Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-07-31
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singing for revival services at kiIon
collapsed, but fortunately no one was
badly hurt.
County Superintendent Of Schools
Olry of Denison has appointed as his
deputy under the new state law Miss
Anna Finn.
A cablegram announces the death
in Weurzberg, Germany, of Madam
Werthmuller Schneider, former res
iden1 of Burlington.
C. H. w. Brown of Des Moines,
representing the American Sunday
School Union, has succeeded in or
ganizing two Sunday schools at Oak
land.
Noah Williams and Thomas Mich
aelson of Ida Grove have invested
nearly quarter of million dollars
on Palo Alto county land in two re-
cent deals.
Miss Julia Bailey, a young colored
woman, teacher for some years in the
vicinity of Marble Rock, mas won the
honors in test for a position in the
schools of Kansas City.
The work on the twenty-three
blocks of paving at Corning for this
year is progressing rapidly. About
half of the concrete has been laid, and
the laying of brick will follow closely.
An auto driven by w. B. Wight
man, Sidney real estate dealer, was
upset while en- route to Nebraska
City. The five occupants of the car
were all injured except c. L. Story,
who escaped by jumping.
Typhoid fever has stricken the vii
lage of Tifin, and an epidemic is
feared by local physicians. The water
supply will be examined, and if con-
tamination is found, drastic measures
will be taken to avert further trouble.
Martin Wanderscheid of Lawler, Is
years old, was killed when the team
he was driving ran away and into the
team ahead. The shock threw the
young man from the load, both wheels
of the loaded wagon passing over his
body.
]. X. Murchison of Griswold has
gone to Scotland for a visit. He
came here forty-five years ago and he
now goes back for his first visit. He
is accompanied by his wife, his daugh-
ter and son, DR.. Murchison of Ham
burg.
Chief of Police Dishonesty of Sioux
City declares positively that he is not
going to resign, persistent rumors
Notwithstanding. The shakeup proph-
esied to take place in the police de-
partment on August eventually will
not affect the chief.
Fred Austin, who has leased Wall
lake for period of twenty years, will
convert it into farm land for the pur-
pose of using it or letting it out. 1t
is understood the rental price is 5000
year, and that the land involved
amounts to about 905 acres.
Announcement was made that Alb
raham Simmer, of Dubuque, philan-
thropist, had just given $4,000 to the
Mainonides Jewish hospital at Chi
cago. This brings his total gifts to
this hospital to $4,000 and $4,000
to various institutions since Janu-
airy 1.
A gasoline stove on the porch of
the w. G.. Lookingbill home caught
fire and Mrs. Lookingbill was serious
ly burned about the arms while try
ing to put out the blaze The wind
had blown out the flames and the ac-
) cumulated gasoline started fire on the
porch.
Louis Edwards and family of Cum
berland had narrow escape from
= serious injury. Coming in from the
country, the front axle of the auto
came loose from the body of the ma
chine and the occupants were rolled
in the dust in the road ahead of the
machine.
Operators of Chautauquas at At
lantic are not going to be allowed any
more privileges than business men.
Mayor Burnea, who recently closed
local moving picture houses on Sun
days, has ruled that the Chautauaua
1 AHuoC INV oIlOW DIS concentrated
on the Sabbath.
The annual convention of the In.
terstate Funeral Directors associa.
ton will meet August ~, IS and Ia
at Sioux City. One of the features Of
the meeting will be the lectures ano
demonstrations by DR.. C. L. Barnes
president of the Barnes School OF
Anatomy and Sanitary Science.
DR.. A. L. Wright, one of the best
known physicians in Iowa, died in the
American hospital in Paris, where he
had undergone an operation. News
of his death was contained in cable
gram received at the offices of the
Northwestern railroad, DR.. Wrigh,
having been for many years The com
pany's physician at Carroll.
Rev. c. H. Berry was injured quite
badly at Let's. He was returning from
Cranston, where he had been preach
: ing, when the team he was driving
became frightened and ran away. Mr.