Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-08-14


Harold Smith, 11-year-old son of /.
E. Smith, station agent Of the North
western railroad at Harlan, accident
ally shot and killed himself while
playing with revolver. The boy was
fond of playing with guns and recent
ly his brother presented him with a
20 caliber revolver. His mother per-
mitted him to go to hardware store
to procure a box of blank shells, but
in addition to his mothers order he
purchased a bog of loaded cartridges.
Promoters OF the Friedman insti-
tute for the treatment of tubercular
patients have abandoned all effort to
locate at Colfax. The sentiment of the
community Is against the location of
an institute, and as the promoters
must have such a place as will per-
NIT them to properly treat patients for
at least ten days following the injec-
ton OF the serum, those in charge
concluded they must go elsewhere.
e. c. Hinshaw, state fish and game
warden, has gone to st. Louis to IN
spect a special fish car that Is being
made for the state. The car will be
used to transport fish to the different
lakes and rivers over the state. From
St. Louis Mr.. Hinshaw will go to
Pratt, Kansas, where he will inspect
the state fish hatchery there prior to
the erection of similar one in Iowa.
Anna vana, the 2-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Vana. Of
Council Bluffs, was killed at the fam
lily home. She was with other children
playing about the porch upon which
stove had been placed temporarily.
The other children upset the stove,
which fell several feet and upon ba-
by vana, crushing the child SO badly
that she died.
H. F. Bailey of near Stanton, who is
SO years old. has aroused much COM
ment through his unusual physical
strength, having all through the harry
est this year made a full hand in the
field, putting some Of the men much
younger than he to shame for their
lack of physical strength. Mr.. Bailey
located in Montgomery county in 1868.
The dedication of the new Trinity
college at Sioux City, built by the Ca
tholic order of st. Francis, has been
set for the first week in September,
prior to the opening of school on Sept.
8, and Archbishop J. j. Keane of Du-
buque will give the Grafton of the day.
Bishop p. j. Garrigan will conduct the
dedicatory ceremony.
A dispatch from Long Beach, CAL,
states that DR.. II. L. Mason, former
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church of Boone, has been ordered to
resign and to get out of Long Beach
and remain out forever. An unusually
sensational situation is said to have
developed after investigation as to the
pastors alleged moral laxness.
j. e. Briggs. well known over the
state as a manufacturer, is being
brought from Los Angeles by Sheriff
Shores of Waterloo to answer to a
charge of wife desertion He has
been a social leader, a choir singer
and a salesman of ability.
John Almquist, rich retired farmer
of Essex, Page county, had six farms
and six sons. He took a novel way to
hitch these sons and farms up to-
gether. Recently he put the farms up
at auction and the sons bid in the one
of their choice.
Roland Yates, who sued carnival
company in Iowa City for h.!nr'es in
hicted upon him by the palmist's bull
dog, has been taken to the state uni
versity hospital for treatment of his
wounds.
T. w. Barhydt, the Burlington capt.
talist, who died recently at Pasadena,
Cal, left $4,000 to the Burlington
hospital and $1,000 to the Y. M. C. A.
Of that city.
Frank Askey OF Red Oak was acct
dentally shot in the arm while out
hunting. His gun exploded as he was
lifting it from the buggy by the muz-
gle.
Ten horses were burned, eight cat
tie, five hogs, hay and grain were de-
stroyed when the barn on the John
Hobart farm near Mason City burned.
Sam r. Young. OF the Glenwood
Tribune has disposed of his interest
in the paper. Mr.. Young has not de-
cided upon his future work.
A. ], Podendorf Of near Logan has
just purchased the J. e. Kirkwood
farm one mile south of Little Sioux,
paying $4,000 for 375 acres.
Stephen Bareum, laborer, was in
stantly killed at Mason City when
caught under a freight car at the Lee
high cement mill.
The annual campmeeting OF the
Holiness church at Glenwood was well
attended and closed its meetings on
Sunday night.
Henry Elmere and his granddaugh-
ter, Isma Patterson, got into deep
water and drowned while bathing sin
the Mississippi river. They were
members Of family party camping
on Big Island. The aged man went to
the rescue of the child and both went
down together.
Jonathan e. Henderson, "a years
old, brakeman on the Missouri Pa
cific transfer at Council Bluffs, In
from moving train was
thrown under the wheels. He leaves
a widow and two daughters at Pan
ora, la.
Little Ernestine Nemitz OF Charter
Oak asked for drink when she saw
her mother filing dishes, holding fly
poison. with water. The mother told
her to wait a moment. As soon as
Mrs. Nemitz's back was turned the
child drank from one of the poison
receptacles. Strenuous work saved
her life.
The Ruthyen Commercial club Is
making arrangements for three-day
picnic and fall festival to be
held Sept. 16 to IS. There will be free
attractions, ball games and horse