Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-12-10

The contracts for furnishing TIL
new home of the Eagles at Oskaloosa
have been awarded.
Geo. Hough, age rs, married, wai
accidentally shot and killed at Floyd
by lis brother, while hunting rabbits
The contract for 2-story library
building at Red Oak costing $4,000
has been let.
Clerk of Courts-elect F. M. Haradon
Of Marshall county announced that he
had chosen Walter Canady as his
deputy.
Gustave Larson, a farmer living
near Mason City was attacked by his
hogs and came near being killed be.
fore aid arrived.
| Hog cholera Is devasting herds OF
swine in the north and west part OF
Cerro Gordo county and in Worth and
Winnebago counties.
John w. Smith and Harry Benedict
former Sioux City men, are back from
Goldfield, where they made million
dollars each in gold mining.
! Frederick Vance Evans has been
appointed acting dean of Drake Con-
servatory to take the place of Dean
| Frederick Howard who died Nov. 20.
While in Chicago Mr.. Simpson
| Secretary of the State Fair associa-
| ton visited the live stock show and
| found that Iowa exhibitors had re-
| ceived 80 per cent of the awards for
| Polled Angus cattle.
The granite for the base and pedes-
| tai for the statute of Chief Mahaska,
| to be erected in the public park In
| this city by j. d. Edmundson OF Des
Moines, has arrived after a delay of
months. Construction work will be
commenced Immediately.
Monday, Aug. 80, 1909, is the day
set for opening the Iowa state fair
| next year. This time was fixed by
the National Association Of State Fair
Managers at their regular annual
meeting held in Chicago recently.
Sac City residents are helping to
raise 100000 to endow the Sac City
institute, an education enterprise that
is Of great help to the city.
The store of A. Branson & Son, at
Thornburg was entered by burglars
and a large quantity of shoes was
stolen.
A campaign Of education has been
inaugurated by the Anti Saloon
league of Iowa in Mason City. This
is the opening of what Is interpreted
to mean a campaign for a stricter en-
forcement of the liquor laws govern
| ing the sale of liquor there.
Iowa City Is in the throes of an
| anti-Sunday amusement crusade. H.
F. Pocock, proprietor of the Bijou
vaudeville and moving picture thea
| tiers opened his vaudeville house Sun
day, and gave the first Sunday per-
Torrance ever offered in Iowa City,
against strong protest of many cit
Tens.
AS the result or an attempt on the
part Of Principal Charles Nevelen Of
State Center to enforce the rules gov
erning discipline, an open ruction de-
veloped in the school room and the
school board will be called upon to
decide what shall be done with the
recalcitrants, all of whom are high
school pupils.
Nate Lewis, of Chicago, ex-man-
ager Of Kid Herman, the prize fighter
| confessed to a circle Of friends that
he intercepted the much talked Of
| kilograms sent over the Western
Union lines by Governor Cummins to
Captain Kulp of Davenport on the
occasion of the Herman-McFarland
bout In the Coliseum last winter. The
kilograms intercepted were those con-
tanning Cummins' orders that the
fight be stopped at all hazards.
An organization of the prohibition.
lists of Marshalltown has already been
perfected in making ready for the city
campaign. At 1 meeting held com.
mittee was appointed, consisting OF
members from each ward of the city
to determine the cause of the prohibit
tionjsts in the campaign. This com
mittee will de- ide whether or not to
nominate strictly cold water candi
dates, or to choose between any oil
the independent candidates that may
be in the field.
The w. r. c. of Iowa contributed
generously this year to the Thanks
giving feast of the veterans of the
soldiers home, sending vast quaint
ties Of jellies and canned fruits tina,
were served to the sick and aged. II
required $50 pounds of chicken t.
serve the soldiers home family OF
Thanksgiving day, together with 40(
pounds of bread, fifteen bushels o.
potatoes, 100 quarts of cranberries
seventy-fve pounds of cheese, 16'
cans of peas, four barrels of apple.
: and 1000 cookies.
The lower courts are to have an
other try at big accident that oc
Cured north of Iowa City while thu
st. Paul & Des Moines road between
Mason City and this place was un
der construction. o. P. Herrick wa
the contractor and Mrs. M. F. Jone
sued Herrick for $4,000 damages o,
account of the death Of her husband
) who was in the employ of Herricl
, on a steam shovel. In the first hear
ing of the case Judge Wright of For
Dodge took the case from the jur.
and directed a verdict for the plain
tiff. The case was appealed to tn
supreme court, resulting in reversa
: of the case, which will necessitat
another trial.
Iowa college at Grinnell is attempt
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