Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-10-15

MAJ 5Cu Win
up Boone farmers have been posi-
lively identified by three of those held
up. The men were brought here
and given preliminary trials before
Judge McBirnie. They were bound
over to the grand jury.
The Iowa Society of Colonial Danes
of America has continued the offer OF
| $500 for the best essay on iowa
| History" The competition is con.
fined to students of Iowa colleges and
universities. Last year Kenneth Col
grove of the University Of Iowa was
the successful competitor
Fears for bank failure caused w.
P. Frederick to lose 1892 which he
| had saved and kept in his resi-
| dence. Thieves broke into the house
and took all his money. Broderick
| was Always afraid to trust banks and
so kept the money secreted in his
| house. The thieves left no clue.
Clarence Baum, an agent for the
Iowa Stock Food company, who lives
at Madrid but who has been working
through the southern part of Story
county, has got crooked with his &C
counts, the company claims. 1t is al
legged about $500 is missing, within
the past few weeks.
The attention of the district court
is being directed to hearing the dam,
age cause of Joseph G. Oberchain VS..
Harris e Cole Brothers of Cedar Falls
wherein damages in the sum of $10,'
600 ere asked for the loss of thumb
and two fingers on the left hand az
the result of an accident, which oc'
Cured while the plaintiff was en-
gagged in ripping a piece of timber.
The suit for personal injury against
the city of Marshalltown, which has
long been threatened by Miss Amanda
Redel, dry goods clerk, has been
filed for the district court. BY 1t
Miss Redel seeks to get Judgment
against the city for $4,000 for in.
juries claimed to have been sustained
while she was walking over a cross.
ing at the junction of Ninth and State
streets on April %.
Mrs. Levi Townsend, a divorced
wife, kidnapped her daughter Thelma
from the John l.. Townsend home at
Gilbert, few days ago. The mother,
whose home is in Oskalocsa, is .Cr.
mitted by the decree of the court to
visit her children at certain periods.
Last week she appeared on one of her
regular visits, and when she went
away the child disappeared with her.
The father followed at once TO Os.
kalooSa, where Sue and the child were
found. The woman refused to give
up the little one, and the child hegs
to remain with the mother. Town.
send has appealed to the courts to
have his caild restored to him.
Five years ago Mrs. Lindsay, oi Os.
Hampton, heard Of the supposed
death Of Hampton, who had left bel
shortly before. She sent money to
pay his funeral expenses and after.
wards vas married to Charles Lind.
say. She was living happily with her
second husband when she was as.
tonlsned recently at the reappe aranco
of the man whose funeral expenses
she thought she had paid She was
! still legally Hampton's wife but was
unwilling to give up her new husband
| for the old and the divorce courts
| were called upon to straighten the
| tangle. When the decree was grant
ed there was another ceremony, and
the legal obstacles to the union with
! Lindsay were removed.
Workmen employed In operating
| the big trench machine used in pre-
| pairing the way for the siX-mile sewer
In Morning Side,, Sioux City, made a
rather odd discovery when the scent
of their operation reached the corner
OF Dace street and Paramount avenue
In crossing Paramount avenue at that
point the big machine encountered
about seven feet below the surface
the steel rails and ties of former
street car system. The line extends
up Fairmount avenue and despite ita
evident age the ties and rails were
fairly we'll preserved. None OF tho
residents in that section of the city
had any knowledge of the line but
AShSiaA -. AL VI Nhc
Sioux City Traction company believe,
that 1t is a relic Of the old stock
yards line Of the Peavey horse cal
system.
Lillian M. Griffith of Moline, III.
and Earl R. Summerville of Columbu.
Junction, Ia, had to do some rapid
planning in order not to disappoint tho
100 friends invited to their wedding
in Moline. Young Summerville i:
only 20 years old, and found out tho
afternoon of his wedding day wber
he applied for a marriage license
that the Illinois law barred him from
getting one. Consulting a lawyer hi
found he could get one in Iowa. So
accompanied by the Rev. Richard L
Haney, the young couple hurried t.
Davenport, secured license at the
court house, and were married on the
spot. Then they went back to Mo
line and were remarked before tn,
guests in the evening OF course thu
second ceremony "idn't count" blu
none of the guests knew 1t.
A movement for better lights ha,
been started by the business men o
Perry. Several plans have been dis
cussed and quite metropolitan al
is promised
Jennie Gogerty, Myrtle Gogerty an,
May Reindle, three farmers daugh
tiers, were badly injured when al
auto driven by Maxwell man crash
ed into the buggy in which they wer,
| riding. They were all badly cut an,
bruised and otherwise injured. TIL,
accident happened ten miles south
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