Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-01-12
Iowa News
NEwsY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
ALL PARTS OF THE STATE.

ALL PANTS VI The STATE.
e. d. Parker, for thirty years q
railway conductor, died at Cedar Rap
ds.
Frank Mccain, 90, q pioneer resi-.
dent of Dubuque county, passed away
at Fillmore.
w. o. L. Morse, at $500 has been
promoted to $1,000 in the Des Moines
postoffice.
Edith Whipple. formerly teacher
in the Creston schools, is teaching liz
the Philippine islands.
Arthur F. Mauss has been appoint
ed postmaster at Fostoria, Clay coun.
ty, vice A. NJ. Peterson, resigned.
Clyde e. Ellis. an Ames jeweler,
filed voluntary petition In bank
ruptcy. Liabilities $1.532.29, assets
$500.
Robert, the 4-year-old son of NJ. J.
Orr. of Sioux City, fell into tub of
scalding water and was scalded to
death. A
Work on the new Hamburg can
ming factory is progressing rapidly,
the concrete foundations having been
completed.
A monument to the memory of old
soldiers, at cost OF over $500, Is be-
ing erected in the cemetery at Storm
Lake by T. e. Burl.
The following rural carriers have
been appointed. Fayette, Glen A. Por-
ter; Givin, David II. Seaman; Ros-
coe. Elisha Michaels.
Mrs. Roland Burger, Is, died at her
home at Iowa City where she had liv-
ed half-century. Surviving are her
husband and four sons.
Death suddenly overlook Augustus
Marks. veteran of the civil war,
while he was riding to the Marshali-
town home on a street car.
DIR. ]. w. Coakley has purchased
the Paul farm four miles north OF
Osceola. The farm consists of 500
acres and was sold for $4,000.
Mrs. Ellen Berganson. 81, died at
the home of her daughter near Cres-
ton and her body was sent to Lamont,
her former home, for interment.
Francis Kane, IL, was accidentally
shot and killed by his brother, Ed
ward Kane, while hunting in the
woods near their home at Elma.
The city of Clinton has been made
defendant in a damage suit by Ed
ward Breen, whose son, Harold, fell
In an open cellarway. He asks for
s10,242.50 damages.
The two years course in agricul-
ture at Ames was a complete success.
About eighty students were enrolled.
Indications are that there will be q
much larger enrolment next term.
After being shut up for four weeks,
the theatres, skating Kinks and all
public places at Hamburg were again
! opened. The town has been closed
on account of a scarlet fever epidem-
| ic.
Paul Allis. was found guilty OF
Bookkeeping and fined 500 and costs
in Judge Rankin's court at Mason
i City. He appealed to the district
court and put up a cash bond OF
s1c0.
John O'Connor, pioneer resident OF
Webster county, on New Years day
Celebrated his ninety-first birthday. A
dinner was given by Mrs. p. F. Nu-
gent, his daughter, of Fort Dodge.
with whom he lives.
Farmers in northwestern Iowa and
South Dakota are losing large sums
of money through ravages which are
being made In their herds by an.
thrax. Sioux City veterinarians are
watching the disease.
As the, clock struck twelve three
hundred Masons seated at banquet
table in the new consistory temple
at Cedar Rapids, celebrated st. Johns
day by registering mental vow to
never again use profanity.
Frank Clancy Is charged with in.
| timidating a witness. He was arrest
ed while making, 1t is alleged, threats
against Mrs. Lillian Hascal. the COM
planning witness in the case OF the
state VS.. William Clancy.
| Edward ii. Meyers, secretary-treas-
urer OF an ice company, and one Of
the Oldest and most widely known
business men of Cedar Rapids. COM
| mitted suicide by shooting himself In
the mouth with revolver.
| Eydrophobia caused the death OF
the 4-year-old daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. l.. A. Swanson OF Boone. who
was taken i'll early in the morning
and died sool after. The child was
| bitten Oct. by the family dog.
Ferdinand Burkhardt, Thomas Cava,
naugh, Frank p. Johnson, Levi T. Me-
line, George C. Moore. Warren IL.
Rambo, w. Boyd Pride, Des Moines
letter carriers. drawing $500 per an
mum have been promoted to $500
each.
The reorganization OF the City Park
Hospital company by the addition OF
other physicians. the purchase OF Q
lot on the corner OF Washington and
Sixth and the proposal to build .
building to cost $4,000 was announc.
ed at Mason City by the hospital
members.
A message from Los Angeles an
nounces the death there OF w. X.
Boardman, OF Nevada, former state
dairy commissioner OF Iowa. Board
mans death was due to stroke OF
| paralysis.
C. r. Bishop of Altoona and c. o.
Garrett OF Mitchellyille. were the
principal speakers at the Jasper
county corn contest given by Col
fax store.
Jonathan Moon OF Red Oak. con-
| victed of forgery. was sentenced TO
three and one-half years in the pen