Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-02-28
IOWA
NEWS
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ped dead on the streets Of Waterloo
Wednesday night. Death was caused
by heart failure. She was an old resi-
dent.
Epworth Leaguers from all over
Iowa will assemble in Des Moines
February % for general mass meet
Ing to discuss state convention plans
and all Offices Of the work.
1t is believed here that the Fred
Elgin shot by mistake for a burglar
In Butte, Mont, is Fred Elgin of Cen
terville, who went to Denver a month
ago to work in drug store.
The most notable sale of Poland
China hogs ever held in Tama county
was conducted by A. B. Fox at Traer,
He sold forty-nine head at an average
price Of 5000 each. Bidders were
present from nine different states.
While trying to put out the flames
caused by an overturned lamp, and
to save her little brothers and sis
tiers left in her care, Lizzie Eapstet
daughter of farmer near Perry, was
burned to death.
Judge Howell sitting at Iowa City
pulllfed the Johnson county grand
Jury Monday, declaring that II was IL
legally drawn. Prisoners will be In
dicted by a new grand jury in May.
Burt Brechtbill, young farmer llv.
Ing near Green Mountain, attempted
to commit suicide by taking strych'
nine this afternoon. Dependency is
the alleged cause over love affair.
Directors and owners of the Inter,
State Electric Supply company, now
with headquarters at Sioux City, are
contemplating removal and relocation
or the headquarters in Des Moines.
Charles Carter Of Perry, while as
sisting with some work with a wood
saw, got his right hand caught in a
buzz saw and the entire hand was
badly lacerated. 1t is feared the hand
Will have to be amputated.
Asking $4,000 as damages for in
5uries sustained by being struck by
a freight train on their right of way,
Patrick Grace began suit in the Des
Moineg district court Thursday
against the Chicago Great Western
Railroad company.
The Simpson freshmen defeated the
freshmen from Drake university of
Des Moines by score of two to one
In debate on municipal ownership.
The victors had the negative and de-
clared cities with population of over
10000 should not control public utili-
ties.
DR.. Moerke of Burlington, member
Of the state board of health for this
district, who has been summoned to
KeosauQua, in Van Buren, county,
finds that there are nine cases of
smallpox there now, but all Of them
of mild type.
Mrs. S. M. Tenney, the wife of a
very prominent and wealthy Ida coun-
ty citizen, died suddenly this morning
OF grippe and heart trouble. She
was taken sick while assisting at tn.
cooking school in connection with the
county institute, and no one realized
even this morning that she was in any
danger. Two hours later she was
dead. She leaves a husband, two
sons and two daughters.
M. M. Beashor of Newton received
a letted Thursday from a man whose
name he will not divulge but who
has after twenty years paid meat bill
Of 50. He neglected to send interest,
however. In the letter accompanying
the remittance the sender says he has
recently acquired fervent religious
convictions.
Guy Holtopeter, aged IA years, was
killed Thursday under the wheels of
an Illinois Central switch, engine in
the Waterloo freight yards. His right
leg was severed at the hip. He was
taken to the Presbyterian hospital,
where he passed away that evening.
He was the only son of Mrs. Jane
Holtopeter. widow in poor circum-
stances. He tried to leap on the en-
CINE and fell between it and the ten
der.
Una Goode, the 11-year-old daughter
of l.. w. Goode, prominent poultry
dealer of Bloomfield, was terribly
burned. The child was at the home
Of her grandmother, Rachel Goode,
making toast, when the accident oc-
CURED. The girls clothing caught
fire and she was completely envelopes
In flames when her grandmother
reached the scene. There is small
hope for her Secovery entertained.
Rachel Goode, was also badly burned
trying to extinguish the flames.
IN his address before the county
institute, Prof. Holden did not spare
the farmers Of Ida county, and he Gre
ated somewhat of sensation by de-
claring that every one of the ears of
prize corn exhibited as being the best
in Ida COUNTY was frozen and would
not grow. IF this is the best YOU
can do" he exclaimed, "you cannot
expected to raise corn. You are too
careless and too lazy. Test six ker.
nels in every ear ana see what a diff.
ference it will make in your crop.
Holden said the crowd he addressed
here was the smallest he had ever
spoken to, and that the display of corn
would seem to indicate that the far.
mers were paying no attention to the
advice of experts. Ida county farmers
are not putting their brains into
their work, he said, and he predicted
dire results unless there was reform.
]. w. Leeper Of Metz, Ia, is ac
curing more than a local reputation
as faster. Leeper came to Council
Bluffs on business Jan. 2. His SION
ach went back on him and on Ian
2S he quit eating and has not ate any
thing since.
The Dodge's Point Resort company
operating at Clear Lake, have placed
their order with the Oshkosh Boa,
company for new passenger boat
The plans call for boat so feet long
built on the torpedo boat style, ant
CAPABLE of carrying seventy-five pas
sengers. 1t will be driven by forty
horse mower fOur cylip5ar eno;no