Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-02-16


elevator company at George, dropped
dead while weighing a load of grain.
One of the improvements planned
for Iowa Falls the coming summer
is Women's club house costing 49,.
500.
Daniel w. Boyer and wife celebrat-
ed their fiftieth wedding anniversary
at Eldora. Their seven children were
present.
The little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Siren was burned to death
when fire destroyed the Siren homo
at Dorchester.
Fifty thousand ears of corn will be
tested as to their terminating quail.
ties, at the plant of the canning COM
pany at Hampton.
Carl Rothe. %, killed himself at
Battle Creek by drinking opium. He
was disappointed at not being able
to marry waitress.
Iowa City Commercial club is plan
ming to organize stock company of
citizens and erect modern hotel t.
cost between 100000 and $25O,000.
Cold, S12; Hans Knudson, SIS; Felix
w. Ross, SIS; David Shepherd, SIS;
Emery Sherman, $40; Elsie A. Speak
man, $12.
According to circular from tn,
Interstate commerce commission rail
road companies can now correct un.
just rates in twenty-four hours i'm
stead of thirty days.
John T. Howard. an aged. homeless
colored man of Perry, has received
notice that he will be granted pen
sion for service in the war, and will
receive $1,000 back pay.
Rev. A. E. Scissor. pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal church at Forest
City died after a three-day illness Of
pneumonia. His death is the second
one there from pneumonia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Harris, aged
81 and 50 years. respectively, living
four miles south of Grand River, will
celebrate their 61st wedding anniver.
sary at their home on March 2S.
Fire smouldering all night threat
ened the destruction of the Walnut
Street Baptist church. the finest in
Waterloo. 1t was discovered after
$1,000 damage had been sustained
d. A. Long, secretary of the Bre-
mer County fair. is a candidate for
secretary OF the Iowa state fair and
agricultural board, the position made
vacant by the resignation of John
Simpson.
Albert II. Minis. so years old, one
of the early pioneers of Polk county,
died at Mercy hospital in Des Moines.
Mr.. Minis settled in Iowa in 1853 and
had made his home in the state I'M
til his death
Rural carriers have been appointed
as follows: Centerville, Noel C. Black
burn (reinstated); Corwith. Bert
tones, substitute Katherine Jones;
stately.
President Taft sent to the Senate
the following nominations of post
masters in Iowa b. II. Tamplin.
Hull; George w Irwin. Merrill; Hol-
ston Naples, Castana; James NJ. Bur
roughs, Springville.
While the nurse was taking his
pulse, DR.. c. w. Rummel, city physi-
clan, of Webster City, passed away.
He had been suffering from pneumon-
la and was very low, but his passing
came most UNEXPECTEDLY.
Adjt. Gen. Guy Il. Logan of the
Iowa National guard has mustered in
company of the guard at Fort
Dodge. The company is to be known
as Company F. Fifty-sixth regiment.
Capt. 8. B. Philpott will be. put in
charge.
The treasury department has select
ed as site for federal building at
Charles City the land at the easterly
corner of Main and Ferguson streets,
which is 132x132 feet. The vender is
the estate OF ]. w. Smith. and the
purchase price is $500.
Mrs. Mamie Clark. widow of Hay
Clark. who brought suit against the
Iowa State Travelling Mems associa-
ton for $4,000 on policy her hus-
band held in the organization, was
awarded a verdict for the amount
with 500 interest in the district
court at Des Moines.
Pensions have been granted to the
following Iowans: Jonas Andrews.
SIS; Melissa C.. Chase. $12: Charles
Croker. SIS: Lorenzo d. Dallison. S.;
James G. Goss. SIS; Ellen Quincy.
s12; Charles W. Kepler. SIS; Joseph
Leggett. SIS: Mary e. Potts. $12:
Thomas s. Sorry. s12; John Sellers.
SIS; Austin Thayer. SIS; William
Thomas, SIS.
Gertrude Bowman. Sioux City, has
been appointed teacher at Rapid City
Indian school. S. ID.
Population statistics of the thir.
teenth census announced included En-.
metsburg. 2.325 for 1910, as compar-
ed with 1854 for 1900.
Rural carriers have been appointed
as follows: Fredericksburg, Herbert
A. Bishop; substitute, Ida NJ. Bishop;
Griswold, John Il. Patch.
Citizens OF Gilmore City, through
the Commercial club, are making a
determined effort to have established
there corn canning establishment
An invention which may be at
tached to gasoline engine to start
It no matter how cold the cylinder
may be and which is the result OF
several years experiments OF Oscar
Peterson, a farmer living near the
Winnebago county line, is attracting
the attention OF machine companies.
Miss Valura Hall of Glenwood has
been taken to a hospital at Omaha
practically blind from dust that flew