Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-11-18

meeting at Iowa City elected to mem
bership number Of prominent citi-
zens. Among the number are Justice
Horace f. Deemer of the supreme
court and Attorney General III. w.
Byers. The other elections were
Hon. J. s. Clarkson, of New York
City; Dean w. G. Raymond, Of the
college OF engineering, Iowa City;
Prof. C. E. Seashore Iowa City; Hon.
| E. ID. Chassell, Des Moines; Mayor
Ralph Otto of Iowa City; e. FL. Grove,
Clarion; Raymond B. Leland, Cedar
Falls, and G. F. Huebner, Jr., Iowa
| City.
| A gigantic negro entered the Bur-
lington depot and at the point of a
| pistol held up Earl German and Fred
| Mickey night men at the depot while
! he broke the cash box with Ratchet
| and took the contents, at the same
time compelling the men to hand
over all the money in their pockets.
He marched them up the track a
block and told them to return and not
look back. The holdup man is be-
lieved to be the same who robbed
places at C..nton, West Liberty rid
Belle PLANE during the past three
weeks.
'ln the hearts of some the flame OF
love never dies until the breath OF
life is gone" SO said S4-year.old
Adam Witcik, Of Sioux City, when he
appeared at the county clerks office
with Mrs. Margaret Mahoney, aged
65, and demanded marriage license.
ITS all joke" he said, "about old
felix's not having any reason for get
ting married We can love just like
other people, Then he tucked his
license in his breast pocket and he
and his "best girl" as he called her,
left the court house arm in arm.
Amos Hannah has left with the
Madrid Historical society, the bowl
Of pipe which has BRASS label up
on 1t On which is inscribed the date
1776. This he found On his farm in
Garden township over twenty years
ago. Just above the brass label is a
small brad which shows that another
label was placed upon the pipe at the
time it was made. This has either the
name of the factory where it was
made, or the name of it's original
owner. The pipe was made of wood
Trapping one muskrat, the hide of
which was found upon his person,
cost Frank Smith, farmer near
Doueherty, $50 in a fine imposed by
local justice for violation of the
game laws of the state. Smith was
arrested some days ago and though
he was known to have violated the
law in several instances, he agreed
to plead guilty to one count as the
officers had knowledge OF that when
he was caught, if the others would
be dismissed.
Mrs. Kate Yunker died at Mercy
hospital in Des Moines as a result
Of burns received when her clothing
caught fire from a bonfire back of
her residence. Her skirts were ignit-
ed as she beat threatening sparks
from the clothing of her nine-year-old
son, Michael, her clothes being COM
pletely burned from her body. In
ternal burns caused death after two
ceived slight burns on the hands.
The Boone police claim to have
solved murder mystery of three
years standing by the arrest of John
Mcfarland, bartender charged with
the murder of Edward J. Morse, who
was found dying under the Honey
creek bridge April 26, 1906. The mo.
tive is not clear but is supposed to
have been jealousy. Mcfarland plead
not guilty and was remanded to Jail.
The Police claim to have the best of
evidence.
Practically all the houses of the
city OF Harlan have now been num-
bered and the postoffice inspector has
been notified that such is the case,
and he is expected in Harlan to look
the town over and make his report
as to the installation Of free city
delivery of mall which it is expected
he will recommend to the department.
and it will probably not be very long
until the service will be established.
A motion for new trial has been
filed by plaintiff in the case of
Charles Mccarthy VS.. Ferdinand Butz-
laff at Allison This is the famous
deg case from Greene. At the recent
trial the decision was against Nc
Carthy, and in his petition for re-
hearing he makes some rather SEN
sational charges against defendant
and members of the jury.
ing new variety of corn 1t is a
white corn and was produced by mix
ing several different varieties. He has
interbred and crossed the different
kinds until he has a variety which
he calls the Fisher white. 1t natures
about ten days earlier than the ordi-
nary white corn. He has also propa.
gated variety of yellow corn.
With an increase Of 20 per cent in
salaries, yet famine of teachers in
the rural schools of Wright county
Confron1s the school officials. With
winter terms at hand, a number of
schools are without teachers and no
prospect of the vacancies being filled.
Many big cities are getting ready
to campaign for the National Hor-
ticultural congress which Council
Bluffs now has. The annual meeting
will he held November 20 and Coun-
CT Bluffs is working hard to secure
enough votes to retain the big show.
f. The deed by gift by John McCul-
Tough of Winfield, giving $50 acres
of rich Iowa land to the Winfield
United Presbyterian church, was set
aside in a decision handed down by