Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-06-01

ana academies OF the united states,
according to word received from the
war department, nine hundred fifty
three schools competed. Iowa City
has thus won the John Jacob Astor
trophy, the greatest high school tro-
ply open to rifemen in the United
States.
Five officers of the Iowa National
guard left for San Antonio, Tex, to
participate in the maneuvers of the
regular army. They are Maj. E. C..
Worthington and Capt. Guy s. Brew
er Of Des Moines, Capt. Frank Muir
ply Of Sioux City, Capt Vern Hale
of Fort Dodge and Captain Lang of
Muscatine.
Senator Gore of Oklahoma, and DR..
Frederick Cook, the arctic explorer,
are to be the chief attractions at the
Clear Lake Chautauqua, which opens
for ten days the last week in July.
w. ]. Bryan is to speak at Forest
City on July 10.
President Taft may visit Des
Moines in September when he makes
his swing around the circle in the
West. He has been invited to do so
by Senator Cummins and others. He
has taken the matter under considera-
ton.
Pleading that embalmers might be
recognized as professional men, r.
r. Mcbride, president of the Iowa
Funeral Directors association, deliv-
cred his annual speech before the
thirty-first convention at Des Moines.
Edward S. Harlan, of the Iowa
Trust and Savings bank, Atlantic,
was named receiver of the Atlantic
Northern & Southern Railway COM
pany by Judge W. R. Green. He 10
ordered to sell the road by July "a.
John P. Miller, young farmer near
Britt, thrust his head in the wheel
of gasoline engine which had stop
ped on dead center 1t suddenly
started, catching his head, crushing
1t and killing him instantly.
In pursuance with an opinion by
the county attorney that the method
of taxing national banks in Iowa Is
illegal the Scott county supervisors
cancelled the assessment of one of the
Davenport national banks.
By two to one vote proposition
for an electric lighting system for
Dallas Center carried at the special
election. The Abel Mill company has
the franchise and the system will be
in operation in November.
The Iowa association Of trained
nurses opened their annual conven-
ton in Waterloo with nearly 100
members of the organization present.
A program of special interest to the
visitors was given.
Des Moines Shriners, including the
Arab patrol of forty members, went
to Marshalltown by special train for
ceremonial session. The train car
ried between 100 and $50 Shriners
from Des Moines.
At the annual meeting of the direc-
tors and stockholders of the beet SUI
gar company at Waverly, it was de-
cided important engagements of the
plant are necessary to take care Of
this years crops.
Vince Marenso will spend eight
years In Anamosa prison for killing
Paul Stepkevich during beer drink
ing bout at Centerville. Judge Hunt
er pronounced sentence after he
pleaded guilty.
M. ]. Mclaughlin, aged 30, a c. NJ.
& st. p. switchman from st. Paul,
fell from a c. & N. w. freight in Full
ton yards in Clinton, and was killed,
his head, arm and leg being ampu-
tated.
The Rebepah lodges of the northern
district of Iowa, comprising seventeen
lodges, assembled in annual convent
ton in Marble Rock with nearly four
hundred delegates in attendance.
Ray, the 4-year-old son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. C. A. Randall, of Lake Mills, fell
from the corn planter and scratched
his face, from which blood poisoning
set in and caused his death.
Articles of incorporation for the
Loyal Labor league, an organization
of wage earners banded together for
mutual aid, were filed with the coun-
ty recorder at Waterloo.
Mrs. Freeman r. Conway, the cor
responding secretary of the Iowa Fed
Grafton of Women's clubs addressed
the Boone federation at a luncheon
given yesterday.
Dean Reynolds, son of ID. c. Rey-
nolds, of Elliott, shot himself in the
hand with rife, which he thought
unloaded. He was taken to Red Oak
for an operation.
Judge Smith Mcpherson will close
federal court in Des Moines and leave
for Kansas City. where he has an i'm
portant Injunction matter to attend
to.
Frank Stolba, sexton of Linwood
cemetery, Cedar Rapids, is Ill. having
been chewed by his own dog and shot
by his son, all by accident.
Captain A. F. Hollinghead. 81, one
of the old time steamboat men Of
Clinton, is dead.
Mrs. Augusta Precher, Of Charles
City, tried to commit suicide by TAX
ing paris green.
Lightning started fire in the at
tic of the George Lehman home in
La Porte.
James R. Wood, of Ames, has been
appointed a craftsman in the war de-
partment.
J. L. Carney, president of the Iowa
State Bar association, has completed
the program for the annual conven-
ton of the association, which will be
held at Oskaloosa, Iowa, June 20 and
80.
The body of Francis Shaub. 5-year-