Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-07-24
IOWA news BRIEFS


pam vi 4HuISudy3 august q.
B. Evans, 19 months old son Of Mr..
and Mrs. P B. Evans Of Marion, is
dead as result of eating match
heads.
Miss Eva J. Cresswell of Cedar
Falls has been elected teacher of
science in the Mt. Pleasan nigh
school.
Henry Kahl, who recently escaped
from The Plymouth county poor farm,
was found hanging between two piles
Of lumber in shed at Overs.
Lloyd Brown and Phil Morgan, ar
rested at Missouri Valley for taking
merchandise from freight cars, were
sentenced to serve twenty days.
While crossings railroad tracks
at Mason City, John Huckins, a driv-
er in the mail service, was hit by
passenger train and probably fatally
injured.
At special election on the ques-
ton of issuing bonds for the construc-
ton Of municipal electric light
plant, the proposition carried 2s4 to
275 at Fonda.
Two big contracts were awarded by
the Creston school board. The first
called for 500 tons of coal, the second
was for the plumbing for the new
high school building.
Paul c. Woods, formerly owner and
editor of the Eldora Ledger, has pur-
chased the Sheldon Mail of C. o.
Burton and will take possession of
the property August LIST.
The annual convention of the Iowa
State Veterinarian association will be
held in Council Bluffs, October /, 2
and 3. 1t is expected between $50
and 800 will attend the sessions.
At the preliminary hearing in Ma
son City, Louis Prescott, held on
charge of wife murder, waived pre-
liminary examination and was bound
over to the grand jury on a charge
of murder without bond.
Father ]. F. O'Dougherty, chaplain
of Mercy hospital, died suddenly at
that institution in Des Moines. He
prepared to go to Dubuque that even
ing and was stricken with heart fail
ure. He was 40 years old.
Mrs. Harry Wilson died very sud-
denly at her home in Guthrie Center.
She leaves to mourn her death a
husband and three small children, the
youngest an infant, born but a few
hours before the mothers death.
Jacob Cory, manager of the Gately
Co. at Dubuque, committed suicide
by jumping from the steamer G. W.
Hill near Bellevue into the Missis-
sippi. He was about 25 years old
and no cause is known for the rash
act.
The proposition to consolidate the
Brighton and Riverton school dis
tricts and bring all the Riverside
school children to the Brighton school
was beaten at the special election by
the adverse vote of the Riverside dis
trict.
E. ]. Reardon, joint agent of the
Minneapolis and st. Louis and the
Milwaukee railroads at Pickering, was
injured when the buggy he was driv-
ing was struck by an automobile. The
driver Of the automobile is not
known.
A suit for $4,000 damages has
just been instituted against William
M. Fife, a resident of Mt. Ayr, by
Charles Ogden of st. Joseph, who al
leges that his character and reputa-
ton had been injured by letters writ
ten by Fife.
Joe Chamberlain, of Sioux City
aged o, angered because Carl Park
hill protested against an insult he
had offered a young woman, with
whom he had been keeping company,
stabbed Parkhill. The latter is at a
hospital and is expected to die.
William Williams, wanted in Al
gona on forgery charge, was ar
rested at Mason City and taken in
custody by Sheriff Thompson of Kos
suth county. He is claimed to have
raised check drawn on Edward Mel
son of Iowa Falls from 81 to $500.
Martin Beck of Sioux City, general
manager, has issued an order placing
the ban on the naughty dances at
orpheum theaters all over the coun-
try. The turkey trot, tango and SIM
liar dances will not be permitted in
the futurf in any of the theaters.
DR.. and Mrs. l. c. Wood, members
Of the Methodist church Of Logan,
will contribute $500 this year and
$500 next year for the benefit of the
mission schools at Mathison, Miss,
according to the report of the home
missions of the Methodist church.
st. Joseph's academy was dedicat-
ed at Ottumwa with solemn religious
service by the Rev. Bishop James
Davis Of Davenport. The structure
was erected by the Sisters Of Humil-
ity of Mary at cost of 5000, 900, and
is the largest institution of its kind
in southern Iowa
A gain of $12,269.32 in the gros,