Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-01-09
IOWA
NEWS

ew days ago by being struck by
rain on the Illinois Central. His
,kull was injured and three ribs
,roken. He was a pioneer resident
If Hamilton county.
| Stella Clifford, the only daughter of
chief of Police Frank Clifford, of Iowa
Falls, celebrated her eighteenth birth
lay by informing her parents that she
vas married at Waterloo in September
Roy Joslyn, the 1S-year-old SON of
Cd Joslyn of Rockwell City.
William Moss, aged 80 years, and
Anna Warner, aged IL, are under ar.
est in Kewanee, H., having eloped
rom Clinton. Moss came to Clinton
rom Kewanee last September and
boarded at the Warner home. He re-
GENTLY induced the girl to leave her
| nome.
| Fire at Mason City completely de-
stroyed the w. ]. Doran restaurant
| IN State street at loss of $1,000,
For some time the flames threatened
to take most of the business section
Of the city. A fierce northwest gale
was blowing and was favorable for a
spread of the fire.
| Tad Stockdale, who lives northwest
! If Iowa Falls, in Lee township, has
! planned a big wolf hunt to be pulled
off by the nimrods of north Hardin
J and south Franklin counties. The
hunt will close with big dinner to
be served at the Stockdale home and
sheep will be killed for the occasion.
Committees have approached May
Or Unterkircher of Burlington with
| q 10 yb,t
| called the blue laws against Sunday
work They want him to close UP
| business enterprises, such as morn
! Ing newspapers, restaurants, cigar
stores, news stands, etc. They even
| demand that paid church choir sing
! ing be abolished 1t is not believed
Mayor Unterkircher will take the
stand demanded
! Sammie Lloyd, aged II years, was
drowned in the large reservoir of the
Smoky Hollow Coal company at
Hynes, seven miles east of Abba.
In company with three schoo,nates
| they were skating on the pond when
the ice gave way and all were preci-
plated into the water. Men came to
their assistance and succeeded in get
ting two of the boys from the water,
but the Lloyd child sank as soon as
the ice gave way and never came to
the surface. The body was recovered
some hours later.
While a large company of young
people were skating at the rink at
Pella the ice in the center of the
pond, where it is ten feet deep, sud
denly gave way, and five young men
Aica
under the water, one of them drown
ing. Five were rescued, but one,
Bert Kempkes, a senior in Central
college a young man of unusual pro-
mise, splendid scholarship, fine
physique and good athlete, never
came to the surface. The lake was
dragged and after two hours the body
was found. He was the president Of
class '0S C. u. L., and one of the best
young men of high moral worth in
Pella.
Isaac Garmoe, the prominent pio-
neer of Fort Dodge, who died few
nights ago, made provision in his will
for one of the most notable benefac-
lions of the closing year in Iowa. He
bequeathed 100000 to the First
Methodist church of Fort Dodge for
the erection of a new church and he
gave another bequest of $4,000 to
Morningside college, making his total
gifts to that Institution at Sioux City
$4,000. Mr.. Garmoe was one of the
notable men of Fort Dodge, especially
in his devotion to Methodism. He be-
came member of the church in 1854
and up to the time of his death ne
was active In 1t and many were his
donations to its work. He himself
made by hand the shingles that were
used on the original church building
in Fort Dodge years ago. Mr.. Garmoe
served as county treasurer during the
years of the civil war At the time
| of his death he was 80 years old.
In a suit for divorce filed against
her husband, Representative John C.
Cottrell of Plymouth county, Mrs.
| Cottrell has made such sensational
| charges that the whole community has
| been set to gossiping about the af-
| air. Mrs. Cottrell alleges that during
| his service as a legislator, the repre-
sentative was unable to withstand the
| temptations that beset a man away
| from home, in capital city and that
] he took unto himself an affinity in the
person of Mrs. A. w. Hough of Des
Moines. The plaintiff minces no words
| In her allegations and she plainly
| charges her husband with violation of
the seventh commandment. She asks
$4,000 temporary alimony and $4,000
! permanent alimony, stating that Mr..
Cottrell is worth in land and money
about $4,000. She also asks the Gus.
tody of their two minor children. Be.
sides being representative of this
county, Mr.. Cottrell is also mayor OF
Kingsley. He is one of the best known
men in the county, having represent
ed the county in the legislature once
before, when he defeated F. s. Glib
son in '1S9. He was in turn defeated
6yaA. w. Fields in 1901 At the last
general election he defeated NJ. F
Gates of Kingsley. He is a large
land owner and prominent business
man of Kingsley and has always beer
thoroughly identified with the inter
ests and welfare Of that town. He il
prominent in lodges and social doings
Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius Chestermar
celebrated their fifty-fifth wedding an
, niversay in Dyersville. A large
gathering of relatives and friend.
helped to make the occasion mem
orable one.
Fire completely destroyed the Keots
, public school building few day!
ago. There was about $4,000 in in
! surance on the structure. The caus,
, of the fire is a mystery When i
was discovered the whole buildin,
, was afiame and the efforts OF the fir,
department to save it were unavail
ing. They confined their work Il
the protection of adjoining property
: The building was unoccupied
The breaking of knee cap tel
weeks ago caused the death of Fred
erick Grobe, aged 81. Necrosis of tn,