Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-07-21
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The Modern Woodmen of America
are arranging to give a big picnic
at Smithland, August 3.
Civil service examinations for
rural carriers will be held at James
vile, Uewton end Vail. August D.
DR.. Henry Prentiss of the chair OF
anatomy in the University of Iowa, at
Iowa City, was operated on for appen-
dicitits.
Jas. A. Young, Williamsburg con-
tracing plasterer, was killed near
Ely He was struck by a fast Rock
Island train.
Samuel Sampson, Of Clinton, was
instantly killed in Rock Island by be-
ing run down by a Burlington pass
enger train.
The Iowa Amendment association
has started a state wide campaign for
$4,000 to be used as a prediction
campaign fund.
The first American flag in Iowa was
made by slave woman, and was
hoisted in Dubuque, July 4, 1884, at
II o'clock noon.
An explosion al the Northwestern
railroad shops at Mason City, resulted
in the serious sca,ding of A. e. Gund.
lack, a shopntan.
The Hawkeye Pearl Button COM
pany will begin the erection of plant
at Oskaloosa at once. The new fac
tory will employ 200 men.
Henry Groenewold, residing four
miles northeast of Grundy Center WIS
seriously injured by being kicked by
horse. His skull was fractured.
According to figures complied by
Recorder Jongewaard of Sioux county
the price of land in the county for
the past three years averaged $91.53.
Mrs. M. j. Kelly, mother of Mrs.
George F. Poorman, of Des Moines,
died at hospital in Rochester, Mimi,
where she had gone for treatment.
Rev. f. A. Corners has resigned as
pastor af the Storm Lake Baptist
church to take effect, August /. He
has been pastor for the past two
years.
George p. Day, Cashier of the Mer-
chants National bank of Sioux City
died in hospital following an opera
ton. He had been In the banking
business there since 1883.
Count Nathoo, after spending
twenty days in the penitentiary at
Fort Madison, returned to Des Moines
He was released on bond pending
the appeal of his case to the supreme
court.
w. S. Richards, in the treasury de-
partment at Washington, formerly Of
Iowa, has been given an increase in
salary from $4,000 to $4,000. He is
the oldest disbursing officer in the
treasury in point of service.
Mrs. Mary G. Nicely of Linden,
member of the executive committee
of the state suffrage association and
at one time on officer in the organi-
cation, died at her home in Linden.
She had been i'll for several months.
While hanging hay door on a
Riceville, John Stanton, carpenter,
fell when a swinging staging gave way
to the cement floor below. a distance
of twenty-five feet. His right arm was
broken in three places and his collar
bone fractured
A common water moccasin bit Will
Lorack of Iowa City in the face in the
Iowa river, and the young man is
suffering severely from the poisoning
His face is distorted, despite the
general belief that the serpent Of the
type noted is harmless.
Sixty-one years married is the
record of Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander
Winston. They were married in 1S49
near Evansville, Wis, and in 1852
moved to Fayette county and have
since been almost continual residents.
Fifty-eight years residence in one To-
cality and sixty-one years married Is
a record few have.
Pensions have been granted the fol-
lowing Iowans: George r. Adams,
SIS; James Beck, SIS; Harvey E.
Blackburn, Sc; Evelyn F. Brown, $12;
Clementine Carper, $12; Julia A..
Champlin, $12; David H. Fillmore, SIS;
Joseph M. Miller, SIS; George W..
Mitchell, SIS; Henry H. Port. SD;
Juliette Staph, $12.
Twenty-four members Of the M. W..
A. camp Of Mapleton, with as many
teams and cultivators went to the
home of Mrs. r. H. Smith, living five
miles south Of there, and plowed her
entire crop Of corn. Mrs. Smiths
husband, who was a Woodman, was
struck and killed by lightning recently
while hitching up his team prepare
tory to going to the field to work.
Farmers and others interested IN
the building of farmers elevator at
Brunsville have raised enough money
to build 10000 bushel capacity ele-
vator.
Samuel Patterson, colored, buried
under bales of hay spilled from an
overturned wagon at Iowa City, was
internally injured and may not re-
cover.
Arlie Kerr, aged IS, the only supper;
of his widowed mother, Mrs. There sa
Kerr, living one mile west of Seymour
committed suicide by sending bullet
through his brain.
Capt H. B. Meyers of the Sixth cav.
airy is detailed for duty with the or
ganized militia of Tennessee during
the rife competition to be held at
Catoosa, Ca, in August.