Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-10-22

fifty-fve bushels to the acre.
Work has been started on grading
for the new electric line from Col.
fax to the Colfax Sanitarium.
j. B. Anderson was named in the
straw vote to determine who should
be the straw mayor of Perry during
the weeks carnival which started on
the 18th.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed by the Clear Lake Ice Company.
of Clear Lake, with capital stock OF
$4,000. The company is made up OF
officers of the interurban and plans
to do wholesale shipping this season.
Clarence Ohnesorge, Is, one of two
boys who were frightfully burned by
a charge of powder placed in hol-
low tree and ignited, in an attempt
to blow up the tree, is dead His
companion has a slight chance for re-
covery.
Another new bank for MARSHALL
town, the second to be opened this
fall, is being organized by officers OF
lhC Tilo TIC ne" pahh
will be known as the First Trust anc
Savings bank, with capital stock OF
$4,000. 1t will do a general savings
business.
After occupying two days in Sc
curing a jury the cases of Margaret
Scar and husband, Henry Scar
against the city of Dubuque, for ag
gregate $4,000 damages for person in
jury alleged to have been sustained
through defective sidewalks, were
COMPROMISED on a basis of $500
Quite a sensation was developed at
Creston when it was found that the
county treasurer held nothing but the
personal notes of the presidents OF
the local banks as security bonds for
county funds, deposited in the banks,
while the law requires thst the banks
shall file a bond with securities to be
approved by the treasurer and the
board of supervisors. The penalty If
the treasurer fails to comply is $1,000.
Tom Wright of Mount Pleasant met
with a horrible accident while hunt
ing six miles south of here. While
looking in a brush pile for a squirrel,
a friend did not see him and acciden-
tally shot him in the left arm, the
load entering near the elbow and
tearing the flesh and bones, in hor-
rible manner. Probably amputation
will follow. Wright is 80 years of
age, unmarried and lives with his
widowed mother.
One of the most unique banquets
ever held in Waterloo was given at
the beautiful new Walnut Street Bap-
fist church when every one who had
taken any part in the building of the
edifce were dined at builders BAN
quet". About two hundred gathered
around the we'll laden tables. Those
in attendance were the carpenters,
masons, bricklayers, painters, decora.
tors, electricians and any other
tradesman who in any way contribute
ed towards the erection of the new
church home.
The Letts-Fletcher company of
Marshalltown, through Manager L. c.
Norris entered plea of guilty to four
charges filed against the firm by
State Food and Dairy Commissioner
H. R. Wright, charging violations of
the pure food law in selling flavoring
extracts improperly labeled. A. E.
Myers, local grocer, entered a SINH
lar plea in like case. A fine Of S.
and costs was imposed in each case
The grocers are fully protected by the
firms from which they purchased the
goods, as they were guaranteed to
comply with the law.
Centerville is to have a new state
savings bank with capital stock OF
$4,000 1t will be a branch of the
Centerville National bank, owned
principally by the Drake heirs. DR.
j. l.. Sawyers, G. M. Barnett and
Joseph Goss will be the heavy stock
holders and they have leased the
Goss building one of the finest in
the city and most centrally located
which has been occupied by the Goss
| hardware store for many years. Mr.
| Goss will go out of business. There
has long been a business strife be
tween the Bradleys and the Drake
banking interests, the Bradleys hav
| ing a national bank and savings
bank here while the Drake people
had only national bank.
The extreme dry condition of the
past few weeks. added to the heavy
winds that have been driving dnst
and dryness over Iowa for the pas
several days has caused a consider
| able loss to the farmers of this coun
ty caused by fires along the right o.
ways of the different lines of road
through Story county. In one case
on the Charley Carr farm east o
Nevada, sparks from passing en-
CINE set fire in corn field some rod.
from the track and before it coult
be got under control about tvs Mt.
acres of valuable corn had been de
stroyed At the Frank Tough farm
about twenty acres of forty acr,
field of clover that had been cut ant
left in winrows, preparatory to thresh
ing it out for seed, was fired AM
burned by a spark from an engine
The railroad section crews have spen
much time, both day and night il
fighting the small fires along tn
right-of-way and are under instruc
tons 10 be in readiness at any hCu
of the day or night to answer c Il
John ID. Van Allen. prominen
Clinton merchant, has just been az
mitted to membership into the Ho
land club of New York, which ha
only 600 members in the Unite
States. A condition for membershi
; in this exclusive club is the tracin
of the applicants ancestry back