Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-11-13

test for better passenger service on
tho Milwaukee road from Calmar to
Davenport and from Calmar to Cedar
Rapids. Representative from the. pro-
testing points will meet with the state
railroad commission in Des Moines,
Dec. 8. The towns are Strawberry
Point, Waucoma, Fayette, Arlington,
Edgewood, Greeley Oneida, Delhi,
Monticello and Davenport.
Lake Waughbaughnsey, for many
years popular resort for hunters and
trappers, lying in northern Fremont
and southern Mills 'rnties, Is ap-
parently gone forever. 1t has gradu
ally filed upby deposits from the sur
rounding cultivated lands and now
only an occasional puddle marks the
spots where, not many years ago,
many feet OF water furnished sport
for hunters and fishers.
Pensions have been granted at
Washington to the following Iowans:
Susa Dawson, Ackworth, S12; Danny
Purvis, Ames, $12; William B. Eber-
sole, Toledo, SC; Elizabeth Franklin,
Carbon, SIP; Mary e. Hartsock, Gold
field, $12; Martha ]. Mayors, Indian
ola, SIP; Olive G. Mccarthy, Oska-
loosa, $12; josephine NJ. Tanner, Co.
dar Rapids, $12.
President John Marquee, of Coe col
lege, has received from Mrs. Ralph
Voorhees,, of Clinton, NJ j., check
for $4,000 for girls dormitory at
Coe. Mrs. Voorhees, is the widow of
Ralph Voorhees,, who gave the first
$4,000 of S150,000 Voorhees, endow-
ment fund Plans for the girls dor,
mitory have been under way for some
time.
r. S. Ballantyne, of Des Moines, ans
brother, j. A. Ballantyne, of Norfolk
Neb., have leased the $4,000 Cotton
theater, at Cedar Falls, one of the
finest playhouses in Iowa. They will
operate it as motion picture house
and as a Legitimate" theater.
Surrounded by 100 relatives and
friends, Mr.. and Mrs. John d. Ingra-
ham of Gilman celebrated the flftieth
anniversary of their marriage. Mr..
and Mrs. Ingraham have spent forty
years of their married life in Marsh
all county.
It has been discovered that the
body of the baby who died four weeks
ago from poison at Mason City alleged
to have been given by its mother,
Mrs. A. B. Burgess, had been stolen.
The body had been inferred near the
city limits.
A change in general foreman of the
Minneapolis & st. Louis railroad shops
was made when Charles Warcup, OF
Valley Junction, succeeded George w
Cuyler. Cuyler goes to Estherville to
become general foreman Of the Rock
Island.
John Cash, sc years old, member
of the Soldiers home from Anamosa.
died at the Soldiers home at Marsh
alltown of valvular disease Of the
heart He served in Company G, One
Hundred Forty-ffth New York infan-
try.
The West Lucas school fight In
Johnson county which has occasioned
eleven lawsuits in two years, has
ended with victory for Messrs. Rup-
penkamp and Krofta, whose election
last spring was claimed to be illegal.
The greatest revival in Boone since
Billy" Sunday was there is SEIZED.
uled to start at once and last for sew.
eral weeks. An evangelistic singer
will be present, but the local pastors
will do their own preaching.
Work has commenced on a factory
building at Iowa Falls to house the
Economy Excavator company, which
was reorganized in that city last week
and the capital increased from $4,000
to $4,000.
Fire completely destroyed a com
missary store used by laborers on the
water power work at Keokuk. The
store was owned by d. H. Sage and
the loss is estimated by him at $50,
900.
Mrs. Morris Lehman, a pioneer Dial
las county woman, died last week at
her home in Dawson. She was re
years old and had lived in this yicin
ity for forty-four years.
Isaac L. Hart whose death occurred
at Pipestone, MINI, recently, was one
of Iowa's earliest pioneers in newspa-
per work. In 1870 he founded the Ell.
dora Herald.
At meeting of the board OF super
vsors OF Cerro Gordo county a resp
luton was passed favoring hiring an
expert to deal with the hog cholera
epidemic.
While hunting near Centervile c.
NJ. Welsh was accidentally shot by
Archie Martin. A load OF small shot
hit him in the face. Welsh will re-
over.
David L. Utterson has been appoint.
ed postmaster at Summerset, Warren
county, vice Lamar Adams, removed.
Drs. d. e. Beardsley, A. P. Poore,
-and c. G. Yost have been appointed
pension surgeons at Cedar Rapids.
Roy Clark, IL years old, was In
stantly killed when struck by q Mi
waukee switch engine as he was
crossing the tracks at the foot Of
Benton street In Ottumwa.
Miss Olive Gardner of Audubon,
Iowa, was killed when the automo
bile In which she was riding crashed
into q guard about the new concrete
bridge near Boone.
r. d. Stuart. IS years old, was
struck by a Rock Island train near
Ainsworth and instantly killed. He
lived In Alabama and was in Iowa
buying hay.
The Chaska Sugar Beet company
has made its final settlement for the
season with the farmers who have
been taking care OF the sugar beets
in the vicinity Of Estherville. The
output was 1000 tons, bringing $780,
COO, but the beets were not up to the
high standard Of last year, due to the
het weather in August.
With last weeks Issue, H. @. Zlm.
norman retired from the BOWS Advo-
cate as editor and publisher. A syn
dictate Of Bows business men has been
formed to take over the paper and
plant.