Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-12-17
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IOWA
NEWS

Sioux, fell over on the bed dead of
apoplexy.
Earl w. Lindsey. held at Newton
for the rape of little 3-year-old Col
fax girl was indicted for the crime by
the grand jury. His trial will come
in January.
One of the three of Logan's school
building was closed because of four
cases of diphtheria among the pupils
Both of the other buildings and the
high school are still open.
c. p. Wilson, proprietor of the
Charles hotel, one of the leading
hotels of Mason City was fined $25
and costs for running his pool room
contrary to the city ordinance.
The directors of the Prairie district
fair met at Pella. The fair has
grown nicely; they voted to amend
the constitution and increase the
stock from $4,000 to $4,000.
Mayor Gay of Conesvile was found
guilty of illegal fishing and Mayor
Schlopkohl of Stockton was found
guilty of breaking the pure food law
! The latter conducts a grocery.
The Iowa State Poultry and Pet
Stock association will petition the APP
preaching session of the legislature
| for liberal appropriation to further
the interests of the poultry and pet
stock men of the state.
The Waterloo Courier publishes
| at q tictipG Shnuyiyo hot hot I'll y, i'm,
provements for 1908 will amount to
$2,075,140. In 1903 they reached ST..
| 039,367.
A course at Ames for the teaching
Of Horticulture is desired by the for
lists OF Des Moines. They will prob
ably go before the legislature with
request for it's establishment.
A boost for Iowa" is what may be
said of the efforts now being made
by the Iowa division of the Travellers
Protective association in getting out
an illustrated edition of the whole
sale commercial interests of the
state, and also the history and views
OF many of the important cities of
Iowa, including state institutions, etc.
An event of great interest to War
rem county was pulled off at New
Virginia this week in the form of
matched hunt, eight men competing
on each side. According to the rules
the losers were to furnish an oyster
supper for the conquerors. The total
kill for both parties was 275 rabbits
and SO Quails.
1t was announced at the Orpheum
theater in Sioux City that at con-
ference in Chicago it had been de-
cided to build a modern vaudeville
theater in Sioux City before the
opening of the season next year.
Vaudeville has been running at Sioux
City a title more than a year, and
has been a great success.
Nearly 1000 birds are on exhibition
at the Armory in Mason City the
show being given under the auspices
of the Poultry association of the
northwest. About fifty breeders have
pens here, and competent judges pro-
nounce it one of the finest exhibits
Of the kind that has ever been held.
A fire started in the basement OF
LettsVille public school and made
good Roadway before it was discover
ed. A panic was averted by the cool
head of Principal Homersley, who
| marched the smaller pupils through
! the smoky halls to safety Many
| other students sprang from the win
dOws, but escaped injury.
There were, exclusive of the state
| fairs held in the state of Iowa this
year The total value of the prop
erty was $615G00. The state law re-
| lating to fair makes 1t possible for
| the state to give to every fair which
operates without gambling features
bonus of $1,000 annually from the
state fund Most Of the eighty-nine
fairs were able to claim the honus
which is given by the state.
! The Davenport Turner society
| heard reports at it's meeting recently
| and was shown by the secretary to be
s5O,CCO in debt and that the amount
was increasing every year. A COM
mittee was appointed to turn over
the Turner hall to a holding company
! if one could be financed for an amount
equal to the debt. The Turner build
ing here is the second largest in the
| United States. Enforcement of the
mulct law here has helped bring Tur-
| ner affairs to a crisis, although not
entirely responsible for the situation
There is a persistent rumor in cir
culation at Iowa Falls that cannot be
confirmed that the appointment of w
H. Stillwell as the trainmaster of the
St Paul & Des Moines road is but
the beginning of the end of the pres
ent management of the road and that
within a few weeks or months, a,
least a general reorganization will
be effected in the official conduct OF
the road The rumor is considered
by many as a forerunner of the ex
pected in the ultimate absorption o.
the road by the Milwaukee system.
A plub of tobacco, found under ;
building under which he is alleged t.
have crawled to find his way to tral
door and thus gain entrance to thu
Carl Reith restaurant which he rob
bed of over Sc and some goods wa
! the circumstance which convicted Wi
liam Starr of GAINESVILLE of theft
: Starr was given Jail sentence. TIL
| tobacco was of a peculiar brand an
5 had been purchased by Starr tn
. same evening and from the restaul
0 ant he robbed. A clerk identified tn
: tobacco and he was sentenced on tina