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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-10-07

by popular subscription for the pur-
chase of banner for their Post .
American Legion.
4 meeting for the purpose of
organizing a pure bred live stock
association for Guthrie county was
held at Guthrie Center last week.
A woman and two children
arrived in Manning last week and
made their way to the mayors
house and asked for supper and
lodging. The woman stated that
being deserted by her husband and
in destitute circumstances they had
walked from Los Angeles, California
on the way to the home Of her
mother some five hundred miles in
to Canada. They made the trip
from Los Angeles to Arcadia on
foot in nine weeks. In no town had
they been refused lodging and meals.
The Manning Mayor gave them
supper at his home sent them as
far as Wall Lake on their journey
in his auto.
E. j. Freeman and 3. Baxter,
old time residents OF Audubon but
now Of Los Angeles, California have
been visiting in Audubon on their
way home from the G. A. R. En-
campment at Indianapolis Indiana.
l.. S. Bridenstine and wife of
Audubon celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary last week.
They have been long time residents
of Audubon county coming Gamer
on township in the days when tum-
! BILE weeds and rosln weeds were its
leading features. They were among
the leading farmers of that section
for many years. A few years ago
they sold their farm and retired to
Audubon. They have hosts Of
friends in both communities who
wish them many additional years
of happiness.
"They say when mans ears are
red that somebody is talking
about him.
lt1za. IL ;.,a4 LIZ ILL.,
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-10-07
NEWS Of OUR
NE|GHBOR|NG TOWNS

CaSS county DfeeQerS nave palCl
fifteen thousand dollars for a hog
to head the two herds of the pur-
chasers, Bell Brothers, Wood and
Bell. The hog is Of the Poland
China breed.
At conference of county agents
it was decided that six cents a bush
ell would be about right for picking
corn. The price was arrived at after
long debate and will be observed
in Sac, Carroll, Crawford, Harrison
Shelby and Audubon counties. No
price is set for corn that is down,
that matter is left to each county
to decide.
Thieves entered the store of b..
M. Teldhan of Walnut, Iowa, last
Sunday night and about one thous-
and dollars worth Of goods taken,
mostly silverware, knives and revol-
vers. Entrance was gained through
rear window which was pried
open. There is no clue.
Rev. N. E. Bling was installed as
pastor of the Elk Horn Lutheran
church. A reception was given
him and his family upon their
arrival as an expression of welcome,
attended by about 200 members of
his congregation and lunch was
served by the ladies in the college
dining room.
Tuition for grade students Of
Audubon has been doubled by
action of the school. 1t has beer
raised from two dollars month tt
four dollars. A number of student:
from outside the district will b.
affected.
George Arenholsz of Buck Grow
met with a curious accident. Whil'
he was chopping wood the AK
caught on fence wire, and rebound
ing struck him on the shoulder. |
took twelve stitches to close tn
cash, which it laid open.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-10-07
F 0 r d 5 0 n
TRADE MARK
Farm Tractor

The aftel-service that goes with the Fordson trac-
tor is second to Fordson dealers located in
every community with stocks of repair parts and
ploying skilled mechanics who know just how the
Fordson should b. repaired and be taken of to do
it's best work.
This Fordson service means that your tractor can
be kept busy every working day in the entire year,
that Fordson reparmen ready to show you how to
get the best results from the tractor.
Fordson service insures you against delay in get
ting parts 1t is your protection 1t is protection
icing enjoyed by than 100 600 Fordson farm
n the United States
Let us tell you all about the Fordson tractor and
Fordson service Let demonstrate the Fordson on
your own farm. Come in and let prove everything
say
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-10-07

''They say when mans ears are
red that somebody is talking
about him.
eyes, and he can just bet that
somebody is talking about him if
his nose is red"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-10-07
by popular subscription for the pur-
chase Of banner for their Post
American Legion.

\ meeting for the purpose of
organizing a pure bred live stock
association for Guthrie county was
held at Guthrie Center last week.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-10-07

At Menlo they are raising a fund
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-10-07

A band Of gypsies was held up in
Guthrie Center last week. The
sheriff had been notified to be on
the lookout for them as a white
baby had been stolen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-24
REMEMBERS EMMA ABBOTT

From the Mobile Register.
 Hon. Breck Musgrove is telling the Birmingham Age-Herald how he used to ride in an OK cart miles to hear Emma Abbott sing; but when he says that Emma was considered "the great est singer in the world" there arise doubts of his standing as a musical critic or else of the accuracy of the journalist who reported him. Miss Ab- bott was a good all-around singer who gave a performance noted for it's gem eral excellence and was herself ex- ceedingly popular because of her great willingness to please. No conventions controlled her in this respect She even translated the uErepentant Faust to heaven along with Marguerite be- like it that way. Which recalls that Jacob Tannenbaum of our city, the gifted musician and former southern manager of Miss Abeotts tours, upon hearing Miss Abbot slng The Las. Rose of Summer" in the garden scene in Faust" when in Montgomery some time in the eighties, remarked to her that if Gounod were dead she would have to sing it again the next night in Macon. To her query "Why?' he told her that if Gounod were dead he would by that time have turned over
 E his grave, and she'd have to re- peat the song to get him right side up again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-24
LIKE r,Li.kE SAYS

Never offer a meG a penny for his thoughts, The betting is that you will get all the worst cff the transaction. How about . twenty-first amend monument providing that Americans must breathe through the nose only? You can't talk when you are breath ing through the nose. A lot of men look funny, to you. And bear in mind the fact that you look funny" to lot of other people. Another damli: Once upon time there was a seventeen year old youth who did not believe that he knew more than his father. You may have noticed that idle eu-i- csity never prompts man to hunt for work.
 She doesn't know it now. But the ninety-pound girl whose mother weighs 2se pounds has lot of weight for age coming to her
 Be good to your mother. boy. Your
 mother knows that some day your pic- ture will adorn the hall or fame. but vour daddy thinks you'll be lucky If vou keen your mug out of the rogue's gallery
 sixteen-year- -old girl uses paint to
 a;slav her complexion. But sixty vear-old girl uses it to hide her com plexion.
 Even when a woman marries for the eourth time she is disa ppointed because itlis altogether differens from what she expected
 A~lot of wives attend so many ses- s;ors If the Good Housekeepers' Club Shat they haven't time 10 sweep under Fthe beds at home
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-24
TCInted Over Result

Dave Holt, publicity agent for the state highway bond campaign com- mittee, came up from Montgomery yesterday. He is very much elate6 over the splendid majority rolled up last week for the highway bonds and in discussing the campaign and the work of the committee he said:
 "The newspapers are entitled to a large share of the credit for the great victory. There were only eight week ly and one daily newspaper in the state against the bond issue, all the others supporting it most heartily. The only counties in which the vote was close were the counties in which the newspapers fought the bond issue. understand the state highway com mission and the state engineer are getting ready to advertise the bonds for sale and from what I can hear there is no question but they will be | taken by investors with very little de- 1 law"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-24
BERLIN HAS MOST sTATUEs

William Dean Howells' 'Hither and
 Thither in Germany" GIarper's).
 There arc easily more statues in Berlin than in any other city in the world, but they only unite in failing to give Berlin an a"tlstic air. They stand in long rows on the cornices; they crowd the pedl- ments; they boise one leg above domes and arches; they shelter themselves in inches; they ride about on horseback; they sit or lounge on street corners or in garden walks-all with a medocrity in the older sort which fails Of any impress sion. If they were only furiously baroque they would be something, and i: may be from sense of this that there is Q self assertion ;n the recent sculptures, which b,agging than anything else in perennial brass.
 This offensive art is the modern Prus- sian avatar e. the old German romantic spirit and bears the same relation to it that modern romanticism in literature bears to romance. It finds it's apotheosis in the monument of Kaiser Wilhelm l. a vast incohcrent group of swelling and
 5waggering bronze. commemorating tn, victory of the first German Emperor in the war with the last French Emperor and averaging the vanquished upon the viotors by it's ugliness. The ungainly and irrelevant assem mblage of men and any mals backs away from the imperial pal ace and saves itself too soon from plung-
 ing over the border of canal behind
 it, not far from Rauch's great statue of the great Frederick. To come to it from the simplicity and quiet of that noble work is like passing from some exquisite masterpiece of naturalistic acting to the rant and uproar of melodrama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-24

Records in Newark N. J, show that white collar" men are not marrying these days. If this sort of thing keeps up there will soon be an acute short age of white collar" children.
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 shortage of cats in Germany does not appear strange when you stop to consider that many German butcher probably has guilty conscience where cats are concerned.
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 The "parlor pink" would not be dan gerous if he merely associated with his own kind. but he hobnobs with rugged "reds' and gives them money into the bargain.
 The soviet arl1"- has returned to New York. To Emma, Alex and their fellow deportees, the Buford is the ship of memories"
 Maeterlnck dislikes the way New Workers behave at their dinner tables, but surely not with reference to soup or celery?
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 A Birmingham Syrian says his coun- trymen have jumped out of the frying pan into the fire. The unhappy syr- ians have not made the leap alone.
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 There's great prosperity in the Ba- hamas. well known exile from America-"John Barleycorn" the name on his baggage-is responsible.
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 Gunmen of the larger cities are great believers in direct methods They let nothing stand between them and their quarry.
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 Precious few presidential booms have yet reached the stage where they are calling for raw meat. < # #
 study of Washington's seismo- graphs reveals that all's quiet in Pres ident Wilson's shell5scarred cabinet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-24
IN HOTEL. LCBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
similar Though Different

T received quite a surprise laa week, when one of my friends encoun- tered me in a sympathetic manner and offered condolence for my loss of po- sition," said w. V. Trammell secre- tary of ohe Merchants Credit Associa- tion and the Association of Retail Credit Men of Birmingham. 'I looked asllance at him, for I was unable to understand just what was on his mind. In explanation he told me thai he had just finished reading a story in the paper of the election of officers of the Merchants Credit Association and that my name was missing. still misunderstanding, r obtained copy of the paper and found out, much to my relief. that the account concerned the election of officers of the Bir- mingham Credit Mems Association an organization of wholesale merchants. similar, though different from the Merchants Association. There is much confusion between the names of. the two organizations but never before has 1t caused me as much personal concern as on this occasion, when the name of the organization of which l am secretary was used in place o- the correct one.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-24
William J. Oliver
 Cleared at Knoxville

6NHE sweeping vindication in the B Oliver munitions case at Knox vile is no surprise to those who fol- lowed the trial from it's beginning. William J. Oliver and nine of his superintendents and foremen were accused of defrauding the govern ment by delivering defective shells during the war.
 On their face, such charges were absurd, for the simple reason that every shell bought by the govern ment was supposed to be inspected by government inspector, and the likelihood of being able to dispose of faulty ammunition in large quantities and extending over considerable erod of time without being caught
 t extremely remote. Furthermore, I.'t diver is one of the best known and most prominent business men in the south. None of his friends, in Birmingham and elsewhere, believed he was guilty.
 The governments case fell Town completely, as shown by the action of the presiding judge in directing the jury to find a verdict of not guilty on the charges of fraud" and eleven of the sabotage charges with out any testimony being offered by the defense. The government lost its case by the statement of its own witnesses.
 The whole affair seems to have grown out of trouble with labor agi- tatcrs at the Oliver plant. If the arrest of Mr Oliver and his code fendants was, as claimed, an attempt to get revenge, it was conspicuous failure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-24
VIENNA: CITY OF THE DYING

replaced by spire half as high as the Eiffel tower, was the home of Vienna early fire department.
 By climbing TOO steps the fire watch CTS reached a platform where there were four telescopes, sweeping every point of the compass. Each quadrant, covered by one telescope, was divided into sec ticns, enabling the observer to determine the exact locality of the fire. House owners in each section corresponding to these sectors were listed in great books by the side of each telescope, and as soon as the observer determined which house was ablaze he wrote the name a slip of paper, threw it down a long pipe, to a janitor below, and by him the fire was reported to the city du- thorities
 Legend, as well as quaint fact, ad- heres to many of the landmarks of Vien- ma. To the south of the city is a beau- tiful cross, the Spinnerinn am Kreuz The site was a rendezvous for tourists because of the panorama of the city it afforded. Though the present cross
 
 placed a simpler crucifix, which is said to have been placed there by woman whose husband went away on one of the crusades. While he was abroad she went to this point every day to spin and to pray When he returned she erected the cross. as an act of gratitude, with the money she earned by spinning.
 
 "Only few years before the world war Vienna embarked upon municipal ownership to an unprecedented scale. Not only did the city own her electric and gas lighting plants, her street rail- ways, and warehouses, but also her breweries, pawnshops, and undertaking establishments.
 "As befits city to which the western world owes a debt of gratitude because it was the bulwark against the Turks, Vienna was heavily fortified The pull ing down of these Qualifications made room for the extensive park system. With the demolition of the inner ring of forts space was given for the Rlng- strasse, or boulevard, which has two mile circumference, and is about lo0 feet wide. Around this circle, or, more accurately, octagon, run street ears. passing various sections given over to different phases of city life, such as the opera, the business street, the city palace of the former emperor, and So on.
 ..vienna is not on the Danube but it is connected with the rivers course, sev- eral miles away, by a canal"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-24
GLOWING M1ss1vEs.

Father sizzling love letters to be written by man 50 years old to his inamorata"
 "so they are, and it's interesting to watch their effect on the various per sons concerned. The old rascal himself seems rather pleased at the ardor he showed; the fair recipient, who is also the plaintiff in this breach of promise suit, is slightly amused; her lawyer looks hopeful, the defendants lawyer is plainly worried and the old gentle mans children are so ashamed they can hardly hold their heads up."
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-24
MILITANT sELF-REspEcr.

T was down to tn Eagle House a little while ago." said Squire Wither- bee of Chiggersville. "an I saw feller struttin' up an down tn lobby, lookin' like he owned everything in sight an had an option on lot of other things he couldn't see. Who's he. anyhow?Y
 That's the Hon. Eli snoggle. candi- date for Congress. He's here to meet the voters of our town.e
 Well, he'll have to get down off his high hoss if he wants to meet me; I ain't reachin' my hand up to no man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-24
spoken and Understood

"The French were usually consid- cred a fairly dull sort by members of the Annex, better known as the A. F. F." said John Inzer Freeman. but now and then those of them who could talk some English managed to get more than one laugn on the Tanks with whom they came in contact. I on the Rue Pont that a storek eeper had put in his window to attract tn attention of sightseers wearing the o. d. The sign, although meant fh en- tirely good spirit might well be used as an argument for better education in the backward states, It read, Eng fish spoken; American understood ,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-24
HANDWRITING OF THE GREAT
From the Philadelphia Ledger.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
 Is it sign of greatness to write ones name illegibly?
 As ask the question an example of Mr Roosevelts handwriting is before me. He wrote c.early enough, but in that crooked, running chirography there are not visible-to the average inan-the qualities Of decision and of energy that marked the writer. letter from John G. Johnson is as vndecipherabie as Horace Greedy at his worst It was not so readable IS plotting pad in q postoffice.
 James M. Barrie can do pretty well wAen it comes to producing written hierogiyphies.
 In comparison with the writing of most public men. Abraham Lincolns ! letters were as copperplate. 1 Some mems reputation rests on q single ioem or picture John Hancock
 was inmortalized by writing his name | once in conspicuous place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-24
M x X
MT. Hoover Utters
 Common Sense Views


 TN an address delivered at Johns U Hopkins University yesterday, Herbert C. Hoover made some emi- rently sane and sensible obselva- tions on the peace treaty and the League of Nations controversy. MT. Hoover, with his characteristic com mon sense, believes the mind of the country is already made up, that the treaty can be ratified in the proper spirit of "give and take" which should have prompted opposing mem bers of the Senate from the begin- ming; and that to make the treaty an issue in the presidential campaign this year would simply prolong the chaos of Europe, while at the same time postponing the settlement of Americas domestic problems.
 From all reports, the situation in Europe is distinctly bad. Any per son in his right mind must concede that the suspense caused by differ ences in the United States Senate is not helping conditions abroad, since there can be no stability in foreign affairs until it is definitely decided just what part. America is going to play in Europe's future. Europe needs help badly-not so much in the form of charity, as in the res toration of legitimate business, in- creased production and the re-estah- lishment of credits, while it is now obvious that this country of ours is the sole hope of smaller nations still clinging to dreams of self-determina- tion
 ' The American people want the treaty ratified and they want a League of Nations. The Senate is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-24

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 7T MAY be that Ex-Premier Caillaux
 II of France has been guilty of the de- S testable charges of conspiracy against his country during the war Tor which he is now facing trial before the french Senate sitting as high court. In tact if he has been guilty of one-tenth me things attributed against him it is dli- ficult to understand why he has not long before this been stood against a wall like Bolo Pasna and shot at sun rise. On the contrary. reports rom ab,oad are that his conviction is very douhtful How is it possible to recon cile these contradictions with the oeihon- strated patriotic fervor of the freno'' people?
 Ii is all very well to explain that aur- ;ra his 20 years in politics, mostly Tn high governmental positions. he puii' up a political machine which in seH-pro- lection must stick by him That may oe the explanation, but it is very seri- ous reflection on the patriotism Of many of the foremost statesmen of France. The only other plausible theory is that, LOW the war frenzy IS past and war propaganda is no longer necessary, the facts may show that Cailiaux was less a deliberate traitor than the victim of of ficial propaganda by his political enc mics It is curious. if he were as closely involved with Bolo and Maivy and Hum bert as the reports have declared, that he alone should have escaped Summary conviction. On the other hand. if his offense was chiefly opposing the policies of his political rivals, if he was merely Ia pacifist instead of pro-German. if hiz
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-24
Sad md Humorous

There are many things, both sad and humorous, that come up in the ap- plications for diyorces and the actual granting of them that are constant sources of thought and merriment,' said 1nzer Hood of the chancery divi- sion of the circuit court yesterday.
 T remember one case where a we'll known judge asked the fair defendant if she had wiilfuily abandoned the bed and board of her lesser half, to which she replied. I abandoned his board, but the bed was mine and I carried it with me-"