Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-04-17

The city council at Ames has de-
cided not to let pool halls open.
The schools of Fairbank have.
adopted the new time, the churches
cling to the old.
j. T. Fleming Of Reinbeck has
bought the 144-acre farm of ]. 81
Breckenridge near Dinsdale for 1920
an acre, or $50 ,4S0.
Statistics disclose that Ida county
pays the highest wages to farm
hands, 500. There is a shortage of
farm hands in the state.
Five counties will hold a circuit Of
Homecoming welcomes for returning
soldiers at Atlantic, Red Oak, Willis
ca, Glenwood, Corning, Clarinda, and
Shenandoah.
The prisoners in Jail at Burlington
have refused to work unless they
get more food and the jailer declines
to comply because he cannot afford
to give them more food for the so
cents day allowed by law.
A bill by Van Alstine OF Humboldt
county, which proposed to license
fishing and compel everyone who de-
sired to fish to pay 81 annually, was
defeated in the Senate. The bill
aroused much opposition and not
little ridicule. Senator Brookhart in
troduced an amendment to include
swimming with fishing in the license
provision on the grounds that small
boys did more harm to the fish by go
ing in swimming, than they did by
fishing.
Despondent because young WON
an had rejected his advances, Alfred
Taylor, son of prominent farmer Of
Benton township. near Atlantic,
hanged himself His body was found
by his mother. The young man went
down to the barn to do the chores. A
half hour later his mother went to
call him to supper. She found his
body still warm, hanging from RAT
ter. Young Taylor was the son Of
Willis Taylor and wife. He was 80
years old and unmarried,
The Fort Dodge branch Of the
Quaker Oats plant has been closed
down. At its height it employed 400
people. That was during the war.
mill will not be dismantled but the
organization will be disbanded SUI
perintendent R. w. Mormack goes to
Peterboro, Ont. The order from Chi
cago, closing. the mill says the coun-
try Is overstocked with substitutes for
wheat products, the trade is trying to
liquidate this overstock, export bust
ness is difficult and it is impossible
to keep all the units going for the
present at least.
The proprietor Of one OF Wateroo's
business establishments, Joe Schiel,
had a reminder that he is numbered
among the city's Oldest merchants
when AL. Livingston veteran Hin
OILS Central engineer, brought copper
wash boiler to his store for slight re-
pairs and volunteered the informa-
that it was the twenty-eighth ami
versary Of its purchase. This set
Joe to thinking, and while he lays no
claims to being manufactures, he
recalls that the boiler was a product
OF his tinshop, and that L. w. Colby.
who made 1t. has constructed 5000
washboilers during the thirty years
that he has been in his employ. MIR.
Schiel and Mr.. Colby were fellow en-
ployes In Joe Hackers hardware
store for eight years previous to 1899,
when the former established his pres
ent business.
The Victory Liberty Loan is to be
studied by every student from the
fifth grade up in Polk county schools,
according to plans perfected by Mrs.
Meyer Rosenfield, who Is arranging
a most comprehensive plan for inter-
esting the students and through
them prospective buyers. Wednes-
day, April is, was designated as Vic
tory Loan day in all the public
schools in the county. Mrs. A. IL.
Hoffman. county superintendent. and
2. G. Thornburg, city superintendent
directed that special programs be
held in the 60 city and $50 rural
schools. Every child from the fifth
grade on Is expected to prepare an
essay on the Victory Loan. Eleven
thousand pamphlets giving informa.
ton concerning the present and pre-.
vious loans and suggestions for spe-
cial subjects to follow will be dis
tributed in these grades, the material
having been prepared by Miss Nellie
Warren Of Greenwood school, Prizes
to the writer's Of the best essays in
each grade in the city and county
will be awarded and bronze honor
medal made from a captured German
cannon will be a prize. All high
school pupils in English, economics.
civics and history, will consider the
Victory Loan and other war loans
from various angles pertinent to the
subjects. English students will write
themes