Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-04-01

County conferences to be conduct
ed by the Interchurch World Move
ment will be held throughout the
state April 6, Z, s and 9,
Eighty-six purebred Herefords sold
in Atlantic recently for $50,470. The
average per animal was $3.50. The
top price was $4,000, paid for a COW.
The largest vote ever cast in
school election in Estherville, $780,
was brought about as result of fac
tional differences growing out of last
springs election.
The contract for the new $4,000
Union Baptist church at Estherville
was let recently. Work on the new
building will commence as soon as
weather conditions will permit.
Iowa Lutherans are busy organic
ing the campaign which will open on
April 10 to raise funds to finance the
erection of an addition to the Iowa
Lutheran hospital in Des Moines,
which will cost approximately $780,
900.
Building Operations for the New
ton Foundry company, recently or
ganized with $25O,O00 capital stock,
are to start as soon as a site can be
purchased. Plans announced call for
completion of the plant within six
months.
The annual meeting of the Iowa
Conservation Association, held at
Iowa State College, closed with the
election of officers for the ensuing
year. DR.. Henry S. Conard, profess
sor of botany at Grinnell college. was
elected president.
The Iowa horse market is getting
better all the time. That there is a
demand is evidenced by the continu-
ance of good prices especially for
draft hores, which are selling for an
average Of $500 for medium quality
and good horses at $3.50 to 1915.
Six Iowa creameries have qualified
in excellence whereby they are per-
mitted to use the state trademark.
This mark carries with it standard
in butter making which insures
uniform product on markets outside
of the state. The creameries which
thus far have qualified are at Straw
berry Point, Manly, Bert, Hull, AL
gona and Bremen.
Tax collections in the Butler county
treasurer's office last year were only
So, $50 in January and $11,763,S9 in
FEBRUARY, while this year County trea-
surer collected s1S,1O0,66 in taxes dur
ing the mounth OF January and
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estimated that over 100000 will be
collected in the office during the
month of March.
Four hundred former army trucks
have been delivered to the Iowa State
Highway Commission for work on
Iowa roads this summer. A great share
of those have already been sent to the
counties for use while central fleet
Of 200 will be kept In Ames for emer-
gency work OF the latter number $50
are 3-ton trucks and the balance are
lighter cars for inspection work.
Year by year the acreage Of corn
cut for fodder and ensilage increas-
es in Iowa. Patent has just been al
lowed to j. ]. Fleming of Boone, Ia,
for a corn knife having a double
edge, one edge being broken up and
differently beveled to provide con-
venient means for breaking ear corn.
Double, sharpened hooks are formed
on the outer end of the blade, to IA
cilitate picking up and cutting
down" corn.
Fire resently caused the loss OF the
Cotholic parochial school at White
more. The building which was erec-
ted nineteen years ago cost at that
time nearly $4,000. 1t will cost $780,
0CO to 900 to erect similar build
ing now. A new brick school house
which will cost $125 900 will be erec-
ted in its place. The erection of the
new church at Whittemore will be de-
ferred for this year at least. Nearly
100000 had been subscribed for it.
+ Allamakee county paid out over $5,-
0S6TO for bounties last year, half
, of which were for groundhogs OF
I woodchucks. A bounty of Is cents a
i piece was paid for them, and there
e were 17,029 scalps turned in at the
: Auditors office. That is nearly chuck
! piece for every inhabitant in the
county, whose population was 1925
v In the last census. For wolves, $55f
f was paid out; for foes, 1871, and fol
n pocket gophers, $404.30. Rattle
b snakes tails to the number of 1,4S:
|. were taken in, which at SO cents each
+ amounted to s7O1. At this rate al
s the counties of the state would have
f paid out $500, 1880 for bounties las
year.
S. R. Renshaw now owns 1910 acre
: Of Iowa land in Johnson county. HI
: has just bought the Murphy homestea,
consisting of 145 acres, near Nortl
i Liberty. He paid $500 an acre for TIN
land.
The summer session of the low
State College will be held at Anne
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