Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-03-27
Chris Alders of Ida. Grove sold a

small children of the family. The
children, while not seriously injured,
have both suffered quite little IRON
the accident and their narrow escape
is regarded as almost miraculous.
Washington citizens were much
elated to learn that the public build
ings bill, which passed both houses of
congress and was in a joint commit
tee, was voted out and sent to the
president and received his signature.
This bill carried in it an item of $780,
900 for a public building in Washing
ton.
Frank Gotch, worlds wrestling
champion, emphatically denied while
working in his garage at Humboldt
all reports that he was about to re-
enter wrestling. He feels that his
farming and automobile interests are
enough to keep him busy and has no
desire to fit himself for hard wrest-
ling.
Much difficulty is being experienced
at Estherville in finding a man for
the position of mayor. Several men
have refused to run for the Office. B.
B. Anderson, a prominent elevator
owner, has refused to consider the
matter. A petition is being circulate
ed directed to Mr.. Anderson asking
him to become a candidate.
Mrs. Eli Harter of Sac City, 45
wears of ape. saturated her clothing
with kerosene and set herself afre,
dying later from the result of the
burns. She has been in poor health
for the past two years and was re-
Gently released from the asylum at
Cherokee. She is the mother of seven
children, who with the father mourn
her loss.
The $4,000 monastery of the
Franciscan fathers was dedicated at
Dubuque. Rev. Father Benedict, Of
st. Louis, superior of the order, con-
Quoted the exercises. The new mon
astery is severely plain structure of
red brick, the s31, 900 expense having
been met by the order without out
side assistance.
Edward Baker, age 81, a farmer
living in Monroe township, half a
mile from the Linn county line, near
Iowa City, committed suicide by
shooting himself in the forehead. He
went to his bedroom partly UNI
dressed. He used % calibre repeat
ing rifle. The cause is unknown.
Coroner Hurd was called and decided
no inquest was necessary.
George Smith of Indianola, who
purchased the Durham farm in Bel
mont township, Warren county, five
years ago, at a per acre price Of
$3.50, sold the tract to Dan Van
derlinden for $140 per acre. Making
$62.50 per acre while you wait isn't
at all bad, especially when you figure
that the farm is one of 203 acres.
One man waiting for an interurban
train at Kelly, small station south
of Ames on the Fort Dodge, Des
Moines & Southern, saved the life of
C. o. Torgeson, the local agent of the
road at Kelly. Fumes, caused by
burning of the transformer house,
overcame Torgeson. The waiting
passenger saw him unconscious on
the floor and dragged him to fresh
air.
During last week there were eight
weddings in Marion county in which
one or both parties to the nuptial
contracts were Pella people. OF the
sixteen persons, nine had surnames
beginning with Van. The title of
each marriage follows: Van der
Haar-Van Zee, Vanee-Tysseling, Van
Klootwyk, Van Arkel-Van
Beolsom, Van Baale- Rietveld, Hoxen-
Zee, Van Wyngaarden-
De Jong.
Death due to natural causes came
to Carl Lenhardt, eighty years old,
as he knelt beside his bed in his home
at Ft. Madison, but his body was not
discovered for "a hours. Neigh
bors noticing there We're no signs of
life about the Lenhardt home, caused
authorities to burst in door. Len
hardt was retired farmer. A daugh-
ter, Mrs. Ross Hanna, of Danviile, Ia,
and a son, Charles Lenhardt, of st.
Louis, Mo-, survive him.
A big coal deal has just been closed
by which the Big Joe company gets
the Big Four mine, eight miles west
of Centerville on the Milwaukee, and
also has leased 500 acres of coal land
near Jerome, on which new shaft
will be put down. Two hundred men
will be employed by fall. Robert
Hunter is the superintendent. He
has been with the Big Joe company
as superintendent at Gladstone, which
mine will be abandoned.
When informed that his parole had
been annulled, Earl Nivery, negro,
attempted suicide at Fort Madison
and is in a critical condition in the
hospital. Just before an officer ar
rested him he swallowed carbolic acid
and later told the officials of his act.
The officer did not believe him until
he was dangerously sick. He is a