Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-01-08

been OF profit to the owners of the
farm. A few years ago John Car.
mody bought the farm and eight
months ago sold 1t to James Cook of
Correctionville at an advance Of $50
an acre. Mr.. Cook kept the place two
months and sold it for $12 an acre
more than he paid, his son, DR.. o. E.
Cook OF Perry purchasing it from
him for $145 an acre. Now DR.. Cook
has sold 1t to C. H. Harmon Of Cedar
Rapids for $165 an acre, realizing a
profit Of $1,000 on his investment in
six months.
Those who imagine that small fur
bearing animals are becoming scarce
In Iowa should examine the books OF
the Knoxville Fur company In one
day last week NJ. w. Conwell, manag-
CT. shipped out consignment of furs
@ ,sisting Of the skins Of 301 musk.
ra> 275 Of the large species of strip
ed ANnks, 1873 of the civit cat or
spotted skunk. AZ mink, 20 raccoons.
S6 opossnlms and / fox
The Perry fire department had an
unusual experience when 1t was nee
essary to take fire to the water in
order to extinguish it. Several cars
of lumber in the Milwaukee yards
took fire. fhe scene Of the blaze was
beyond reach of the fire MIGRANTS and
an engine hauled the burning lumber
several blocks before it could be
reached.
With three state poultry associa-
tiou cups to be awarded and more
than forty other valuable prizes, the
Cedar Falls and Waterloo Poultry as
sociation opened its seventh annual
show. This association is one of the
largest in northern Iowa and there
were more than 1900 pens OF birds
on display.
Eighty thousand dollars alone for
transformers will be paid because the
I Fort. Dodge Gas G Electric company
\ will hereafter purchase its electricity
from the Fort Dodge, Des Moines &
Southern and the current will be
changed from sixty cycle to twenty
i've cycle. Every motor in Fort
Dodge must be replaced.
Miss Lydia Yeager, while riding on
a motorcycle, with s. Nelson, at Esth-
erville, collided with an automobile
4 driven by Robert Bauviard. and the
wheels Of the heavy car passed d.
rectly over her body. One arm and
several ribs we're broken, in addition
Y to internal injuries.
Sheriff George Ross OF Dallas coun-
ty arrested a man named Crawford,
wanted on charge Of robbing store
at Logan, Harrison county. His broth
crsiplaw, who is said to have been
duplicated in the robbery, was also
arrested and both taken to Logan for
trial
John Muller has sold eighty acres
of land lying two miles southeast OF
Victor to Frank Floeshinger for the
sum of $250.00 per acre. The build
ings are only ordinary. This land
sol dseven years ago for $122.5o per
acre
Charles Hoover, 10-year-old son Of
Ernest Hoover, accidentally killed
himself with 20 calibre rifle while
hunting. He was climbing a tree
when the gun fell. The trigger
caught, and bullet entered under the
boys left arm, cutting an artery.
When the water works system is
completed Mount Ayr will, within the
last two years, have completed more
than $4,000 worth OF public i'm
provements. The largest single ex-
pense of any was the school building,
built at a cost of $4,000.
Both feet of Raymond Wilhelm OF
Bancroft were severed by a freight
train. He was loading a car with
baled hay. He attempted to board the
train while 1t was moving. He miss
cd his footing and fell beneath the
car.
Deputy Sheriff M. d. Myers OF Lo-
gan went to Adel after Jack Craw-
ford, wanted at Missouri Valley charg-
ed with aiding in the disposal of the
county fair bell taken at Missouri Val
ley recently and sold to junk deal
ers in Omaha.
Albert Bergland, night operator at
the interlocking tower of the North.
western and Minneapolis & st. Louis
railroads at Ogden, received burns
of which he later died when a lamp
exploded in the tower.
Mrs. Mary Jane Pitcher, nearly 100
years old, is dead at Boone as re-
suit of fall few days ago. She
was a pioneer woman Of the middle
west.
David Short was killed near Pier
son, six miles west OF Correctionville,
when his buggy was struck by an auto
driven by Ed Miller.
Mrs Rebecca Smith, 76, past presi-
dent OF the National Association of
Army Nurses, died recently at Wat
erloo She was commissioned nurse
in 1862 and later was active in charit-
able work in Minneapolis. She mar
ried DR.. Cyrus Smith in st. Paul In
1858.
Jesse oxley shot Melville Hillery,
who married Oxley's divorced wife,
on the streets of Corwith. Oxley pull
ed revolver and shot, without
word. The bullet entered below the
heart and lodged IN the spine. Hillery
will die. oxley has been taken to
the county jail at Forest City.
M. ID. Allard, a farmer living near
Perry, has been made defendant In q
suit for $1,000 damages because Of an
automobile accident which happened
in Des Moines. M. ]. Miller of Des
Moines is the plaintiff. He alleges
that Allard ran into the rig he was
driving and injured him permanently.
A new pension board has recently
been appointed at Keosauqua, owing
TO the removal Of Dr. Harris to ILL
Dois and the resignation of another
member. DR.. Men of Pennington is
president. Or. Kirkpatrick is the
treasurer. DR.. Sherman of Keosauqua
Is recretary.