Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-05-27

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convention of the Norwegian Luther
| an church in Des Moines in June. Eff
forts were made to secure Governor
Hughes but his dates were filled.
| The What Cheer board of education
has elected Prof. It. M. Prall, Des
Moines, superintendent of public
schools for next year. He is principal
Of Grant Park school, Des Moines,
where hs has been for three years.
Mrs. Anna Shay, aged 80, is dead
at her home in Penn township, near
| Iowa City, after more than fifty years.
residence in Johnson county.
General Lincoln, Fifty-ninth regi-
ment, Iowa National Guard, has de-
cided that the encampment of the
regiment will be at Charlton this
year. The men will go into camp in
August, and win be aided by a COM
pany Of the regulars.
For thirty years Grafton has ac-
commodated all people who came on
Sunday as well as On any other day
in the week with open stores, shops
and other places. A new order has
ooAiS ahto ShCSty SiOolIS oil IliC oloiSo
and other business places all day Sum
day.
The annual conference of the north
western Iowa district of the Methodist
church will be held in Mason City on
September 20. 1t is expected that at
| least 500 delegates will be present.
Bishop Joseph Berry of Buffalo, N. Y,
will nrnci1n occnnio-
ton of Baptist churches meets there
about the same time.
The following teachers have been
| elected to fill the Hubbard schools for
the following year: G. v. Orr, Lori
NOR, principal; Vera Lighthall, Alden,
first assistant; Daisy Boylan, Hub
bard, second assistant; Franah
SCHNEIDER, Monticello; Lena Inskeep,
Hubbard; Hazel Chamberlain, McIn-
tyre, and Geneva King, Newton.
Arrangements are being made by
w. j. O'Brien, manager of the Carroll
Driving park and fair grounds. for a
| stock show and race meet on the 9Th
and 9Th Of July, next. The track will
at once be put in shape and the sta.
bles repaired and rearranged for the
seasons engagement.
Spring wheat in the tri-state district
within 1875 miles of Sioux City is a
good stand, according to the special
reports of correspondents.
For the purpose of defeating the cir
culation in Council Bluffs of a petit
ton of consent, the Iowa Anti-Saloon
league opened a weeks campaign in
| that city.
George Ten Eyck, who formerly
lived in the timber six miles north OF
| Vinton and where he married his
murder her at the home of Charles
Kelso, residing on the Frank BurB
farm seven miles north in Harrison
| township. Soon after noon Ten Eyck
appeared at the Kelso home, where
his wife, with whom he had separated
some months ago, was being employed
as a domestic, and attempted to take
away their ten months old child and
when the wife objected he drew a
twenty-one caliber revolver and began
shooting at her. Before interference
he had shot her four times, one ball
entering the right face and glancing
around the cheek bone and out, two
more entered the head glancing
around the skull and out, and the
fourth entering the neck, Although
the wounds are painful and severe
the attending physician expresses the
belief that she will survive.
The announcement is now made at
Charlton that in addition to all their
Lucas county holdings, including the
homestead, that Mrs. Mary Mallory
and Mrs. Jessie Mallory have offered
Receiver Jamison $26,700 in cash or
securities in full settlement of all
claims which he may have against
them. The real estate is valued by
the receiver at nearly 100000. ..
By running into freight car On a
siding at Joice, small station on
the north branch of the Chicago &
Northwestern railway north of Mason
City, the engine was overturned and
Engineer William McCune and Fire
man Frank Stores, both Of Belle
/
1t is supposed that the recent rains
softened the track, causing the en-
CINE to overturr when it struck the
freight car, and that the engine men
jumped and were caught under the
engine. William McCune leaves q
wife and son and daughter.
Seventeen death claims were paid
by the Iowa Mineworkers, District No.
13, at Oskaloosa, for the month Of
April. Seven of them were for wom-
en- and ten for men.
A fire bug Is trying to destroy the
town of Postville. During the past
ten days six fires have been set, but
fortunately, all have been discovered
in time to prevent serious trouble
They are all started about o'clock al
night, and kerosene has been used
each time
Plans and specifications for bids fol-
the construction Of the New London
National bank will soon be ready and
work will be pushed as rapidly as
possible.
A Carnegie library has been Sc
cured for Woodbine which will cost
$4,000.
. The telephone war at Indianola
l is ended and $4,000 will be expended
upon a new plant.
l Merchants at Ottumwa will charter
t a special train to attend the conven
t ton of the Iowa Retail Merchants