Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-05-18

/ n SmallpOx ep1uemlC mas Cdusou
the closing of the schools in Glen
wood. The republican and demo-
cratic conventions called for Satur-
day there will meet in Malvern as a
result of the epidemic. Jurors cali
ed for the district court have been
excused, and quarantine has been es-
tablished over the state institution
for feeble minded.
The City Federation Of Womens
clubs OF Iowa Falls has chosen dele
gates to the annual convention of the
Iowa State Federation of Womens'
clubs, to be held at Sioux City, May
16 to 20. Miss Mary B. Bliss has
| been chosen chairman from tie third
district. and Mrs. ]. c. Jackson and
Mrs. w. ]. Tebay will represent the
city federation.
Harry Clark, q prisoner In the
county Jail in Sioux City, sentenced
to five years for shooting his mother
in-law, has been placed In solitary
confinement. A stick Of carbon, .
coil of insulated wire and two fine
steel saws were discovered in bas-
ket OF sandwiches sent to tie Jail by
| his wife.
The Bernard Trust and Savings
bank of Dubuque county has been In
corporated. The capital stock is$10..
600. and the president is Michael Cal
lahan. Claude H. Kelley of the Sec
ond National bank of Dubuque will
| be cashier.
The 100-foot bridge two miles south
| OF Harvey on the Wabash railroad
was completely destroyed by fire. The
loss is $1,000. Trains are detouring
over the Iowa Central from Abba to
Given, and the Rock Island via Evans
to Harvey.
While Attorney William Timber
man, of Keokuk, was walking down
the street with Miss Hazel M. Salzer
he proposed to her and she accepted.
Half an hour later he secured mar
riage license and they were married
at noon.
Ed Mortz has been arrested, charg-
ed with the murder Of his brother,
George, at Pocahontas. He asserts
that George was killed by the acct
| dental discharge of shotgun on Apr.
10, but there are rumors Of quar-
rel.
A special grand jury impannelled
to investigate the case of the state
against Torval Anda, accused of the
murder Of Rollo Swales at Clinton,
returned an Indictment against Anda.
The charge is first degree murder.
Ed Doodruff of Davenport has ac-
cepted an offer to- walk 40 miles a
day for 1865 days for which he is to
receive $1,000. He is TO walk from
Chicago to San Francisco, thence to
New York and then back to Chicago.
Mayor A. A. Smith of Sioux City
has amounted that while there will
be safe and sane celebration of
the glorious fourth the small boys
will be allowed to fire firecrackers
and otherwise ENJOY themselves.
City council of Fort Madison has
turned down the scheme for special
election to adopt the Des Moines plan,
asserting that the petition has not
enough names. The promoters will
get new petition.
Alfred Boken. IL years old, was
killed one and one-haif miles south
of Walnut. His team was frightened
by motorcycle. The young man
was thrown into a ditch and his skull
| fractured.
Ed Johnson was fatally injured in
an auto accident while returning
home with party which had attend
ed dance at Hartley. The machine
went into a ditch and struck tele-
phone pole.
A class of 200 Joined the A. o. u.
w. at the state convention at Water
loo, which was opened with a mon
ster street parade. The degree OF
honor is also holding state meet.
ing.
The twenty-second annual conven,
ton of the Council Bluffs district OF
the Women's Foreign Missionary So
ciety of the Methodist Episcopal
church met at Woodbine this week.
Harold Chestek, an employee of the
HartParr company in Charles City,
fell fourteen feet from scaffold in
the moulding department and receiv.
ed internal injuries. He may die.
The cornerstone of the new $4,000
Catholic church, now being built in
Winterset, has been laid. The cere-
monies were in charge Of the Rev.
James A. Troy of Winterset.
Date for the big aviation meet at
Atlantic Of the Moissant aviators
has been set for May Is and 16. 1t
will be the first aviation meet ever
held in Iowa.
John Allen has been arrested on
suspicion of knowing something
about the death of Thomas McGrath,
whose body was found in the river at
Ottumwa.
While Albert Nieman, % years old,
son of Herman Nieman, was planting
corn near Sumner, he was struck by
a bolt Of lightning and Instantly kill
ed.
Bruce C. Lake, private of Company
L, Keokuk, has been appointed regi-
mental commissary sergeant of the
Fifty-fourth regiment, ]. N. G.
DR.. B. F. Keabies, prominent
physician. residing in Pella since
1852, died Tuesday evening, aged SO
years.
Fire destroyed the residence OF
Dan Wilson, a farmer living near
West Point. The place was one OF
historical importance. having been
the scene of the murder Of John
Miller and Henry Leisy in 1s45 by
the Hodge brothers. who terrorized
the country.