Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-11-17
Iowa News
NEWsY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
ALL PARTS OF THE STATE.

Someone has figured out that there
are 326.946 telephones In actual sery.
Ice in Iowa.
/ Simeon J. Graf. chief of the Iowa
City fire department died, aged 80.
His wife survives.
employees OF Burlington shops have
been granted an increase amounting
to III cents an hour.
NICK Hammer, former railroad
man, killed himself at Boone by
drinking carbolic acid.
Guy Platter. Ogden, bridegroom
OF but few weeks was struck and
Instantly killed by a train.
Harry Smith, Rock Island switch.
man, was crushed to death beneath
freight train at Cedar Rapids.
Civil service examinations will he
held Nov. rs for rural carriers at Ka
Iona, Raymond and South English.
John Leonard, 38, was asphyxiated
by gas escaping from a partially
closed jet in his bedroom in Council
Bluffs.
Nick Halsey of West Bend. sold
twelve stations for $4,000 and one
hundred-forty head of graded cattle
for $500 each.
J. Z. Erler, who operated an auto
garage at Council Bluffs lost his pa.
rage and two machines by fire. The
loss was $4,000.
Roy Snick, about 81 years old, re.
siding in Grundy Center attempted
suicide by shooting himself with a
80 caliber revolver.
A large barn belonging to c. Void.
ing, mile east of DEBORAH, was de-
stroyed by fire. 1t will be a total
loss of possibly $4,000.
Jack B. Silkett, a resident of Red
Oak for the past thirty-five years.
was found dead in his home in the
west part Of the city.
After being closed for several
weeks because of an epidemic of
diphtheria the public schools have
again opened at Scranton.
The J. v. Bass & Co.'s flour mill
at Steamboat Rock was completely
destroyed by fire. The loss will
probably be over $4,000.
Work on the ice manufacturing
plant in Sioux City,, the first one to
De built in that town, will begin next
spring. 1t will cost $250,00O.
Jemison Bros. have embarked in
the broom manufacturing business at
Montrose and machinery is being put
IN place in their Main street factory.
Pearls valued at 100000 have been
taken from the upper Mississippi
clam beds during the season Just com.
ing to close, according to reports
from Muscatine. ..-,
On the recommendation of Con-
gresham Hubbard, DR.. F. w. Horton
has been appointed pension examin.
ing surgeon at Sheldon, vice DR.. e.
G. Miller, deceased.
Louis, the eight-year old son of
Rev. DR.. Pansiau is i'll in his home
with infantile paralysis. Many cases
of the dread disease have been re.
ported in Charles City and vicinity
during the season.
The faculty of the high school at
Webster City will cancel the balance
OF the years football schedule, as
the result of the accident during the
game when a Webster City player
broke his leg.
William Dyer, farmer at Mason
City, confessed he had systematical.
ly driven two hogs each morning out
OF the Decker packing plant yard on.
to scales and resold them to the com.
pany on arrival Of buyers.
A prairie fire ragged near Sidney ON
the Missouri, burning several thous.
and acres of hay land, destroying
possibly 5000 tons of hay. The fire
Is said to have started from the en-.
CINE of the dredge boat on a drain.
age ditch near Knox.
Rural carriers have been appointed
as follows. Carson, Percy F. Turner:
Earring, Nicholas H. Keeper; Fair.
port, August Duzenbury; Fort Dodge.
route No. 4, George w. Miller; Fort
Dodge, route No. 5, George Goranson,
substitute, Nels Goranson; Larch.
wood, William L. Ashton; Mount AYR.
Liner r. Poore, substitute, Nora ".
Tyrrell; Murray, Miles S. Black. sub.
stitute, Arthur c. Bales; Norwalk.
Harry G. Courtney; Rembrandt, Ell.
mer G. Arlock.
Pensions were granted Iowans as
follows: John w. Camp, SIS; Lizzie
d. Carhart, SIP; James H. Carmich-
ael, SIS; Michael Cassidy, SIP; VIII.
liam Cobb, SIT; Albert Fuller, $40:
Jose A. Honold, SIS; Diantha ]. Hurd. |
SIP; Ferdinand Lohle, $40; Henry
Reed, $50; Walter Rogers, SIP; viii.
liam Russell, $12; Eben Soper. SIS:
Joseph F. Spiker, SIS; John M. Ter.
ry $40; Thomas e. Whalen, alias |
Thomas E. Gillett, s12; Albert Young.
SIS; Lizzie Zinkula, SIP.
At a meeting of the ministers of |
the two churches of the association.
at Mason City, plans for the union OF |
the Free Baptists and regular Bap-
fist churches Of the Cedar Valley as
ISOLATION were made
Mr.. and Mrs. j. C. Aldrich quietly
celebrated their fifty-seventh wed.
ding anniversary at their home in
Cedar Falls with number of friends
and relatives.
Rev. David Sullivan. 6S, pastor of
the Holy Name Catholic church. New
Melleary, Dubuque county, died sud
denly.
Mrs. G. Daley, while visiting her
daughter at Kensett, fell down an