Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-08-05
The nrst soldiers body to be re-
turned from overseas to Shenandoah
was that of Arthur Simmerman,


combination with another. OF the
total Iowa tame hay acreage in 1919.
alfalfa occupied Pill per cent, timothy
and clover mixed 1872 per cent.
| timothy 1873 per cent, clover 12.5
per cent, pea 81 per cent, grain cut
green 90 per cent, and all others l6.l
per cent.
A saving in county expenditures
of approximately SS0,S16.24 less than
those of 1918 are shown in the annual
report OF the Dubuque county auditor
just completed and delivered to the
board. The sum of S371, 1876 was
expended for the year 1919. Hos
pitfalls lead in expenditures with $685.,
a19.49 The county road and bridge
fund took the second largest amount
a total of S105,374.91.
An order has been issued by the
board of supervisors OF Franklin
county, calling for the tearing down
at once of all advertising signs on the
primary and secondary roads At
many places, the number Of these
signs has come to be a nuisance. They
not only disfgure the general appear
ance of things but in many places are
hindrance to workmen whose duty
is to keep the highways in order.
The state board of control will ex
hibit at the state fair products from
the reformatory and prison workshops
a Anamosa and Fort Madison. They
will also exhibit forty-fve head of
Holstein cows, prize butter fat pro
duces 5. A herd of fine swine from
Anamosa and several other institu
tons will also be placed on exhibit by
the board of control. This so the
state fair visitors may be made ia
miliar with work at state institu-
tions.
Judge Moffit has been hearing the
case of Verona H Welch VS.. S. P.
Nelly and others from Monticello
which is long standing controversy
over the boundary line between two
city lots in Monticello, on which are
contrasting parties. A very small strip
of ground, about ten inches in width,
actually is involved, but the estrange-
ment between the litigants had
grown much wider Four lawyers
and perfect cloud of witnesses were
in att enhance.
Cedar Falls has a new municipal
bathing beach and the beach has been
very popular this season. Many of
the bathers have been leaving the
beach clad only in bathing suits. Mem
oers of the Cedar Falls city council
adopted an ordinance providing
heavy fine for anyone appearing on
a public street or riding on street
car clad only in bathing suits. AS
a result there has been rush to
purchase robes and rain coats. There
also is indignation.
The taking over of Lake Manawa
at Council Bluffs by the state was pro-
posed to the state executive council
and state park board by a delegation
of Council! Bluffs citizens appearing
before the council The state al
ready holds title to most of it, dele
gates explained, but in order for the
lake to meet its possibilities it needs
dredging and enlarging and some i'm
provements. 1t would not be big
undertaking and the citizens OF Coun-
Gil Bluffs stand ready to co cooperate.
The state will open the Juvenile
home at Toledo just as soon as the
state architect Libby completes a
tour of inspection of the new and re-
modelled buildings at that point He
will recommend that the board of
control accept the work of contractors
who have been employed there for
some months past. Dr. A. E. Keep
ford will be the superintendent at
Toledo. Applications are already on
file on behalf OF minors. About $50
children can be accommodated at the
new juvenile home.
Harold Burnett, 15-years-old of
Charles City, a boy scout, showed
much courage and skill in rescuing
four children from drowning when
the children who were playing on
raft fell off. He sent boy to phone
for a doctor as he rushed to the raft
and grabbed a 10year-old girl by the
hair and pulled her out. He then To-
Gated two smaller brothers who had
gone down for the last time and
brought them up unconscious, carried
them to the bank and began resuscita-
ton work A man moving grass near
by came to his help, and when the
doctors arrived with a lungmotor it
was not needed.
4 Shipped by fast boat to New York
and then by railway express to Leeds,
a suburb of Sioux City, two cars of
i Swiss goats arrived The shipment
was valued at 100000 in Switzerland
and by he time they reached their
Iowa destination by express the cost
amounted several thousand dollars
4 higher. The goats are of the milking
strain and We're shipped to this state
] in order to stimulate interest in the
goat industry. The largest herd of
milk goats in the state was at Fort
Dodge before this arrival. although
there are good sized herds at Pella