Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-03-19
IOWA NEWS BRIEFS

George Deck of Marcus, "a. com
mitted suicide. Ill health was thu
cause.
The Northwestern signal service be
tween Onawa and Sioux City has beer
opened.
Judge F. NJ. Powers will open tn,
March term of the district court at Id;
Grove this week
The Farmers and Merchants banl
of Storm Lake opened its doors foi
business this week
The ninth annual state convention
of the Fraternai Order OF Eagles will
be held in Keol1uk
Rev. James Brady, a former Clinton
boy, was ordained into the Catholic
priesthood at ST. Ambrose college, at
Davenport.
The new opera house at Eagle
Grove was formally opened this week.
1t is modern throughout and will seat
seven hundred
The school election of the independ-
ent district of Ida Grove was held
Monday. Three candidates were
elected for a 3-year term.
The barn on the Emil Weiss place
NOR Charles City was destroyed by
fire and nearly all the contents de-
| stroyed. The loss is about S1,500.
Rev. Samuel Graham, pioneer Of
| Oskaloosa, died suddenly OF heart
trouble. He had been well known in
mining operations FOR fifty years.
Charles Sylvester of Charles City
paid fine of $500 for maintaining a
liquor nuisance and selling intoxicat-
ing liquor to a habitual drunkard.
A girl baby was born to Mr.. and
| Mrs. Joseph Reyes of Mason City
which has twelve fingers. The case is
| causing much interest among the doc
tors.
| County Superintendent Moeller of
Storm Lake is entertaining many
teachers from over the county at a
teachers institute being held at that
| place.
A proposition is being discussed to
build Masonic temple in Monticello
on lot recently purchased. The
building would cost from $1,000 to
$4,000.
Orville Daubenmier of Lisbon shot
| the finger from his left hand. He was
shooting pigeons and in crawling
through a fence the gun was accident
ly discharged.
/ Just recovered from kidnapers Alice
Shipe, s years old, arrived in keokuk.
She was shipped to her father by
| parcel post, she told the officers at
the police station.
Mrs. James r. Hanna, wife of the
mayor of Des Moines, is quarantined
with smallpox in the family home.
Physicians say she is suffering from
only mild attack
The people of Woodward are re-
joicing over the fact that the state
board of control has selected 800
acres of land north of town for the
state epileptic colony.
i The report of Henry Hoeck, assess
or for Griggs township, Ida county,
shows that during the past year the
farmers of that one township lost
9,l74 hogs from cholera.
The state superintendent of public
i instruction has refused to approve the
Pierson high school until the course
of instruction is changed and the
teaching force increased.
Ia j. 0. Nader, editor of the Thornton
Enterprise, was brought to Mason
City by the constable and placed in
jail. His partner caused his arrest on
| tho of
II Keokuk is surfeited with candidates
for mayor. The candidates comprise
a retiring postmaster, preacher Two
grocery store proprietors, a doctor
and retired railroad man.
Martin lngwerson of Clinton has
, announced himself as candidate for
the democratic nomination for state
J representative, and his nomination pc
titions are now being circulated.
Mrs. Lucia Brooks, worthy patron
of the state, and Mrs. Agnes Feltus
district instructor for the Ninth dis
| trict, held a school of instruction al
Carnation chapter, o. E. S., at Chero-
kee.
Miss Elsie Maennel, teacher OF
| lHuSlS lklS SHdNd SCuOOIS VIII DE
the leader of round table on music
at the Northwest Iowa Teachers as
ISOLATION meeting to be held in Sioux
City.
Louis Durz, a laborer, who lived
alone was found dead in his home al
Batavia. He had been missing fol
three weeks and the town marshal
broke into the house and found the
body.
The spring session of the United
States district court opened at Coun-
ell Bluffs in the federal building
There is long list of civil cases on
the docket and ten criminal eases OF
/, various magnitude.
Bankers from Cedar, Clinton. Jones
Muscatine and Scott counties will
meet at Davenport to prepare plans
for the annual convention of Groul
Eight, Iowa Bankers association
which will be held in June.