Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-07-29
Iowa News

Jr, died at her home here.
Purchasing agents of Iowa cream
cries are warned that manipulation Of
cream tests must stop and that pro
secutions will follow the discovery Of
cheating by the buyers in a circular
letter sent out by State Food and
Dairy Commissioner Wright.
Edward j. Brandon, a coal miner
living at Valley Junction, committed
scicide by drinking carbolic acid. An
hour before his death he told his wife
he would end his life, but she paid nc
attention, believing it to lie only one
of the evidences of his intoxicated
state.
The employees of the New London
mitten factory are looking forward
to a vacation which they are to enjoy
the first week of August.
Will Dayton, an old resident OF
Fredericksburg, is a suicide. He had
been ill for several years and only
about a year ago had an operation
for appendicitis.
After visiting the three state edu-
cational institutions and making a
thorough investigation of the bust
Cedar Falls, the finance committee Of
the new state board of education held
a meeting in Des Moines.
AS a celebration of long service in
the priesthood, the people of Clonmel,
Ireland, held a golden jubilee for the
Very Rev. Canon Flavin, a brother Of
Rt. Rev. Monsignor .Flavin of the St.
Ambrose Catholic church of Des
Moines.
After a futile attempt to force the
contractors to pay them in cash while
on the job the striking bricklayers of
Des Moines accepted the compromise
offered by the contractors and all of
them, numbering ninety, returned to
work.
Col. Cyrus II. Mackey, veteran of
the civil war and prominent democrat
ic politician of Iowa, died at his home
in Sigourney.
Mrs. w. N. Mckay, head of the
movement to secure a weekly half
holiday for the working girls of Des
Moines, is in receipt of letters fror:
two firms in Indianapolis, Ind, which
grant their clerks the holiday, and
both assert that they have been I'M
able to notice a diminution of bust
ness because of the innovation.
All patrolmen in Des Moines were
given an increase in pay. Instead of
finding checks issued for $3S.75, the
usual semi-monthly salary, the blue
coated guardians Of the Law got war
rants for $40, even money. When the
city's budget was made up April 1,
the beginning of the fiscal year,, the
appropriation was made providing for
the increase effective July Is.
The vast amount of preparatory
work necessarily required to the Gre
alton of the property of it's electric
%interurban railway which covers 81
miles between Des Moines and Sioux
City, FIT. Dodge and Sioux City and
Des Moines and FIT. Dodge, is being
rapidly finished and there is every
prospect of construction work being
started this fall.
Certain members of the retrench
ment and reform committee OF the
Iowa legislature, including the lead
ers in both houses, are authority fol
the announcement that a well plan
ned and concerted effort will be made
, at the next session of the Legislature
to repeal the old soldiers preference
law and rid public offices of veterans
nf Tho civil uor who ara hpliaVC6 RI
be incompetent.
p r. Norman, one of the most high
: ly respected citizens of Earlham
while temporarily deranged, sho
e himself, dying at once.
q That public drinking cups canno
e be altogether abolished on passenge
trains and railway stations in low
until the public learns to shun then
g is the belief of DR.. Albert c. Moerk,
of Burlington, a member of the stat
board of health.
! Since the state Legislature decide
q that notarial bonds furnished by
surety company do no: have to b
n approved by the county clerk, Pol
a county finds itself loser about 500
annually.
One of the most remarkable opel
4. alton, in the removal of a fibroid Il
d. NOR, was performed in Marshalltow
at St. Thomas hospital, when Mr.:
q. John Fisher of Clemens had take
from her abdominal cavity a tumo
RI weighing twenty-five pounds. Surgeon
here claim that the immensely Of tn
growth rivals, if not exceeds, tn
record for ibroids in the history {
surgery. The patient was hardly e!
pected to survive the operation 6
d her age, So years, but did so. Their
n. are no assurances that she will Iiv'
IN however, and the chances are ths
she will succumb to the sheck. Mr.
a Fisher realized that she had only
&c short time to live with the tumo,, an
II. decided on the operation as the on
last chance to prolong her life.
BY unanimous vote, Aerie No. Z
Fraternal Order of Eagles, of Siou
City, agreed to purchase the old Coy
- ey property on Douglas street. on
half block north of the auditorium
on which will be erected in the ne;
future a handsome club house cos
r.. ing $4,000.
While lying on a sick bed sufferir
st from heart disease, and knowing
in could not live many weeks. Rev.
IN D. Babcock, a well known Iowa rad
cal temperance reform worker, a