Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-07-30

| SenerallSslm0, j. Z. BroWnyeIl, Mar
ion; grand captain general, c. A.
Schlichter, Burlington; senior ward
en-, S. L. Goodell, Sac City; junior
warden, Robert Hunter, Sioux City;
treasurer, Thomas H. Whitney, At.
lantic; grand recorder, David U.
Brownlee, Sioux CITY; member Of
board of trustees, c. L. Clark, Newton.
Eleven Iowa newspapers have
adopted modified degree OF sim
plified spelling. The Iowa newspa-
pers that have decided to adopt the
reform are: Cedar Falls Record, Ce-
dar Falls Gazette, Waterloo Courier
and Reporter, Waterloo TimesTrio-
une, Cedar Rapids Republican, Cedar
Rapids Times, Cedar Rapids Evening
Gazette, Iowa City Republican, Iowa
City Citizen, Iowa City Press, Iowa
City Daily Iowan.
Investigation of blind pigs" in the
pool rooms at Davenport is to be
turned over to the federal authorities
and the local police will in future
rhave nothing to DO with the selling OF
intoxicants labeled pop" and cider"
Complaint that many Of the local poo,
rooms were nothing else than blind
tigers was made and a wholesale raid
on the billiard halls followed, result
ing in the conhscation OF large
amount of near" beer
Daily visits are being made to the
pike reefs in Iowa's big lakes and the
expert anglers are bringing home
large strings. Charles Ridell of
Sheldon captured twenty-five pike out
of Spirit lake, which averaged about
two pounds and half each. F. Graft
of Des Moines succeeded in taking
home seventeen OF the same breed, all
of generous weight,
A. w. Howell has purchased the
Conger farm consisting OF eighty
acres for $4,000 This tract of land
is situated near DeSoto, and contains
four springs, the largest of which flows
5000 gallons day Mr.. Howell is
to convert the property into health
resort and viii invest approximately
100000. A sanitarium is to be erect
ed as well as cottages.
The annual reunion of the old set.
tiers of Dallas, Greene, Boone and
Guthrie counties will be held at
Wise's Grove, a short distance north
OF Dawson on Aug. ~ and 10. The
picnics have been held for number
of years and have assumed such a
magnitude that thousands OF persons
attend them each day.
There are now between seventy
and eighty threshing crews at work
in Monona county threshing the win.
ter wheat crop. The yield averages
about twenty-five bushels to the acre,
although H. ]. Thomas, three miles
south of Onawa has threshed out
hfteen-acre field that yielded forty
bushels to the acre.
Optional contracts for land to be
used as waterworks reservoir at
Humeston have been signed, and about
thirty acres of land in the southwest
ern part of the city hSI been pur-
chased by the city. The new reser-
voir will have a capacity of 24,50o,o 600
| gallons. t&
The sun dial which is to be erected
on the lawn OF the Ames library by
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton, has arrived in that city and
will be placed in position in the near
future. Dedicatory exercises art 10
be held at the time of installation.
The controller of the currency has
received the application of the fol-
lowing persons to organize the First
National bank of Lawler, capital $50,
COO: Elite Parker, May P. Galley, Fan
ME p. Hines, G. e. Hines and Hen
rietta Martin.
Lewis Johnson, son Of w. S. John
son, editor and proprietor Of the
Newton Record, has been taken into
partnership with his father. Mr.
Johnson, Jr., is a graduate OF Coe col
J lege. The firm will be known a!
Johnson & Johnson.
One OF the features OF the Epworti
; League assembly which has been il
J session at Colfax for several day:
will be an Odd Fellows Day, which
is to be July 27. Many members o.
J the order have signifed their inten
tion to be present.
The rebuilding work al the Storm
Lake canning factory is nearly com
: pleted and the plant will be ready Il
start the season about the middle o.
August. The main building was par
TALLY destroyed by fire last fall
William E. Riggs, editor of the Var
, Meter Reporter, aged 6S years, resid
, ing at Van Meter, died at Mercy hos
pital in Des Moines following an op
! Grafton for cancer. Funeral services
, were held at Van Meter.
] An advance OF $4,000 in the value o.
113 acre Iowa farm in few years
! was shown last week when J L. Muil
of Warren county sold his farm t.
J Frank Phillips Of Des Moines fol
nearly $4,000.
, The Women's Foreign Missionary
: society will hold summer school al
J Lake Okoboji beginning July 20, and
continue until Aug 8. Mrs. William
, Dudley of lndianola will be in charge
: Of the program.
W. NJ. Michaelson of near Storm
! Lake has sold his farm to a Mr.. Law
renee OF Cherokee for $40 per acre
possession to be given March /.
i Mary Daley, daughter of G. X. Da
ley OF Lake Mills, is expected to ar
: rive home soon from Germany, where
she has lived during the last sever
years. Miss Daley has been studyins
, music abroad and served as an in
} structor in one of the Berlin con
; servatories.
E. ]. Orr has disposed Of his inter
, est in the Nodaway News to DR.. "
G. Morgan, and in the future the pa
per win be conducted by Mr.. Morgan
and Elmer w Orr Mr.. Orr has beer
) associate publisher and senior edi
tor during the past ten years, ant
retires on account of his age.
Frederick Gebers, wealthy farm
er OF Ida county, has divided his 70S
: acre farm among his four sons. Civ
ing each one slightly more than
quarter section. Land in that local