Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-02-19

Alfred Missing OF Sioux City, Oscar
Danieison of Marathon and C. A. HUI
quist of Swedesburg were elected as
members of the executive committee
for one year of the Swedish Lutheran
churches OF Iowa at the recent con-
ference. Mrs. C. A. Randolph Of Boone
was elected president OF the Won
ans Missionary society; Mrs. A. Norr-
bonn Of Des Moines, vice president;
Mrs. N. Z. Korn of Dayton, secretary;
Emma Anderson of Ottumwa, treasur-
er.
The placing of DR.. Harry Kelly, the
Council Bluffs man who murdered two
men in Des Moines in 1911 while
crazed with drink, on trial again in
the district court, is approved by the
state officials. Attorney General Cos
son has applied for a rehearing OF the
case, in order that the supreme court
may remove the doubt which has
arisen since the reversal OF the lower
courts verdict.
The method OF paying prisoners
for their work within the walls is In
vogue at the state prison at Fort Mad.
ison, and has been long enough to
prove the ventures successful The
corps Of salary earning convicts are
those employed on the new cell house,
including electricians, wirers, plumb
ers, plasterers, steam filters, mechan.
les and iron workers.
Fire wiped out most of the business
section Of Pilot Mound. o. w. Torn
ellis hardware and implement store,
T. Z. Tomlinson's grocery and restaur-
ant, and L. L. VOLTS barber shop are
a total loss. The Office OF the Moni-
tor newspaper was badly damaged,
and the |. o. o. F., Masonic and Wood
men lodges lost all their records and
paraphernaIia.
Harry ]. Burnaugh, young colored
man, qualified as the champion wolf
killer of Henry county when he
brought large gray wolf to the audi
tors Office and claimed the bounty Of
$40. This is the third double eagle
Burnaugh has got from the county re-
Gently and in addition he has sold
the pelts for IS each.
John Shoenhair, farmer OF Eagle
Grove, who moved there from Mar.
shall county two years ago and
bought a farm has sold twelve acres
of his tract for $32166 an acre. An
advance OF $10416 an acre in the two
years.
Daniel Murphy, blacksmith Of Ida
Grove, has invented gear drive self
starter for automobiles. The device
is operated by a push clutch which
throws a small pinion wheel into a
set Of cogs, and by pulling lever the
engine is started
IT ssefyss fafher I'm Iowa will raise
enough cattle to consume the grain he
raises the problem OF the high cost OF
beef viii be solved, according to Silas
Igo OF Indianola, secretary of the
Iowa Aberdeen-Angus breeders asso-
citation.
The police OF Council Bluffs are
searching for Rock Island newsboy
and 5000 belonging to a dining car
conductor. The conductor says he
gave the boy the money, to take for
ward to the express messenger. Mon
ey and boy both disappeared.
w. ]. Caskey, conductor on the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul rail-
road, has just received patent on a
new type of lantern. The lamp burns
acetylene and is intended for rail
road mems use.
The highest price ever paid around
Britt for an unimproved farm was
that by e. II. Arnett, who bought a
farm south of that. town recently at
$3.50 per acre, with no improvements
of any sort
The $4,000 bonds of the city Of
Denison for the purpose OF purchas-
ing and extending the electric light
plant were sold to II. w. Halsey &
Co, OF Chicago, who paid a premium
of $1,665
Glenwood lodge No. 40, K. of p,
celebrated the golden jubilee Of the
order Thursday evening, Feb. 10. L.
T. Genung will speak of Pythian
"reminiscences and the Rev. d. s.
Thompson Of Pythian history.
The first OF the automobile short
courses which are being hacked by
the extension department of the Iowa
State college, was held at Perry last
week and proved even more OF a sue
cess than the promoters expected.
Lewis E. Chamberlain, an aged
chiropractor OF Council Bluffs, was IA
tally injured when struck by a North
western train. The engineer claims
that Chamberlain stepped in front Of
the engine.
The two newspapers In Rolfe, The
Arrow and the Reveille, have consoli-
dated. Marion Bruce Of the Arrow
has bought the Reveille OF Lighter
Brothers and hereafter both papers
win be issued as the Arrow.
Iowa pensions recently granted are
as follows: Helen R. Andrew, ottum-
wa, SIP; Martha e. Baldwin, Marshall
town, $12; Mary M. Hunter, Glidden,
$12; Ursula Runnion, Hillsboro, $12;
Maria Wheelock, Colfax, SIP.
Isaac w. Overton, Marion coun-
~ breeder of big type Poland China
logs has sold to A. f. Beck Of Keller
~ Ouo vi inc IlSuGal pIAStu SOMS
tat ever has left that section. He
received $50.
Mrs. John Buehler, 40 years old, a
well known resident OF lie Mars, com.
mitted suicide by hanging. Her act
is ascribed to temporary insanity.
Judge Evans decided against Mrs.
Alma Good Of Creston in her suit
against Masonic lodge officers Of Cres-
ton, whom she accused Of having
used unfair means to secure her sig,
nature to a mortgage on her home
given to protect her husband from
prosecution on an alleged misuse OF
Masonic lodge funds
The seventisth anniversary OF the
wedding Of Mr. and Mrs. John Quincy
White, pioneers OF Fremont, a short
distance north OF Ottumwa. was OBJ
served last week. Mr.. White is in HIS
Goth year and his wife is past IS
years OF age.