Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-08-21
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Akron has been sold to Henry
Welcher.
Union revival services are in prog
ress atSCoin. Evangelist Harkins is
in charge.
Joseph Hodge, "a pioneer 'of Ply
mouth county, fell from wagon and
broke his neck.
The cornerstone of the new Ma
sonic temple at Iowa City will be
laid August %.
Raymond Conway, editor of the
Mason City Times, has been elected
president of the Mason City Com
mercial club.
Injunctions have been secured
against three drug stores of Manson,
restraining them from selling lntox-
heating liquors.
The boy scouts of Rock Rapids
have joined with the boy scouts of
Canaan, S. D., in summer camp
near the latter place.
County officers of Iowa in conven-
ton at Council Bluffs have taken up
among other subjects the method of
issuing hunters licenses.
Mrs. Maggie Fleming of Fort
Dodge, at whose home Tom Wrenn re-
Gently was shot, has been arrested.
charged with the shooting.
Wallace E. and John P. Mitchell of
Sanborn are included in the will of
Martha Mitchell of Pecatonica, ILL.,,
dsposing Of a 100000 estate.
The women of the Central Church
of Christ at Des Moines will check
and care for babies of tired mothers
who attend the state fair this year.
Mrs. S. L. Morrison of Council
Bluffs saturated her night gown with
kerosene and set it on fire. She died
soon after being taken to hospital.
Harry Kennedy. of Hawarden, was
drowned in the Big Sioux while at
tempting to swim across. 1t is be-
lieved he was attacked with heart
failure.
The Lee county pioneer and old
settlers reunion, recognized as one
of the largest events of that nature
in the state, will be held September
at Fort Madison. Governor Clarke
will speak
Thomas Whitemore of Sioux City
has been awarded the contract for
the building of St. Johns Roman
Catholic church at Onawa, which will
begin Immediately The edifice will
cost $4,000.
DIR. F. R. Lintleman, who has been
engaged in the practice of medicine
at Harlan for the last ten years, has
left for New York, where he will spe-
cialize in diseases of the ear, eye,
nose and throat.
The alumni of Ellsworth college at
Iowa Falls announced that contracts
had been closed for several tracts in
the north part of the city, which in
sures fine athletic field in close
proximity to the college.
L. C. Denslow of Des Moines has
been elected to the superintendency
of the school, taking the place of R.
L. Mason at Winfield, who recently
resigned to take the principalship of
the high school at Washington.
Chicago capitalists are negotiating
for the purchase of the old Fry or
McNear estate property for the pur.
pose of locating another modern
hotel at Colfax. The property con
sists of nine acres, we'll timbered
Frank Warner of Iowa City, as
sistant editor of the Journal Annual,
the university "Hawkeye," sued A. c.
Torgeson of Beresford, S. D., bust
ness manager of the 1912 Hawkeye,
for $240 on account of his services
in preparing that volume.
Miss Cleo E. Allen and E Franklin
Zerb of Clarkson, Neb. were united
in marriage at the home Of the
brides mother, Mrs Daniel Allen Of
Harlan, by Rev. F. W. Long Of the
Congregations church. Mr.. Zerb Is
engaged in the practice of medicine
at Clarkson
The erection of new addition to
the Methodist hospital at Des MONIES.
which will double the size of the in.
situation, will be begun this fall. &C
CORNING 10 announcement mace by
w. H. Arnold, chairman of the board
of directors. The new building Will
cost S25O,0C0.
Grandma Hawley, mother of May
or Hawley of College Springs, who
is 101 years old, met with quite a
serious accident. While going from
her rocking chair to her bed, in some
unaccountable manner she stumbled
and fell, breaking the bone in her
right leg above the knee
The Odd Fellows of Jasper county
have decided to send the Sunrise de-
gree team of Sewers to the meeting
of the sovereign grand lodge in Min
neapolis in September. The team
will enter the world contest and
hopes to bring home the $1,000 prize
hung up for the best drilled team.
William Dodson, a pioneer resident
70 years of age, is dead at LeMars.
He came there from England in 1878
and 1T one time was accounted quite