Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-04-27
| Iowa News
NEwsY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
ALL PARTS OF THE STATE.

rev. ". ~. rant mas Deen selected
rs pastor of the Congregational church
at Eagle Grove.
The cornerstone of the new Meth
odist Episcopal church in Rolfe was
laid Sunday with appropriate exer.
cises.
President Taft nominated the fol-
lowing Iowa postmasters: Erastus T..
Roland, Eldon; l.. H. Hinkley, ST.
courtney.
After swallowing pills found on the
table the 1s-month-old child of A. p.
Johnson Of Marshalltown, died in con-
vulsions.
Fire at Epworth destroyed four
business blocks including both tele-
phone exchanges and the Epworth
News office.
Thomas Murray, an old railroad
man, was badly scalded at Deep Riv-
or by the blowing out OF Q water plug
on his engine.
Mary Francis Kennedy, aged 76,
died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
F. e. Means, in Boone. The body
will be taken to Danville, ILL.,, for in.
terment.
J. A. Goodell, formerly of Des
Moines, has just finished a campaign
of raising $4,000 for the erection Of
a new Y. M. C. A. building at Kalis-
pell, Mont. .st
g. e. Stayner, secretary of the ex-
tension department at Ames, has been
chosan IN tho positi1p - s,,doo oax~
cate with tho rank Of colonel in the
!. o. o. F.
Major General G. M. Dodge, the
only army commander left of those
who won fame during the civil war,
celebrated his S0th birthday in Coun-
Gil Bluffs recently.
Miss Florence Foster of Iowa City
has been elected assistant to Mrs.
Keller, who is in charge of the wo-
mans dormitory OF the University Of
Nebraska at Lincoln.
The Woodbine Choral club, assisted
by Miss Dollie Burgess reader, will
give an entertainment at the Method
list church Friday for the purpose Of
raising funds for the public library.
T. Beckon killed himself with a re-
volver in Graceland cemetery In
Sioux City. The body was found by
workmen. 1t is said that dependency
over domestic troubles was the cause
of the act.
Fire at Boone destroyed the build
Ing and badly damaged the machin-
cry in which was located the dyna
mos used by the Chicago & North
western railway in hosting coal to
the coal chutes.
Herbert Rugh, formerly Of Cedar
Rapids, has been awarded a prize of
$4,000 for drawing the best set of
plans for the new hospital to be erect
ed at Winnipeg, Canada. Twenty
architects competed.
Because the boys and girls OF the
junior class of the high school in Os.
kaloosa wore their colors of black
and yellow In the shape of shirts and
shirtwaists to school, Principal Mil.
Ter suspended the entire class.
James Beamer, aged "a years, of
Marshalltown, employed as a laborer
in the raising Of St. Mary's Roman
Catholic church, was killed almost
instantly by the falling of roof
truss, which struck him on the head.
High wind at Mason City played
havoc with plate glass windows,
trees, light wires and small buildings.
Smoke stacks at the tile plants were
blown over and the roof of the pow
er house Of the electric railway was
blown OF.
A slide Of earth at the clay pit OF
the North Iowa Tile company in Ma
son City, wrecked the steam shovel
and injured the engineer, probably
fatally. The accident occurred as the,
last shovel of clay for the day was
loaded in the car.
Mrs. George Gardner, wife of a
farmer residing near Nicola, was Sc
riously II not fatally injured in a
runaway accident. Mrs. Gardner
was thrown violently to the ground
and wheel of the heavy farm wagon
passed over her neck.
A company known as the Farmers
Elevator company of Ericsson has
been formed and articles OF incor
poration have been filed with the
county recorder. The capital stock
OF the firm is to be $4,000 and bust
ness wiz begin as soon as all stock
is sold.
william Jenning Bryan heads the
list Of speakers for the Woodbine
Chautauqua to be held July % to 2S.
Mr.. Bryan will be followed by Bish-
op Robert Mcintyre, James Francis
O'Donnel, DR.. Charles L. Seashore,
William Edgar Cell. Bell Kearney,
Walter Manshell and Arthur X. Peck.
The first steps in the construction
Of Mount Vernon's new sewer sys-
tenn, the marking out Of the route,
was begun last week and dirt will be
gin to fly in a day or two. The tools
including a steam power ditching
machine, are on their way and large
number of laborers win arrive in
town the first of the week.
Charged with forging names on a
voucher Thomas Duff. former coun-
ty auditor of Hancock county, is I'M
der $500 bond to await the action Of
the grand jury. Experts going over
the books made the discovery.
Edward Olson, aged 81, promin-
emit young farmer near Harlan, died
at his home from an attack Of diph-
iberia. He was a member OF the
Danish church of Elkhorn.
Striking plumbers of Clinton have
won their fight, the master plumbers
giving them an eight-hour day and
an advance In wages.
Seventh annual convention of the
Forty-third district convention Of the
Rebekahs will convene in Logan May