Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-12-10
IOWA
NEWS


don was robbed Of $500, December 4
Henry Forkenbrock Of Dyersville
has offered $4,000 for an American
scholarship In the American college
at Rome.
Twenty-four big Christmas trees
strung with vari colored electric
lights will line Walnut street Des
Moines between Fourth and Fifth
streets until after! the holidays.
A new opera house costing $4,000
will be opened at Eagle Grove. The
1ouse will be used in conjunction
with the local company Of the ma
.ional guard.
Mrs. Helen M. Bantley Of Keokuk
will be tried for threatening to shoot
Judge Henry Bank who made de-
cision adverse to the woman In a
suit over property.
The Order of Owls has installed a
nest in. Iowa City, with a charter
of 104. The work was
2ut on by a team from Cedar Rapids.
After the work a banquet was held.
Mrs. M. Flanagan of the Flanna-
gan Millinery company has signified
her intention of becoming a member
Of the East Des Moines Commercial
eague. If she does, she will pro-
5ably be the only woman member of
a commercial organization in the
state.
Joseph Curry, of Adelphi, has re-
covered damages from Deputy Game
Warden E. e. Brees for seines and
lets destroyed by Brees in raid
upon Curry while he was fishing in
l lake near Adelphi. A jury in Judge
Howe's court assessed Curry's dam
age at $121.50.
A victim of the white slave traffic
IN Davenport, attempted suicide by
thinking two ounces of permanganate
If potassium. She may recover. The
girl comes of a respectable family in
Muscatine and was tired =. the evil
life. Her mother will take her home
again.
Judges OF the students Judging
contest, which was held at the dairy
show, in Chicago, announced that the
$500 cup offered by the show as
ISOLATION and the sweepstakes trophy
offered by Hoard's dairy had been
awarded to Iowa State college.
Mrs. Albert B. Cummins, on the
eve of her departure to Washington,
d. c., was the guest Of honor at the
annual social DAY or the Des Moines
Women's club at Hoyt Sherman
Place, and fully four hundred club
members and friends called to pay
her farewell.
Hiding Pennington, aged 10 years,
wanted in Dubuque on a charge of
stealing $3.50, was captured in Chi.
cago. A partner, Russell Patterson, Is
years old, is held as an accomplice.
Both youths escaped a few months
ago from the st. Charles school of
correction near Chicago.
Ed Welch, a Chicago Great West
ern passenger conuctor residing in
Des Moines dropped dead at the Des
Moines Union depot while waiting for
his train to leave the station. Coroner
Newlen was notified and removed the
body to undertaking parlors. Heart
failure is given as the cause of death.
In an effort to perfect the system
of protection against contagious d.
seases in Des Moines public schools
the school board, at the instance OF
City Physician Losh has appointed
Mrs. Helen A. Miles, a professional
nurse, as medical adviser and ex
aminer for four of the largest build
ings.
A Des Moines firm received the
contract to furnish the new agricul
ural building of the Iowa State Col
lege at Ames. Over 1000 yards o
carpets and rugs, 700 shades, abou
600 Office chairs, $50 stools, 20 set
tees, pedestals, refrigerators, leather
touches, wardrobes, waste baskets
etc, amounting to over $500.
B. F. Miller of Hartley was fount
half paralyzed and unconscious in al
immigrant car on the Milwaukee en-
route from Hartley to Lenox, Ill. l
is feared he had a paralytic strok
and brain hemorhage and may neve
regain consciousness. A large sun
of money and valuables were on hi
person.
Mindful Of the loss of lives and dc
struction of property in tie past, du
to fires of the holiday season, tn
Iowa State Fire Prevention associs
ton has issued a timely warning t
merchants and school and churcl
boards. urging that every precautio
be taken in Iowa this year to proven
catastrophes.
The belief that incendiarism cause
many recent fires in Muscatine wa
confirmed when a can of gasolin
was found in the basement of tn
Charles Schneider home which burr
ed recently. A man was seen ruI
ming from the building when tn
flames were first discovered. TIL
furniture on the first floor was sat,
rated with the fluid.
While repairing a windmill at tn
Thomas Hetland place near Webste
City Samuel Rierson fell fifty fee
to the ground and was killed.
From the effects of coal gas frol
a leaking stove, Mrs. Ellen Worce
ter, an aged lady of Mason City we
found unconscious in her room an
is still in serious condition and
may be cannot survive.
To be thrown out of a buggy by
runaway team and run over by q
automobile within the space of a fe
minutes and still live to tell the ia
was the experience OF d. ]. Shield
CT Nashua.
| Arthur Gipson, while husking col