Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-04


This was decided at a meeting of the
representatives of the four associa-
tions held in that city. Several i'm.
portant topics will be discussed. A
banquet will be held Thursday, fol-
lowed by theater party. The Friday
morning session will be devoted to
business.
The girls at Simpson college, In
dianola, are beginning to take to
basketball much as a duck does to
water. Last year was the first time
that the fair sex entertained hopes
for a basketball league. This year
the girls have already begun work
and have made plans to hold a tourn-
ament beginning March II.
Senator Kimball of Pottawattamie
is sponsor of a bill which gives cities
authority to exempt fire proof hotels
from taxation. The council is EN-.
powered to investigate and grant this
privilege for not to exceed ten years.
Before it can become effective the
people must ratify the action at a spe,
cial election.
The Wall lake drainage question
has bobbed up again, and the citizens
of Wright county are aroused over
the matter. An engineer employed by
the county has made report on the
subject. The next move is expected
from those interested in preserving
the lake, and lively fight is expect
ed.
Charles P. Stewart, former Sioux
City newspaper man, and son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Stewart, of that
city, has been made manager of the
United Press in Washington. He is
now on his way to take up his new
duties. He has been in newspaper
work in San Francisco during the
past year and half.
Crossing the Mississippi river be-
low Muscatine in pursuit of two men
believed to be firebugs, Carter Boise,
farmer, aged "a, was drowned when
he fell through the ice. Boise was a
member of posse formed to capture
the thieves who burned farm buildings
and burglarized residences near New
Boston.
The president has nominated the
following Iowa postmasters: Carl l..
Little, Ames; Frank B. Wilson,
Greenfield; Charles A. Britch, Ida
Grove; Max Mayer, Iowa City; Peter
J. Cool, Baxter; Madge Felt, Fremont;
william F. Oshuke, hardwood; Cary
c. Beggs, Moulton.
Delay is in sight in the case of
Mrs. Charlotte Van Horne, held to
the grand jury at Mason City under
$1,000 bonds on the charge of murder
-r& her husband. The state, is still
se4rching for evidence needed to con-
vict., Mrs. Van Horne is in sanitar-
ium at Des Moines.
The report of T. j. Shoemaker, re-
ceiyer, filed in the district court Of
Marshalltown, shows that the affairs
of the A. e. Shorthill company Of that
city and the Shorthill Steel and Iron
Works Of Perry are in a hopelessly
tangled condition and the indebted
ness is about 100000.
The value OF Iowa horses has been
placed at $1e9 1000, 900 according to
the government report received at
the federal building in Des Moines.
Other interesting figures contained in
the report are that Iowa has $4,000
mules, $4,000 mich cows, 1,249,0
sheep and s,720,00O swine.
w. II. Parks, who lives three miles
north OF Emmetsburg, sold his quar-.
ter section farm at public auction to
w. II. Gaylord for $157 an acre. Mr..
Gaylord sold his farm a mile east of
Emmetsburg some time ago to an II
linois man for $3.50 an acre.
About 400 couples attended the
charity ball held under the auspices
OF the knights Templar at Mason
City. More than 1000 tickets were
sold and about $500 will be turned
over to charitable organizations Of
that city.
Albert Crowell is in the hospital in
a critical condition as the result of a
stabbing ARRAY at Keokuk. Emil
Strohmaier drove knife into his
skull. the point Of the blade breaking
on and remaining there.
James Schonts, aged As, conduc-
tor on the dummy train which oper-
ates between Council Bluffs and
Omaha, was killed in the yards None
OF the trainmen appear to know how
the accident occurred.
The high school at Bonaparte was
burned to the ground by fire recently.
The building was erected in 1870 at
cost Of $4,000. rs
The George M. Bechtel company
OF Davenport secured the $4,000
court house bond issue at Primghar
at $1,756 premium.
The Christian Home orphanage of
Council Bluffs has just received a be-
quest OF $1,000 left 1t by the late Mag
gle Breed of Perry. There are $50
children besides the teachers and 9th
er employees at the home at the pres
ent time and big sums ar needed to
keep II running. -
Mart Gardener of Hamburg. mid
die aged farmer, died from the effects
OF carbolic acid which he mistook for
cough medicine,
Fire destroyed the plant Of the
Crescent Macaroni and Cracker com.
pany of Davenport, causing loss OF
$25o,0o0. Insurance was $4,000.
The Farmers Elevator company Of
Blencoe received $4,000 bushels OF
corn in two weeks besides a large
quantity of wheat. The company was
compelled to shut down because of a
car shortage.
The fifth annual declamatory con-
test at the Iowa college for the blind