Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-04-24
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Mrs. Eliza G. Ellis, formerly of Du-


Waterloo teachers have been given
a % per cent increase in wages.
Contracts for pavement amounting
to $225,000 have been awarded at Lo-
gan.
The Bedford high school won the
Western Iowa high school debating
championship.
Milford is the only town in Iowa
with more ice than it needs. 1t will
have q 800 ton surplus
Miss Bess G. Bissell sof Dubuque.
has returned from sixteen months
service as a canteen worker.
Frank Maroney, aged So. Of Du-5
buque, found dead in slough, died
of heart disease, the coroner decided
I, Decatur county honored its returned
soldiers by a big celebration at Leon,
with Hon. Nate Kendall as the
speaker.
XII Men Yang, a Grinnell student.
has astonished his fellow students by
extracting edible milk from the soy
bean.
The next biennial convention of
the Woodmen of the World and of the
Woodmen Circle will be held in Ma
son City.
Auto speeding cost James Young
1000 in district court at Cedar Rap
ids, two verdicts for accident victims
being returned by the jury
Capt. Paul Perigord, who spoke in
February at the meeting of iowa ed
itors, is to make number Of Chautau-
qua addresses in the state.
Because he draws more money than
any other preacher, the delegates at
the Latter Day Saints conference in
Lamont. PANIED F. M. Smith.
Capt James Norman Hall will be
signally honored by Iowa people liv-
ing in New York at reception held
in the ballroom Of the Hotel Plaza.
E Sioux City carpenters are on strike
for 80 cents an hour. They have been
getting 621k cents The employers Of
fered them 20 cents but they refused.
Lieut. NJ H. Howell Of Belmond,
has been awarded the croix de guerre
for making war maps in the face OF
the Huns by creeping within range
Of his guns.
Mud roads prevent carrying on the
100000 drainage project involving
Cerro Gordo, Franklin and Hancock
counties. Teams cannot haul coal to
feed the engines.
A. w. Judy Of Centerville has in
vented a universal joint that will do
away with betting and will enable air
ships to rise and alight vertically. It's
the thing the mechanical world has
been waiting for.
The Louisa County Shorthorn
Breeders association sold forty-four
head for sS,0S5; average Of $780,
Highest, heifer, went to D. M. Over
holt at Iowa City for s640.
Chester Giles Of Perry has been in
formed that his son, Sgt, B. M. Giles,
has succumbed to pneumonia over
seas. His other son. D. S. Giles, died
overseas few months ago.
A lighting plant exploded and
wrecked the United Presbyterian
church at Hepburn. and seriously hurt
Fred Graham, custodian. A large con-
gregation had just gone away.
A full blood Cherokee Indian, Phil
ip Cook, addressed the meeting of the
Latter Day Saints at Lamont. The
religio department elected G. S. Trow-
bridge of st. Louis, president.
Lieut. Charles Merrick, who has re-
turned to his home at Boone, was a
flyer in France and brought down
three Hun planes. fell but escaped in
jury, and was decorated and cited.
At a mass meeting of the boys of the
Sheldon high school pledge was tax
en- to abstain from unclean and pro
fame language and tobacco. The meet
ing and pledge were purely voluntary.
Twenty-eight young men of Boone
gave 300 pieces of their skin to aid in
restoring to normal health a young
man, Edward Dippo. who was serious
~ injured in train wreck some time
ago.
Emma Lamb Young Of Clinton has
given 100000 to the Agatha hospital
and its name will be changed to Jane
Lamb Memorial hospital. the money
being given by her daughter in mem
DRY OF her mother
| H. d. Kreig. bookkeeper in the Ba-
tavia Savings bank, whose cashier
| w. A. Lewis, committed suicide, and
in which was found shortage of
! $685. 900, has turned over $4,000 cash
and title to 225 acre farm near Lib
| ertyville.
w. r. Beers told the council, that
he had been offered $4,000 more for
all his ice than he could sell 1t at
Fort Dodge rates and suggested the
city buy 1t. The council refused and
he said he would sacrifice the SO, 900
rather than deprive Fort Dodge of ice.
II the final text of the covenant for
the league Of nations bears out re-
ports as to changes. Senator's Cum
minis and Kenyon Of Iowa. it is ex-
nnrtod will ultimately vote 3for ~ ne