Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-01-15
IOWA NEWS BRIEFS


of .Ames.
Rev. George Ncol has resigned the
pastorate OF the Christian church at
Woodbine.
G.. A. Drake of Brooklyn, veteran
Of Poweshiek county, is dead after a
years illness.
The Y. w. C. A. of FIT. Dodge recent
ly held pencil day, and 5000 was
raised by selling pencils.
W. j. Kline, veteran lawyer, and
once clerk of the Polk county courts
is dead at his home in Des Moines
BY an almost unanimous vote at a
mass meeting held in Centerville it
was decided to hold county fair this
year.
h A tabernacle for holding revival
meetings has been erected in Maquo-
keta. The meetings will begin this
week
Walter Forbes, police reporter Or
the GlobeGazette at Mason City, is
now city editor, succeeding George
NetZer
Over seventeen hundred chickens
and turkeys are entered at the twenty
second annual poultry show in Des
Moines.
Ed. G. Dunn has returned to his
home in Mason City after undergoing
a serious operation in a hospital at
that place.
Mrs. Burton and Mrs Leonard OF
Waterloo sail from New York the tif-
teenth of this month for an around the
world trip.
FL. B. Sturtevant, foreman in the
Twiner office at Woodbine, has leased
the Reporter and will edit the same
in the future.
Judge w. j. Sloan, for 40 years a
resident of Cedar Rapids, and for the
last IA years justice of the peace in
that city, is dead.
| Preparatory to building new NJ. E
| church in FIT. Dodge. bids will be adj
vertised for OH the tearing down OF
| the old structure.
A unique social affair was widows
i feast" held in the home of Mrs. Annis
| Thornburg Of Pleasantville, and at.
tended only by widows.
L
demonstrated the possibilities of Iowa
soil by raising high grade Of celer.
| in addition to Bermuda onions.
Prof. F. l.. McCreary. conductor O
the Cedar Falls concert band. entered
upon his duties as member of the
| Teachers college music faculty
Chas. Hinkle has purchased the in
terest of John r. Stinson in the Win
field Beacon and in the future the
paper will be issued by Hinllle & Son
j. H. Hensel, formerly janitor a
the state capitol and veteran of tn,
| civil war, was run down and seriousl.
injured by an automobile in De
Moines.
Following gunshot wounds received
while hunting ten days ago Virgil
I Cook. aged 81. carpenter of Abel
died in the Methodist hospital at De
Moines.
Despondent over i'll health, ALDER
Olson. aged IS. committed suicide a
his home in Muscatine. He had beel
himself
The skunk crop is reported as un
usually short at Clear Lake owing t
the unreasonable weather. 1t will no
exceed so per cent of that of last yeal
1t is stated.
n Rev. H. j Kendall of Irwin. Pa. ha
accepted the call to the First Presby
terrain church at Clinton, to succee
Rev. +. A. Bess who is now serving il
Iowa City.
The Cedar Rapids police have OF
tanned no clew to the whereabouts G
the man who held up A. H. BURGLAR
Saturday night, robbing him of ne,
touring car.
John Kokas. young Greek of Wat
erloo. has been held to the action c
the grand jury in $4,000 bonds on
charge of having held up and robbie
Miss Freida Seidler.
AS the result of the bursting of
blood vessel in her right eye. Mrs. Wn
Weigle. of Ft Dodge. has lost the sigh
of that member. 1t is feared the sigh
never will be recovered.
John Gillian. of Des Moines, VIII
Kidnapped his 4year-old daughte
from his wife New Years eve, is mad
the defendant in divorce actio
started by Mabel Gillian
Surprise over the election of III. 4
Allen to brigadiership is expresse
by 56th regiment officers. 1t was e,
y pected that Col. Howell of the SAT
regiment would be the new general
Miss Blanche Myers of Abingdon
dead from typhoid fever contracte
while caring for her three cousins VIII
were i'll from the same disease. Sll
, was a deaconess in the Christia
church.
Forty acres of valuable factory sit
property valued at over $4,000, wa
sold at Davenport. The Independel
Baking company, Klaus 4 Gadient IL
) company. Charles Shiek and +. l.. Go
being the purchasers.
The weeks old daughter, Hele
Fern. of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Huffma
of Warfield, died. She had seemed a
right short time before when sf
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