Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-04-25

Il and 81 become again subject to;
the draft, according to an order is.
sued at Washington by Maj. Gen.
Jesse E. Carter, chief Of the militia
bureau National guard units organ
lied since Aug. 5, 1917, the date on
which the last of the then existing
guard organizations were called to
the colors, will remain under state
control and will not be sent to
France" said the order. Moreover,
men between the ages of 81 and 81
who enlisted for service in these
organizations remain eligible for
draft
Iowa's colonies at the brigade Off
GERS training school at Fort Sam
Houston, San Antonio, Tex, seem to
have come through with flying col
ors, as compared to those of Mime
sofa and Nebraska who have been
with the troops at Camp Cody since
last fall. Col. j. F. Brandt, One Hun
dred Twenty-sixth field artillery, First
Iowa, and Col. ]. E. BARLEY, One Hun
dred Thirty-third infantry, First
Iowa, have returned to Camp Cody to
resume their commands after three
months in the school
A type of womanly patriotism that
grs2tly impressed the loyalty leagu.
solicitors in the third liberty loan
campaign was discovered in Iowa
City, wslen Mrs. Deborah Hurley,
whose son Walter, died in camp dur
ing the winter, was interviewed. She
is poor working woman, clerking in
store, at comparatively small wag
es, but she purchased a bond for ST.
000-as glad to serve her country that
way as she was Loyalty willing to give
her son to democracy.
w. B. Barney, dairy and food COM
missioner, returned recently from a
conference of the dairy associations
held in Chicago At this conference
it was decided that the dairy inter
ests of the country would resume
their advertising of dairy products.
This was discontinued six months ago
at the request of Food Administrator
Hoover, who desired consumers of
the country to conserve dairy pro-
ducts.
DR.. James Edgar Snowden, Oldest
Congregational minister in Iowa, died
at his home in Cedar Falls. DR..
Snowden was "a years old and for so
consecutive years was engaged in the
active ministry of the Congregational
denomination. Thirty-eight years of
this service were spent in Iowa and
during this time he served five church.
es, those of Oskaloosa, Storm Lake,
LeMars, Fayette and Cedar Falls.
That pro-G ermanism will not be toll
Grated in this country in war time was
emphasized at Cedar Rapids recently
when Judge Henry Reed in the U. S.
district court sentenced Ernest Meier
of Lowden, to serve eighteen months
in the federal penitentiary at Leaven-
worth, Kans, and fined him $3.50. He
was found guilty by jury for sedi-
tious utterances and participating in
the famous "Lowden riots"
Aside from her 312 students and
graduates who have entered the ma
tional service, Grinnell College has
done her "bit" in winning the war by
contributing fourteen professors and
instructors to the national service
since the United States entered the
conflict last spring, including eleven
men and three women. Three of this
number are already in France.
Private q. Saltig of South English,
who had been absent without leave
since March "a from his company at
Camp Dodge, was returned to camp
by the marshal of Marion, where he
was found working in a restaurant
He will be tried by general court mar
tial for desertion.
Governor Harding and Attorney
General Havner are cooperating with
the state board Of health in framing a
law for the Statewide control of socia'
diseases. The law will go into i'm
| mediate and full effect throughout the
state It's provisions will require in
ternment of both men and women
I'D rather be live coward than q
dead hero. l think about as much O
an American soldier going over the
top as do of a dead cat" These are
the remarks Of w. j. Carson, who Ian
guishes in the county Jail at Dayen
port. awaiting action of the redera
authorities.
It's going to be mighty popu.al
thing to belong to the new kind O.
Total Abstinence club now forming
throughout Iowa and the other states
This club pledges its members to alb
stain from the use of wheat flour unit
after harvest in order to save our al
lies from starvation.
Iowa prohibition forces will be &C
tive in the coming primary campaign
to obtain the election Of a legisla
ture which will not only ratify the ma
tional prohibitory amendment, blu
will also vote to again submit stat,
constitutional prohibition to a vot'
of the people, according to A. q
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