Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-07-17

ed by hundreds Of prominent citizens
OF Davenport. Owens lived in a little
shack along the river front, subsist-
Ing on his pension and on the few
cents he could make at various odd
Jobs during the summer time He
was continually leased and tormented
by the boys of the neighborhood, and
finally, after repeated warnings, shot
one of them
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Whiteside step
ped into a deep hole while wading in
the Iowa river at Ackley. The son
and a nearby farmer went to their as
sistance. The farmer saved Mrs.
Whiteside after she had gone under
the second time. Mr.. Whiteside seiz.
ed his son, hampering his movements
so that he was exhausted when he
managed to drag his father into shall
low water.
Probably the oldest holder OF public
office, both in point of years and in
length OF service, In Iowa Is Lanfear
Knapp, justice Of the peace and town
ship clerk at Cedar Falls, who cele-
brated his eighty-eighth birthday re-
Gently. For the last forty-eight years
he has been justice of the peace and
township clerk; and for forty-two
years he was city assessor.
A human skeleton was found in Q
gravel pit near Alden. Judging from
the bones and the manner OF burial,
the remains are those OF an Indian.
The skeleton was found in a sitting
position, with the legs extended and
the hands resting on the knees. Old
residents recall that many years ago
Indians camped on the hills north Of
Alden.
A campaign against profane talk In
offices, stores and factories has been
begun by the Y. NJ. c. A. at Devon.
port. One thousand placards will be
placed In business houses bearing the
inscription: Clean Speech-Clean
Sports--Clean Habits. You are re.
specially requested not to use pro.
fame Of obscene language on these
premises"
The Austin Flint Medical associa.
ton adjourned after a two days ses-
sion at Mason City. Officers for next
year elected were: President, w. F.
Cobb, Lyle, Mimi; vice president,
George Kessel, Cresco; secretary, C.
F. Starr, Mason City; treasurer, w.
L. Hearst, Cedar Falls. The next
meeting will be held in Fort Dodge.
One hundred and fifty members Of
the Iowa Retail Shoe Dealers associ-
alton ended their third annual con-
vention at Fort Dodge with a BAN
quet at the Country club. The pro-
gram was given in the open air on
the club grounds. Cedar Rapids was
selected as the next meeting place.
Holding an old muzzle loading
shotgun between his knees, and using
the branch Of a tree to push on the
trigger Joseph Tureck of near Iowa
City shot himself through the head
at his home in Jefferson township. He
was 70 years old and had lived in
the township for forty-four years.
Country fires did nearly $1,000 dam
age last week in Johnson county
Myron Stouffer OF Melbourne lost his
home worth $500 At Albion John
Augustine's home was burned to the
ground, causing $4,000 loss. The
uildings on the Michael CLEAR farm
were totally destroyed
Lowell Howard is in Jail because
he could not furnish $1,000 bond re-
CURED after preliminary hearing on
the charge of white slavery placed
against him by Miss Edna Gilliland,
who with her mother is in the city
awaiting the action by the grand jury.
Preferring death to going to jail,
and fearing that officers were coming
to arrest him on charge Of beating
his wife, Avis Herman, 70 years old,
of Davenport, cut his throat from ear
to ear with razor, missing the Jug
ular vein by fracson of an inch.
Edgar Stuff, the 15-year-old boy who
was so frightfully burned at Knoxville
died twenty hours after the accident.
His burns resulted from the explosion
OF about two pounds of powder which
he was carrying in his pants pocket.
The town of Bayard has voted to
install a municipal electric light
plant by a substantial majority.
The contest was spirited and the La
dies Booster club played very
prominent part
Miss Ruth Wollman, a graduate of
the Cincinnati, o., university, has
been named cataloguer of the State
Teachers college library at Cedar
Falls to succeed Miss Ida Wolff.
Peter Madill last week sold Atty
acres Of his farm just west OF Grin
nell for 1910 an acre. This is one Of
the top-notch prices for farm land in
that county.
Lester w. Dooley, for two years
superintendent of the Riceville pub.
lie school, has been elected to the
SUPPLEMENTARY of the New Hampton
school.
Funds have been raised, through
the efforts of Father Ryan, for a new
Catholic church at Onawa. Work
probably will begin this fall.
Caught under large cake Of ice he
was unloading from a wagon, Benja-
min Demmody Of Masoi City was
probably fatally hurt.
Declaring that he was training a pig
for circus act and that he needed a
revolver, stranger asked for a per-
init to buy a weapon under the new
law, at Marshalltown. The man ex-
planned that the firing of a revolver
was a part of the "act". The permit
was not issued.
A. Fyrando, secretary Of the Old
Settlers association, has announced
that Frank e. Edgerton, formerly OF
Woodbine, but now assistant attorney
of Nebraska, will be the principal
speaker at the meeting at Magnolia,
Aug. 20.
Helen, the 15.months-old daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles X. Johnson
of Sioux City, is in danger OF death
as the result Of a fall out of a second
story window. The child put her
weight against a screen and pushed
1t out, dropping twenty feet to a CO
ment sidewalk.
The severed trunk of a Northwest