Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-07-10
Air mail service has been establish.
cd between New York and Chicago.

Hogs ON the Chicago market com.
mAnded the highest pEfce ever Nnow'n,
$21.75 hundred weight
The State Employment Bureau at
Lincoln has issued a call for 1000
harvest workers WHO are needed at
once in southern Nebraska.
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All intoxicants left in the hands of
Wyoming liquor dealers July / has
been declared contraband and is to be
seized by the state.
The final figures in the balloting on
liquor licensing in New Zealand show
a majority of 1862 votes in favor of a
continuance of the licenses.
Five robbers held up the officer Of
the NIiddleforl bank near Benton, ILL.,,
and after woundi1lg three employees of
the company, escaped with $41 900.
Twelve miners were killed and
three seriously injured as a result of
an explosion in Il mine of the Rock
Island Coal company at Anderson,
Okla.
Substantially as reported by the
house water power joint committee,
the administration water power bill
was passed by the house and went to
the senate.
Governor McKelvie of Nebraska
probably will call a special session OF
the legislature for July 21 to ratify
the federal suffrage amendment, he
announced at Lincoln.
William Jennings Bryan, prominent
national prohibition leader. baked on
riding camel in the prohibition day
parade at the Methodist centenary
celebration at Columbus, Ohio.
Eighteen American soldiers We're
killed, one officer and eight men Sc
verely wounded in an engagement
with bolshevik forces near Roman
ovka, Siberia, on June %.
Nebraska Knights of John Barley
corn held no sympathy celebrations
when wartime prohibition went into
effect July l. The official farewell
was rendered two years ago.
Thirteen St. Louis breweries are
still manufacturing beer containing
2A per cent alcohol and the majority
of saloons opened as usual after July
l, selling only beer and soft drinks.
Scores of cities. large and small
throughout the United States gave hi
larious farewells to ''hard liquor"
June so, when wartime prohibition
went into effect in the United States
A hail storm which visited Rapid
City, S. D.. and vicinity did thousands
of dollars worth of damage. Hail
stones as large as hen eggs fell.
breaking windows and destroying
crops.
Figures compiled by the Omaha
Chamber of Commerce shows that Ne
braska leads the nation in the num-
Der of automobiles per capita popula-
ton, With one to every rs persons in
the state.
Immediate discharge from the army
is asked by 40S non colnmissioned of
ficers and enlisted men of the S2d
field artillery stationed at Ell Paso,
Tex, in a petition which they have
forwarded to Washington.
The Russian soviet government has
been warned by the United States
that if it's threat of reprisals against
American citizens in Russia is carried
out it would arouse intense sentiment
in the United States against the soviet
heads.
The British admiralty issued q
statement declaring thas no effective
measures could have ',een taken D,y
Lie DiiliSH admiralty 10 prevent
scuttling of the German fleet at
Scapa Flow without violating the
terms Of the armistice.
Urgent need for replacement troops
in the American expedition to Siberia
led the war department to order an
organized campaign by recruiting Of
ficers to obtain voluntary applications
for Siberian service from men enlist
ed in the army
According to the Berlin Tageblatt
the German government, beaded ;,y
Philip Scheidemann, had planned to
refuse to sign the peace treaty and to
permit the allied troops tt march into
Germany IS fal as Ere, where il
would be attacked by strong German
forces.
DIR. Won Bethmann- Hollweg. former
German chancellor, has asked the al
lied and associated mowers to nlooo