Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-09-08
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John C. r. Hochestier has been ap-
| pointed postmaster at Sherman, Har-
din county, vice o. W. Topp, resigned.
J. H. Long, long time resident OF
Webster City, dropped dead at his
home from an attack of heart trou-
BILE.
The four year old son OF Adolph
Goyette, who lives near Milford, died
OF infantile paralysis. The child was
sick only two days.
Anton Zeke, farmer living on a
leased farm about six miles south OF
Tama, committed suicide by hanging
himself in the barn.
Henry Gravert, 16, was instantly
killed at a department store in Day.
export when he jumped on rapidly
moving freight elevator.
Howard Williams has been ap-
| pointed and has accepted a position
as Y. NJ. c. A. secretary for the state
university at Iowa City.
L. H. Smith of Liscomb, has filed
suit against F. L. Meeker, administra-
tor of his fathers estate for, $29, lao,
which he claims is due him.
Two families, that of T. c.. Brooks,
a teamster, and family of relatives,
were dangerously poisoned at Ft.
Dodge by eating spoiled bread.
During a heavy wind and rain
storm at Iowa City the Chautauqua
tent was blown down. Fortunately
no one was in the tent at the time.
William Van Orsdol, member of
one of the old and wealthy families
of Buchanan county, died at his home
in Rowley, after an extended illness.
]. NJ. Carl. chief of police of Cedar
Rapids, was elected president of the
Iowa Association of Chiefs of Police
at its annual meeting at Des Moines.
Farmers report that the dry
weather of the early spring and sum-
mer will be the cause of an extra
large crop of rabbits throughout
Iowa.
The proposition to grant the cleo
trio light company of the town of
Malvern a non-exclusive ten year
franchise carried by close vote of
6S to 62.
Florence Mimi of Forshell, one OF
the victims of the Rock Island wreck
near Gladbrook last March has
brought suit against the company for
damages.
f. John Morrison, aged 81, well
known manufacturer and capitalist,
! n1.arl n q nIRfn Ntt I'M
firm at Dubuque, died suddenly at his
home of appoplexy.
Pensions have been granted Iowans
as follows: Henry Allen. $50; John
w. Curry, SIS; Friedrich Eberhard.
SIS; Jacob Markle, SIS; Hugh Reed
$24; James NJ. Kicks, SIS.
After the fire department had ex.
tinguished a blaze at the Garfield
house at Dubuque, fire broke out
again five hours later and completely
destroyed the building. The loss is
$4,000
Small grain is yielding more BUSH
els to the acre around Bridgewater
than for several years. The corn
years past, Notwithstanding the dry
weather.
A contract was let at Correction
vile for the erection of a new Meth
odist Episcopal church to replace the
frame structure which has done SER
vice for that congregation for over
thirty years.
The Iowa supreme court issued an
injunction to restrain the state rail-
way commission and the attorney
general from enforcing the orders of
the commission relative to the Daven-
port coal car case.
The first fatality from infantile par
alysis in Marshall county resulted
five miles northeast of ST. Anthony,
when Reba, the 10-year-old daughter
of P. w. Dunn, a farmer. died after
an illness of just one week.
Raymond Sandhouse of Monticel
10 has been awarded valuabls
scholarship at Harvard University.
known as the Parson scholarship.
Raymond was graduate of the Mon
|
1910.
Samuel Adamson, member of the
Marshalltown soldiers home from
Casey, Guthrie county, is dead OF
paralysis at the home hospital. Mr..
Adamson was 63 years old, and was
veteran of Company M, Eighth
Iowa Cavalry.
Rev. w. F. Osgood, formerly pastor
of the Baptist church at Roseville,
H., and before that in charge Of
churches at Des Moines and Falls
! River, Mass, has accepted a call to
the pastorate of Liberty Park Baptist
church of Spokane.
Eldora is experiencing building
boom this summer and more new
houses are being erected and more
business blocks built than for twenty
years.
Clifford s. Pinchot VIII come to
Des Moines Saturday, Sept 10, and
will speak that evening.
The Homecoming committee Of
Brooklyn have arranged to have an
automobile tour of Powesshiek county
to advertise their Homecoming week,
held Sept. to II.
The population of Sioux City is
47,825 as compared with 3S.ll1 in
1900. and 1880 in 1890. The increase
from 1900 to 1910 therefore is IA
| TT or 444 per cent