Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-11-27


liquor Injunction, was legal and prop
er, even if the owner of the property
was minor. The young mans father
was the offending party, but the tax
is against the property and not the
owner Of the property. Hence the
sale of the property to satisfy the tan
was all right.
Mrs. Alice Goldsmith has filed suit
in the Clarke county district court
against the Meyer Automobile COM
pany of Des Moines for $4,000 in be-
half Of the estate of her late husband,
David Goldsmith, who was killed June
/, 1913, by the overturning of a car
in which he was riding. The petition
alleges defective brakes, leakage of
axle grease and other faulty mechaD-
ism of the car.
"The honor system" which Is IN
vogue in several eastern universities,
may be submitted to the Ames stu
dent body by the faculty. The facul-
ty moral-welfare committee has ap-
pointed a subcommittee to investigate
the success Of the "honor system"
and the committee is impressed fav-
orably by the reports from the fac
| ulties of other institutions.
Police officials at Waterloo are con-
fronted with condition that is APP
parently without solution. During the
last few weeks there have been an
unusually large number of arrests
made for what was supposed to be
drunkenness. The cause of intoxica-
tion has been found in most cases to
be from ginger extracts and other al
coholic preparations.
"Tama" Jim Wilson is to devote
portion of his time the next few
months to writing his experiences in
public life, covering sixteen years in
the presidential cabinet An offer
from publishing house has been ac-
cepted, and Mr.. Wilson has gone
east and expects to spend the winter
in Washington compiling data for the
volume.
has met with foul play or accident is
a question that is puzzling his former
employer and his associates in Du.
buque. Four, weeks ago he left the
city without notice. He later was
seen at a McGregor hotel, but since
then no clue as to his whereabouts
has developed.
Penny concerts for children will be
given each Saturday afternoon at the
Walnut Street Baptist church in Wat
erloo. Eight hundred tickets have
been distributed for the first enter
tainment, which will consist of illus
trated stories, stereopticon views, OBJ
ject lessons and music.
The Jury in the action for $4,000
damages brought by Miss Bertha Bow
ers, manager OF the Creston Daily
Plain Dealer, against Senator Charles
H. Thomas, ON trial at Creston for
nearly week, reached compromise
verdict of 800 for the plaintiff.
Six pupils in two of the largest
schools in Council Bluffs have been
discovered to be suffering from some
rare form of skin disease. They were
all ordered home, their books were
destroyed and efforts made to prevent
spread Of the disease.
The large barn OF 5. w. Clark of
near Emmetsburg was burned. II
contained $500 bushels of grain, six
ty tons Of hay, harness and farm
machinery. Mr. Clark led forty-one
head of horses and cattle out of the
burning building.
A barbecue Thanksgiving day will
celebrate the instituting of the new
street lighting system at Ida Grove.
Ceremonies were observed at AL
bion to mark the corner stone laying
Of the new Presbyterian church, built
at cost Of $4,000.
Chris Emerson, farmer living near
Mason City committed suicide by
shooting himself. He arose early, Sc
cured rifle and returned to bed.
where he awaited the sound of the
alarm clock at 6 o'clock He then
pulled the trigger.
Mystery surrounds the identity OF
woman who sent note enclosing $50
to Leo Mulgrew, proprietor OF bak-
cry in Dubuque. The note read: "Ten
years ago stole $40 from you. This
ought to make 1t good. (Signed) A
Poor Sinner"
A campaign, in which the Perry
Bureau of Commerce will seek to Sc
cure 700 names to a petition asking
! for a special election, has been start
ed. The election is to vote bonds of
$4,000 to rebuild the water works
plant.
Twenty Iowa bee keepers have
produced total of more than ESQ.,
900 pounds Of honey during the past
season. according to figures compiled
by Frank c. Pellet, state bee inspec-
tor
| T. w. Biackmaa OF Nevada sold
1888 worth OF honey from forty-seven
colonies of bees, while ]. H. Fitch of
Bedford sold more than SASS worth
from forty colonies.
The jury in the case of A. H. Clarke,
trainmaster on the Great Western at
Stockton, H.. who two years ago was
injured and who alleged the negligence
of the railroad company was response
BILE, returned verdict for $4,000. The
suit was for $4,000 and was tried in
district court at Dubuque.
The 3-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
/. E. Tramp Of Harlan who won first
prize at the baby health contest at
the state fair one year ago, is dan
gerously i'll from infantile paralysis.
Tho left side has been paralyzed for
several days.
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Charging his son-in-law, William T.
Dooley. with intoxication. George
Herman, street commissioner and
former councilman at Marshalltown,
marched Dooley to jail at the point
Of revolver. Herman charged Doc
ley with abusing his wife and chill
dren.
Charles Donahoe, a prominent
merchant of Clare, is in a precarious
condition as result of injuries In
ficted upon him by three men he at
tempted to assist when he found them
on the roadside with a disabled auto.
mobile.