Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-01-30

according 10 superintendent SaOin 8
report the cost per pupil in the public
schools OF the State the past year, on
school enumeration, on each youth
from five to twenty.one years, was
Sl0:54; on total enrolment, $13. 80 per
| scholar. Taken on a basis of the av-
erage attendance each pupil cost the
taxpayers $22.46.
The tax assessed against the West
ern Union Telegraph company for the
Iowa lines, as shown by the books in
the State Treasurer's Office, is $17,-
754.5S for the year 1889. This tax
becomes delinquent February LIST.
During the last three years the amount
of tax paid by this company has in
creased over $1,000.
The Supreme Court at Des Moines,
Jan. 22nd, examined class OF appli-
cants for admission to the bar, and the
following received certificates: Seward
Highly, Watkins knight, J. w. Nc
Tntyre, L. F. McCue, William May
banks, f. l.. McCorl, j. c. McCord,
| Howard Paschal. ID. b. Roberts, w. S.
Watson, NJ. NJ. White and r. M. Dot.
Governor Larrabee has appointed
the following delegates to the meeting
of the National Guard Association, to
be held in Washington, ID. c., Feb. 5
and 6: Gen. w. l.. Alexander, Des
Moines; Col. J. ID. Emery, lie Mars;
Col. Geo. Green, Cedar Rapids; Col.
| w. nj. Wilson, Osceola; Capt. III. c.
Spencer, Grinnell, and Lieut.. w. G.
Downs, of Cedar Rapids.
While fixing frozen pump on his
farm in Hardin township, Pottawatta-
mic county, w. S. Quick, an old man
of 70, slipped on the ice and started
for the bottom of the we'll head first.
His son, who was standing by, grabbed
him by ono foot as he was disappear
ing and hauled him back to terra
frma. The old gentleman suffered
the fracture of two ribs and received
other internal injuries from which he
may not recover.
The judges on thought and style for
| the home oratorical contest at Iowa
| City have handed in their markings,
and as a result the following six speak
ers were selected to deliver orations at
the contest. j. j. Crossley, of Patter-
son; Willis l.. Hall, of Burlington; Miss
NJ. II. Holmes, of Iowa City; Harry f.
Kelley, Williamsburg; w. ID. Lowell,
OF Humboldt; NJ. II. Lyon, of Hum
boldt. This is the first time lady has
been in the contest for ten years.
The Iowa Poultry and Pet stock ex-
hibition closed at Boone, Jan. oath.
| At the business session the following
officers were elected for 1890: Presi-
| dent, j. M. Gilchrist, Marshalltown;
first vice. president, T. j. Kegley,
Ames; second-yice president, C. M.
Soper, Ames; third vice-president,
Joseph Bancroft, Cedar Falls; secre-
tary, o. H. Wallen, Marshalltown;
executive committee, Messrs. Bruner,
Kent, Sopcr, Kirby and Anderson.
The association will meet in Marshall
town 6, Z, and 8, 1891. The exhibit
ton was not a financial success.
At the recent meeting of the State
| Horticultural Society in Des Moines
the following officers were elected:
President, Eugene Secor, of Forest
City; vice-president, A. F, Goldman, of
Corning; secretary, Geo. Van Houten,
of Lenox; treasurer, III. Stratner, of
Iowa City; librarian, C. Bracket, of
Denmark. Directors-Second district,
Geo. w. Shaw; Third district, L. A.
Williams; Fourth district, N. X. Fluke,
Davenport; Sixth district, c. l.. Wa
trous, Des Moines; Eighth district,
Henry w. Ash; Tenth district, NJ +.
Hinkley; Twelfth district, j. III. Elder
Concord.
Eldora comes to the front with the
biggest true fish story OF the decade.
John Webster, man named Gaines
and two brothers named Buchanan,
residents of Eldora, Iowa, went fish
ing near Hardin City in the Iowa.
Cutting hole in the ice, they speared
| a pike, and bringing it to the surface,
noticed that it seemed distended. When
opened pocket-book was found in
side, containing $6j in gold, SIS in
silver, $75 in greenbacks. $4,000 in
bonds and certificate of deposit for
$25 on bank of Johnstown, Pa. A
piece of paper in the pocket-book had
written statement TO the effect that
the book and contents were the proper
ty of John j. Jones, of Johnsto xn,
Pa. The fish in question, a wall-eyed
pike, must have travelled through the
famous Conemaugh river in Pennsyl-
vania into the Allegheny, down the
latter into the Ohio, down the Ohio
into the Mississippi, and up the Father
OF Waters into the Iowa river, where
it was caught.
In the afternoon of the first day of
the meeting of the State Horticultural
Society Secretary Van Houten submit
ted his report. Mr.. Van Houten said
that the past season has been a fairly
successful one; crops have in the main
been large but prices low. He deplor-
ed the fact that some of the surplus OF
summer apples had gone to waste.
Efforts had been made to utilize these,
and the society should encourage all
efforts in that line. There is no rea-
son why any surplus should go to waste
as long as there are hungry people.
Transportation had been somewhat UNI
satisfactory. He called attention TO
the fact that while Iowa towns have