Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-10-14

A boycott of the United States mail
service ia the unusual recourse which
Muscatine county farmers are taking
as a result of the adoption OF motor
delivery that has cut the mileage down
some twenty miles or more. The
farmers have agreed to send all the
matter through the Nichols office
no matter what the inconvenience
may be, and the motor carrier travels
his route collecting no mail at all
The innovation, which was started
on Oct. /, has not been favorably re-
ceived by many rural residents. The
adoption Of the automobile and the
consolidation of the old Conesville
route and Nos. and out of Nichols
led up to the present protest The
farmers declare that the new motor
route offers no prospect Of service
as satisfactory as the old
Butter instead of beer win be the
product of the Iowa Brewing COM
pany's big s125,OOO plant in Iowa
City after January /, 1915. A big
cold storage business will also be
conducted in connection and pure arti-
fetal ice will be another product OF
the plant, The manufacture of ice
cream on a large scale will go with
the creamery business. Eggs and
poultry packing will be added later
as the field seems to warrant the de-
velopment.
Edward II. Woodin, former politi-
clan OF Sioux City, was found guilty
of conspiracy in the federal court at
Council Bluffs and fined $780, Woodin
was found guilty of purchasing a
grip owned by st. Paul, Mimi,
woman, which was stolen while in in
terstate transit. William Feeney, &C.
cused of stealing the grip, who also
was found guilty of conspiracy. was
sentenced to four months in the Pot
tawattamie county Jail.
Real estate continues exceedingly
high in the neighborhood of Mt. Yer
non. The Thomas Rogers place ad-
joining the town ON the northwest
was recently sold to H. w. Dee The
farm consists of 100 acres and brought
q price Of $4,000. 1t was purchased
five years ago by Mr.. Rogers for $1S7
per acre. A so acre farm four miles
north of the town was sold by John
e. Kohl to Frank Graver for 1925 per
acre.
Pat Sullivan eagerly jumped at the
chance to plead guilty to a charge
OF intoxication when arraigned re-
Gently in Sioux City court. The
suspicious of the officials were arous-
ed and an investigation disclosed the
fact that there were two Pat Sullivans
and that this one was held on a
charge of forgery. Pat will soon
face the more serious charge.
Mrs. Mary A. Kemler, perhaps the
Oldest resident Of Dubuque, died at
her home there following an illness
OF half year occasioned by the in
firmities of her advanced age. Mrs.
Kemler was born in Swalesdale, Eng
land, on March 10, 1884, and for eigh-
ty years she made her home in Du-
buque, having been brought there by
her parents when an infant.
Marshall county, upon order of its
cept from Marshalltown tobacco
dealers payment of the mulct tax for
the sale of cigarettes, at the rate OF
SIS per quarter During the quarter
preceding four dealers had paid the
cigarette tax and felt practically i'm
mune from prosecution.
Contracts for carrying the mail on
star routes have been awarded as fol-
lows: Stanwood railroad station to
Upton, VIM. S. Craft, of Stanwood;
Thurman to McPaul and back, Burt
w. Martin, of Thurman; Hull to Per-
kins and back, John Kuyper, of Hull;
Westry to Titonka and back, E. ].
Hackerson, of Titonka.
Mail, lost in the flood that nearly
drowned A. H. Hamsted, Iowa City,
rural mail carrier, has been recovered
from the subsidized creeks banks on
which, in clumps of willows, it was
stranded. Most of the lost mail will
be restored to its owners, after the
postmaster has made it portable.
Mayor VIM. Maxfield, of Neville, has
pleaded guilty to an indictment charg-
ing him with gambling and has paid
$50 fine. An effort to keep the mat
ter a secret failed. He also paid IS
costs.
Pneumonia, setting in after she had
taken quantity of paris green in a
fit of dependency, caused the death
Of Mrs. Otto Widmer, of Medford. Be-
sides her husband she leaves nine
children.
The body Of Mauren Lambeth, seven
years old, OF near Nevada, was found
in the ruins of barn after the struc-
ture had been destroyed by fire, re-
sulting from a bolt of lightning
which struck 1t during storm.
Mrs. John Balik, of Cedar Rapids,
mother Of fourteen children, all un-
Ger IA, left fatherless a month ago
when Balik was killed by falling un-
der train, has been granted a wild
Cw's pension. This is said to be the
largest family of children ever to
come under the provision of this act
The North Iowa Times, published
at North McGregor, Ia. has entered
its ffty-ninth year of publication and
is the Oldest newspaper published in
Iowa. Many prominent politicians
have been connected with the paper
as owners and editors during its long
period of publication.
Iowa pensions have recently been
granted as follows: Submitta Jane
Conrad, Saint Charles, s12; Ellen Dur
gin, Sanborn, s12; Nancy B. Kitchen.