Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-08-15
IOWA
NEWS

Gil Bluffs, was seriously and perhaps
fatally burned. She was preparing
the noon meal, when leak in the
gasoline stove caused an explosion,
setting fire to Mrs. Stroud's clothes.
She was burned on the arms, face
and entire body to her knees before
her clothing could be removed and
the fire extinguished.
| Earfl Hanson, the 12-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Hanson OF
Iowa City was drowned in the Iowa
river. He was swimming with a
number of companions, and waded In
| beyond his depth. His comrades
" nearer shore and could not
reach him. The boys sounded the
alarm and search was made for
the body, which was recovered about
fifty feet below the point where the
drowning occurred. None of the boys
could swim more than few strokes.
Two of the inmates of the Odd Eel
lows Orphans home at Mason City,
boys aged about IL years, ran away
from the home and no trace of them
has yet been found One of the boys,
Hulsey Bussing, was sent from Des
Moines, but his mother is since
resident of Sioux City. The other,
Cecil Mcclure, came from st. Charles.
His father is an invalid. 1t is thought
the boys can not go far without detec-
ton, though the fact that no news
has been received of their where
abouts up to this time is little puz-
cling.
A bullet through the right temple
ended the earthly troubles u Hulda
Jensen. The 17-year-old girl, who is
a daughter of Henry Jensen, wealthy
farmer living few miles from New
ton, had risen in apparently good
spirits, prepared the family breakfast
and was singing at her work when her
father and brother went out into the
fields. A brother returning later
found her on the floor in his room.
The gun which she used lay near at
hand: it was 22-caliber rifle. The
motive for the suicide is beyond
guessing. The girl was of happy
disposition, had no love affair so far
as known, and was in GOO health.
She left no word of any kind.
Guy Kelsey of Missouri Valley was
found dead in his home by his wife,
who. anxious because of Kelsey's not
having written her, went from Coun-
Gil Bluffs, where she was visiting to
Missouri Valley to ascertain the cause
of her husbands silence. Kelsey was
lying on the floor of the kitchen, rest
ing on one arm, his body half raised
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raised to a water faucet above his
head and resting on the pipe, while
a stream of water was falling full up
on the top of his head. He had been
dead about ten hours the physicians
say The dead man was somnam-
bulist and from appearance this habit
was the cause of his death In the
house is a trap door, which was found
open. Kelsey's legs and arms were
bruised and his head bore marks of
having come in contact with some
hard substance. 1t is presumed from
these facts that he had fallen through
the trap door and had turned the
water on his head to ease the pain.
Although they have been citizens
of the town of Brighton only for a
few months, a majority of the prop
erty owners of a new addition have
had enough of strenuous city life and
have asked the Washington county
court to permit them to return to the
simple life of rural community.
They ask that the addition be sew
cred from town. The main FL Paso
line of the Rock Island ran through
Brighton and a few months ago some
of the tortuous curves were eliminated
from the road, with Brighton left
about a mile from the line. The in
tervening territory between the new
station and the town was voted into
the town limits with the inhabitants
thereof strenuously Directing. Mat
tiers cooled down, however, and it
was finally assumed that everything
was satisfactory, but petition is
now filed asking for a divorce on the
grounds that the territory was not
needed for town purposes and is not
benefited by being within the town
limits. The objection is supposed to
be increased taxation.
1t is not generally known that
nearly half of the popcorn consumed
in the United States is raised in Sac
county. Owing to the fact that the
soil in that county is peculiarly adapt
ed to its cultivation, popcorn is raised
with great profit to the Sac county
farmer. OF recent years popcorn
raising has become a great industry.
Every spring agents of Chicago and
New York firms invade the popcorn
belt and contract with the raiser to
take his entire crop. For several
years the average price has been 80
cents per hundred pounds, and the
raiser realizes a great profit. 1t is
said that the total yield of Sac and
Ida counties, which compose the pop
corn belt, will reach 100000
pounds, and if it were all popped be-
fore being shipped it would require
1000 trains of twenty cars each to
handle it. Popcorn always ripens be-
fore early frost can get chance at
1t, and drought doesn't hurt it much
The job of picking and husking il is
not pleasant one, but expert pickers
can make So a day at the usual rate
of Is cents per hundred pounds.
1t is alleged in the application for
certiorari that the statutory fee of $25
has been paid to the attorneys for
the prosecution in each of the 125
cases.
There is shortage of teachers in
north Iowa and many of the counties
are adopting a wage scale which they
hope will increase the teacher supply.
Some OF the townships pay for
teachers whose average grade is go
per cent or more, one-half the per
cent. That is, if she had a standing
of 95 per cent she WOULD get $47.50
per month. Others have a grade d
scale which operates according to the
standing of the teacher.
Since the attorneys have said that
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