Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-11-25

organization was perfected to be
known as the Wapello Poultry and
Corn association. Officers for the en-
suing year were elected. Rev. w. ].
Gerlach being selected as president;
Ed b. Cook, vice president; J. A.
Bigger, secretary and ]. ID. Delhi.
treasurer. Directors of the poultry
department: H. b. Kelly. Rev. f. J.
Sternberg and Dale Kremer. Direc.
tors Of the corn department: John
Foster Elmer Shipman and Walter
Morris. 1t is the intention of this
association to hold show sometime
in January IL suitable date and
| room can be secured.
| The announcement that Miss Lois
| Wisner of Eldora, who becomes Of
| age this fall and who comes into the
| possession of quarter of a million
| of dollars in her own right on attain
ing her majority, has given DR.. N. w.
Emery, friend of the family, power
| of attorney without bonds to settle
with her guardians, j. d. Newcomer
| and L. W. Harris, Is received with in
terest in Eldora. Miss Wisner is the
| daughter of Geo. w. Wisner and
granddaughter of Lyman F. Wisner
both deceased and comes into a for
tune by virtue of the inheritance of
the Wisner fortunes.
Roy Coppersmith has filed petit
ton in the district court at New
ton against the Fort Dodge, Des
Moines & Southern Railroad company,
asking $4,000 damages for the
death of his father, caused by the
failure o fthe defendant company
to construct and maintain good,
sufficient and safe crossing at the
intersection of the railroad and the
| public highway Immediately west of
the corporate limits of the city of
| Newton. The death occurred on Au-
The citizens of Mondamin and vi
| entity are of the opinion that the re-
mains of a man found on sand bar
| on the Nebraska side of the Missouri
| river a few days ago are those of one
| Of the booze crew who were doing
business in boat when it overturn-
| ed last summer up the Missouri river
from Mondamin. The jawbone of the
skeleton Is deformed. This cores
ponds exactly with the description of
one man on the booze boat.
Iva Brock, a farm hand on the
| Meckley farm four miles southeast
of Clofax, has beaten all records here
at orcn husking. One day he husked
and cribbed 147 bushels in ten
| hn will forfeit
500 to any man in Iowa who will
defeat him in an old fashioned con-
| test.
| Raymond Miller, of Madrid, school
teacher at Moingona, was killed by a
train at Boone. Stepping off the train,
carrying a suitcase full of books
while the train was yet in motion
the weight of the case threw him
upon the opposite tracks. His head
struck on the sharp corner of tie
The boy was killed instantly.
Important resolutions were intro
duced at the convention of the Ma
tional Grange in session at Des
Moines. One of these provided for reg
ulation of express companies by the
interstate commerce commission and
another asked for government ap
preparations for extension work in
several colleges of agriculture.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. III. Coldren, OF
Clarksville, celebrated their COLDER
wedding day by entertaining a com
pany of thirty relatives and old
friends and serving most stump
tuous wedding feast Their son, Ed
OF Hampton and Mrs. Coldron's broth
er, w. M. Coldren of Brodhead, Wis.
were out of town guests
The sheriff of Fremont county has
horse and saddle and is looking
for the owner. Sidney Pitt Sr., 9
farmer on returning home late at
night saw man running away from
his hen house. The man escaped but
the horse tied nearby was never call
ed for and later was turned over tC
the sheriff.
Sheriff Hamilton of Carroll, has
succeeded in learning that the auto
mobile causing the accident which oc
Cured between Carroll and Glidden
In which Miss Beatrice Boothe of the
former place was possibly crippled
for life, was the property of Milo
Slife of Dedham.
Mrs. NJ. Sorenson, of near ELI
Horn, died at the Atlantic hospital
She had been i'll since Nov. s and
lad been at the hospital since that
time. She underwent an operation
but had not the strength to rally
deaf hbeing due to hemorrhage OF
the stomach.
Goldie B. Martin, a mere slip of a
girl, not over 20 years old, was ar
raigned in district court at Des
Moines. on a charge in an indictment
of bigamy. 1t is claimed she married
two men within two months without
the fomality of a divorce.
The first annual convention of the
National Gasoline and Gas associa
ton will be held in Des Moines Jan
IL and ~. About 200 delegates from
Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and
South Dakota. Nebraska and Kansas
will be In attendance.
Joe Daniels, Ed Kelley and John
Hendershott escaped from the reform
atory at Anamosa. They sawed the
bars in place where there was nc
wall, so they were outside all inclos
ures. They were in the insane depart
ment.
Mayor Schunk of Dubuque, has been
appointed member of the committee
of 800 which is to present the reso
lutions asking for waterway improve