Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-02-13
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build q new court house at Corydon.
The United Brethren of Manchester
will erect church edifice in the spring.
An electric light company has been
organized at Marengo, and also one at
Creston.
The Rathburn Manufacturing COM
pany of Milwaukee wants to locate in
Sioux City.
A new bridge has been constructed
over Skunk river, in Jasper county,
costing $3,114.
The firm of Goodyear & Palmer, of
the Cedar Rapids Business College has
been dissolved.
The new fire department hose house
at Council Bluffs is completed and will
be occupied soon.
Fire in the drug store Of II. ID. Mil
Ter, at Clarence, destroyed property
valued at 81, 900.
Reinhart Tomb, aged fifty years, of
Charles City, fell on the icy sidewalk
and broke his leg
The annual contest of the Iowa Col
leglate as ISOLATION will be held at Mt
Pleasant Feb. 27th.
Over $4,000 was raised at Rock
Rapids in one day for the Cornell col
lege endowment fund.
B Francis Murphy will be asked to
conduct a series of temperance meet
ings in Council Bluffs.
Thieves entered Harris jewelry store
at Council Bluffs and carried away
$500 worth of watches.
DR.. Sallie Toombs, Of Ottumwa, one
of the NEST useful of Iowa lady physi-
clans, died on the lst,
Over 1900 tons of ice have been cut
at Storm Lake this year and shipped
TO points in the south.
One of the largest shooting tourna-
ments of the season was held at Mount
Pleasant on the 9th inst.
Miss Jennie Warren, young lady
of Hampton, while skating fell into
the river and was drowned.
eli. C. S~earinger, farmer Of Cash
ing, has gone insane. Financial trouble
is supposed to be the cause.
Postmaster Charles Doerr, of Fort
Madison, has turned the Office over to
his successor, j. H. Dufrus.
A St. Louis firm will start a large
packing establishment at Clear Lake,
and will go to work at once.
The Burlington, Cedar Rapids &
Northern railroad has purchased the
ice on the dam at Rock Falls.
Another attempt to sell the Fort
Madison & Northwestern narrow gauge
railroad will be made Feb. 25th.
A new postoffice has been establish
ed at Middleburg Sioux county, seven
miles northwest of Orange City.
Three fingers from the right hand
of f. j. Erickson were ground up into
sausage at Boone the other day.
Rev. w. H. Houghton, pastor of the
Universalist church ir Dubuque, has
resigned on account of ill health.
1T is said that Kate Shelly, the
Moingonian bridge heroine, is soon to
be married to u Marshalltown young
man.
Judge Phelps, of the Burlington
district court, granted perpetual in
functions against the brewers OF that
place.
Geo. Simpson was arrested at At
lantic for forgery. He had gained
$500 and spent 1920 of it in lottery
tickets.
A man named Nicholson, while drunk,
fell from train at West Liberty.
Both legs were cut off, and he lied next
morning.
Mrs. Peter Durfer, residing six
miles east of Muscatine, gave birth to
triplets, two girls and one boy. All
doing well.
There were twenty-three deaths in
Keokuk during the month of January.
Population estimated $4,000, death
rate 1.44.
Shaw g. Crane, hardware dealers OF
Naquoketa, have made an assignment.
Liabilities $4,000 The assets are
about the same.
The officers of the Jefferson, Carroll,
Denison and Dunlap fairs will meet in
Missouri Valley to perfect
for fair circuit
Francis Murphy is holding a series
OF temperance meetings at Corning.
Up to the 9Th over four hundred had
signed the pledge,
Amateur cracksmen made an attempt
to force open the safe in the Office of
j. w. Jenkins at Burlington. Nothing
of value was taken.
Matthew Thompson Reid, of Keokuk,
died on his farm near La Crew, in the
73rd year of his age. He was one of
the earliest settlers OF Iowa.
Mrs. Devol, resident OF Washing
ton county, lays claim to the title of
the Oldest person In the State. She
has passed her 103 birthday.
l.. l.. Brooks store and stock Of
general merchandise was burned at
Hudson, Feb. 5th. The total loss is
5000 or 81, 600, partly insured.
In the Tabor College oratorical con-
test the first honors were awarded to
f. j. Burkett, of Silver City, his sub
ject being Knox, the Reformer.n
Creston has granted water works
franchise to Reagan Bros. of Omaha,
placing the firm under $14, 900 bonds
TO construct the works this spring.