
Pile to come to his timber land, and
cut free, all of the wood they want
for the coming winters use. The pub
lie may strip his acres. If those who
fell the trees. and chop them up real
ly intend to use the wood for fuel next
winter.
Secretary II. ]. Metcalf of the state
council Of national defense and Iowa
director Of the United States public
service reserve, has received word
that the reserve will shortly begin a
national campaign to enroll at least
600 men for war-emergency farm
service this year The reserve. with
the 100000 boys now being registered
for farm work by the boys working
reserve, should help out on the farm
labor problem, the war Office announc.
es Prof. r. X. Bliss, OF Ames, is IN
charge OF organizing the boys work
ing reserve in Iowa.
Martin Beck, principal owner Of
carriage manufacturing company
bearing his name. was one of the hun
summoned before Federal Marshal E.
r. Moore, and given a lecture on 10y
atty. Beck. who admitted he was
worth more than 100000 has only
purchased 500 worth of liberty bonds
and his subscription TO the Red Cross
was less than $40, he told the mar
shall Beck was before the district at
torney and the marshal was informed
that in Is minutes after he left the
federal building he made the remark
that "the whole world couldn't whip
the kaiser"
The farmers OF Kansas and Ne
braska, like those of Iowa, have put
aside avery thought except this
that they must do their full part to
win the war" says Dean c. F. Curtiss.
Of Iowa State College. on returning
from a l0.days' tour through those
states as the special representative of
the United States Department OF Ag-
riculture. They are going TO increase
their pork production this year; they
are going to keep beef production at
normal; they have excellent prospects
for grain crops, the outlook for wheat
in Kansas being especially good.
said Dean Curtiss.
One of the biggest OF the new war
bureaus in Washington is the United
States employment service, which has
the giant task of supplying labor Tor
the shipyards, munitions plants and
farms, and The driving force in that
organization is former Iowan About
twenty years ago, perhaps little less