Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-18

22 associations, 393 churches and
44,92S members. 2.437 having been
received by baptism in the year.
There are 351 Sunday schools with
1891 officers and teachers and 29,-
742 scholars. The value of church
edifices is s2.34S,920 and other prop
erty $411,49S, making a total of ST.
760,41S. The debt on the property
is s96.122. More than 1870 have
been baptized from the Sunday
school. The amount expended for
current expenses was s267,541.64;
other items $55,14122; Sunday school
expenses, $20.O51.56 making a total
OF sS12,731.42. The total benevol-
ences were s56,SS5.9S, and the total
for all purposes was s399.620.4O.
About 100 publishers representing
various newspapers of Iowa were in
attendance at the joint meeting of
the editorial associations of Iowa
which held two days session in
Des Moines. A short program Of
talks by members was listened to with
interest on Thursday afternoon, the
speakers being Lars Bladine of the
Cedar Falls Record, o. E. Hull of the
Leon Reporter and A. w. Peterson of
the Waterloo Courier. who made ad-
dresses showing what the editorial
association Of tho state are doing.
G. F. Duncombe. editor of the Daily
Chronicle, has been appointed as post
master at FIT. Dodge to succeed Ed
ward ]. Robertson. Mr.. Dunconlbe
served as postmaster from 1894 to
1898 under the Cleveland administra-
ton. w. w. Hare and Edward Col
Inns were candidates for the position.
Postmaster Robertson expects to sur
render the duties of his office on Feb
20, when he wiA go west for a vaca-
ton. The office pays a salary OF So,
eco year.
Another gas well has been struck
in western Iowa, this time near Ran
dolph, on the farm of Kerr-Keyser.
Workmen were sinking well when
a strong odor Of gas was detected
and lighted match being applied to
the opening of the we'll the flames
lighted up and fiared up several feet
The owners OF the land think well
enough OF the find that they have
sent for an expert to make report
on the flow of gas.
c. l.. Smith, who is well known in
the mining circles of Iowa and who
at one time was district president Of
the Iowa division Of the United Mine
Workers of America, was killed by
knct explosion in his mine near Will
liston, N. d., few days ago. The
body was shipped back to the old
fafnily Epme in Madrid. Iowa, for
burial
J. w. Howe of Creston, attempted
suicide by the poison route in his
wife's home at Conway, but the pois-
On was knocked from his hand after
he had taken only enough to make
him deadly sick. Refusal of his wife
Of proposal for reconciliation
prompted his rash act.
When Mrs. o. S. King, fiat dwell
Ter in Sioux City, thrust her head
into the hall to inquire why man
was choking a woman on the stair
landing above, flying beer bottle
struck her head. Sight of her right
eye was destroyed and her skull was
fractured.
The European war has put crimp
on the business OF trapping fur bear
ing animals in Iowa. Prices have
dropped all the way from so to rs
per cent Muskrats that in 1913 sold
for 80 cents brought 9 cents last fall
and other skins declined in like pro-
portion.
Use of tobacco In the public schools
in Shenandoah seems to be increas-
ing. An investigation shows. nearly
20 per cent Of the boys attending the
schools in that city are smokers One
girl pupil was found to be user of
the weed.
George Lehman, proprietor of the
City bakery at Villisca, has receiv-
ed bad news from Germany. His
mother wrote him one brother John
had been killed in the trenches on
the Aisne, and that another brother
had been wounded.
Catherine Specht, aaged 36, divorc-
ed, of Dubuque. has confessed to au-
thorities that she smothered her new
born infant shortly after it's birth
Feb. /. The child was found dead
under suspicious circumstances.
A proposition submitted to the vot-
ers of Manson to issue $4,000 of
bonds for the erection of high
school carried by 1870 majority.
The public sale recently held by
Arthur Pritchard at his farm south
of Garrison amounted to $4,000. Ev-
erything sold at good price. milch
cows averaging $40 and horses sold
as high as s240.
Cedar Rapids is to have another
hotel, which will be ready for bust
ness about May 1. A company OF
capitalists at Grand Rapids, Mich,
has purchased for $4,000 the build.
ing recently vacated by the Perfec-
tion Manufacturing company, which
will be remodeled into a first class
hostelry.
In the town OF Truesdale, with
population OF 100, five miles from
Storm Lake, handsome new con.
solidated school was dedicated re.
Gently with appropriate ceremonies.
The school was erected at cost
of $4,000.
Checks totaling more than 1000
were paid out in one day recently by
one Perry firm of stock buyers to
the farmers Of that vicinity for hogs.
In all 1900 hogs, or fifteen carloads,
were bought. ID, Dubridge took home
the biggest check OF any of the large
ones paid out, receiving $1,720.0S for
etghty-aieht hogs