Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-09-19
FOR THE BUSY MAN !
NEWS EPlToME THAT CAN SOON
BE COMPRISED.
MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED

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Home and Foreign intelligence csA
densed Into Two and Four
Line Paragraphs.
j The war deparemtnt has announced
the arrival in France of Secretary
Baker, accompanied by an official
| party.
Nat Goodwin, famous actor, is a
single man again, having secured a
divorce from his fifth wife at New
York.
The high price records for live
stock at Kansas City were broken
when steers sold at $3.50 and hog
prices scared to $2O.5O.
1 Field Marshal Haig has announced
that during the past four weeks the
British armies in France have taken
$4,000 prisoners and $50 guns.
Announcement has been made that
the street railway company at Detroit,
Mich, will employ women conductors,
owing to the shortage of men.
/ Director General McAdoo has in
structed regional railroad directors TO
prepare claims for exemption for all
men necessary to operation of the
lines"
Colleges and universities with stu
dents army training corps units have
been advised by the war department
not to make plans for football sched-
ules this fall,
Camp Cody, New Mexico, will be
abandoned when the Ninety-seventh
division, soon to be- assembled there,
has been trained and left the camp,
according to an announcement.
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A campaign for a 100000 fund to
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/ be given as prize to the winner of
an aerial race across the Atlantic
ocean has been opened by the direc-
tors of the aviation club of Chicago.
Eugene v. Debs, charged with
violating the espionage act, was found
I guilty by federal jury at Cleveland,
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years Imprisonment and a fine, of $1O,-
600.
4 Consumers will pay at least cesst
! pound more for sugar after the
present stocks of the country are ex-
hausted, under the new price of cane
sugar at the seaboard, announced by
the sugar equalization board.
One out of every six persons bought
Liberty bonds in the third loan. The
exact number of subscribers was
4 1S,,3OS325, 1T per cent of the 103,-
100000 estimated population of the
country.
4 Manufacturers of near beers and
other substitutes, it has been officially
explained, are affected by the deci.
sion to cut off brewing of beer. Mil.
lions of dollars have been invested in
the business.
The long-eXpected peace offensive
of the central European powers was
inaugurated when Baron Burian
Austro- Hungarian foreign minister
made a speech to German newspaper
men, suggesting that the allies an(
central powers discuss peace terms.
a Provost Marshal Crowder announced
that the new draft for which approx
mately 100000 registered las
Thursday, men 10 and 20 and 81 an(
SO inclusive will be the first called tt
the colors. The first of these men ar,
! expected to reach camp in October.
General John J. Pershing, com
mander of the American armies il
Trance was So years old Septembe
ID. Hundreds of cities and town
throughout the United States cele
brated the occasion in honor of TIL
great American general.
American troops in all units ii
France have been instructed to xii
on the spot anyone who in time o
+ battle urges surrender. These instrue
lions followed a report that an Amer
can soldier urged such action in
recent battle.
The White Star liner Parsic wit
$500 American soldiers on board ha
: been torpedoed All hands wer
savel by destroyers which swarme
around the stricken vessel. The troo
ship was member of a large conyo
approaching the English coast. TIL
vessel did not sink and was beached.