Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-04-24

ness last week and bank examiner
was called to straighten out its af-
fairs. This bank recently loaned
$4,000 to Karl Kiefer, vice-president
| of the Kiefer Savings bank at Hazel
| ton, Iowa, which closed recently after
a state bank examiner had audited it's
books. 1t is said 1t was this loan that
caused the Farmers State bank to
take its present action. 1t has cap
ital of $4,000 and deposits of $780,
| 600.
A protracted neighborhood feud,
which has split what is known as the
| Richland Evangelical Lutheran con-
gregation, which owns large coun-
try church on the line between
Franklin and Cerro Gordo counties
has resulted in petitions being filed
in court asking that further interfer-
ence with church property and church
gatherings be stopped. The church
represents the wealthiest communities
of the two counties, and the litigants
all are wealthy farmers.
The Fort Dodge district Women's
Home Missionary society elected the
following officers: President, Miss
Florence Sebern of Manson; first
vice president, Mrs. D. P. Smith of
Fort Dodge; second vice president,
Mrs. J. N. Iliff of Webster City; cor
responding secretary, Mrs. H. Y.
Brisben of Eagle Grove; recording
secretary, Mrs. E. Turner OF Pome-
roy; treasurer, Mrs. o. E. Fitz of Fort
Dodge.
The Iowa Jurisdiction Of the Royal
Arcanum has made the greatest gain
Of any state having councils of the
order, according to the report of Su-
preme Representative Charles E..
Cornell of Ithaca, N. Y, to the grand
council meeting just closed in Des
Moines. During the last year $50
members have been added to the or
der in Iowa. The percentage of gain
for the year was BOIL per cent
George A. Newman, adjutant gener-
al of the G. A. R. says that the com.
mission as provided for in the Gettys.
burg bill which has passed both
hohCSo Va thC LCSloioLuIS VIII dt Out0
prepare a plan under which the pur.
poses of the bill to provide trans
| portation for veterans to the famous
battlefield, will be carried out. De-
/ tails will be given out at the earliest
| possible moment.
The voters of Kossuth county at
the next general election will decide
whether or not they wish the county
| to be divided, the McHose bill provid.
ing for such an action, having passed
the senate. 1t had passed the house
previously. The new county, IL the
voters decide upon the division, will
be named in honor of the late Will
liam Larrabee, former governor.
The Ames Daily Intelligencer has
given notice that daily issue OF the
newspaper will be discontinued. The
paper will be published weekly here
after. Paul Maclean, northwest edi-
tor of Sioux City Tribune, has taken
an interest in the property and will
manage the editorial department. w.
G. Williams, publisher, continues his
interest in the publication.
Willis f. Cottrell, general secretary
of the Y. M. c. A. at Council Bluffs,
was formally charged with insanity
as the sequel to the FIVE recent at
tempts to destroy the association
| building. The confession which, 1t
is alleged, w. e. Cottrell w4ote, telling
Of the different attempts to destroy
the building, is in the possession OF
the Y. M. c. A. officials.
John. C. Busby, the goosebone
prophet Of Independence, predicts a
bumper crop Of oats, wheat and po-
tatoes this year, but says corn will
fare badly According to his view,
all signs portend a wet, cold season.
His horoscope reveals doleful story
of disasters for 1918.
Voters of Lorimor granted fran
chise to N w. Lovegrove of Des
Moines for electric light, heat and
power. The measure carried with
only four dissenting votes. Work
will be commenced as soon as the
material can be procured.
II don't know" was the answer
given by Hugh Boal, aged IT, to his
! father when the latter asked him
why he took quantity of strychnine
at his home near Bloomfield The lad
died in an hC1T.
Mrs Nadine Woodruff Shepard has
asked a divorce from her husband,
Hugh NJ. Shepard. a Mason City at
torney. A division of property is
asked, and the custody of two chill.
dren.
William Wade, a brother of Judge
Martin j. Wade of Iowa City, demo
cratic national committeeman from
Iowa, and state Senator Wade, died
at Dougherty, Ia, on Monday night.
When the state convention of the
Iowa Travellers Protective association
is held in Cedar Rapids May 2 and
8, fight will be made to bring the
state headquarters to that city.
The last two weeks of April have
been designated as the period for a
campaign to raise $4,000 for the or
ganization OF Y. w. C. A. at Mason
City.
George Bell, age GO, was killed one
mile east of Dcws when struck by a
Chicago & Northwestern train. He
was an early settler and well known.
For shooting fish, John Dietz and
Albert Cooling, two farmers living
near Clear Lake, were arrested and
fined $40 and $40 respectively.
Vernon Swindler and Ben Williams
were caught while in the act of crack.
ing the safe in the office of the Dunk
er Heating and Plumbing company at
Davenport. Swindler has confessed
to cracking the safe In BUTLER Bros
meat market In the same city and ex-
tracing $3.50 therefrom.
After denying a motion for a new
trial in the case of DIR. Anna Long
shore of Waterloo recently convicted
Of causing the death of Rebecca Shade
by criminal operation, Judge Plat
sentenced the physician to ten years
In the reformatory at Anamosa.
Andrew Juno, who has borne the
reputation Of being the only man In
the Haynes mine at Abba to master
Aleck, big black mule, was killed
Monday by kick from the animal. In
addition to the reputation, Juno has
been drawing 16 cents a day for
some time for being able to get the