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Estherville-Wallingford, Iowa, voted a franchise to the Armstrong Cement Works for a period of twentyfive years, for light, heat and power. The Cement Works expect to furnish service by October 15. Hartley-After several parties had been here looking over the prospects of taking over the defunct Iowa Savings bank, it was announced today that W. W. Artherholt and Harold Metcalf, of Primghar, Ia., have applied for a charter to organize and operate a new bank at this place. Garner-Hancock county will vote on hard surfacing its roads and issuing $1,000,000 in bonds to do it with, promptly, on Aug. 4. The primary road system as outlined includes the North Iowa pike running east and west thru the county, and the Wilson way running north and south. If the proposition carries, and it no doubht will, Hancock county's paved mileage on these two highways will be approximately fifty-two miles. Hampton-Congressman Burton E. Sweet has introduced a bill in congress which provides for a $100,000 postoffice building in Hampton. T. W. Purcell, of the Chronicle, who has had the matter up with Congressman Sweet, last week received a letter from the congressman informing the Hampton man that such a bill was introduced in the lower house of congress, and a few days later Congressman Sweet sent Mr. Purcell a copy of the proposed bill. Sac City-A representative of the federal bureau of chemistry demonstrated to an assemblage of grain men at Sioux City what caused the explosion which destroyed the big corn starch plant at Cedar Rapids. He blew two tablespoons of corn starch into the air and applied a lighted torch to, the finely divided material. The result was an explosion which is said to have shaken the windows of
