Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-16

military tournament TO be held IN
/, Des Moines from September 20 to
20, has commenced at Camp John NJ.
Corse, near the fair grounds. Long
trains of six-mule-team army wagons,
loaded down with apparatus for the
laying out of the camp and provis.
ions for the men engaged in the
work made their way to the camp
from Fort Des Moines. The corps of
engineers from Fort Leavenworth, in
charge of Sergeant s. Silyerman and
Corporal Evans, began marking out
the lines of the camp, the mains for
the water supply and to level the
parade grounds where all the military
stunts will be pulled off,
That the students of the State uni
versity of Iowa are interested in re-
ligious matters is shown by the re-
port of the committee on religious
education which has just been made
public. Last year for the first time
courses were offered In religious in
versity. Professors of the school and
the different ministers of Iowa City
conducted the courses and regular uni
versity credit was given for the work.
The report for the year shows that
fifty students in all enrolled during
the first semester. During the second
semester twenty-four students select
ed new courses which were offered.
The owners of stock of the Laguaa
company, who are prominent men Of
Mason City and in Davenport, sold
their holdings to a Philadelphia cor
poration for $1,25O,00O. The company
owned 100000 acres of land heavily
wooded with mahogany in eastern
Mexico, which they had only partially
developed. The owners at Mason City
were ]. E. Blythe, J. E. E. Markley, J.
s. Wheeler, J. E. Moore, and A. c.
Griffin. The land has been in their
possession for several years. The
profits on the deal are reported to be
close to so per cent.
Mrs. Ann Dickens, the earliest resi-
dent of Iowa, died at North McGregor,
of injuries received in fall a week
ago. She passed away at the home OF
her daughter, Mrs. Larry Jennings.
Mrs. Dickens was Anne Redman and
her people came to Iowa June 10,
1888. 1t is believed they were the very
first residents of the territory which
later became Iowa. She was married
to Edwin Dickens when she was Is,
May q, 1887. She was born on August
10 and but recently celebrated her
eighty-seventh birthday.
August 30th, Mr.. and Mrs. Coleman
Smith of Riverton, celebrated the Goth
anniversary of their marriage In 1859
he moved to Fremont county, and in
partnership with his brother Isaac
purchased 240 acres of land on the
south bank of the East N:shnabotra
river paying IS an acre. They came
by steamboat down the Ohio from
Pittsburg, and up the Missouri to
Linden Landing, near Hamburg.
What looks like a revival of the
Booth Oyster company occurred at
Mason City in the filing of articles of
incorporation by the Booth Fisheries
company of Chicago, with capital
stock of $4,000. All kinds of fish will
be handled and it is understood thai
later a cold storage plant will be
erected. w. n. Payne is president and
A. E. McCallum is secretary and treas.
.urer, both being of Chicago.
Louis c. Kurtz, will be the next
postmaster for the city Of Des Moines.
His name will be recommended to
President Taft for appointment at
the expiration of the term of Joseph
l. Myerly, the present incumbent Of
the office. Announcement to this eff.
feet was confirmed by Senator Cum
Minis.
Everett Chamberlain, aged IS, was
probably fatally hurt, when his auto
mobile was struck by outbound
Chic ogo Great Western passenger at
franklin crossing, Waterloo. Vern
Lichty, a fellow passenger, escaped
by jumping. The car was demolished
and the wreckage burned.
NJ l.. Bartlett, of Colfax, a miner.
who was taken to Des Moines for an
operation for internal cancer, was
brought home to die, the surgeons
deciding that nothing could be done to
save his life. He has wife and sew.
eral children living at Colfax.
They have Incorporated their Chau.
tauqua at Ida Grove, with a minimum
capital of $4,000 from sale of stock
at $40 per share.
Ingebrit England has bought the s
o. Highland farm near Roland for
$123.75 per acre.
The Christian church people OF
Red Oak are constructing new par.
sonage.
The Light and Traction company,
which is building the new interurban
to Mystic, has been bought by d. C.
Bradley and F. s. Payne of Center.
vile. 1t was owned by Chicago and
eastern capitalists, including d. C.
Campbell, formerly of Centerville, and
T. p. Shonts.
Setting his gun down in the yard
with the muzzle pointed toward him
and in some manner setting off the
trigger, the contents of the barrel
passed through his hand and into the
body of Rex. Murphy of Usage, and
in few hours he died.
Ben Banning, the wealthy Polls
county farmer, who was ordered 20
pay Lottie Lauer $500 for breaking
her heart, by jury in Judge Howe's
court, will try to show the supreme
court that he didn't do any such