Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-08

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Dell Billiard sold 10-acre tract Of
land near Toledo for $3.50 an acre.
John Larson of Clearfield market
ed $4,000 worth of livestock in April
4 The contributions Of JCass county
people to war activities totalled $4,-
| O64,958.
| A. M. Helm of Hull is the sixth but
termaker to qualify to use the state
| trademark.
| Eastern Pottawattamie county farm
ers are raising funds for coopera-
tive elevator
Fourteen farms near Cherokee sold
| in week, averaged from 5000 to
| $500 an acre.
! ]. M. Pierce is head Of corpora
ton to publish third weekly news
paper at Bedford.
Lieut.. John Jay Of Shenandoah has
4 been ordered to France in the Quar-
termaster's corps.
Buchanan county supervisors have
let contracts for eighty-three concrete
bridges for $23,416.
H. D. Kies has been reelected SUI
perintendent of the Abba schools at
| a salary Of $3.50.
| The Union News is new publica-
ton at Fort Dodge. 1t is devoted to
the labor interests.
| Only half of the children OF New
ton attend Sunday school, according
to a recent survey.
| Ames college, which drew $685.
600 from the legislature, gets a new
100000 library building.
The Sac City city council has in
creased the duties of Wesley Gilbert
until he is virtually a city manager.
| There are fourteen farmers clubs
in Harrison county. Harris Grove
club is the pioneer, organized in
1885,
The Masonic lodge Of Waterloo
has 1000 members. 1t is equaled by
only one other. Capital, in. Des
Moines.
Hugh Benedict, an eight-year-old
Iowa Falls boy, fell over an eight
foot Cliff into the river and was
drowned.
Murray Methodists.i have raised
| $4,000 of the $4,000 needed for their
new church. The old building is be-
ing torn away.
Cedar Rapids relatives have given
up finding James Smith, the bachelor
who disappeared recently with SIS 900
of his own money.
Henry Morganthau, formerly Am
bassador to Turkey. will deliver the
commencement address at Grinnell
college, June "a.
| Roscoe Mileson, aged 16, of Prairie
City, was killed when shotgun he car
ried on his riding pillow to shoot SPUR
rels went off accidentally.
Del &c. Huntoon of Dubuque, one Of
the best known political and 1egis-
lative figures during the past TWEEN
ty-five years in Iowa, is dead.
Harold Smedal of Nevada has been
made government placement officer,
to place war cripples in educational
institutions. for thestate of Florida.
Special agent A. P. Sherwood was
called to Iowa City to investigate al
legged cases of obstructing the Victory
loan. One man is reported to have
cursed the solicitors.
It takes the full time of six men to
candle eggs bought by the st. Ansgar
Produce company, which has shipped
fifteen carloads worth $4,000 to the
east since March /.
The first annual meeting OF the
Iowa Wool Growers association was
held in Des Moines, when they took
up the subject of handling the states
Ioutput of wool this wear.
i Earl Caddock who has been i'll in
France, is fully recovered in training
for a big athletic tournament to be
held in Paris. This information
comes to his wife at Walnut.
Jay E. BROKER Of Forest City sold
la two-year-old Poland China male
hog for $4,000, said to be the highest
price ever received for hog In Win
nebago or Hancock counties.
| Forty-two highway bridges in Shell
by county were washed out during
the heavy rain which visited western
Iowa. Many Of the structures were
large. The expense Of replacing
them will be heavy.
i An overseas soldier, gassed after
fifteen months service in the Amer
lean army, has arrived at the Fort
Des MONIES hospital for treatment
bringing with him the longest name
in captivity" as his comrades say
His name is Anastacias George Hon
chopapthe dorkoumoumtcothor loos.
He enlisted with eighteen other
Greeks in Chicago month after war
was declared. To save time and
trouble he is usually called "Hon-etc."
Miss Ruth Wright of Belle PLANE,
who has been in government cler-
ical work in Washington, D. c., has
been promoted and assigned to duty
in the private office of Secretary
Daniels. The promotion came strict
ly on merit.
F. S. Payne and D. C. Bradley have
sold the Iowa Southern Utilities COM