Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-06-05
Buffalo was chosen by the northern
Baptist convention at Denver for the


Baptist convention at Denver for the
1920 convention session.
Great swarms Of grasshoppers have
invaded several California counties
and are devouring vegetation.
The Curtiss Airplane and Motor cor
poration announced the purchase from
the war department of 2,176 airplanes
and 1900 motors.
One hundred thousand persons in
Poland are i'll Of typhus. according to
advices received by the supreme eco.
nomic council at Paris.
A total of $500 saloons In Ohio
closed when statewide prohibition be-
came effective May 26. 1t is low the
largest dry state in the country.
An army of occupation Of not
more than 100000 men will be main
tanned in France and Germany, ac-
cording to Washington army officials.
Ragapple the Great, a 2-year-old
Holstein bull, was sold for $125,OO0 at
a sale at Buffalo, N. Y. The price is
said to be the highest ever paid for
sire.
Switzerland is concluding with Ger
many a new commercial convention
which will grant Switzerland German
coal in exchange for Swiss cattle and
produce.
The War department has ordered
parading of homeward-bound troops
discontinued, wherever possible, to
avoid delay in the return of railroad
equipment.
Kansas will shatter all wheat crop
records of all states, according to the
Kansas state board of agriculture,
which estimates the states crop at
21S 800, 600 bushels.
Permits for the shipment of grain
from interior markets will be used by
the railroad administrator this year to
control the movement Of the mammoth
harvest which is just beginning.
The biggest saloon in the world, To-
Gated at Bridgeport, Ohio, closed its
doors when prohibition went into effect
in the state, May %. It employed sew
5enty-seven bartenders and clerks.
Anti-bolshevik factions in Russia
headed by Admiral Kolchak and Gen
eral Denikine are to receive recogni-
ton by the council of four, according
to Paris report.
The body of Captain Charles Fryatt,
the British merchant officer executed
by the Germans in 1916, will be
brought to England and given burial
similar to that of Miss Edith Cavell.
According to advices from Helsing-
fors and London, bolsheviki rule in
Russia is rapidly crumbling. It is
feared the bolsheviks before leaving
Petrograd will destroy as much as pos
sible-
It is reported that the Mexican GOV.
ernment is concentrating 10000 troops
near Chihuahua, preliminary to n
drive against Francisco Villa, who is
believed to be in the hills of Chi.
huahua state.
A special committee of Is members
of the house, 10 republicans and five
democrats, will be named to take
charge of the investigation of the ex.
penditures of the War department
during the past two years.
Chicago's recently appointed super.
intendent Of schools, Charles e. Chad
sey, formerly Of Nebraska City, Neb.,
whose salary was fixed at $4,000.
was replaced through action of new.
ly appointed school board, by Peter A.
MOrtenson.
On behalf of the American naval air
service Secretary Daniels sent
message to Harry G. Hawker and
Lieutenant Mackenzie Grieve, con-
graduating them upon their narrow
escape from death in their attempted
flight across the Atlantic.
Two men were blown to pieces,
residences and business houses shak-
en- as If in an earthquake and win
dows broken for radius of many
blocks in an explosion which wrecked
the storage plant of the Wyoming Tor
pedo company at Casper, Wyo.
Necessity for sharply reducing APP
preparations for government expendi-
lures was urged upon the house by
Representatives Fess, Ohio, and
Moore, Pennsylvania, republicans.
who declared that unless radical re-
trenchments were made the govern
ment would have to go to the people
for another large loan.