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

A 640-acre farm near Yale has beer
sold for $7s,72O.
-Four gamblers OF Grinnell have
been convicted and fined SIS apiece
The stores of Pella are closed
nightly at $3.50 o'clock by agreement
Wolves are reported to be doing
considerable damage near Silver City
Manchester is to have revival ser
vices conducted by a former yegg
man.
There were 220 of the 1900 inhabi
tants Of Madrid at a booster banquet
at that place few evenings ago.
The Commercial club of Waukon is
discussing the establishment of a
rest room for out of town shoppers.
The horse lovers of Mason City are
arranging for a race meeting next
summer. Some $4,000 will be offered
in prizes.
During the year 1903 the creamery
at Woodward received 10,50S cans of
cream and paid out in cream checks
$75,S75.97.
Governor Folk of Missouri and Gov
ernor Hanley of Indiana are on the
Chautauqua program to appear in
Harlan in 1909.
Representative Hunter will intro
duce bill asking for $4,000 for new
elevators to take the place of those
now in the state house, which are
considered unsafe.
Joseph Isaac of Walker, the Oldest
rural carrier in the state, mas ten
dered his resignation. He was II
years old and entered the service in
1901.
John f. Marshall. who formerly
lived near Des Moines, has discover
ed gold on his farm near Redmcn,
Mo. Samples sent to Denver assay
six dollars to the ton.
Word has been received in Iowa
that the tenth annual picnic of the
Iowa Association of Southern Califor-
mia will be held on Monday, February
%, at Los Angeles.
Several farmers near Clarion are
putting in small tracts in sugar
beets as an experiment. The land in
that vicinity is estimated to produce
fifteen to twenty tons to the acre.
Both North and South Dakota have
United States senators who were
formerly residents of Iowa. M. N.
Johnson was formerly of DEBORAH and
Coe l. Crawford lived I'M Waukon
Malcolm elliott, an employe of the
Sheffield Brick and Tile company at
Mason City had an arm torn from his
body and died as a result of his in
iuries. He was at work in the mill
when his arm caught in a belt.
The Greenfield Transcript reprinted
an article from a Texas paper to the
effect that twenty-one carloads of
household goods were shipped to
Canon City, Randall county, Texas,
at one time recently from Nebraska.
A travelling solicitor sold laces to
the ladies of Pomeroy last week at
very cheap prices. The measurements
proved, however, to be faulty. One
woman who thought that she had
bought six yards. found that she had
bought but three.
There has been a change In the Of
ficers and ownership of the First Ma
tional bank of Burt. The new officers
are: S. E. Mcmahon, president; l..
c. Smith, vice-president; H. o. Buell.,
cashier. The retiring cashier, G. D..
Smith, will locate al Lennon, S. ID.
The city campaign is warming up
in Iowa City for the election on
March 20. The adoption of the Gal
weston plan is to be considered if the
legislature amends the law, making
1t applicable to cities the size of Iowa
City.
The Iowa house committee on rules
has drafted a new section forbidding
tipping The rule was caused bv re-
Forts that some of the pages were
asking to have their palms crossed
as substitute for the refusal OF the
house to raise their wages from 81 80
to So per day
Will Mitchell, son of David Mitchell
of Murray, one of the pioneers of
Clarke county, was buried in snow.
slide in the mountains of Idaho
January s, and his body was not
found until January %. He was herd
ing sheep and was evidently resting
with his pony in the lee of a noun,
tain when the slide caught him.
An unsua1 operation was accom-
plished at the Ottumwa hospital
when J. A. Lanham of Keokuk had a
portion of his tongue removed. Not
withstanding the loss the patient was
able to tell his physician how he fell
and is able to taste as well as ever
The cause leading to the operation
is thought to be cancerous growth
at the side andl toward the back Of
the tongue.
Seventeen boys of the Omega Eta
| Tau fraternity and fourteen girls O
| the Theta Sigma Phi society a
Council Bluffs were suspended from
| the high school. They refused Il
| sign affidavits resigning membership
in the secret societies. The students
were willing to resign from active
connection. but declined to sever thei
connection entirely This is the cul
mination of the accident to Tom Har
/ Iey, who was seriously injured in al
initiation into frat December 26.
A sugar beet promoter from WAY
erly has been In Clarion interestin;
the farmers in sugar beet culture ant
many farmers are planning to rails,
beets next summer. The price pal,