Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-10-09

palgn for $4,000 for the Salvation
Army a canvas Of the business dis
trlct was made.
More than 1000 men from over
iowa will attend the conference Of
FARMERS and union laboring men at
the auditorium in Des Moines.
Disappointment in love ia attr;hn+.
60 as the cause for the suicide of
nate Moeller who jumped from the
mississippi bridge at Davenport.
James Wilson, captured by a farm.
ers posse after had been found en-
tering house at Woodward, pleaded
guilty before District Judge Never
In criminal court.
me Des Moines Chamber Of Com.
merce has appointed a committee in.
ciudlng DR.. J. 3. Kirbye, Ansien Fran
kel and G. S. Nolen to select a sec
rotary for the public welfare bureau
hlght airplanes on transcontinen-
TAI government endurance test will,
reach Des Moines Oct. 9. Four Of
the planes come from San Francisco
and four from New York. They will
meet at Herring Field.
Bids will be received by the Pleas.
ant Hill Electric company, Webster
City, for the work of erecting thirty
miles of transmission line. Plans
and specifications are on file at the
office of the city manager.
The Coon and Des MONIES rivers
are running wild, following the recent
heavy rains. The stage of the Coon
river at Van Meter was 81 feet and
the Des Moines river So feet. There
is no danger of food.
Champion porkers, brought to Des
Moines from every hog-raising state
IN the union, valued at more than
Sl,500,000. competed for grand cham.
pionship honors at the National
Swine show and exposition, at the
fair grounds.
Preparations are under way for
farmers institute to be held in
Bloomfield November 6-S. Speakers
from the Agricultural Extension de-
partment, Iowa State college, will be
present. Domestic science, stock and
corn judges will be there to judge
the displays of farm stock and pro-
duce.
The conference of farmer and la.
Dor representatives held in Des
Moines is something more than a
movement to benefit these two
classes of citizens. If joint discus
sion of the high cost of living could
result in any action which will re-
duce the wide margin between the
price received by farmers and that
paid by the laborer, every consumer,
rich or poor will be benefited.
That Iowa farmers have learned
how to do a good many big things
themselves was illustrated in great
basket picnic conducted in Crawford
county by the farmers educational
and cooperative union. On their
own initiative and with their own or
ganization and their own money, they
brought together more than 5000
folks and entertained them excellent
ly in country grove.
A large bird seen futtering about
Waukon was captured and found to
be cormorant, web-footed bird
also known as a sea raven which fire.
uuents large bodies of water. 1t is
somewhat larger than duck and has
sharp bill more than six inches in
length. The bird was doubtless mi
grating and became bewildered dur
ing its flight over the lighted city and
was disabled by striking the electric
wires or other obstruction.
Just at this time when Iowa is pre-
pairing to harvest one of the greatest
earn crops in the history of the state,
800, 100000 bushels is the estimate
given by Chas. d. Reed, u. s. Crop
expert, it may be of interest to know
that thousands of sheep are being
purchased by Iowa farmers for feed
ing purposes and many an Iowa corn
feld will be harvested by these little
animals, not only because such meth
DDS of feeding are good. but because
labor is scarce.
The farmers of Iowa are quite with,
in their rights in demanding larger
representation at the "Round Table
industrial conference to be held in
Washington. In the first list of dele
gates to this conference, as announc-
ed by President Wilson, the farmers
had much smaller representation
than either labor. capital or the pub
Tic. Agriculture is the great basic in
dust; Of the country. 1t is facing
post ar problems just as vital as
chose affecting any other industry,
and for that reason 1t should have
ample representation at the coming
conference when these problems will
h.. threshed out.
A string Of ten pure bred Belgian
Horses were exhibited by l. w. Van
lice of Big Grove township, Benton
county, at the big Belgian show held
in connection with the dairy con-