Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-11-13

Charles M. Pearsall LETT McGregor
several years ago for Wanatchee,
Wash, to go into the fruit growing |
business. A carload of Jonathan APP !
pies from his orchard was delivered |
in Dubuque last week. While hun
dreds of bushels of apples are rotting
on the ground in that vicinity because,
as the farmers say, they cannot sell |
them, these Jonathans of Mr. Pear |
sails brought about $500 per bushel. |
Proper care of trees and packing of
fruit is the answer.
The owners of the Red Oak and
Shenandoah, and the Plattsmouth,
NSb., electric plants, are building one
o. thu longest transmission lines n
the state. Besides Plattsmouth, cur
rent will be furnished Emerson, Hast
ings, Malvern and Pacific Junction.
The Lee Electric company of Clarin-
da is now furnishing power and
lights for Gravity, Corning, College
Springs, Bedford, New Market, Brad
dyville, Shambaugh and Elmo, Mo.
The Iowa state highway commits
sioners are going into the movies"
to educate people of Iowa to their
conceptions of what roads and bridges
should be like The state college
photographer and the college moving
picture camera are to be taken over
the state to take moving pictures
where graders and gasoline tractors
are being used, and improvements be-
Ing made.
The value of whisky as preventive
and cure of hog cholera has been de-
monstrated by Ferdinand Pabst, near
Lake Park. He had lost forty ami
mails and as many more were i'll,
when his mother, who had passed
through an epidemic of cholera in
Germany, told him to give them
whisky. Not another of his herd has
died.
Willard King, teamster, at Iowa
City, has sued the Rock Island for
1896 damages incurred while now
Ing hay on the right of way last sum-
mer He was struck by passenger
train, one of his horses killed, the
other badly cut and gashed, his
mower wrecked and his harness de-
molished.
George Toney was awarded dam
ages of $500 in the district court at
Waukon in his suit for $4,000 dam.
ages against the Interstate Power
Company Toney was injured in the
fall of 1912. He was stringing tele-
phone wires when he came in contact
with a live wire.
l.fx Of
by helpless, an automobile belonging
TO the ENEMY Auto company, Marshall
town, was completely destroyed by
fire ut point four miles east of that
city. An employee was demonstrating
1t to a prospective customer.
Members of FIVE different fam
lilies, in Monticello and vicinity, were
poisoned by eating brick cheese. All
who had partaken Of the cheese, suf-
fered from symptoms OF acute gas
tritis. Those present who did not eat
the cheese were not Ill.
The program and premium list for
the thirty ninth annual session of the
Southwestern Iowa Horticultural So
ciety, to be held in Council Bluffs De-
cemter / to 3, has been issued. A
banquet on the opening evening will
be one Of the features.
J. B. Leyalle, rs years old, an Illi-
nois Central brakeman, residing at
Waterloo, was run down In the Du-
buque yards, while doing fagman's
duty He lost one leg and sustained
other injuries from which he will die.
Andrew Johnson, farmer living
near Hampton, saw his 5-year-old son,
Carlton, fall from wagon load of
sand and receive broken neck. Mr..
Johnson was hauling sand for bridges
and the child was riding with him.
The second trial of jefferson T. |
MeCaskill, accused Of killing Henry
Phillips, farmer, while delivering
sewing machine, is being heard at
Waterloo. The supreme court re
manded the case for retrial.
John Shook, prominent farmer and |
stock man, dropped dead in a Shenan-
doah drug store. He had just bought |
a cigar, sat down to smoke and fell |
from his seat.
Thieves broke into the postoffice at |
Cumberland, blew open the safe and
got away with about 5000 in stamps |
and money. They escaped in an auto
mobile
The formal opening of the new
Creston Daily Plain Dealer home was
celebrated by luncheon in the press |
rooms of the new building.
Fire destroyed three autos, dam |
aged two others. and partly wrecked |
the garage OF L. E. Dow at Sheffield. |
The city laundry at Clear Lake |
was destroyed by a mysterious fire
Sunday night loss, 5000.
Mrs. Margaret Costello, a resident
OF Davenport for siIty.four years, died |
at her home there last week. She |
came to Davenport in 1S47 and she
had lived there since that time.
The Newton to Colfax Junction por-
ton of the Fort Dodge. Des Moines
& Southern has been sold to Rollin !.
Fisher for the Loring interests. The |
price was ;1o0,oe0.
Mrs. Lucy Randall, wife of the late
Elijah Randall, a resident of Cerro |
Gordo county for Afty-nine years, is |
dead at the home Of relatives. She |
was 93years old.
During the show season beginning
Aug. 10 and now closing, Iowana
Farms, Col. George w. French's big
fancy stock and model farm, has won
265 prizes in state fairs and live stock
shows OF the middle west. These
prizes were won by a show herd OF
twenty-three Holstein cattle and twen-
ty-two Berkshire hoS.
W. E. Dodge, for seven years
partner and city editor 6Sthe Intel
ligencer at Charles City, has sold his
half interest to his partner. WNC.
Rhinesmith. The firm now will BE
known as Rhinesmith & Son.