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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-03-11
AUDUBON EDITOR
TO ENTER POLITICS

H. j. Hoogenaker, editor Of the
Audubon Republican has announced
his candidacy for senator on the
republican ticket from the Audubon
Guthrie district. Hal Mantz, the
present senator, is also wanting the
nomination and will therefore be
out on the republican ticket. Both
are capable men to represent their
district. Mr.. Mantz is good man
and will be hard to defeat. Let the
best man win and serve the district
to the best of their ability.--Man-
ming Monitor.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-03-11
NEWS Of OUR
NE|GHB0R|NG TOWNS
Items of Interest Gathered
From Our Exchanges
Roundabout.

There has been a halt in prep
arations for the street paving in
Denison, to await the outcome of a
law suit brought to determine the
legality of the contract made to
the successful bidder. The council
asked for bids for concrete paving
to be seven inches thick. There
were many bids handed in and one
for paving six inches thick. This
bid was accepted. The question in
dispute is did the council have a
right to contract for six inch paw
ing.---Vail Observer.
The Guthrian is advocating a
community building with a library
and gymnasium. Altho Guthrie
Center yearly spends thousands of
dollars for fine automobiles and
their upkeep, she has no public
library. The farmers are spending
their money to maintain an organ
ization through which they may
learn how to grow more grain and
hogs, and the Guthrian wisely sug-
gests that they inaugurate a public
library to assist in the mental de-
velopement of their boys and girls.
Miss Frye, domestic science
teacher in the Guthrie Center
schools, has inaugusated a lunch
room which is entirely self sup
porting, the girls in the cooking
classes doing the work. An aver
age of thirty-seyen persons are
served there every day and q hum
dred have been served on special
occasions. The price ranges from
10 to 80 cents !, meal. The meals
are given at cost. In this way the
pupils who live too far from school
to go home at noon are served with
good hot meal at school.
Avoca will hold her county fair
the week before the state fair this
year. For several years past the
Avoca fair has been the week of
the state fair, and many who
wanted to show stock at the state
fair could not exhibit at the home
fair. With the new arrangement
they may exhibit at both
One of the pupils ia the Griswold
schools brought a paper published
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-03-11
Kisses and Science.

Doctors have again been trying the
experiment of having girl kissed by
a man of hairless lip and then by one
with mustache, the game of the
scientific sharps being to ascertain
which salute resulted in the greater
deposit of microbes. However, the
merits of any such experiment would
be decided by the girl on wholly diff,
terent grounds.