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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
BRAYTON AND OAKFIELD

Calvin Dimick and family returned
Sunday from their trip to Mission, Texas.
The four children of f. B. Heath re-
turned with them. Mr.. Heath will
come back in October.
Ward Smith has purchased the VIM.
Pardee stock of general merchandise at
Oakfield. Mr.. Pardee will give his at
tention to farming.
Mrs. Viggo Rasmussen has returned
from visit of several weeks with her
parents, Mr. Jorgensen and wife at
Elk Horn.
Mrs. Roy Gaily returned to her home
in Kansas, Monday, after two weeks
visit with her aunt, Mrs. Walt Temple.
Nels L. Hansen of Atlantic sold his
farm north of town Friday, to Hans B.
Hansen for $3.50 per acre.
Mrs. John Cannon and children of
Red Oak spent Sunday with her brother
Isaac Smith and family.
A baby girl was born to L. p. Ras-
mussen and wife, August 13. Mother
and babe doing nicely.
Will Woodward and son, Charles, of
Atlantic, were guests at the Boy Her
rick home, Sunday.
Miss Kathleen Koob has gone to Lake
Okoboji with party of Anita friends
to spend week.
Chautauqua in Atlantic and visited Mr..
and Mrs. Enigh.
Mrs. L. b. Jennings of Audubon was
guest at the l.. G. Heath home,
Tuesday.
John johnson and son, Frank, of
Adair were calling on Brayton friends,
Sunday.
Irving Miller of Axtell, Nebraska, Is
visiting relatives at the L. f. Miller
home.
Harry Cotton of Kearney, Nebraska,
was calling on Brayton friends, Monday.
Mrs. Arthur Andersen spent Sunday
with Miss Nellie lookout in Dexter.
Miss Vivian Bartlett is visiting at the
Berg home in Atlantic this week.
Roscoe Koob is visiting his sister,
Mrs. Luther Hensley in Extra.
Mrs. Floyd Freeman is spending the
week in Extra with friends.
Nels p Hoegh made a business trip
to South Dakota, Monday.
ID. b. Beers and wife were shopping
in Atlantic, Thursday.
Miss Arlene Bartlett spent Sunday
with friends in Extra.
f. J. Jenkins and wife left Tuesday
for visit in Omaha.
Willie Hoegh was business visitor
in Omaha last week.
Mis- Larsen went to Audubon on bust
ness, Tuesday.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
Queer Lot.

Men are of queer combinations.
When all is said they are only men and
when that is said the greatest puzzle OF
the ages is before US for solution. Men
do not know other men. No man knows
himself.
There is always something good and
something bad in a man. The fact is
that if the good outweighs the bad the
result is a pretty good sort of human
being. The cruelest man loves some
body. The iron man of business has
a vulnerable point in his armor. John
ID. Rockefeller breaks down and weeps
in an agnoy of tears when his mother
less grandchildren fling themselves
into his arms. John w. Gates, gambler,
wept with his head on the table before
him when the Chicago Tribune first
published the story of his gambling
methods because, now mother must
know" And Gates, Napoleon of the
stock market whose heart never flut-
tered in the cold cruelty OF his COM
binations which ruined men by hun
dreds, smiled upon the reporter who
asked him if he were organizing an
other steel trust, to say: Something
better, boy; I'm writing a letter to
mother"
We are queer creatures queerly put
together and queerly constituted, Most
of US are not better than the rest and
most of the rest are neither better nor
worse than the most of us. There's
so much bad in the best of US; so
much good in the worst of us. In men
whom men condemn as i'll, we find so
much of goodness still; in men whom
men pronounce divine we find so much
of sin and blot we hesitate to draw
the line between the two, where God
has not"
Perhaps we do not look close enough
into the impelling motives Of men, into
their heredity, their environments, all
the forces seen and unseen which speak
in action which we sometimes do not
understand. If we did, perhaps we
should make excuses for our neighbors
as for ourselves Exchange.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
Picture Agent Badly Beaten.

Last Thursday at the home of Frank
Garroutte, northwest of town, a lively
time was had when according to the
report picture agent became abusive
and insulted adaughter of Mr.. Garroutte,
His son, Emery, heard the vile insulting
remark and he gave the agent good
beating of which he was deserving,
laying him up for repairs at one of the
hotels in Audubon. He was not able
to appear at the trial that was to have
been held Tuesday. There are some
gentlemen among the agents that have
been here but a few this summer seem
to take offense when people do not give
them an order and there have been
several complaints about them. A few
weeks ago one became abusive to a lady
alone in her home and when she went
to telephone for an officer he stepped
between her and the phone and would
not let her use it. Mr.. Garroutte's
treatment is about as good as any for
them.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
Our Girls In Camp.

Anita's trial, or Our Girls In Camp,
is the title of play that will be given
by group of Audubon young ladies
at an early date. The rehearsals are
under the supervision of Mrs. Ed. Finch
whose well known ability along this
line insures a fine entertainment. The
proceeds will be used as nuclues of a
scholarship fund. The money will be
loaned on easy payments. without inter
est, to ambitious and worthy young
people of Audubon and vicinity who
need little help to enable them to con-
tinue their school work. A committee
of prominent men and women will at
tend to the loans.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
Farquhar To Salt Lake City.

Arthur Farquhar will leave tomorrow
for Salt Lake City and the southern
part of Utah to inspect land PROPOSE
ton in the interest of company of
gentlemen here who are DESTROYS of
getting first hand information. We
understand there is opportunity to So
cure homestead in dry farming sec.
ton without residence provided the
land is put under cultivation. Perhaps
these gentlemen have become infatuted
with dry farming here this summer and
want more of il.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
First M. e. Church.

Services for next Sunday will be as
am, subject, Streams In The Desert, !"
Epworth League at Z pm, sermon
lecture at 3 pm, subject 1T. Dewitt
Talmage." Conference is near at hand.
Only few more weeks and this con-
ference year shall pass into history.
Let us be up and doing. All reports
and subscriptions are due September 1st
Prayer-meeting and bible study We'd
nesday evening of each week at pm.
Choir practice Friday evening at p. m.
All are cordially invited.
j. II. FREEDLINE; Pastor.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
For Sale.

800 acre farm in Pocahontas county,
Iowa. Corner right in town, buildings
one block from creamery and depot.
Fine grove and fruit trees. a beautiful
building site facing south. Ten room
house nicely finished. Cattle barn 44x80,
"a feet posts. with stanchians for about
fifty cattle, two silo bins, feed cutter.
corn grinder. 16 H. P. gasoline engine
and room for 100 tons of hay. Horse
barn for Is horses, with hay loft and
grain bins. Windmill and three water
tanks. Farm fenced in six fields. For
further information enquire of F. s.
Watts, First National Bank $50
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
President vetoes statehood Bill.

In special message to Congress
Tuesday, President Taft vetoed what
is known as the statehood bill for the
admission of Arizona and New Mexico.
His veto was caused by clause in
the constitution adopted by Arizona for
the recall of judges when their decisions
do not suit the popular notion. He did
not spare his words in denouncing what
he calls 'legalized terrorism" under
which the judges would make their
decisions. 1t has been demonstrated
again and again that it is mighty
good thing to have a conservative, level
headed man in the White House.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
The Tragedy OF AndersonvIIle.

j. w. b. Cole showed us book yes
terday entitled 1.-The Tragedy of Ander-
sonville" by General Chapman one of
the two survivors of the military court
that tried and convicted Captain Wirz
the Commandant of that prison during
the war. A full account of the trial is
given and the testimony makes the
blood run alternately hot and cold to
read of the atrocities practiced upon
helpless starving men, over 1900 OF
whom lost their lives.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
Gone To Lawrence, Kansas.

The Atlantic Daily News says that
E. d. Powell of Extra passed through
the city with his family enroute
to their new home in Lawrence, Kansas
Mr.. Powell was formerly postmaster at
Extra, but resigned some time ago and
will now go into the land business,
handling Texas lands. 1t was the in
tention at first to locate at Fort Worth,
Texas, but after looking up the school
facilies there, Mr.. Powen decided to
locate at Lawrence on account of the
superior advantages offered by the State
University of Kansas. which is located
at Lawrence. Their new address will
be 612 Louisiana street, Lawrence.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
Change Predicted.

Weather men all wrong. Bulletin of
Constant Fair an error. A cooling
draught coming. Will be in the Park,
Saturday night. An Ice Cream social
by the Epworth League where they will
serve Smiths best Ice Cream for 10c. 1t
will cool you off, make you happy. Try it.
You will help the League too. Don't
be a crouch. The breezes to fan you,
Ice cream to cool you, Pretty girls to
wait on you. All for only 10c.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
Temperature Pretty High Again.

On Thursday the tenth of August
the mercury ran up to 102 in the official
thermometer down at Des Moines. Then
it cooled off for a day or two but
warmed up Sunday again and since then
it has been 100 or more for several days.
Many places in the state have had good
rains but it continues very dry round
about Audubon. The corn continues
to hold up remarkably well and the
general opinion seems to indicate half
a crop.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
Former Senator Nichols Dead.

Col. s. d. Nichols, formerly senator
from Panora of the Guthrie, Dallas and
Audubon district, died in California
last week, his wife having passed away
short time ago, of which fact he was
not made acquainted on account of his
feeble condition. Col. Nichols for years
was a prominent politician of the state.
He was also lawyer Unmarked ability.
At one time he owned great deal of
real estate around Panora, also the
Touring mill, but of late years it seems
most of his wealth slipped away from
him. He made gallant record dur
ing the war.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
Automobile Tax Received.

County Auditor Witthauer has re-
ceived from the treasurer of state a
draft for $690.84 as our county's share
of the automobile tax for the first half
year beginning July 1, 1911. After the
state deducts Is per cent for expenses
the balance or IS per cent is divided
among the counties in proportion to the
number of civil townships in each
county. This tax will constitute a
special road fund to be used under the
direction of the board of supervisors.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
Cows Starve For Water.

The Kirkman correspondent of the
Harlan Tribune says that Jerry States
lost five fine cows from lack Of water.
He turned the animals into the pasture
supposing there was water in the ditch
and did not go to see them for two
weeks. Sunday, Ed Fountain was
walking through the pasture and dis
covered the dead cattle. the others were
so weak they were helpless. The hor-
ses that were in the pasture had lost
about 300 pounds each. The States
were attending the Chautauqua, so Mr..
Fountain telephoned the neighbors and
they gave the suffering animals water.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
Reunion Down At Grant.

The nineteenth annual reunion of the
veterans of Cass and Montgomery
counties will be held down at Grant on
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
August %, 90, and "a: Among the
speakers will be Judge Deemer, Con-
gresham Towner, and Senator Kenyon.
A special train from Atlantic will run
down each morning and return after
the program at night.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
New Machinery Hall.

It is announced that the new ma
chinery hall for the State Fair which
was authorized by the last legislature
will be completed before the opening
day of the Fair, August "a, and it
will be filled with machinery and i'm
Elements. 1t will be the largest hall
of the kind at any fair in the country
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
The Old settlers Meeting.

On tomorrow and Saturday there
will be an Old Settlers meeting at Elk.
ira. The program will consist of anad-
dress by Hon. Geo. w. Cullison of Har.
Ian, and short speeches by others. The
music will be furnished by The Extra
Cornet Band, Freeman's Drum Crops,
and the Glee Clubs of Audubon and
Extra. Fire works Saturday evening.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
Merritt's Body Recovered.

Darwin L. Merritt, of Red Oak, who
was assistant engineer on the battleship
Maine when it was blown upin Havana
harbor, belonged down at Red Oak.
His body. which is the only one yet
identified is being brought to the United
States on the cruiser North Carolina,
and will be shipped to his old home for
burial
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
Girls Seek College Work.

Iowa girls are more and more COM
ing to appreciate the advantages of
the state college in giving them train
ing for the useful things of life. The
demand for the scholarships awarded
at the Iowa State Fair is increasing
and this year the amounts offered
have been made greater. The girls
get their scholarships on work in do
nestle science.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
List OF Audubon Teachers.
Superintendent, H. p. Smith.

Superintendent, H. p. Smith.
HIGH SCHOOL
Principal, G. E. Lauterbach.
Assistants,
Caroline Schichtl
lisa Lighthall
Jennie f. Cook
Bertha Ross
GRAMMAR GRADES
Mabel Keith
Mary Davis
Ella Hurd
5th grade, Lillian Stetzler.
4th grade, Lenora Buckner.
3rd grade, Ella Mcclure.
2nd grade, Marie Wolff.
LIST grade, Lura Preston.
Kindergarten, June Gray.
SPECIAL TEACHERS.
Music and Art, Carrie M. Berger.
Domestic Science, Bertha Ross.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
Big Auto Show.

A big auto show will be held as u.s.
ual at the State Fair this year. An
other fine feature will be the lady re-
lay and chariot races with twenty
head of thoroughbred horses in four
mile relay races and other thrilling
events.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
The Danish Lutheran Church.

Young Peoples Meeting this evening
at o'clock. Sunday school Sunday
morning as usual at $3.50. Services
Sunday at 2:30 p m, and in the evening
at o'clock.
REV. ]. p. CHRIsTIANsEN, Pastor.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17

Get Col. M. 8. Kness to cry your
sale. He always gets the highest prices.
Phone $50, Audubon. Iowa 39tf.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
R. F. cHILDs, M. D.

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Once rooms
over Frick sdrug store building. Audubon. IL
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17

"A new hitching rack was placed at
the Chas Bagley corner last Thursday.
This rack will be used by the mail
carriers teams only up to 10 o'clock in
the morning.
Emil Bilharz and wife and Mrs.
Agnes Stotts and daughter Miss Myrtle
went to Sac City Thursday last in the
Bilharz car to visit with Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas who formerly ran hotel in
Audubon. They returned home late
Friday night.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17

Rev. B. s. Denny yf Des Moines
came to Audubon Saturday and preach
ed at the Christian Chdrch Sunday. He
is State Secretary of the Missionary
Society and whils here will look after
the needs of minister and other mat
ters for the church
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17

Mrs. w. w. Smith went to Allan
tic Friday morning to meet her dapgh-
ter Miss Thressa who returned from
New Mexico where she visited with rel
atives for some time.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-16
REMNANTS OF THE ROW.

Indianapolis News: The statesmen of
China must find it a most pleasant relief
to demand indemnity instead Of to pay It.
They at least are fully familiar with the
formalities observed In such matters.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: Poor Mexico!
First, war. Then earthquake And now a
demand for indemnity by the Chinese gov
ernment and terrible threat of a Chinese
warship to blow UP the reccnstructing
nation.
New York Tribune: The passage Of
Mexican troops and arms across United
States territory under bond to get at the
insurgents in Lower California is an I'M
usual incident but it would be !ong and
tedious Job for Mexico to ferry its troops
across the gulf to the peninsula, and the
United States is almost as much inter
ested as Mexico itself IN having that pes
tiferous ruction promptly suppressed.
Boston Transcript: Chinese naval
demonstration against Mexico is limited by
some dispatches. II this report ls anything
more than the coinage of some tired CORE
spondent under the necessity os ''senoIng
something China is indeed ambitious The
Chinese effective navy is made up of half a
dozen cruisers, the largest Of which is the
Hal Chi of 400 tons. but Mexico's fleet
is even less formidable being mainly small
gunboats. 1t is probable that the friendly
offices OF the United States will oe suffi-
Client to deprive the world of a nautical en-
counter between the "dons" and the
'chinks"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-16

Graves goes into print in another
New York newspaper to say that
both Mr.. Bryan and MIR. Hearst are
for Champ Clark as the democratic
presidential nominee. In spite of his
faults Ton the wool tariff they love
him still. Hearst. however, has not
reviled him and the other democrats
who have opposed Bryan on this
schedule.
In this evidently we'll planned con-
cert Of action of Messrs Bryan
and Hearst, Messrs. Wilson. Har-
mon ct al should find a note OF def
mite warning to be we'll on their
guard. In the meantime, so far as is
known, neither Bryan nor Hearst has
gone to the extent Of losing sight Of
the possibility OF his own Individual
candidacy, which is ever on tap, need
ing only the psychological conditions
to develop it.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-16
Our Champion Abroad.

1t has remained for royal England
to make Jack Johnson really under
stand what it means to be the cham
pion pugilist of the world. When
Johnson and his party arrived at Lon
don to attend the coronation ceremon-
les the crowd that had gathered to
greet the black battler was quite too
much for the police to handle and
other celebrities, who had gone to the
depot to meet friends, were swept off
their feet by the horde of his admirers.
If any American devotee has feared
that our champion would not be prop
erly honored in England, let him scan
this excerpt from London cable
gram:
An automobile was In waiting for John
son. and, bowling his acknowledgment,
smiling and showing his mouth of gold,
Juggling the mouthpiece OF a gramaphone,
johnson shouldered his way to the machine.
He guarded the eight-karat stone he wore
with one hand until he was safely In the
automobile.
MRS. johnson. like johnson, was loaded
down with diamonds. There was with him
Tom Flanagan, brother OF the hammer
thrower. and his manager, Monohan, and
Cutler, his sparring partners and his negro
chauffeur. johnson was driven to a flat
that had been rented for him In Shafts
bury avenue. While appearing here at
the Oxford Music hall he will reside there.
The reception accorded TO johnson at
Plymouth, where he landed, was a great
demonstration. When the German liner
arrived In the harbor and the boat put out
Tor the mall and the passengers who were
coming ashore, It was surrounded by
smaller craft with persons anxious TO catch
4 sight Of Johnson as he came down the
sangplank OF the liner to the mail boat.
Evidently there is no race prejudice
in England, or at least, our champion
did not notice 1t On his landing, nor
any dimunition in the worship of the
manly art" scientifically practieed by
burly bruisers.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-16
Ice Prices in Omaha.

Within the last month the price Of
ice delivered to households in Omaha
has been raised 25 per cent, or from
81 for 1,OO0-pound coupon book to
IS for the same book.
Ice is a household necessity during
the summer months in Omaha and the
burden of the outlay for ice falls
many times heavier on the poor than
II does on the rich.
An arbitrary increase Of % per cent
in the price of this commodity means
either deprivation and suffering to
many people who cannot afford 1t or
a pinching Of expenditures for other
necessities.
The Bee has been investigating the
price of ice in nearby cities and finds
that in all of them 1t is much lower
than in Omaha; at least as low as it
was in Omaha before the recent raise
In most cities the price of delivered
ice is uniform winter and summer,
and in some cities there is actual COM
pCIibAOh VNIWSGh ASC COlhpdhlCc lOA
business.
In Omaha all the circumstantial
evidence points to an ice combine de-
termined to gouge the last penny out
of the people who cannot help them
selves. 1t increases the price just at
the time when ice is needed, and the
increase, so far as we can learn, is
exacted identically by all the COM
panies doing bushes here.
We had fight against the Ice trust
in Omaha a few years ago, but evil
IDENTIFY it did not accomplish perma-
nent results. Another fight by the
official authorities to break up this
combine and bring the price of ice in
Omaha down to where 1t belongs
would be popular and timely.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-16
Following Them IN.

According to reliable advices,. the
administration will countenance no
evasion Of the supreme court decisions
by either the Tobacco trust or Stand
ard OIL, but will compel the dissolu-
ton Of both under the terms of the
courts ruling. Furthermore, it pro-
poses to follow these decisions as its
guide in dealing with other trusts un-
til monopolistic combine has been ac-
tually, as well as theoretically, done
away with.
That is, indeed, a large task to I'M
dertake, but none too large for SO
great power as that lodged in the
federal government. Whenever It
takes a firm enough stand against the
existence of unlawful combinations.
then 1t will have to cease. But, of
course, to take such a stand requires
harmonious cooperation of all depart
ments of government, judicial and leg
islative, as well as executive, and that
Is why progress has been slow hereto
fore.
But 1t must be encouraging to the
people to have this assurance, that the
administration intends to make the
most OF the courts decisions in these
two pivotal cases. Unless the two
trusts involved dissolve in accordance
with the courts DEGREES within the
specified time of six months the gov
eminent will step in and do it's own
dissolving. Right here 1t is of inter-
est to note that at the time the de-
cisions were handed down in both in
stances the trust magnates indicated
prompt readiness to comply with the
courts mandate, yet this public decla-
ration by the administration Just now
would seem to suggest that It's credul-
ity had not been over-aroused by the
trusts proteststions of good faith, and
does not propose to sleep on its
victory.