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

OF seven inches was the heaviest to
strike that city in November since
November 1893 when eight inches OF
snow fell
Mrs. Ella Whitney widow Of Frank
H. Whitney, the man who founded At.
lantic, has celebrated her SOth birsh.
day. Mrs. Whitney came to Cass
County in 1861.
The Fourteenth Infantry, regular
army unit, will soon be transferred
from Camp Dodge to Camp Grant,
Rockford, Ill. according to orders re.
ceived at the cantnment.
Jonas Neifert, living on farm be-
tween Adair and Casey, has a herd OF
a dozen elk which he keeps as a hob
by. He secured the first two of the
herd eight years ago in Wyoming.
This year for the first time in its
history Webster City celebrated
Thanksgiving with no church services
or public gatherings of any kind.
This was due to the fact that the
flu lid was on tight.
e. G. Lane, OF st. Charles county,
Mo-, conscientious objector and de-
serter from Camp Dodge, attempted
to leap from q moving train while he,
was being brought hack from Council
Bluffs by military policemen.
Tama held celebration recently
In honor of the CzecholSloyak army.
The Bohemian women of Tama and
vicinity served dinner and supper
and in the evening musical and
speaking program was held.
The state board of health recently
received word from Muscatine that
the board of health there has ordered
the closing Of schools, theaters and
public gatherings because of the 'fu."
All stores are to be closed except
drug. stores.
A mass meeting of the citizens OF
Charlton and vicinity was held at the
court house recently, at which time
resolution was taken up refusing to
submit to the increase in lighting
rates proposed by the Southern Iowa
Electric Company.
The American Railway Express
Company has rescinded the order
placing an embargo on the shipping
Of standard bred poultry for breeding
purposes. Orders Of this kind will
now be accepted and shipped prompt
ly as formerly.
A bank at Cedar Falls has started
. Women's Corn Contest. Prizes are
offered to farm women who bring in
the best exhibits Of corn. The women
must have helped care for the corn
or else have done housekeeping for
the men who raised the corn.
Dies Moines will undoubtedly be
chosen as one of the permanent can
Torment cities. II permanent camps
are maintained in the United States.
Ralph Bolton, secretary Of the Great
er Des Moines committee, states that
Des Moines will receive unusually
favorable consideration when the
permanent camps are named.
Cudahy brothers are bringing an
important new business to lama In
their buying and feeding pens, built
at a cost Of $4,000 and planned to
handle stock in great numbers. It
will require an average daily bank
balance Of mora than 100000 to pay
for the animals, which will be ham
died here from the start.
After December Iowa housewives
may secure four pounds of sugar per
person per month, according to q
new ruling. The sugar supply allow
ed to retail grocers will be increased
accordingly. and their sugar certiti-
Gates will be issued twice each month.
Merchants are still required to keep
a record Of all sugar sold, and must
make reports to the food administra-
ton as usual
Even q dead man can poll thou
sands Of votes in Iowa. This was
proven at the last general election
when D. e. Kirby of Sioux City, Dem
ocratic candidate for state auditor,
who died before the election, received
17.180 votes. Guy e. Gillette of Cher
Okee. who was nominated to fill the
position made vacant by Kirby's
death, received 1O8,390 votes. Audi
tor Frank s. Shaw, running against
both a live man and a dead one,
polled 213,303 votes.
While all the successful state can
didates will be informed officially of
their election shortly, Governor Hard
ing will have to wait nearly two,
months before hesis informed official
ly of his reelection. The law pro-
Tides that the vote OF governor and
lieutenant governor shall be sealed
in a separate envelope by the county
BOARD of supervisors and sent to the
secretary of state, to be turned over
by him to the speaker of the house
after the assembly is organized, the
middle Of January.
Iowa's part in sending 10000 900
ions of food overseas during the com.
ing year was the subject discussed
at a meeting OF county food admins
traitors In Des Moines recently. The
decision was that everyone must con.
tinue to conserve.
One OF the last articles of food
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