Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-01-22
.NttiVS9OF OUR
NE|GHBOR|NG TOWNS
Items of Interest Gathered
from our Exchanges
Roundabout

quite an interest is felt by the
citizens of Kimballton and vicinity
by the finding by Mrs Mortensen,
who lives GU farm near Kimballton
OF small nugget of gold, in the
crop of a duck which she was dress
ing. The query is, where did the
duck find the gold? Mr.. Mortensen
as we'll as Others would like to find
out.
A case of state wide interest is be-
ing tried in the District court at
Waverly. 1t is test case brought
by the German synod of the Luth-
eran church to determine whether
the German language may be taught
on secular subjects in private or
parochial schools. The case is an APP
peal from a decision in which a
teacher of Bremen Co. was fined S25
and costs for having taught secular
subjects in the German language
in his school.
The case will be carried to the Sup
rene court the expense being borne
by the German Lutheran synod,
the object being to find out whether
!, they have the right to use the Ger
man language in their schools.
The Garst Store at Coon Rapids
had its fftieth anniversary recently
and in honos of the event it has
issued an Interesting little booklet
giving short history of the bust
ness and the Garsts who originated
and conducted it until three years
ago when they sold the business to
their sons, Goodwin and Warren
G. Garst who now operate it.
/ A project is on foot in Guthrie
County among the rural teachers
and pupils to raise money to erect
q scoool exhibit building on the
County Fair grounds. Mrs. Mary
L. Bobbs, county superintendent
of schools recently spoke to the
Farm Bureau Association in their
annual meeting soliciting their
good will and cooperation in the
project.
Will Pritchard of Avoca shipped
his fine herd of Shorthorns to Den
yer, last week, where they will en-
ter the cattle show to be held in
that city. Mr.. Pritchard's herd
has been at all the leading shows
of the west, At the International
Stock Show Of Chicago he carried
off some OF the best prizes.
At the sale of Fred Sievers near
Adair the thirty-seven gifts that
were sold averaged S525 per head
The top price for an individual ami
NAL was Sl450 for a yearling SOW.
There is talk Of a change being
made in the route of the Great
White Way between Adair anc
Anita. The new route would save
about three miles of travel anc
eeliminate the hills which make trav.
ell so wearisome. Because of these
advantages it is thought the move.
ment will meet with the hearty APP
proval of the highway commission
Those interested are anxious te
hasten the movement so that if the
change is made the work OF open
ing the new road may be done il
the early spring.
The Weise Brothers of near Man
ming had a sale of their Hereford
} cattle recently, selling forty-eigh
head at an average Of 100000 pei
head. The top price paid for ont
} of their pure bred animals wa
} S27OO.OO.
, Twenty-Five thousand dollars il
a large sum of money for single
] crop Of potatoes, but that is thu
: sum which F. G. Setback, younl
and progressive Mitchell count,
farmer received for his crop of pc
: tatoes last year. He raised sixteel
thousand FIVE hundred bushels.
, Another case of mail order court
: ship has come to an untimely end