Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-04-10
IOWA NEWS BRIEFS

Council Bluffs to burn the Y. M. C. A.
At special election at Bagley,
$4,000 was voted for new school
house.
A class Of candidates will be init
ated into the K C. order on April 81
at Clinton.
The Windsor hotel at Lake View
was sold at auction to w. H. Schurtz
of Council Bluffs.
A. ]. Cole, a retired farmer of
Faulkner, has returned from trip
around the world.
Sister Patricia of the order of ST.
Francis, many years nun, who died
in Dubuque, was buried in Clinton.
The citizens of Mason City propose
to build new armory at cost of
$4,000. Stock will be sold at $50 per
share.
Rev. G. w. Heer Of Dubuque and
Raw. B. H. Forkenbrock Of New
Hampton will sail on April 5th for
Rome.
Miss Nellie Neeley was married to
Ralph H. Hillhouse of Tabor, Rev.
Perry of the Presbyterian church Of
floating.
At a special election the town Of
Peosta, near Dubuque, voted to in
corporate. This will make the place
eligible to saloons.
Response to the calls for subscrip-
tions for the municipal hospital at
mass meeting at State Center was so
generous that the project is assured.
Arthur Moohn of Dubuque, who
was to have married Miss Mary Gill,
housekeeper Of the Hotel Julian, dis
appeared the night before the we'd
ding.
Hunters in Worth county report
that ducks and geese were never so
thick before. Some of the hunters
have returned loaded down with
game.
The Clover Leaf Hardware COM
pany of Mason City has made an as
signment to F. A. Stevens of st.
Louis. Their liabilities amount to
1926, 143.96.
Mrs. John j. Seerly, wife of former
Congressman Seerly and prominent
in Iowa Federation of Women's clubs,
died at Burlington, succumbing to a
long illness.
DR.. McWilliams of Charter Oak
was fatally hurt in an automobile
wreck near Missouri Valley. The au-
tomobile turned turtle and he was
pinned beneath it.
George R. Tracy, formerly editor
and proprietor of the Sheffield Press,
has purchased the Dallas County Rec
ord, published at Adel. He took pos
session Immediately.
At q meeting Of the Masonic Tenn
pie association stockholders at Car
roll it was voted to rebuild the tenn
pie and increase the capital stock
from $36, 900 TO $4,000.
The infant daughter of G. j. Thor
son drank some gasoline that had
been left in a cup. For few min
utes the child suffered untold agony
but an emetic saved her.
The Davenport high school won the
big eight conference debate by de-
feating Kewanee, ILL.,, at Davenport
and Monmouth, Ill, at Monmouth
Both teams won two to one.
Margaret Ruhde, 7-year-old daugh'
tsr of ]. H. Ruhde of Davenport, was
playing around the kitchen stove
when her clothes caught fire. She
died from the burns received.
Bruce Lake, defaulting clerk Of thu
district court for Lee county, entered
. plea Of guilty and was sentenced
TO term not exceeding ten years il
the Fort Madison penitentiary.
The promoters of the commission
plan of government movement il
Iowa City have filed their third petit
ton. It bears more than 800 names
and is believed to be valid this time.
While northbound freight on tn
Illinois Central was passing through
Ryan truck broke, causing a derail
ment of seven cars of freight. Sew
eral hundred feet of track was tor
up.
Miss Blanche King of Scion wa
severely scalded about the face whe
the lid of a bucket in which waite
was heating blew off and threw he
water over the young woman's fac
and head
Mark Bush committed suicide a
Ottumwa by drinking carbolic aci
because of domestic troubles Hi
body was found in the basement of
hardware store, where he was en-
ployed as timer.
Herman Foller, who confessed t
having burglarized five suburba
homes and stores at Waterloo, wi
be sent to the insane ward at Ana
mosa. He was adjudged insane by
jury at Waterloo.
The ruins of an old building Q
Main street was RACED at Cedar Raj
ids. 1t was the first store buildin
built in Black Hawk county, and
the early days was called the Blac
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