Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-11-04

The net assessment of the tele.
phoDe and telegraph lines in Iowa
amounts to 1861, 946.33, according
to the tenth annual report Of the exc
cutive council on the assessment Of
telephone and telegraph companies
The total pole mileage amounts to
82,608.72 miles. Telegraph lines have
pole mileage of 10,460.70 niles with
net assessment of $795,333.SS; tele-
phone toll lines have pole mileage
of 1,193.1S miles, with net assess
ment of $S0,322.70; telephone ex.
changes have pole mileage OF 689.03
miles, with a net assessment Of $144l,.
212.S5; mixed telephone lines have
a pole mileage of 44,95041 miles with
a net assessment of $2,316,365.45;
rural telephone lines have pole mile
age of 25,315.40 miles, with net as
sessment of $32S,722.00.
Judge Smith Mcpherson heard
pleas of guilty thick and fast in fed
eral court at Ottumwa when hear
ing charges against the Oskaloosa
saloon keepers for selling intoxicat-
ing liquors to Indians. James X.
Black, Homer McMains, w. ]. Doyle,
Robert Miner, Edward Nugent, Ed.
d. Nugent, A. E. Greenway, A. L.
Stoler, A. Roesch, David Blackburn
and A. Mandenhall, through their at
torney, Major John F. Lacey, plead
ed guilty, and arranged to pay the
fines Of SIS and costs assessed. 9th
er bills returned against Edward ID.
Nugent, II. d. Nugent and J. G. Dow,
were dismissed.
Bad weather and increased expen-
ses reduced the profits from the Iowa
state fair this year but Secretary
Simpsons balance sheet shows near
ly 100000 in the treasury as a re-
suit of the exhibition. This years fair
cost $4,000 more than the previous
one and $1,000 of the increase went
into premiums. Mr.. Simpson reports
the total receipts as $137,1S2.30, and
the expenditures s107,353.57, leaving
a profit of $29,S28.50 in the treasury.
George w. Swords Of Iowa City,
who was appointed receiver of the
first National bank of Grinnell, has
practically closed the affairs Of the
defunct institution. The only essent-
ial matter remaining is the sale OF
certain real estate in Alberta, Cana
da. After this is done a final divi-
dend will be declared and the trust
closed.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Mcmillan cele-
brated their golden wedding anniver-
sary, their entire welded life being
spent in Iowa. They have lived for
ty-five years On the same farm, east
Of Washington. A large number of
friends helped them celebrate the
event at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
]. o. Mathews, near Ainsworth.
A land deal which involves about
$4,000 in values was closed at New
Hampton by which Bruno Benz, a
prominent farmer purchased the
Hackney ranch near Mckenzie, N. d.
The ranch consists of 2,11O acres and
with it went "a head Of horses, ten
cows and a large amount oS Machin-
cry.
The Iowa supreme court has put q
stop to the contempt case Of John
Kelly of Marshalltown by issuing a
temporary injunction. The court has
stopped the contempt proceedings ur.
til it can pass on the original injunc-
ton against Kelly and the Clifford
saloon.
Before leaving for his present
home in Pasadena, Cal, DR.. G. S.
Focht arranged to make gift of
his medical library to the Upton Ii
brary. The only conditions of the
gift were that the books are to be
kept intact and used for reference
only.
The sugar beet harvest has com.
menced at Clear Lake and will be
the best crop ever raised in that sec.
ton. A total of $50 acres were raised
here, and it is estimated that the
yield will be from ten to twelve tons
per acre, and the price $4.S5 per ton.
Good roads leading to Prescott, Ia,
are being built by the merchants CT
that town. At present they are work
ing on all north roads. The county,
the farmers along the way, and the
Prescott merchants are working to-
gether in the interest of good roads.
The old Isaiah Clay farm of 100
acres, one mile west of Newburg, was
sold to Jonn Madill for SITS per acre.
Mr.. Madill had sold his 80-acre farm
one mile west of the Clay place for
$125 per acre for which he had paid
$50 per acre about eight years ago.
]. S. Watson of Iowa City has re-
ceived word of the death of his wife's
cousin, C. e. Hunt, at San Diego, Cali.
fornia, He was in an automobile when
it turned turtle and killed him. Mr..
Hunt was born in Iowa City and lived
there for many years.
A farm of GO acres near Milo sold
for $157 per acre recently and farm
four miles from Milo, very rough,
and sold about ten years ago for SIS
per acre, sold for $62.5O. This farm
had no improvements, only fence
The Iowa City council has dealt q
severe blow to local peddlers. The
aldermen have passed a new ordi'
nance, whereby licenses of peddlers
range from $500 to $500 year, and
it is likely to prove prohibitive.
Rodney Hill, president of the Com
mercial bank at Britt, Ia, an old
resident and prominent in financia!
circles in north Iowa, died, aged So
The direct cause of his death was
hemorrhage of the lungs.
Two hundred Parsons college stu
dents are facing arrest for forcing en-