Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-05-11


w. R. Fleming, president Peoples
Savings bank of Mason City, has been
made president of the Farmers Saw
ings bank, Barnard. ~
Joint convention of the Iowa State
Postoffice Clerks and Letter Carriers
set for May s at Dubuque has been
postponed till June IL.
A monument will be erected in the
near future to mark the site of old
Fort Defiance. which stood where the
city Of Estherville Is now located.
Night Policeman Gould Hurlbut of
Mason City, has been discharged
from the force and arrested upon q
charge Of soliciting AMI accepting .
bride.
A cooperative creamery company
has been established at Stolaf by the
farmers of Farmersburg, Bead and
townships. /. J. Palas is pres
ident.
They have an epidemic OF the grip
in Mason City. There are at least
200 cases. Doctors think the disease
will run its course in two or three
weeks.
Madam Louis Combes Favard, SO,
of the French nobility who
died in Chicago. was buried this
week in Keokuk. She came to Amer
lea 81 years ago.
Joseph Stanek, 81 years old, .
wealthy citizen of Chelsea, commit
ted suicide by shooting himself. De-
spondency is said to have been the
cause of his act.
Deputy fish commissioners are In
specting the dams on the Iowa river
and have ordered fish ways installed
at Alden and another in the Harp &
Roberts dam at Cedar Falls.
w. G. Pooley of Jefferson has start
ed suit against o. ]. button and
wife for $4,000 damages, charging
alienation of his wife's affections.
She is the daughter of the defend.
ants.
The controller Of the currency has
received application to organize the
First National bank of Dallas, capital,
$4,000; H. p. Carver. c. T. Gadd, C..
M. Graves. H. A. Miller, and w. Bux-
ton, Jr.
During the storm at Creston this
week four bridges were washed out.
Crops and fruit was damaged by hail.
Several miles of track on the Cum
berland branch were washed out by
a cloudburst.
The Fl. Dodge street cars are tied
up by a strike of motormen and con-
ductors for cents an hour more pay.
Few cars are running, with the local
and few substitutes
operating them.
The saloon petition thus far has
failed to gain the required so per
cent in Anamosa. The petition was
first circulated before the municipal
election, but was not filed within the
thirty-day period of its circulation.
The, jury in the case of Paul ].
Swift, q newspaper man, against the
Rock Island railway has returned a
verdict for $4,000 for the plaintiff at
Waterloo, for personal injuries, result
ing from the Green Mountain wreck
in March, 1910.
After several months of work, the
Iowa State Bankers association has
located w. C. Williams, wanted for
forgery and they caused his arrest
IN Ottumwa. He is also accused Of
having forged checks in Des Moines
and Sioux City.
Mrs. James T. Monahan was prob
ably fatally burned in Des Moines
while trying to save the life Of her
,aby, whose clothes had caught fire
rom an overturned oil heating stove.
rhe baby, who is but one year old, is
also badly burned.
The Iowa Academy Of Science, In
session Just closed at Cedar Rapids,
elected the following officers: Presi-
lent, l.. Begeman. Cedar Falls; vice
Presidents, A. A. Bennett, Ames; c.
Y. Kinney. pes Moines; secretary, l..
T. Ross, Des Moines; treasurer. Geo.
:. Kay, Iowa City.
DR.. w. G. Crandell of Spencer, Ia.
vas elected president Of the Iowa
State Dental society at the session
If the forty-ninth annual convention
n Des Moines. DR.. H. H. Warren OF
Valley was elected vice-pres-
dent. and DIR. Frank Fourt Of Fair
ield was reelected treasurer.
Mayor C. Durant Jones. prohibition
eader, elected mayor OF Perry Is
putting on the lid. He has ordered
Iii markets, grocery stores. clothing
stores and cigar stores closed on
Sunday. John J. Dignan. merchant
refused to close. He was arrested by
he mayor, and awaits trial under
$500 bonds.
There was hard freeze in western
owa but fruit growers say indica-
ions are that little damage was done
o fruit. Plums and cherries were
about the only fruits in danger.
Charles Linsenmeyer, aged 62 years.
of prominent marble firm
If Burlington, died from injuries re-
,eived when struck by train and
thrown into an open sewer.
Allamakee county will lose Its sa-
oons. The new petition of consent
has been a failure and fell short 106
names. There were also 249 with
irawals.
J. w. Davis Co. of Davenport, is
spending $4,000 erecting three hot
houses OF steel and glass covering
city block In which to raise cucum-
bers during the winter.
George Foster has been sentenced
10 Ave years in the penitentiary at
Creston. He escaped from the Tay-
l..k