Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-10-01

was sold to Roy Keepers OF Los An
geles, CAL, for $3.50 per acre.
The first annual reunion OF the Eff
tieth Iowa regiment, veterans OF the
Spanish-American war, brought sew
eral hundred members of the regi-
ment to Davenport.
A $4,000 fire occurred at the
Northwestern States cement plant IN
Mason City The fire caught in the
from overheated shale. The build.
ing's roof and the big conveyor were
destroyed.
The Rev. r. e. House, formerly pas
tor Of the Baptist church at Guthrie
Center, has joined the Church Of
Christ denomination and will be-
come pastor of the Church of Christ
at Winterset The Rev. John j.
Schiller, formerly pastor of the Bap-
tist church at Sidney, has become
pastor of the Church Of Christ at
Henderson.
Indictments have been returned
against George Conner and Will Muir.
ply, two car thieves, who are held
in jail at st. Paul for robbing Iowa
Central cars at Mason City. The
prisoners refuse to come here and
requisition papers will be secured.
A large quantity of silverware besides
other articles were found on their
person when arrested.
The Iowa Central's injunction pro-
ceedings against its former employees,
came to a sudden end, when the sur
rebuttal of the defense was intro
duced following a few witnesses in
rebuttal, whose evidence for the plain.
tiff was taken. 1t will take two or
three weeks for two stenographrs to
transcribe the notes and place the
evidence before Judge Mcpherson.
Five thousand visitors swarmed in
to Ackley for the sixth annual observ-
ance of "Sauerkraut day" the most
unique celebration in the country.
All of them were given free dinners
of kraut and wieniewursts, and many
amusements were provided. Charles
E. Pickett, of Waterloo, republican
candidate for congress, delivered an
address from the platform in MaSl
street.
boy and a box of matches set
fire to the clothing of a bed in which
two other children were sleeping while
the parents were out of the building,
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Gobli, at Meservey. 1t was only by
quick work of neighbors that tbs
three children were saved. An elder
boy had taken matches upstairs where
his brother and sister were SLEEP 20
and had set the bed on fire.
After three hours search with auto
mobiles through the country districts
Sheriff Malcolm Currie succeeded in
capturing Albert Martin, who was max
ing every effort to get away from the
authorities that he might not have to
return to the insane hospital. Martin
has been in Sac City several months.
Recently he has acted in way that
prompted people to believe that he was
unsafe in the community. He was
overtaken seven miles east of Sac City.
He was taken Immediately to Checo-
kee where he was once patient at
the hospital.
President Charles Cameron of the
Iowa State Fair in mplimenting the
state upon the great crops which will
be harvested this year, explained how
he turned a neat trick IN the farming
line He had a seventeen acre tract
near Alta which he planted entirely to
potatoes. He has now discovered that
the crop will run 200 bushels to the
acre, which, with the price of potatoes
as they are now quoted will net him
500 an acre, or the cost of the land
just a year or two ago. This Is in
Iowa, not Texas" explained Mr.. Cam
eron.
The state legislature of Iowa al it's
next session will be asked to adopt
a special act in order that the estate
Of Jack Wright, colored janitor of
Davenport, may be distributed among
charitable institutions. Wright's saw
ings when he died a few months ago
were found to amount to s2,163. He
had often expressed the desire that
his money be distributed to charity
after his death, but he died suddenly
leaving no will and no known heirs.
John G Cary, administrator. has ask.
ed the court to be allowed to hold the
funds intact that the legislature at its
next session may be asked to adopt
special act rellnquishing it's claim
on the estate and permitting the
money to be distributed among the
charities to be agreed on.
A gathering of pioneers took place
in Des Moines when some forty old
time friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. w
Haines gathered at their home in
Easton Place to celebrate Mrs. Haines
seventy-fifth birthday. Among those
| present were eleven grandmothers
four grandfathers. one great-grand.
| father and one great-great-grandfat
err. Most of those present have kept
sacred the bonds of friendship from
| forty to fifty years, and on this occas
| ion renewed the ties made when Polk
county was wilderness and Des
| MONIES only settlement at the juno
| ton of the Des Moines and the Rae
coon. During the evening Mrs. Haines
surprised her friends by stepping a
polka with all the ease and grace OF
a young girl of Is, in spite of the rs
years she boasts.
George Marx and Charles Della
hoyde. bartenders of the Des Moines
Malt company's saloons at Marshall
town, have been indicted for nui
sance This will result in test case
of whether or not corporations are
permitted to operate saloons in Iowa