Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-05-19
IowaState
- Il News

icAyy uedlu Iell0fSu Tue SuueTluSS "
Maj. A. s. Carper, of Des Moines. AL
though death had been hourly expect
ed for over week, his remarkable
vitality resisted to the last the efforts
of the grim reaper to claim the veter
an. Worn with tn vicious assaults
made during the two weeks on his
system. he finally yielded his life. His
children were at the bedside when
the hour came.
Mrs. lima F. Roach, formerly OF
Mason City, Is the head of new bank
at Faith, South Dakota. Her husband
Is also interested in the bank. Mrs
Roach made canvass for the first
deposits for the bank and secured
$1,000 in one day. Faith is now fifty
miles from railroad but a line has
been surveyed through there and the
Roach farm has been selected for q
town by the railroad promoters.
The Waterloo milk inspection ordi.
nance which the government aided in
drawing and which is the pattern of
similar ordinances elsewhere, has
been declared invalid and of no effect
by Police Judge Caldwell, who says
the ordinance Is discriminative and
confiscatory. DR.. Sumner, secretary OF
the state board of health, helped
frame the ordinance while city health
officer.
: Three members of the Iowa State
veterinarians staff inspected the herd
of cattle at the Iowa sanitorium in
City; T. w. Chandler, Davenport and
Thomas Downing, Washington. They
carefully examined and tested forty
six head for symptoms of tuberculosis
and found not single cow affected.
The eastern conference of the Eng.
fish Lutheran synod of Iowa, adj
journed at Iowa City after electing
officers for the ensuing year, as fol-
lows. President, Rev. J. Kent Rizer,
Upton; secretary, Rev. H. Wenner-
mark, Muscatine; treasurer, Rev. w.
H. Blanche, Davenport.
Company I, Fifty-fourth Iowa, I. N.
G., has elected Percy Van Nostrand,
first lieutenant, to succeed Leroy P.
Elliott, made captain recently. Van
Nostrand was second lieutenant. Lou
E. Clark, private, was elected Sec
ond lieutenant, to succeed him.
The Carroll Electric Light and
Heat company has asked that an ord"
nance be drafted granting them the
right to increase their heating rates
from 20 to 25 cents per foot, claiming
that this part of the plant was being
operated at an actual loss.
Pursuant to an order issued by Ad-
jutant General Logan of the Iowa Ma
tional guard the permanent camp of
the guard, located eleven miles from
Des Moines, has been named Camp
Dodges" in honor of Gen. Granville
M. Dodge of Council Bluffs.
Myrtle Goodenough of Cedar Rap
ids, administrative of the estate of
James H. Goodenough, killed in the
Gladbrook wreck of the Rock Island,
has brought suit against the road for
$4,000 damages. Goodenough was a
fireman on the train.
The Northwestern railroad is pre-
pairing to shorten it's route between
Des Mones and Sioux City according
to reports at Correctionville. The
prospect of new interurban is said
to have forced the road to make this
decision.
The city council of Oskaloosa re-
pealed the tuberculin test of dairy
cattle ordinance which has been in
effect two years. The dairy men have
threatened a strike and this would
cause a milk famine in the city.
The first case of horse stealing for
years in Mahaska county occurred
when a fine team of drivers, harness
and buggy were taken from the barn
of Lige Harper, four miles south of
Oskaloosa few days ago.
A fine bust of Abraham Lincoln
done in bronze by Chicago sculptor
Is the parting gift of the Illinois Cen.
trail employees at Fort Dodge to Judge
w. s. Kenyon, who is taking up his
new duties in Washington.
The death of another Union county
pioneer occurred when Benjamin
Wray, ST., passed away at the family
home south of Creston. He was 5S
years old and came to Union county
from England in 1851.
The Fifty-sixth regiment band has
been selected as the official band of
the Iowa Elks during the national
convention at Detroit, Mich, in July
Mrs. Edward Mattous of Dubuque
a bride of just twenty days, died al
her residence of pneumonia, after an
illness Of twelve hours.
The Iowa Baptists' State convention
held its quarterly meeting at its Offices
in the Manhattan building at Des
Moines. Plans were made for the
state convention, which will be held
In Des Moines October "a to %.
Would-be druggists to the number
Of sixty-three bumped up against thu
state pharmacy examination and only
eighteen of the number secured pass
Ing marks.
The president nominated the fol
lowing Iowa postmasters: William B
Arbuckle, Villisca; Geo. A. Stibbens
Red Oak; Ferguse Walker, Walnut.
The new First Methodist Episcopa
church at Nichols has been dedicated
Rev. ]. R. Hanley of Centerville wa!
the principal speaker.
c. M. Cowell, convicted of takini
merchandise from freight cars a
Carroll, was sentenced to ten years II
the penitentiary.
It a. tba opipiop of old cattIarc n