Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-06-01
IOWA NEWS.

road company mas employed wesley
Sexton of Ames, farmer student In
the horticultural department OF the
state agricultural college, who Will
have charge of the work of beautlty-
ing the premises of the Northwestern
in all the towns along its line across
Iowa.
From letters received at Oskaloosa
it is learned that Mrs. Pauline Swain,
wife of Consul A. Swain, of Montevid-
60, left her home on May II. The ship
on which she sailed was to leave RIO
May II, and will reach New York
about the 7th of June. She will go di-
rect from there to Des Moines to visit
her parents.
Jerry Sexton, the keeper Of the
Ames college vineyard and greenhouse,
says that there is scarcely a cherry
or apple tree in Story county but what
is more or less injured by the hard
winter, and that while some may last
into another year, the second will set
tie the question for nearly all of them.
Forest trees were also injured; in fact,
the box elder and cottonwood are about
the only ones that escaped.
The State Medical society at its
meeting in Cedar Rapids elected Off
GERS for the ensuing year as follows:
President, DR.. c. ]. Maxwell, KeOkuk;
first vice president, DR.. H. B. Criley,
Dallas Center: second vice president,
DIR. c. E. Crawford, Cedar Rapids;
secretary, DR.. J. w. CokenOwer. Des
Moines; treasurer, DR.. George R. Skin
ner, Cedar Rapids; trustees, DR.. j. M.
Emmert and DR.. J. A. Sherman.
Sunday, says a Webster City lis.
patch, was the biggest day for ship
ment of stock through Webster City
from this point and the northwestern
part of the state ever known. Eight
trains averaging thirty cars of stock
passed over the Illinois Central. Sew
en- trains went into Chicago on Sur
day over the Northwes tern, making
210 cars of hogs and cattle, or a grand
total from west of Webster City of
$50 cars.
The funeral services of the late A.
NJ. Downer of Dubuque were conducted
according to Christian science ObserV-
ances. No minister was present. A
hymn was sung and then a portion of
the scripture was read by Mrs. James
Plaster. This was followed by the
reading of extracts from Christian Sci
ence text books, also by Mrs. Plaster,
after which there was a season of ST.
lent prayer lasting five minutes. The
recitation of the Lords prayer con-
cluded the service.
Secretary Wesley Greene Of the
State Horticultural society has re-
ceived reports from thirty-twO coun
ties in the state giving the condition
of the fruit crop at the present tine.
The rain, said Mr.. Greene while not
food for the farming interests, is good
for the trees and plants. keeping their
roots from dying out; the roots have
been injured and the rain is doing
them considerable good. The report
shows the following per cent of crops
indicated: Apples, 80; American
plums, So; European plums, 45; Japa-
nese plums, 80; cherries, SO: pears, 70;
blackberries, 81; red raspberries, so;
black raspberries, 81; grapes, 4 straw
berries, 81.
Webster City dispatch: This morn
ing a remarkable freak of nature
broke out in the alley on Des MOinCs
street between First and Division.
Strange as it may seem. it was nat.
ural flowing well. At first not larger
than a straw, in three hours it had
reached an inch and was still growing.
1t was surmised that water pipe had
bursted, but it was not true. 1t Is
flooding the sidewalks and making the
roads a mass of mud, and can not be
stopped. 1t is surrounded by crowds,
and the theory advanced is that it
comes from an Underground lake, which
forced it out by the recent floods of wa
ter and rains which have invaded
Hamilton county.
Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley
was the guest of Council Bluffs last
week and the people turned out en-
masse to greet and do honor to their
distinguished visitor. Immense
throngs lined the streets from the
western limits to the entrance to Fair
mount park and the admiral and party
were accorded a magnificent ovation
along the entire route. The business
houses were literally decorated. the
national colors being on every hand,
while large pictures of the admiral
were to be seen in almost every store
window. Children from the different
schools were gathered in groups along
the streets and greeted the visitors
with the waving of flags and loud hur-
rahs.
William Larrabee stated some inter-
esting facts in his last lecture upon
the state institutions, delivered last
Friday at Iowa City. The oldest insti-
tuition, he said, was the Mount Pleas
ant insane asylum, established forty
years ago. More than II 900 persons
have been admitted to it since it's
establishment. The number of inmates
aged 35 to 40 exceeded those of any
other age, and there are more farmers
and farmers wives than any other
class. Each hospital for the insane, of
which three are three. has a fine brass
band, made up of employees. and anna
teur theatricals among the patients
are much in vogue. Decisions are
many and very odd. One man thinks
if coffin making were stopped deaths
would end. One wants twenty-four
preachers to try him, to prove he is
sane. In speaking of the peniten-
tiaries, Mr.. Larrabee remarked that
-Iowa's churches are full of women
and its penitentiaries of men"
At Minden Peter Schmidt of Nor.
man, had his preliminary hearing fol
selling intoxicating liquors. He wa:
bound over to the district court. Tht
anti-saloon league was behind the
prosecution.
A SAD accident acquired at the Raj.
LON farm, six miles southeast of Mar
shalltown, near Dillon. Little Alvin;
Radloff, aged 2 years, daughter of ,Ir
and Mrs. Radloff, was standing on the
porch of the farm house, looking int
the kitchen through the open win
dow, when the window sash fell sid
denly, and striking the little girl OF