Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-04-03

iat poultry, also fresh eggs. The high
est cash price paid,
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A daughter was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Chas. Bison, of Brayton, this morning.
A. III. Edwards returned this morn.
ing from business trip to Mendoza,
Ill.
Mrs. Tom Bryant, of Carson is visit
ing her relatives at Extra and Audu-
bon.
Queen Esther at the court house to-
night and tomorrow night. Splendid
solos, grand chrus of fifty voices, royal
costumes. Don't fail to attend,
Miss Belle Stakemiller, the milliner
at llowald's, has had most valuable ex.
perience in the trimming line In Chicago
and her work will be sure to please the
ladies of Audubon.
Peck's Bad Boy played the most das.
tardly trick on the old man when he
contrived his nomination for mayor of
Milwaukee, and he was elected by five
thousand majority.
Auditor Rees was elected for a two
year term but the legislature has passed
a bill, which only awaits the signature
of Gov, Boies, which makes the term
of present county auditors three years,
in order that the election of auditor and
treasurer may fall upon alternate years.
81. Houston will go to Des Moines
next Monday, where he contemplates
opening a drug store soon, having al
ready made preliminary arrangements.
His many friends in the county wish
that his enterprise may be attended by
success. Mr., Houston is man Of eX
cellent business qualiilc atoms and a
competent pharmacist.
II. Nj. Boorman, who was announced
rs candidate for the republican con.
gressional nomination, has, after ma.
turer elaboration, withdrawn his name
from the contest. Mr.. Boorman has
had the satisfaction of hearing u great
many complimentary things said of
him, SO that he is not without compen.
sation for the effort made. There will
probably Ice some one to carry the
standard to the front.
The Sioux City Journal regards the
move toward resubmission as an
evasion of the prohibitory question. 1t
says in substance that we are already
confronted by the condition, and that
the result of the experiment must do.
terminc the wishes of our people Oh
the subject, aud concludes that the only
proper move for the present is either
the maintenance or repeal of the statu.
tory cnactments. The Journal, evil |
IDENTIFY, does not share the confusion In
which the general public finds itself
with RECORD to this question,
The Lincoln, Nebr., Journal lectures
.hus: Iowa is making fool of her.
self in lighting for free sugar just now.
There is no doubt that the northern
lalf of Iowa is well adapted to the cul.
,ure of the sugar beet. But her people
ire 50 busy reducing railroad rates, un.
Ter the impression that thereby the
world would forget about the great
,orn surplus and pay fair price, that
he has given no attention TO the sugar
,eet question. Probably no farmer I'm
iowa has even gone so far as to plant
! few seeds to see how they would come
,ut in the fall What Iowa needs Is q
Farmers alliance organized to improve
agriculture rather than to get offices
or the file leaders.
1t appears that Gov. Boies has no
line or patience for the pleadings and
reasoning Of laboring men. The gov
,rnor professed great sympathy for
lown-trodden labor when making his
and could not conceive that
,old, heartless spirit which caused some
statesmen to ignore the calls of labor.
rhe laboring men have thought that
heir voices should be heard In the mat
.er of the appointment of labor com
and since the Inauguration
If Boies have lost no opportunity to
discourage the governor in his evident
determination to appoint the notorious
sovereign. Their petitions were always
lied away for future reference without
Last week, however, they
we're determined upon final struggle
and went to the capitol in considerable
to enter their weightiest pro,
Test. The governor, reclining In the
soft cushions of his private Office, sent
.he delegation word that he was too
busy to receive them, and within the
hour flagrantly hared in their faces the
nomination of Sovereign. Sovereign is
. dissembler, q mountebank, political
,peculator and demagogue, and his
nomination to disgrace respectable
office is the most insulting injury ever
cast upon the intelligence Of this state.