Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-07-31

and clay products, roed materials and
road making. drainage problems, pow
er plants, the application of electricity
and steam and gas tractors.
Mr.. and Mrs. james T, Gregory OF
Knoxville recently entertained their
children, grandchildren and great
grandchildren gathered to celebrate
the SEVENTEEN wedding anniversary
of the couple Owing to the extreme
heat and the fact that Mrs. Gregory
is in poor health, the celebration was
quiet family affair. Mr.. Gregory is
SO years old and says he never took
a nickels worth of medicine in his
life. Mrs. Gregory is one year young
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The district court of Des Moines
issued a writ OF habeas corpus to Sc
cure the release of a wealthy Des
Moines man from private insane
hospital. The man is the case is
Philander Brown, a pioneer business
man now aged eighty years.. detained
at the private hospital in that city
Of DR.. Goshom HILL formerly super
intendent of the state hospital at In
dependence.
Sioux City possesses a COW that out
ranks the prize winners at the great
international stock show in New York
a few months ago, where a COW
which gave her weight in milk every
twenty days brought the fancy price
OF $4,000. The Sioux City COW beats
this by several days. For number
OF months now she has given her
weight in milk every thirteen and
one-half days.
Charles Blow, residing in Iowa City,
aged "a years, discovered his home on
fire and his wife, aged eighty-four, on
the second floor in peril. The aged
man climbed the stairway, took his
wife in his arms and fighting his way
through smoke and flames bore her
to safety. The blazing stair case fell.
in with crash Just as the old man
left the bottom step.
Arthur Maddy, Ray Carson, Miss
AIDA Freeman and Miss Marie Rob-
erts miraculously escaped death when
their auto struck the end of the
bridge over Whitebreast creek near
Charlton. The railing on the bridge
broke and the car went over the
bridge into the creek, distance of
twenty fact. 1t turned over three
times in the descent.
John. the s-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John o'Brien, was killed when
he fell from his fathers wagon and
was crushed by the wheels. His hat
blew off, and In an endeavor to reach
1t he fell Members OF the Fifty-sixth
regiment, near whose camp the acct
dent happened, rushed him to a local
hospital. His lungs were both rup-
tured.
Cracksmen entered the office of the
Beal Milling company at Knoxville,
blew open the big safe, and made their
getaway with about 500. Gunpowder
was used as an explosive and the
door of the safe was blown off and
the stills and partitions badly shatter-
ed. The tools used by the burglars
were stolen from nearby black.
smith shop.
An auto, driven by w. B. Wight.
man, real estate dealer of Sidney,
was upset near that town. The FIVE
occupants of the car were all injured
except c. L. Story, who escaped by
jumping. George Reeves sustained a
fracture of the collar bone. A pass.
ing car struck Wightmans front
wheel, causing his machine to capsize.
Mr.. and Mrs. !. J. Ferguson of Ames
were seriously injured on the Trans
continental road at Ontario while re-
turning home after attending we'd
ding anniversary celebration. Gr.
Ferguson lost conkrol of the car,
which was overturned. Mr.. Fergus
on's arm was broken and Mrs. Fer
guson suffered three broken ribs.
John Lohne of Springfield, KY, and
N. B. Swiker of GAINESVILLE, o., two
young men, were arrested in Council
Bluffs, and held TO the grand jury un-
der the new law defining "knucks" as
dangerous weapons and providing a
penitentiary sentence on conviction.
A deluge of added eggs has hit Ce-
dar Falls, and a strong protest has
arisen from boarding house propr.e-
tors on College Hill against the nom
enforcement OF the law requiring
farmers to candle eggs before bring.
ing them to market.
The Burlington freight house at
Hamburg was burned by fire Of I'M
known origin. The records and most
of the freight was saved. The flames
had big start before the hose COM
pany arrived.
Incendiaries destroyed the derrick
and machinery being used near
Blanchard in boring for OIL The
burning tower nearly fell on the
workmen sleeping there. The loss is
about $4,000
At a special election at Tenant, a
proposition to sell bonds to erect a
$4,000 brick school house was car
ried.
Claus Claussen, farmer near Ban
croft, committed suicide by shooting
himself. The cause was dependency.
The new Pentscostal Church of the
Nazarene at Charlton will be dedicat-
ed Aug. 8. The dedicatory sermon
will be preached by the Rev. H. F.
Reynolds of Oklahoma City. A camp
meeting will also be held beginning
Aug. 2 and continuing until Aug. 8 IN
the grove at the south school bail3-
ing.
While working In bayfield, near
Thornton, Mrs. James Sherburn was
overcome with the heat and died few
minutes later. Mrs. Peter Miller OF
the same neighborhood was also over
come.
Fl. Weiss, travelling salesman for
the Easy Fit Manufacturing company,
was arrested at Grinnell on a charge
OF obtaining money under false pre-
lenses. He is held under bond Of
5000.
Three Usage grocery stores were
entered by yeggs and property 10 con-
siderable amount was stolen. Water
loo bloodhounds were secured, but