Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-08-22

The first class Of the student nurs-
es' reserve will begin to receive in
struction at Camp Dodge September
1. The young women who enter this
class have applied at Washington,
ID. G.
In the call for laborers for govern
ment work, Iowa has been called up
on to furnish 5000 men. The quotas
allotted to the various counties run
from % for Dickinson county to 321
for Polk county.
Des Moines school war gardeners
will raise between $4,000 and $4,000
worth Of garden truck this year &C.
cording to conservative stimates.
There are 1000 gardens, and they
are expected to run above last years
average of $22.S5 net each.
The War Camp Community Serv-
ice of Des Moines will open an infor-
nation booth at the corner of Sixth
and Locust streets in that city, for
the accommodation Of Camp Dodge
soldiers and their relatives who come
to Des Moines.
The total value Of 1owa's crops for
the year 1917 amounted to 81, $50 ,000,-
000, the greatest of any state in the
United States. Illinois ranked second
with total of 255,000,000, acord-
ing to the report of the department
Of agriculture.
New selective service regulations
were received at the Office of the state
no111o
lions provide that local boards shall
give each selected man reporting for
duty, a brassard, or arm band, to be
worn around his left arm until he re-
ports at the mobilization camp.
The government will buy no coal
in Des Moines the coming winter for
the two federal buildings there. De-
claring that coal operators prices in
the vicinity OF, Des Moines are ex-
cessive, the treasury department has
decided to purchase coal elsewhere
and ship 1t into Des Moines.
The state food and dairy commits
sioner's office has received reports
that certain Ice cream manufacturers
4 are substituting cocoanut oil for the
required butter fat in the manufac-
tnre of ice cream. This practice will
be prosecuted, Dairy Commissioner
Barney declares.
In kilograms to the federal fuel adj
ministration and other officials Gov
ernor Harding has suggested two pos
sible aids to stimulate the movement
of steam coal. These are to urge the
railroads to use mine run coal instead
of lump and to secure for Iowa fac
tories more war contracts thus enabl-
ing them to use more steam coal.
Do you know just how much sugar
you're allowed each day? Miss Jessie
Campbell, government home demon
strator for Des Moines, has figured 1t
all out. Each person in the state
is allowed exactly seven level tea
spoonfuls Of sugar day. That In
cludes sugar for cakes, pies, cereals
and hot weather beverages.
II know that slack coal is being
sold for 81 ton in Iowa, SO 1t is man
ifestly unjust that Des Moines' mine
owners should hold up proceedings
while waiting for their price Of $3.50
ton" This is the statement made
by G. L. Herring, city fuel admins
traitor OF Des Moines in relation to
the steam coal situation.
Two new counties reported cases
of infantile paralysis to the state
board of health. One is from Green
Island in Jackson county and the 9TH
er from Nodaway in Adams county.
An even hundred cases Of the child
plague have now been reported to
the board Of health from various
sections OF the state.
Frank Fredericks, q wealthy farm.
er forty-five years old, was shot and
killed, by Harold, his II year old son,
recently at his home in Cedar county.
According to the advices, Frederick
was beating his wife when the son
went to her rescue, picked up shot
gun that his father had given him
and fired load Of shot into his alb.
domen causing almost instant death.
Edward Ruchetoke of Mechanics.
Vile Is dead and his son, Carl and
Chester Reese are suffering from frac-
tured legs in hospital at Cedar
:
Rapids as the result OF the collapse
of a silo in which they were working
at Oxford Junction. The men we're
buried beneath tons of cement and
were dug out later by a thresner
crew. They fell forty-two feet.
According to Washington, D. c.,
dispatch to the Waterloo Courier
newspaper work never has been in
cluded among the non-essential occu.
pations outlined in the work or fight
order. nor has it been the intention
of the provost marshal generals de.
partment that men legitimately en-
ployed in publishing newspapers
should be required to seek other oc.
equations.
Many county schools will not open
this fall for last Of teachers, according
to State Superintendent A. M. Deyoe.
The state superintendent now is