Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-11-06

The great council of /. o. r. M, at
Fort Dodge, elected t. H. Griffith, of
Hiteman, Iowa, great junior sycamore.
N. G. Daney, of Sioux City, elected
great prophet. E. A. Patterson, OF
Iowa City was advanced from the Of
fee OF great senior sycamore to that
of great sachem and Paul Lagomar-
sine, of Davenport, was advanced
from great junior to great senior
sycamore.
The Iowa County board OF super
visors Is purchasing a strip OF land
two miles east of Marengo on the
south side of the Rock Island right
of way to keep the road on that side
and prevent its crossing the track
and recrossing it little further on.
This is another improvement in the
River-toRiver road looking toward
the Strengthening Of that highway in
Iowa county.
Postmasters recently receiving APP
pointments in Iowa are: Derby, Luz
cas- county, Joseph S. Ross, vice E.
F. Edwards, resigned; Gilbert Qate
Gilbert Station), Story county, James
Il.
Knierim, Calhoun county, Charles NJ
Burke, vice William Schwarm, re-
signed.
The new Iowa fish car arrived at
Spirit Lake for the third time this
week with game fish An entire car
load of fish was placed in West Oko-
boil late last week, and another car
load of fish was dumped into the wat
ers of that lake this week Spirit
lake also received a car of fry.
A last attempt by the stockholders
- reorganize the Western Implement
Motor company at Davenport fail
q and the men who bought 100000
worth of stock viii not realize a cent
on their investment. Creditors hold
ing 100000 worth of claims against
the concern will divide $16,500.
The city council of Mount Pleasant
has voted an appropriation Of several
thousand dollars to improve the mu-
nicipal water works to provide better
pressure in case Of fire. 1t is the in
tention to build a concrete reservoir
capable Of holding 10000 gallons
On information OF State Dairy
Commissioner Barney two Fort Madi-
son ice cream manufacturers were
fined for violation of state food laws.
The defendants product was under
the butter fat standard.
The city of Keckuk is having an
animated fight over the postmaster
ship, the candidates being J. W.
Townsend and Sen. A. p. McManus.
The term OF the incumbent will ex-
pire Feb. A.
With thirty.nine Ncharter members,
neE xIomen's Relief corps has been
.~c~yanized at the Iowa soldiers home,
Marshalltown, to be known as Gen.
Phil Sheridan w. r. c. No. 1856.
II, Rettinghouse, superintendent of
the Mason City division of the North.
western, has been appointed chief en-
gineer of the Omaha road, with Off
cial residence at st. Paul.
William LeVan, roadmaster of the
C. A. & N. railroad, was seriously in
jured While overseeing some con-
struction work near Jackson, large
timber fell on him.
Mildred Ratliff, years old, daugn
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. l.. Ratliff Of Coun-
ell Bluffs, died from phosphate pois
oning. The child ate the heads Off
several matches.
The general store of C. A. Miner,
at Perry, in which was located the
postoffice, burned to the ground with
a loss of $1,000. All the mail matter
was destroyed.
1t has been the tendency Of some
of the rural school boards in some
perts or iowa this fall TO seek third
grade teachers. in order to pay small
salaries.
Ralph Lorigan, laborer at Du-
buque, was killed when run over by
a Chicago Great Western train one
mile north of the viaduct at the fair
grounds.
Diphtheria now exists at four diff
client points in Marion county--Knox-
vile, Marysville, Hawkeye mining
camp and the Jones farm, near Ira
cy.
Deputy Game Warden Hall liberat-
ed thirty eight English "ring-necked"
pheasants in Glenwood park recently.
James F. Watts has been appointed
postmaster at PlainGeld, Bremen coun-
", IN place Of A. A. Lynes, resigned.
As result of being kicked by a
COW Mrs. Hand of Pleasant Valley,
near Waukon, is expected to die.
The Hotel Iowa at Keokuk will be
ready for the formal opening on Nov.
Is.
Pensions for widowed mothers were
advocated in resolutions adopted by
the great council of the Iowa Improv-
ed Order OF Redmen at it's closing ses-
sion at Fort Dodge
The will of the late C. A. Carpenter
Of Columbus Junction has been open
ed and will be p~bated in the dis
trict court at Wepel!o Nov. 4. His
estate amounts to more than $780,
900, and is left in trust to his wife.
James X. Youell. recluse, was
found dead on his farm two miles
north of Missouri Valley by neigh
bors. An underground shed had cav
ed in and crushed him.
The SCOT in the smoke drum of the
court house at Iowa City caught fire
and threatened the loss OF the whole
structure.
ella, Marion co2nty's Dutch me.
tr' polls, is making a mig effort to get
an electric line connection with How
ell. a station on me Wabash, three
and cne-ha miles southwest OF Pells
His arm torn Of. his jaw bone frac-
tured and one lung perforated, when
he was caught in the belt OF thresh-
ing machine, Mahlon Allen, a farmer,
died In Guthrie Center hospital.
Jerry Miller, foreman at the Rock
Island freight depot at Iowa City, fell
beneath barrel of sauer kraut
which he was carrying, and sustained
d. ,,-iaa ~ xxYl,foh he dfad