Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-04-23

removed and the door smashed In. The
intruders then enjoyed small feast,
several good cigars and game of
pool. No clue to the identity OF the
burglars has been discovered.
The tiniest subject for surgical
case ever treated in a Marshalltown
hospital is Ruth Baker, the 7-months-
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Baker. of Rhodes. who was operated
on for severe case of mastoiditis. 1t
is not likely that the babe will re-
cover
state wide campaign among the
Presbyterians to raise an endowment
fund Of 100000 for Highland Park
college was started at Des Moines
Since President Geo. P. McGill took /
over the school for the church it has
paid expenses within $4,000 and with |
100000 fund it will be placed on a |
self-supporting basis.
James O'Dea. well known writer of |
musical comedies and author of !
Break the News to Mother" "Hia-
watha," and many other song hits, died
at his home in Rockville Center. N. Y,
according to advices received by his
brother. who lives in Burlington. Mr..
O'Dea was AZ years old.
The Miller Hotel company, builders
OF the new Blackhawk hotel at Daven-
port, has awarded the contract for
the furnishing to Davenport concern.
the Iowa Furniture and Carpet com.
pany. and which is said to be the larg-
est single contract for house furnish
Ing ever let in the city.
Superintendent A. v. Graeber Of the
schools at Sutherland has been elected
superintendent Of the Rolfe schools to
succeed H l.. Eells. who has accepted
q position at the Iowa State Teachers
college. Prof. Graeber has been In
Sutherland for year and half and
his work has been very successful.
H. Cunningham. speaker of the
house in the last legislature, and for
three terms representative from Buena
Vista county. has announced that he
will not be candidate again for the
nomination He will engage in bus
mess with his brother in Des Moines.
There are already two announced can
didates for the nomination. NJ c. Ed
son of Storm Lake and Guy Roberts
of Marathon.
The 1915 convention of the United
Commercial Travellers of Iowa will be
held in Muscatine il the members of
that branch Of the society are success
full in their efforts. c. A. Lilly. the
head of the Muscatine branch. was
named to attend the 1914 gathering to
be held at Keokuk on June to 6 and
formally extended an invitation on be-
half of the Pearl City body.
The $4,000 damage suit of T. ].
Liter. engineer. against three Des
Moines surgeons. Drs. G. A. Huntoon,
George Royal and Wilton Mccarthy,
for alleged malpractice began in the
district court at Des Moines. The
morning session was consumed in Sc
lecting jury. Liter charges that the
physicians injured him by failing to
| tanned fracture in the summer of
1912.
{, Indicative of the important road
work which is to be accomplished In
| Cedar county this year the supervisors
have entered into contracts for the
construction OF twenty highway
bridges. The total cost of bridge con-
struction is given out as $14.951. The
successful bidders for various parts
of the work were p nj. Kingsbury. of
Strawberry Point, Marsh Engineering
company of Des Moines. the Missouri
Ballast & Construction company and
| S. r. Johnson of Upton. All of
the bridges will be located on high
| ways included in the county road sys-
TEN.
That the bond of fellowship is close
| and the heart beats true for those who
| sorrow and suffer from financial
straits was illustrated by the generous
response to public subscriptions for
| Mrs Fred F. Fairbanks. whose hus-
band was killed in an automobile acct
dent at Waterloo Mrs. Fairbanks has
five sons. the oldest IL and the young
| est S. Almost as soon as the news OF
the tragedy became known, coal
groceries and cash began to pour into
the home. The cash subscriptions
will exceed $500 and benefit per-
formance at a theater will probably
raise the sum to $1,000. A committee
has been named to dispense the aid
About 1000 people have contributed.
The grand jury indicted j c. John
son and Ray Wilkins at Spencer on 8
charge of attempted extortion OF var
ious sums of money from young mer
by threatening to send them to the
penitentiary for the seduction of the
formers daughter Wilkins was
brought into the deal as the recipien
of the money to release Johnson from
criminal responsibility as the receives
of hush money On March % one o
the boys claims to have paid to Viii
kins the sum of $40 to settle the affair
Both men are under arrest and will
be tried at the next term OF the dis
trict court.
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