Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-11-26

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sisters home five miles east of town.
Mrs. E. r. Frater OF Dubuque, wife
of the pioneer hide dealer of Iowa
died suddenly during a fit of coughing
Yes Culver of Pomeroy bagged q
fine specimen Of grey fox while out
quail hunting. The animal was a large
well developed male. There are in
dicaticns that there are others of
the same variety in the vicinity.
Mrs. Will Holmes, railroad mans
wife living at Boone, took poison
following fit of dependency. The
husband had been i'll for many
months. His condition Is serious, but
he may recover.
Thomas Folsom killed gray eagle
In grove near Postville. 1t measur-
ed seven feet six inches from tip to
tip and is being mounted.
Mothers of bad boys all over Des
Moines are watching the efforts of
Hypnotist Ed Adams to change Frank
Barnes from bad boy to good boy
Aaron Veterson of Charlton, aged
rs years, committed suicide by hang.
ing himself from the ceiling of his
bedroom Dependency is the only rea-
son known for the deed
f.. P, Peterson, requisition clerk
under the administration of Governor
Cummins, will leave in a few weeks
to Mobridge, S. d.. where he has
formed a banking partnership with
N. l.. Nelson, late of Clarion, Iowa.
The test case. brought by the city
Of Oskaloosa against DR.. J. E. Fleen-
er to determine the legality of the
ordinance compelling dairymen to
have cows inspected, was dismissed
by Judge Preston. The city will ap-
peal to the supreme court.
George Stevens of Colo, III as the
result of an operation for appendicitis
has his corn all stored away in his
barn, his fences mended and other
farm work carefully attended to, all
done by members of the lodges to
which he belongs.
The S. and H. Green trading stamp
concern secured temporary injunc'
ton in the federal court in Dubuque
restraining the Dubuque Commercial
club and the Retail Grocers' associa.
ton from interfering with it's bust
ness.
After serving for nine consecutive
years as the pastor of the Bethlehem
church in Cedar Rapids Rev. N. p
Gravengaard has rendered his resig'
nation, to take effect March /. He
wi sgo to Marquette, Neb., to &C
cept the pastorate of the Danish
church in that place.
Indianola claims the distinction OF
having numbered among it's residents
the eldest school teacher In Iowa in
taught continuously for fifty-two
years and in that time has never
missed a single winter term. He is
now 70 years old and expects to
teach this winter.
Rather than peach on his pal, game
to the last, and without SO much as
the culver of an eyelid, George Neil
The self confessed robber Of the
slater postof1ice, received the limit
of the law, five years in the United
States prison at Leavenwortn, Kans..
from Judge Mcpherson In federal
court.
Word comes from McGregor that the
Iowa towns along the Mississippi are
viewing with much interest the pre-
parations of the Ohio and Mississippi
River Navigation company, for engag.
ing in freighting and coal towing on
the upper Mississippi on an extensive
scale next season. This will be the
first attempt in recent years to revive
the lost commercial trade OF the up.
| per river.
Coincident with the departure Nov.
| 10th of Mrs. Sherman Morris to join
| her husband, Frank Shercliffe, at
| Minneapolis, 1t became definitely es.
tablished that Shercliffe, the much.
| wanted, much-pursued, escaped con.
vict, was actually in Des Moines two
nights and day-October and s.
while detectives guarded every ap.
| proach and exit to the city.
The last issue of the Nationa
| Guard magazine the official publica,
ton of the National Guard associa'
tions, contained picture of the com.
missioned officers and staff Of Col
w. T. Chantland of the Fifty-sixth
Iowa regiment The picture was util
lied as frontispiece and was a lead
ing feature of the issue for the
month.
w. II. Miller, forger, faces the
pleasant prospect of $40 years in the
penitentiary. Judge McIIenry OF De:
Moines sentenced Miller to fifteer
years at Fl Madison for forging
check for $3.50. This Is but one o
thirty-six checks that Miller is accus
ed of forging at the same time. Hens
figuring it at fifteen years for eacl
Miller's future looks dark indeed
A. e. Labaugh, democratic cand,
date for reelection as auditor o
jefferson county, asks recount ant
has fled a bond to cover the cost
of the proceedings AS first report ed
Labaugh and his republican opp
nent, e. N. Crumley, tied but a re
, count gave Crumley two votes plul
: ality and the supervisors declare
him elected. Now Labaugh will cor
test.
With his arm mingled and bleed
ing, wound up in the knives of cor
shredder, Lysle Ccnse. of Muscatin'
81 years old, stood conscious and sa'
! his companions hack off his hand
| order To extrlcate him from tn
machine.
Marc Goldberg, former De
7 | ntoinnr r,nan hut uhn for the ras