Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-04-14
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Iowa City is planning a new NUM-
cipal bathing beach in the Iowa River.
4 The Annual May Day Fete at the
State Teachers College, Cedar Falls,
will be held May II. Homecoming
da- will be Oct. Is.
More than $50 faculty members will
give instruction to 1000 students at
the summer session of the Iowa Uni
versity, June Is to Aug. 26.
Alleging cruelty Doris K. Findley
filed suit for divorce against Don R.
Findley in District court. The par
ties were married at Boone, Iowa, in
April, 1916.
Appointment of a commission to
study Iowa's tax laws and recon-
mend needed revisions is assured.
The house passed resolution author
.izing such commission. The reso-
luton is already through the senate.
The commission is instructed to re-
port its recommendations to the next
assembly.
The Loveland Shorthorn stock sale
at Mt Pleasant was good one con-
sidering the business depression. For
ty-eight head Of yearlings were sold
and brought an average OF $340 for
forty-fve heifers and $120 for three
bulls. The highest price for a heller
was $40. Much of the stuff will be
shipped to Oklahoma.
Federation Of state conventions of
Iowa Evangelical and United Evan
gelical associations, organic union of
which is being arranged by national
committees, was voted at Evangelical
conference at Dumont. The federat-
ed meeting will be at Cedar Falls, Au-
gust 1928. Next Evangelical meeting
will be at Van Horn March 80, 1922.
Henry Krouse, Linn County farmer
Is s30174 out of pocket as result
OF shipping carload of cattle to Chi
cago. He was offered 9k cents at
Cedar Rapids but believing that he
could get more in Chicago he shipped
there and received 81 cents pound.
Figuring the cost of transportation,
commission and the cost of raising
the animals, he finds it losing game
The condition of Iowa's winter
wheat crop April / was "a per cent
OF normal, the joint government and
state report issued recently shows.
This was said to be unusually high
considering the small amount Of snow
Wi ha nj o1i
ported good. About 426,0OO acres
were sown in the state last fall, COM
pared with 45S,000 in the autumn Of
1919.
The buildings at the farm home of
Clarence Black, east OF Glidden, were
totally destroyed by fire recently.
When Mrs. Black discovered the fire
the barn was nearly consumed. The
flames soon spread to other buildings
and six horses were burned to death.
The loss will exceed $4,000 on which
there is an insurance of about $10,-
900. The cause of the fire is not
known.
The. Senate bill, authorizing the
es and records in any investigation Of
alleged Irregularities of state officers,
was passed by the house. AS
adopted by the Senate, the mea-
sure covered only Investigations which
are authorized by the legislature. The
House adopted an amendment, ex.
tending it to include inquiries begun
upon the councils own motion.
Carl Spies, proprietor of the City
Meat Market, Graettinger has fatty
refused to pay high freight rates. He
recently dumped $50 hides into the
Des Moines river. Mr.. Spies paid a
fancy price for some of the hides but
declining market and increasing
transportation charges made the en-
tire lot worthless. Graettinger is the
first town in northern Iowa to utilize
the rivers as means of transporta-
ton.
Two Marshalltown boys are in jail
in Nevada, Iowa, and have confessed
to several robberies and car thefts
and are believed by state agents tc
be implicated in the Albion bank rob.
berry February %. The boys. Roy R.
Ball and Ray Burgess were arrested
at Colo, Iowa, about seven miles east
OF Nevada. In their possession was
found quantity of dynamite, twelve
dozen rounds of ammunition, safe
blowers tools and three large auto.
matte revolvers.
Iowa was represented by nine dele
gates at the Farm Bureau Federation
conference in Chicago recently call
ed to consider cooperative grain
marketing plan advocated by the COM
mittee of seventeen. There will be
107 delegates apportioned according
to the value of each states grain
crop. The unit is fifteen millions in
grain sales for each delegate. c. w.
Hunt, president and B. H. Cunning.
ham. secretary and A. L. Middleton,