Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-07-15
Iowa Brevittes
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
ALL PARTS OF THE STATE.

NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
ALL PARTS OF THE STATE.
Upon the application OF John r.
Dobbins the amount of the bonds in
the two cases pending against him in
relation with the Mabray cases, on a
specific charge of a conspiracy to
swindle T. W. Ballew of Princeton,
Mo-, out of 100000, was reduced from
$1,000 to $4,000.
The First Baptist church of Mar
shalltown has decided to spend $20,.
600 in remodeling and during the
ent building entirely, changing it SO
that it will scarcely be recognized
as the same edifice.
Serious and perhaps fatal injuries
to a Des Moines automobile party
consisting of Mrs. James g: Be Tyhill,
the Rev. Miss Gertrude Won Petzold,
acting pastor of the First Unitarian
church, and DR.. Adele Fuchs, instruc-
tor in German at West High school,
were averted only by the poor aim
Of the mfscreant who threw a lighted
dynamite cracker into the machine in
which they were riding.
Friendship dating from his child
hood in Henry county is behind an
application to Gov. B. F. Carroll by
Attorney Jerry b. Sullivan CT Des
Moines for the release from Anamosa
of Mrs. Annie Myers, who set fire to
her steDdaughter's house near Win
field about a year ago and was SEN
fenced to serve a long term in prison.
Extensive coal fields near Ankeny
have been discovered by Des Moines
coal dealers, who for several weeks
have been quietly drilling in the vicin-
ity. Good coal has been found at a
depth of 300 feet, which is twice the
usual depth.
1t has been learned that the story
sent out from Boston that Stuart
Davis of Des Moines was one of the
Amhurst students who demonstrated
that it is possible to live on 81 a
month is incorrect. Mr.. Davis has not
been a student at Amherst for a year
"AN 10 nv" LioilhS Lis loLiC III 4NS"
Mexico. His friends in Des Moines
say there is nothing to the story.
A professional sea diver, l.. c. Wait
of Detroit, Mich, has been employed
by the relatives of Donald Ray, the
young man drowned in the Raccoon
river, to o the body. The po-
lice department has exhausted all ef-
forts in a fruitless search and given
up hope.
Following the decision by Attorney
General Byers, that the payment of
the cigarette mulct tax of $500 a year
does no give protection to the deal
er, does not even give him the right
to sell the pills, the cigarette men
have banded together, and will make
an attempt to collect from the state
the money they have paid in in the
last five years.
Officers of the Iowa State Fair as
sociation will ask Iowa's representa-
tives in congress and her state Off
Gals to be present on the same day
at the state fair this fall and meet
the people at 4 monster reception.
Invitations will be sent to Senators
Dolliver and Cummins, each of the
eleven representatives, Governor Car.
roll, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
and many others.
That the railroads of Iowa had lost
six millions because of the constant
reduction in freight rates by the Iowa
railroad commission during the past
year was the statement made by
James c. Davis, Iowa counsel for the
Chicago and Northwestern railroad in
his opening statement at the rehear-
lag of freight rates before the state
railroad commission.
The annual meeting of the Cha slber-
lain-Harrington company, controlling
nearly forty theaters in Illinois and
Missouri, was held at Burlington
with all the leading officers and rep
resentatives present.
Principals in a triple wedding at
Des Moines were Eugene S. Frye and
Lena E. Hardin, Arno L. Hardin and
Ethel F. Mabbitt and Clyde C. Arm
strong and Vina Robbins. They are
all from Redield.
The Iowa state fair may include a
seed, grain and roadmaking exhibit
from the department of agriculture al
Washington in connection with the
other features according to Secretary
Simpson. Mr.. Simpson received word
that the Minnesota state fair has ar
ranged with Secretary Wilson for this
display and for an exhibit of the manu-.
~facture of denatured alcohol as we'll
1t is his belief that the first three
items would form an interesting ex-
hibit, but he does not favor the de-
natured alcohol display.
Another group of capitalists, located
in the east, is now asking for a Boone
franchise with a view to purchase of
the Reynolds Electric property.
George Baker, convicted of man
slaughter and sentenced for eight
years for the killing of Claude Grice
at Red Oak, Iowa, will serve out his
sentence, as the supreme court affirm
ed the verdict of the lower cour, in
an opinion written by Judge McClain.
The extension of the Council Bluffs
& Omaha Street Railway company's
lines to the school for the deaf, nov
about completed, will run for a short
distance over the historic Lewis G.
Clark road.
The council Of Mason City has let
the contract for q mile Of cement
paving.