Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-08-08

Judge Reed ruled in Federal Court
that the Iowa gas company may
charge So per thousand cubic feet to
consumers in Iowa Falls.
DR.. ]. B. Trimble, superintendent OF
the Sioux City district of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, has been nam
ed to head Morningside college at
Sioux City.
Harold l. Post. an employee in the
military division OF the postoffice In
Des Moines was arrested recently by
federal authorities for ritiing mail ad.
dressed to soldiers at Camp Dodge.
Basil Lynch, member of the 158th
infantry, in France. writes his broth
er in Atlantic that he and eleven
companions were cut of in raid
and surrounded by so Germans, IS of
whom they killed.
Iowa's prize baby is dead. Beulah
Margaret Kaufman, 2-year-old daugh.
: ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. F. "A. Kaufman
of Stanhope, who won the sweepstakes
prize at the state fair last year and
was awarded loving cup. died re-
Gently of tubercular meningitis.
For the month of June, Iowa rank
ed in third place among all states for
total sales of War Savings Stamps
Total sales in the state were $4,672,.
889.07. Minnesota and Indiana were
the only states having larger sales in
proportion to their population.
The principal crossings in the bus
mess district. of Des Moines have
been marked off with white paint to
guide the pedestrians 1t is now
man has been arrested for this of
tense.
A majority of the men discharged
for physical disability at Camp Pike
are Iowans, with Arkansas second
numerically in the list of five states
represented on the discharge lists.
Most Of the men are placed in class
B and class C and will be returned to
their local boards for Reconsideration.
Three persons were drowned in the
Skunk river northwest of Fremont re-
Gently. Claude Millikin, IA, was swim
ming and got beyond his depth. His
cries of distress brought Dr. L. A.
Osborne, who plunged in to save him.
Osborne got caught in a snag and his
calls for help brought the Rev. w. E.
Bruner, who was dragged underneath
the water by the other two.
With two aviators, two sailors and
two soldiers as pail bearers. the body
of Lieut.. Richard Ristine, aviator of
Cedar Rapids, who was killed by
fall at Gerstner Field, Lake Charles.
La, recently was consigned to the
grave at Cedar Rapids The funeraI
was a military one and was attended
by men representing all branches of
the service who are home on leave.
Rev. Cyrus Albertson, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal church at Rock
Branch, has resigned his pastorate to
go into the army as private. The
Rock Branch community gathered
several hundred strong in great
sendoff for him and several other
young men who are entering the serv-
ice.
One hundred soldiers from Camp
Dodge who will fight for democracy
over there, trod the hot sands of the
desert when ZaGa-Zig temple of Des
Moines, held special ceremonial at
the Auditorium. A special session for
the khaki clad novices was arranged
by j. Jolly Jones, recorder. and Pc.
tentate William Koch Several civil
ian novices made the journey also
Mr.. and MrA w. H. Longstreet
of Red Oak, have received a letter
from their son, Lieutenant Jack Y.
service, and is now in camp at Min
cola, l.. L., in which he states that
he has volunteered with forty other
aviators In his squadron to fly the
first fleet Of bombing machines across
the Atlantic to Europe
A force of men. in charge of County
Agent Ben H. Walker, went to farms
near Bldora, one evening recently,
and for three hours gave of their
time to the shocking of farmers oats,
wheat and barley. Most of these men
had in years gone by lived on farms
and the work was not necessarily
new to them. About forty acres of
grain was put in shock in a short
time.
Rev. E. P. Kimball, the oldest man
in Waterloo and one of the oldest in
Iowa, celebrated his ninety-ninth birth
day recently. He is still in good health,
and works every morning in his war
garden" Rev Mr. Kimball founded
two of the first Congregational
churches in Iowa-one at Newton and
the other at Valley Junction. While
minister of the gospel in New
Hampshire he served in the state leg
islature.
The Sailing Day" plan for the con-
solidation of freight shipments, and
the short routing of carloads of
freight, the first of which will save
cars and the second distances, went
into effect in the state recently Lloyd
Jordan of the Chicago Great Wesfern