Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-03-26

ne small engine which has Turn.
fshed power for the light and power
plant at the prison at FIT. Madison is
to be replaced by new engine and
generator at a cost of $4,000. The
contract for the improvement has been
let
Deputy Game Warden ST. John has
Just established state game preserve
for Winnebago and Hancock counties,
including what is known as Pilot
Knob. Mr.. ST. John says lit is one OF
the ideal spots for game found in the
state.
The Muscatine Y w c. A. has APP
proved of plans for the employment
by the city of police matron. The
Y. w. G.. A. is also planning on hiring
woman to meet all trains and care
for girls. who may be strangers in
the city.
Mrs. Alice Head Mendenhall OF
South English received her NJ A. de-
gree from the Chicago university. Mrs.
Mendenhall graduated from Penn col
lege in the early eighties and has con-
tinued in educational work the great
er part OF the time.
Rev. G. J. Andrews. for eight years
pastor of the Swedish Mission church
in West Fort Dodge, has offered his
resignation from the local passionate
and will go to church in Edgewater
III. His resignation was accepted
with great reluctance.
The resignation of Lars w. Doe, as
president of Waldorf Lutheran college
at Forest City has been announced.
Mr. Doe. who was member of the
legislature from this county, had been
president of Waldorf since it was or
ganized. ten years ago.
Through the efforts of Mrs. Thomas
Goss flags have been purchased for
each building and the order of Eastern
Star has presented flags for the in
terror of the schools in Centerville
In all twenty-five flags have been the
result of the campaign.
| Four men followed James Balm OF
Sioux City when he left his store, and
held him up in an alley. They re-
lieyed him of 81 in cash, a diamond
ring and gold watch. Balm thinks he
J can identify the men and the police
are busy arresting suspects.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Duncan of New
Market celebrated their sixty-tifth
wedding anniversary. They have re-
| sided on the same farm ever since
they were married, having entered it
in 1S49 They have eleven children
all of whom are still living.
At meeting of the hose company
j at Ida Grove it was determined to ask
the Maple Valley Firemen's associa-
tion to hold its annual tournament
there in June. The meeting of the
association to determine the matter
| will be held at Wall Lake this month
| Benjamin Liddle, pioneer resident
of Iowa passed away at the home OF
his daughter, Mrs. C. M. McElroy, OF
Davenport, as the result of breaking
| his hip by falling down flight OF
stairs short time ago. Mr.. Liddle
was so years old at the time of his
death.
Chas Chase of West Liberty, thrown
/ beneath the hoofs of a runaway team
which had demolished his buggy, was
seriously cut about the head and
/ shoulders. Miraculonsly, he escaped
| the hoofs of the horses and the heavy
! wagon, his injuries resulting from the
| force of his fall.
Despite the fact that he had been
ousted from office, Justice Herring Of
Iowa City. sentenced VIM. Alberhasky
to five days in Jail for intoXication
Alberhasky was Immediately released
! by the district court and celebrated
his liberty by getting drunk again and
4 was sentenced to serve thirty days.
Jack O'Neil, the Rock Island SEQ
ton foreman who shot a Mexican
Ernesto Reyes. was completely exon.
/ Grated by the coroner's jury at Fair
field The jury found the shooting
was in self defense The evidence
showed that threats to get" the new
boss. O'Neil, had been made by the
MeXicans.
/ Mrs. Lesbia Grant Cameron. matroD
of the Eastern Star home at Boone,
and Leroy Perkins of Moss Point,
Miss, were married by Rev. A. L..
Golden of the Methodist Episcopal
church. The ceremony was performed
! in the presence of members of the
home Both were former residents of
Sioux City.
! An epidemic of typhoid fever which
i is now being looked into by members
of the Iowa state board of health is
/ now at its height in Dedham. In a
community between there and Villa
Center there are twenty cases of the
disease and there has been one death,
while several are now lowering be-
TWEEN life and death.
Through the bravery of a 15-year-
old boy, two yeggmen were frustrated
in their attempt to rob the George T..
| Ravens residence, 1915 Farnam street,
in Davenport, and several hundred
dollars worth of jewelry. plate and
valuables were saved Armed with
his fathers revolver, the lad drove
the crooks away from the premises