Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-07-24


cultural resources at the annual in
ternational dairy show and cattle con
gress at Waterloo this fall, by having
an exhibit of corn, small grains
fruits, vegetables, dairy and poultry
products, hogs. sheep and canning
where visitors from all corners of the
country and several foreign countries
may see and learn.
The Southern Iowa Traction com
pany has notified the state fair board
1t will grant excursion rates to the
fair. The road operates between Cen.
terville and Abba. 1t is a class
road and is entitled to charge a 3
cents mile tariff The excursion rate
will be 2 cents a mile. A. r. Corey
says he expects the Minneapolis &
st. Louis railroad to announce ex.
cursion rates at once. Representa-,
tives of that road last year told the
fair board the railroad will give rates
whenever another road takes the lead.
a raise in the wage scale of job
printers Of So week was effected by
arbitration recently at Sioux City be-
tween journeymen and employers.
Journeymen we're getting SIS ana
asked $24. Newspaper printers had
been already raised from $21 to s23.
Most job printers are already draw.
ing more than $40 week, which now
becomes the minimum for that city.
One of the strongest county super
intendents In Iowa has been drafted
by Iowa State college to add to the
extension forces. Miss Kate R. Lo-
gan, now entering on her fourth term
as superintendent of schools in Cher
okee county has resigned and will
give her entire time to the state
boys and girls club work being car
ried on by the college.
About $50 Patriarch Militants are
expected to gather at Spirit Lake for
the annual meeting of the order on
August 9-1S. Major General C. w.
Paschal and Lieut.. Colonel and AS
sistant Adutant General J. C. Miner
OF Belle PLANE are prepared to fur
nish all tent equipment required by
eHoSc ucShiuB " dItShu Inc COuuCH.
Bondholders on the north end of the
Atlantic, Northern and Southern rail-
road will try to get several of the
holders of the bonds who have not yet
done SO to agree to turn in their
bonds on the purchase of the north
end Of the road. The purchase must
be consummated by August 8, accord.
ing to the order of Judge Arthur.
William S. Huffman. senior men,
Der of the firm of Huffman Bros,
stock dealers, residing near Knoxville,
died at a sanitarium in Hot Springs,
S. d., from a nervaus disorder border
ing on insanity, the result of over
work. BILLY" Huffman was known
to all stockmen of southern Iowa.
Newton A. Carmean, former presi-
dent of the Rhoades- Carmean Buggy
company at Marshalltown, now OF
Los Angeles, was sentenced to fifteen
years in San Quentin penitentiary
last week. Carmean was convicted of
contributing to the delinquency Of
Pearl Peterson, Is years old.
William Williams, wanted in AL.
gona on forgery charge was ar
rested at Mason City and taken In
charge by Sheriff Thompson of Kos
suth county. He is claimed to have
raised check drawn on Edward Mel.
son of Iowa Falls from 81 to 500.
DR.. and Mrs. I. c. Wood, members
of the Methodist church of Logan,
will contribute $500 this year and $500
next year for the benefit of the mis-
sion schools at Mathison, Miss, &C.
cording to the report OF home mis-
sions of the Methodist church.
A contract has been let for the con.
struction of a new brick bank building
in Elkhorn, Ia, to be occupied as soon
as completed by the Farmers bank, a
new institution organized within the
last three weeks, by William
Hoegh of Atlantic.
Several officials of the Burlington
road were in Creston recently in re
gard to stopping the alfalfa special
The special is to be run between
Burlington and Pacific Junction, to
encourage the growth Of the plant.
More than $4,000 patients were
handled in the clinic OF the Univer
sity of Iowa college of dentistry last
year. This number represents an in
crease of nearly 80 per cent over the
preceding year.
E. j. Reardon, joint agent OF the
Minneapolis G. st. Louis and the Mil.
waukee railroads at Pickering. was
seriously Injured when the buggy he
was driving was struck by an auto
mobile.
Paul c. Woods, formerly owner and
editor of the Eldora Ledger, has pur
chased the Sheldon Mail Of C. O.
Burton, and will take possession OF
the property August l.
While crossing railroad tracks a,
Mason City John Huckins, driver in
the mail service, was hit by a pas.
senger train and probably fatally in.
jured.
John Mashey, IL years old, was ar
rested at Buxton and taken to Abba
anu ildut CUllipiclC NOiilcSolOh ~
breaking into the Buxton postoffice.
B. Evans, 19-months-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. P. B. Evans of Marion, Is
dead as a result of eating match
heads.
The finding at State Center of Eve
.25 caliber rifles and fifteen empty
boxes that had until recently con
tanned .3S caliber revolvers, revealed
a mystery that the authorities are
trying to unravel. The firearms
were discovered hidden in the garden
of the DR.. Theodore Engle home.
At the special election to decide
whether Poweshiek county would
build new $4,000 jail the vote was
overwhelmingly against it. The coun,
ty jail has been condemned by two
juries and twice the voters have de.
cided not to build new one.
That the old capitol building In Iowa
City is in peril OF disintegration, be-
cause OF defects Is feared by many
who have inspected the old structure.
There is a gap in the stone work run
ming from point near the roof and
zigzagging up and down almost to
the base.