Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-19


company at Marshalltown, causing a
loss of $4,000. The elevator had a
capacity of $4,000 bushels and much
old grain was In the buildings at the
time of the fire. The insurance is
$1,000. The company will rebuild.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
Jesse Collins, farmer near Knox.
Vile, cut his throat with pocket
knife. The windpipe was severed and
It is thought that he cannot recover.
He is 80 years of age and married.
The Elk's lodge of Perry will soon
have modern up-to-date home in the
Kerns block
The quality Of oats in Hancock
county is said to be the best this
year in several years.
John Blake has sold his 160-acre
farm near Cumberland to George
Strater for $40 per acre.
Jacob Ramundt has sold his farm
Of 100 acres, four miles southeast of
Reinbeck, for $145.25 per acre.
The Iowa state chess association
will hold its annual tournament at
Blairstown, Aug. 81 and Sept. /.
Alfred J. Hill has been appointed
rural letter carrier and Levi Gustaf-
son, substitute, at New Hampton.
Shenandoah citizens have propos-
al from party in Omaha for the erec-
ton of a $4,000 hotel building there
this year which would be thoroughly
modern. The site the promoters de-
sire is that now owned by the Elks
lodge, and on which they expect to
erect their $4,000 lodge building this
year, corner of Thomas avenue and
Elm street.
A piece of English copper money
about the size of one of our quarters,
and bearing the date of 1924, was
found by the 3-year-old son of A. A..
Leverton of Steamboat Rock, while
digging in the garden. The coin is
now 1856 years old and was minted
several years before money was made
4 in the United States. The engraving
is of man wearing helmet and
above the helmet appears the name
George" 1t seems strange that the
coin is in such perfect condition after
remaining for so long in the ground.
1t is probable that the Indians lost
the coin years ago.
Mrs. r. j. Pierce, a prominent resi-
dent of Ida Grove for thirty years,
died at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Ed. G. Bowman. Mr.. and Mrs.
Pierce celebrated their sixty-second
wedding anniversary last January, and
she is survived by the husband, two
daughters, Mrs. Bowman and Mrs. A.
c. Fish of Ida Grove, and a son, Her
bert Pierce, of Rock Rapids, Ia, who
is now travelling in Switzerland.
William p. Sharp, "a years Of age,
resident of Ottumwa for more than
| fifty years, is dead. He was promi-
nent Odd Fellow, being grand master
of the state at one time, also grand
patriarch and grand representative.
The two big cannons presented to
FIT. Madison by the government have
arrived at that place. One of them,
when the time comes, will be placed
at the Memorial monument, and the
other by the side of the steel flag staff
in Riverview park.
The corner stone of the new st. Boni-
face church at Pennington, Ia, will
be laid on Sunday, August %. The
Knights of Columbus of Keokuk and
also the Hibernians will attend in a
body. The sermon will be preached
by Rev. FIR. NJ. J. Foley of st. Peters
! nhtrrnh npinny Eofhnr TrnNy ic tQronf-
ing the church.
Five hundred farmers of Iowa are
cooperating with Professors Curtiss
and Crossley of the state college at
Ames toward the preparation Of the
most interesting educational exhibit
for farmers ever shown at the state
fair.
Glidden tourists who recently COM
pleted their nerve racking endurance
run from Detroit to Kansas City by
way of Denver, were accorded royal
treatment at every stopping point all
along the route, according to little
"Pete" Snyder, the man who has the
reputation of driving the only two
cylinder car through to the finish.
A meeting of the irremovable rec
tors of the archdiocese has been call
ed by Archbishop Keane to hold a
session in Dubuque at the archepis-
copal residence on August IS, when
names will be suggested for CO.
adjutorship.
Rev. VIM. D. Venable, pastor of the
Colored Baptist church at Keokuk,
has been acquitted of the charge of
embezzlement of the church funds.
Iowa's harvest is almost finished,
is all finished in the southern part OF
the state with the exception Of some
belated haying, and the indications
are that the crop of oats will be larg.
er than could be expected from the
season. In the northern part of the
state the yield will be poorer, and the
quality will not be as good. Farmers
who are conversant with the situation
believe the crop cut will average forty
bushels an acre, but there will be a
large amount of waste in the fields
) which the harvesters were not able
to enter. The hay crop which is one
of the largest the state ever produced
has been we'll taken care OF in the
good weather of the past two weeks
most of the tame hay being in the
stack or NOW at the present time.
Henry Taylor was instantly killed
when he rode his bicycle into team
turning at street corner at Cedar
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