Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-05-27
Iowa News
NEWsY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
ALL PARTS OF THE STATE.

| The secretary OF the Ida Grove Com
mercial club has received letter
from Robt II. Baldwin, Chicago en-
| gineer, asking for complete informa-
ton in regard to the freight and pas
senger business of this town. He is
locating engineer for the proposed
Sioux City, Climbing Hill and Ida
Grove Electric railroad, line propos-
ed by the farmers OF eastern Wood
bury county, and he seems to be GER
tain of results. This project is con-
nected in no way with the Des Moines
& Sioux City road.
John s. Flanagan, pioneer shoe
man, is dead at his home in Iowa City,
where he lived just forty-four years
the current month. He was in his
eighty-sixth year.
Leon wants new Burlington de-
| pot, and her method of getting 1t is
to present the matter to the Iowa
| railroad commissioners. In his for
NAL petition City Attorney Senator
! Stookey complains that the present
! station is seven-eighths of mile from
| town; that the road from town is inn
| passable in bad weather; that the
station is poorly lighted and capable
OF seating only thirty-five persons, al
though the population of the district
which it serves is from 1000 to TO-
900.
Taxidermist Homer r. Dill at Iowa
City has just received another lions
skin. The skin of this mountain crea-
ture measures almost eight feet from
ed to the group of lioness and two
cubs which Mr.. Dill has planned for
the university museum William A.
| Mackay, the noted scenic artist, who
will accompany the Laysan island ex-
petition next spring, has consented
to paint a background for the group.
The merchants and the mayor at
Marengo are in controversy over
removing the chain from around the
court house square. The former OBJ
! ject.
A thug attempted to hold up prom
inent Perry society woman on her
way home from a Rebekah lodge
meeting, but she used her umbrella
and voice to advantage and the brute
fed. e.
! The body of Joseph Hutterer, who
disappeared at Sioux City, was seen
floating down the river. 1t is the
general impression that thugs watch
ed Mr.. Hutterer and waylaid him after
he had made his collections, and that
after Eillinn him fhn,y thrnu tho hndU
into the river to lead the public to
believe that the cigar manufacturer
had committed suicide.
The Creston water works company
is spending $4,000 on improvements.
Duncan Mcmillan has brought to
DEBORAH another promising youngster
who will train for the wrestling game.
He is Ralph Herdman, a husky look
ing chap weighing 200 pounds, and
has had some experience with the
game. Herdman will stay their a few
weeks, at least, under McMillan's care
and take on some matches in the near
, future, as will Bucknell
|, Someone bored inch holes into
, twenty-four beautiful shade and fruit
trees at Sibley and filed the holes
with muriatic acid. 1t is thought that
the entire lot of trees are destroyed.
There is talk of offering $1,000 re-
! ward for the arrest and conviction of
the perpetrator of this crime, the
amount being raised by subscription.
The fourteenth annual contest of the
Northwest Iowa Oratorical associa-
ton will take place at Sac City, Fri
day, May 81. The schools participant
ing are Buena Vista college, Storm
Lake; Western Union college, LIE
Mars; Denison Normal school and
: Sac City institute.
F. J. Frost, George l.. Frost, C. E
Thomas, Theo. Souers, Morris, Merritt
> w. E. Morrison, Philip Leibsohn and
others are planning a new bank at
. Grundy Center.
Will Knickerbocker and Oscar Mel
son of New London found a wolf
caught in the barb wire fence on the
formers farm and they shot it and
brought it to town. 1t was black
timber wolf, very uncommon in this
country and many people went to see
it, The men sent 1t to Mt. Pleasant
Prof. Forest G. Ensign, the state
high school Inspector, well known pro
:, lessor of education in the University
: of Iowa, will not accept the presidency
Of the Buena Vista college at Storm
:, Lake, according to a statement made
;. by him. He definitely announced that
y he would remain with the University
of Iowa next year.
> The body of Joseph Hutterer oil
!. Sioux City, a wealthy cigar manufac
"a turer, who committed suicide by
g drowning, because of the heavy loss
es he sustained in Patterns wheat cor
a ner, was found in the Big Sioux rive,
=. by the police after five days search
The Farmers Cooperative Grair
~ and Lumber association of Kenset
9 has closed up it's affairs. A payment
OF 33 cents on the dollar was made
e J. F. Bebb will build fourteen
e. room addition to the Nevada hotel.
e While a funeral was being held il
church at Cresco a blast was Sc
d off in sewer nearby and rock hi
]. Linderman on the head, fatally in
N juring him.
% Miss Edith Holmes of Paullina il
- at Sioux City trying to find a maj
81 she wants to marry with whom sh,
corresponded through matrimonial
le agency. She is only 16 and her fathe
- is trying to find her.
:, Governor and Mrs. Carroll wer
= pnnsts of Simpson college at Indian