Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-07-29

OMana enthusiasts In a
bling the Glidden tourists from the
latter, are now planning a state car
nival with automobiles as the central
figure.
Because of the part Senator Doili'
yer has taken in the fight for the
consumer In the present session OF
congress-, business men of FIT. Dodge
are making arrangements for a giant
reception for the senior Iowa senator
when he returns to the city at the
end of the session.
The value of real and personal
property of the citizens of Iowa is
50, 445,45S.9 61, according to a report
just completed in the office of the au-
ditor of state. The value of lands
and town lots is placed at $1,941,S 42,.
52S and of personal property $504,-
002, 1923.
John Whiting, the 6-year-old son OF
James II. Whiting, Of Mt. Pleasant,
was operated on to secure relief from
a Chautauqua button which he acct
dentally swallowed several days ago.
Unofficial endorsement of the pre-
liminary plans and specifications for
Des Moines' new $350,000 city hall
was given by each of the five city
commissioners.
With a loud report the bottom fell
out of a deep well at Oelwein and the
well is now as dry as a bone, where
as before it had twenty feet of wa
ter in it. The phenomenon is the
s%trangest ever heard of IN this part
of the state. The we'll is on the farm
of Ed. insolvency. 1t is 100 feet
deep, and when the hired man went
to get some water for the house he
found the water too roilly to use.
While he stood contemplating the un-
usual condition of the water he heard
a muffied report at his feet, and the
water disappeared, leaving the bottom
of the well perfectly dry.
William B. Mckinley will spend
$4,000 On new tracks, new cars and
better service if he takes over the
Des Moines City Railway company.
He announced this when he was speed
ing we the city lines and the inter-
urban in a tour of inspection.
Wholesale graft and mulcting Of
foreign labor was charged by the ar
rest of George Chichis, a Greek In
terpreter and leader in the colony at
Mason City, who is charged with TAX
ing money from each of the Greek
laborers who ecu jobs at the plant
| and tn pnnfinnn tn droU rnunnnn from
them as long as they remain. The
arrest of Chichis was brought about
by Labor Commissioner Van Duyn of
Des Moines.
Miss Louise Green, special agent
for Mrs. Russell Sage of New York,
was in Dubuque investigating the
park life" plan of Prof. B. j. Hors-
hem of the Audubon school, a scheme
for manual training of students. FL
nancial aid is expected, as the woman
was. highly impressed with the work.
Mrs. Sage has set aside $4,000, 900
for betterment of educational condi.
tons. Miss Green left for Ames,
where she makes similar inspection of
the state college.
George Nj. Bechtol & Co., Dayen-
port bond buyers, have written Secre-
tary Hayward, Superintendent Riggs
and others at Davenport, asking how
any Iowa school district can incur
debt for school houses under chapter
154, act of the Thirty-third general
assembly, which repeats section 1920,
and provides only for cities of $500
population or more.
Death by freezing with the temper.
ature registering near the century
mark, was almost the fate of John II,
Miller, a meat man of Farragut, who
got locked up in his refrigerator &C,
c~identally.
Fred Benson, of Des Moines, who
was paroled from the Fort Madison
p~enitentiary after serving a part of q
sentence on conviction of grand lar
ceny, has been given a lull pardon
by Governor Carroll. .
With $40 which he had stolen from
Albert Anderson, a prisoner in the
: Des Moines city jail, William Mason
/ paid his fine and escaped before An
derson discovered his loss and notified
, Jailer Cross.
= Mrs. Nate Wertman died at me-
home in Greenfield at the age Of q
I years. She has been a resident o
, that part of the country for nearl!
thirty years.
( The Iowa Hardware Dealers assoc
iation will hold their annual pioni'
this year at Mason City and Clea
Lake ON August IL and 13. August 1.
will be the occasion of the ball game
\ between the dealers and the sales
mel and on the thirteenth will be
n picnic proper at Clear Lake with
r dinner and a program of sports.
s The organization of a farmers ele
e vator company in Grinnell is now
e settled fact as the necessary stool
4 has been subscribed.
But a few hours after the death o
his father, DR.. ]. M. Emmert, o. Al
e lvDtic, the state board of health pass
ed upon the certificate of Max w. En-
mort, giving the son the right to prac
tice medicine in the State of lowe.
a The Peoples Savings bank of Gal
d risen, Benton county filed articles O
e Incorporation with the secretary @
state. The capital stock is $4,000.
Rock Island freight rates into De
x Moines from the Mississippi river o
freight east of the Indiana-Illinois lin
have heen reduced from 10 In az l.