Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-08-11
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Interesting Items Of News Xxx
Gathered From all Parts Of Iowa


Patrick Cahill of Fort Dodge was
run down and killed by an Illinois
Central train.
Fire destroyed the Chernyk Iron
yards at Marshalltown. A valuable
horse persisted.
The Methodist Episcopal congrega-
ton of Calumet has completed a fine
new parsonage for its pastor.
Station No. 43 of the postofflce at
Davenport will be established Aug.
16 at 2739 Pawtucket avenue.
Wayne w. Bradley of Marion has
been appointed clerk In the interstate
commerce commission Office at Wash
ington.
Both the Catholic and Baptist de-
nominations of Oelwein are building
new church homes Of exceptional
beauty.
]. G. Him has let the contract for
machinery for an ice manufacturing
plant to be installed next year at
Laurens.
Ben Davis of Red Oak was robbed
of 500 by pickpockets on car go
ing to the asylum for the deaf and
dumb at Omaha.
DR.. Campbell Howard, of Montreal,
Canada, has accepted the chair Of
internal medicine at the Iowa State
university at Iowa City.
Mrs. James Cropley, pioneer.
fell down stairs at the home of her
son-in-law, G. A. Kenderdine, in Iowa
City, and fractured her left arm.
]. G. Radcliffe has secured the con.
tract for building the bridges on the
railroad to the mines at Waucon.
There will be seven bridges in all
The First National bank of Web.
ster City and the Union Savings bank
f Davenport have made applications
for the right to receive postal bank
funds.
Plans for the proposed LeClaire
street viaduct at Davenport of the
c. R. I. & P. Railway company have
been filed in the Office of the city
engineer.
Rev. William Gardner of Britt has
accepted a call to the pastorate Of
the Congregational church of Dunlap,
and will enter upon his duties in that
city Sept. /.
Lyle Grower, IS, of Preston, Colo,
employed at the Pilgrim hotel in
Marshalltown as a bell boy, was
crushed under the elevator but will
probably recover.
After living together for over a
third of a century, Mrs. Eliza Wier Of
Story City, has started an action for
a divorce from her husband alleging
cruel and inhuman treatment.
Ground has been recently broken
for a new parochial school of St.
Francis Xavier church, on the site
of the St. Joseph school at Sixth
street and Fifth avenue, Council
Bluffs.
The Iowa State Board of Education
has received permission from the
executive committee of Iowa to ex.
pend $500 from the building tax of
the Iowa State Teachers college, at
Cedar Falls.
Isaac Marse, an escaped convict
from the penitentiary at Canon
Springs, Colo, was identified at Os-
kaloosa. He was arrested by Sheriff
E. L. Valentine and Constable Ed.
ward Kelley.
Civil service examinations will be
held Aug. % at Des Moines, Burling-
ton, Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, Fort
Dodge, Mason City and Sioux City
for stenographers in the government
service at Washington.
Carl Kelley, who is now building a
$4,000 canning plant at Hampton and
who owns and operates a large fac.
tory at Waverly, will next spring
erect still larger plant than any, at
Mason City.
H. p. Nelson, living on the old
Mike Winter place about six miles
southwest of Germania, had a total
loss of his house and all its contents
by fire, which started about 2 o'clock
in the morning.
The contractors commenced the
laying Of the concrete paving at Usage
and are making satisfactory progress.
A large steam mixer Is used for
mixing and a gang Of about thirty.
five men are kept busy.
y Prof. Homer r. Dill, taxidermist of
the University of Iowa museum, has
been called to the University of
Washington museum, but may not
accept, as he has already declined
two alluring offers from other insti.
tutions.
That the country pulpits will in
the near future be filled by profess
ional country clergymen, is the pro-
phesy of President Butterfield, Of
Massachusetts, made before the grad
uate school at Ames.
Pensions have been granted Iowans
as follows: Chas. e. Archer, SIS:
James A. Brown, SIS; Jas. N. Coop
er, SIS; Esther L. Gillispie, s12;
Warren w. Lincoln, $40; Nicholas
Maurice, SIS; Elijah B. Mobely, $24:
Ben H. Sanford, SIS; Abram j. Stats
$24; William Swan, SIS; David e.
Einsley, $24.
w. G. Baxter of Galva and L. e.
Hitchcock of Cedar Rapids have been
appointed forestry assistants in the
forestry service at Washington. f.
w. Larson of Eagle Grove has been
appointed veterinary inspector at
chicago in connection with the bu-