Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-07-14

Joshua Thornton, aged 81, died ut
his late home in Earlham.
Work has been commenced on the
$4,000 sewer at Storm Lake.
Harry #. Jungblut has been APP
pointed rural carrier at Elkader.
The Methodists of Shenandoah are
about to erect $4,000 church.
Anton Feltman. aged 92. an old res
ident, died at his home near Wilton.
The progressive republicans will
have more than 200 majority In the
state convention OF Aug. 3.
M. Il. Smith of Cedar Rapids has
been appointed clerk of the inter-
state commerce commission.
Patrick McGarville, aged 40, was
run down and killed by an Illinois
Central train near Rockwell City.
ST. Patrick's parish broke ground
at Iowa City for $4,000 structure.
to be the home of the Sisters OF Char
ity, B. V. NJ.
Gomar Davis, aged 10, son of Mr..
and Mrs. G. G. Davis OF Fort Dodge.
was drowned in the Des Moines riv.
err near Kalo.
The Chicago, Great Western rail-
road has discharged 800 of 5000 la
borers on construction work on the
western division.
From now on Polk county will pay
bounty OF but five cents instead
OF ten cents for the forefeet of each
gopher killed in the county.
Newton citizens voted to refuse the
Jasper County Telephone company q
new franchise. The company has
been planning to raise its rates.
Opposition on the part OF the Fort
Dodge Ministerial association has re-
suited In the abandonment OF plans
for Sunday theater in Fort Dodge.
Martin Liebolt, 80 years old, a pio.
neer Of Lyons. ia dead and his aged
wife Is critically Ill In Mercy hospital
in Clinton, where her death Is expect
tide.
Peter Riesland Is the first victim
of the heat in Iowa City the current
summer He was FRUSTRATED while
hauhhS Sohi, ahu Whb uSliTious LOE
hours.
Marshalltown expects to entertain
between 5000 and 5000 Elks and
their wives on Aug. 10 to IS, when
the annual state convention of the
order will be held there.
Fred Abitz, aged As, while camp
ing at Redmonds island, north OF
Dubuque, tripped and fell into ths
stream, drowning. The deceased
leaves a wife and five children.
Mrs. Ralph Montgomery was badly
burned at Grinnell by the explosion
Of an alcohol lamp. Her husband and
his father, Rev. C. II. Montgomery,
We're also burned while trying to save
her.
Iowa postmasters have been appoin-
ted as follows: Given, Mahaska coun-
ty, Mary J. Brown, vice c. J. Jackson.
resigned; valeria, Jasper county.
Cornelius J. Ryan, vice c. Jones, TO
signed.
BILLY" Sunday, the famous evan
gellst, made the main address at the
reunion of the relatives Of the Cory
family, which was held at the old
Cory settlement, two miles east Of
Elkhart.
During the eight months from Oct.
20, 1909, to June 16, 1910, sixty-eight
Iowa pioneers, members OF the Polk
County Octogenenarian society, died
In different parts of the state and
country.
A negro named j. Il. Taylor fell
from the bumpers OF Keokuk q
Western freight train in the Keokuk
yards and was instantly killed. His
head was crushed and partially sew
cred from his body.
Pensions have been granted Iowans
as follows. James ID. Hunt, SIS; Mary
Jessup, SIP; Mary e. Roy, $12; Isaac
Schofeld, 500; John Squire, $40; Car.
ey v. Swartzz, $24; Andrew Walker,
SIS: Henry @. White, SIS.
DR.. George Click, aged SO years.
one of the foremost business men OF
Marshalltown for many years, FORM
err president Of the First National
bank, postmaster and member OF
the city council, died In Chicago.
Pensions have been granted Iowans
as follows. Benz F. Baldwin, $40; An.
drew Balfour, SIS; VIM. II. Bigelow,
$40; John w. Fisher, SIS; VIM. Fl.
H. Gobel, ST.; David c. Hughes, $40;
Louisa r. Jericho, $12; John F. Kuhl.
enberk, SIS; Thos. J. Lacey, SIS; Ma
rie Mathes, $12; Ansel s. Merwin.
s24; John l.. Payton, SIP; Aurora
Renfele, s12; David A. Robertson.
SIS; Jas. M. Sharp, $15; Harriet F.
Stevenson, SIP; Anton d. Wald, $40;
Henry H. Young, SIS.
The first Homecoming celebration
ever planned for Fort Dodge is to be
held Aug. 21-26 inclusive, and is to be
carried out under the direction of a
new club of Fort Dodge boosters.
The accidental discharge of bow
and arrow in the hands of Elmer
Miller, aged s, resulted in the loss Of
the sight of the left eye of Charlotte
Crily Of the same age at Ottumwa.
1t cost Woodbury. county $7,975,9O
for the recent primary election. OF
this amount $1,43935 was expended
to the clerks and judges, and $5S6.35
was paid for printing, books, etc.
An automobile belonging to Hays
Carson, in which he was riding with
Robert Carson and Ed Dennis, plung-
ed down a twenty-foot embankment
near Iowa City, turning completely
around, and landed on the river bank
without a particle of injury to any