Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-06

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Major N. G. w. Winner, the midgeS
! Of Monticello. is confined to his BET
With broken rib. While building s A
fence he fell over an obstruction
sustaining serious bruises and in.
juries.
Samuel Kennedy of Clear Lake ha.
cleaned up $4,000 from thirty acre.
of beans He has harvested 600 bush.
els OF beans and has been offered $2.7;
bushel for the entire crop but ha.
refused.
After a chase to Liberty, Mo-. Sher
III Dowis captured Rolly Ruby, who
ran away with team of mules ownet
by Robert Penley of Centerville, By
whom he was employed. The animals
were recovered.
The Oskaloosa Traction company
has resumed operation of cars. Inter.
urban traffic has not yet been started
Strikers have pinned badges on every
one who will wear one. reading, Eve
Walk"
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
married Berton Brossbeck, Council
Bluffs merchant
spread OF hog cholera were adopted
when several state officials started 9
tour of Dallas county to place In
quarantine every head Of hogs ex-
posed to cholera.
The question Of consolidating some
of the schools in the rural districts OF
Jones county is being agitated. Some
objection is made to the plan on ac-
count of the roads, distance and
weather conditions.
The state highway commission has
approved plans for the longest steel
viaduct In Iowa. The viaduct will
cross the Iowa river at Eldora. II
will cost $4,000 and Is $50 feet long
with 2S-foot-span.
Two accidents in one family the
same day was what happened at Mar
shalltown recently. Jacob Stegman
was severely burned from the effects
Of an explosion, and his wife had her
arm broken by fall.
Charles Treble claims to be the
champion brick payer of Decatur
county. He laid lob brick in min
ute and his average days work Is
$4,000 brick, 1t requiring ten men tn
keep him supplied with material.
While looking for her father in the
farmyard near GAINESVILLE. Bernardine
Beam. 2 years old. tried to climb over
an old fashioned frame gate. After
getting her head between the bars her
feet slipped and she strangled to
death.
The state railway commission will
meet in Mason City Nov. IS for the
purpose Of looking into the protest
registered by the citizens Of that place
over the unsanitary condition Of the
depots owned by the Great Western
and Rock Island systems.
Insurgent M. b. A.. members met at
Cedar Rapids and adopted resolutions
against the present management of
that order, and demanding new set
of officials. Charges of treachery
we're made against men formerly
identified with the insurgent cause
who are now alleged to be aligned
with the regulars.
Rhea Wood is In critical con-
dition at the home Of his parents. Mr.
and Mrs. w. w. Wood at Armstrong.
His condition Is the result of beat
ing administered by Holly Hayworth,
who in q fit Of anger pounced upon
him. County Attorney Coon and
Deputy Sheriff Brown came from
Estherville to Investigate.
There has been an unusual amount
of drinking and carousing on the
streets Of Garrison. 1t seems quite
evident that more liquors are being
received there than is needed for per-
sonal uses, and that somebody is vio-
lating the law. Sooner or later these
violaters will be caught.
= "A yandal or vandals completely de-
stroyed the books, furniture and a
United States flag in the school house
in District No. 8, Cedar township. The
township school board has offered a
| 500 reward for the conviction Of the
guilty. There were Some undesirable
citizens in Cedar at the time this
crime was committed.
Rev. Joseph Fort Newton. of the
Liberal Christian church Of Cedar
Rapids has received call from a
Brooklyn, N. VI church but he has no
intention Of accepting it.. He made a
statement TO this effect, and told his
congregation II they saw anything In
the papers that he was going to
Brooklyn to put it down as being
false. as he had no idea Of leaving.
After chase that has lasted for
more than three years. and has led
through many states. DR.. Harold
Sampson, indicted by the federal
grand jury in November. 1910. ON q
charge Of using the mails to defraud.
has been arrested in Caldwell. Samp-
son is charged in the Indictment with
trying to defraud the Des Moines
Street Railway company out OF $1,000
for injuries to his wife In railway
accident.
Police are looking for the parents
of 3-year-old boy who was found