Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-10-03


ing aper-burning it up or dumping
it in the ash heap-is to destroy its
value. Waste paper, newspapers, mag
azines, "old paper, is converted into
| packages for shells, packages for
sending material and munitions
abroad, into paper again for our own
use. Every sheet of used paper must
| be saved that it may be used over
again-perhaps for letter paper that
the boys over there may write to their
mothers, sisters, sweethearts. Every
sheet of paper that We refrain from
using, that we use economically, tAat
we save; every bit of wrapping pa
per, box, paper bag, ETC., is necessary,
vital and essential to help win the
war. and to help keep supplied our
great paper industries at home.-War
| Industries Board.
The Wright county grand jury, in
session at Clarion, has adjourned, at
ter making three sensational iEdict-
ments charging three prominent and
| well-to-do residents OF the county wlIn
melting hostilities against the United
States. The prominence Of the parties
involved and the gravity of the pen
atty, which may be twenty years in
| a federal prison. have created a pro-
found sensation and to add to the in
terest, members of the Clarion bar, SO
1t is said, have refused to defend the
indicted parties. The persons indict-
ed are: John Liewen, Louis Ludge,
OF Belmond, Mrs Anna Haupt of Ro-
wan.
Eleven conscientious objectors five
Of them from Henry county, near
Iowa City. have been returned to
Camp Dodge and their farm furloughs
cancelled. People in the vicinity
where these men were employed on
farms. because of their refusal to ac-
cept military service, appealed to
Governor Harding to have them re-
called. stating that serious trouble
might ensue if the conscientious OBJ
jectors were permitted to remain on
the farm, while other men were in the
service at the front.
Experienced stenographers among
limited service men in class 1 are
needed at once, to replace men quail
fed and needed for overseas service,
the Military Training Camps associa-
tion Of the Des Moines Chamber of
Commerce announced recently. The
men will be used in the quartermas-
ter corps, ordnance department., bu-
reau of aircraft production, signal
corps and surgeon-generals depart
ment. Men must be between the
ages Of 81 and 80 and Of limited serv.
ice among class / men.
All conscientious DIRECTORS at Camp
Dodge are to be sent to the farm OF
William P. Adams at Odebolt, in Sac
county, under an agreement reached
by Assistant Secretary OF War Keep
pei and Mr.. Adams The arrange
ment is believed by Secretary Keppel
to offer solution Of the difficulties
met when the government sought to
furlough the pacifist draftees to Iowa
farms. The plan resulted in an open
rupture between irate farmers and
some Of the farmers who hired OBJ
jectors.
John Z. Prier, farmer residing
near Dyersville, was recently taken
to Camp Dodge under guard and turn
ed over to the military authorities
because Of his failure to put in an ap-
pearance after being instructed to do
so when the last contingent Of coun-
ty drafted men left Dyersville for the
Iowa cantonment. Prier, who is about
% years Of age, made no attempt to
escape and failed to explain his con-
duct. He offered no protest when
placed under arrest.
One pill maker for each 1900 TAX
ers. This is the plan under consider
alton by Provost Marshal Crowder,
according to the officers of the Iowa
Pharmaceutical association, who met
with the state pharmacy board at the
state house recently to discuss the
shortage Of registered pharmacists
and the plan of the War department
to exempt under the work or fight
order certain percentage OF the
drug compounders.
The following Iowans have been
reported as killed in action or died
Of wounds during the past week: John
R. Livingston, Bedford; Martin e.
Behrends, Buffalo Center; Edward
Strunee, Creston; j. A. Howard,
Woodbine; J. A. Mccartney, Sioux
City; Edmund G. Naber, Arcadia; H.
F. Peterson, Pierson.
Seventeen per cent of the seventh
federal reserve district quota Of the
fourth Liberty loan has been allotted
to Iowa, making the quota for the
state, s147.900,000 Polk countys
| quota Of this amount is $7,964,l0
With applications from all parts OF
the middle west pouring into the reg
istrar's office daily, indications are
that the enrolment of men at Grin
nell college this fall will exceed that
of any previous year by twenty-five or
thirty per cent. There is already an
increase of fifty per cent in the reg
istration of the freshmen
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