Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-07-18

Iowa. Members of this organization
held an outdoor meeting near Oska-
loosa in Mahaska county. Members of
the county council of defense in Ma
haska county considered the advisa-
bility of preventing the meeting from
being held, but decided to allow the
affair to go on Members of the coun.
ty defense council, however, were in
attendance to find out what was going
on and were prepared to stop the
meeting at an ytime necessary.
3. E. Hoag, manager of the Hoag
Buster factory at Monticello, is one
of the first employers to hire older
men to help with his work in the
factory He has two men now on the
force who are 20 years of age, and
who can compete sfavorably with the
younger men. They are drawing the
same salary. A great many of the
young men who were employed in
this factory have enlisted, so that
Mr.. Eoag has found it hard matter
to get the necessary help.
Ministers wives in Washington
county did not get the supply of spend.
ing money that usually comes their
way in June as the result of wedding
ceremonies. Only six licenses were
issued at the county clerks office dur
ing the month, compared with an av-
erage of eighteen for the four preced-
ing Junes. War conditions have cut
in on the matrimonial inclinations of
Washington county young people to
great extent.
Butler county's first soldier boy to
give his life for the cause was Priv
ate Claude w. Tack, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. j. Tack, Of Greene. The
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Tack, ST., received the sad message
July from Capt. John A. Nelson,
from Hoboken, N. j., telling of the
arrival of the body at Hoboken,
whence it will be sent to his old
home in Greene. Private Tack was
only 16 years old.
The heavy rainfall of the last few
weeks has resulted in the cabbage
raised in Muscatine county arriving
on the market ahead of time. Usu-.
ally the cabbage raised in that COM
munity is not ready for market be
fore the Fourth of July, but this year
and last year, due to the amount of
rainfall in the spring and early sum-
mer, the cabbages matured ahead of
time. The quality of the cabbages
is very high.
Frederick Schuchard, professor of
drawing, was discharged from Du-
buque college, formerly st. Joseph's,
after creating sensation in the
United States court room recently.
When asked to explain pro-German
statements by United States Marshal
Mooney, Schuchard said: Il don't
want to be an American citizen. 1
resign my citizenship. owe America
nothing. We will never find democ-
racy anywhere else but in hell"
Because he said, 81 think the kali
ser is all right" Private Martin
Fuhrmann, of Salem, N. D., a mem
Der of the quartermasters corps, at
Camp Dodge, has been tried by a
general court martial, convicted of
uttering disloyal and seditious state
ments, and sentenced to five years
at hard labor in the United States
disciplinary barracks at Ft. Leaven-
worth, Kas.
A coronoer's jury fully exonerated
o. w. Okerlin, mayor of Essex, after
an investigation into the death Of
Isaac Beck, who was killed from
striking the cement walk when the
mayor knocked him down. Beck,
who was farmer, 43 years old,
leaves widow and eight children.
1t is said he was intoxicated and was
causing trouble in Essex.
Food administrator Deems has Is.
sued statement urging the people to
use more sauerkraut. 1t is very good
| food and the enlarged use of it and
other vegetables will materially help
the food conservation program. 1t
has been found that people are giving
up sauerkraut because they think the
| name is German. In fact it Is OF
Dutch (Holland) origin.
| In his speech before the republican
state convention in Des Moines re
Gently, Governor Harding declared
that, Il say to you sofemnly that
we can have but one country, one
flag and one language, and that we
can have one country and one flag
only by having that one language"
L. D. Sprott, restaurant man, and
E. E. Barnes, druggist, both of Sa
lem, were recently fined SIS each BY
the state food administrator, for sell
ing ice cream cones on Mondays
Wednesdays, and after 5 o'clock OF
other days, a practice which the Law
1 prohibits.
After nominating P. E. McClenahar
Of Iowa City for the office of state
superintendent Of public instruction
and adopting platform indorsing ma
| tional equal suffrage, protective tar
if as an after war measure, ratifica
ton Of the federal dry amendment
ballot simplification, Governor Hard
r..