Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
Iowa News


r. l.. Moeller, secretary OF the Y.
M. c. A, at Oskaloosa, has resigned
effective May 1, to enter other work.
The voters of Winterset met re-
CARELESS OF party and placed in nomi-
nation full citizens ticket. The call
for the caucus. was signed by the
republican and democratic members
OF the city committee, and the attend
I'ance was good. 1t Mas the first sue
cessful non-partisan caucus held in
Winterset for years.
Taking advantage of the ecstasy Of
farmer who for the first time in
his life was sousing himself in a
porcelain bath tub of nice warm wa
ter, daring thief secured S170 from
the vest of the bather at a Des Moines
hotel.
Buffalo is to have a bank of it's own
hereafter, the necessary organization
having been formed at a meeting OF
business men and farmers. 1t will be
a savings bank with $4,000 capital.
The officers are: President S. H.
Moorehead; vice president, John G..
butcher; directors, S. H. Moorehead,
John G. butcher, Joseph Metzger,
Edward Dougherty, Rudolph Schroe-
der, Charles Frank, ]. w. Walsh, F.
Bernick and Charles H. Dorman.
Rev. ]. Eldon Heeter has resigned
the passionate of the Pratt Creek
United Presbyterian church and will
take charge of the church at Aledo,
Ill.
| A new $4,000 pipe organ will soon
be ordered for the First Congrega-
tional church at Traer, Andrew
Carnegie having agreed to bear half
the expense.
L. F. Smith received the appoint
ment of justic Of peace from the sup
ervisors at New Hartford to fill the
vacancy by the death of D. L. Hurl-
but. Except for about six years,
when Mr.. Smith was sheriff of Butler
county, he held mis- Office for forty
years as justice Of the peace. He is
now 80 years old.
A detective from the Pinkerton
J detective agency was in Odebolt re-
Gently working on the Yaun murder
case and is the employ of the brothers
of Goodwin Yaun, who was murdered
in Odebolt on Sunday, Sept. Is, 1908.
An effort is being made by the detec-
tive to locate L. V. Daniels, who was
with Yaun on the day he was murd-
cred. A search has been made in the
east where it was supposed Daniels
would go, but the detective could find
no trace of his having been home
since the murder, but it was learned
, that he was some place in the west.
The Pinkerton man is en- route to the
a coast and stopped off here to look over
, the scene of the crime
Leland is going to have a sure
enough threshing machine factory
! The business men of the town have
donated acres of ground and a
thousand dollars in cash to the com
7 pany, winch is composed almost en-
? tirely of Winnebago county people
Altogether there are sixty-seven
stockholders.
The past winter has been a success
full one for trappers near Cascade
and one local hide dealer has pur-
chased as high as $1,000 worth of
furs in week from local trappers.
!, A combination baggage, mail and
smoking car was overturned and five
passengers hurt in a Northwestern
wreck near Blue Earth. One mail
q sack was consumed by a fire which
q started by the wrecked engine.
: The Iowa senate adopted the report
( of the claims committee and passed
: Senator Dowell's bill appropriating
$1,250 for Thomas H. Rattenbury, an
l. employee of the state, who was in
g jured while working at the tubercu'
losis sanitarium in Oakdale.
: Six passed perfect the examinations
+ in the corn school at the recent short
y course at Correctionyille and the $25
> prize for best scholarship has been
divided accordingly.
!, Judge C. E. Ransier at Waterloo
has sustained a motion for a new
trial in the case of the Hubbard ad
| dSdiuoI Tue 1OWd oIdlC
Travelling Mems association, in which
= a jury some time since returned a
L verdict for $4,000 in favor of the
plaintiff on an accident policy.
o Obed S. Johnson a former Fort
G Dodge boy, and now an assistant
q Methodist Congregational pastor at
I. Oberlin. Ohio, has been appointed to
h assume charge of the missions OF the
o entire Congrega--o nal church in South
China and will leave April l to sal!
q for the Occiuent.
d Mrs. B. F. Carroll, wife of the gov
!, ernor, was chosen president of the
r. Iowa Legislative Ladies' League, at a
n meeting of the wives of the legisla
tors in the historical building. Twen
r. ty-five women signed the new consti
4 tuition which was presented and which
8 makes the wives of Legislators and OF
n state officers eligible as active mem
e bers. committee to select pins
was named.
= April 12 is the date considered by
u the school board on which to hold a
e special election to find out whether
o or not the taxpayers and voters OF
Eldora want to build new $4,000
e school building at Oleson park.
Theodore Mueller, a resident OF
Whittemore had boiled down a big
kettle of lard and was removing il
from the kettle with dipper. An ex
plosion occurred just at the time when
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