Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-05-14


be conducted throughout the state.
A portrait painting of Martin Luth.
er, the gift of the 10000 Lutherans
in Iowa, was presented to the Iowa
historical department with approprt-
ate ceremonies Sunday afternoon.
Chief Justice Scott M Ladd presided
and Governor Clarke accepted the pof.
trait for the state. The Rev. Chas.
Voss, president of the Lutheran Pas
tors association, made the presenta-
tion address.
George Megan is dead and A. Vloa-
hod is near death at Mason City as
the result Of an attempt made by an
automobile party to see how close the
vehicle could be steered toward sew
eral men standing by roadside with
out striking any Of them Megas was
knocked down and instantly killed.
The joyriders kept on going They are
believed to have come from Remsen,
| la.
Proprietors of former saloons a,
Waterloo who have been paying rent
since the drinking places were closed
Nov. 20, 1912, are deeply interested
in an early decision by the supreme
court. Everything is in readiness for
an early opening of saloons in the
event the petition is held to be suffi-
| cient.
More than 200 persons OF Swedish
birth and descent formed Swedish
American league at Ottumwa recently
and opened their charter for the en-
rollment of all Swedish people and
descendants of Swedes in the city. A
huge picnic viii be held by the league
June "a with noted Swedish speakers
from Illinois and Minnesota.
Iowa State Teachers college, repre-
sented by Willard W. Patty of Red
| field, won the nineteenth annual in
| terstate normal school oratorical con-
| test at Cedar Falls in competition
with orators from Illinois, Wisconsin,
Kansas and Missouri State normals.
Illinois stood second and Wisconsin
third in the contest.
At the recent meeting at Cedar Rap
ids, Des Moines was selected as the
next meeting place Of the Woman's
Missionary society Of the United
Brethren church. Mrs. George john
son of Iowa City was named presi-
dent; Mrs. Loretta Curtis of Des
Moines, vice president, and Mrs. Lloyd
Fisher Of Toledo, secretary.
Aaron II. Guzeman celebrated his
ninety-sixth birthday recently at
Washington, la. He was one of TWEEN
ty-one children and his father, Abra-
ham Guzeman, served in the war OF
the revolution seven years. He is well
and has worked in the garden this
spring. He has lived in Washington
since 1S45.
The Iowa Rural Letter Carriers as
sociation's annual meeting will be
held in Des Moines on July % and "a.
Arrangements have been made for a
noon luncheon at the Successful Farm
ing plant on July 23. A theater party
will be held on the evening Of July
%. 1t is expected that from 200 to
300 delegates will attend the conven-
ton.
J. w. Kessler OF Ottumwa, aged 26,
was murdered and his body placed in
an Illinois Central box car. II was
discovered at Charles City. Heavy
Commissions on the head caused the au-
thorities to investigate. He had been
working for al dairy company at
Waterloo, la.
At the close OF the sixteenth an
nual meeting of the Lincoln classics
OF the Reformed church, just held at
Imogene, the following officers were
elected President, l.. H. Faust Of
Lawton, Ia; vice Nesident, Theodore
Muller OF Dawson, Neb.; state clerk,
H. L. Krause of Sioux City.
Josephine, the 18-year-old daughter
OF F. j. Klosterman of Remsen, died
from injuries received when an auto
mobile in which she was riding turn
ed turtle Rose Mullenkamp suffer
ed broken arm and Marie Davis
broken nose.
The Iowa Bee Keepers association
meetings to be held in different parts
OF the state. These meetings will be
in the nature OF all day picnics to
which everybody interested in bees
is invited.
The remains of Bert S. Wright, aged
30, telephone lineman, was found
in the woods near the country club
at Cedar Rapids. A revolver with
two empty chambers indicated that
Wright had committed suicide.
Postmasters appointed recently for
Iowa are: Hastings, Mills county, Le-
onidas l.. Greenwalt, vice Nellie M.
Furlong, resigned; Lamont, Buchan-
an county, Thomas Kelsh, vice Clessen
A. Kenyon, removed.
Iowa peisions have recently been
granted to Teresa M. Lane Of Abba,
s12; Medisa o. Washburn OF Wapello,
SIP; and Resale Jackson Of Toledo,
S12.
Ben n. Fell, formerly proprietor Of
a boat livery at Cedar Rapids, killed
himself with poison, because, accord
ing to note found on his body, his
wife eloped with another man.
Alpha Tau Beta, sorority OF mem
bers of the Kings Daughters, has
been installed at the University OF
Iowa by Mrs. NJ. J. Mansfield Of Dav-
export, who is president Of the Kings
daughters of Iowa
The total budget prepared by Bap-
tist churches of the state for the ma
tional Baptist societies for this year
is $4,000 according to report by DR..
s. E. Wilcox, secretary.
More than 200 Rebekahs from yari-
Gus parts of the state were in sess-
ion at ottumwa in the annual conven-
ton. Most Of the towns in southern
Iowa were represented by delegates.
Roy A. Stacey OF the Adair News
was on the program for the National
Editorial association meeting at
Houston, Tex, for an address on
Building Up a Weekly in a small
Town"