Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-06-24

Rev. d. M. Helfenstein, d. D., Of
Des Moines, was elected president OF
the Iowa State Christian conference
at the thirty-fourth annual session al
lie Grand. Rev. A. b. Kendall of LIE
Grand was chosen vice president;
Rev. e. C.. Kerr of lie Grand, treas
urer, and Rev. A. M. Hanon of lie
Grand, secretary. Department secre.
taries were elected as follows: Christ
ian Endeavor, Rev. p. H. Howard
Birchdale, Mimi; Sunday sc:ool, Rev.
A. G. Grafton, Orient; education, Mrs,
Ida Menaugh, Des Moines; George
Hutton of Madrid was chosen as a
trustee of the conference.
Chester Burrel Of Epworth, Iowa,
was elected captain of the University
of Iowa base ball team for next year.
George Engstrom Of Marion, Iowa,
was elected captain of next years
track team.
DR.. Kramer Gilbert and Miss Bessie
Sanders, DR.. Carl Kali and Miss Beu.
lah A. Sanders were the principals in
a double wedding at Carlisle, Iowa.
Frank Wesner, of Council Bluffs, a
travelling salesman, shot himself to
death because of family troubles. He
leaves a wife and five children.
Thomas Flynn, II, pioneer resident
of Polk county, died at his home sew.
en- miles west of Des Moines, after
an illness of a week. Mr.. Flynn was
for forty years a resident Of Polk.
About goo Iowa and Nebraska coal
dealers held a two-day session at the
Slavery house in Des Moines.
DR.. C. Thomas. aged ~ years, one
of the pioneer dentists of Des Moines,
died at his home, 1890 Tenth street,
after a prolonged illness.
One hundred negro M%ethodists at
tended the annual Iowa conference of
the African Methodist Episcopal
church at Des Moines.
Iowa postmasters commissioned are:
Kanawha, Thomas T. Thompson; NAL
lard, Arvin c. Sands; Palmer, Martin
A. Hanse; Cou Falls, William P. Zeit-
mammal.
Plans for the removal of the head
quarters of the J. /. Case T~hreshing
Machine company from Waterloo to
Mason City is announced by the man.
agement at Mason City. The com.
pany will not move till after the pres
ent season.
Delbert W. Duncan has been recon-
mended postmaster at Sioux Center fol
appointment by the president.
Green caps for the freshmen and old
gold caps for the sophomores will be
adopted at the University Of Iowa
next fall, according to the plans OF
the spirit committee of the students
and the members of Owl and Keys, a
secret sophomore society in the col.
lege of liberal arts.
Six cars of meat and two cars OF
merchandise in train No. 62 Of the
Milwaukee were ditched at a point
two miles west of Deadham, on the
Council Bluffs division. The engine
and the five lead cars passed over the
place Of derailment.
Frank Scott living near Fender,
Neb., has been indicted at Council
Bluffs, for %swindling John Hemerl-
.bracht out of $4,000. 1t is said he
was oEce a member of the Mabray
gang.
Sarah Irwin, aged Is years, the
daughter of Eugene Irwin, a motor.
man, was crushed to death under the
wheels while attempting to board a
moving street car at Burlington. Her
mother witnessed the tragedy.
Albert Penland, of Oskaloosa, while
returning from a fishing trip was run
over by an Iowa Central train. His
head was cut off and the body badly
mutilated. He was 33 and leaves a
wife and child.
William Dennis of Shenandoah was
taken to Creston by Deputy United
States Marshal Wesley Bryant to an.
swer to a charge of bootlegging be-
fore the federal court. ..
Chick" Kirk, the star University
son college athletic teams this com.
ing year..
The Des Moines city council refund.
ed Mrs. Nose Rice, wife of the at
tempted murderer and suicide, $28.19
on an unexpired license belonging to
her husband. Rice had on May 25
paid the city $35 for a first class ped.
dler's license.
Hereafter the superannuated cler'
gymen and professors in the United
Norwegian Lutheran church are to
receive $500 each a year as benefits
from a ministerial pension fund oil
$780, 0G.
The annual Des Moines Epworth
league convention which closed its
sessions in Colfax, will meet at the
Highland Park Methodist church next
year.
Thomas Holmes, an old time engi
neer OF the Chicago, Milwaukee st
Paul, is dead at his home in Stuart
He was a member of Stuart division
Of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
g~ineers.
Harry Matthews, aged %, has mys
teriously disappeared from Iowa City
anG his friends and only immediate
relatives, a sister, fear he may have
met foul play.
The sixty-second commencement Of
Iowa college at Grinnell came to q
close after graduating the larges'
Class in its history, ninety-six in mum