Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-07-23

NlclS at SZ a Gay. An advance TO
$3.50 a day will be made as soon as
the men become hardened to the task
and are able TO earn the money.
John F. Gerahty. young farmer
living near McGregor, who has been
experimenting for several years with
the raising of the grade Of his dairy
COWS, is having results which show
that the extra expenditure of money
and labor has been worth while. A
test for seven days of one COW which
record of 80 pounds OF milk which
churned seventeen pounds of butter.
Mrs Cornelia M. Fiske Of Newton,
aged about 60, committed suicide by
jumping from the fourth story window
of the Victoria sanitarium at Colfax.
She died almost instantly at the feet
of man who was standing near the
hotel. Her son was sentenced to the
reformatory two years ago for period
of five years on a charge o. embezzl-
ing Newton city funds and mutilating
the records. He pleaded guilty.
Three persons we're seriously in.
jured when an automobile in which
they were riding turned turtle six
miles west of Osceola. The injured
were Henry Loiler, fractured left
shoulder and had bruises; Mrs. Loiler.
left leg broken and badly bruised;
DIR. Loiler of Sidney, chest injured
and several ribs broken. Two small
children of Mr. and Mrs. Loiler es-
capped injury by a miracle.
After a little over a years work,
the government experts who were
sent to Dallas county to assist in the
fight which the department Of agri.
culture is waging against hog cholera
report that there is not single case
within the county. None has been
reported for over month. Last year
the loss to the farmers of Dallas
county amounted TO more than $780,
coo.
Mrs c. A. L. Jensen, wife of the
pioneer jeweler of Ida Grove, is re
joicing over the recovery of her we'd
ding ring which she lost twenty-five
years ago. The first OF the week the
little daughter of the tenant in the
old home found the ring while raking
the yard.
Thomas Gosnell, prominent young
man of New Sharon, was stabbed near
the heart by Freeman Jackson, well
known farmer. He is in a hospital
and probably will die The cutting
took place in the park where the men
met.
In the preliminary hearing at Nc
Gregor of the case of the State of
Iowa versus Charles j. Wolfe, a cat
tleman, for violation of quarantine of
cattle pronounced tubercular, Mr..
Wolfe was bound over to appear be-
fore the grand jury in September.
The old soldiers of Hamilton coun-
ty plan TO hold their annual reunion
at Webster City July 90 and 80. The
committee On arrangements have pre-
pared a musical programme and are
seeking a speaker from out Of the
city to give an address.
Professor Delker, who for the last
eight years has been director of the
Greene Concert band, has written a
song, both words and music, entitled
ION a Moonlight Night In June" which
he has had published and placed on
the market
Harry Hayerly and William
Sprackles, two youths, were drowned
in Carter lake, making six drowning
in that lake this summer. Neither of
the boys could swim and the
Sprackles youth died trying to save
his companion.
Charles H. J. Mitchell, the propri-
etor and editor of the Storm Lake Phi.
ot-Tribune, who submitted to an OPP
GRAFTON for appendicitis on July 4, has
SO far recovered as to be able to re-
turn to his home.
The excavation work on the new
100000 dormitory that is to be erect
ed on the college campus at Cedar
Falls this year is completed, and the
work of laying the foundation for the
structure will be begun Immediately.
Some idea of the prosperity Greene
in enjoying this summer can be CLEAN
ed from the fact that eight dwellings,
three store buildings, a church and
school building are in the course of
construction.
Approximately $1,000 is bequeathed
to the Methodist Episcopal church OF
Iowa City and subsidiary organizations
by the will of Mrs. Jessie NJ. Sterling,
whose death occurred about month
ago. Her estate amounts to $4,000.
II. P. Stryker has just sold eighty
acres north of Arthur, Ia, to Joe
Pennecamp at $2eO an acre, while
Richard Neimeyer bought eighty acres
from Tom Johnson, located near Hol-
stein for $3.50 per acre.
Edward Harvey, aged 10, the son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey of near Fred
ericksburg, met instant death while
playing with shotgun.
While bathing in the Iowa river at
Marshalltown Harry Banford, %
years old ieweler of Colo, Ia, was
stricken with cramps and drowned.
John Belcher has sold his farm ly-
ing two miles northeast of Collins to
Thomas Bloomfield, the consideration
being sos per acre.
A basket factory is to be opened
in Mason City in the near future by
F. d. Nudge, formerly Of Humboldt.
During the last six months Mr.. Nudge
has been manufacturing about sixty
different designs of willow basket
work, and the increase in his business
has necessitated more commodious
quarters.
The assistant state veterinarian has
been in Webster city to determine the
cause OF the poison epidemic that
seems to be prevalent among horses
and mules in that vicinity. Lindbeck
brothers, who reside near Ellsworth,
have lost four mules and two horses.
The date for the reunion OF the
Eighth Iowa Cavalry and Eighth Iowa
Infantry TO be held at Indianola, has
been changed to August 20 and rs. It
is announced that Gen. e. F. Winslow,
colonel OF the cavalry regiment, who
has been abroad, will return in time
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