The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-04-25
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the city's main streets.
A town band Is an asset, merchants
Of Dayton declared, and raised $1,000
for il.
The Bremen county Cow Testing
association has broken four state
records.
The supervisors Of Clay county have
authorized thirty-one miles OF gravel
ed roads.
The baptists will make large i'm
provements at their assembly grounds
at Iowa Falls.
A bond issue of $4,000 for a new
school building will be voted On at
Murray April 2sth.
approximately 1850 square yards
of pavement will be laid this sum
mer at Marshalltown.
Plans were made at a secretaries
session at Marshalltown to raise $780,
00s as Iowa's quota for foreign Y. M.
c. A. work.
About one out of every ten farms
in Iowa is electrified, according to Ar
thur H. Huntington of the Iowa Rail
way & Light company.
Beth the Boy Scout organization and
the Y. M. c. A. Camp erganizatisn Will
promote good camping for boys In
Des Moines this summer.
The English language will be used
at the Danish Nazareth church at Ce-
dar Falls next Sunday for the first
time in f1fty-three years.
Citizens of Ringgold county will
vote on the proposition Of q new $780,
900 courthouse, June End.
An appropriation Of $125,00o by the
legislature makes possible hydro
therapeutic treatment department at
the state hospital, Clarinda.
Fairfield churches have united In
an effort to bring Billy Sunday here
again. He was there in 1907.
Bridges and repairs on bridges In
Cherokee county during 1924 will cost
$4,000, according to contracts.
Contracts have been awarded for
the erection of Y. M. c. A. building
at Washington to cost about S105,e00.
approximately $500 individual stu
dents have been enrolled in the State
Teachers college during the last year.
Kossuth county is rapidly develop
ing a system Of graveled and well
graded highways. So far $174,000 Of
federal aid money has been spent.
Andrew Emmert, contractor of New
ton was awarded the contract for the
new $4,000 cattle barn to be erect
ed in Ames at the Iowa State college.
Brsadlawns, the new $235,000 Polk
county tuberculosis hospital at Eight.
eenth street and st. Joseph avenue,
Des Moines, has been formally dedt
Gated.
Iswa has not had siege Of foot and
mouth disease for ten years. An cpl
demic of the disease cost livestock
men hundreds of thousands Of dellars
ten years ago.
Preliminary work on the paving Of
Whiteway No. z highway from Des
Moines to two miles east of Altoona,
has been commenced by the Wright
Construction Company.
There are so many bobbed heads
at Audubon and so few that bear long
haid that a local drug store has ad-
vanced its service into the beauty par
lor business.
Certainly, the people of Iowa can
take no comfort in the realization that
the contract system merely exploits
prison labor for the benefit of a pri-
vate corporation.
The Willis farm Of $50 acres near
Mount Pleasant, will be bought by the
state at SITS per acre as farm to
be operated by the inmates of the
state hospital for the insane at Mt
Pleasant.
Iowa college presidents In a num-
Der of the schools Of the state have
sent statements to the Anti-Saloon
League declaring that the lives Of
their students are contaminated by
the use Of alcohol.
A total Of s267, 500 has been sub
scribed by business men OF the city
in the organization OF the Greater
Cedar Rapids Company plan for bring
ing new industries to the city and en-
couraging those already there which
may need additional capital.
What will be the biggest contract
for graveling of Grundy county roads
ever let by the board of supervisors
will be awarded on May Goth, accord
ing to an announcement by the board.
Twenty-one miles of surfacing will
make up the contract or contracts, as
the case may be.
An order for 5000 bulldogs has been
filed by an East Des Moines firm.
The dogs are statuary and are for ad-
vertising for a Des Moines tire acces-
sorry firm and were made by the Grund
Art company. A recent carload ship
ment of pigs for Mason City meat
packing firm was made by the same
firm.
Wesleyan girls will sing at Mediapo.
lis. Morning sun, West Liberty. Co.
lumbus Junction, Let's, Ainsworth,
Washington, Richland and Oids.
The house adopted the plan OF Sen.
ator butcher OF Johnson, OF assessing
banks nj 20 per cent OF their value
compared 10 the value OF other prop.
erty In the same assessing district,