Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-06-25

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| few days ago at the age of Sc years
The C. Fl. Thomas wall paper store
at Mason City was Quilted by fire. The
loss is estimated at $4,000. A can OF
alcohol overturned on gasoline fire
was the cause. The Elk's block was
in danger.
The Western Grocery company OF
! Marshalltown closed deal by which
John T. Hancock Sons, wholesale
grocery house, of Dubuque, the Oldest
in Iowa is taken over by the first
named concern.
| A six-legged lamb is the latest Iowa
freak. 1t is the property of E. j.
Gentry at Corning. The lamb is ak
weeks old and seems to be Going
well. The extra legs grow out from
the breast and turn to the side.
At the meeting at Waterloo, Des
Moines won the honor of entertain.
ing the next meeting of the Coal
Dealers Association of the Iowa and
Nebraska. Other cities asking for
the meeting were Sioux City and Cen
terville and Lincoln, Neb. All OF
the officers were reelected except w
w. McCarlane of Waterloo, who was
chosen to fill the vacancy on the
executive committee.
The recent primary election will
prove an expensive event for the
state of Iowa. The cost is estimated
now by the executive council mem
bers to reach close to 100000. The
bills from the different counties for
the expense attached have not been
all sent in; in fact, barely one-half of
them have been received However,
the average expense, based on fig
ures now in, reaches close to $4,000
for each county.
In hopes of filling company va
cancy now existing in the Fifty-third
regiment of the Iowa National guard
initial steps have been taken at Dows
looking to the organization of an in
dependent military company. 1t is
thought that within six months the
new company will be in shape and
equipped for entrance into the nation
al guard. Much interest is taken in
the movement and an ultimate object
in view is the erection of an al
mory.
Sam Krummann Of Woodbury.
county, who, by one of the freaks
of the primary election law, received
the democratic nomination for super
visor, has filed with the county audi
tor a communication in which he
asks that his name be not placed on
the ticket. Mr.. Krummann is a re-
publican and was candidate for the
republican nomination for the same
office. The democrats had no ticket,
but as Mr.. Krummann received four
of the eight scattering votes in the
democratic primary he was the legal
democratic candidate.
The Union Cheese company, cheese
jobbers of Marshalltown has closed a
deal for the purchase of sixty foot
lot adjoining its present property
and will erect thereon new build
ing to be used as a creamery and
cheese factory. A creamery has
been needed for long time, as there
is fine market for cream, which is
now shipped to many outside points
| The cheese company will also built
| onto its present building, extending
| it the full length of the lot, $50 feet
| The Chicago Great Western railway
| will built a spur to the factory, Civ
ing loading and unloading facilities
Alfred Brenneman, we'll to de
| business who recently came to Chart
| ton from Leon, committed suicide be
| cause of domestic difficulties. He
! was found dead in his room by his
little 7-year-old daughter, who went
to call him for his nights work il
his restaurant A bottle that had con
tanned carboric acid and letter tt
| his wife explained his death. Prem
neman was very jealous of his wife
and quarreled with her frequently
| Some time ago she filed for divorce
but it was not. pushed and they tried
TO live together again. He grievet
over these and his letters dea
largely with them. In his letter tht
| dead man asked his wife to take goot
care of their three children and tt
give the baby boy his gold watch.
Lightning played havoc at Mascr
City during severe thunder storm
wrecking no less than four residence!
and damaging two others, besides in
juring three people and affecting
more or less dozen others. Thu
residences, which are practically de
molished, are those of w. j. Hudson
Fred Marsh and George Van Note
while the homes of E. S. Booth
Joseph Maddy and w. H. Gleason ar,
more pr less injured. At the Hud
son residence the bolt struck tn,
chimney, tearing the roof PRACTICAL.
off, and after demolishing the in
terror, tore the entire corner off il
it's egress. Mr.. and Mrs. Hudson
were badly shocked and are still sui
fering from the effects of the ordeal
The little son of Fred Marsh wa
knocked senseless by bolt tina
struck the roof and passed to tn
cellar The little fellow was in tn
cellar at the time. All the waite
pipes, furnace pipes and other furnt
ture, as well as the house itself, wer
destroyed at the Van Note home.
deluge of rain accompanied tn
storm.
One of the biggest military tourns
ments ever held in the United State
will take place in st. Joseph fror
Sept 81 to Sept. &c. The Secon
cavalry, now stationed at Fort De
Moines, is making extensive pre-
, parations to take part in the tourn;