Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-11-19


William Arnold S'hanklin, president
Of Upper Iowa university, Fayette
Iowa mas been elected president OF
Wesleyan university, Middletown
| Conn.
James II. Mineah, of the Jackson
Corrugated Culvert company, of Mar
shalltcwn, and a well known business
man there, was stricken with paraly-
sis.
Oskaloosa is experiencing a build
ing boom. Although late in the sea-
son, several big brick blocks are in
construction and a number of con.
tracts have bsen let for the construc.
ton of several blocks in the spring.
One of the officials Of the proposed
Iowa Interurban railroad, j. w. Gill
lis, while at Grundy Center recently
gave assurance that the line would
be built this coming session from
Waterloo southwest toward a connec-
ton into Des Moines.
w. Fowler of Aiken, SC, who has
teen appointed by the controller OF the
currency to take charge of the First
National bank OF Corroll, is well
known in Ottumwa. Mr.. Fowler re-
sided here for some time several age.
and while here was receiver for the
Whitebreast Fuel company.
A settlement has been reached at
Fort Dodge in the case Of Roy Resart
against the Iowa central railroad in
which the plaintiff receives $4,000 for
personal injuries, resulting from
wreck on the road near Peoria
couple Of years ago.
M. Mortensen has been elected act
ing head Of the dairy department Of
the Iowa State college. Mr.. Morten-
sen has for ten years been in the en-
ploy Of the hazclwood Creamery com.
p2ny OF Portland, and curing the last
four or five years he has been general
manager, and practically in charge OF
their extensive business.
Word comes from Idaho that NJ. j.
Sweeley, formerly resident of Iowa
has been elected to the state senate
there. he was a member of the house
in Iowa from Woodbury. county, but
removed west where he is IN partner
ship at Twin Falls with his son-in-
law. He was born in Dallas county in
this state.
The officials of the Capital City
Commercial college of Des MONIES
have fully decided to erect new
building for the use of that institu-
ton. Plans have been prepared for
modern building to cost 100000 snd
work will commence within the next
few weeks and be pushed to a partial
completion this winter.
A merry liquor war in Wright
county Is on. The Hamm Brewing
company Of Minnesota Is busy in
quiet way circulating petitions Of con-
sert for the purpose of putting
saloons into this county. The county
is strongly against the saloons, and X
is not at all expected that the brew
cry will be able to secure the neces-
sary per cent of voters.
Bernard Willis, of Iowa City, a
graduate of the University Of Iowa
college of applied science, has re-
Gently invented a new telephone re.
ceiver which will revolutionize mod
ern methods, according to authori.
ties. The Automatic Electric com
pany of Chicago placed the first or.
der. asking for 1900 Of the new In.
vention.
The "Ames Short Course" will be-
gin at Newton December 90. The
organization In charge has been per
fected by the selection of officers and
heads Of departments. The domestic
science department will be emphas.z-
ed. Mrs. Alice Agness Feuling, who
is the head of this department at
Ames college, is expected to give an
address there some time in Deem
Der.
For a 15-year-old girl, Clara Smith.
daughter of Jackson Smith, a farmer
living three miles north Of Marshall
town, claims the championship for
corn husking. Miss Smith has been
working in her fathers corn fields be-
cause of the scarcity Of male help.
She has been putting in eight hours
a day, and has averaged sixty bushels.
One day, however, she worked nine
and one-half hours, and picked and
husked eighty bushels of corn.
Manager Smith of the Maquoketa
local light and fuel company IS de-
termined that Maquoketa will have
gas lighting here by Dec. 1. Already
nine miles of a total Of twelve miles
Of mains have been laid. A force of
ninety-two men are to work for the
company anu the full amount of mat.
erial has at last been secured. 1t is
certain that the work will be pushed
forward so that citizens Of this place
will not be disappointed Dec. l.
After hours OF unsuccessful drag.
ging of the river near Sioux Rapids
and after searching parties had
secured the country for miles around
IN The hopes of finding some traces
of p. NJ. Johnson, who has been E.,ss
ing from his home in Sioux Rapids
for some time, charges of dynamite
thrown into the river below there
brought the body of the missing ran
to the surface. Owing to the fact
that Mr.. Johnson was affeced with
heart failure, the theory is generally
accepted that while walking along
the river bank he was seized with an
attack and fell into the water
Miss Margaret McGavic. promi-
nent young woman Of Ottumwa, and
daughter Of s. l.. McGavic, married
lanlrpl Hpndrick SON an alauatnr hn,