Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-11-02

The public schools at Melbourne
have been closed because of an cpl
demic of infantile paralysis.
George H. Pendleton has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Thornburg,
Keokuk county, vice L. A. Woods, de-
ceased.
Postal savings banks viii be es-
tabliehed on Nov. 81 at Ackley, Al
ia, Bellevue, Dunlap, Gowrie. Newell,
New London and Winfield.
Mount Pleasant voters defeated the
proposition to establish new $780,
900 sewer district by vote of 244
to 80 at special election.
George Sebern, of Glidden. while
at work on a windmill north of Car
roll, fell sixty-five feet to the ground.
and died without regaining conscious
ness.
Iowa Wesleyan college celebrated
founders day, the observance being
an annual one in which tribute is
paid those who have aided the insti-
tuition.
Lulu White, of Colo, who fell from
the interurban bridge Sunday, is re-
covering consciousness after ninety
six hours Of sleep and surgeons now
believe she will recover.
Barney Ellis, %, was instantly kill
ed near Missouri Valley, when his
team ran away while he was return
ing from a dance. He was thrown
from the buggy, and his neck broken.
Veynon Blakeslee, of Missouri Val
ley is dead from the effects of in
haling gas from a hard coal stove.
He was born in Ohio in 1928 and had
resided at Missouri Valley for forty
years.
Since the big fire at Mystic . year
ago the town has been rebuilt and
where there were formerly old
weather beaten frame structures,
there are now handsome brick
blocks
Governor Carroll and Adjutant.
General Logan win go to Corning.
November 7th, where they will take
part in the exercises incident to the
dedication of the new armory at
that place.
C. e. Cohoon of Emmetsburg.
prominent attorney and socialist
leader, ex-candidate for the supreme
bench, dropped dead from heart
failure in the federal court room at
Council Bluffs,
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mite, supposed to have been placed
in bundle of grain by some enemy,
partially wrecked the new threshing
machine belonging to Harry and
Jesse Oliphant.
Council Bluffs was chosen as the
location for the next Iowa Baptist
state convention, following spirit
ed contest at the convention. Keo
kuk, Mason City and Washington
had issued Invitations.
The seventh annual exhibit of the
Van Buren, County Poultry associa-
ton is to be held in Keosauqua, De-
cember 1928. The association has
grown to large proportions from the
old Bonaparte association.
The state factory inspector COM
pleted the inspection of the public
buildings at Keokuk. Among other
things the inspector ordered total
OF twenty-seven fire escapes for the
schools and public buildings.
Judge Albrook. who heard the suit
of Mrs. l.. s. Coffin against her hus-
band for separate maintenance says
he will take the case under advise
ment, and that decision may be ex.
pected before the close of the term.
The Iowa Manufacturers associa-
ton will meet at Cedar Rapids, Nov.
to discuss several important ques-
tons. Local manufacturers will en-
terrain the guests at luncheon. G.
A. Wrightman of Des Moines will
make an address.
The first serious rioting of Mus
catine's second labor war occurred
Thursday when a squad of seven
special officers on duty at the Hawk
eye plant charged a crowd of $50
strikers and sympathizers. Eight
arrests were made.
Farmers in the northern part OF
Marshall county are harvesting their
late potatoes, and for a dry year
the tubers are producing a fine yield.
Some fields have gone 100 bushels to
the acre. Delivered on cars, at Lis
comb, in wagon load lots, the pro-
ducers are receiving AZ cents per
bushel.
Clifford oakfeld. aged 15 years,
who ran away from the Iowa soldiers
orphans home and found home
with the family Of H. Long in Dav-
export, was suffocated by gas. The
family had quarter meter which had
run down. The boy tried to light the
gas in his room, and unable to do so
left the jet open. When another
quarter was put in the meter and the
gas started to fow. the boy was suf-
located.
Lowry W. Goode. IS, president Of
the Cairo and Norfolk railway com
pany and a quarter of century ago
"the biggest man in Des Moines, .
committed suicide Thursday in his
room at a hotel in Boston, Mass. Al
ways imbued with the promotion
spirit" Mr.. Goode conceived the idea
Of erecting houses on vast expanse
of territory now North Des Moines.
He founded first the Highland Park
college, now one Of the biggest Pres
byterian institutions in the country.
He erected several hundred homes in
North Des Moines and was respons-
ible for the erection of several large
Office buildings.
George w. Brown. one of the best
known lawyers in Carroll, fell down
the steps of his home, striking on