Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-12-31
IOWA
NEWS

ed recently.
o. o. Hayes has let the contracts
| for remodeling the old Methodist
church at Bloomfield for conversion
into an opera house.
An Eks club house, to cost $4,000
is being planned for Marshalltown.
1t will be two stories, 90x120, of
Gothic construction.
The Pottawattamie county board
will have a survey made for a drain
! age system along the Nishnabotna
river.
A two-story school building, 47x64,
built of red pressed brick and Bed
ford stone, to cost $4,000 at Gilman,
is projected.
At Clinton preparations are being
made to get the factory formerly &C.
cupied by the Standard Button com
pany in readiness.
The Grand Junction city council
will be petitioned to call an election
to vote on a proposition to build
town hall.
The contract for furnishing the
steel and iron for the new sanitarum
at Nevada was let to the Dodd Steel
and Iron Works company, Des
Moines.
Aaron Clark, collector for Coroner
Newlen, of Des Moines, received 100
acres of Nebraska land, valued at
$4,000, from an uncle, as a Christ
mas gift.
Over 100 homes of Des Moines poor
were made happy by the Elks, who
sent out, with the assistance of the
| Humane society, several wagon loads
OF Christmas baskets.
Robbers broke into the residence
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Stephan, of Des
| Moines, Christmas night, while the
| family were absent and secured booty
valued at $500.
The city council of Iowa City pass
| ed q resolution of Necessity for S140,-
coo worth of paving, representing the
largest block Of Improvements ever
contemplated in that city.
The Marshaltown Evangelical as
! ISOLATION has been incorporated for
the purpose Of building a tabernacle
in which "Billy" Sunday will hold his
meetings next March.
Because a Keokuk barber opened a
| package Of racers which did not be-
| long to him he may be arrested for
violation of the United States postal
| laws although he returned the razors
to the owner.
! because he was afraid to go home
and face his wife while in an intoxi-
Gated condition. James Brabier of
Des Noines crawled into a coal shed
that he supposed to be his own and
was arrested shortly afterward on a
charge of purloining coal
Under the extension OF a rule re-
Gently made by the war department
at Washington ,twenty-eieht Philip
pine war veterans and four civil war
veterans, now members Of the nation
al guard of Iowa, will receive ser.
vice medals.
! Linus Lamb, an accused bootlegger
from Montezuma, who has the repu-
tation of having twice escaped from
officers under sensational circum-
stances, did not escape from Deputy
United States Marshal Bidwell while
enroute to Des Mcines-the officer
had him chained to the car seat.
Coasting claimed its first victim at
M'Gregor when Burdette Bailey. aged
5 years, ran at high speed into a
barb wire fence while sliding down
the steep hill back of his home
! Twenty-four stitches were required
to close the wounds.
George H. White of Emerson has
sold his short horn bull, King Cum
berland, to J. B. Haggin of New York
City for $4,000. Mr. White purchased
the animal three months ago for
$4,000. He was the champion prize
winner at Chicago and Kansas City
shows.
The Clear Lake drainage project
In Cerro Gordo county may be aban-
doned on account of the excessive
cost and also because Of the sand
which will fill up the ditch as fast as
It can be cleared out. thus clogging
the water. The expense now Is
about $500.
In canvassing for signatures for the
mulct petition at the November cleo,
ton in the city of Dubuque arc
Dubuque county, the beard of
supervisors find that IS per cent
of the voters in the county are af
fixing signatures and SO rer cent in
the city. Total county signatures are
3,767 and city signatures are 1916
A small sectional file buried In a
piece of fruit cake and bottle OF
dope" concealed within a big
orange were found by County Jailer
Harry McLain and his assistant
Wesley Redhead, while rummaging
through Christmas packages sent to
prisoners in the Polk county Jail.
December 9th was the occasion OF
the celebration of the twenty-ffth an
niversary Of the organization of the
German Lutheran congre gaticn at
Sheffield. An all-day service was
!. held.
. Robbed of her pocketbook, contain
ing her ticket and a small sum OF
' money. on the Great Western train
from Kansas City into Des Moines
Miss Grace Coffey, a normal student
, at that place, got off the train al
, the Union station and applied fol
, aid to the police VIE wired to he,
parents in Minnesota for money.
Crushed under an automobile which
!. she was driving, Mrs. Cartwright
wife OF former State Senator o. B
COPYRIGHT, suffered fatal injuries