Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-10-22
IOWA
NEWS

ed during the week of Oct. IL.
The grand jury at Newton indicted
George Young on charge of killing
Frank Parker near Kellogg last July
The officers of the Central Iowa
Poultry and Pet Stock association are
making preparations for their annual
show, which is to be held in Des
Moines in December.
Grieved over the separation from
her husband, which had resulted from
a family row, Mrs. Minnie Bielefield,
of Sioux City committed suicide by
inhaling gas.
The fish car "Hawkeye" will soon
put into Summit lake, near Creston,
second consignment of $4,000 game
fish from the state hatchery at Man
chester
Continuing three days from Oct.
10, Charlton is host to it's annual old
settlers reunion. In connection there
is a splendid live stock and agricul-
tural exhibition.
After being out three and one-half
hours the jury in the case of the
State VS.. Paul Radloff, charging arson
in burning the w. S. Gle barn
few weeks ago, returned verdict
of guilty.
Having lost his mind over politics,
V. C. Sawyer, a prominent citizen OF
FIT. Madison, became violent on the
Davenport streets and was taken In
charge by the police. Sawyer was
trying to collect funds and when re-
fusde contributions became violent.
Officials of the st. Paul & Des
Moines railroad announced that the
company would remove its head
quarters to Des Moines in the near
future and would build large railroad
shops at East Nineteenth street and
Grand avenue, at a cost of $4,000,
work to commence at once.
The Fuel & Fertilizer company OF
Des Moines has been organized and
articles of incorporation will be filed
with the state department. The princl-
pal business of this concern will be
the manufacture of feul, fertilizer and
other commercial products and the
disposal of the waste of the city. It's
capital stock is 100000.
Civil service for third and fourth
class postmasters, postal banks, To-
cal parcels post and increased COM
pensation for postmasters of the fourth
class were all endorsed by the Nation
al League of Postmasters of the
Fourth Glass, which adjourned its
annual convention in Des Moines re
Gently.
The Minden Qa.) News has been
sold by Jacob LANCER, who launched
the sheet a year ago, to Jack Haley,
who has been foreman in the office
since it's establishment. The new
proprietor is a practical printer of
many years experience who will
doubtless put out a publication wor-
thy of the little city in which it is
published.
Weltering in each others blood,
Harley Bright, aged "a years, and
Miss Esther Cook, aged 10 years,
were found lying on the floor of
small bedroom in the Lebbus Bright
home in Shenandoah. Bright had a
22-caliber rifle bullet hole in his fore
head and the Cook girl had one eye
shot out. Bright died few hours
later without regaining consciousness
and the girl, still unconscious, can
not recover.
The Rosengift herd of Angus cattle,
| owned by Professor Kennedy, Mr..
Siverly and Mr.. Rosengift, of Ames,
| will be brought back to the Rosen-
! gift farm at Kelley at the close OF
the American Royal show, where they
will be kept until the international
at Chicago. This herd has made a
wonderful show record for its first
| year. With only ten animals on one
OF the stiffest Angus circuits that
could be found, and showing only in
the classes and for aged herd, this
herd won seven championships, nine
firsts, twenty-three seconds, ten
thirds, nine fourth, FIVE fifths and two
sixths. Professor Kennedy is much
elated over the success of his herd
and expects to wind up the season
with a strong showing at the inter
national.
The corner stone of the new First
Presbyterian church at Charlton has
been laid with imposing ceremonies.
The new edifice is to be built in the
style of the Christian churches of the
early Renaissance period in Italy,
with a dome surmounting, and the
exterior is of white stone blocks
made of lime and sand, pressed to-
gether by a process that is used in
Europe extensively, but is new in this
country. The blocks are very hand
some and durable. The church audi
forum will hold about GOO people, and
there will be a Sunday school room
and small class rooms. In the base.
ment be a capacious DINING room
kitchen, boiler room, cloak room and
lavatory. 1t is expected that the
building will be completed about Dec
first.
J. A. Norris of Clinton, one of the
oldest employees of the Chicago
Northwestern railroad, has Just beer
retired on pension, after fort.
years service for the company. Fo
many years past Mr.. Norris has beer
foreman of the Western Unions tele
graph lines on the Galena division o
the road, between Clinton and Chi
cago. He has two sons who are pro
: minent in railroad circles. One o
, these, Roy Norris, is assistant super
intendent of wires on the Northwest
, ern system. The other. Floyd. form
, erly wire chief on the Galena div
! SIGN. is now engaged in railroad worI
in Mexico.
Using heavy charge of nitrogll
cerin. which must have caused tel