Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-10-29
IOWA
NEWS

! FRANK Murphy ana george COHHOr
car thieves, have been sentenced, at
Mason City, to five years in the peni.
Tertiary. The men pleaded guilty.
Mayor c. C. Briggs of Milo, Iowa,
offers a reward of 5000 for the cap
ture of the man or men who set fire
to the Milo Clothing house store on
! October 16.
The Elks of Iowa City,have broken
the ground for their new club house
and home to be built at the corner
of Gilbert and Washington streets.
! The building will cost, complete,
about $4,000.
! Two stolen sacks Of mail have been
| found under railroad viaduct, at
Mason City, where they had been
looted The contents were scattered
about the ground. The sacks were
stolen on the 21st.
| Ambrose A. Call, president of the
| First National bank of Algona and
one of the founders of the town, died
! on the 22nd. He was in his seventy
sixth year and had resided in Algona
| Aux uSdiiy ully-uFS years.
An important business change took
place at Randall when E. l.. Erick-
son & Co., dealers in lumber, grain.
coal and tile, disposed of their lum-
Der business to the Randall Lumber
company, a mutual concern with a
large line of stockholders.
Work has been started on the new
Oskaloosa fire department building.
The structure will cost $4,000 and
! will later be incorporated in the $50,
600 city hall, for which plans have
been drawn and estimates furnished.
This adds materially to the unusual
amount of building operations now in
progress in Oskaloosa.
The church people of Ottumwa are
building a tabernacle, preparatory to
series of evangelistic meetings to
be conducted by BILLY" Sunday.
Many men prominent in the business
life of the city are aiding the work.
The big building will be heated by
steam, obtained from the county
court house.
A number Of prominent men of Des
Moines, as well as twelve officers and
directors of the National Association
of Credit men, were guests OF the
Des Moinea Credit association at the
After dinner the evening was taken
up with addresses on and discussion
of topics of interest to the associa,
ton and its guest.
The property of the Liscomb Cheese
company OF Liscomb has been sold at
sheriff's sale to l.. c. Norris, man.
ager Of the Letts-Fletcher company
| Of Marshalltown, a branch Of the
| Western Grocer company. Mr.. Nor
ris was the only bidder, and secured
the property for $2,400. The action
of tie wholesale grocery firm was
taken to protect it's interests and to
satisfy a judgment of $4,000 on notes
held by the Western Grocer company
The total amount against the cream
cry company, including costs, was
S4,21777.
AS an indication of their desire to
improve the character of the grain
raised in Iowa a $1,000 trophy will be
given by the Grain Dealers associa,
tion for the best exhibit of bushel
of oats raised in Iowa. The exhibit
must be made at the corn exposition
to be held in Omaha in December
The object of the grain dealers is to
encourage a finer grade of oats than
exists at present. They were the
donors Of the trophy for the best ex
hibits of corn in the years gone by
and now they believe that if they can
get the same service out of the farm
ers in raising oats that they did in
raising corn they will be amply re
paid for the expense which the trophy
will cost them. The trophy is beins
designed by Tiffany of New York.
is beautiful production and OF high
art value.
Louis F. Liebhardt, Of Denver, 1.
at present planting to walnut tree!
tract of several hundred acres o.
land in the Yellow river bottoms
Ave miles north Of McGregor. TIL,
land has been in the possession O
the family for fifty-fve years. In the
early days Mr.. Liebhardt's father con
fdently hoped that gold would b,
discovered on 1t some day. TIL,
cherished dream never has material
lied. and the land unfit for agricul
tural purposes has laid idle until tn
present time. Now 1t is to be con
verted into walnut forest plantet
and cared for according to instruc
items furnished by the forestry bu
reau. In planting the land to wa
nuts Mr.. Liebhardt is only askin
the soil to yield its natural fruit.
for the first settlers found the wa
nut trees growing extensively and q
splendid size all over eastern Iowa
With black walnut now almost rrict
less, Mr.. Liebhardt expects that tn
next generation of his family wi
find the long-hoped-for gold mine u
OIL Yellow river bottoms.
In spite of rain and mud. collee
day at Ames Oct. IA was a howlin
success, If college yells can be Gale
bowls. College spirit reigned suprem
I from the time the first prep We
! stretched In the morning until tn
, quartette sang its last song at nigh
Judge Hugh Brennan refused to el
Join the Iowa Anti-Salcon league froi
bothering e. l.. Wegener. proprietc
of the st. Joe hotel at Valley Jun
ton. Wegener was arrested for VII
lating the liquor law and was en'oir
5 ed from further doing so. The dries
3 charged him with violating this
junction and he will now be tried.
Officials of the st. Paul & De
z Moines railroad announced that th