Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-04-01

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she borrowed her fathers team and
hitched them to King road drag.
She worked with this equipment until
one mile each way from her fathers
place the road was made good.
l.. r. Funston, the Oldest civil war
veteran living In Nora Springs and a
cousin of General Funston, the form.
er Philippine commander, is dead.
aged 70 years. He is well known in
Iowa.
The city council beginning the first
OF May will do away with lunch carts
and push cart merchants on the
streets of Sioux City. This action
has been determined by the city coun-
Gil in accordance with the desires of
business men, who declare that the
itinerant merchants are a nuisance.
Clifford G. Roe, Of Chicago, assist
ant states attorney, and the man who
gathered the evidence and assisted in
the prosecution Of the white slave
traffic in Chicago, was the speaker at
a rousing mass meeting held at Mar
shalltown. as part Of the local city
campaign.
An epidemic of infieunza has struck
Dubuque and physicians are kept
busy. Medical men are at loss to
account for the extent of the attic
ton. 1t is estimated there are sew
eral hundred cases in the city.
The Rev. Mr. Robinson, a colored
evangelist from Clarinda has very
interesting life story. He was born
a slave in North Carolina and at the
outbreak of the war followed his mas
ter into the conflict. Later he was
captured and enlisted in the union
army, where he served several years
The Colfax committee on arrange
ments for the coming convention of
central Iowa Odd Fellows, to be held
in that city on April &c to celebrate
the ninetieth anniversary of Odd Eel
lows organization in America, have
secured some excellent talent for the
entertainment of the large number of
delegates and visitors expected to be
in attendance. The subordinate, Re-
bekah, and encampment degrees will
be exemplified by well drilled degree
STATS.
! Peter Franks, who lives in a boat
house at Dubuque, went home and
after wrecking all the furniture in
the room jumped into the river. He
was rescued by an officer and placed
under arrest.
Albert Johnson of Ottumwa has
sued for divorce. He says his wife
protested against his going to church
and also used whiskey too freely.
James Watson of Boone had his
arm broken by falling icicles.
| Frank Moore failed to collect s25
from James Schmidt for the killing
Of his dog at Northwood. Schmidt
proved that the dog barked nights
and the justice held this was sufficient
reason for Staying the animal.
Miss Gertrude Ellis of Clinton has
married Lieutenant c. S. Mcdowell of
the bsttleship fleet. They met at Los
Angeles.
There is much interest manifested
over the coming municipal election
at Colfax, which will be held next
Monday. Two tickets are out, though
party politics are not entering into
the fight.
Roy Beaton of Maquoketa, while at
work on the Beaton farm, found float
ing in the Maquoketa river a bottle
containing the following message,
written in a woman's hand, on a
piece of white paper: "To finder of
this bottle: Please notify my folks
at Cedar Falls, Iowa, that they will
find my body in the river just south
of the old tree. Tell them / forgive
them all for their unjust deeds to-
ward me. Yours, the last. Miss Jessie
Francis, Cedar Falls, Iowa, June 81,
1907. P. S.-Tell Walter I am sorry,
but 1t was not my fault. I love him
STILL" The bottle was turned over to
Mayor Gregory. He will communicate
with the authorities at Cedar Falls in
an effort to solve the affair. A young
woman is said to have suicided by
=, drowning in the Maquoketa river at
Monticello in June, 1907, but whether
the body was over recovered is not
known here.
"Muscatine people drink more water
per capita than the people of any
city in the United States" said a
prominent physician and former cor
oner of that place. And since the
municipal plant providing water of
absolute purity has been installed the
decrease in typhoid cases and other
diseases arising from like causes has
been so great that a number Of Mus
catine nurses have left the city be-
cause there was no work for them
here"
The annual meeting of the c..
Shenkburg Cooperative company,
which will be held in Sioux City
April 2O-23, will bring there between
1900 and 1900 of the retail gro
Gerry merchants of DIVA, Nebraska,
South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyom-
ing and Montana. In connection with
the convention there will be pure
food exposition in which hundred Of
the leading manufactures Of the
country will participate. Mayor w.
G. Sears will formally welcome the
visitors to the city
There has been a number OF
changes on the Chicago and North
western railroad at Mason City dur
ing the last few days. Trainmaster NJ
J. Hanson has been changed from
Belle Paine to Clinton and he will
be succeeded by George M. Pike.
Frank B. Blodgett, of Chicago, is the
new chief dispatcher.