Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-09-03

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dence at Seventh and Douglas streets
was let and the work commenced at
once. The lot is to be the site Of
the new auditorium, work on which
will be commenced as soon as the old
residence has been torn down. The
salvage will be utilized In the new
building.
Felix Siepel, pharmacist, Of Dough-
erty was given an appearance before
| United States Commissioner w. H.
Johnston on a charge of misuse of
the mails. The young man is alleged
to have sent postal cards Of an OBJ
| jectionable nature to Florence Sadd-
ler also of Dougherty. The matter
was taken up by the parents of the
| girl. He waived hearing and was
held to the grand jury on bonds of
$500.
Active construction work will be
! begun soon on the new Cornell col
lege gymnasium at Mt. Vernon, and
when the structure is finished it will
be one of the most complete struc.
| lures of its kind in the middle west.
A sum of $4,000 is to be expended in
the gymnasium's erection. 1t is
| probable that an addition of $4,000
| will be raised before the structure is
! finished and If so an improvement
| will be made on 1t. The contract for
| the work on the gymnasium has been
| let to w. ]. Zitterall of Webster City.
A remarkable land transaction has
recently taken place in Jackson town
| ship, Montgomery county, in the
| transfer of the Albert Fulton farm to
| Albin Swanson. The last and only
| time the land involved was ever sold
| before it brought only s1.25 per acre,
whereas the last sale was at the rate
| of $l03.33 per acre. This is the only
transfer of the land that has taken
place since it was purchased Of the
| government by Albert Fulton. Mr..
Fulton's heirs still hold the patent to
the land, and the instrument bears
| the signature of Franklin Pierce who
was president of the United States
at the time the land was purchased
by Mr.. Fulton.
NJ. w. Fisher, charged by Fire Mar
shall Louis Seigel, of Des Moines
with arson and with attempting to
defraud the Anchor Insurance COM
| pany, waived to the grand jury. Ele
ven fires in the last year Is the rec
ord of Fisher, according to the fire
| marshal. That the man is demented
was proved, when he complained to
City Physician Losh that he was car
rying a spike in his head, and pleaded
with the physician to remove it.
Fisher, it is said, set fire to two hay
stacks recently, one belonging to him.
self, and upon which he carried in.
surance, and the ether to the city.
He has also, it is sand, set fire tc
buildings on his premises.
Awaking shortly before midnight,
Mrs. John D. Steck, of Des Moines,
found the rug besides her bed satur
ated with chloroform, and was able
to call help only after several inef
fectual attempts to crawl from hel
room. She several times lapsed into
Inconsistencies on the way to the
hall door, and it seemed to her hours
before she could call Mrs. j. S. La
Pash, a trained nurse living or the
second floor of her home. The odoi
of the deadening fluid filled the house
and the nurse herself, in the uppel
story, was in a lethargy that she
could not shake off until she had beer
called several times. The two womer
, retired early while still alone in the
, house. Mrs. Steck, sleeping in the
first floor bedroom, left her south win
dow open, but screened. Through
this, she believes, the burglars threw
the chloroform to deaden the senses
of the sleeping people. Next doc
Mrs. Polling twice frightened some
one away from her window screen
: and she believes the burglars left he
alone only because each time sh
Il made enough noise to show that sh
! was fully awake.
- Fifteen hundred people were pres
;, ent at the harvest home and hom
;, coming day at Thornton on Aug
. 9th, where a giant OK was bal
y be led, where the farmers brough
4 in samples of their fine stoc
!, and farm products Of bot
a field and kitten, and where the da
q was enjoyed with sports and feastin.
Up E. G. Dunn of Mason City made tn
s address, using the subject, ''Highe
O. Citizenship" The music was furnishe
by the Alexandria band, while
% monster glee club of Thornton youn
g people furnished a number of voce
~ numbers. the most popular being
.. ringing chorus THE Farmer Feed
- Them All" There were a number {
q. curios on exhibition, among them
G spade which had been used in tn
N days of the California gold fever an
"A had also been used as a weapon {
% defense against the Indians. A bah
c. dress made fifty years ago, which ha
X been worn by Mrs. Fox, one of tn
10 elderly matrons present, was e,
IL. hibited, as wei as a number of otht
IN interesting articles. A baby show We
d. not the less attractive feature of tn
es day because of the presence of fl
" teen finely bred colts but a fe
as weeks oIu, which were styled tn
best looking bunch seen in many day
Id Emmett Taft, a painter, while wal
Is. ing along the Burlington track
W Mount Pleasant, came upon the bod
:. of a four months old babe lyir
where it had probably been throw
" from passing train. No clue cou
a. be found that would serve to identi
IS, the child as it was entirely mud