Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-08-13

Members of the Congregational
church at Red Oak are working on
plans for new church building to
cost about $4,000. Sufficient funds
have been pledged to assure the build
ing of the church, and H. c. Hough'
ton, resident, has offered to install
suitable pipe organ as memorial
to Mrs. Houghton. The plans call for
modern Sunday school plant, a
home-like auditorium with large choir
gallery and friendly room, and a com
munity house. There will be gym
nasium, shower baths, stage, kitchen
and social room.
A permanent child welfare station
as a continuance Of the Child Welfare
Conference which was held under the
auspices of the extension department
OF the state university this spring, is
the plan announced recently by com.
mittee of women's clubs at Iowa City.
The purpose of the station will be to
afford an opportunity for regular, sys.
tematic and scientific study and ex-
animation of children, at the request
Of parents, to determine whether the
child is developing normally.
Nashua is experiencing the greatest
loom it has had in the last decade. H.
A. Fangman has just completed new
store building OF cement blocks; the
Congregational society is erecting a
new brick church to cost about s12,-
900; the Farmers Cooperative Cream.
cry society is building a new brick
creamery to cost about $1,000; and
M. l.. Riggs has the foundation In for
cement store building.
Earl Roberts, 81 years old. and
slight Of build, has rescued six per-
sons from drowning this season. His
latest exploit in lifesaving was the
rescue of Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Small
wood, Mrs. H. M. Kezar and her sis
ter. Mrs. Esther Waldorf, of Maxwell.
la. The quartette was wading in the
Black Hawk river and suddenly step
ped into deep water.
W. E. Robinson has been named as
receiver Of the National Engine COM
pany of Waterloo, whose president. G.
W. Dickinson, recently committed
suicide. 1t is alleged that the liabil-
tiles will reach $4,000 apart from the
stock issues. which total $33,5O0.
Kenneth Whitner, young man liv-
ing at Red Oak, Is under arrest on
the charge of sending obscene matter
through the mails. The letter was
sent to young woman at Corning and
was discovered by her father, who mo-
titled the postoffice inspector.
When Leonard Heffner of Mystic
went to put on his trousers the other
-.dey he didn't Lind them. Later he dis
covered they had been carried out in
to the yard and plundered OF SIS in
money, a 800 certificate OF deposit
and a watch.
Frank B. Townsend. former rail-
road man OF Marshalltown, and since
1892 in the employ of the Iowa Gen.
trail G st. Louis railways. has been
made traffic manager of the Minneap-
oils & st. Louis, with headquarters in
Minneapolis.
NC NOV AhOhlPoOh nOlCis All SOlOl-
ed people has been opened at Des
Moines. The hotel is located at Ninth
and Park streets. The building is three
stories and the hotel is modern. with
electric lights. bath and telephone
service.
The Wapelfo county grange which
has been recently perfected from a
number Of township of subordinate
organizations, is planning picnic and
general meeting to be held in Ottum-
wa Aug. IS in Caldwell park.
Sjouke Stuersma and George Van
Buren,, both of Holland, who have been
living at Pella for the last year, have
received cablegrams from the minis
try OF war in Holland to return to
that country and take up arms.
George NJ. Bechtel company of Dav-
export has purchased the water works
bonds of the city Of Boone for s25, 900.
At a recent election large vote was
cast for the bonds and several miles
of water mains are being put in.
Ranko Siefken. well known resi-.
dent of Rembrandt, committed suicide
by cutting his throat. He complained
of being tired and when his wife left
the house for few minutes, he went
TO the basement and killed himself.
There was great rejoicing IN Mon.
ona when final connections were made
on the electric Tine which has been
built by the McGregor company for
the conveyance OF light and power
from McGregor to Monona.
- The city commissioners Of Ottumwa
have passed an ordinance levying a
tax of l mill for the payment OF the
cost OF the new motor fire equipment.
The trustees OF the First Methodist
church in LeMars have contracted for
the erection OF new church edifice
to cost $4,000.
A baseball tournament will be held
In Massena on September /, and 8.
Forty men signed for the necessary
money and the prizes will be, first,
SITS; second, 800; third, SIS, and
fourth, $50. 1t is expected that At.
lantic. Anita, Griswold and Grant will
participate.
JOSepl hedlH mas SOlu lSU dCTes VI
land, lying below South Prairie. sew.
en- miles southwest Of West Liberty,
to s. II. Rummells Of Nichols, for
$3.50 per acre. Henry Curtis has paid
5000 an acre for eighty acres of land
purchased from Ed Fitzgerald, and 10.
Gated on South Prairie.
Arthur Mather, who escaped from
the Eldora Industrial school July A,
after selling a buggy belonging to a
friend at Centerville, has been ar,
rested in that city and will be re-
turned to the reformatory.
II is announced in Des Moines that
Senator E. G. Moon of Ottumwa has
teen selected as assistant United
States attorney for the southern dis
trict of Iowa.
The automobile of J. NJ. Ricken-
berg OF Boone skidded on the slippery
road and turned over on its side. Mrs.
C. e. Mcneil sustained the dislocation
of her left shoulder.