Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-01-15

Alfred w. Tredway, aged 6S, for
nifty years in active business in Du-
ouque, is dead at his home following
illness OF few months.
Matt Coughlin, a farmer living
outh of Pisgah has COW that gave
= birth to three calves New Years day.
We claim this is helping the census.
Implement dealers over Cass county
report more ob.sleds sold this win
ter than in the past three years.
'Slelghing has been excellent for some
weeks.
Five thousand pounds of honey
from 90 colonies of bees is the record
Of Mr.. Fahler of Eldora Professor
Atkins Iowa State College was
,ntly helping house the bees
a y,nter.
IN ate auditors report on mum.
api ain Iowa will be off the press
"a about ten days. The report will
Sshow the financial condition of vii
ssSlage and city trea suries and contain
3 other data of interest to state tax.
payers.
Preliminary steps have been taken
10y the county board to pave seven.
teen miles of the Grant highway
through Black Hawk county. This is
Iowa federal aid project No. 81 and
me cost is estimated at approximate
\ !ly $4,000.
sixty or more farmers OF Spauld-
ing and Lincoln townships, just north
OF Creston have formed co-opera
live club to ASST one another in
their shipping. They have incorpor
lated for $4,000, and have a working
capital of $1,000.
i Practically every college in the
country was represented in the Stu.
dents volunteer convention which
held a four days session in Des
Moines. and which ended Saturday
January 3. The estimated total Of
attendance is about 5000.
Neighbours Of Jess Nuzum to the
number of about thirty engaged in an
,Sfold fashioned husking bee at the MI.
lzum farm near Pisgah, when they
nnsked and cribbed in one day about
n 200 bushels of corn and enjoyed a
! big dinner prepared by their wives
and daughters.
Hundreds of Iowa farmers are still
y waiting for the railroads to furnish
them stock cars, says W. w. Latta,
4 president of the Iowa Wool Fleece
Growers Association of Logan, land
there is no doubt that the movement
to market since the first of the year
will be much heavier than usual.
In order to demonstrate the value
OF limestone to Franklin county far.
mers soil fertility demonstration
held was arranged for at the Frank.
lin county farm, near Geneva. The
board of supervisors agreed to pay
for the fertilizing materials and the
men on the farm agreed to do the
work.
Thru the donation to the town by
Mrs. Ricknell, as memorial to her
husband, the late A. D. Bicknell, a
well known pioneer of Humboldt
county, Hum boldt has come into pos
session Of a beautiful natural park,
bordering the Des Moines river, at
The west edge Of the business street,
to be known as Bicknell's park.
-Four poultry meetings were held in
Louisa county recently on the fol-
lowing farms: w Mclaughlin, 7. j
Callahan, Weaver Briggs and John
jenkins. The work done was appica-
BILE to the farm flock and orchard and
a uoOfI,y crowd ottandod oil ,,ao+;p,c
The work was handled by Mr. Park.
hurst and R. S. Herrick of Ames.
Following get-together meeting
of the Cherokee Community club and
The purebred livestock breeders OF
the county recently an organization
County livestock Breeders Associa-
tion, with membership of S. There
are "a breeders of pedigreed live
stock in the county. From one to
three bred sales are being planned
for spring.
Forty-seven cars of agricultural
limestone ordered through the farm
bureau some weeks ago, have failed
to arrive in Centerville owing to con
gested railroad conditions. The
stone was ordered from the Hawkeye
Quarry Co. The company has asked
each farmer who has ordered a cal
of limestone to certify that he will
unload the car promptly when it ar
rives at the station. The railroad
has refused to give the quarry the
oars unless these written agreements
accompany the orders.
A poultry show was held in Musca
, tine January Gil. The junior poul
h try enthusiasts of the county exhibit
ed and Prof. A. H. Ward of Iowa
State College assisted the young PEG
pie in arranging their exhibits
A stream of Iowa hogs out-a flood
of gold in That's the way at almost
every shipping station In Iowa. The
Gudahy plant at Tama bought 1,90t
hogs and paid out $4,000 to the far
mers' who sold them. In two days
! 1925 hoes went over the Cudahy