Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-05-09

IuStedu Ol dShlu6 loI ouOSGi APCloAAs'
to war funds, Page county committees
notify each person to come to des-
ignated place to subscribe.
Harold A. WaDburn of Shenandoah
has been elected cashier of the
Northwest Savings bank, a leading
d. C.
Retailers may not sell over five
pounds OF sugar to local consumers.
nor over ten pounds to rural Gus.
toners under rules announced recent
ly by the state food administration.
Maj. R. P. Howell, now judge adwo.
cate in the army, will return to John
son and Iowa counties to conduct
court during the May term. No sue.
cessor for the judge has been ap.
pointed.
About 1000 Iowa men in class re-
che war department for skilled work
ers. such as engineers, machinists, in
sspectors Of various kinds, clerks and
other lines.
After the school board had decided
10 continue the use of German, text
books in the Dendson school, the pu.
pills broke into the schoolhouse at
night and made bonfire of the Ger.
man books.
A factory for the manufacture OF
phenol to be used by the government
in the manufacture Of explosives
will be erected at Storm Lake. The
factory Will be located at Lakeside
farm. a mile from the city.
Four men, all crack rifle shots,
have just received commissions as
instructors In small arms practice at
Camp Perry, Ohio, with the rank OF
captain. They are: Cedric A. Barnes.
GriDnell; e. C. Johnson. Fairfield;
Edmund S. Geist and w. Oh. Durch.
denwald, Waterloo.
Figures complied by the state ad.
lutaBt generals office show that the
total number Of Iowa men in Glass ]
is 36.4,24, of which sos are Negroes.
Polk county has 2O5 men in Glass /.
Since September Is. 1880 registered
men have been called or indmcted in
to the military service in this state
The only girl student in the fresh.
man law class at Drake university
received the highest semester aver.
age. Miss Blanch Robbins and MIR.
Gregory Drunk both were awarded
an "A plus" but Miss Robbins mark
outclassed her classmates on account
Of higher test marks.
Governor Harding will take no &C
ton now on the recomme ndations
submitted to him for the changing
OF the names OF the Iowa towns and
streets named after cities in Ger
many. The governor declares that
the more important work must be
done before entering into details of
such matters.
Twenty.three graduate nurses of
Iowa who were in Des Moines to be
examined by the state board of
health. signed applications for Red
Cross work. A call for service was
issued at a dinner given the nurses
by the Polk County Red Cross chap
ter. About ninetylive nurses were
present.
Fred Haas. of Sioux City, draft
registrant, who should have reported
at Camp Dodge, has been bound over
20 the grand Jury, charged with high
way robbery. The might before the
quota left, Haas held up an aged man,
dt is alleged. 1t is charged he took
this means Of evading service. If
SO, q serious charge will be made
against him, the authorities say.
That the war will last for two or
three years longer; and THAT the pres
emit strategy Of the allies is to allow
the Huns to wear down their man
power in the huge offensives they are
now making, is the opinion of Ser
geant Malcolm M Steele, the first
man to return to Hampton after see
ing active service at the front in
France.
The forestry department. of the
Iowa State college by conducting
campaign for systematic cutting and
utilizing of wood for fuel this year
hopes to materially aid the state fuel
administration in its efforts to relieve
the coal shortage. Much of the at
tention of the department in its work
Is being directed to the Mississippi
counties as they are the most heavily
wooded parts in Iowa.
Cash prizes to the amount OF S2.50O
will be offered by the State Horticul-
tural society for exhibits at the mid
west horticultural exposition to be
held next November. The department
devoted to fruits of the various kinds
grown in Iowa comes in for the larg.
est amount, the prizes offered in the
different Glasses aggregating $1,000.
Prizes amounting to $3.50 are offered
junior garden club workers. This will
include not only garden products rails
ed by children but exhibits of canned
fruits and vegetables put UP by them
Iowa went over the top so quick
1t made their heads swim, and Lib
erty Loan officials all over the ma
ton are still wondering how we did
IT.. said c. H. McNider, director Of