Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-07-01

is before President Taft, according
to a statement made by United States
Commissioner Macarthur. Spencer was
formerly employed by the Des Moines
National bank and was recently sen
fenced to a term of five years in pris
OF on charges of embezzlement.
At a special election, Pella voted
to own her municipal water plant.
Mrs. Mary A. Kick, Of Ogden, an
Iowa pioneer and mother of Geo
Kick. editor of the Pilot Mound Mont
tor, is dead. Old age was the cause
of her death, she being SO years old,
Des Moines, Davenport and Du
buqIe were the only Iowa cities get
ting heavy showers Wednesday night
DR.. Chapel, weather ~forecaster, says
rains over Iowa were beneficial rath'
er than detrimental.
Pension Agent w. v. Wilcox was
elected president of the Buckeye as
ISOLATION at the annual picnic at
Union park in Des Moines. He sue
ceeds C. A. Dudley. J. H. Dean of AL
toona was elected first vice president,
A. r. Warner second vice president,
A. S. Carper third vice president, J. d,
M~cGarraught, fourth vice president, ].
l.. Crawford secretary, Col j. C. Lopez
treasurer, Mrs. Allie Smith, Cheek
musical director, and the Rev. l.. X,
~Billingsley chaplain. E
After an illness of a day and a half,
Mrs. Rachel V. Chamberlain, ST, died
Of angina pectoris at the home of her
son, d. S. Chamberlain, of Des Moines.
Clarence Norton, a carpenter at
Oelwein, accidentally fell from the
scaffolding of a building on which he
was working sustaining a broken leg
and otherwise internally injured. He
fell backward about a distance of fiji.
teen feet.
Clarence Wirth, son of Rev. J.
Wirth of Creston, who has just grad.
uated from the Sioux City High school
will become physical director Of the
Y. NJ. c. A. at Mankato, Mimi, after
August !.
The stockholders Of the Southern
Iowa Normal met at Bloomfield, and
elected nine members of the board OF
regents, and the board met and elect.
ed the following officers: W. H. Nc
Achran, president; S. S. Stanley
treasurer, and H. c. Leach, secretary,
The board is contemplating making
interior improvements during the va
cation. ...
Despite all of the threats that were
made to have him ousted from the ma.
tional church body, the churchmen in
the United Norwegian Lutheran
church rallied to the support of Rev.
o. A. Quallen, pastor of the Norweg'
ian Lutheran church in Marshalltown,
who refused to take part in the fun
eral services of a lodgeman because
the lodge wanted to take the promi'
nent part in the ritual service.
No member of the Iowa National
guard who uses liquor or cigarettes
will be considered for a place on the
state rifle team which will repre-
sent Iowa at the Camp Perry, Ohio.
shoot in August.
Mrs. S. A. Douglas, of Abel, was
suspended from the M. E. church be-
cause she refused to sever her con
nection with a whist club.
Charles Dyer, Fl, Des Moines, was
drowned in Elk Run creek five miles
east of Waterloo.
Negroes shot and killed Brakeman
Lee C. Warner and fatally wounded
Brakeman Alva C. Brechtel on an oil
car n mile east of Vail.
The Catholic church people at Col
fax have just acquired a fine building
lot and will remove their church build
ing from it's present location to the
new n as soon as possible.
At a cost of over $4,000, the Won
ems Relief Corps of Red Oak has
just erected a beautiful soldiers mon
ument in the Evergreen cemetery.
Miss Martha Cole, Mendon, Mich.
has been chosen by the board Of di
rectors as business secretary of the
Des Moines Y. ". c. A. to succeed
Miss Meribah Wright, who has re
signed because of her approaching
marriage.
An immense bald-headed eagle
measuring seven feet from tip to tip
was killed by j. d. Bright, a farmeI
living near Shenandoah.s
Contracts aggregating s272,000 foI
work ON it's Des Moines plant ant
system were let by the Des Moine'
Electric company.
Suits were begun in the distric
court at Council Bluffs by TWENTY-FIVE,
of the alleged victims of the "swindl,
syndicate" of which J. C.. Mabray
now in Jail at Des Moines, is charge,
with being the head, for the recover,
of money lost in the alleged swindles
The aggregate of the amount aske,
for is %s113,0 the individual amount
of which the compliments were dc
frauded ranging from $3.50 to $13
700.
Abner ]. Sibley, a member of tn
soldiers home at Marshalltown fror
Laurens, died at the home hospita
of pneumonia, aged 20.
L. N. Greener of North McGregol
had a needle removed from his armpi
and up TO the time of its appearance Il
this particular spot it had neve
caus ed him any pain or inconvenience
and he cannot remember when tn
needle entered his body.
For fast driving in which he rs
over Mrs. Ewers, bruising herself an
her baby seriously, Albert Shaw,
well known young man, of Maso
City Vas fined 500 by a local magis
trate.