Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-05-26

The Rev. Victor M. Patterson, an
athlete, a fine singer and an eloquent
speaker, who was pastor of Union
Congregational church, Waterloo, for
nearly two years, and who welded
Miss Myrtle Brott, handsome and
devoted Christian girl, member OF
his congregation, a year ago, has been
made defendant in suit for divorce
filed in Palo Alto county. While the
complaint alleges cruel and inhuman
treatment, the real cause of the &C
ton was the abandonment of his
young bride by the minister three
weeks after their marriage at EN-
metsburg, and his subsequent wooing
of beautiful and wealthy girl at
Brooklyn, N. Y, which is his boy
hood home. The abandoned bride of
a few weeks was left heartbroken,
and while she was weeping and won
dering why her husband did not re-
ardent court to the Brooklyn girl,
and they were engaged to be mar
ried just as soon as his fiancee was
sufficiently recovered from her ILL
ness. She had been sick for some
| time
The assessors of Grundy county
has just completed and turned in
some interesting statistics to the
county auditor which prove that this
garden spot of the great state of Iowa
still keeps up its reputation gained
many years ago. The average yield of
corn per acre last year was Al BUSH
els; total yield, 3,885,959 bushels; to-
tai yield of potatoes, 777,SSS bushels;
the average yield being So bushels to
the acre. No alfalfa, popcorn or fax
was grown in the county There are
over 10000 acres in pasture and 1,022
rods of .tiling done on the farms of
the county, and $50 manure spread
ers are owned in the county by the
farmers. There are 1874 horses and
55,470 cattle; $4,000 cows are MIXED
daily, and 1000 head of poultry are
owned by the thrifty housewives.
Over one-half million dozen eggs were
marketed and nearly million pounds
of butter made and sold during 1909
Good progress is being made on the
large drainage project under construc-
tion about two and half miles south
east of Belle PLANE. About 400 feet
of the 5000 feet of 12-inch vitrified tile
is already in the ground, through the
deepest part of the cut, which is as
much as seven feet deep. This will
river to a pond of about fifteen acres
and will drain in all, about 600 acres
of land, doubling it in value. South
and southeast of Belle PLANE there
are between 1000 and 5000 acres
along the Iowa river that can be re-
claimed by similar tile drains. The
conditions are peculiar, so that open
bitches are not a success. There are
other portions of the Iowa river val
ley where similar reclamation work
is probably feasible.
Seventeen thousand idle Iowa coal
miners were empowered to return to
work by the ratification of the new
wage contract by the joint confer
ence. An agreement, which will be in
force until April l, 1912, was signed
by President John P. White of the
district miners union and President
John P. Reese of the state operators
association. For the miners the new
contract means more wages, better
working conditions and better social
environments For the operators it
means more and better coal and less
labor difficulty.
A boy from st. Paul, who claims to
has been kidnapped, and the kidnapers,
were taken from lumber car at Nc
1ntire badly hurt. The boy gives his
name as Elmer Cosgrove, 400 Selby
avenue, st. Paul. He is bright, good
looking, red headed lad, Is years old.
The man gave his name as Mike Nc
Ginnis and said his home was in New
York, but the boy spoke of him as
'the beggar."
Sheldon Medbury, 50 years of age
and father of the Rev. Charles Med
bury, pastor of the University Place
Church of Christ, has beheld Halley's
comet twice. Mr.. Medbury remem.
bers when he viewed the comet with
his parents seventy-five years ago,
when he lived at Youngstown, Ohio.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Graham Of
Centerville celebrated the fifty-eighth
anniversary of their marriage. Jacob
| Graham and Mary Nelson were I'M
| tied in marriage in Clearfield coun-
| ty, Pennsylvania, in 1852, residing in
that state for several years and then
coming to Iowa.
Oscar Lawler of Los Angeles, CAL,
| assistant attorney general of the de-
partment of the interior, is a native
of Marshalltown. He prepared the da-
ia which President Taft used in the
composition of his famous letter ex-
onerating Secretary Ballinger.
A joint reunion of the Tenth Iowa
infantry, Twenty-eighth Iowa infant
ry, Fortieth Iowa infantry and all old
soldiers who went into army from
near Montezuma will be held there
October II and IS.
Mrs. Catherine Upman, aged IS,
fell through trap door leading to
the cellar of her home at Dubuque
and was badly injured. She sustained
a broken shoulder and several bruis.
es about the body.
Patrick Stanton, II, was instantly
killed in the Milwaukee railway yards
at Mason City. He was run down by
switch engine. Stanton was sec.
ton hand. and father of Alderman
John Stanton.
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