Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-04-03


and inhuman treatment. He also
charges uncsastity. The testimony,
the plaintiffs side only having been
heard, is sensational The defendant
is the daughter Of w. S. Wadley, for
years a prominent commission mer-
chant in Dubuque.
The Illinois Traction company has
closed contract for the purchase OF
the stock of the Oskaloosa Traction
and Light company and the Oskaloosa
and Buxton lnterurban company. The
stock of the companies amounting to
over 100000, is all owned by people
living in the vicinity, there being ov-
er 400 stockholders. The deal is
looked upon as the opening of a great
development of electric properties in
Iowa similar to the one in Illinois.
The Rev. Frank H. Camel, pastor
OF the Presbyterian church at Lake
City, has rendered his resignation to
the congregational meeting to take
effect at once Mr.. Camel has had
charge OF the work there for four
years and resigns to devote his whole
time to the GamelBarron Manufac-
turing company, of which he is the
head.
The Rev. Alva j. Breasted of the
First Baptist church was appointed
by Former President w. H. Taft, as
chaplain of the Fourteenth cavalry,
now stationed at Texas City, Tex.
The Rev. Mr. Prasted commences his
duties May /. He enters the regu-
lar army service with the rank OF
first lieutenant
Response to the calls for subscrip-
tions for the municipal hospital at a
massmeeting in State Center was so
generous that the project is assured.
Nearly $1,000 was pledged. The can
vass will be continued and it is ex-
pected $4,000 will be raised.
Perry Torbett of Knoxville received
two wild ducks which a friend had
killed on the Des Moines river near
Percy, by parcel post The necks of
the birds had been tied together and
a four-cent parcel post stamp pasted
on the back of each.
After being out for twenty-three
hours the jury in the Gust Bekiares
murder trial at Waterloo failed to
agree and was discharged by Judge
Ransier The trial contipued for
twenty days and nearly seventy wit
nesses were called.
A fire in Randolph destroyed sew
eral buildings entaiHng loss esti-
mated at about $4,000. The Clark
restaurant and the Woodman hall
were destroyed and the office of the
Randolph Enterprise suffered loss
amounting to $3.50.
The quarantine on public meetings
at Monticello has been lifted The
churches held services Sunday, and
the schools and library opened. All
scarlet fever cases now are conval-
escent, and no new ones have been
reported
>, committee in Sioux City Is work.
ingSo a program for the Iowa State
Bar association to meet in Sioux
City June &c and 81 1t is planned to
bring a number of lawyers of ma.
eAohoi iCpulalioh W tuc HScllHS.
Beginning April 1 the pay of sec.
tion men on the Iowa division of the
Illinois Central will be increased
from 10 cents to 1914 cents an hour,
and their work day will be increased
from nine to ten hours.
The students of Beloit college, re-
Gently placed Harrison Ryon, a
Charles City boy, in charge of the art
department of the "Codex," a bien-
NAL publication of Beloit college por-
traying college life.
j. q. Evans has sold his manufac.
turing plant at Abba for 100000 to
Harry Charlton of Pana, ILL.,, bu: will
continue to operate his extensive coal
mines at Smoky Hollow and Hynes.
At public sale of thoroughbred
cattle held at Perry recently twenty
six Aberdeen Angus cows and bulls
averaged $155 each. The highest
price paid was $500 for COW.
Eight hundred names are signed to
9he petition for a commission form of
government in Iowa City. There Is
margin of 300 signatures over the
necessary number.
Directors of the German Opera
House company of Denison have com.
missioned Council luffs architect to
draw plans for new $4,000 theater
building.
Miss Ruth McGayren was voted the
most popular girl student at Grinnell
college at popularity contest recent
ly held. Her home Is in Missouri
Valley.
According to Supervisor Farmer of
Let's. Louisa county is now free Of
debt. Taxpayers are sounding the
call for a new court house at Wap-
clio.
The barn on the farm of Samuel
Spahr, near Mount Pleasant, was de-
stroyed by fire, killing seven head Of
horses, Tramps are suspected.
Jesse Shannon, who lives near Sac
City, while hunting wild ducks, shot
and killed an eagle. The bird mea-
sured eight feet from tip to tip.
Winnie Reeves, 20, unmarried was
killed in the Hynes mine No. near
Abba by a fall Of slate.
The cyclone did much damage in
Fayette county. The storms chief
damage was at Clermont, where the
Catholic church was totally destroyed.
A $4,000 pipe organ, the gift of the
late Governor Larrabee. was reduced
to a heap Of kindling wood in the
basement. The total loss on the
church is $4,000.
The Redpath-vawter Chautauqua
system has fixed the date Of the Esth-
erville Chautauqua from July 18th to
the 23d. The company has promised
much better talent for this season
than in the past.
Luke Shay Of Tingiey has traded
,5S4 acres Of Ringgold land, valued