Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-14
IowaState
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visits of thieves recently. Severa
homes have been entered and money
and watches taken. The homes of w
M. Spargur, John Neill and Moss
Moore have been favored" by the
light fingered callers. No clues have
as yet been obtained, and opinion is
divided as to the culprits, some be
lieving the work is done by local par
ties and others thinking it is gang
who have been operating in Shenan
doah and Clarinda.
Although declared dead by the
Kansas courts at Wyandotte, Kas.
and his property and insurance di
vided between his children and wife
Charles G. Vail appeared alive and
well at the home of his sister, Mrs
Elias Knowlton of Des Moines. He
has employed State Senator c. G.
Dowell to prove to the courts that he
is alive and recover for him his di.
vided property.
S. S. Genung, one Of the oldest resi-
dents of Menlo and who was in the
mercantile business in Iowa for over
thirty years, sold his fine farm of
10 acres joining the town on the
east to F. l.. p. Hitchcock, for $500,
or $3.50 an acre. Mr.. Genung retired
from business about five years ago
and built fine residence upon this
tract of land. He now expects to
make California his future home.
Miss Ruth Hall Of West Union has
commenced suit for 100000 against
the Chicago Telephone company. Miss
Hall was using a phone in Chicago
when a live wire broke. She was
thrown to the floor by the shock Of the
wire and sustained many minor in
juries. Her left ear became deaf and
she had to undergo an operation.
Word has been received at Iowa
City of the death of Mrs. James H.
White in Chicago. Mrs. White was
stricken i'll several days ago while at
the supper table. 1t was found that
she had blood clot on her brain She
was prominent in Iowa City society.
Mrs. Pearl Davis, of Des Moines,
the first woman indicted in Polk coun-
ty for bigamy, entered a plea of gull
ty in the criminal division of the dis
trict court and was sentenced to
serve an indeterminate term of five
years in Anamosa by Judge Miller.
Land sales near Vinton were: Sam
Railsback bought of Harve Sanders
1877 acres at $109 per acre; w. c..
Wallace sold to Tom Sellars his 145
acres for 1925 an acre; William Cray
of Blainstown paid $3.50 per acre to
N. p. Halgren for 100 acres. ...
To compensate the loss sustained
by the swarming of bees, two farmers
north of Logan nailed empty bee
hives to their trees in the groves on
their farms and as a result one gain,
ed four and the other seven swarms
during the season past.
Iowa Wesleyan university, the mo-
Their of Iowa colleges, opened it's six
ty-seventh year with brighter pros
poets than at any time in its history.
The attendance is large and outlook
good for unusual activity in all lines
of student endeavor.
Mrs. Mary Bryan, mother of D. A..
7. Bryan of Forest City, died there
aged "a years, after a short illness
from apoplexy. She was born in Penn
sylvania Aug. 81, 1925, and came west
to Wisconsin in 1854 and thence to
Iowa a little later.
William H. Tucker, veteran of
the United States army, and a resi-
dent Of Humboldt, died in the sold
iers' home of blood poisoning. He en-
tered the home in March, 1906. Mr..
Tucker was 72 years old and wild
over.
Besides paying for a bath room
and toboggan slide erected at a cost
of 1926, the Storm Lake Chautauqua
assembly left a profit of 5000 in the
treasury. The approximate receipts
of the assembly this year were $4,000.
At the last regular meeting of the
Richland city council, B. H. Farmer
handed in his resignation as mayor
of Richland. The council accepted the
resignation and l.. S. Hinshaw was
appointed to fill the vacancy.
Ben Haeussler of Monticello lost a
horse as result Of bee stings. The
horse, which was blind, got into the
back yard, where a number of stands
of bees were located, and accidentally
overturned one Of the stands.
Action for divorce against his wife
Lydia Moe Alexander, has been filed
in district court at Winterset by S. D.
Alexander, business man of that
city. Mr.. Alexander asks for alimony
in the sum of $150,OO0.
In an effort to climb upon a bed
where his mother lay i'll, Earl, the 2
year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Smith of Sioux City fell backward
to the floor and was almost instantly
killed
Miss Maud Katzenmayer Hills has
secured a judgment of $3.50 against
Bert Rupert at Iowa City. She
claimed he had written and talked
vilely about her. She sued for $4,000
The funeral Of Mrs. A. NJ. Johnson
wife of prominent merchant of Spir
1t Lake, took place from the johnson
family home. Mrs. Johnson was killed
in an auto accident at Lasure. MINI
Mrs. John Roudenbour OF Struble ha.
the distinction of raising two crops
of potatoes in one season. She digs
the first crop in June and the second
crop is dug in September.
Miss Bernice Deave-, who has beer
teaching in the Kansas State college
has been secured to teach science
and mathematics in Palmer college