Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-07-22
Iowa News
NEWsY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
ALL PARTS OF THE STATE.

Supt. F. p. fitzgerald has severed
his connection with the state indust
rial school for girls at MitchellyiIle
and left for his new home at ST. A
thony, Idaho, where he will be as
ISOLATED with his son in the owner
ship of a confectionery store. Man!
Of the girls wept when they said good
by to the man who has been al the
head Of the school since 1901. Fitz
gerald's health is shattered and it ia
doubtful If he will ever be well again
He is suffering from a chronic dis
ase Of many years standing.
While James Lacey, with his wife
a2d 5-year-old boy were crossing the
Hundred and TWO creek, four miles
south Of Bedford, the bridge collsps
ed and the man, woman and child, 10.
gether with the horses and buggy
were thrown into the river. They fell
a distance Of over twenty feet into
four feet of water, but all escaped
with their lives and none we're seri.
ously injured. Mrs. Lacey's hip was
badly bruised, and the little boy was
scratched about the face, but Mr..
lacey escaped unhurt, and the horses
we're in no way injured.
That modern business methods will
increase the business OF a store in a
country town is well indicated by the
reports of the first months trial in
Dexter, la. The total business for
the month Of June shows an approx
mate increase over the corresponding
month last year of 181 per cent, or
t2,338.66 for eight stores. Two stores
had no record Of last years business
and one has been established since
that time.
August Stalk, an ex-union soldier,
aged S., was found dead in a sitting
posture in his chair in his Office in
the rear of his residence at Carroll,
having expired from heart trouble.
Having ate supper, he went to the
office. executed an insurance policy,
door to rest, where he was found
by his wife dead. He was born in
Germany in 1874.
Harry Polk, president of the Inter.
urban railroad told the executive
council that but for the two cent fare
this company would have had 400
miles Of interGrbans centering in Dies
Moines. The company had plans fol
these interurbans but the two cent
fare cut down their receipts and nc
more will be built till the future OF
%interurbans is assured.
When DR.. A. e. Beach, one Of the
most highly respected citizens of Car
roll, failed to appear at the supper
table his wife made a search for hin
and found him dead in his Office
chair. An examination showed the
doctor died of poisoning, though thu
exact nature of it was not revealed
Suicide Is limited at, as DR.. Beach wa
In bad health.
Inmates OF the State Industrial
School for Girls at Mitchellville wer'
bitterly opposed to the appointment
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Fitzgerald and have declared tina
they don't want 10 be bossed by
woman" For this reason the worI
of Miss Hattie r. Garrison may b
doubly hard at the. commencement o
her work.
Fifty-three marriages performed
last year and over half that man
this year. is the record made by Rev
II. Il. VanHorn of the Capitol Hill
Church of Christ, in Des Moines. Rev
VanHorn has broken previous rec
ords in the marrying business.
Nearly one hundred grain dealer
wore in attendance at the annua
meeting Of the Western Grain Dea
ers' association at Des Moines. TIL
opening session was given over large
ly TO hearing the reports OF Presiden
Tiedman and Secretary Wells.
Judge Henry Bank denied a wri
of habeas corpus in the case OF Ia
roy Ware, former cashier of tn
wrecked Farmers and Drovers ban
of Seymour, Ia, who recently was p;
rolled from the state ~peniteltiary.
George A. DeTar, a farmer of MOI
roe county, filed a petition in III
bankruptcy court listing his liabilitie
at S29,4G9.71. The petitioner owns tw
large farms in Monroe county value
at $32. 900, but incumbered to the e,
tent of $4,000.
Rattlesnakes can rattle in Pol
county and bite as much as the
please without any fear of INTERIM
ton by the Polk county supervisor
The board has decided not &c off
a bounty for the reptiles made poss
BILE under a new Quigley law. Cas-
will be paid for gophers and wolves
James ]. Hill, the railroad magnat
as well as Secretary of Agricultul
James Wilson will be present at IL
corn show to be held in Des Nome
Nov. 20 to Dec. IL at the Coliseur
If present plans materialize.
Auto dealers OF the state formt
an association at a meeting at Ma
shalltown attended by fifty delegate
from many Iowa cities.
With the memory of the terrib
tragedy which cost the lives Of h
father, mother and former husbar
growing less poignant day by da
4 Mrs. Calvin Littlepage of Des Moine
is slowly recovering from the effec
of that night and day of horror.
Edward Casey, a leading farmer
Johnson county, was kicked by a st;
|, lion and left unconscious in the bar
He managed, after recovering h
senses, go drag himself out in Il
r yard, and cried for help. 1t W