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From Our Exchanges Guttenberg has cut its school budget $3,000 for the coming year. There was recently planted in Lake Oelwein 300 bass, 2500 sunfish, 1000 pickerel and 1200 fingerlings. According to the Independence Conservative the Illinois Central railway will employ no section hands during the month of July. During the Fourth of July week-end McGregor ferries carried over 300 cars across the river and the new bridge reports in the neighborhood of 1,000 cars across that structure. Frank "Frenchy" Trayer killed a large rattlesnake at the kitchen door of his home in South Lansing last Friday, says the Lansing Journal. It had nine rattles and a button. Dale Hyde, a small boy at Independence, hooked and landed a 22-pound carp alone on June 26th. If a mere boy can do that, think what a whopper a full grown he-man could pull out. Officials of the Big Four Fair association at Nashua, says the Sumner Gagette, have decided to lower the price of admission this year to 25 cents for both day and night. The fair will be held August 22 to 26. The judge of the circuit court at Prairie du Chien has denied the right of either that city or the state to exact a license or otherwise interfere with the operation of the ferries between that city and McGregor. The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin has ordered a 121/2% reduction in telephone rates in Wisconsin, says the New Hampton Tribune, following a year and a half investigation of the large dividends on the small actual value of a telephone system. The state 3-cent a gallon gasoline tax for June fell off $255,956.44, as compared to June 1931. State Treasurer R. E. Johnson reported last week. Total collections in June were $888.907.45. The collections were apportioned as follows: Primary road fund, $428,302.48; secondary road fund, $264,000: and refund and administration account $196,604.97. Widening of the curves on No. 20 between- Waterloo and Jesup will be realized this summer, says the Sumner Gazette, a contract for the same having been let recently to the A. Olson Construction company of Waterloo. The contract price is $1885. These curves have been the scene of numerous accidents in recent years, especially during the winter when there was considerable ice on the pavement. Announcement is made in this issue, says the Waukon Democrat, of the final dividend payment to the depositors of the Waterville Savings bank which closed seven years ago. The amount that will be derived by this payment will be 11% and a fraction, which with the preceding dividends of 55%, makes a total of a trifle over 66%. The expense of the receivership and litigation has evidently amounted to 34%, which would indicate that the bank was solvent when closed. Thus it shows that bank receiverships are the added expense that depositors in closed banks have to bear in the end. 1500 dancers from three states packed Lakeside pavilion at Guttenberg the evening of July 5th to shuffle their feet to music of Wayne King's great orchestra and paid $2.00 per couple for the privilege. Some depression! If the weather continues warm and rains should halt, pastures soon will begin to fail and good dairy cows will fall in production unless supplementary feeds are supplied, dairy husbandry men at Iowa State college declare. The home of Mrs. W.J. Hagenbuch of Oelwein was entered while she and her daughter were in Dubuque over the week-end, and $4,000 worth of jewelry and other valuables taken. A fingerprint expert from Waterloo has been at work on the case. Two valuable rings, one worth $1,500 and the other $400, were taken, besides heirlooms of great value brought by Mrs. Hagenbuch from Germany. A carrier pigeon with an injured wing was picked up at the W. H. Pieper farm Saturday, says a Donnan item in the Hawkeeye Beacon. It had been seen about the place several days before it was taken captive. The metal band around one leg had the following inscription, A. U. 29, C. S. C. 1989. On the other leg was a rubber band with A 73 on the outside and the figures 234 on the inside. As soon as the wing heals the pigeon will be released. According to the records of County Treasurer F. G. Lee, citizens of Fayette county purchased 36 new cars during the month of June and a total of 70 cars were registered during that month. The total number of cars registered one year ago at the end of the Jime business was 7631, compared to 7042 for this year, which makes a shortage over last year of 589 cars. Officials of the treasurer's office estimate that there are over 500 cars in storage. I. T. Bode, superintendent of the state conservation survey, was appointed fish and game warden last Tuesday by the state fish and game commission. Bode, who was named to succeed the late Warden W. E. Albert of Lansing will continue as superintendent of the survey. Bode served for 11 years as extension forester for Iowa State college at Ames before joining the state fish and game commission a few months ago. He is an authority on native plant material. The largest wheat field that has been seen in the West Union vicinity for more than a half century is a good prospect today, says the Argo. The former John Schroyer farm, two miles southwest of West Union, now owned by the Collins Farms Co., consists of 150 acres. The tillable area, after cutting out the low wet places and the buildings is 130 acres, every acre of which is sown to winter wheat. This crop looks fine at the present and will be ready for harvest in about a week. James Reisner, neighbor to the Schroyer farm, and who has been a small grain raiser and a thresherman for over forty years, says that no wheat field of any such size has been seen here since the chinch bugs put the wheat raising industry out of business in Fayette county about 1878 or 1880. Fifteen loads of alfalfa from six acres, with each load averaging a ton in weight, is the report brought in by Austin Wilbur, says the Hawkeye Beacon. This was the first cutting of a field planted last year, and was made during the week of June 20 to 27. A two weeks general holiday is under way over at Northwood, proclaimed by the mayor to permit the consolidation and reorganization of the two banks-the Worth County State and the First National, says the Osage Press. It will be recalled that Northwood took one of the popular bank waiver holidays some months ago. Similar holidays are under way at Decorah and Iowa Falls.- The second largest amount of wool in the history of the Fayette county pool was brought in to the warehouse at Fayette Monday and Tuesday of last week, says the Leader, and sold to the Kassler Fur company of Dubuque for a flat price of $9.55 per hundred There was a total of 38,734 pounds sold directly through the pool, and 5,308 pounds were picked up by Kassler from dealers, making a total of 44,042 pounds of wool handled. The only year that exceeded this year in pounds of wool sold was 1928, when the price was 44 cents for firsts and 39 cents for seconds, and 47,000 pounds were sold. Hogs, long ago called the "mortgage lifters" in Iowa, once again appear to be in a position to help "Hift mortgages" or at least to afford Iowa farmers a relatively profitable market for their grain. "There is good evidence that the recent gains in hog prices will hold at least until the usual heavy fall runs begin," declares A. L. Anderson, in charge of swine work for the animal husbandry department at Iowa State College. The Inst fall pig crop-apparently was somewhat smaller than some folks had believed, Mr. Anderson says. With the recent gains in hog prices, it is distinctly profitable now to convert corn into hogs because the ratio between corn and hog prices is very favorable for hog feeding, according to Anderson. Farmers who are pushing spring pigs along and can get them on the market early stand a chance of being well paid for their feed and labor, Anderson believes. The Iowa supreme court handed down a decision last week in a Clay county case, says the Independence Bulletin, in which the decision of the lower court was reversed in a suit brought to enjoin the board of supervisors from relocating a primary road from Spencer to Dickens. The state court ruled that boards of supervisors have no authority to create new roads to be paid for from county bonds authorized prior to their creation. The supreme court ruling is of interest in Buchanan county through the fact that this county some few years ago decided to use some of its primary road bond fund in fixing up the new primary 187, from west of Masonville north to the Backbone state park. The county had progressed with the proposition even so far as having the bonds made out and partially signed when the Clay county case came up, and the bonds were held up, later the work on that primary road being carried on and cared for with other funds. The supreme court opinion no doubt will prove of wide interest over the state. Transportation of live poultry by truck from Sumner to the Chicago and New York market was started the first of the week, says the Sumner Gazette, when Dewey Duhrkopf accompanied by Claude Wilharm of the Sumner Produce company left with a full load of spring chickens. They went directly from here to Chicago and upon their arrival there planned to inquire about the market, and if it proved favorable would dispose of their cargo there. However, if it was found a better deal could be made in New York they expected to continue eastward. Mr. Duhrkopf has built a special truck for the purpose, with a body of several decks in which to place the poultry and feed them enroute. About a thousand pounds of -feed is carried. The capacity of the truck is seven tons. A capacity load is 2000 spring chickens or the equivalent in weight. A specially designed cab has been made to provide room for the driver and three other passengers, if necessary. Bedding space at the rear of the cab provides sleeping accommodations for the second driver. The outbound and home bound trips are to be made without a stop.