Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-07-29
The three year old sou Of Mr.. and

Mrs. Frank Yocum, living near Lo.
gan, was found drowned in water
tank The child had been with two
Older children and had wandered
away and fell into the water. Efforts
at resuscitation failed.
A gypsie maiden made her get
away from a pool hall at New Hamp-
ton with $50 after telling a number
Of fortunes. She was later found
with band of 50 gypsies at the edge
of town and handed over SIS when
it was demanded by the sheriff.
Coal production in Iowa is averag-
ing 90 per cent more now than it did
at this time a year ago. Fuel is be-
ing mined in this state al a rate of
between 100000 and 9,5OO,000 tons
annually, whereas the 1919 produc-
ton amounted to only 100000 tons.
The City Bank, private banking
institution at Jefferson, Iowa, has
closed its doors. Slow collections on
farm loans and the car shortage are
given as the reason for the fall. Jay
NJ Virgins, president of the Farmers
and Merchants National bank at JEFF
ferson, went to Des Moines by air.
plane to secure funds to forestall an
anticipated run on his bank, due to
the failure of the sister financial in
Stitution.
4. j Dixon, prominent resident of
Martin ]. Wade in Federal Court
when found guilty of violation OF the
federal espionage act. Dixon's at
tcrney Immediately appealed the case
and the appeal bond was fixed at
$500 Dixon is alleged 20 have made
severe remarks against the policy of
the present administration during the
word war. Dixon is a bachelor AMI
is said to be worth about 100000.
The Department of Agriculture has
Just published data summarizing tie
most of production of wheat for 1919
on ISL Iowa farms. Two farms OF
the ISL produced wheat at d cost as
low as 81 per bushel while on 90
farms it was over S. per busfel. The
average was $2.15 per busheI. Yields
averaging 149 bushels on the winter
whe farms studied and 81 bushels
on the spring wheat farms. ard the
average cost per acre was $21.S0 for
tie winter and S2240 for the spring.
Under a decision rendered by the
Iowa supreme court ballots used in
a Franchise election must state in full
the proposit on 10 which the voter is
asked to give his consent. The
decision was given in connec-
ton with the election held recently
in Newton on which the citizens vot-
sale of the old city owned light plant
to A. H. Rich and the other on the
granting of a franchise to Eich and
his company to operate am electric
light plant.
The hot formaldehyde method Of
treating seed potatoes is proving very
popular with Mitchell county farmers.
During a recent week five demonstra-
lions We're held in the county and
fully 900 bushels of potatoes of seed
treated by this method The method
consists of merely soaking the pota-
toes for two minutes in solution of
for1nalGehyde, made up in the ratio
Of one pint of formalin to Is gallons
Of water, heated to temperature OF
lis degrees to 122 degrees F.
The first statewide contest 20 de-
termine the highest yielding strains
of corn is being conducted by the
Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers
association and is we'll under way.
Definite plans for this competition
were not formulated until early in
March, yet 12S of the leading farmers
yielding strains of corn in this new
departure in corn comparison. Such
representative number of entries in
sures a successful contest.
The record of John Sims, q Jack
son county farmer, who had resided
on the same farm sixty-six years,
was thought to be unequalled in the
entire county. Now comes Frank
BurlesOn, an old and we'll known resi-
dent of the community west of Ma.
quoketa, who has lived OH his farm
eighty-three years. His father bought
the place and moved there when Mr..
Burleson was six months old. In
1860, Mr. Burleson married and took
his bride co the home farm and for
sixty years they have lived there to-
gether. Mr.. Burleson's father, Shade
Burleson was one of the earliest set
tiers OF the county.
Selling for $4,000 an animal for
which he paid $50 little over eight
months ago is the record made by
Howard H. Cook of Coffin's Grove
town ship near Manchester He sold
Great G ion Sensation TO Guy Peters
Of Dewitt and delivered the animal
by truck to Cedar Rapids. This
hog was sired by the grand
champion Of the world, but was pur-
chased by Mr.. Cook on Oct. 80, 1919,
for only $S6, the pig being then seven
months old. The pig never had a
| taste of corn, but dined on four or