Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-08-28
IOWA NEWS BRIEFS
A Mississippi river sturgeon was


pointed postmaster at Bentonsport.
Mrs. Nancy Quick, an aged resi-
dent of the town of Garrison, passed
away.
Burglars got SITS in cash when
they robbed the store of H. S. Pierce
at Sand Springs.
John Wendt of Lansing found a
pearl that weighed forty grains. He
sold it for $1,000.
Della Russell. wife of DR.. David NJ.
Edwards, president of Penn college,
Is dead at Oskaloosa.
Lightning struck the cupola on thu
Hotel Brunton in Wall Lake during
an electric storm and set it afire.
Lance Thompson reports fifty-six
bushels per acre of oats threshed
from thirty acres near Shell Rock.
The cornerstone of the new post
Office building at Denison was laid.
The exercises were in charge of the
Masons.
The annual meeting of the English
River Baptist association will be held
in the Hedrick Baptist church August
% to 81.
The Rev. E. S. Chaffee, for Two
years pastor of the Presbyterian
church at Lytton, has rendered his
resignation.
The c., R. l. & P. depot at Kellogg
burned to the ground, destroying
nearly all of the books and records
In the office.
Since January /, 1913, a total of
343 divorce cases have been disposed
of by the judges of the district court
at Des Moines.
Prof. Sieg, of the department Of
physics of the State University Of
Iowa, was married to Miss Gretchen
Potts Of Garden City.
Garrison's handsome new school
building was struck by lightning
during storm. No damage of any
great amount was done.
Workmen are progressing rapidly
IN laying the underground wires for
the new street lighting system around
the square at Washington.
Mehmet Braen, who is under arrest
at Marshalltown, has confessed to
killing Cater, Turk. He testified at
the coroner's inquest that he shot in
self defense.
Howard Cady Of Keota completed
his 1856 mile walk to Lohrville, being
four days on the road. His record
on the trip was fifty-two miles in
twelve hours.
A deputy game warden recently
captured a white blackbird near Man
chester. The rare specie of bird has
attracted much attention locally and
is being exhibited.
Allen Aschuff, aged 8 years, died
at St. Francis hospital at Waterloo.
following the receiving Of fatal burns
while playing about a bonfire in the
yard at his home.
A large barn burned down on the
farm Of Frank Lawrence, north of
Cedar Falls. With it went three
horses, thirty-five tons of hay in the
NOW, harnesses and feed.
The body Of well dressed man
was found hanging by satchel strap
from stringer Of an Illinois Central
railroad bridge near Merrill. Grips
nearby contained $50 in cash.
]. H. Cummins Of Cedar Falls, aged
70 years, was fatally injured and died
in ten minutes when his horse plunged
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of the thill penetrated his heart.
During the progress Of "a mimic
battle between boys at Marshalltown,
Arthur Timbush, aged 8, was struck
on the head by buckshot from an
air rifle, and is under the doctors
care. q
Nels Christensen, who was killed in
an auto accident at Council Bluffs,
was buried. His daughter, who was
in the machine when it went over an
embankment, is not expected to re-
cover.
For $25 cash A. ]. Back, father of
10-year-old George Back of Sioux
City, purchased and obtained delivery
iIOHl 1H-y dI-Olu AcIlHctA Lyons SUI
ficient cuticle to save the younger
boys life.
Roland Yates, a bricklayer on the
new hotel Jefferson at Iowa City, ha.
brought suit FOR $4,000 damages
against the Clifton Carnival
company because he was chewed up
by bulldog.
D. Petit flied petition in the dis
trict court at Des Moines, in which
he claims damages of $4,000 from
the Shackelford Brick company for
injuries he received while in the COM
pany's employ.
Contracting lung trouble following
a siege with diphtheria, which she
caught from nursing patients with
that disease, Miss Grace Putnam,
aged "a, trained nurse, is dead at
Council Bluffs.
me corn crop as whole was
greatly benefited the last week by
rain, but the rain came too late to
improve the early corn in the south
ern part Of the state, where the
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