Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-04-14
Although it cannot be .ald that

Although it cannot be said tina,
Iowa produces two crops OF corn
each year, it appears from develop.
ments that 1t is true that cornhusking
time lasts all the year round. w. d.
Pittman, prominent stock raiser
has just finished the work of husking
corn on his farm east of Lake City.
ever since the weather permitted
work in the fields he has had a large
force of men constantly employed,
and the total amount of the grain
picked since January totals about
5000 bushels. Mr.. Pittman is spon.
sor for the statement that contrary
to the general belief, the corn is not
in the least damaged from remaining
in the fields all winter, exposed to
the elements, but that 1t is in even
better condition than it was last au.
tumn at the regular completing time.
Lightning began It's destructive
work of the season near Vinton dur.
ing severe hail storm bordering on
a cyclone. The dwelling of H. d. Chase
of Urbana was badly damaged and
the family seriously shocked, and on
the Heath farm near SheIlsburg, the
large barn was struck and burned, in
GLIDING all contents. The hail fell
thick and fast for twenty minutes
and the torrents of rain accompany
ing were the heaviest since the Mt.
Auburn cyclone of 1888.
Brown Nicholson, the son Of a wild
ow living just east of Slater, attempt
ed to set fire to the home, succeed
ed In destroying the barn and COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself
in the burning building, his body be-
ing badly charred. The young man
has always been considered queer.
but he had never been thought dan
gerous.
Luther Sly, aged 65, a prominent
farmer of Delaware county, living two
dead in the field. Death was caused
dead nthe field. Death was caused
by heart failure. He had been plow-
ing when his son in an adjoining field
noticed that the team was standing
still and his father was not to be seen.
| IO"d Wy III" oulC VI dn SlCS-
trio street railway. The Rundell
Land and Improvement company has
sold the last of it's so lots and the
$4,000 thus secured, will be placed in
a street railway fund. 1t is planned
to build about five miles of track
during the coming summer.
Sherman Goodwin of Ottumwa
was the first victim of the new state
law prohibiting the use of liquors and
| indecent language on trains, and
Judge c. w. Vermillion fined him $40
Goodwin was indicted by the last
grand jury. The offense occurred on
q Burlington route train.
Albert Silensky, aged IL, son Of q
wealthy farmer near Waterloo, is in
a critical condition as the result of
being thrown in front of disc har-
row when the team ran away. Most
Of his clothing was cut off and his
body terribly cut and bruised and the
scalp partly removed.
Wiring the Rock Island road to hold
| its train for q funeral party in order
that a woman might attend a we'd
ding was the successful ruse worked
on the officials of that road, resulting
in a train on the Bows branch being
held an hour and twenty minutes at
Iowa Falls.
Caught between derailed interur-
ban car and Perry car No. S01, near
the Beaver Creek bridge, Alexander
Ogle AN employe of the company,
was terribly crushed and mangled.
Death resulted shortly after his re-
moval to Mercy hospital.
Governor Carroll granted pardon
to William Martin of Pittsburg, doing
an indeterminate sentence in the state
penitentiary for grand larceny. The
pardon was made on condition that
Martins friends furnish him trans.
portation to Pittsburg.
All of the teamsters on the Knox
Vile paving contract went out on a
strike. They were getting $3.50 per
day and struck for 81. The contract
or offered to meet their demands If
the drivers would help load wagons
but they refused.
Rev. c. c. Davis, who was former
ly pastor of the Christian church in
Iowa Falls and left there to take
similar work at Brighton, has resign
ed his pastorate there to accept a
three-year call to the Christian church
at Charlton.
Fearing she would be sent to the
girls industrial school at Mitchell.
vile, Rosa Brown, 16, leaped from a
second story window of the court
house at Eldora. The court allowed
her liberty later, on promise OF good
behavior.
A freight and a Milwaukee passen
ger collided in the yards at McGregor
The passenger was pulling a double
header and three engines were put in
the ditch. The passengers were bad
ly shaken up, but no one was injur
ed
The first quarterly bulletin of the
year of the Iowa state board of health
contains the regular spring warning
Of the board to citizens and officials
to be careful that disease does not
| COlnS with TIC Ddluly udyo VI SPIN
Manchester will enjoy larger and
better chautauqua than ever during
the coming summer. The. dates have
been set as July to 8, inclusive, ant
it is to be held at Thrills park a,
during the past four years.
B. ]. Selkirk, a c. & N. w. brake
man from Sioux City, while riding OF
: the pilot of an engine in the LAX,
City yards slipped and fell across
, the track. His leg was almost sever