Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-18
IOWA
NEWS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Bows is soon to have an automo.
bile garage.
| Oelwein has new canvas glove
and mitten factory which will begin
operations next Monday.
Three hundred and eighty-four men
were picked up during the month of
January in the town of Fairfield and
confined in the Jail as Migrants.
After getting bids for the digging
of 2,000-foot well, the town of Deni-
son will probably be compelled to
give up the project because of a
lack of money.
Roy Hinkley. of Charles City, drove
onto a live electric light wire at
Nashua and both his horses were in
stantly killed.
The government has decided to To-
cate clam hatchery at Fairport. near
Muscatine, and will spend $4,000 on
the plant.
Rev. J. p. Hargreaves of the First
Baptist church of Iowa City is =
with appendicitis. He was operated
on and physicians report that he will
recover.
The first victims of the new cru
SADIE at Rock Falls were Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Wolfe, who were arrested and
given the minimum fine for allowing
their 9-year-old son to remain out of
school.
A team used as delivery team by
the Rustic company went through the
ice on the Cedar river, near Charles
City where they are now crossing on
account Of no bridge, and they were
extracted with great difficulty.
The Newton Daily News has pub
lished a document which was made
out in 1916, locating the seat of JUS
tice. 1t is the report of the commits
sioners selecting the site, being an
affidavit sworn before a justice of
the peace.
After desperate fight on a Rock
Island train from Winterset to Des
Moines, Louis Hildebrand, who has
been eluding the police and detec-
tlVes for ten days, was captured by
Detective G. c. Jackson. Hildebrand
is charged with a half dozen bold
burglarles, several of them having
been perpetrated while the ponce
were on his trail.
Emery, small station which has
been located midway between Mason
City and Clear Lake, has about pass
ed away. At one time it boosted of
population of seVenty-five persons.
The power house of the interurban
railway and other buildings of the
road are about to be removed. The
postoffice has been discontinued and
many of the inhabitants have moved.
The lid is down good and hard in
Valley Junction. Gaming devices Of
all kinds have been tabooed. Slot
machines relegated to the back rooms.
Shaking dice for cigars invites ar
rest and incarceration in -e village
calabose, said confinement to be
rounded out and finished with prose-
cution to the full extent of the law.
Mayor Gray is the man who slapped
on the cover.
Tom Mcdaniel, the Tabor student
who took French leave a couple of
weeks ago to avoid service of a war
rant for his arrest on the charge Of
perjury, has returned and will en-
deavor to clear himself of the charge.
Mcdaniel was a witness in the Porter
| fpin1 or hn hE.y.
term of district court in Sidney, and
is charged with perjuring himself in
the testimony he gave in that trial.
Vernon Westlund of Davenport
still has two good feet under him in
spite of the fact that he was recent
! " reported to have lost both legs in
a railroad accident near Brighton.
| Thereby hangs a tale. Vernon has a
rival for the good graces of a young
lady to whom the letter came an,
nouncing Vernons misfortune. The
rival evidently thought the young
woman would have no use for a man
with two wooden legs. The letter
called young Westerlund's relatives
post haste, only to find him alive and
well. He came home with them, and
his rival-the villain of the drama
has made his exit from the stage.
Men all over the state are interest
ed in what will probably be the big
gest mems meeting in years when the
Iowa conference of the Laymen's
Missionary Movement is held in De.
Moines, March 25 to %. This move
ment, which has for its purpose the
interesting of men in missionary
work, is now being extended west
ward. Ambassador James Bryce i!
one of the leading speakers on tn,
program. William Jennings Bryan il
another Elijah Halford, formeri,
editor of the Chicago Inter-Gcear
and U. s. Consul Wilbur, stationed a
Halifax, are other men of nationa
Importance who will attend. Goyerno
Carroll is actively engaged in pro
noting the Iowa conference which /
Is expected over 1000 will attend.
A Mr.. Wagner, representative O
DIR. Gunsaulus of Chicago, has beer
in Clear Lake trying to arouse inter
est in the establishing of a summe
Bible school similar to that at Wiz
ona Lake. DR.. Gunsaulus promise
to attend and bring quartet choi
with him.
Mrs. Phil Tibeau of Charles Cit
underwent an operation for the RI
moval of eleven inches of cuticle t
be grated to the leg of her littl
daughter, who was burned a fe'
weeks ago, the wound failing to hes
. | Dronerly