Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25

A new industry for Marshalltown is
being installed by the Lennox Furnace
Co. in the shape of nickel plating
factory. 1t is one of the few indus
tries OF its kind in the state.
Miss Gertrude Cross, formerly sup
erintendent of a hospital at Boone,
has forsaken hospital work and will
go to Wendell, Idaho, where she has
purchased hotel and will operate
same.
Sioux City will hold special cleo
ton next month to consider the erec-
ton Of more schools in that city, the
present equipment being inadequate
for the rapidly increasing school en-
rollment.
Arthur Pickering and Starvoina Ca
lame of Iowa City eloped to Seattle,
Wash, and relatives have communi-
| Gated with the chief of police in the
latter city to prevent their marriage
as both are under age.
| Rev. John B. Sands of Belmond,
a veteran home missionary minister,
and famaliarly known all over the
| state as Father Sands Is seriously
i'll He has just passed his oath birth
day.
| After campaign extending over five
years Sioux City is to have a viaduct
| over the, railroad tracks in the heart
OF the city. The structure will cost
the railroads entering the city a
quarter of million dollars.
4 After for irty CT "
hours the jury in the case of the state
against Chas. McQuillan at Dubuque
held for forgery, disagreed. He is al.
legged to have forged several checks
and passed them on local merchants.
L. J. Wilson and Bert Payette have
been arrested at Sioux City on the
charge of attempted burglary. In the
police court they pleaded guilty and
were bound over to the next session
of the grand jury.
| Former Secretary of the Treasury
Leslie M. Shaw is preparing to aband.
Oh his residence at Denisou and will
remove with his family to Philado'
phia, where he is to become the head
Of great manufacturing company.
| Mrs. Agnes Scafinger of Give has
made inquiries as to the disappear.
ance of her husband, whom no one has
seen for some time past, and it is
| feared that he has met with foul
piay.
Thirteen civil engineers have begun
the survey for the interurban road
between Sioux City and Des Moines,
| and it is stated that construction will
| begin as soon as weather conditions
will permit.
suit for damages in the sum of
| $1,000 has been filed in the court at
Webster City, brought by R. c. Car
rington, administrator of the estate
of Maggie j. Darlington, who was kill
ed by train on the Northwestern
railroad, Dec. 2, 1908.
A $4,000 damage suit has been
brought in the district court at Iowa
| City against the Rock Island Railway
company by Clarence Hardy, who was
partially blind and crippled for life
in an explosion at Fairport between
| Mustcatin and Davenport, several
years ago.
Over ON hundred farmers represent
ing the ninety rural telephone lines
in Mahaska county, have accepted the
terms of the Home Telephone com
years, beginning April 1. Lines of ten
phones and over will pay S45 for the
service, and five phones $50. This
] settles the controversy between the
Home and Bell companies that has
waxed war for three or four years.
C. f. Lovett of Volga City, is soon
to establish an egg and poultry ship
| ping station in Manchester, a build.
ing being erected near the NJ & Q.
depot for that express purpose. 1t is
expected that this will be the cause
of developing into a large industry,
as the surrounding country is espec-
tally adapted to the raising of fine
poultry which will be marketed in
eastern markets.
hot school fight has been started
in Webster City on Superintendent
Ford, who has been head of the schools
for ten years. There are two vacan-
cies on the school board to be filed
March 8. Those opposed to Professor
Ford have nominated J. w. Lee and
DR.. G. #. McCauliff. Those for him
have placed in nomination ]. w.
Young and w. A. Crandall. A deter
mined effort is to be made on each
side.
George r. Hough, for fifty years an
employee of the Wabash railroad and
the oldest conductor on the system,
died in hospital here as a result of
stroke of paralysis received two
weeks ago in the union station as he
was preparing to take his run to
Clayton, H.. which town was his
home. He was Is years old and prom
inent in the affairs of the knights
Templar and the Masonic fraternity.
Conductor Hough began his railway
experience with the New York & Hart
ford railroad in the sos, and 1875
came west to Springfield and entered
the service of the Wabash, in which
he continued without interruption un-
til his death.
Frank X Stebbins, five times may.
or of Iowa City, has announced that
he will again be candidate for the
Office
]. p. Markhani, who has been
agent for the Rock Island road at
Iowa City for the past eight years,
has resigned and will engage in bust
ness elsewhere.