Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-12-25

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temporary alimony. Her husband, w.
f. Nation, is well known there and in
Tama county. The couple was we'd
ded Feb 20. He is So years Of age.
and his wife so. His property inter
ests are said to be valued at $4,000.
Fifteen thousand dollars worth Of
business property in Manly was de-
stroyed by fire that broke out shortly
after noon Friday in the Clemmer
bakery and restaurant The following
property burned Mitchell general
store, McMurtle millinery store, Glenn
mer bakery, Parker restaurant, and
several small buildings.
A. B. Judson Of Balfour, Ia, was
again chosen president of the Iowa
State Grange at the annual election
here. Other officers elected were:
Oyerseer, ]. r. Mclean, Wilton juno
ton; lecturer, !. N. Taylor, Oskaloosa;
steward. l.. L. Richardson, Balfour;
assistant steward, H. F. Carroll, Will
ton junction; chaplain, Miss Mary
Youkin, Davenport; treasurer, NJ. Z.
Blair, Manchester; secretary, w. A.
Caldwell, Oskaloosa; gate keeper, P.
l.. Moffatt, Newton; ceres, Mrs. Ida
Judson, Balfour; pomona, Miss Iva
Wild, Council Bluffs; fora, Mrs. w. A.
Caldwell, Fremont.
E. s. Harlan, former receiver Of the
Atlantic & Southern railroad company
was indicted by the Cass county grand
jury on a charge of embezzlement.
Three Of the divisions of the indict-
ment set forth that Harlan, in his
position as a banker, sold receivers
certificates authorized by the court
during the litigation over the Atlantic
Northern & Southern, to himself at
95 cents on the dollar.
Elmer Wallin, graduate in cleo
trical engineering from the State
University of Iowa this year, was
killed in New York City recently by
an electric wire He attended the
Western Normal college at Shenan-
doah one year before entering the
university.
Tke trustees of the city library at
Sac City have prepared list Of 1000
books needed on the library shelves
cure large number of individcal do
nations of books as Christmas gifts to
the library.
Actuated by desire to help the
children of Cedar Falls, articles of in
corporation were filed for the Chill
dren's Playground association by fif-
teen leading womtn Of that city. The
membership fee is So and the yearly
dues 81.
-Four gospel teams from the Uni.
yersity OF Iowa under the supervision
Of the university's Young Mems
Christian association will go out over
the state during the Christmas holi-
days. Each team will contain six
college men.
Prof, F. G. Higbee, head of the de-
partment OF descriptive geometry and
mechanical drawing in the University
OF Iowa engineering college, has been
appointed associate editor of the
Journal of the American Society OF
Engineering Craftsmen,
Marie Albright, little girl of Birm-
ingham, set fire to her clothing while
striking matches Screaming, she
started to run Her mother started
in pursuit, but by the time she caught
up to the child, fatal burns had been
inflicted.
Guilty OF second degree murder was
the verdict of jury at Davenport in
the case of Mrs. Winifred Barnett,
colored, charged with killing her
young husband, George Barnett, last
spring. The jury was out six hours.
The Methodist pastors from eight
towns Of Fremont and Page counties
met at Shenandoah. District Super
intendent C. !. Baxter of Council
Bluffs presided
Richard Smell OF Clinton, ILL.,, has
announced his plans for two modern
fireproof business blocks to be built
at once at Boone. la. One will be six
floors and the other seven. The
w. A. Brooks. SS, pioneer settler of
Franklin county, was killed by a
passenger engine on the Minneapolis
and st. Louis railroad at Hampton.
He was eptirely deaf
ously injured when work train and
a switch engine collided in the yards
at Keokuk. The crash came in
dense fog which oyerhung the yards
The city council at LeMars at its
last meeting raised the saloon IL
cense $500. The four places operat-
ing in that city now are paying ST.
900 each.
Mrs. Louise Thorn, a cook In a Ce-
dar Rapids cafe, has just been noti-
fed that she has been left $4,000 by
The latest developments in the good
roads boom in Marion county was
launched at a meeting at Pella when
q proposition was taken up looking
to the building OF concrete road from
that city to the Des Moines river,
following the Knoxville-Pella high
way.
s. I. Hoover, contestant of the will
OF Mrs. Alex Hugh, in the courts at
Ida Grove, did not produce the Bible
ncourt that Hoover claimed would
prove his identity as an heir His
petition was dismissed and fine OF
$50 and one day in the county jail
was entered.
The Lee county board of supervis-
ors will petition the state board of
control to allow the removal of sever
i incurable cases of insane patients
from the state hospital at Mount
Pleasant to the county home near
Keokuk.
Frank Pershal. Bohemian tailor.
D Omaha. who had been working in
shops at Ayoca, was killed by Rock
Island train near Avoca. The head.
one arm and both legs were severed
Burglars entered the stationery
store OF :. II. Rollins q company at
Keolsuk ind took more than 5000
worth OF fountain pens.