Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-05
VALUE OF A BENEDICT
One Turned Up Missing Tuesday Morn
ing...BscheIor's Feelings Wounded

Geel Us bachelors do miss something
after all. Who'd offer 5 cents for the
return of an old bachelor ever if it was
suspected he was on the straight road to
Gehenna?
1t is quite different with the married
man, though, for one of Our Benedicts
made a mysterious getaway Tuesday
morning before the chickens were off
the roosts and as soon as he was missed
a whole neighborhood was aroused and
all the neighbOrs were scurrying all over
town trying to find out whether he was
walking in his sleep, had absconded from
his family or vas merely taking an
early morning walk out in the rain for
the good of his health. And-just think
of this heart broken little wife said
she would give $500 to the person who
found him and returned him to her arms.
Gee! 1t makes a bachelor mad-dOwn-
right mad-when he thinks that a meas
ley married man is worth all that good
lucre to someone while the majority of
people would rather spend a nickel for
chewing gum than have one of us re-
turned to the long hay we usually oc-
cupy nightly-and all alone, too, and so
quietly.
The facts are that Frank Wilson, our
~good-natured young blacksmith, wanted
to spring a good one on his mother and
wife last Tuesday morning by bring
ing home his sister Gladys, who has been
in Chicago for 10 these many moons,
without anyone but himself knowing
anything about the time of her arrival
close to home until he had deposited her
safe and sound in the arms of her
mamma.
Frank received Il dispatch Monday an
nouncing that his sister would reach
Manning at an early hour the following
morning and requesting him to meet
her with an auto and bring her home,
thus avoiding a long wait for the Audi
bon train. He said nothing to anyone
about the dispatch, thinking he could
make a getaway from his wife without
awaking her and trusting she would
sleep long enough in the morning to give
him time to return home without any
knowledge of the trip he had made.
He succeeded in getting away all right,
but the fates were against him, for the
rain made the roads slow for the auto
and caused the loss of considerable time
so that it vas broad daylight and every
body was astir when he reached Audu-
bon. His wife and mother were very
much astir, for Franks little girl woke
up early Tuesday morning, and missing
her papa she awOke her mother and in
quired for him. At first the wife thought
her husband had arisen early to do some
work about the house, but not hearing
him moving about she arose and began
investigating matters, and about the
first thing that caused her uneasiness
was that his working clothes were all
in their accustomed place, but his Sun
day-go-to-meeting suit was missing.
This alarmed her and she sent the little
girl next door to- inquire of his mother
If she knew anything of Franks where
abOuts or had seen him around the place.
This alarmed his mother and from that
moment there was something doing in
the whole block. Neighbor men started
out to search for Frank, but they could
get no trace of him beyond a report that
he had gone out in the country in an
auto, and as the reports were brought
in both mother and wife imagined all
sorts of things, among the thoughts
which occurred to them being that
Frank had suddenly become deliriOus
and had wandered off somewhere in a
bad condition; that he had gone up to
North Dakota to buy a big ranch-all
sorts of things came to their minds and
they were perplexed and sorrOwful with
a weight of woe.
Neighbors could do no more just then