Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-06-13

The names of these boys are: Killed
in action: Capt. E. o. Fleur, Des
Moines, Lieut.. G.. R. Green, Winter
set, Jesse F. Tillman, Creston, Frank
w. Orr, Dies Moines, Fred N. Davis,
Lorimor, Sigurd o. Anderson, Mason
City, Oscar Baker, Dubuque, Frank
R. Brown, Red Oak, Otis E. Craig,
Cedar Rapids, Bruce G. Croft, Win
terset, Eugene Ford, Winterset, Lloyd
w. Gettys, Stuart, Smith Ham, Win
terset, Gladstone C. Hewitt, Creston,
Merle L. Nauman, Arispe, Joseph H.
Pfab, Dubuque, Everett Powers, Carl.
isle, Jess R. Salisbury, Patterson,
Clemens w. Schuster, Dubuque, Earl
G. Shaw, Dubuque, Claude Baker,
Mason City. Died of wounds: Jor.
dan E. Perry, Cedar Falls, Everett G.
Davis, Nora Springs, Samuel Hazard,
Atlantic, Wayne E. Huxtable, LIE
Mars, William M. Saunders, Garwin,
William A. Staley, Council Bluffs,
Carl ]. Lechner, Cedar Falls. Died Of
accident: Sergt. Donald Bechter, In
dependence.
President R. A. Pearson of Ames
college has received one Of the first
letters sent by aero-mail between New
York City and Washington. The let
ter was written by an Iowa state col
lege engineer, Ralph R. hatcher of
Toledo, who is connected with
the department of commerce as as
sistant radio inspector for New York
harbor. 1t is his duty to test radio
equipments on transports and other
ships before they sail.
Iowa will have no more German
flower seeds after the war. The Iowa
Seed Dealers association went on
record at its annual convention in
Des, Moines pledging itself and its
members to purchase no more flower
seeds from the Huns. The conven-
ton also discussed the subject of
changing all German names of seeds,
and this matter will be laid before
the national convention this year.
p +. Minnock of the Ford Auto Co.
announced recently that orders had
been received from the Detroit Office
curtailing the distribution of cars in
Iowa to 1850 per month. One year
ago $500 cars were allotted Iowa The
order stated that the government had
called for reduction of rs per cent
in production of cars at the Omaha
factory, to release materials for gov
eminent use.
DR.. A. ]. Mclaughlin of Sioux
City, head of the recently authorized
medical bureau for the control of So
cial diseases, has reported for work
at the state house. He will remain
in Des Moines for several weeks,
studying the plan of the clinic estab-
lished in Des Moines for the treat
ment Of diseases, and will then travel
about the state, establishing similar
clinics in the larger cities Of Iowa.
Mrs. Ray Johnson of Woodbine is
dead as the result of an operation in
which 100 square inches of skin were
cut from her body to be grated to
her small son at Iowa City. Her three
year old son was playing with his
!, brother about burning stacks at their
home, when his clothing caught fire.
He was dangerously burned. He
may not recover.
Twelve hundred goats stopped on
in Des Moines the other night on
their way from Arkansas to Mime
sofa to help win the war. The goats
are being shipped to Pine River,
MINI, by W. A.. Spurrier, IT., & Co.,
of Des Moines, to help clear 10000
acres of Cass county brush land
which the Spurrier company is devel-
oping into farms.
Major Guy s.. Gearhart, command
ent of the aviation post at Indianapo-
lis, Ind, who was seriously injured
when his airplane fell Sunday, June
Q, was a graduate Of mechanical en-
cheering at Iowa state college. His
Capt. A. G. Webb, was instantly
killed.
Ninety-four Iowa men have been
killed in France in action or have
died from wounds since early this
spring when the Iowa men got into
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far secured by the state historical
department
Heavy rains following continued
damp weather of the past three weeks
caused numerous floods throughout
northern and central Iowa, and gen.
orally demoralized train service on
several lines. Property damage will
be heavy.
| Mrs. Emily Morgan Hackett, the
first white child born in Iowa, is dead
at Madison, Wis, aged SO years. Mrs.
Hackett was born in Dubuque and
was resident of Iowa until three
years ago.
Dubuque has the distinction of be-
ing the first city in the state to es-
tablish school for deaf children. The
action was taken as result of leg
islation by the last general assembly
of the state of Iowa providing for
the establishment of such schools and