Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-01-29

southern Iowa steam line has been
contaminated at Centerville. The
Centerville Light and Traction COM
pany has purchased the entires inter-
est of the Southern Iowa Traction
company in the steam line now oper-
ating between Centerville and Abba,
distance of thirty miles. Extensions
contemplated by the company are
south to Cincinnati, Ia, and southwest
to Seymour
The mystery which has surrounded
the finding at Keoiuk of the body OF
Mrs. Inez O'Donnell, naked and bruis-
ed and with life almost extinct has
not been cleared. Mrs. ODonnell died
without being able to make any state
ment, and although her husband is
bound over to the grand jury charged
with killing his wife, he has main
tanned doggedly that he did not touch
her, but that she fell down stairs.
The team which will represent Iowa
State college in triangular fruit
judging contest among Ames, Kansas
university and Nebraska university
horticulture students, to be contested
at Lincoln this week is as follows:
Robert Clark of Des Moines, E. l..
kirkpatrick of South English, F. d.
Miller OF Muscatine and p. c. Tomlin-
son OF Marshalltown.
y The Silas Hall family OF Toledo,
Ia, INDUCED in a $500 oyster stew.
Mrs. Hall found fourteen pearls ay-
eraging from the size OF number six
esh M r. csu rxP IN ~ he
bivalyes. AS pearls are worthless aft
er they have been boiled, jewelers. es-
innate that the Halls reached the top
On the cost of living.
Richard Mitchell OF Fort Dodge,
graduate last year OF the law college
of the state university Of Iowa, has
been appointed by Senator w. S. Ken
yon as his special law clerk. A law
recently enacted gives each Senator
q law clerk during the session of con-
gress.
Mrs. w. l.. Sullivan, wife of the
missing insurance agent of New
Hampton received key from the Des
Moines police and opened her hus-
bands safety deposit vault at the
state bank there. She found nothing
except his life insurance policy and
some unimportant papers.
The senate at Washington has con-
firmed the following Iowa postoffice
nominations; James S. Webster of
Carlisle, George A. Crane of Dexter,
Harvey A. Sweigart of Garner. John
Dunleyy OF Lansing, Laura H. Fig
ert OF Marathon. Weston Ralston Of
Paullina.
BY refusing to, ALLOW bill for the
-. - d usstafIr aayrphaa in sectarian
institution, the county board Of Black
Hawk county has established a prece-
dent not to expend any money for
any cause to hospitals, homes. or
schools that are controlled by religi-
GUS denominations.
Despondent over the death of his
wife and child, Andrew ID. Garnett, "a
years old, wealthy farmer living
near Fairfax, was found dead in ho-
tel at Cedar Rapids. He had shot him
self.
Acting under legal advice the police
department of Mason City has decic-
ed to consider the Webb-Kenyon act
good law and raided every express
Office in Mason City and seized all
Intoxicating liquors found. =,
To replace the present structure at
Fort Dodge built in 1897, the parish OF
Sacred Heart, the Rev. Edmund Heel
an in charge, has decided to build a
new Catholic church to cost between
$4,000 and 100000.
The Fort Dodge Telephone company
has offered to submit its books to a
committee for inspection. This action
is taken in support of the company's
argument that it should have higher
.srates.
Myrtle Gunderson won the honors
at the annual Home Oratorieal contest
OF the Waukon High school and will
represent that school in the district
contest to be held at Postville.
The new $1S,O00O brick school build
ing at Bagley was dedicated and is
now occupied by teachers and pupils
The structure is modern in every re-
spect.
The unwritten law governed a YER
dict OF not guilty in the case of Joda
Mosley, accused OF numbering John
Schrum at Mosley's home in Center
vile on last Thanksgiving night.
Mrs. Hannah Miller died recently at
Independence at the advanced age of
nearly 100 years. She was born in
Canaan, N. Y, August 10, 1914.
Paul Tunga, laborer who had been
employed as a cook in one of the
construction camps near Perry, was
instantly killed by passenger train.
Five thousand dollars damages
we're awarded by jury to DR.. J. H.
Lawrence against the city Of Sioux
City because of the death of his
daughter, Dorothy, in an auto acct
dent Miss Lawrence was one of a
party Of four in a car that plunged
into gully within the city limits the
night of Jan. 2, 1918.
Miss Gertrude Butterfield OF Knox
vile, graduate OF Coe college and OF
the Y w. c. A. training school in
Minneapolis, has arrived at Ames to
assume the secretaryship of the col
lege Y. w. c. A. She succeeds Miss
Edith Helmer.
Work of blasting for coal and oil
deposits in the hill districts two miles
north OF Leeds has been started by
the company which has control of 100
acres of the property. A well now
being bored has reached depth Of
400 Seet and in the work heavy as
phalt deposits have been uncovered,
Osceola since 1855.
The fifty-ffth anniversary of the
marriage Of Mr.. and Mrs, W. P. Payne
OF Nevada, was celebrated last week.
Both are In good health. Mr.. Payne
IS still continuing in active work on
the Nevada Representative, Of which
he is the senior editor.