Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-09-19

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coming students army training camp,
will postpone its 1918 opening to Oct.
/, from Sept. 16. Registration will
begin Sept. 26 and run three days.
James M. Pierce has resigned from
the State Council of Defense ana has
promised to call off the fight between
himself and certain members Of the
council until after the Fourth Liberty
Loan campaign is completed. Then
the war will go on.
Employees Of the American Ex-
press company will be granted de-
ferred classification by virtue of be-
ing engaged in railroad work, accord
ing to advices received from Wash
ington by A. L. Urick, state labor
commissioner.
Col. William Bennett, commander
at Camp Dodge has authorized the
appointment of two army officers to
serve on committee of Des Moines
business men in Investigating future
complaints of soldiers against alleged
exorbitant prices in Des Moines.
CLOSED" signs were placed conspic-
uously upon the front doors Of four
Des Moines bakeries by order Of As
sistant Food Administrator M. II.
Cohen, for admitted violations of rul-
ings of the food administration, to
prove that the food administration is
in earnest.
Units of the Students Army Train
ing corps will be established this fall
in 20 Iowa colleges and universities.
Colleges which have an enrolment
Of 100 or more male students will
have separate military units. Small
or colleges will offer the military
training in combination with one or
more other small colleges.
The demand for workmen at Camp
Dodge where work on the enlarging
Of the big cantonment is getting I'M
der way and also for men at Daven-
pore where the government is build
ing 1900 homes for arsenal workers,
has shut off all possibility of sending
men to government jobs outside Of
the state, Labor Commissioner A. L.
Urick declared
Two more German banks have filed
amendments to their articles of in
corporation, dropping the word Ger
man out of their names. The Ger
man Savings bank at Carroll has
changed It's name to the American
Savings bank The German Savings
bank at New Liberty has changed It's
name to the Liberty Trust and Saw
ings bank.
One of the biggest cash deals has
been closed at Mason City in the
sale of 2,070 acre tract of land for
a cash consideration of more than
100000. The land is known as the
]. S. Wheeler estate farm, which has
for years been a show place. OF the
2.070 acres, LOO acres are in crop
and the farm will produce $4,000
worth Of grain this year.
Sorghum production in Iowa has
doubled during the last year. About
10000 acres of sorghum will be avail
able for syrup this year. In some
parts Of the state the yield will be
from 80 to 100 barrels of finished
syrup per acre. Commentator for
Iowa's progress in this field has come
from Herbert Hoover, federal food
administrator in Washington.
Traugott Richter 14-year-old son of
L. H. Richter of Davenport, is the
champion speller for Iowa. He spell
ed down the county champions in the
match held at the state fair, Aug. %.
poned until October /, fraternity
houses or large dwellings will be used
until such time as better arrangements
can be made. 1t is expected that later
a barracks will have to be construct.
ed.
Neighbors must care for one anoth
or in times of sickness during the
coming months, DR.. A. e. Kepford
state director of the Red Cross de
clared on his return to Des Moines,
from a Red Cross conference in Chi.
cago. So great is the demand for
nurses that but few trained nurses
will be left to take care of the sick
"over here" because they are all
needed lover there" he said. THAT
is the old custom which still prevails
where nurses are mot to be had and
there never was finer neighborliness
shown" he said.
Days Of big families are not wholly
past, according to a birth certificate
filed with Fred S. Petit, clerk of the
district court at Waterloo. This Ger
tifiicate states that sixteen children
have been born to Mr.. and Mrs
Charles H. Boomhower of that city
All are living which is another un
usual thing. The latest addition t,
this large family, son named Johr
Joseph, was born Aug. 81. Mr.. Boom
er, who is coffee salesman is 81
years old, a native of Illinois, ant
the mother who is 46 is native o
Iowa
Red Cross pig clubs. started il
Winneshiek county by Ben Baer, o
DEBORAH and spreading to Fayett,
and other counties of the northeas
portion of the state NAV become gen