Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-06-30

lows: President, ]. e. Booge, Sioux
City; first vice president, r. M.
Shelabarger, Let's; second vice
president, Peter Zopf, Jr.. Marengo;
corresponding secretary, Miss Seada
NJ. Cooper. Iowa City; recording sec
rotary, Philip Sipfie, Clinton; member
Of the executive board, B. H. Davis,
Iowa City.
c. w. Rowe, who left Montezuma
with $4,000 belonging to the coun.
ty in 1897 is anxious to return home,
according to word received there.
Rowe became Mexican citizen and
was forced to serve time in Mexico
for his alleged crime at Montezuma.
He has since become prominent in
railroad circles in Mexico. There are
two indictments against him. He is
anxious to have these indictments
quashed.
Henry Mitchell, the district man
ager of the Yeomen, was in Mason
City several days planning for the
big picnic to be held jointly be-
tween Mason City and Clear Lake on
August 10 and 20. The district in
cludes all the south half of Minnesota
and all of Iowa north of Des Moines.
There are 10000 Yeomen in this dis
trict and Mr.. Mitchell confidently ex-
poets between 5000 and 10000 at this
picnic. .-..... OIL.
At meeting of the officials of the
Great Western and Northwestern rail.
roads and of the city at Mason City,
preliminary plans were drawn for
the erection of viaduct over the
| yards of these two roads leading from
the west line of Mason City to the
Parker addition, recently opened.
The yiaducts will be of steel over
800 feet in length and twenty-five or
thirty feet high.
Fritz Wells, aged so, who for many
| years has led the life of a hermit,
was found dead in his shack at Lore,
in Dubuque county. Heart failure
was the cause assigned. 1t is said
that the deceased was once a man
of means, but lost his money in poor
investments.
After choosing Sioux City for its
fifth annual convention the Iowa as
sociation Of Local Fire Insurance
Agents elected w. C. Ballard of Des
Moines, president; Lew Anderson, OF
Cedar Rapids, vice-president, and H.
P. Quincy, of Sioux City, secretary.
treasurer.
DR.. Paul Archibald Park, Cedar
Rapids, and DR.. Theodore A. Willis,
Iowa City, newly-graduated from the
college of Homeopathic Medicine, s,
U. l., have been honored by appoint
ments to position as internes in the
Metropolitan hospital in New York
city.
c. M. Hayden, charged with main
tanning a wide open blind pig" dur.
ing the Woodmen picnic at Mason
City, was bound over to the grand
jury. Forty-five cases and twelve
barrels of beer were captured when
the alleged blind pig" was raided.
The first model creamery, built af.
ter plans furnished by the agricultural
department at Washington, will be
built this season at Ventura, fifteen
miles west Of Mason City, where Q
cooperative society has formed by
farmers and business men.
The timers strike at Davenport
which has been in existence for the
past six weeks, has been settled. The
board Of arbitration met with the mas
ter sheet metal workers and the jour-
neymen timers and all differences
were amicably adjusted.
Fred Harrington, aged % years, was
drowned in the Des Moines river. He
and several children in a camping
party were bathing. He was seized
with cramps or an epileptic fit, to
which he was subject, and went down
in water waist deep.
The total attendance at the Univer-
sity of Iowa at Iowa City the year
just closed is 1925. This is a de.
crease of only 120, compared with the
total of the preceding year, as shown
by President MacLean's figures to the
board Of education.
Thirty-nine graduates received
their diplomas at the high school at
Burlington. Professor Hibbard of
Ames was a commencement orator.
This is the first class to graduate
from Burlington's new 100000 high
school.
1t is reported that the telephone
company commonly known as the Bell
has bought out the other exchange
in Hampton-the Iowa Central COM
pany-and that the lines and ex-
changes will be consolidated July /.
Thomas E. Leadon OF Fairibault,
Mimi, who has been working as a
boilermaker at Waterloo for six
months, was drowned in five feet of
water after being seized with cramps.
The Lehigh Portland Cement COM
pany will build $2,500,O00 plant at
Mason City according to an announce
ment just made. The company has
options on 700 acres of land.
Peter Nicol, young man who
came to this country a few months
ago and got started wrong, attempted
suicide at Battle Creek, where he
was found in the road.
Miss Flossie Dillon, formerly of
Iowa Falls has accepted position at
the head Of the elocution department
of the Iowa State university for the
next year.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Thomas of Col
fax have received word that David
, their 10 year old son was killed in a
, street car accident at Denver.