Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-04-02

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bath. The basement will have the
laundry, heat and power rooms, and a
barber shop.
Alumni of the college of engineering
of the State university have formed
an organization. At a meeting OF
graduates of the college, committee
presented draft Of permanent con-
stitution, which was accepted. B. j.
Lambert was elected president
Senior electrical students at Iowa
State college are not worrying about
jobs. More requests than there are
members of the class have been re.
ceiyed at the college, from the large
electrical concerns of the country for
carefully trained men.
DIR. Bernard ]. Lattimer of Bancroft
has been appointed assistant state vet
erinarian by Governor Clarke. He is a
graduate of Ames' veterinary depart.
ment and was a member of the foot
ball team while attending that col
| lege.
John, the 7-year-old SON of Mr. and
Mrs. Meredith Rosenbaum, who live
near Westfeld, was killed while rid.
ing in an auto with two cousins and
two brothers. A wheel came off the
car while they were going down a
steep hill.
The annual meeting of the Iowa Os-
teopathic association will be held In
Des Moines three days beginning May
20. The program committee is plan
ming to bring to the convention at
that time several men prominent in
the osteopathic profession
The custom established last Sep
TENDER by the sophomores and upper
classmen of Ames of greeting the
green freshman with open arms in
stead OF hazing him, will be continued
again this fall.
Thomas Riley, district special agent
Of the Milwaukee road, dropped dead
at his home in Austin. Riley has
been in the railway detective service
on the Mason City division for more
than forty years.
Edison Gaylord. SO years old, the first
settler in Cerro Gordo county, died
at his home at Nora Springs, last
week. Mr.. Gaylord was an authority
throughout Iowa and neighboring
states on horticultural subjects.
Frank Morrison, an electrician, was
electrocuted while working on. high
tension line at Mason City He plac.
ed a hand on each of a pair of wires
and the entire force of $500 volts
passed through his body.
The Granger Implement company
at Fort Dodge, one of the Oldest In
the state, soon will go out of bust
ness. The firm as the Granger &
Mitchell company, did one of the iarg-
est jobbing busisess in northern Iowa.
Throwing two letters upon the floor,
Charles Kreiger swallowed carbolic
acid in a pool hall at Council Bluffs.
The letters were addressed to broth
er and to Mrs. Daisy Saunders OF that
city,
The famous ranch Of A. e. Cook
near Odebolt is to be cut up into small
tracts and sold. There is mansion
upon the ranch which has been a
show place for that section for many
years.
Owen R, Lovejoy of New York City,
general secretary of the child labor
committee, will be at the State Uni
versity Of Iowa Tuesday, March 81, to
give addresses on child labor and re-
lated social problems.
The three days short course for
farmers, held at H. A. Baxter's farm
in Cedar township, three miles south
east of Sac City was a success. The
course was promoted by the local Y.
M. C. A.
Mary Jane Jay, SS years old, pho
neer resident OF Henry county, died
at her home last Friday. Mrs. Jay
emigrated to that county with her
husband in the early '40's.
Experiments by DR.. Neff among the
inmates of the prison at Anamosa
show that the majority Of the prison
ers have mentality equal to that OF
12-yearold children.
Opposition to fee splitting among
the professors in the college of medi-
cine said to be cause of trouble be-
tween John G. Bowman. president,
and the state board.
Three members of the J. P. Holiday
family at Knoxville have died of
diphtheria in the same room within
the last twelve days.
The debating team OF the Sigourney
High school met its first defeat this
season when it clashed with the Sig
Quincy debaters.
Dan Murray, aged 9S, OF Sheffield,
Ia, said to be the Oldest farm hand in
Iowa, gets sick when he stays in town
and does not work.
Mrs. Mary A. Townsend OF Des
Moines, mother of the late Frank j.
Mitchell. millionaire lumberman of St.
Paul, receives $4,000 as provided by
her sons will.
Iowa postmasters just confirmed by
the senate are: e. F. Jockheck, Jr.,
Durant; Cyrus l.. Henney, mitchell.
Vile; Albert H. Brouse, Prairie City.
A plea of not guilty was entered by
Charles Slechta when arraigned Do
fore Commissioner Ftzsimmons in
Des Moines on charge of white slav-
cry. Slechta is wealthy farmer liv-
ing near Knoxville. He is accused
of having transported Leila Womack,
aged 16, from Fayette county, Ark, to
Iowa.
Leading green house specialists OF
Iowa conferred with President r. A.
Pearson of Iowa State college and
members Of the agricultural faculty to
aid In drawing up plans for the new
$4,000 plant propagation building
provided by the last legislature.
A new election for lieutenant col
onel in the Fifty-fourth regiment, ].
N. G., has been ordered by Guy e. Lo-
gan, adjutapt general, owing to the tie
vote in the election held last week.
Lieut.. Col. Fred s. Holstein OF Burl-
ington and Maj. George NJ. Ball of
Iowa City each received fifteen votes.
Although the board of parole has
sent to Governor Clarke several rec
concentrations for clemency the de-
cisjon on the Rainsbarger case was
not among them. The board announc-
ed that 1t had reached decision but
that it would not be given out until
II was submitted to the governor.