Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-18
Iowa News


w. l.. Stern and w. HI. Wood were
elected to serve for the short term
and G. H. Harvey and c. A. Bolter
for the long term.
An important change In the banking
circles of Winterset took place when
p. ]. Cunningham, A. B. Shriver and
u. Il. Orvis bought the controlling in
terest in the First National bank
there.
At the school election held at Tip
ton the present school board received
the unanimous approval of the elect
ors. j. Il. Bartly and o. Wilson were
reelected without opposition to sue
coed themselves.
Despondent over i'll health and fam
lily troubles, Thomas Wiley, aged 55,
well known farmer living three
miles north of Climbing Hill, Wood
bury county, blew his head off with
shotgun. His wife found his head
less body in corn crib.
Almont Finke, 12-year-old Clinton
boy, who has been missing from his
home there the past few days, was
located in st. Louis. The boy started
out with a young friend to see the
country and, though his companion
got no further than Davenport when
inconsistencies caused him to abandon
his plans, the Finke boy kept reso
lutely on and got as far as St. Louis
when his money ran out and he called
on the police there for help.
A house committee headed by
Brandeis, of Pottawattamie county,
is engaged in making an investigation
of the hospitals with a view to ascer-
tanning the foundation for various and
sundry complaints which have from
time to time been made public, chief
ly emanating from insane patients,
as to alleged mismanagement of the
hospitals. All these complaints have
been investigated previously and
found to be largely the result of dis
ordered minds.
III. e. Swoop, owner OF the general
merchandise stores at Marathon,
Webb and Varina, has purchased the
Kline department store in Storm
Lake and has taken possession. The
Kline store has been conducted by
the Kinnes for thirty years and is one
OF the largest in that part of the state.
Mr.. H. E. Swoop will move to Storm
Lake from Marathon to give his bust
ness his personal attention.
j. X. Bowman, one of the most wide
ly known educators in the state of
Iowa, is dead at Ann Arbor, Mich,
and the body is to be taken to Daven-
port, Ia, for interment. Mr. Bowman
who was GO years of age, died after
months illness, due to cancer. He
came to Iowa when he was II years
OF age, and taught in Iowa schools
and colleges during the past forty-five
years. For several years he was prin-
cipal of the Lyons high school, and
of late years has been associated with
b. j. Hefiin in the Clinton Business
college.
st. Mary's Catholic church, of Mar
shalltown, has decided on extensive
improvements to the church property,
which will be carried to completion
ILLS IOWSI VIII
be finished, after having been in
state of incompleteness for some
time, and a new pipe organ will be in
stalled. The church has just finished
successful ten days fair, which re-
suited in a net profit of $2,S31.34. Rev.
J. ]. Fitzpatrick, d. d. formerly of
Dubuque is pastor of st. Mary's and
took charge of the parish four years
ago, shouldering a $4,000 debt. In
that time the debt has been reduced
to $4,000, and $4,000 have been added
in improvements.
The preliminary steps for the or
ganiZation of a county experimental
station in connection with Ames agri.
cultural college was taken at a con.
ference with the supervisors by Pro-
fessor Nelson of Ames. The plan is
to set apart certain tract of land,
| probably per directions from Ames.
1t is also planned to organize the
boys in the county into junior short
course. Each boy is to plant 1000
hills of corn this spring and to cult.
| vate it according to the agricultural
school directions and when harvested
select ten ears to be sent to Ames to
| enter the corn scoring contest. The
| boys are to go there later, score this
corn and to the three best in Iowa
prizes will be offered and trophy to
the one securing the highest grade.
Alleging that he was brought into
public disgrace by being falsely &C
| cused and arrested for selling mort
gagged property, Frank Johnson of
| Marshalltown has filed an action for
$4,000 damages against w. T. Ben
nett, a well known attorney of that
city, who brought the action under
the name of "E. c. Tolley." Johnson
claims he was innocent of any crime
| upon the hearing of the case. He al
leges that Bennett caused his arrest
solely for the purpose of collecting a
| debt.
The Clinton police have in custody
a young man named Allen King, who
was arrested on complaint of the
Scott county authorities, and who will
be returned to that county to answer
to the charge of theft. King, who was
been in the reform school, and who
has served time in the local jails, has
been working for Horace Mason near
Long Grove. While the family were
away he is accused of opening a bank,
taking SIS out of the receptacle, APP
propriating shot gun and duck coat,
and walking to the town of De Witt,
from whence he took train to Clin-
ton selling the goods, and spending