Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-06-29

One Of the largest brick deals
which has ever taken place In Mason
| City was closed when the Colby Mo.
tor company placed an order with the
Farmers Cooperative Brick & Tile
company for 100000 brick, These
are to be used In the building of the
second mammoth structure to be put
up this year by the company.
! Court officials are trying to locate
Emery Styles, formerly of Hampton.
and inform him that he is worth $780,
600 more than he suspects. He IL
an animal trainer with a circus. He
inherits the money from the Styles
estate, having been adopted when q
child. The supreme court refused to
| give the money to eastern heirs.
The city council of Oskaloosa has
passed a resolution increasing the
saloon license from $1,000 to $4,000.
Seventeen retail houses and nine
brewery agents, now operating, are
to be reduced to eight retail saloons
and one wholesale house after July
l, under the new petition of con-
sent.
As sequel to the Disappearance
OF Louis e. Bourquin, former cash.
Ter OF the New Hartford bank and
Mrs. ]. F. Holman, wife of proprie.
tor of meat market there, Mr.. Hoff.
man has started suit for $4,000 dam.
ages against Mr.. Bourquin, alleging
the alienation of his wife's affections.
Governor Carroll and members OF
the state board of parole were in Ell
dora this week to gain what knowl-
edge they could with reference to the
Rainsbarger brothers and the crimes
for which they are serving long sen.
fences in the state penitentiary. Both
are seeking parole from prison.
The stockholders of the Daven-
port & Muscatine Interurban Rail-
road company have filed with Sec
rotary Of State Hayward articles in
creasing the capital stock of the
company from 100000 to $1,000, 900.
This insures the building of another
interurban railroad in Iowa.
Spencer-Sheldon district were In
Storm Lake attending their annual
convention. The principal addresses
were made by Hon. B. F. Faville, of
Storm Lake, and Mrs. Lucy Smith OF
Sioux Falls, president of the district
postmasters.
The town of Hampton presents a
very busy appearance just now, as
there are three business blocks un.
der construction in the business dis
trict. Also the paving gang is at
work around the park. and there is
another gang at work at the water
plant.
A woman, giving her name as Stel
la Smith, Is alleged to have passed
bogus check Tor $500 ON bauk in
Waterloo. She deposited 5000 as a
savings deposit, carrying away six
hundred. The check has been prov.
en- forgery, and officers were mott
| fed.
Dangling sixty feet above ground,
and each dependent upon the endur-
ance of the other, Roy Greenewald
and George Newton, painters. were
pulled into a third story window of
factory In Monticello by workmen.
who saw the scaffold break.
Upon motion of Mayor James r.
Hanna the city council of Des Moines
ordered the city treasurer to collect
from each saloonist $500 year, in
stead of $500. As the county col.
lects $500. the total amount for each
license is raised to $1,000.
The funeral of George Allanson, Of
Anita, who was struck by No. 8, the
flyer, as he was on his way to church
and instantly killed, was largely at
tended. Mr.. Allanson was in his
saith year and was one of the early
settlers of Cass county.
Percy Bier, 26 yeaxs old, was In,
stantly killed at Ottumwa, when q
young colt he was riding became
frightened at street car and threw
Bier on his head on the car tracks.
His skull was fractured and he lived
| only few minutes.
| The Newell Construction company
OF Cedar Rapids has secured the con-
tract for the erection of an elevator
Of 100000 bushels capacity for the
Iowa Seed company of Des Moines at
Altoona on the line of the Interurban
Railway company.
| With throat cut, skull and chest
crushed and neck broken, the body
of Peter Freiden was found along
side the rails on the Northwestern
right of way near Bellevue. The
finding of the coroner's jury hints at
foul play.
Mrs. J. e. Parker, 81, was instant
ly killed at the home of her son.
Harry, of Winterset, when a shot
gun fell from a wall and exploded.
Mrs. Parker's home was in Mount
Pleasant and she had been visiting
her SON.
| At meeting of threshermen held
in Iowa City, an organization was ef-
fected and the body then proceeded
to boost the prices to be charged for
threshing during the coming season
from rs to SO per cent above the old
prices.
The annual reunion of the Nine
teenth Iowa infantry volunteers win
be held at Fort Madison. Iowa, Sep
TENDER 81. 2S and 20. On the 10th
an excursion will be enjoyed on the
river to Keokuk and return to Burl-
ington.
To provide wet" Fourth of Ju-
ly celebration at Carroll movement
is on foot to have the affair pulled
off on July 8, because the saloons