Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-02-26
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unpaid alimony by his former wife.
Miss Loda " Miller. The woman
lives in Chicago
Twelve young women of Currier
Hall, the university women's building
at Iowa City are sick as the result OF
vaccination following the innoculation
of 200 goods against smallpox. 1t is
said that they are scarcely able to
walk.
Shippers complain OF poor freight
service on the Rock Island railroad
near Rock Rapids following the
action of government inspectors in
ordering number of locomotives out
Of the service owing to their condi-
lions.
Judge Preston OF the state supreme
court in Diminishing the divorce suit
of Eve l. VS.. John Kinkade, held that
conjugal infelicity is no ground TO.
divorce, unfolding in his decision
Judge d. F. Clyde Of the district
court,
A Northwestern freight train went
into the ditch. east Of Belle PLANE.
and the engine and twelve cars were
wrecked. No one was seriously in
jured although there was much dam
age to freight and the cars were de-
stNoyed. /
w. c. Robinson, aviator, who is
building powerful bi-plane in Grin
nell. has definitely decided to compete
for the prizes offered for the winner
Of the globe-circling race to be held
under the auspices of the Panama ex-
position in 1915. !
The Southern Iowa Traction Co.,
whose stock recently was purchased
by the Centerville Light & Traction
Co., will be made into an electric line
Just as fast as the material can be
obtained. Contracts have been let
for all the equipment.
Leases are being secured by George
c. Cooper, assistant state game war
den for game preserve to be located
in the vicinity Of Des Noines. A tract
of 1000 acres, near Carlisle, half in
Warren and the remainder in Polk
county, has Been selected. /.
Jasper Thompson Of Forest City
has added two valuable relics to his
private museum. One is totem pole
from Alaska; the other is tusk frou
a prehistoric elephant; which has
been frozen in the ice up in the Arc
tic regions for thousands of years.
Richard e. Lloyd. discharged pas.
senger brakeman of the Northwest
ern railroad at Boone, threw himself
under a fast mail train at that place
and was crushed to death Lloyd had
been having trouble with a divorced
wife. Another woman, with whom he
was keeping company. saw the acct
dent
Judge Smith Mcpherson and Judge
H. p. Deemer, both of Red Oak, took
opposite sides in controversy over
the adoption OF rules pertaining to thu
management of the graveyard at Red
Oak. Deemer favored municipal
management. taking the control from
the hands of the owners. Mcpherson
opposed it.
Alleging that tooth improperly
filled caused an abscess which de-
stroyed the membrane and bone and
caused terrible suffering on the part
of the plaintiff. Mary Kopecky has
filed suit against Hasek Brothers.
dentists OF Cedar Rapids. to be heard
at the April term OF court The
action is for $4,000.
A commercial club with ninety
charter members has been organized
at Strawberry Point. The organiza-
ton was completed after about six
weeks campaign and included repre-
sentatives from every business firm
in the city. The club is going about
at once to secure as many farmer
members as it has business men
Report has reached Cumberland
that the evangelist who has been hold
ing a series of meetings at Fletcher
chapel, northwest of Cumberland, and
who has been stopping at the Oscar
Peterson home. has been taken sick
with small pox. and the Peterson
home has been quarantined. 1t is
said that number of people have
been exposed.
Acting upon the complaint of citi-
zens in the residence district OF the
city of Davenport in regard to rattle
boards and various games OF chance
being operated in the outlying cigar
and drug stores. Mayor Mueller,
through Chief of Police Harry
Schramm, issued an order abolishing
all such games in all drug, cigar and
other stores Of the city.
Bert and Richard Peek of Mystic
were sentenced by Judge Vermillion
at Centerville to an indeterminate
sentence not exceeding ten years in
Anamosa They were convicted Of
stealing corn from the Winifred coal
mine crib. While they were at large
after jumping their bond, two others
of the Peek family were arrested for
alleged burning of the Lodwick Bros.
coal mine barn.
Herbert Eiffert of West Side town
ship won the gold watch offered as q
prize in the county spelling contest
in connection with the short conrsa