Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-10-16

ed grand master; VIM. d. Irvine, OF
Sioux City, deputy; Charles A. Dew.
ey, OF Washington, conductor; A. A.
Holt, OF Waterloo, treasurer, and All
Wingate. of Des Moines, recorder.
In the district court at lie Mars,
Mrs. Ed Pendleton pleaded guilty to
statutory charge and was sentence
ed to six months in the county Jail
and to pay fine of $3.50 Mrs. Pen
dleton, who is the wife Of a well
known farmer living near Akron, and
the mother of six children, eloped
three weeks ago with James Robin
son, who took her to his home at
Vail where they were arrested.
Washington Hoblet committed sui
eide at the Jasper county home at
Newton by shooting himself in the
forehead with 90 caliber rife. He
could not do without customary
amount of morphine to which habit he
had been addicted for several years.
The family once was prominent in
that county.
WIN Wall Lake be drained or not?
Not is the verdict OF the sportsmen
OF Iowa and at meeting held last
week at Mason City. attended by Of
ticers of the state association, 1t was
unanimously agreed to call a mass
meeting at Bows on Thursday, octo-
Der 10th. to protest against the meas
ure
Methodists OF Iowa are urging the
appointment Of the Rev. H. o. Pratt of
Toledo as chaplain OF the Iowa sol
diers' home, to succeed the late Rev
Jesse Cole. DR.. Pratt once was a
member of the Iowa legislature, and
he served in congress from the Fourth
district from 1873 to 1878.
The Western Implement and Motor
company OF Davenport has been fore.
ed into involuntary bankruptcy by
the action Of creditors, who secured
the appointed of a receiver from
Judge Smith Mcpherson. The COM
pany is said to owe 100000 and have
$4,000 assets.
Options have been secured on 500
acres of land lying five miles west of
Mason City on both sides of the in
terurban as a site for the home Of
the opileptic colony of Iowa. It is
offered the state as an inducement
to place the colony near that city.
H. F. Healey, of the Manson Elec-
trio Light & Power plant, is laying
the cables for sixteen new electroliers
to be placed in two blocks of Main
street in that place. The electroliers
were purchased by the Manson bust
men and presented to the city.
Demands have been made in open
letters upon theNcity commissioners
by labor unions at Mason City for
public scales. The demands formally
made seek a public scale and master,
public market or market square
and a municipal ice house.
German day. was celebrated at
Schleswig, Manning and Manila. with
Denison, an enormous crowd being
present. German organizations from
local lodges took part in the parade.
There were many floats, representing
the business houses.
There has not been enough cold
weather in Iowa to check hog chol-
era. DR.. James l.. Gibson. state veter-
marian. said. The losses from this
disease have been more this year
than last. when the total exceeded
$l2.O00,0O0.
Tony Bartillo, %. is dead and Frank
Rucci, 25, Is in the hospital with
three bullets lodged In his abdomen
and will die, as result of duel In
Centerville. Both are Italians and
the trouble started over card game
One of the first accidents on the
new Riverside drive at keokuk, oc-
Cured when the machine of ID. A.
Collier, prominent Wholesale grocr
err of that city. skidded and slipped
over the embankment
Carl Fisher and Kenneth Dimond,
two Keokuk hunters. discovered the
body of a man with bullet hole
through the skull in a ravine in the
old brick yard west of that city. The
body is yet unidentified.
A successful business man of New
ton, Iowa, relates that three years
ago a Jasper county farmer sold his
farm at $40 per acre and moved to
California. Today the same farm is
worth 5000 per ere.
State Warden Hinshaw is replenish-
ing Clear Lake with fish, large num-
Der being seined from the bayous in
and around Sabula All are game
fish. Okoboji and Spirit lakes will
be similarly treated.
The last square of cement has Just
been laid on the mile OF concrete
road near Mason City. The pave
ment is sixteen feet wide and is laid
by the county. except $4,000 privately
contributed
Final registration figures for the
State University of Iowa show %
per cent increase over the enrolment
one years ago. The total is 1923 &C.
cording to the statement made by the
registrar.
In order to obviate eye strain the
pupils in the Waterloo schools are
using yellow paper exclusively. This
shade absorbs the light instead OF re-
fiecting it as white paper does.
An election win be held in McGreg-
or Monday. Oct. 20. to decide the
question of granting twenty-five
year franchise TO the McGregor Elec-
trio Light & Power company to main
tain lines for the transmission of cleo
trio current to Monona and villages
and farms along the way.
Thomas Dickerson, selfconfessed
horsethief, was sentenced at Boone
TO serve not more than five years by
Judge Wright for horse stealing. the
specific charge being that he stole
the Rocho team in that city two
months ago.
The hardware store and several
residences at Renwick were bur
glarized. Bloodhounds were placed
on the trail and the burglars were
located in cornield near Goldfield.
They had in their possession the
iewelry taken from the houses and
goods taken from the store.