Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-03-27

Jesse Gray, 1S.year-old youth OF
Hopkinton was shot and killed in a
quarrel at the George Higgins home
near that place recently.
Private Fred L. Sexton, an Iowa
marine, whose home is in Waterloo,
has been awarded the distinguished
service cross for gallantry in action.
During the year 1918 the school
children of Des Moines invested $425,-
060 in Liberty bonds and War Savings
and Thrift Stamps, according to re.
port made by Superintendent Thorn
burg.
Five large farms were sold near
Alta recently. lAll five went at 5000
an acre. They all changed owners a
year ago and the recent owners have
cleared from $50 to SIS per acre on
the deal.
r.. N. Holsaple, superintendent of
the Iowa Anti-Saloon league is In
Michigan this week, assisting the An,
ti-Saloon league Of that state in a
campaign launched for the purpose Of
blocking liquor interests there.
A 240 acre farm near Marcus,
known as the Quirin place sold recent
~ to Oscar Heline of Marcus, at a
price OF $312.50 an acre. This is one
Of the highest prices ever paid for so
large farm in Cherokee county.
An army captain who offended pub
lie sentiment at Greene recently,
when he bawled out couple because
their baby disturbed his speechmak
ing, was given an egg shower just as
he was boarding train to leave town.
The. tail end" Of real cyclone hit
Webster City recently and for several
days the town was without power or
light as the city light and power plant
was wrecked. While a great deal of
property was damaged no one was in.
jured.
Julius Sorenson, 46 years old, we'll
TODD farmer living near the Audubon.
Guthrie county line committed sui,
eide recently by saturating his clothes
with oil and setting fire to them. No
possible motive has been discovered
for the deed.
James Black, well-known Waterloo
drygoods merchant died recently OF
pneumonia Black started his career
as pack peddler over forty years ago
in Marshalltown where he roomed
with Billy Sunday, the evangelist,
then a. driver Of delivery wagon.
7 The 1900 foot well at Walnut was to
have been completed within a few
days. Now the towns dream of a
splendid water supply is shattered,
for sand bucket is struck at the bot.
tom Of the hole and unless it can be
jdislodged the well will have to be
abandoned. This was one Of the deep.
est wells in that part of the country.
DR.. w. T. Graham, superintendent
of the University Of Iowa hospital at
Iowa City, declares that adult cripples
. entitled to treatment at state ex,
pense under the extension of the Per.
kins law, can be accommodated cas-.
lily. The opening Of the new chill.
.lren's hospital has left in the general
hospital four floors of one wing va
cant
Mrs. Mary E. Ke- -edy of Boone re.
Gently received telegram supposed
to be from her dau liter, an army
nurse, with a unit VIII eli had just land.
ed in New York, asking that s75 be
wired to her. Miss Kennedy refused
the money and wired back that she
had not asked for it, 1t is thought
that arrests will be made soon as it
was plainly an attempt at fraud.
Leo D. Allen of Fort Dodge, recent
iy discharged from the army has gone
to Tulsa, Oklahoma to claim grub
stake of 5000 that has grown to mil
lions. Five years ago he staked a
stranger for 5000 taking supposedly
worthless oil stock therefor The oil
stock which covered an oil we'll near
Tulsa is now worth several million
dollars.
Bill Shackleton, So years old. of Os.
kalcosa. made thorough job of kill.
ing himself. He stood on box, put
a rope around his neck, tied the other
cHu vi lllt rope W d TdIL6T ana LQ0u
struck himself on the head with a
sledge hammer. knocking himself off
the box causing strangulation. His
skull was fractured by the blow from
the hammer
The 112 local, two district and thir.
ty-six medical advisory boards in
Iowa, who had charge of the draft
work under the direction of the ad-
jutant general of Iowa, have received
orders from the provost marshal gen
eral to close their work and ship
their records to Washington not later
than March 81. Iowa will ship to
Washington at least thirty carloads
Aof records, making a fair sized freight
train. Iowa had more than 100000
registrants.A
Clarinda school children are getting
milk at cost. The school authorities
tried out milk diets for the smaller
children and found its effects SO bene.
fcial that the practice of selling milk