Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28

Shenandoah Is preparing to put
down large amount of paving the
coming season.
Robbers entered the hardware store
of George w. .Ritchey in Council
Bluffs, and took S54.
Thurston Potter OF Burlington,
charged with running his own sister,
has been cleared.
The citizens ticket at Ottumwa,
has lost strength and been absorbed
by the republican party.
sensation at Cascade was explod-
| ed when Theodore Weber, who dis
appeared, was found healthy and hard
at work near Farley.
Sioux City may secure an addition
al factory to her growing list in the
company of the Great Western Novel
ty concern. This concern has CAPT
talization Of 100000.
Humboldt's new $1,000 r grade
school building has been finished and
the teachers and pupils have moved
in. The building is of white limestone
trimmed with Kesota red sandstone
and is very attractive in appearance.
The safe of the Martin Furniture
and Carpet company of Ottumwa,
was opened by burglars and robbed
of S25. The burglars escaped the pol
ice by running over the roofs of
buildings and down fire escape.
Harry Fletcher, aged %, of Eagle
| Grove, is dead from blood poisoning.
| His hand caught in a corn shelter and
arm was so badly mutilated that it
had to be taken off. Blood poisoning
set in and he died in terrible agony.
Fire which broke out in the build
ings owned by S. S. Standby on the
north side of the public square in
| Bloomfield damaged the building to
the extent of $1,000. The building
was occupied by w. Fl. Leon meat
market
Judge Burt of Floyd county, one of
the well known lawyers and ex-judges
of this district, has been critically
i'll at Long Beach, Fla, where he is
spending the winter, but is some
improved at this time. The physi-
clans think that if he is able to be
much in the open air he will prac-
tically recover.
Isaac Porter, aged 81, and his wife,
aged 60, are dead of pneumonia. Mr..
Porter died on the farm near Van
dalia and Mrs. Porter within few
hours of each other. Mr.. Porter was
formerly county supervisor and
|
of the richest men in this section.
Melvin Rock, aged IS, a delivery
boy of West Liberty, was blown up
in an explosion of gasoline, and badly
burned; his sight, and even life were
imperiled; the gasoline house in
which the fluid was stored was burn
ed, as were it's contents, and other
property was in danger.
DR.. ]. d. Miller, former city physi-
clan Of Des Moines, VINO retired from
that place at the time he was shot by
M. E. Davis, has been appointed gov.
ernOr colonel of the G. A. r. sani'
tarum at Hot Springs, S. d. The
position carries a salary of $4,000 a
year.
William Giffrow, a we'll known far
mer of LeMars, reputed to be worth
between $4,000 and 100000, was
held to the grand jury at prelimin'
airy hearing. A neighbor, Henry Muth,
charges Giffrow with having taken
ten shoats. The shoats, Muth claims,
were found in Giffrow's yard.
While lighting her pipe in prepare
ton for a morning smoke which she
had been accustomed to for numer'
Gus years past, Mrs. Cynthia Croft
over 70 years old, ignited her dress
and before aid could be received was
burned to death at the home Of her
daughter, ten miles west of Bloom
field.
Twenty-Five people, all guests at the
January dinner of the Highview club
OF Marshalltown, were made violently
i'll by eating chicken served with hot
biscuits. The sudden illness came
about shortly after the meal was eat
en-, and for time some of the guest.
were very sick. The Illness passed
away in a short time, and no bad re
suits were experienced.
| A Jail delivery was narrowly avert
J ed at West Union when one of the
| prisoners hiding behind bench stolt
l out in the middle of the night ant
: began saving his way to libert!
through one of the Jail windows. HI
was heard by the night watchmal
, who caught him just in time to pre-
. vent his escape. AS it was he hal
q sawed one bar clear through and wa
t starting on second.
g At the annual meeting Of the Sprin
: Branch Creamery company at Man
y chester held a few days ago, tn
0 election of officers occurred and tn
n report for the past year pas
sed upon. This report shows tina
v 3,O14,967 pounds of milk were re
: ceived during the fiscal year, s;
Z, 1893 pounds of butter sold to the Ne,
s York market, 4O,092 pounds sold t
a Manchester merchants, and over Il
e 900 pounds sold to the creamery pa
Il rons. The total income from al
l. sources was over $4,000. The Sprin
e Branch Creamery is said to have bee
S the first creamery established in tn
world.
e That the Des Moines city ha
4, bonds will be sold in spite of tn
4. legal tangle, was made certain whe
H. George NJ. Bechtel of Davenport, {
the firm of Bechtel &c Co., agreed {
IL take the entire sS5O,OOO issue.