Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-07-31

the best drilled team in the United
States.
The dates of Iowa's sixty-fifth an
nual fair, the Victory fair, are Au-
gust 20 to %, inclusive.
A distinguished service cross has
been awarded by General Pershing
to Sgt. Emmett E. Collins (deceased),
Of Des Moines.
John Sheppard, who has just died
at Red Oak, was for thirty-seven
years janitor of the Montgomery
county court house.
Mrs. Warren Miles, pioneer set.
tier of Sac county, died at her home
in Grant City, leaving one son and
fifty other descendants.
Boone county's first draftee, Reu.
ben Peterson. met death in fall In
dark building at Coblenz, where he
was with the army of occupation.
1t is estimated that every fifth
home in Burlington has its own home
brew with kick" in it too, which
means city with thousand brew.
cries.
Railroads operating in Iowa paid
in taxes to the state in 1918 total
of s4,604,6S9, according to the state.
ments filed with the state executive
council
j. w. Pierce & Son, Waverly
firm, have shipped a total of 90 cars
Of eggs to eastern markets since
March for which they have paid to
farmers $125,00O.
Erection Immediately of a $4,000
stock show and sale pavilion was or
dered by the directors of the South
ern Iowa Fair association in special
session at Oskaloosa.
Knoxville is up against an ice fam.
inc which threatens the enforced
closing Of ice cream parlofs, cream.
cries, meat markets and like con.
Germs unless relieved.
Wallingford voted a franchise to
the Armstrong Cement Works for a
period of twenty-five years, for light.
heat and power. The cement works
expect to furnish service by October
Is.
The Rex Fuel company's mine, No
2. southeast Of Knoxville, has ceas
ed operating after being in operation
for the past fifteen years. AT one
time it was considered to be the best
mine in the state of Iowa.
The jury in the case Of Roy Emer
son, Of Creston, charged with beat.
ing his mother to death with an iron
brace and throwing her body dowu
an elevator shaft, returned verdict
of murder in the second degree.
The inland village of Alpha, sixteen
miles northwest Of West Union, in
Fayette county. will establish bank
with 100 stockholders and capital
of SIS 900. This will make the TWEEN
ty-seventh bank for Fayette county.
The Iowa Sugar company, owner
OF the beet sugar plant at Waverly,
has been recognized, and next year
the half million dollar plant will be
opened. This plant has been closed
for five years. It is planned to con.
sumo the product Of 5000 acres Of
land, and the annual output of sugar
is estimated at 10000, 900 pounds.
Practically all mines in Iowa are
lying idle, with no prospect of re-
Stunning operations until cold weather
sets in next fall, according to L. r..
Stamm, secretary of the state board
of mine inspectors Even the rail-
roads, as general rule, have neg
lected to close new contracts for next
years supply. One mine in Monroe
county has worked only fifty-three
days since the armistice was signed,
a period Of more than nine months.
Col. Donald Macrae, Jr, OF Council
Bluffs, who served in France as com
handing officer of Iowa's Mobile hos
pital No /, received official notifica-
ton from the French government of
the award of the croix de guerre to
himself and to his organization With
the notification comes personal cita-
ton for Colonel Macrae and another
for the Iowa hospital from General
Petain, the hero of verdun and com
handing general Of the French Third
army
Mayor Kehoe of Cascade, must give
up the office under a ruling handed
down by Judge j. w. Kintzinger in
district court. He was found guilty
of "wilful neglect, misconduct and
maladministration in office" The
charges were filed several months
ago. 1t developed at the trial Of Ke.
hoe that the man whom Cascade
residents branded as Stacker with
out the mayors Interference sent
two. cons to war and had borrowed
money with which to buy a Liberty
bond
John Mahin, for fifty years editor
Of the Muscatine Journal. long time
dean Of Iowa newspaper editors.
pathfinder in the temperance crusade,
and in later years president Of the
Mahin Advertising agency has just
died in his Chicago home.
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