Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-11-06

have sold Poland China hog to q.
Forrest for $500.
Farmers are having no difficulty
securing corn huskers att or 8 cents
a bushel. Harvesting the crop has
hardly started.
Twenty-Five members Of the high
school class, OF FIT. Dodge, In sales
manship are putting theory into prac-
tice by selling goods in various stores
in the city.
Mrs. Abbie Gardner Sharpe, OF Ar
nolds Park, Lake Okoboji, is serious
ly i'll In hospital at Spencer. She
is the only survivor Of the historical
Spirit Lake massacre in 1857.
Gerrit Klay has received his COM
mission from the Queen OF Holland
and President Of the United States.
recognizing him as vice consul OF the
Netherlands at Orange City for, the
state Of Iowa.
The first postwar gathering Of the
Iowa State Nurses association, which
will be held in Des Moines, will be
featured with the presentation to the
association Of a service flag OF $50
blue stars and nine gold stars.
Webster City's municipal plant will
conserve Impossible coal. A strictly
wartime schedule Of Lights. both
street and residence, is to be enforc-
ed. Only the top light OF the cleo
troliers in the business district Is to
be lighted.
Cash amounting to about $95 ,00O,-
600 was contributed by the American
Red Cross for relief work in France
alone and about $75,000.000 was con-
tributed foc similar work in 20, other
countries, during the war period OF
90 months.
The town of Eagle Grove Is engag-
ed in a bitter controversy over Sun
day movies and baseball. No one
protested Sunday ball games till the
movie theatre announced a Sunday
program recently, when the move
ment to enforce the Sunday closing
laws started.
A new million dollar corporation
to be known as the Union Bond and
Mortgage company. was launched in
Davenport by the filing Of articles Of
Incorporation. William Heuer, pres
ident OF the Union Savings Bank Of
Davenport, Is also president OF the
new company.
Much interest attaches to the re.
cent display at the Audubon county
fair Of the Iowa 105 oats, which was
shown to have out-yie1ded local va
rieties by 10 bushels to the acre.
The beardless winter wheat also at
tracted much attention as did sudan
grass and soy beans.
Union county can now boast of hav.
ing some Of the highest silos in the.
state. Carl Brothers have erected
twenty-three silos this year. averag-
| ing forty feet dn height and fourteen
| feet in diameter. Besides the cement
silo there are over fifty silos erect
ed this year in the county Of wood
and tile. s
Ivanhoe Whitfield, formerly with the
! State Agricultural department., is In
charge Of the publicity for the, Iowa
Farm Bureau federation which has
started a big membership campaign
in Des Moines. Whitfield was for
FIVE years superintendent OF the pub.
Lefty department which SO success
4 fully boosted Iowa's state fair.
\ Fire at the home Of John Lyons,
a wealthy farmer living alone near
Plano. led to the discovery by neigh
bors Of Lyons body in the house, and
every building on the place ablaze.
Lyons was shot through the head.
All the livestock was locked in. Most
OF 1t was saved. Lyons was s. years
old. Mystery surrounds the death and
1 fires.
Free limestone I is being offered to
farmers OF Appanoose county for ag-
ricultural. purposes by the Cedar Val
ley Trap Rock company. The only
expense to the farmer will be the
| additional freight on car lots from
i the quarry at Stone City to the home
station. Eight cars have already
been ordered by farmers in the coun-
ty.
A new plan OF cooperation is being
tried out by farmers in Marshall
county. The farmers who are unable
to get carpenters readily, have plan
ned to build or erect farm buildings
comparatively under the direction of
! the Farm Building Expert. OF the Ag-
4 ricultural Extension department. The
| Agricultural Extension department
will furnish the plan but group Of
! eight or ten farmers will do the
work, cutting out the materials and
getting the building up. The first
building built comparatively is a poul-
try house. If this kind of co-opera-
tion works we'll it may find applica-
ton in larger enterprises.
The board Of county supervisors OF
johnson county in session at Iowa
City CLOSED deal for the purchase
of eighty-nine acres of land adjoining
j the county poor farm, four miles