Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-22
Clinton has voted a 100000 school

honor Of the soldiers boys.
An election ON building a $4,000
water plant will be held at Patton
A $4,000 monument to the soldiers
Of three wars was dedicated at Cory
don.
The Pella Chamber of Commerce
has given Central college s10,500 for
its gymnasium.
The I. o. o. F. orphanage at Mason
City must be enlarged says Grand
Master j. NJ Hazlet
The farmers at Bryantburg have
formed the Equity Cooperative asso-
eiation with $4,000 capital.
The federal officers have found a
81 bill which has been raised to So
and circulated at Cedar Rapids.
Newton has adopted the city man
ager plan and has appointed Harry
Sheark of Kansas City to take the
place at $4,000.
Railroad work at the Illinois Gem
trail shops, Waterloo, has been cut
down by the government to an arbi-
trary eight-hour day.
The First Congregational and First
Presbyterian churches of Corning
have consolidated as the Federated
Church of Adams county.
The Cherry company of Cedar Rap
ids. manufacturers Of dairy produc-
ton goods, will add a $250,0OO fac
tory and 100 new workmen.
A campaign has been started at
PeIla to induce farmers to plant corn
for canning. A factory has been
erected at a cost of $4,000.
C. E. Rice of Boone lost an auto
mobile last September. It was locat-
ed a few days ago at Huron, S. D.,
and has been returned to him.
Stanford has the banner for i'm
provements, considering size. 1t will
curb and gutter forty blocks and
pave forty-five this year. It has only
COL people.
Harry Ogden Of Red Oak, having
voted for thirty-two years, found out
recently that he had never been nat
uEalized and Immediately took out
che necessary papers.
Harold L. Reed, son of Prof. and
Mrs. NJ. A. Reed of Woodbine has
been appointed head Of the depart
ment of commerce in New York uni
versity, and will begin his work in,
September.
M. @. Cardio of Atlantic, whose
four sons are IN the service, died as
the result Of attack Of kidney trouble
brought on when he went to New
York to meet one Of his soldier sons
two weeks ago.
It used to be from blacksmith to
minister" but times have changed,
ind now it is BLACKSMITH and min
ster." There is a notable example
Of this in Charles City in the person
Of the Rev. Belden Weikel, pastor of
the United Evangelical church, and
at the same time an expert worker in
The forge shop of the Hart Parr fac
tory.
The Southern Iowa Short Ship cir
cult on the half-mile tracks, covered
by $4,000 in purses, opens August IL,
IN Knoxville. The meeting will con-
time in Knoxville until August Is.
At Abba the events will open Aug
ust Is and continue until August 81.
The next day the circuit will open
in Des Moines and will end August
%, after which Corydon, Oskaloosa
and other Iowa towns will be visited.
No way has been found as yet I'M
der which the state board of control
can secure funds to manufacture au-
tomobile plates as directed by the
Thirty eighth general assembly. It is
probable the board will not be able
10 go forward with this work until
some special legislation is enacted
ut the special session of the legisla-
ture next winter. The auto license
law passed by the recent legislature
directed the board to make plates,
but the clause making an appropria-
ton for buying the necessary ma
ohinery to Manufacture the plates
was omitted from the bill as finally
passed.
Perhaps the largest farm in Iowa
Is located near Odebolt, and consists
of eleven sections. 1t is known as
&he Cook ranch and was owned by
the late H. H. Wheeler, who was de-
feated for governor of Iowa by Horace
Boies. The land is Of exceptional
quality and has been farmed with an
idea Of preserving the fertility Of the
soil. At the time that Wheeler left
Iowa he sold this land at $31 per acre
or for an amount totaling something
like $751;, 900. The present owner has
recently given an option on the land
at $3.50 per acre or in round figures
about $4,000, 900. During all these
years the land has produced bounti-
full crops and undoubtedly has made
the owner wealthy.
The Rev. David Gerdes of Malvern,
the Dunkard minister who was SEN
fenced by Judge Lands at Rockford,
Nov. 20, to serve ten years imprison-
ment was pardoned from Leaven-
worth by President Wilson
The Rev. j. g. Orth of Guthrie Gem
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