Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-04
IOWA NEWS


girls to questionable resort and
VIII receive term in the penitent-
larry.
Pleading guilty to the charge Of as
sault with intent to do great bodily
injury, John Heisler, living near
Parkersburg in north Grundy county.
was fined $500 and costs.
Eugene Vader, an employe of the
Wabash railroad at Council Bluffs
was drowned while fishing through a
hole in the ice in the Missouri river.
The Ice gave way beneath Vader.
According to Iowa Central officials
at Mason City that road will soon in
augurate a fast train service along
the entire line and thus increase
mail facilities and passenger service
In test case brought by c. M.
Borgess. at Oskaloosa the court
found that the ordinance recently
passed by the city in regard TO milk
inspection was valid and fined Bog
CESS $25 for not complying with the
law.
To rent ten acres of best farming
land near Sioux City for an expert
mental station is the proposition be-
fore the board of supervisors Of
Woodbury. county.
The third week in March has been
set aside for the inauguration Of a
war upon tuberculosis In Mason City
under the direction and management
OF DR.. e. A. Kepford of the state
board of health.
A broken side rod on. his engine
shattered the cab and broke the arm
in two places of Engineer Maurice
Henefin of the Milwaukee at Mason
City besides breaking some bones In
his face and bruising his body.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Haven OF Nora
Springs recently celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary by a
family reunion of two days duration,
at which there were relatives from all
parts of the state.
The Palisades on the Cedar, one
OF the most popular summer resorts
in eastern Iowa, has been leased by
Messrs. Rhea and Merle West, two
Mount Vernon boys, for the coming
season. The new proprietors take
possession March 1.
A. w. Boyce, a wealthy Manson
bachelor and hermit, died at Mercy
hospital at Fort Dodge. Death is at
tributed to self-neglect. He was
about 40 years of age and resided
many years in shack in apparent
extreme poverty, though he Is believ-
ed to have $4,000. ..
With the exception of the Denver
club which will go to Kansas City
for series of games with white
Mings" Tebeau's Blues, the Sioux
City Packers will be the only West
ern league aggregation to go to the
south for a spring training trip la
big league style
The c. B. e. @. recently cut their
ad out of several local papers on
their line, Van Vert to Shenandoah,
because the editors found SO much
fault with the passenger service at
the time when there was SO much
agitation last fall about more and bet
ter train service on this branch.
Wayne Cecilia, the 9-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe III.
Twedt of Nevada died with spinal
meningitis and the other members
of the family have been exposed to
the disease; however, it has not de-
veloped on any of them as yet. No
public funeral was held and strict
quarantine is kept on the place.
After railroading continuously for
forty-four years, thirty-nine years of
which have been spent as an engineer
On the Iowa Central, "Mose" Arquette.
without doubt the best known rail-
road man in Iowa, was retired at
Marshalltown on a pension of $50 per
month. incidentally Arquette is the
first man ever pensioned by the Iowa
Central.
A petition is being circulated and
is already signed by majority of
the the voters of Rockwell City asking
the school board to call an election
for the purpose of voting at tax of
two and one-half mills on the dollar
Of actual value of property in the
district to be used in the construction
of new high school building
Elmer e. Hills of Sidney, has been
elected president of the senior class
of the State University of Nebraska
Hills is six year law student and
has been prominent in various col
lege activities as president of the Y.
NJ C. A. managing editor of the
Cornhusker, the college annual and
president of the Pallactian Literary
society.
John Buchanan, who while ON the
witness stand in the district court at
Newton had a stroke of apoplexy, is
still unconscious. He is prominent
and a retired farmer, aged &C. He
did not appear to be excited during
direct examination. He was giving
description, when his voice faltered.
and when told by the court he could
be exposed appeared to be semi-con-
scious. He was carried into the
judges private Office and a physician
was called.
Fifty physicians of the district be.
tween Ottumwa and Omaha held
meeting at Creston 1t being the conven-
ton of the Southwestern Iowa Medical
association and discussed matters per.
tanning to their profession.
A committee has been appointed by
the city council at Colfax to report
upon the plans, location and probable
cost of new city hall, fire house
and opera house which, If approved,
will be submitted to a vote of the
people to levy tax for the same.
Colfax greatly needs this improve