Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-01-27

d Sioux City interurban proJect at
Lake City received notice the first OF
the week to the effect that unless the
remaining unpaid portion of their
shares was settled at once legal pro-
ceedings would be instituted for their
payment. In the vicinity of Lake
City there are many stockholders in
the enterprise; and the recent notice
has more or less disgruntled them. A
few have paid up to save additional
expense, but the majority are deter
mined to pool themselves and stand
a suit on the question as to whether
or not collection can be legally made.
1t is alleged that at the time the To-
cal people subscribed for shares they
did SO with the understanding that
they were to pay but three 10 per
cent assessments and that such mon
ey was to be used in the preliminary
and final surveys of the road AS
such time as active construction be-
gan, the balance was to become due.
The local shareholders are putting up
the claim that the company is not
living up to its agreement, hence the
stockholders cannot be compelled to
pay.
That an assessment Of nearly $1,000
for benefits to streets and alleys in
Nevada township drainage district
No. IL is excessive was the opinion
reached by the city council of Ne
vada and the mayor and city solicitor
I'm ~ q
board OF supervisors and file the pro-
per objections to the levy being
made. The drainage district mention
ed goes through just east of the city
limits and touches hundreds of prop
erty owners. The estimated cost of
the drain is 100000
E. Crittenden has just sold tract
of ten acres southeast of Belle PLANE
to Mr.. Koba of Guernsey for $4,000,
or $3.50 per acre. Not long ago Mr..
Crfttenden bought the place for 3d.
500. A tract of ten acres across the
road from this one sold some time
ago for $4,000, or $500 per acre. These
are but specimens of the increase in
the values of lands near Belle PLANE.
Fourteen loaded coal cars were
ditched three miles west of New
Hampton.
Delbert Church, aged 27, In dead
and his younger brother, Elmer, bad
ly wounded in the arm as the result
of a quarrel Otto Nigling, aged 40, is
in Jail, charged with the crime. The
affair happened at the Fritz Roepke
farm in Lincoln township. The men
quarreled and the Churches kicked
Nigling out of the house. He went
to his home quarter of mile away
and they followed him. At his house
he seized shot gun and fred at
them as they tried to enter.
Ben F. Fox, the second oldest in the
service of any Illinois Central engin-
eer, left on an extended honeymoon
after announcing his marriage last
July to Mrs. F. c. Lacey, trained
nurse, who nursed him through an
illness. They went south, but will
return to Fort Dodge to live perma-
nently.
Eli Thmopson of Mt. Pleasant, aged
10, cut his arm with razor in an
effort to commit suicide. He nearly
bled to death before found He was
Respondent because he had been in
dicted for robbery and was out on
suspended sentence.
Major Meigs, government engineer
in charge of Mississippi Improvement
at Keokuk, has declared that the
work begun on building the big dam
at Hamilton is bona fide and not
merely for the purpose of retaining
the franchise.
Burglars entered the rooms of Miss
Francis Groutz and Miss Alta Tate,
teachers in the East Waterloo schools
while the ladies we're absent at
lecture and stole 500 in cash and
jewelry.
While switching in the yards at
Creston, Iowa, Clarence Milton of
Creston fell from the top of car
and was run over by the train and
killed A defective coupling was re-
sponsible for the accident.
After the inquest over the body of
Cillins at Council Bluffs, the coroner
had the mans wife, Mrs. Grace d
Collins, Needham ,Whitmire, alias
Wright and Chito Calamese, arrested.
No bonds were accepted.
The 2-year-old son of John Gray,
living near Hayden chapel, is in
critical condition as result of falling
into a pan of boiling chicken feed
which his mother had just taken off
of the stove.
New officers have been elected for
the Clear Lake Commercial club and
a campaign to double the membership
has been started. A summer school
next season for visitors is planned.
Herman S. Boyer, Chicago travel
ing man, is in Jail at Iowa City, charg
ed with bigamy. He recently mar
ried Ida Morris of Iowa City He
has a wife and children in Chicago.
Physicians have discovered that it
will be necessary to amputate the
foot of Louis Hamery, who was injur
ed in coasting accident at Burlington.
A telegram from Colfax announces
the death in sanitarium there of
Fred Richardson, wealthy farmer
known all over Hancock county,
C. A. Noble, So, editor of the Belle
PLANE Union, died of typhoid fever,
He leaves a wife and two children.
A. E. Smith, the oldest of twelve.
children was the first of,the family
to die. A feature of the funeral was.
the fact that the pallbearers were six
brothers of the deceased.
Albert F. Dawson, representative
from the Second district, has written