Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-03-20

into a state park.
A combination sale of Percheron
horses held at Oskaloosa recently
under the auspices Of the Southern
Iowa Breeders association brought a
total of s1O,9sO.
DR.. g. #. Kay of Iowa City was
elected president of the Iowa Conser.
walton society at a recent meeting
held at Ames. He is dean of liberal
arts at the state university. N
Representative Dowell has taken up
with Secretary Glass of the treasury
the matter of the proposed federal
courthouse in Des Moines. He
hopes to have the matter settled be.
fore leaving Washington.
Farmers and business men along
the line of the Atlantic and Northern
railroad which runs from Atlantic tc
Kimballton may become owners OF
the road through the purchase Of the
outstanding bonds amounting to $75,.
900.
The Dubuque County Medical so.
clety at recent meeting went on
record as opposed to the pending res.
olution before the Iowa legislature
providing for the handling of venere.
al diseases. They maintain there are
clauses in the bill that will make ii
impracticable.
Mrs. Frank Bell of Perry was prob.
ably fatally injured when the auto
mobile in which she was riding
turned turtle, pinning her underneath.
Two other women who were riding
with her were injured, but will live,
In passing another car she struck
curve, the car making two complete
somersaults.
Captain Edward Wentworth, Lieut..
George w. Iverson and Professor
Parry of the extension engineering
department of the state college at
Ames, have been appointed by Brig
adler General Reid as members o.
the Y. M. G. A. army educational
commission in the A. q. r. They will
leave for Paris soon.
Worry over his business failure is
thought to have caused the insanity
OF A. C. Lutte, publisher Of Ger.
man language newspaper in Sioux
City, until a few months ago when he
voluntarily suspended publication be.
cause his business was falling of. He
has been sent to the state hospital
for the insane at Cherokee.
A new get-rich-quick scheme was
originated in Dubuque recently by
Henry Stecklein. His scheme was
to impersonate state agents and stop
automobiles crossing the river, search
them for liquor and IL he found any
to offer them immunity from arrest
for a cash payment. He was sen,
fenced to a.year in the county Jail.
The board of supervisors Of Story
county is considering the widening
deepening and cleaning out of the
Skunk river ditch from the Polk
county line northwest for a distance
OF about eleven miles to the mouth
OF Squaw creek. The county engin-
eer makes an estimate of the cost Of
the work at approximately $4,000.
The wool growers Of Polk county
met in Des Moines recently with the
county farm agent for the purpose
OF perfecting an organization which
will be affiliated with the state organ
ization. The purpose of the whole
organization Is to improve the condi,
tons Of the industry both from the
standpoint Of production and market!
ing.
The republican committee on COM
mittees has assigned Representative
Dowell of Iowa to be chairman of
the elections committee No. 3, and to
territories. He was mentioned for
the rules committee, but because of
large number of good places held by
lowans on committees, the places on
the rules committee went to other
states.
Col. Matt FINLEY of Council Bluffs.
who succeeded Col. e. R. Bennett as
commander Of the One Hundred Six
ty-eighth infantry regiment, sent
home curious American flag fash
toned by little Belgian girl and pre-.
sented to Col. FINLEY by the Mayor of
Musson, Belgium, when the Iowa reg
iment marched through that village
on their way to Germany.
H. w. Byers, city corporation coun-
sci for Des Moines has been appoint
ed chief counsel by the house of rep.
resentatives in the probe of the par
don of Ernest Rathbun. Ida Grove ra-
pist. 1t is alleged that Byers was
supported by the Harding hackers.
He will have complete charge of the
legislative probe. which will include
Investigation of the perjury charges
and the revocation of the pa1 don by
Attorney General Havner.
Fraternities at the University Of
Iowa recently agreed that they would
NO longer pledge high school students.
Educators have declared that the
practice of college fraternities pledg-
ing boys still in high school to be Diet.
rimental to the morale of the second
ary schools