Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-09-18

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| The Iowa Official Register for
| l919-1920 is off the press.
A forty-acre field Of corn sold at
public sale on the Herman Eick
farm near Waverly for $50 an acre.
| When the two moving picture
houses OF Boone opened Sunday for
| the first time, the managers were
| hailed into court for violation Of the
law
Donald Cullins, of Sioux City, who
lost his voice after gas attack dur
ing the ST. Mihiel drive i'm 1918. re-
covered his speech when toothpick
lodged in his throat induced violent
coughing.
The. Iowa federation OF colored
women's clubs has purchased the
Susanna Sunier residence at 1owaN
City as dornritory for colored girl
students at the state university.
Byron Seymour, a carpenter at
| Ames, was severely bitten by a large
rat when he endeavored to capture
the animal. Blood poison developed.
His arm swelled to- twice it's normal,
size.
Martin Luther has sold his acreage
of eighteen and one-half acres, To-
Gated within the city OF Strawberry
Point to G. M. Dodge of Lamont for
the sum OF $4,000. The place is.
well improved and was bought by
Mr.. Luther four years ago for $12,,-
600.
Iowa day will be Friday, .Ocr 20,
in practically all of the public
schools Of the state, as well as in,
the private and psrichial schools, Sc
cording to plans Of state superinten.
dent Of public instruction, P e. Nc
Clenahan. Special programs with
the history and developments of Iowa
will be presented.
The Universal Foundry company
Incorporated for $4,000. is East near
ing completion and will soon be
counted as one of the many Cedar
Rapids industries. Messrs Ross, Will.
lis and Beals, who have charge OF
the new foundry which formerly was
operating in Quincy, ILL.,, are making
preparations for the opening Of the
plant
The farm bureau OF Buchanan
county, in cooperation with the In
dependence Commercial club and
similar organizations throughout the
county, has created a general fund
for the purpose Of advertising the
county as center of pure-bred live
stock. A trademark has been adopt
ed and electrotypes made and dis
tributed broadcast.
The town Of 'Plainfeld, with pop
ulation Of 500. has set aside thirty
eight acres OF land near the city
limits for an airplane landing field
The field was secured through the
cooperation OF Lieut.. Harold Roach
and the village authorities. Since
the field has been set aside quite q
number of aviators are using 1t for
landing purposes, and the town prom
Uses to become center of aviation.
The second all-steel government
barge to be built by the Dubuque
Boat and Boiler works will be- ready
for launching in few weeks. The.
Dubuque plant has contract to build
seven Of these barges for the gov
eminent. Five are in the process OF
building. The barges average three
hundred feet in length and cost APP
proximately 100000 each.
Fort Des Moines boasts OF having,
the only woman editor Of an ARMY
paper in the United States. She is
Miss Mollie Russell, head reconstruc-
ton aide Of the medical and lsospi-
tai division OF the army. For three
years prior to her enlistment IN the
\ service she did newspaper work ON
an evening daily in Michigan. Now
she edits the Fort Des Moines Post,
the paper published every week for
4 the patients and personnel OF the hos
| pital star. Miss Russell enlisted for
I overseas service November 10, 1918,
and waited in New York thirty days
for sailing orders at the end OF which
time she was ordered to Fort Des
Moines instead
1 Wnen Les MONIES county lined up
with the good roads program max
ing the twenty-ffth and the twelfth
to vote bonds-more than $4,000, 900
in bonds had been voted by the peo-
| pie and the expenditure OF more
| than $50O00,000 had been authorized
In the building of real roads In lowe.
The counties which have voted for
good roads are Clay, Kossuth, Linn,
Palo Alto. Buchanan, Sioux, Scott.
Johnson, OBrien, Marshall, Black
Hawk, Cerro Gordo. Woodbury., BEN
ton, Polk, Osceola, Dickinson. Floyd,
Greene. Lyon. Emmett, Hancock, Ply
mouth, Clinton. Des Moines. The
mud roads counties are Buena Vista.
sac, Calhoun, Story. Tama, Franklin.
Hardin, Cherokee, Carroll.
CANNON Do Valera, president OF
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