Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-05

and then to make corn and other
crops grow SO fast you can almost
see them, the harvests for the year
promise to be all that has been pre-
dicted for them.
Ernest Allen, wanted in Buchanan
county for forging a $25 check in the
name of Will Winters on the Peoples
National bank of Independence, is un.
der arrest at Marion, ILL.,, and will be
brought back on requisition papers
signed by Governor Carroll.
Rev. James Henry Renihan, pastor
of st Mary's parish of Oskaloosa,
who died at Mercy hospital, was the
first native Davenporter ordained to
the priesthood of the Catholic church.
The late Bishop Cosgrove baptized
him, gave him his first communion,
and ordained him. He was pastor for
ten years at Keokuk, building the
beautiful e stone church Of st.
Francis de Sales. Three years g he
was appointed to Oskaloosa.
Fire destroyed five buildings at
Crystal Lake. The loss is only part
tally covered by insurance. The burn
ed buildings were Oshama's drug
store, where the fire started, a butch
err shop, restaurant, a dwelling and
vacant store.
The twenty-seventh annual camp
meetieg of the Mississippi Valley
Spiritualist association is now in ses.
sion at Mt. Pleasant park, near Clin-
ton.
Mrs. W. H. Lucas, wife Of a form
er county superintendent of schools
at Knoxville is suffering from a pain
full injury inflicted by a needle, which
penetrated the palm of her left hand
while she was engaged in putting out
the family washing. The implement
was broken off in the flesh and can
not be located. More than half OF
the steel is embedded among the ten
dons. Two surgical operations have
been performed and it is feared that
blood poisoning may result.
Flanders & Jolliffe, who have been
sinking prospect holes for coal on
the John NJ. Moore farm, two miles
hOl lnCuoI VI lhuldIuOlo, nave
a fine flow of artesian water at a
depth of 40 feet. The stream has a
force of exceptional strength and is
now spouting out at a height OF three
or four feet above the tubing. The
water is soft and slightly warmer
than the we'll water at a similar
depth elsewhere in the neighborhood.
Warren McHenry is a candidate for
the position of secretary to the Iowa
drainage and WATERWAYS commission
Des Moines will have an exclusive
horse market, after September 1. The
announcement was made by the Com
mercial club, which has secured as
surances from Morris Williams or
Ottumwa, that he will open a horse
market here about that date. .
Fearing that the habit of drinking
in cafes is becoming too prevalent
amongst the girls and young women
of Des Moines, ]. B. Hammond of the
Des Moines Trimmer and the w. c. T.
U. will combine their forces to sup
press this evil. The brunt of the at.
tack will be directed at the walters
who bring the liquor into the cafes
from the adjacent saloons, as they
are the only ones who can be prose
cuted under the present statute.
Two yoke Of oxen hitched to a
prairie schooner" which was used by
the pioneers in 1922 between Wheel.
ing, Va, and Indianapolis, and driven
by the first white child born in JEFF
ferson county, will be a feature of the
entertainment of the Iowa State fair.
The lows Corn Growers association
which will give the biggest corn ex-
position, embracing all kinds of farm
products, fruits and flowers, in the
Coliseum in Des Moines beginning
November 29 and continuing until De.
cember II, is the outgrowth of the
Ames short course at the Iowa State
Agricultural college. The exposition
$4,000 will be given away in prizes
for the best corn, grain and farm ex,
hibits.
Des Mones automobile owners will
spend a quarter of a million dollars
this year as running expenses for
their cars-an amount almost great
enough to replace the Equitable
building.
Following a consultation between
Col. NJ. l.. Temple and the judge ad'
vocate of the war department next
week, orders will be issued for the
arraignment of Lisie Crabtree, the
slayer of Capt. John c. Raymond at
the army post, before Federal Judge
Smith Mcpherson on the formal
charge of murder. This arraignment
will be had in three weeks time, al
the very latest in Des Moines.
Mrs. NJ. A. Quick, of -Des Moines
was made suddenly deaf by a boil
of terrific lightning which struck hel
home. The bolt entered the oper
door of the room in which Mrs. Quick
vas sleeping. Although 1t missed
striking her, the lightning caused the
woman to become suddenly deaf.
Not bigger, but better" has beer
unoficially adopted as the slogan Of
the new central board Of education II
dealing with the state university a
Iowa City and the state engineering
and agricultural college at Ames.
; New houses by the thunderstorm
small but neat and cozy; others large
7 and ~palatial-are building in ever,
] part of Des Moines.