Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-01

One in every five farms in Clayton
county has silo.
Floyd county has organized fleece
wool growers association
The council has spread 1000 loads
of gravel on the streets of Bows.
G. M. Mason of Cedar Rapids has
invented an electrically operated RAJ
zor.
The non-arrival of beds has delayed
the opening of the new hotel at !.
Hampton.
The matter of organizing county
fair is being discussed in Decatur
county.
A. D. Blank and ]. jolly Jones, Jr.,
will put up a new $4,000 moving pic
ture theater at Marshalltown.
Judge G. B. Robbins has notified
Cedar Rapids friends that he has
left France and is on his way home.
Waukon women have secured a big
petition asking that Yellow river near
the old stone house be set aside for
i state park
Congressman Towner has notified
petitioners at Lamont that he will
work for law to repeal the daylight
saving statute.
A snake, curiously marked and
thought to have come from Cuba,
was found in bunch of bananas at
a Clarinda store.
Mrs. Lydia Sperry, aged SO and
pioneer resident of West Union, is
dead. She knitted for the soldiers
up to the very end.
Edwin Ford Piper's poem. "GeeyUp
Oar, Mules has been highly praised
by the Literary Digest and other com
petent literary critics in the east.
Contracts have been awarded to
Watkins and Goldthwaite, engineers
at Iowa City, for 100000 OF public
improvements at Marengo, chiefly
paving.
The Rev. John C. Orth, state organ
izer of the League to Enforce Peace,
announces the sentiment Of Iowa is
growing in favor of the League OF
Nations
F. r.. Everest has been appointed
receiver, under $4,000 bond, for the
Lee Light and Power company i.
Clarinda Judge Wade made the %.
4 pointment
4 By an overwhelming vote Redfield
decided to construct new $4,000
schoolhouse The vote of the men
was 143 to 10 in favor of the project,
and Of the women, IS to l.
Sergt Emil Lesser has sent to his
brothers at Bellevue the skull of a
German found on a French battle
field, and inscribed with the name of
the finder, the place, date, etc.
The State Teachers college is
flooded with requests from Iowa SUI
perintendents and outside super
tendents as well as for teachers
There is shortage everywhere.
s A. A. Hamsley. 30 years old, a
Hampton contractor. was shot and
killed by l. l. King, former EN-
ploye, in quarrel over some money
\ which King believed due him. Later
when surrounded. King shot and
killed himself
Two brothers met for the first time
Z In five years quite by chance, when
John Stutsman, wounded soldier dis
charged at Camp Dodge convalescen1
center, learned that his brother Will
ard was bed patient at Fort Des
Moines hospital and paid him visit
Their home is at Steamboat Rock.
Two Iowa men are doing the great
est construction work in Porto Rice
and are doing 1t almost unheard o
end unselfishly. They are DR.. May
In charge of the agricultural sta
, ton at Mayaguez, and Richard Kerr
) of Charles City, attorney general O
; the island. DR.. May is doing a won
J. derful work developing agriculture
: and education and Kern has don
1 wonders in combating vice. Oddl.
i enough, both are Charles City men.
: From an investment of $225 TO
. three gifts Clarence Robinson, fol
o mer Marion county farmer, but TO
= the past year resident in the Weir
d ity Of Madison, Mo-, has sold seventy
b eight hogs for the sum Of a littl
q over 1888 The hogs weighed a
r average Of 244 pounds and he recei,
q ed $3.50 per hundred pounds. TIL
IS shipper to whom the hogs were sol
- shipped them to the St. Louis marke
" and topped the market that day, re
: ceiving 1895 per hundred.
Rumors to the effect that prices fo
tomatoes at canneries in Iowa wi
+ be lower this year because came
i. tomatoes held by the government wi
be thrown on the market are said
3. be current in some producing Sc
j tons. The war department has Ju:
announced an increase in the amour
of canned tomatoes issued as pa
OF the army ration and has added Ii
a, following canned vegetables to tt
1T. regular ration: Peas, string bean
az corn, pumpkin, and squash.
nd One of the largest funerals evt
Ia held in Colfax was that recent