Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-05-29

One thousand credentialed delegates
representing the five thousand Sun
day schools of Hawkeyedom viii gath
er at Burlington June 8, and for
the 4Sth Annual Convention of the
Iowa Sunday School association
Thousands of teachers, superintend.
ents, pastors, township and county of.
ficers and delegates-at-large are ex.
pected. Black Hawk, Polk and Ma.
haska counties are arranging for spe-
cial trains which will carry their
delegates.
Determined not to permit the ex.
penditure Of the 100000 In bonds au-
thorized by the county for the con-
struction of general and tuberculo-
sis hospital, the county supervisors or
Woodbury. county in session at Sioux
City announced their intention to re-
fuse to appoint the board of trustees
into whose charge would come the
construction and management of such
hospital The money was voted last
fall.
Ottumwa's expert switchman" may
or, Pat Leeny, made new claim for
space in the public prints when he
arrested his divorced wife, Minnie
Leeny, on the charge Of intoxication.
Mayor Leeny has been aiding the po-
lice force Of his city occasionally
since his Inauguration, April Z, but
the arrest Of his former wife was the
least expected of any action OF his
spectacular career.
Iowa State college at Ames has
made plans to help public schools Of
the state obey the new law requiring
them to teach agriculture, home eco
Monies and manual training, begin
ming in 1915. 1t has put into its six
weeks summer session course espe-
cially designed to help teachers who
must carry on this new work.
Following the State Sunday School
to be held June 3-5 at
Burlington several of the speakers
and more than score of the dele
gates will leave for Zurich, Switzer-
land, to represent Iowa at the Seventh
Worlds Sunday School convention,
July SIS, 1913.
Albert Thompson has been taken to
the insane asylum by the sheriff Of
Cerro Gordo, county. Thompson is a
socialist leader and told the sheriff
he had been reading SO much in the
appeal to Reason that he thought
his mind was affected and asked the
sheriff to take him to the asylum.
George Switzer, the tramp from Ke-
okuk, who cut the throat of Chief of
Police Watkins at Fort Madison, was
arraigned in justice court and waived
examination on a charge
Of assault with intent to commit muir
der. 1t is believed Watkins will re-
cover.
Jack Rasmussen and John Borres-
en-, owners and publishers of the Ce-
dar Falls Weekly Gazette. have dis
solved partnership. The latter will
continue the publication. The Gazette
Is the Oldest newspaper In Black Hawk
B
Hugo Menschel, a farmer, living
north of Hastings, committed suicide
while temporarily insane. His body
was found about fifty rods from the
house. Lying close to the body was
his automatic shotgun.
Fifty friends and relatives helped
Mr.. and Mrs. Lars Larsen, residents
of Ruthyen since 1899, celebrate their
golden wedding anniversary. Mr.. and
Mrs. Larsen were married in Norway.
The Rev. A. J. Tritt, who for sew
eral years has been pastor Of the
Methodist church at Swea City, has
been appointed to the pastorate Of the
Methodist church In Luverne.
The Gideons, Christian Commercial
Travellers society, has been reorgan.
ized at Davenport. 1t will prepare
for the state convention to be held
in that city this summer.
Within an hour after the death OF
his daughter, Miss Bertha Taylor, A.
C. Taylor, a pioneer jeweler, died at
his home in Cedar Rapids. He has
been i'll for three weeks.
Dispatching trains by telephone has
begun at Creston on the main line OF
the Burlington. The key system is
being used for the branch lines yet
and for all. messages.
While working on the new opera
house at Orient, A. Hartman, 20 years
old, fell eighteen feet, on his head. A
nail was found to have penetrated his
skull. -
Mrs. Fred Miller is in serious con.
dition from isJuries received when
she was struck by Burlington train
at the crossing in Abba.
John Gilman, 23 years old, line
man on the Burlington railroad al
East Dubuque, was cut in two by q
passenge. train.
Albert Powley, farmer. living near
Woodbine, lost FIVE horses. struck by
lightning in the recent storm.
Frank Stumps. ~. and Ralph Hatch,
10 years old, we're run over and killed
by Great Western passenger train at
Council Bluffs. The boys became abb
sorbed in watching some young men
wrestling and walked slowly back
wards, reaching the track as the train
came by.
Commencement week plans Of the
Iowa State college have been complet-
ed. The 1918 class, numbering more
than 260, is the largest ever gradual
ed. Graduation week begins with the
senior promenade in state gymnasium
on the evening of May 81.
The $4,000 bond furnished by Hen
ry Knott, city marshal of Gravity. m
dicted at Bedford on charge Of MUIR
der, will stand, according to deci-
sion of the supreme court following
IN application for a writ of certiorari.
Badly bruised and suffering from
Of the brain. M. v. Sun
derlin, a prominent farmer, near Ce-
iar Falls, lies at his home on the
verge OF death, the result OF a fall.
Webster county hens last year laid
l.054.777 dozen eggs, according to the
Tgures compiled from the assessors
.ooks.