Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-10-15
IOWA
NEWS

| The annual race meeting at Farley
was a big success and was largely at
tended.
The Kings Daughters convention
closed it's session at Burlington or
the 9th. A large attendance was re-
| ported.
Frank Mcdonnell, the newspaper
| man, was acquitted of the murder OF
George Stevens by the plea of sell
defense The jury was out all night
Five bands were represented in the
band carnival held in Jefferson or
the eighth. All were members of the
Western Band association, which
meets next year at West Side.
Iowa City voters will pass upon the
granting of franchise for the con
struction and operation of a street car
system in Iowa City at the general
election November 3.
Mrs. e. j. Willard of Mason City
has received a verdict TO $4,000 for
the death Of her husband, who was
killed in a head-end collision on the
Iowa Central on February 20, 1908
He was an old engineer in the employ
of the company.
After serving ten years as pastor
Of the Grace Reformed church in
Sioux City, the Rev. t. F. Stauffer
has handed in his resignation. From
small congregation when he COM
menced his pastorate, the Reformed
church is now one of the largest IN
the city.
George d. Robb, business manager
of the Cedar Falls Semi-Weekly Ga
zette for the past year, has petitioneu
the court to appoint a receiver. This
move was made in order to get A l..
Sibble, the editor and junior mem
Der Of the firm to make a settlement
with the business manager. The Ga
zette was established by Perkins
brothers of Sioux City forty-eight
years ago.
Fairview cemetery, near Perry, is
well kept up ordinarily, but ground
hogs or other burrowing animals
have desecrated some of the graves
by their digging. At one place. it
is reported, the animals have brought
a bone, some cloth and the handle
of a coffin to the surface. Attempts
have been made to trap the animals
but without avail, and since the dis.
covery of the articles mentioned the
people living in that vicinity, or who
have relatives buried at Fairview, will
redouble their efforts.
The Des Moines, Winterset & Cres
ton Electric railway received another
good boast recently, and the work of
Mr.. Wolf and Mr.. Hirsch resulted in
subscriptions to the amount of about
$4,000. 1--WE are much gratified at the
reception we are accorded on this
matter" said Mr.. Wolf, land the
prospects are looking better from day
to day. Our work in one day result
ed in promises of amounts aggrega
ting il the neighborhood of $4,000
We now have only about $4,000 to
raise at this end of the line and il
would seem that this could be done
without much difficulty.
The four voting machines recently
purchased by the county board oil
supervisors of Black Hawk county
for use in Cedar Rapids have been
set ny in the four precincts of the city
and will remain set up until election
day in order that the voters may
familiariZe l. .emselyes with them. The
following counties In the state viii
use the machines the coming election
in every precinct in the county: Win
neshiek, Dcs Moires and Polk. The!
will be used exclusively in the fol
lowing citi>s, the supervisors onl!
placing partial orders for the ma
chimes: Charles City, Iowa City, &c
dar Falls, Maquoketa and Waterloo
Altogether l42 will be used at tn
coming election. Throughout tn
United States the voting machin
company of Rochester, N. Y. will
have 5,278 of their machines in US
at the election on Nov. 8.
A small army of men have starte
to work upon the 100000 auditorium
! at Council Bluffs, the money TO
which was subscribed by the citizen
of that city and farmers of Potts
wattamie county, and a project tina
was not thought of until the CONNER
cial club of Council Bluffs secure
| the national horticultural congress
| for this year and the necessity o
such a building was realized. Thi
congress will be held here Dec. l
to 10 inclusive and the contractor
/ have given a heavy bond to hav
the building completed fifteen day
/ in advance of the opening day. TIL
| building will cover a quarter of
! block and will be adequate 70 all d.
mands for a structure of that kind.
The Mcbride & Will Drug compan!
the largest drug firm of Marshal
town, have been made defendant l
suit for $4,000, brought by Mr.
Enola Bennett Friend, widow G
Harry Friend who died of alcoholism
| Aug. 10.
| Iowa took three places on the boar
of governors of the deep waterway
organization formed at Chicago
They are James Wilkerson, c. T. Hal
cock and A. B. Beall. These me
have served on the board during tn
past two years.
A large portion of the business di
trict of Edgewood, a town Of 700 il
habitants was destroyed by f1re. Lon
was about $4,000, only about $1,000
of which was covered by insuranc
This is the third destructive fire
the town in six years and the bio
is severe one.
The Sioux City stock yards recent!
received load of twenty-one Gait
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