Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-07-24

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The town council of Sioux Rapids
has issued $4,000 bonds for the In
stallation Of sewerage system.
| Miss Hortense Porter, secretary OF
the Eldora Commercial club, is Iowa's
only woman holding such position.
Richard Bockes has sold his 10
acre farm, Just north OF the Grundy
Center fair grounds, for $1,000 per
acre.
A baby girl Weighing eight pounds
and having six toes on each hand
and six fingers upon each hand was
born recently to Council Bluffs fam
| lily named Thallas.
O'Brien county had 5000 deposit
ed in Mr.. Knaack's bank at Hartley
when it failed. 1t was fully secured.
Steps have been taken to enforce the
collection OF the amount.
Marshall county jumped out Of the
mud when Marshalltown voted 1920
to 1873 for paved roads and the re-
mainder Of the county precincts gave
q majority for hard-surfaced roads.
A new banking house for Me1rose
Is being organized and will open for
business August first, and will be
known as the Melrosef State bank.
with capital stock at $25.4OOO and
surplus Of $500.
+ Harold L. Boyer, Grinnell attor-
ney, will assist at Washington, D. c.,
In handling compensation cases for
telephone companies that are mem
bers OF the United States Independ-
ent telephone association.
Mrs. s. Slater and her sister, Mrs.
Jess Lorenzen Of Vail, have lived
twenty years within twenty-five miles
OF each other, but the visit they re-
Gently had brought them together for
the second time in two decades.
Because he failed to get into the
army, Orville E. Mcfarland, 20 years.
old, teamster on a dray wagon at Pc
terson, has gone insane and was sent
to the state asylum at Cherokee by
the county board of insanity.
The paving Of the streets Of Ha.,
warden will have to be postponed
one year. The petitions to the coun.
Gil this spring was on the basis of
$500 a yard, but the lowest bid was
$2.39. All were Of necessity rejected.
July Fourth saw such display Of
red flags, the sign Of anarchy and
bolsheyism, at Shellsburg, small
town between Cedar Rapids and vim,
ton, as has not been reported in Iowa.
It is believed that local parties with
anti-democratic inclinations were re.
fsponsible and searching inquiry will
be started.
A dozen highIbred cattle, killed by
lightning during an electrical storm,
at the Uppermill farm. near Wapel.
10, were valued at $4,000. One OF
the cows had been sold for $4,000
and was awaiting delivery, another
sold for $1,000. When the bolt fell
1t killed the cows instantly but three
Of their calves were untouched.
Miss Meta Shook, OF Ames, Iowa's
only aviatrix, has announced her In.
tention Of attempting to fly across
the Pacific in a land plane, with pom.
toons as her only protection She is
on her way westward now, and after
q visit with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
F.. w. Shook OF Ames, will 60 to the
coast to make her final arrange
ments.
Mad dogs cost Iowa not less than
$500 for medicine and physicians
fees last year, Judging by the rec
ords In the Office of the State Board
of Health. There were "a children
bitten by mad dogs in 1918, and the
medicine alone is $25 for treatment.
So far in 1913 there have been 20 or.
more cases, but the worst months are
yet to come.
Sergt. Arthur L. Walters OF Wa
dena, Fayette county soldier, is In
cluded In Gen. John ]. Pershing's list
OF 100 typical heroes OF the American
army In France. His picture appears
in the Ladies' Home Journal, with an
account Of how he drove away from
the vicinity Of his comrades an am
munition truck that was ablaze, and
then put out the dre.
The Geneva company. Jefferson
firm. secured the contract for the
erection Of the new high school build.
ing at that place, their bid being
$130.500 Carstenson Bros, Of Ack-
ley, were awarded the contracts for
heating, plumbing and electrical
work. The building will cost about
S155,000 when finished. Excavation
will be started within ten days.