Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-11-19

Iowa Falls Light and Heat company,
which Peterson controls. Each plain
tiff asks judgment for $4,000. The
suits are based on an article publish
ed by the defendant criticising the
plaintiffs and their methods in oper-
ating public utility in that city.
'If all the farmers of the state
knew how to grow onions the way
they do down in Pleasant Valley they
could buy even more automobiles ev-
cry year than they are now" declared,
Prof. A. T. Erwin, truck crop expert
of the state experiment station. The
onion fields near Pleasant Valley
yielded from 400 to 500 bushels per
acre, and the growers got from 81 to
$3.50 for their crop.
The Billy" Sunday tabernacle at
Des Moines is filled to overlooking at
every service, hundreds being turn I'd
away. He spoke to 10000 people last
Sunday, holding morning, afternoon
and evening services. In addition two
big overflow meetings were held which
were addressed by Mrs. Sunday and
Mrs. Asher.
George A. Carlson, governor-elect
OF the state of Colorado, is native
Iowan, having been born at Alta on
Oct. %, 1876, of Norwegian parents.
His father was farmer and in 1880
removed, with his family, to farm
near Denver. The boy, George, at
tended the public schools at Barnum,
la.
A practical act of neighborliness
was witnessed on the farm of Henry
s. Terry, near Council Bluffs, when
twenty farmers of the vicinity went
in body to the corn fields of Mr..
Terry and in one day husked and
crjbbed 500 bushels of corn which Mr..
Terry, through sickness, had been un-
able to care for.
Carl Barwieck, an aged resident OF
Davenport, has given to the German
war relief fund committee his most
treasured family heirloom, rare Ger
man Bible, 81 years old. The book
has been in the possession Of the
Barwieck family for over 300 years.
1t was printed in Wittenberg in 1903
by Lorenz Seuberlich.
B. w. Agard, editor of the Goldfield
Chronicle, has sold the paper to II.
w. Mitchell, who came from Candy,
Mimi, and who is to take possession
at once. Mr.. Agard says he has an
swered the call "back to the SOIL"
and will go upon farm near Ceylon.
MINI.
High life society at Des Moines re-
ceived another thrill when 1t was an
nounced that Mrs. Ellis King Bell
had married DIR. w. w. Pearson,
wealthy specialist, whom Mrs. Olive
Love sued for $150G00 for breach OF
promise a few days ago.
Iowa is to send a shipload of corn
for the relief Of the stricken Belgians.
Governor Clarke has asked the presi.
dent for information as to how to
proceed. Committees will be appoint.
ed in each congressional district to
push the matter.
F. P. Spencer of Randolph, Ia, the
apple king of that part Of the state,
will be one of the principal speakers
at the fortieth annual session of the
Southwestern Iowa Horticultural so
ciety, which will be held at Atlantic
Dec. and 2.
Edward Port, who lost his arm in
a railroad accident five years ago,
was found fatally injured and lying
near the M. & st. L. railroad tracks,
near Fort Dodge. His head and
chest are badly crushed. He is about
"a years old.
The body of an unknown man was
found about two and half miles be-
low McGregor by gang Of section
men. At the coroner's inquest heart
failure was given as the cause of
death. The unknown was apparently
about 20 years old.
The quarantine of Iowa has affected
the stock yards at Sioux City serious
ly. Over a hundred men have been
thrown out of employment. Feeders
have dropped in price from so to rs
cents.
Land owners around Keokuk see
wealth ahead OF them from natural
gas. Vast deposits of the variety
found underground exist between
Keok4k and Burlington, declares l.. X.
Davis, who is an Oil and gas expert
The Sunday revival at Des Moines
Is drawing crowds beyond all expec-
tations, hundreds being turned away
at nearly every service. AS conse-
iquence the tabernacle Is being en-
llarged, and 1000 seats will be added
The sum of $4,000 was expended
during the past year in Johnson coun-
| ty for road Improvement and grading
work, according to statistics announc-
| ed.
All the buildings on the Pat Swain
| farm near Merrill except the residence
burned. In the large new barn were
5000 bushels Of grain. The loss will
total 5000.
Maurice Clausen, residing six miles
north OF Council Bluffs, shot a man.
moth jack rabbit recently. 1t tipped
the scales at 10 pounds.
Walter Deck, we'll known stock
buyer of Boone was instantly killed
when he was thrown from broncho
which he was riding.
The new Catholic church at Delhi
was dedicated last Sunday. Arch
bishop Keane conducted the services.
Elmer Margnum and his wife, who
are accused at Fort Dodge Of robbing
the auto ,iveryman who was driving
them across country and binding and
gagging him. and making away with
the automobile, have been bound over
IN tho GRAND iurv nm the charge NJ roh-