Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-05-08

brought 1t to a stop, but not before
he was trampled upon so badly that
he still carries the scars. His act
OF bravery was brought to the atten.
ton OF the Carnegie commission and
he has just been awarded medal and
$1,000 in cash.
Because the power dam at Keokuk
will not allow the passage of boats
before May Is, the cruise of the Morn.
ing Star from Davenport down the
Mississippi to Cairo, up the Ohio to
the mouth of the Tennessee and 300
miles up that river has been aband-
oned. The trip would have been L.
500 miles long and would have taken
eleven days. Florence, Ala, would
have been the destination of the
cruise. Every berth in the boat had
been reserved for the trip.
AS the outgrowth of a strenuous
fight that is being waged In the
brotherhood of American Yeomen for
the office Of grand master Of accounts,
w. A.. Rutledge has filed a petition
In the district court at Des Moines
against F. s. Dunshee, the incumb-
ent, demanding damages of $4,000.
He charges Dunshee caused to be pub
lished and circulated a letter which
tended to provoke him to wrath and
expose him to public hatred and con-
tempt.
The largest judgment ever given by
jury in the Woodbury. county dis
trict court was granted to Mrs. Louis
A. Winn for the death of her husband
In the pumping plant Of the town OF
Anthem, la. The verdict is $4,000.
Anthem has GOO population. The judg.
ment, If it is not reduced or reversed,
will mean that for every man, wom-
an and child in the town there will
have to Be taxed 1888.
These laws provide that only one
OF the three members of a condem-
nation jury may be appointed from
one county, the appointment to be
made by the chief justice of the SUI.
preme court; and that either party
may take a change of venue when an
appeal is taken to the district court
The case must be heard in the near
est district court outside the county
E. 8. Wheeler, who recently died
at Webster City, left an estate valued
conseryatively at $4,000, every penny
Of which will pass into the hands of
the state unless two brothers and q
sister from whom he had been
estranged for years, and whose pres.
ant wharoa hnutc ora ,,nLnoun n,n he
located. Mr.. Wheeler was a pioneer
dry goods merchant of Webster City.
The joint convention of the Iowa
Retail Jewellers association and the
Iowa Optometrists met In Des Moines
last week in three days session.
The exhibits at the Auditorium, which
included displays of all sorts OF Jew.
elry and valuable stones, were the
most elaborate in the history Of eth
er association.
Teachers college classes OF 1919
and 1913 at Cedar Falls have joined
in plan to erect memorial on the
campus in the shape of a massive
concrete arch to be placed at one of
the entrances to the grounds. One
column will contain the inscription
of this years class; the other OF last
years.
His neck broken by the fall, the
body of an unknown man was found
hanging beneath a culvert of the
Milwaukee railroad three miles south
of Madrid The man had been in the
vicinity of the city for three days, en-
deavoring to secure employment in
| the mines.
The legislature also authorized the
executive council to hire man to
| look after the property. Some mem.
| bers of the council want to get a
real estate man to negotiate for the
| property and others want to hire a
man to collect rents after the prop.
erty is purchased.
Dragged, robbed and then taken
more than 100 miles from his home,
was the story told by Phillip Calvin
at Mason City, who says HIS home is
in Des Moines. He was found in the
woods unconscious. His condition
was due to the lack of food and ex.
| posure.
E. V. and Carl FRANKIE, the latter
chairman of the bull moose party of
Iowa at the recent election, have pur-
chased the Commercial bank building,
one of the largest and best in Mason
City. The price paid is better than
100000.
Odd Fellows of Mills county cele-
brated in Glenwood last week. The
ninety-fourth anniversary of their or
ganization was observed with degree
work and a special program. Many
visiting Odd Fellows were here.
Governor Geo. w. Clarke has ac-
cepted the invitation to deliver the
high school commencement address
at Lewis on the evening Of May 23d.
After buying a revolver at an Iowa
Falls hardware store, Frank Petrik,
40 a laborer, committed suicide by
firing bullet through his brain.
A $4,000 fire at Eddyville DESTROYED
the bakery of Jacob Akers and dam
aged the Warnhoubt clothing store
and the Meyer market.
The proposition to bond the town.
ship OF Delaware In the northern part
Of Sac county for $4,000 for the
erection OF four room school house
at Nemaha in the center of the town
ship carried. The building will be
used for the establishment OF a grad
ed union township school.
Good road boosters OF Mount Ayr
will have drag day during the lat
ter part OF this month. Almost every
business man Of the town has offered
prize to each farmer who comes
to that city on the date set driving
a drag.
ID. w. Muhlenbruch OF near Hamp.
ton recently sold fifty-one hogs to
Frank J. Scantlebury for s1,Ss4.65, the
porkers weighing 1850 pounds. Har.
ry Rodemeyer, a neighbor, also sold
sixty hogs to Mr.. Scantlebury, but as
they were a little lighter In weight
he received but s1,7s9.75.
John Rose. farmer of Holly
Springs, Ia, took his own life by
jumping from chair with his mack