Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-10-28

that town, which is about the same
size, has about forty-five away attend
ing college and several at other insti-
tutions Of learning. Primghar has for
ty away at school. So far no county
has challenged the record of O'Brien
county in having nearly one per cent
OF her citizens away in institutions
of higher education.
For the killing of her husband in
the Ed c. Schaefer saloon at Sioux
City on December 26, 1914, by William
Flanagan, Mrs. Mary Peterson. the
widow, asks $4,000 from the Schaef-
er estate, in a suit filed in the district
court Mrs. Peterson alleges that
Schaefer sold her husband the liquor
which caused him to become intoxi-
Gated and got him involved in the
quarrel with Flanagan, who shot him
down. Flanagan was convicted OF
manslaughter and was given eight
years in the Anamosa reformatory.
The Iowa Railway and Light COM
pany will soon be furnishing light
and power to thirteen towns near
-HeaA chdhtOWh llOm Tic COlupduy .
plant there. Some are connected up
already, and others are under con-
struction. The extension of the high
tension line to Tama, carrying $4,000
volts, will be completed to Blairstown
this winter. The towns to be served
are LeGrand, Gilman, Montour, Tama,
Toledo, Chelsea, Longpoint, Belle
PLANE, Blairstown, Gladbrook, Berlin,
Reinbeck and Morrison.
DR.. w. o. Coffee. of Des Moines, ia
nous through the middle west for
years as an eye specialist, went into
bankruptcy following series of finan-
cial reverses which began when Col
lier's Weekly dubbed him fake a
few years ago. He scheduled his liza
bilities at $15,454.07 and his assets
at $34,510. His 100000 home in Des
Moines is in Mrs. Coffee's name and
is exempt. His heaviest debts are on
advertising accounts.
The annual convention of the Odd
Fellows of the Creston and Cumber-
land branch was held at Fontanelle
with large delegations present from
Orient, Greenfield, Bridgewater, Mas
sena and Cumberland. Cumberland
was fixed as the place of the next
meeting. The /. o. o. F. of Fontan-
ellie is just completing a fine new
lodge building at cost of $4,000 in
which they will be at home after the
first of the year.
Two United States mail wagons
were the object of an attempted hold.
up in Des Moines. William Swanson
and Elmer Coggswell, the drivers OF
the wagons, escaped by flashing their
horses and running away from the
robbers. Two Negroes figure In both
attempts, the first of which came at
$3.50, and the second at 500 a. m. The
Negroes had guns, but did not fire
in either case.
On the farm of George Fox near
Dallas Center there is a field Of stand
ing corn in which Mr. Fox has Sc
cured good stand of alfalfa by SOW
ing the seed at the time of the last
cultivation of the corn A good
growth of alfalfa was secured before
frost. This is rather unusual meth
cd of securing stand Of alfalfa in
Iowa, but 1t was made possible this
year by the wet season.
O'Brien county has spent over ST.
500 on the Sutherland-Peterso road
and when the farmers along that
road have hauled, gratis, the 400
loads of gravel, 1t will be one of the
best roads in this part of the coun-
try. A bad hill and a dangerous
turn have been eliminated. The coun-
ty has purchased a new elevating
grader which is pulled by forty
horsepower tractor.
II the petition of the receivers OF
the Rock Island railroad is granted,
and the road Is permitted to can
eel the lease which 1t holds of the
Keokuk & Des Moines railroad. that
road would cease operating as the re
suit, unless some other railroads
might be induced to take up the OPP
GRAFTON of the road.
The $4,000 libel suit brought by
Tom Long of Manson against Jack
Dalton, the editor of the Manson
Democrat, has been assigned for trial
Nov. 20. The case was up for trial
during the October term of district
court at Rockwell City, but was not
reached.
Mrs. William Kautz, of Muscatine, a
bride of three weeks, was drowned
in the Mississippi river when the
skiff in which she and her husband
were rowing upset in mid-stream. The
husband sought to rescue his wife but
failed. He was in a state of collapse
when rescued.
At meeting of the grand council
of the Knights of Pythias held in Wa
terloo the date of the grand lodge to
be held there in 1916 was set for
Aug. % and "a. The date is later
than usual owing to the fact that
the supreme lodge meets at Portland
in the previous week
Bloodhounds were taken to State
Center to work on the trail of thieves
who broke into the hardware store
OF J. l.. Mcmahon & Son and stole $50
worth of merchandise. An automatic
Remington shotgun and Remington
rifle were stolen, together with
quantity of ammunition.
Sixty years of happy married life
is the record which Mr.. and Mrs. VIII
liam Dudley of Manchester have es-
tablished. They were married ~
New York Oct. Z, 1866, and he
sided in Delaware county
half century DR.. Dudley s~2.n his
eighty-third year and his wife 10
non ri