Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-05-10
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DSaiiOt iO'oi mas maui It's uppodfduCc
in Fairfield.
The Fairfield woolen mills will soon be
in running order.
A knight of Pythias lodge has been
instituted at Fontanelle.
On the coming Fourth of July Keokuk
will celebrate her fiftieth birthday as
city.
The annual convention Of the Roman
Catholic Mutual Protective society will
be held at Waterloo June2.
Des Moines has altogether thirteen
miles of paved streets, and over eighteen
miles of curbing, which has cost nearly
5000. 900.
The St. Charles Reporter says very
remarkable case of somnambulism &C.
Cured in the vicinity of Truro recently
About one year ago James Patterson COM
mitted suicide by jumping into well
One night recently his daughter, Miss
Ada, arose in her sleep at the hour of
midnight, attired herself in light sum-
mer apparel, eli mbed from upstairs down
a post of the portico, saddled horse and
rode to the cemetery more than mile
away. where beneath the starry heavens
in the quietude of the night she gently
kneeled beside the grave Of her dead
parent and wept and prayed. Her hand
soon coming in contact with a briar bush
she awoke. A moments reflection brought
her to full realization of where she
was, and frightened she fed in haste
to the nearest house. The dogs here added
to her fright, and screaming she climbed
a tree only to be rescued and taken home
by friends. Ada will doubtless long re-
member that nights experience.
A new postofflce has been established
at Likens, Benton county, Smith Hillard
postmaster. Fourth class postmasters
commissioners Gustaye Baumgart Sow
den, Cedar county; Geo. Hammers.
Hebron, Adair county; Gertrude Grozian,
Valley View, Harrison county.
General Warner Lewis, Recorder Of
Dubuque county, died May 4, aged eighty
two years He was particular and in
innate friend of Jefferson Davis, mem
Der Of the Iowa Territorial Legislature,
and had a son in the Confederate army
Col Warner Lewis.
The Talmage coal find has stimulated
the citizens of Alton to action, and
paper is in circulation soliciting fund to
sink a shaft on the land of Mr.. Becbc,
near the Diagonal's well.
The Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha railroad company write that the
corn palace shall receive space in all the
advertising matter hereafter sent out by
the company.
The good effects of the oleomargarine
law are seen in all parts of the State.
When dealers have TO announce fraud
as fraud, very few people care to buy
at any price. Dairy Commissioner Sher-
man, who has just completed tour Of
observation through the State, says that
the sale of butterine is exceedingly light
in Iowa The law now requires persons
wishing to sell any substitute for butter
that is not butter to take out a license,
aud the astonishing fact is stated that
Iowa. There is one in Burlington, one in
Keokuk, one in Centreville and three in
Davenport. Two of the licenses in
Davenport are not in the business, claim
ing that it didn't pay. The third one
told Mr. Sherman that when his license
expires he will not renew it. He says he
does not sell enough to make sufficient
profit to pay for the license. He declares
it is very hard to sell the stuff when the
package is labelled with its true name
So the genuine dairy product has full
sweep in Iowa
The twenty sixth annual meeting of the
State Dental Association opened at Iowa
City, May 1. Much routine business was
transacted and several interesting papers
were read and discussed. The meeting
continued until the 4th.
The little town of Fonda has purchased
one hundred car loads of Cherokee gravel
TO grade their streets with.
About o'clock on the morning of May
I. fire totally destroyed Slater s. Ellcr's
livery barn, bus and baggage wagon at
Atlantic All of the horses and most Of
the carriages were burned. J. Hunts
blacksmith shop and Ed Buffers carpen-
ter shop were partially destroyed. Loss
about &c., 900.
There is a good deal Of interest beng
taken in the changes in railroad rates
that will be necessary as a result of the
railroad legislation of the past winter.
Representatives of the leading Iowa lines
are at work now in Chicago to have their
rates conform to the requirements of the
new law. The first thing they will have
to do will be to change the existing rates
so as to make the short haul no greater
than the long haul. 1t is not yet known
what the railroad commissioners will do.
Commissioner Campbell has been care
fully investigating the Illinois system and
rates. and some think that for the present
the board will adopt the Illinois rates,
with such incidental changes as may be
necessary to meet the conditions in Iowa.
AS the law allows the commissioners
sixty days after the law itself goes into
effect, there is no immediate hurry about
promulgating the new rate, and they are
working along slowly and, consequently,
carefully.
Dennis Dugan, fireman on the Sioux
City & Pacific railroad, fell from his
engine beneath the wheels, at Sioux City,
May 1, and received fatal injuries.
The Iowa Homestead will appear
promptly next week Notwithstanding the
complete destruction of its material by
the same disastrous fire which destroyed
the Leader office. The Homestead will
rise from its ashes in an entire new dress,
which was ordered on the day succeeding