Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-07

to Buxton.
Dayton has procured site for a
new town hall. 1t will be constructed
CT brick and cement.
1t is expected that work on tie
new federal building at Esterville
will be commenced next spring.
Seventeen marriages were celebrar.
ed In Oskaloosa on Christmas day,
breaking all previous records.
The National Refining company OF
Dubuque will erect building with
tank and horse barn, to cost $751;
600 at Iowa Falls.
The Keokuk Gas and Electric COM
pany has been incorporated with a
capital stock OF 100000, by Frederick
Sargent and others.
Hon. o. A. Byington, of Iowa City,
the son of the late Hon. LeGrand By
ington, has begun another suit to Sc
cure the lands of his late father that
were sold in Linn county for taxes.
Mayor Ingledue, OF Marshalltown,
declares that the proposed building
for the "Billy" Sunday meetings must
be erected outside the fire limits, I'M
less the council cared to amend the
present ordinance.
The people of Iowa City are fight
ing the smoke nuisance, and the uni
yersity power house smoke stack,
which belches vast volumes forth
daily, is the chief object of the cru
SADIE just now.
A. r. Hukill, superintendent Of
schools at Waterloo, has attended
twenty-five consecutive sessions Of
the Iowa State Teachers association.
1t is thought he holds the record for
attendance.
An implement factory, manufactur-
ing cultivators and hay presses, en-
ploying a force between thirty and
one hundred strong, may be moved to
Des Moines as the result OF an option
on an Ohio plant held by the-Ireater
Des Moines committee.
Eight or ten school districts ada
cent to Colo are to be consolidated
with the Colo Independent district
in the near future. A petition is
being circulated and more than the
required number of signers are be-
ing secured. q
Growing out of an alteration in
which J. s. Johnson, running skat-
ing rink, struck Mrs. Anna Brown,
his cashier, the city council of Spen-
Ger has passed an ordinance making
it unlawful for anyone to conduct a
skating rink or public dance hall in
the town.
Burglars broke into the clothing
store of Swisher Brothers of GrinneIl
and about 5000 worth was taken, two
of the articles being a costly seal
skin cap and a fine overcoat. 1t is
quite certain, too that more stuff was
taken than could have been worn by
two. Some two or three dollars were
obtained from the cash drawer
Grain handling facilities north of
Creston are being badly crippled by
the rush of corn which is coming in
for shipment. AT number of places
along the Cumberland branch eleva-
tors are full and the farmers are
piling their corn ON the ground in
huge piles and stringing wire fences
around it until they can get 1t she'll
ed ready for shipment.
Indicted and enjoined and liable to
a Jail sentence or heavy fine is the
unhappy condition in which Dave
Meeks, of Polk county, petit juryman
during the last term of district court,
finds himself. He will now be forced
to walk up to the bar of justice
charged with serious offense in the
same court in which he was an officer
just a few short weeks ago.
Clarence Van Der Vert, a trooper
sent up for fifteen years for forging
the name of an officer at Fort Des
Moines to check was taken to Ana
mosa. Van Der Werts incarcera-
ton is but temporary, since Judge
McHenry and the county attorney
promised to recommend an immedi-
ate parole so that the soldier may be
present when the stork arrives at
his home within the coming few
weeks.
Thomas LOTUS, Of Dubuque, presi,
dent of the Three-I Baseball league.
closed his buffet, probably the finest
west Of Chicago, The action was
taken in response to the agitation in
favor of enforcement of the mulct
law. Lotus has been in the saloon
business in Dubuque for twenty,seven
years and has splendid quarters in
the Bank and Insurance building, one
of the show places of the city Dubu-
| que today, for the first time in its
history, is obeying the state liquor
! law
| Systematic robberies of Rock Island
! freight cars between Iowa Falls and
Cedar Rapids, which have bafleG
| railroad detectives for months, have
been found to have been committed
by men in the employ of the road
Three men were arrested in Cedar
Rapids by Detective Muir, and are
now under arrest In Iowa Falls, hav
ing waived to the grand jury aftel
their arraignment before a justice
of the peace there. Simultaneous,
came the summary discharge of five
others. whom the road officials wer,
4 certain had been committing similar
robberies near Burlington, but no di
rect evidence could be secured
against them.
The Rev. William d. Lewis, pastor
Of the Walnut Street church of Johns
town, Pa, has accepted call of the
! First Congregational church O
| Maquoketa and will begin his dutie;
| ohopt tho fret IF Ecahruarxy