Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-04-30
IOWA NEWS BRIEFS

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large family.
The old school building ut Sanborn
will be repaired and large new ad-
dition built. the cost to be $4,000.
Mrs. Mary Otkin, proprietress of the
lreton at Ireton, was married to J.
R. Bratcher. former business man.
Dysart business men are working
on the organization of commercial
club and have secured over fifty
names.
The Baptists Of LeMars will build
new church this year ON the site
now occupied by an old wooden
church.
A petition Of the council at Denison
is being circulated, asking for the
paving Of eighteen blocks Of the city
streets.
]. H. Lepper of Mason City was
elected president of the Iowa State
Association of jewelers. at the conven-
tion held at Des MONIES.
Because he failed to attend the an
nual encampment. John Organ, a mi
litta man of Company B Of Davenport,
will be court martialed.
A three story addition will be built
to the Item & Sons Biscuit factory at
Clinton. Approximately $4,000 feet of
floor space will be added.
The thirty-fourth session of the
Marshalltown district of the Upper
Iowa conference of the Methodist
church is to be held at Iowa Falls.
Charles Anderson of LeMars had
several ribs fractured when a team
of mules he was driving ran away
and he was thrown from wagon.
John Be aged 49, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Carl Beck. of Audubon county,
was killed when a team ran away,
pulling disc pillow over his body.
Plainly made white dresses for the
girls and blue serge suits for the boys
have been decided upon for commence
mont by the seniors of the Clinton
high school.
Miss Mary Gavin, Is, housekeeper
for many ars In the house of Bishop
Davis of Davenport, died after a few
hours illness. Three nieoes in Iowa
City survive.
Henry FL. Boone, a plastering con-
tractor of Des Moines, not ouly wants
divorce from his wife, but asks the
court to give back her maiden name,
Louise Robinson.
Three horses and five hogs were
killed, while two men near them es-
capped unscathed, when lightning
struck on the farm of Pat Callahan
near Gainesville.
Sister Mary Domitilla King, for
over sixty years Sister Of Charity in
Dubuque, is dead. She was a native
/ of Galway, Ireland, coming to Amer
lea when child.
Deputy Fire Marshal Tracy investi-
gated the fire which destroyed James
Brant's barn, five miles east of An
thon. Three horses and rs pigs were
burned with the barn.
Clemens Stang, one Of the Oldest
men in Plymouth county, died at the
advanced age of 80 at Remsen. He
was native OF Baden. Germany, and
came to America in 1847.
The estimated honey output of Iowa
for 1914 was compiled by Frank c.
Pellet, state bee inspector, at 10000
600 pounds. There are 100000 colo
MES of bees in the state.
Fifty physicians will appear on the
program of the sixty-third annua!
convention of the Iowa State Medical
society, which is to be held in Sioux
| City at the Martin hotel, Nav Ia Ia
| and Is.
| Fully five hundred people crowded
into the new Clear Lake high school
to attend the dedicatory excuses. Gov
ernor Clark was the principal speaker
The new school is one of the finest in
the state
Superint6 ldent of Schools e. c.
Meredith of Boone was arrested for
assault on Loren Abel followinp
charges brought by Fred Abel, former
president of the school board and
father OF the boy.
The new Masonic temple at Iowa
City is completed and will be taken
possession soon by the Masonic or
der. The dedication services will be
held in May. The building was erect
ed at cos of $4,000
N. P. Cronwall, prominent farmer
living near Nodaway. is in serious
condition at his home, as the result OF
blood poisoning caused by scratch
he received while working in his Der.
ry patch a few days ago.
George Adler. a 19-year-old youth
OF LeMars, was precipitated from a
barn roof when scaffold broke while
he was engaged in painting. He
alighted feet first and the ligaments
in his legs were badly torn and he
suffered internal injuries.
After investigating the death OF
John Williams, farmer living near
Redding, in Ringgold county, for ovei
a year, John Fletcher, assistant at
torney general, of Ringgold county
secured evidence which resulted in
the indictment of Elmer Williams TO,
the murder of his father.
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