Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-04-22


sold for s4O1, to James Selden, con-
tractor.
The postoffice force of Webster City
have gathered up mail bags, books
and records, postage stamps, etc, and
moved over to the new quarters-the
handsome new federal building.
Burglars made raid on the treas
urer's office at the court house at Gen.
terville, getting few bills and silver
dollars. The small change was left.
One of the downstairs windows and
| another upstairs were found open.
The treasurer closed up his office and
safe last night on leaving, In the
last few months the clerks, auditors
and sheriff's Offices have also been
entered and in some cases money
| taken.
Arnold Sanders, of Alton who lacks
two months of completing his course
in high school, made application for
the principalship of the Tacoma
schools and has the notice of his
election in his pocket already, at a
comfortable salary. This is the only
instance where a high school gradu-
ate of the Alton school has been
elected to similar position without
a teaching experience.
While dragging the soil for seeding
near lie Mars, William Elliott found
souvenir of the days when the wild
deer and the red man roamed at will
! through the pleasant valleys along
Deep creek in Elgin township. 1t is
a well preserved stone tomahawk.
weighing about four pounds.
Muscatine's Commercial club has
! begun movement to form COM
pany with a capital of $4,000 which
will take over $50 lots Of the Park
! Place Improvement company in Park
Place, build 100 houses for working
men and sell these houses on easy
! terms. Many men have come to the
| city recently for employment and
| have been obliged to board and leave
their families in other cities, as there
were no houses for them.
| Martin Mease, of East Peru, aged
| 10, the son of a well known farmer,
was found dead in ditch under his
| dead horse. He had been missing
since Sunday night when he took a
| girl home from church.
| John Nelson was found dying on
! the road about two miles east of Blue
| Grass. He was found by Nissen &
! Hartwig. undertakes, who We're driv-
| ing to Blue Grass to attend funeral
He had a card on his person with
! Davenport, on it.
In an attempt to capture a giant
catfish which he discovered resting
at ease near the shore of the Musca-
tine slough, Frank Healy, II years
old, grabbed it by the gills, the fish
and was dragged 100 feet into the
! slough, where the water was over ten
| feet deep. His brother seeing his des-
| perate plight grabbed a Ratchet and
swan to his aid. With heavy blows
he stunned the great fish and the two
boys showed it to the shore. 1t
weighed 50 pounds.
A race war which seemed immi-
nent in the southern part of Des
| Moines county has been averted by
the action Of farmers in that locality,
in notifying farmer, named Frank
Smith to leave the country. He was
supplied with ticket to Kansas and
was very glad to escape so easily,
taking his 17-year-old daughter with
him. The trouble arose over the fact
that Smith, white man, had given
his consent to the marriage of his
17-year-ol daughter with George Gal
loway, negro.
Iowa has a strong antitrust law
The house took the senate at it's word
and passed the Sammis substitute to
the Kull bill, prohibiting combinations
in the sale of any article.
Lighting to be Improved.
Iowa's indeterminate sentence law
is being attacked as unconstitutional
in the case of Nelson Duff, who was
sentenced from DEBORAH for assisting
a prisoner to escape from the Winnie
sheik county jail
Disheartened because of an illness
since childhood, c. +. Stewart of Des
Moines committed suicide.
A few weeks ago Joachim Spalti.
of Pleasantville died. He was very
eccentric individual and during his
lifetime, collected a large storercom
full of relics. An auction sale of the
articles brought prices which collect
I iVnIy
on the building in which they were
stored. There were many rare curl,
os, coins, spinning wheels, swords and
musical instruments, many of them
100 years old.
The Grand Army posts of Des
Moines will observe May 81 as Mem
orial Day this year, as the usual date
falls on Sunday.
J. NJ. Wellburn, postoffice inspector
has been at Perry checking up the at
fairs of the Office and looking after
matters in relation to an extension OF
: the territory covered by the carriers
, For some time an accurate account OF
; the time put in by the carriers has
been kept and it is found that a little
!, more territory can be added to each
! of the routes, and an additional mum
Der OF families served
: Shannon City captured both first
and second prizes at the declamatory
, contest recently held in that city
: schools from several nearby cities and
, towns competing