Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-10-01

stockholder of the concsrn. The petit
tion recited that the company has GER
tain liabilities which 1t Is unable to
pay at the present time. If permitted
to complete certain contracts, Speers
states, the company will be enabled
to pay all of its creditors in full.
Prunty has furnished $4,000 bond.
The Council Bluffs Presbytery,
which convened in California juno
ton and adjourned to Missouri Valley
for its final sessions, closed its fifty
eighth annual fall session with a
Presbyterian conference of the young
peoples societies. The officers chos-
EN- for the Presbytery we're: Rev. J..
b. Cherry Of Walnut, moderator; Revs.
o. G. Garden OF Sheldon and Samson
Cooks of Adair, clerks; ]. E. Cum
mings Of Council Bluffs. stated clerk.
Activity at the Quaker Oats mills
at Fort Dodge instead of being on the
decrease, is just the opposite. The
superintendent of the mills announces
that commencing at once a twenty
four hour workday will be started.
The unusual export demand is the
cause of the increase of working
hours. For the last few weeks the
factory has been operating fifteen
hours per day.
During the September term OF court
in Ringgold county the case attracting
the most interest was that Of E. E.
Williams for murder. He was charg-
ed in the indictment found last sum-
mer as having been an accomplice in
the murder OF his father. On motion
OF the attorney general the case was
dismissed without prejudice.
Automobile owners Of Keokuk are
coming to the front to save the fine
lake shore drive which borders Lake
Cooper to Montrose, and which is be-
ginning to show the effect of two
years travel The county will pay
$500 and the city $1,000 and the
autoists will pay the other $4,000 me-
cessary.
Henry E. Sampson. assistant attor-
ney general, who is fighting the Luten
patent case for the state, has received
notice that the United States circuit
court for the second division of Kan.
sas. has ruled the Luten patents to be
void. This decision is in line with
the contention of the Iowa authorities.
Completion of the new interurban
from Waterloo to Cedar Rapids was
formally celebrated at Cedar Rapids
when 300 boosters from Waterloo and
intermediate towns were guests OF the
commercial club. Addition Of the
new line now makes Cedar Rapids the
greatest interurban center in Iowa.
AS the result Of the marriage at
Marshalltown of Oliver S. Rankin and
Miss Ellen Caldwell, both of that city,
Mrs. Margaret E. Caldwell becomes
the mother-in-law of her own brother
and the slster-in-law Of her stepdaugh-
ter.
Thomas Walpole, for many years
postmaster at Storm Lake and prom
inent. has bought the Manson Journ-
al, and will take possession Oct. 1. He
was for years in the newspaper work
at Alta and Storm Lake and before
tulS WAS u SCuOou tedCHcT.
Hundreds of ministers from eastern
Iowa gathered at Cedar Rapids for the
annual session Of the upper Iowa M.
e. conference. Bishop William A.
Quayle of st. Paul presided. The fin
ancial report showed many substanti-
al gifts during the past year.
The city OF Boone has accepted the
offer of the Herman estate of the site
OF sixteen acres OF valuable land for
park purposes. The land lies south
of the city on Greene street, and is
an ideal spot for public park.
The enrolment at the State Teach
ers' college at Cedar Falls is greater
than ever for fall.term During the
first week the enrolment reached
nearly 1,400 and few more students
have been coming each day.
Nineteen thousand, dollars has
been spent by the Keokuk school
board in acquiring an entire half
block OF property on which to place
the. new Garfield school which will be
built at cost Of $4,000.
A Henry county poultry association
has been formed with the following Of
ficers: President. Rev. w. s. Moore:
vice president, James T. Gills; treas
urer, Fred Green, and secretary.
Ralph Owen.
Lightning killed three horses and
ten head OF cattle standing next to a
wire fence on the farm OF Henry
Crossman in Riverton township,
Floyd county, during severe electric
al storm recently.
No responsibility for the death Of
John, the year old baby son of ]. f.
Brownie, cashier of the sBettendorf
Savings bank. was charged against
Dr. w. C. vollstedt. driver of the auto
which killed the baby.
Lester WEIGH, the II year Old son
OF prominent family at Patton. was
killed when the automobile he was
driving turned over six miles from
his home.
Henry Fisher of Logan, aged 50,
we'll known in lodge and political cir
Giles. was struck by flying piece OF
board and fatally injured in a ma
chine shop at Missouri Valley.
Mrs. Carrie Morley, aged 6s, a
prominent Iowa club woman. resident
OF Onawa for so years, died at her
home there after short illness.
Three fingers and a thumb are
worth $4,000, according to decision
handed Down in the Scott county dis
trict court in the suit of Morris Herin
against the Bettendorf Axle company.