Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-09-10
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IOWA
NEWS

while she was in the office alone,
and received two severe gashes with
razor on her arm while she was
struggling with him.
The annual old settlers picnic oc-
cured at Mason City on the Bird with
Il big dinner and programme OF
pioneer "reminiscences. Several hun
bred people participated. Among the
guests of honor were three survivors
of the first settlers in the county.
Mrs. Patrick Hughes, Mrs. Thomp-
| son and their brother Mark Owen,
who was the first white child born
In the county. The next meet will
be held in clear Lake.
In an alteration over a young wom-
IN and an umbrella. Noah Tut,
IVged 70 years, stabbed Ben Johnson,
aged 81, with knife at the formers
home, in Muscatine, inflicting
wound that may prove fatal. Tut
says that the boy had been paying
700 much attention to his house
keeper, and the injured lad claims
ne called for an umbrella.
The Atlantic Gas and Fuel COM
pany has again changed hands, j.
A. McWaid selling the plant and stock
Of the company to F. A. Kidder of Red
Oak. The sale included the business
Of the company for this month also,
and the key was turned over TO Mr..
Kidder, who will manage the COM
pany. He is one of the four men who
own the Red Oak plant and it is said
that it is their intention to rebuild
the local plant and spend about
$4,000 in reconstructing the system.
I M. Van Arsdale, representing the
Apollo club, of Des Moines, has filed
petition in district court asking
that the court order r. A. Higgin-
5otham, formerly head of the club, to
make an accounting as to the re-
ceipts of concerts given at 1ngersoll
park in May. While Mr.. Higginbot-
| the club it is claimed that he has
not yet paid over the entire amount
due to various members of the or
ganization.
One of the biggest individual ship
ments of live stock in several years
over the Rock Island has been made
! by John Griffith, formerly well
known resident of Bows, but now en-
gagged in stock raising and farming in
Emmett county. The shipment con-
sists of a special train of fourteen
cars, two of cattle and twelve of
hogs. 1t is estimated that at the
prevailing prices on the Chicago mar
ket for cattle and hogs that the ship
ment Melted Mr.. Griffith $4,000.
The various church and civic
societies of Iowa Falls having al
ready demonstrated their ability on
the baseball diamond in behalf of
charity, the matter is now under con-
sideration of offering a spectacular
attraction on the diamond in follow
ing the example of the social leaders
at Correstionville, Iowa, where the
wives and daughters of the Masons
and Odd Fellows are to give exhibi
tions of their ability in the national
game. While the details of the pro
gram are not completed or the dates
set for the big event, the indications
are that the demonstrations of petit
coat ebility with ball and bat will be
the bS event of the season in this
city.
Is a railroad train travelling at the
rate of thirty miles an hour beins
operated in a reckless, dangerous anC
extremely reprehensible manner
James Smith AYERS that it is, if i
is on the Great Western road, and h
has started suit for $3.50 agains
the railway company for damages h
ayers he sustained as the result o
such gross negligence. recklessnes
and excessive speed on the part o
the Great Western Railway company
He AYERS that thirty miles an hou
is a dangerous speed on the Grea
Western line, and for proof claims
that he was thrown from a train
, while it was travelling at that fright
he says, and it will cost him $125
to recuperate. And he wants tn
railway company to pay.
None of the romance which al
taches to the homogeneous of the Ir
dian hero and heroine of the popula
songs marked the wedding journe
of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Stavelar, In
dians. who came to Sioux City iron
the Omaha reservation to celebrat
their honeymoon. The festivities &c
the better of the dusky bride an
groom and the police found ther
asleep in the rear of a building a
. Third and Douglas street. The brid
}, was the drunken of the two and
:, took four men to carry her to tn
= patron wagon. Both of them wer
? carried to the police station. Tn
!, husband had about $12 cash, whic
4 will cover the fine which will likel
v be placed against them in the polio
court.
Numerous clouds of locusts are r,
O ported in the outskirts of Des Moline
e and the adjoining agricultural di
q tricts. In some parts these pest
6 have stripped everything, even tn
8 trees of their leaves.
: Arthur Ramsdell, a young marie
:, man of Tama, is lying unc2nsciou
IL at his home, the result of a ia
9 from a scaffolding and will probabl
: die. Ramsdell was employed
making repairs to the buildings of tn
National Filler company, when h
e fell from the scaffolding to the raj
n road tracks beneath, striking ste
In rail with his head. His skull wa
fractured
Peter Price, wealthy farmer an