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Chickasaw county spent $140,000 on highway improvement during 1931.
West Union reduced its bonded indebtedness by $16,000 last year.
The Volga City Farmers Commission Co. shipped 137 cars of livestock last year.
Nine men and three women have already entered the office seekers arena in Clayton county and will fight it out at the primaries.
The Winneshiek Farmers Co-Operative Commission Co. of Decorah shipped 565 cars of livestock, 180 of which were doubles, during 1931.
The farmers creamery at New Hampton manufactured 289.766 pounds of butter last year and paid its patrons $67,726.54 for butterfat. The business for the year was $21,885.38 less than for 1930.
The first time that the "teeth" of the new auto drivers' license law were shown in Fayette county was on Friday, says the West Union Argo, when the sheriff's office received official notice from the state motor vehicle department at Des Moines that four men, all'residents of Oelwein, had been denied licenses to drive.
The Advocate at Fairbank discontinued publication last week. One by one the papers in the small towns are going out of business, says an exchange, because of lack of support. The editor, Robert J. Goodsell, will go to Nashua, where he will do some special writing for newspapers and magazines and may join the Nashua Reporter staff.
The Journal office got its first ton of print paper this year from Minneapolis last week and under the new freight rates now in effect was compelled to approximately $2.50 more to get it delivered in Lansing, says the Allamakee Journal. This is about a 25% increase, and if everything else is raised in proportion the railroads should soon be back on a paying basis.
Fred Biermann, formerly publisher of the Journal, was elected as president of the Iowa Democrat, Inc., publishers of the Iowa Democrat in Des Moines, official organ of the party in this state, at a meeting of the directors in the state capitol city last week, says Decorah Journal. Mr. Biermann was re-elected as a director, following which he was named as executive of the company.
Bob VanEman picked a branch off his lemon tree at the barber shop last week. says the Greene Recorder, on which were two perfect lemons weighing a pound each, and sent the branch and fruit to his daughter, Mrs. Joe Nichols, and husband at San Diego, Calif. This is an unusual occurrence, as fruit of this nature is usually sent from the west or south to the midwestern states.
Here is how the salaries of county officers stacked up 35 years ago as reported by the Lansing Journal: "M. W. Eaton, J. A. Drogset and J. W. Hartley, Allamakee county supervisors, have fixed salaries for 1897 as follows: Auditor $1200, Treasurer $1500. Clerk $1300, Sheriff $360 and fees, deputies $600 per annum, Steward of Poor Farm $1000, Matron $30 per month, Mulct tax $600 per year."
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According to figures just released from the National Fertilizer association, Fayette county used more fertilizer in 1929 than any other county in the state, says the West Union Argo. These figures were taken from the 1930 census and show that in that year 1,028 tons were used. Hancock county was second with 916, Buchanan third with 731, Black Hawk fourth with 769, and Muscatine fifth with 734 A total of 21,177 tons was reported for that year
Winneshiek county is paying $8,000 a year in widow's pensions, the report of Clerk of Court C. R. Selland to the state board of control reveals, says the Decorah Journal. There are now about thirty widows drawing compensation, an increase of about ten in the past year. From $1.25 to $2.50 a week for each child is paid for dependent children 16 years or younger. Remarriage stops the payment of pensions. Application must be renewed every two years.
Miss Mildred F. Crawford was appointed Thursday to be attorney for the receiver of the Randalia Savings bank, says the West Union Argo. The appointment was formally entered that day by Judge W. L. Eichendorf in the district court record, but that is only a formality, as the actual say-so rests with the attorney general of the state, John Fletcher. Miss Crawford is believed to be the first woman attorney in Iowa to be made attorney for a bank receiver.
Perhaps it is not generally known by the hunting public that to hunt along the railway right-of-way is contrary to state law, at any rate a large number of hunters are arrested for this offense each year. In many instances hunters are given a warning by the deputy game warden, but nevertheless the practice must be discontinued or hunters will find themselves before a justice paying a fine for this violation of the law. Hunters must remember that all railroad right-of-ways are natural game sanctuaries.
A bituminous surfacing on primary No. 11 north from West Union to Calmar is predicted, instead of paving, says the West Union Argo. The official announcement is not made by the state highway commission, but the district engineer is quoted to the effect that such action is likely. The seventeen miles between the two places, through Eldorado and Festina, is the only stretch between. the Missouri and Minnesota state lines, on a direct route from New Orleans to Winnipeg, that is not paved. The best kind of bituminous surfacing costs around $10,000 a mile. Paving at present low prices costs only $20,000 a mile.
E. L. Amundsen, secretary of the chamber of commerce, is wearing a bandage over his left eye, as well as a black eye, says Decorah Public Opinion. The damage to Mr. Amundsen resulted Sunday just as he stepped out of his residence on East Water street. He was bundled up in his overcoat and encountered an extremely slippery walk, caused by the sleet of the night before, causing him to slip, falling forward on his face. He was wearing his eyeglasses, which slipped up over his eyes, one lens cutting gash over his left eye which required seven stitches to close. His eyeglasses were not broken, nor injured in the least.
For the second time in six months, says the Spring Valley (Minn.) Tribune, two bandits last week invaded the office of the Kahler hospital at Rochester, bound and gagged the assistant manager, slugged him and escaped with $1648 in currency. They ordered Boler to open the safe and slugged him when he hesitated. They took the currency but scorned other valuables in the safe.
A new. corporation to be known as the Elkader Commission Co. was organized here Monday afternoon to take the place of the Elkader Co-Operative Commission Co., whose charter has expired, says the Elkader Register. All directors and officers of the co-operative company were elected to serve in the new organization. They are: President, A. F. Buckman; vice president, O. H. Larson; secretary, E. C. Bandow; treasurer, H. L. Swenson; directors, A. F. Buckman, O. H. Larson, E. J. Walz, Chas. Gottschalk, Fred Schneider, Frank Tieden, Wm. A.
The directors of the West Union Farmers Creamery held an all day meeting Saturday to make elections, hire haulers and sell the buttermilk, says the West Union Argo. Floyd Nefzger was elected buttermaker, Keith Smith helper and M. A. Hutchinson, secretary. The salaries paid the three men will be a total of $55 a month less than those paid last year. All the same men were employed as cream haulers, and the hauling price will be a quarter of a cent a pound below the figure paid last year. Buttermilk sold at a little over half what was paid last year. The prices are 10, 11, 13 and 15½ cents for the buttermilk from 100 pounds butterfat. The prices last year were 22 and 24 cents.
Fairmont, Minn., experienced an unusual thing Sunday when the surface of Budd lake caught fire and blazed for hours, says the Northwood Anchor, burning a pier and other property along the shore. Oil that is thought to have leaked into a sewer from a bulk station extended under the ice as far as the center of the large lake and this caught fire, causing the unusual phenomenon of the apparent conflagration of the lake itself. This also solves the kerosene flavor which had been observed this week before the fire, causing fishermen to throw away their catches. It is estimated that several hundred barrels must have been lost in this leakage.
The sub-floor on the Marquette span of the new highway bridge over the Mississippi will be finished by Saturday night, weather permitting, contractors say. The big shovel will then finish excavating the approach on this side and the dirt will be trucked over the bridge for the island fill, says the McGregor Times. On the Prairie side the trusses will be finished ready for the riveters next week. Last week-end the final triple-check was given the Prairie span. Three heavy steel truss members were fastened to one hangar rod and left suspended in mid-air for several days. The strain was many times that which will be placed under the heaviest load, but it was carried perfectly by the hangar and rod fastener. The weather has delayed the steel erection this span considerably, still great progress is being made. At present all of the floor members of the Prairie spans and approaches are in place and several sections of stiffening trusses are up. Hand rails are up on the Prairie approach, but that work has not been started at Marquette, as the crew is busy transporting willows to the Island in preparation for rip-rapping the dump.
