Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-11-11

W ludkS SACH charge INC executive
council has held up the October ex-
pense accounts of the members OF the
state library commission, holding that
a charge of so cents for carrying a
person from the Union depot to any
point within mile of the depot Is a
violation of the city ordinances.
A jury in the case of the C. Al.
Hoover Distilling company against
fifteen eastern insurance companies
at Ottumwa returned verdict for the
plaintiff. The Hoover company was
awarded $4,000 by the jury. The case
grew out of the burning of the plant
at Oskaloosa a year ago. The in
surance companies claimed the whiS-
ky destroyed was worth only $4,000
while the company claimed 1t was
worth $4,000.
Bernard Fischer, an old resident of
Green Mountain, and brother-in-law
of Ex-senator John B. Classen of
Marshalltown, died after ten days
illness, due to paralysis and dropsy,
aged 30 years. Mr.. Fischer was ma
tive of Mittelhausen, SAKE Weimar,
Germany, and came to this country
In 1S47, settling near Dixon, Ill. Later
he moved to Marshall county and has
lived on farm near Green Mountain.
Rev. j. w. Gillespie, pastor of the
Catholic church at MechanicsviIle,
has been appointed pastor of st. Pet
er's Catholic church in Keokuk, to
succeed Rev. Thomas O'Reilly, de-
ceased. The appointment was made
by Rt. Rev. Bishop James Davis of
Davenport, following the examination.
Mechanicsville is small town near
Cedar Rapids, with population of
about 1000 people.
Henry William Suits of Council
Bluffs, who is over 104 years old, is
the sole heir to an estate in which
final report was filed in the office OF
the clerk of the district court by II.
l.. Robertson, attorney for the adj
ministrator. The estate is that of
George William Suits, son of the heir,
1t amounts to more than $4,000, large
Iy in cash.
Matt Mcdonald, butter maker at
the Barryville creamery, south OF
Manchester, has brought distinction
to Delaware county by carrying away
the highest score given Iowa butter
at the National Dairy convention held
at Milwaukee, Wis. The prize was a
beautiful silver cup.
A large number of friends and
neighbors perpetrated complete
surprise on Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Run
yam of Lenox, the occasion being
their thirtieth wedding anniversary.
Co-incident to this happy event their
son was married a year ago ON the
same date.
Osceola is mourning the loss of
thousands of barrels of fine apples,
ruined in the freeze during the past
month and claims that $4,000 to
100000 might have been saved to the
farmers of Clarke county had there
been a cold storage plant at that
place.
being illegally held by her divorced
husband and his mother, Mrs. Mary
Blackburn instituted suit in the dis
trict court at Des Moines to secure
his custody. Judge McHenry set the
case down for hearing November Is.
Mrs. Mary Golden of Colo is dead
at the age of 80 years. The family
was one of the oldest in that county
and highly esteemed. Eight children
were born to her. She was a cousin
of Bishop William Taylor, the Illus
trious M. e. missionary.
o. F. 'Redshaw of Hamburg has
shipped so far this season over 200
cars of apples and there are fifty
cars more that, with favorable wealth
er, he will soon have loaded and this
will make him approximately $4,000
barrels for the year.
The biggest deal in farm land at
Usage for a good many years was
that whereby M. ]. Simpson came
into possession of the G. M. Stoughton
farm of 429 acres, about four miles
southeast of Usage. The purchase
price was $4,000.
Hazlett Clark has resigned as as
sistant cashier of the German Saw
ings bank to become publicity agent
for the Greater Des Moines committee
and business manager of Wealth"
the official publication of the booster
organization.
One man was killed and more than
fifty hurt, many critically, when a
downtown University car went off
the track at the foot of the Nine
teenth street hill, Nineteenth street
and Woodland avenue in Des Moines.
Ensilage is becoming popular with
the farmers near Mason City. Scores
have built silos and filled them with
late corn. One farmer has filed a one
hundred and seventy-five ton silo for
$239.50.
On the militant platform adopted
by the convention, Mrs. Julia Clark
Hallam of Sioux City was elected
president of the state equal suffrage
association at the Des Moines meet
ing.
pat" Hutton, city marshal of Car
roll, was shot and killed one mile
west of Glidden, by Ernest Lindquist,
one of a pair of housebreakers whom
he had pursued from Carroll and
caught
A. T. Hardy of Tabor has bought
a thirty-eight acre farm from Mrs.
John Clark for $4,000 cash, practical
ly 1910 per acre. The land is mile
from town.
Mrs. C. H. Wilson of Atalissa and
Fannie Grooms of Muscatine have
taken out hunters licenses and are
after the elusive rabbit and fast-f1y-
ing duck.