Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-11-20

Harvey Whitloch, q conductor in
the employ of the Milwaukee at Per-
ry. and Steve Gottscalk and Albert
Hagenstein Of Minburn, were serious
ly injured when the auto driven by
Whitlock turned turtle. The accident
happened west of Minburn. 1t is pos
sible that Whitlock and Hagenstein
may die. In going down a grade q
pile Of loose dirt was struck and the
machine turned completely over.
Probably the most conspicuous ach.
ievement in church endeavor in a ru.
raj community in Iowa is that con-
summated by the Church OF the
Brethren in Orange township, Black,
hawk county. A handsome new edi.
fee, seating 500. will be dedicated
free from debt on Thanksgiving.
The cost of the building is $4,000 and
the pledges already reach $1,000 more
than that amount.
A petition of consent for both the
manufacture and sale of liquors is be-
ing circulated in Dubuque. At spe.
cial meeting Of the Ministerial asso-
citation, resolutions were adopted de-
nouncing the cause and declaring that
every progressive city and county in
the nation is voting for the abolition
OF liquor" and that Dubuque should
not trail along in the rearguard Of civ.
ilization.
The Sioux City council will detail a
regular police official to cooperate
with the Sioux City liquor dealers as.
ISOLATION in street compliance with
the liquor laws of Iowa The move
follows a request of the saloon men
for protection against minors, habitual
drunkards and persons who have TAX
en- liquor cures from entering the ga.
looms.
The children OF Cedar Falls must
not be wrongly influenced through
viewing suggestive or immoral mo
ton pictures. This was the stand
taken by the Civic Improvement
league, an organization of women
boosters; and the president appointed
committee OF censors to inspect the
films shown in the motion picture
houses.
The bones of a soldier who went to
an unmarked grave between the years
of 1884 and 1889 were unearthed by
workmen excavating under the Epis
copal church at Montrose, a few
miles north OF Keokuk. The old Fort
Des Moines barracks were on the site
Of I,,r
ing lowa's early history.
William Huennemann has sold his
farm near Waukon to Attorney w. 8.
Hart for s167.5e an acre. 1t is con.
sidered one of the best farms in AL.
lamakee county and is well improved
John Rumph has purchased the Earle
farm Of eighty acres for sl02.50 an
acre.
j. L. leighton of LeMars, a former
mail carrier, was arrested by Deputy
United States Marshal e.. A. Blanch.
ard on a charge of embezzlement and
destroying letters. He was released
on bond. He is charged with stealing
money orders while carrying rural
mail.
August Johnson, a we'll known farm.
er, committed suicide by hanging him.
self to the rafters in his log house
near Ida Grove. He had been suffer.
ing from tuberculosis for the last
two years, and dependency Is
thought to be the cause of his act.
The Anamosa prison laborers EN-.
ployed on the Ames campus have com
pleted excavations for mile OF heat.
ing tunnels from the central power
and heating plant to the locations OF
the new buildings now going up. The
mile will have cost about 100000.
Local business men, through the
Greater Davenport committee, will ask
the city council to rebuild the Colise-
UNI burned to the ground few weeks
ago. The Coliseum, which had a seat
ing capacity of 1000 people, was the
only large hall in Davenport.
Two alleged bootlegging joints in
operation for some time at High
Bridge, mining camp on the line be-
tween Dallas and Boone counties,
were closed up. Sheriff Reid OF Boone
county declares he made purchases OF
beer in each place.
Professor John w. Gannaway, who
recently succeeded Professor Jesse
Macy as head of the political science
department of Grinnell college has
announced his candidacy on the re.
publican ticket for representative from
Poweshiek county.
Mrs. J.. A. Shannon, wife Of the sta
ton agent at Thornton, was painfully
injured when struck by the locomo-
tive of an incoming freight train. She
was kept from falling under the
wheels by the quick action Of her
husband.
Funeral services of G. w. Miller. 70
years old, we're held from the Presby-
terrain church at Waukon. He was 4
veteran of the civil war and had liv-
ed in this county for more than fifty
years.
The years work by the Fayette
county road force is ended. County
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Fayette county has done twice as
much road work under the new law
as any other county in the state HIS
men have completed twenty miles
and twenty miles more have had much
repair work.
The Iowa staats-Anzeiger, the Des
Moines German weekly, has absorbed
the Iowa Biene, the weekly German
paper that has been published at Fort
Dodge, la. The Biene was founded
about two years ago.
The city Of Hawkeye now has an
electric lighting system. the current
having been turned on a few days
ago by c. Miller & Sons of Clermont,
who are now lighting four towns in
Fayette county with current general
ed at their water power plant which
is the old Governor Larrabee mill
property.
The loss to Fayette county farmers