Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-12-03

Harry Hulin, rural mail carrier
covering his route.
| Charles HIATT at Onawa won the
| suit brought against him by Rev. Mr..
Linse, charging SANDER.
Arrangements are being made for
| the formal opening of the new armory
| of Company ID of the Fifty-sixth Iowa
National guard at Esterville.
The contract for the new Spirit
Lake water works has been award.
ed to the Des Moines Bridge and Iron
company for $19,7914O
Mrs. Carrie Lane Chapman Gait
has presented the Charles City col
lege library with 200 books from the
| library of her late husband
The splendid new Carnegie library
building in Sheldon is very nearly
completed. 1t is hoped to have a
grand opening of the library about
the first of the new year
Charged with the hold-up of John
Vessels, a young German farm hand,
who has been employed on a farm
near Latimer Mic Thomas and Will
liam Walsh two farmers living in
that vicinity, have been indicted by
the Franklin county grand jury.
A baby show is In progress at
Perry with forty-five entries. 1t is
under the auspices of the Kings
Daughters. The baby of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. G. Rozus won first prize.
The Great Western was fined 500
by Judge Smith Mcpherson in fed
eral court upon entering a plea of
guilty to charge of failing to water
and feed stock In shipment from
Stewartsville, Mimi, to point south
of Ses Moines.
The case for $4,000 damages
brought by relatives of the late Mrs.
Dora Bowen against DIR. P. X. Fail
OF Fort Dodge for performing an
operation which caused her death
has been dismissed
Municipal ownership OF the gas
plant at Delta has been losing
proposition here. The plant has
been turned over to a Richland man,
who agrees to run the plant and
give the city S1.40 gas.
Jasper county supervisors visited
Des Moines to inspect the
Polk county court house. They are
getting ideas preparatory to the con-
struction of court house for their
own county.
John McNeese, lad of nineteen
years, was found lying by the road
on hill near Boone with jaw and
skull fractured and he will probably
die. 1t is thought that horse kick
ed him while he was driving a load
of brick.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Losey of
Mason City could not get along to-
gether, and neither would consent
that the other should take the child,
four years old, therefore the child
was adopted by Mr.. and Mrs. Daniels
here.
George Vincent an employee Of the
| Advertisements Office at Creston
for some time, disappeared, leav-
ing letters to his sister Louie and to
the editor of the acknowledgements.
in which he said he was going to
commit suicide by taking a dose of
strychnine and then leap from the
bridge into the lake and drown him
self He was afterwards discovered
in Council Bluffs.
A resident of California, who had
acquired possession of an Iowa farm
several years ago, but who had paid
little attention to the property, asked
| the Mills county surveyor, to locate
: the corners of forty acres of land.
! Upon investigation by the surveyor
it was found that in the rapid ABSORB.
ton of land along the river front
! this mans land had been eaten up by
| the ravenous stream and was under
twenty-five feet of water.
The Thirty-third general assembly
| is likely to have it's attention specifi
cauy called to about six contests for
! seats during the first part of the ses
sion. This is the largest number OF
such contests which has ever come
before the legislature at any one
term. The probable contestants are
in the city and are feeling out the
sentiment before officially bringing
their cases to the attention of the
! general assembly.
William Carr in district court a.
Fort Dodge confessed to the murder
of Marshall Tom Nicholson or
Gowrie. 1t was general surprise
when he entered the court room and
announced to Judge Wright that he
wanted to change his plea frora mot
guilty" to guilty and throw himself
on the mercy of the court. Murder
in the second degree was the plea
accepted owing to Carr being In a
badly intoxicated condition at the
time of the shooting.
NJ r. Brant, the present Taylor
county attorney, has filed notice OF
contest on T. NJ. Daugherty, who was
declared elected county attorney by
the board of commissioners. Daug.
herty's majority was only 81. 1t is
understood that Mr.. Brant bases his
hope of success principally on the
fact that many ballots were rejected
by the judges of the election, be-
cause crosses were made in front Of
the names of the candidates for presi-
dent and vice president.
President VIM. A. Shankland of
Upper Iowa university received a
check from Andrew Carnegie for $780,
goo in payment of Mr.. Carnegie's
pledge to give that amount when $780,
0G0 additional endowment of the uni.
: versity should have been completed.