Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-10


near Cedar Falls that will AFFORD cleo
trio light and power for all the farm
buildings A dynamo has been in
stalled and will be driven by a gaso
line engine. A large storage battery
with capacity of eighty amperes
] viii handle the load when the engine
is not running. Fifty-five tungsten
lamps have been installed in the
dwelling, barn, garage and other out
buildings besides in the yard.
An unknown man was killed a,
Grand Junction on the Chicago g
Northwestern railway. There were
no papers on the body by which he
could be identified. He was about Is
years old, had light brown hair, was
5 feet inches high. weighed 1856
pounds and had blue eyes. A mans
face is tattooed on his left arm.
At a meeting of citizens of Fair
field to discuss way and means of
securing sufficient money to complete
the new county hospital, committee
Of ten was appointed to solicit $6.-
600. This is the sum needed to make
possible q hospital such as is desir.
ed, the $4,000 voted for the purpose
not being Sufficient.
Cecil Russ, 12-year-old son Of DR..
and Mrs. ]. F. Russ, apparently holds
the record for fractured limb. The
lad recently fell from his pony and
broke his leg near the hip. This was
the fourth fracture of the same limb
for the boy in the last nine years.
The family resides at Buffalo Center.
Three people were hurt when a
railroad velocipede jumped the track
near Iowa City. Fred Wachs, Rock
Island foreman, and Misses Anna and
Emma Wachs were dragged thirty
feet In cinder ballast. Their bodies
were torn. cut and bruised. and they
received other injuries.
Senator c. II. Van Law, OF Marsh
alltown, delivered the address to the
graduating class of "a at the West
ern normal at Shenandoah. 1t was
the Twenty-ninth annual commence
ment and was largely attended and
twelve states we're represented in
the graduating class.
SLEEPY" Dixon, the youth who was
under arrest charged with starting
two half-million dollar fires in the
Standard Lumber company yards at
Dubuque a few months ago, but who
was liberated, again is held, being a
suspect of the fire entailing $780,
600 loss last Monday.
The state board of education has
summoned p. G. Holden, of Ames col
lege, TO appear before the board at
its next meeting, which will be held
at Vinton, Sept. Z, when he will be
asked to explain his alleged promotion
of western land schemes while occu-
plying state office.
The Pilot Rock Flowing Match as
ISOLATION has decided to hold its
fourth annual meet, Aug. 81 on the
Patterson brothers farm in Rock
township. This blowing match has
become famous and is annually at
tended by thousands of visitors.
J. E. williams, aged "a. of Oxford
Junction, was hit by q freight train
and his arm badly mangled. He was
taken to Cedar Rapids and the arm
amputated at the hospital but he
had already lost SO much blood that
he died.
Adjt. Gen. Guy z. Logan, of the
Iowa National guard, has announced
the election OF Major Norman P. Hy-
att, Of Webster City, as lieutenant
colonel of the Fifty-sixth regiment.
to succeed Timothy ]. Mahoney, re-
signed.
While diving in the Nodaway river
| at Villisca, Grover Long, who resides
south Of town, struck his head on q
mudbank and injured his spine. The
lower part of his body is completely
paralyzed and he is in serious con-
dition.
Fire destroyed property valued at
more than $4,000 at Spirit Lake. The
ice cream and produce building OF
Andrew Woods was burned with a
loss Of $4,000. The loss on the liv.
cry barn of F. d. Bixby was $1,000.
Farmers of Scott county figure
that the heavy rains OF the past week
added q million dollars to the value
OF their crops The rain came just
in time to save the potatoes and an
average crop now is expected.
State Commissioner of Labor, z.
w. Van Duyn, was in Muscatine this
week to investigate charges made by
the local button workers union that
manufacturers are discriminating
against prominent unionists.
Hurting brick through plate
glass window, robbers succeeded in
| gaining an entrance to the Barnard
Jewelry company at Muscatine, and
escaped after removing hundreds OF
dollars worth of goods.
John w. Glenn, so years old, a
carpenter of Cedar Rapids, committed
suicide by turning ON the gas in his
room at a local boarding house. Ill
ness and dependency are given as
the cause.
Rolla Carriers body has been dis.
covered In the bottom of well on
the farm of Oliver Claridge after be.
ing missing week. He was a
telegraph operator at Drakesville.
Mrs. Nancy Ford and Mrs. Thank.
full Priddy, 90-year-old twins, born in
Hancock county, Indiana. are cele'
brating the Goth birthday at Green.
field. Both are in good health.
The state treasury received Sill.
292.65 into its Golfers from the June
and July tax collections under the
new auto law. In June the collec
lions were $21.266.12 and in July
$90.026.53.
Charles City has been sued by two
| Taxufoh c1ptbfnU man for con mn ha