Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-13
IOWA NEWS BRIEFS

The state fair made profit of more
than $4,000.
The water works plant of Mt. Pleas
ant is being improved.
A new sash and door factory is be-
ing erected at Sheldon.
| A poultry show will be held De-
ce,aber 9-13 at Dubuque.
About $50 was netted from a fair
he'd by the militia at Cherokee.
A monument to the founder of the
pearl butte Industry will be erected
at Mlscatiae.
\ squad CO police raided four drug
stores in Des Mcines and secured 200
| pints Of liquor.
Ralph Norris, shoe merchant OF
| Denison has made an assignment in
favor of his creditors.
A team of horses valued at $500
were so severely injured that they had
to be shot at Missouri Valley.
4 James Shields, a stock buyer Of
Spencer, has been arrested for failure
/ to bury hogs which died of cholera.
4 Conductor ]. T. Kennedy of Clarks-
Vile was injured when butter tub
fell from a truck and crushed his
foot.
C.. H. McNider has been elected
president of the Colby automobile
plant to be erected soon at Mason
City:
The convention Of the Southern
Iowa Editorial association will be
held November 10 and IA, at Iowa.
City.
The tipping over of coffee pot
badly scalded the infant daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Brinkman of
Paullina.
Mildred Ratcliff, years old, of
Council Bluffs, died from phosphate
poisoning. She ate the heads off sew
eral matches.
Rev. M. ]. Hetherington. for the last
five years pastor of the st. Andrews
Catholic church at sibley, has been
transferred to EARLY.
Six thousand feet Of bitches were
completed at Slater by Sioux City
firm with ditching machine in less
than eighty working hours.
Two masked bandits held up G. r.
Volker, groceryman of Davenport,
robbed him Of $50 in cash and gold
watch and chain. The robbers es-
capped.
The formal opening OF the Plain
dealer newspaper Office of Creston
was completed this week. The occa-
sion was celebrated by luncheon In
the press room.
A. B. George Of Des Moines has an
nounced his retirement as president
and treasurer of the Des Moines Rub
Der company. Mr.. George ends sue
cessful career of forty-five years In
business.
A night school will be opened at
Dubuque under the general super
vision Of Superintendent Harriss and
In charge of L. @. Martin, director Of
manual training.
Two accidents in one day happened
in the family of Jacob Stegman Of
Marshalltown, when Mr.. Stegman was
severely burned in an explosion and
his wife had her arm broken in fall.
Arrangements are being made for
the organization Of gun club at
Knoxville. The club has already pur-
chased part of the required outfit
and in short time will be in active
practice.
The Keokuk water power celebra-
ton cost the city of Keokuk $4,000 ac-
cording to the report made by the
secretary of the celebration commit
tee. The committee has a balance of
$3.50 on hand.
Tilted on the night of his proposed
wedding was the experience of Thos
j. Lynch, an Omaha man, when his
intended bride, Miss Emma Lille of
Council Bluffs, married Berton Bress-
beck, merchant.
The will OF the late Herman j.
Huiskamp of Keokuk, who died in
Germany, was filed for probate with
the clerk of the district court. A large
fortune is divided between his widow,
his daughter and his son.
The mangled body Of an unknown
man was found under a freight car a
short distance west of the union sta
tion at Des Monies, by Earl Boofter.
member of the switching crew Of
the Des Moines Union railway.
The boosters committee appointed
several days ago at Sioux City to raise
fund Of $4,000 for prizes to be given
ct big automobile race meeting next
July has come within . few hundred
dollars Of the mark, and the event Il
assured.
Ssloonkeepers Of Dubuque are cir.
cuating petition Of consent. The old
one expires December 81, and It Il
necessary TO get 66 per cent Of thu
voters consent before . new ono car
b secured. Thirty men ere engaged
In Tia work.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Wingfeld o.
Pleasantvilie have returned from Eng
land. whore they had been visiting fos
the past three months. Mr.. WinEnelt
was editor Of the Marion County New,
fos eight years. but retired from bust
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