Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-12-17

selected site for the public building
at Ames at price of $4,000.
The Milwaukee depot at Portland
was robbed and the burglars secur.
ed 165 sticks of chewing gum and
seven pennies.
A special election will be held Dec.
10 at Murray to settle the question
of whether the streets will be light.
ed by electricity.
August Kolg, a farmer residing a
short distance north of Fort Dodge
has field of ten acres of corn that
has produced 100 bushels to the acre
this year.
The Mount Ayr lodge, No. 1863, of
the l. o. o. F., will be 40 years OF
age on the 25th day of December and
will celebrate the vent with proper
ceremonies.
The Metropolitan Surety company
of New DIRK has notified the state aud
itor's Office that it has withdrawn
from Iowa. Reduction in the capital
of the company made retrenchment
necessary.
Disheartened because her lover
had proven false to her, Miss Fannie
Lambert, attache of the Charles hotei
of Mason City, took antiseptic tablets
i'm an effort to end her life. Relief
came before much harm was done.
William C. Wheeler, a highly re.
spected resident of Cedar Falls and
nj nf
while shoveling snow from his side
walk. Overexertion proved too much
for weakened heart.
Over 100 car loads of live stock
was shipped out of DEBORAH during
the month of November This is
said to be largely due TO a new CO.
operative live stock company recent
ly organized there.
Over fifty members of the Iowa
Association of County and District
Fair Managers attended the annual
meeting of the organization held in
Des Moines. Dec 8. The annual cleo
ton Of officers was held.
Mills county has been without a
crime since the last term of the dis
trist court. The grand jury conven-
ed Dec. l, but there was not a thing
for them to do, not complaint of
any kind being made.
The city council Of Mason City
voted to take an option ON inside
property for a city hall site for $12,-
600. This is the first time that the
council has acted as unit in the
matter and it may mean the cree
ton of $4,000 city hall.
For injuries received by being
knocked over by an auto driver by
Mrs. w. E. Brice, wife of President
Brice of the electric line, Mrs. c. p
Lange of Mason City received $1,700
in settlement. She brought suit but
the case was settled out of court.
Homer r. Hill, the state university
taxidermist at Iowa City, accom-
panied by a scenic artist, will go to
the Island of Layson, west of Homo
lulu, to reproduce the bird life OF
the island, as an Iowa museum ex.
hibit. The expense will be paid by
the classes of '07, '0S and '09.
The Central Iowa Poultry and Pet
Stock association has issued the pro
gramme for the second annual show
OF the association to be given in Des
Moines Dec. Is to 90 At least 1000
birds viii be shown, it is said, in ad
dition to many valuable CANNES and
other pet stock.
Mrs. Ben Ellers of Steamboat Rock
caught wildcat weighing fifty
pounds. She put ferret into a rat
bit hole and held a sack over the
other hole. The wildcat came out
on the jump into the sack and the.
woman held on until her husband
killed the cat.
Iowa City's moral reform succeed
ed and the Sunday lid" was clamped
onto the student city with a venge
gance Dec. 6. Patrons of the vaude
vile houses and moving picture
shows wandered to the weekday
haunts, but there were no welcome
lights.
One of the most prominent physi
clans in Des Moines is involved in an
investigation being conducted by
Chief of Police Miller, Coroner New
len and Humane Officer Eckles into
the cause of the serious illness of a
19-year-old girl who lies at the point
of death, the result the three officials
believe, of criminal operation.
Claiming that she has lost her
newly welded husband and $500
which she permitted him to have to
purchase barber shop and billiard
hall Mrs. Ida belong of Madison
Wis, has appealed to City Detective
Houston of Waterloo to locate the
man and the money. She claims she
married Mr.. belong. who is a bar,
Der, at Baraboo, Wis
OF all the students enrolled at the
jefferson county short course at
| Fairfield the presence of none is
more remarkable than that of Senior
| Louis GaraZpe of near Guadalajara
Mexico, where he owns and operates
$4,000 acres of land and feeds a fair
sized herd of cattle numbering 5000
Senior Garazpe came all the way
from his Mexico home especially tc
attend short course and the lowe
state college at Ames; he was direct
ed here.
At the final meeting of the lowe
Horticultural society all old officers
and directors were unanimously re
elected.
The dedication of the new buildins