Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-11
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| IOWA NEWS


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Twenty-one persons were baptized
and united with the Baptist church
as result of protracted meeting
which has been in progress at Sidney
for the past three weeks.
Wholesale robbery from stock OF
goods placed in vacant building at
| Mason City was discovered and a
search OF several residences in the
part OF the city where the building
IS located rounded up dozen pair OF
ooots, as many shoes, several suits
OF clothes and other wearing apparel.
Inc goods had been stored in the
building pending sale.
To die within a few weeks of each
other after nearly fifty years OF
happy married life has been the lot
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Heilman. The
Wife succumbed to the ravages OF
cancer at the old home in McGregor
month ago, and a telegram an
| nounced the death of the husband at
Bozeman, Mont, where he had gone
TO spend his declining days with his
| daughter Mrs. Forrestel.
A woman's professional league has
| been organized in the state univer-
| sity at Iowa City consisting of all
| women taking work in the profess
slonal schools of the university. Miss
Gertrude Minthorn, medical 10, has
been elected president and Miss Imo-
The official board of the Iowa state
conference of charities and correc-
tons have announced that the next
annual conference will be held in
Davenport during the first week OF
| November.
The 8-months-old Jaby of MIR. and
( Mrs. w. w. Noblis of Charles City
sustained fractured skull, resulting
from fall from it's high chair. At
| first it was not supposed that any
serious injury had been inflicted by
the fall, but alarming symptoms APP
peared later and the fears of the par
ents were confirmed by the physician
when the child was taken to him.
Work has began ON the new hotel
| building to be erected at Mason City.
The building will be of brick, stone,
and cent blocks.
For a fall received on the station
platform at Merrill, Ebert L.
| Tooker in the district court has in
stituted a suit for $4,000 damages.
| Tooker was the agent for the Cow
man Lumber company at Merrill and
alleges fall which has permanently
| injured him was due to loose board.
Declaring they just could not live
| without each other, Charles Ryner
and Dollie Ryner, both of De Witt.
| went into a justice office and were
united in marriage. Several months
ago the couple were divorced in Clin-
ton county. The groom is Sc and
the bride 55 years of age.
The annual encampment of the G.
A. r. and w. R. c. will be held at
FIT. Dodge in June.
Earl w. Lindsay, the Prairie City
| telephone man convicted of criminal
assault has been sentenced to life
will appeal his case.
The first week in August has been
fixed as the time for the annual Iowa
State Fireman's tournament to De
held in Davenport this year.
Work on the new plant of the Ma
tional Refining Oil company at Iowa
, Falls will commence March Is. and
| the improvements will aggregate
over $4,000 The plant will consist
of four buildings, including two
story warehouse 60x30 feet, boiler
and engine house, a barn and wagon
shed The buildings are to be COM
| pleted by June Is.
A high honor has just been con-
| ferred on President l. F. Meyer of
the college at Iowa Falls in being
selected ~ deliver a series of lee
lures on educational subjects in H.
linois next summer. Mr.. Meyer was
formerly engaged in educational work
| in that state and is we'll known in
school and college circles over the
state.
Caught in the betting at the &C.
ment plant at Mason City, Fred Cur
tbs, an employe, was terribly bruised,
his coat which fortunately tore from
his person. being all that saved him
from death His shoulder and side
were torn and lacerated by contact
with the machine against which he
was hurled. Mr.. Curtis was in the
act Of oiling when the accident &C.
Cured
Phil Pickering, of Boone the oldest
engineer on the Northwestern rail
road, has been pensioned. He has
worked for the Chicago G. Northwes-
tern road continuously for forty-eight
years and is acknowledged to have
record of 100 per cent as an en-
gineer, entirely escaping accidents.
The Belmond Mutual Telephone
company has been sold by E. NJ.
Sheffield.
NJ. II. Miller. vice president and
general Lanager of the Sioux City
and Des Moines interurban road, is
in Sioux City acting with the en-.
gineers Of the indianapolis Constr: :
ton company, who have commenced
a survey of the new line.
Jimmie Reilly, the 13-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs Daniel Reilly, who
live on a farm seven miles west OF
McGregor, came near hanging himself
at his home. While playing alone on
the porch he placed his head in the
loop of a leather strap which hung
from the roof.
H. Z. Hall. bridge foreman for the
Northwestern, sustained broken leg