Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-06-17

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phone equipment for their Boone
plant, entailing an expenditure OF
nearly $125,O0O this year., for equip
ment alone.
Samuel Nevin was arrested at Cres-
ton by local officers under charges OF
Bookkeeping, and seventeen pints of
whiskey and six or eight bottles of
beer were found in his possession.
Nevin conducts a lunch wagon in the
business section of the city.
The fourteenth biennial reunion OF
the Twenty-first Iowa Veteran associa,
ton will be held in Edgewood June
1917. There win be fine programs
both days of speeches and a campfire
the first evening. S. It. Richards of
Edgewood is president of the ~associa-
tion and c.. S. Maxson of Edgewood
is secretary.
city water works at Washington and
relieved of $14. The intruders struck
him a heavy blow on the head, cutting
a deep cash above his eye. Charley
McCulley and Frank Brown, day lab
oreres, were arrested for the robbery.
The Iowa Union Medical society will
meet at Iowa City on June 20, and
will be entertained by the Johnson
County Medical society. The pro-
gram will include several sessions,
clinics and a banquet. The addresses
and clinics will be given by DIR. J. c.
Beck, Chicago; DR.. Hugh T. Patrick,
| China or H anI nrN II ~ K~irCphnpr
superintendent of the Iowa state san
atorium at Oakdale. DR.. L.. w. Dean
of Iowa City is president of the Iowa
Union Medical society, and DR.. Craw-
ford Of Mt. Vernon is secretary.
At the alumni banquet Of the Iowa
State Teachers college at Cedar Falls,
Attorney Casper Schenk of Des
saloon forces in circulating a revoca-
ton petition was greeted with Ats
signatures voluntarily affixed, aside
from several more not yet reported,
secured in the different factories of
the city.
Des Moines implement men whose
business puts them in contact with
farmers in all portions Of the state,
declare that the excessive rainfall is
not having as serious an effect upon
the crops as is generally supposed.
The acreage will be diminished in
corn and the oats acreage was also
less than usual, but it is hoped that
the excellent stand will make up for
the cut down acreage.
Eleven new cottages will be built
at Oakdale for the further improve
ment of the Iowa State Tubercular
sanatorium in the fight which is be-
ing waged against the white plague"
The total cost will be s3,775.90. Con-
tractor c. F. Reimer of Marshalltown
will begin work Immediately. Mater
ials for the new cottages is now on
the way.
The question of bonding story City
for the purchase of the local electric
light plant was submitted to the vot-
ers at a special election. The result
was in favor of the purchase by a ma
jority of eighty votes.
BY unanimous vote the night shift
of the Des Moines police department
assessed each member 20, cents month
ly to be turned over to Mrs. James
Shea, widow of James Shea, who five
years ago dropped dead from heart
failure while attending to his duties
as driver of the police ambulance. 1t
is expected that the other shifts will
follow suit, which will result in the
payment of about $21 monthly to the
widow.
Five young ladies of the class OF
twenty which will graduate from the
domestic science department of the
Young Women's Christian association
at Des Moines, will Immediately an
nuonce their engagements. Although
four of them refuse in advance TO
give the name of their fances, Miss
Bessie Sanders has announced her
engagement to Kramer Martin Gil
bert.
All efforts to save Erie P. Dodge,
the confessed wife deserter and al
legged bigamist, have been futile, as
he was taken to the peniteRtiary at
FIT. Madison to serve a one-year SEN
tence. Cannon Bell and others have
plead with Judge Miller and state
officers to secure his parole before
being taken away.
While sitting in the Rock Island
railway station at Des Moines wait
ing for a TRAN which would take him
back to his home in Rattle Creek,
George Phillips, state factory inspect
or of Michigan, reeled in his seat
and fell forward, dead. Heart fail
He was the cause.
Another was added. to the list or
milkmen who have been accused by
State Dairy Commissioner Bright for
selling milk to Des Moines customers
that failed to come up to the test.
Information was filed by Milk Inspect
or Iliff in Justice Roe's court against
Fl. Murrow, an East Des Moines
dairyman.
AS an example of the hideousness>
of crime. photographs of john Junk
in, Frank Shercliffe and other noted
Iowa criminals were shown to the
delegates attending the district con-
vention of the Christian Endeavor at
Charlton by b w. Garrett. secretary
of the state board of parole.
Adjutant General Guy Logan has
declined an invitation to deliver the
Fourth of July speech at Algona,
where a monster celebration is being
planned. The people of Algona are
arranging for a military tournament
on July 4.
To determine whether Polk county