Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-07-27

Cohpduicu NY luc Ncf. -. ". pohu,
Of the Methodist church, went to the
lakes for three days outing. The
Frances Willard Girls club is to fol-
low.
John Hanson, near Cedar Falls, had
the misfortune to lose twenty acres
Of splendid oats by fire which caught
from an engine of the Illinois Cen
trail railway and consumed the crop
before the blaze could be extinguish-
Cd.
The first arrest for the murder of
Chris Pappas, the Greek interpreter
at the Lehigh cement plant, Mason
City, was made when Officers took
into custody Nick Georgacopalous. 1t
Is believed that Georgacopalous
knows all about the killing.
AS a result of a stabbing ARRAY
here Earl Madden, Of Platte township
. In Coakley hospital at Creston.
with several bad gashes in his arm,
inflicted by Frank Bowman, Of the
lame neighborhood. Both men are
farmers and quite well TO do.
Hanging onto the neck of q bridle-
less horse for more than a block and
finally dragging the animal to its
knees by sheer force, Carl Hoquist
stepped q runaway horse and rescued
Mrs. George Smith, wife Of an East
Des Moines grocer from injury.
The sale of stock for the interur-
ban road between Creston and Macks-
burg is progressing nicely. Macks-
burg completed their apportionment.
Winterset and Creston have raised
their required amounts some time
ago.
Quite a number Of the farmers
around Clear Lake have commenced
threshing and the yield of oats is
very agreeably surprising them. Some
are reporting yields as high as forty
five bushels to the acre and none so
far are reporting less than twenty
five.
Governor Carroll has announced
the appointment of DR.. G. A. Hun
toon, Of Des Moines, as a member
Of the state optometry board. He
succeeds DR.. George McManus, of
Waterloo. DR.. Huntoon is the new
est member of the state board of
health.
The Rev. w. A. Buell., OF Lacey.
while riding a motorcycle at high
speed, collided head on with an auto
mobile driven by Pearl Sparks at a
bend in a road In Oskaloosa. Buell.
was thrown fifteen feet into the am
and was picked up unconscious and
hurried to a hospital.
s. Freedman. of Iowa Falls, has
fled petition In bankruptcy and
lists his liabilities at $4,000 and as
sets at nothing. A meeting of the
creditors will be held July 25. For
year or more Freedman has been
manager of the Blackhawk Chattel
Loan company off Waterloo.
Mrs. William Lindamoode, wife of
= farmer near Pleasantville. has fall
EN- heir to the estate Of her uncle,
w. Fl. Gardner, of Carlisle, Kan. The
estate is left in trust to her, and
comprises property valued at a mil
lion dollars. She will get only the
income. The estate is large in lands
near Kansas City and Wichita
Colonel E. J. C. Bealer, formerly
representative in the lower house,
from Linn county, announcing his
for the senate said: at
has been many years since the boys
Of the sixties had representation in
the senate. and II we are to have an
other representative, it must come
now, for in eight years, most OF us
won't care for public offices"
Construction work has been COM
menced ON the Red Oak & North
western, which road will form a con-
Meeting link and feeder for the Wa
bash system. The first part of the
line will be built from Imogene, Ia,
where 1t touches the Wabash sys-
tenn, to Red Oak. q distance Of thir-
teen miles. Later the line will be
extended northeast from Red Oak
to terminus not yet decided upon.
The line to Red Oak will be COM
pleted within ninety days.
Thirty-four big cases containing
the birds collected by the Layson is
land expedition in their recent trip
10 that locality. arrived in Iowa City
and were delivered to the State uni
versity. C. A. Irwin. Of Chicago, the
landscape artist, who was with the
expedition, and who will work with
Taxidermist Homer r. Dill, arrived
in Iowa City and will commence the
work of arranging the collection.
The result will be vista of the
greatest bird region in the world. and
will attract the attention of scientists
from all over the country to the Iowa
museum.
Large areas of peat beds lying
near Fertile and between that place
and Lake Mills. are on fire. A force
Of men is engages in trying to stop
he burning. but are making little
progress.
"A contract Tor $zU,UUU worth OF I'M
provements has been let by the Off
,ers of the First National bank Of
creston, to c. c. Young. of Mary
rille.
Hon. Hiram Dewell. member Of
he Thlrty-second and Thirty-third
General Assemblies of Iowa. died at
his farm home, north of Clarence.
Nelson Person, Arthur Person, his
ION. and Nelson Johnson were seri-
,usly injured in Clinton when bug
~ in which they were riding collid-
ID with an Iowa and Illinois interur-
ban car.
John It. Mitchell, 80 years old. pio-
leer Of Lisbon, died at his home
here after an extended illness. Mr..
was born in Indiana In 1921