Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-10-21

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The greatest distance any pupil has
to ride is five and one-half miles. The
faculty is composed of eight instruc-
tors. This district realized about ST.
400 from the sale of the old school
houses and their equipment. The
land upon which the old houses stood
reverts to the tract from which 1t
was carved at the price originally
paid for it, without interest.
The dead and mutilated body of a
baby was found on the Moingona
track of the Northwestern by party
OF Boone boys. The body was lying
in ditch and was badly decompos-
ed. The head was mutilated and indi-
Gated crushing with some blunt in.
strument. The child may have been
killed on a train and thrown out OF
window. The police are making an
investigation.
Two men are dead and two others
are in critical condition as the result
of the collapse of a store building
at Denison. Michael Maloney and
J., Kadoch, proprietors of plumbing
business in the building which fell
died of their injuries. J. Lautzenheis-
err, travelling man residing in Shell
don, and Mrs. Kate M. Smith, are in
a critical condition.
One of the largest business changes
which has occurred in Perry in re-
cent years was the purchase by j. Z.
Davis of Harlan of practically all OF
the holdings of s. S. Dilenbeck and
B. c. Dilenbeck in the Citizens Trust
and Savings bank. Immediate posses
sion will be given and Mr.. Davis viii
become active in the management OF
the bank
Jumping out of car window, near
| Marshalltown, with the train going
at rapid rate, and without even the
self protection of having free use of
Ais hands and arms, Grant Turner,
wanted in Hardin county for fraud, is
at large, and Sheriff Max Gherke is
not only chagrined but is bending ev-
cry effort to capture his man a Sec
| ond time.
The town of Melbourne is going to
have another bank, to be known as
the Farmers Savings. Organization
has just been perfected, and business
will begin as soon as the charter is
received. ]. c. Ostend is president,
H. N. Wilsterman vice president, and
l.. A. Nisely cashier. The authorized
capital stock is $4,000. The town al
ready has one bank.
Sheer muscular strength combined
with nerve and daring almost result
ed in successful getaway from the
Iowa City Jail for George Gibson, a
blacksmith, who wrenched open lock
| with the aid of natural leverage, open
ed a side window of the Jail and es-
| capped to the city tool she'd only to
be caught by Night Captain Chester
Fiesler.
A notable day for the Catholics Of
Allamakee county was when, in the
| presence of over 1000 people, the
Most Rev. James ]. Keane, archbish-
op of Dubuque, assisted by the Very
Rev. Father Norton, the pastor, and
a large number Of clergy. solemnly
dedicated the new 100000 ST. Pat
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Charles E. Ward has bought of D.
b. Wyatt sixty acres of unimproved
land near Marshalltown at S210 per
acre. The high price is even more
remarkable from the fact that on part
| of the land there is timber, and the
tract has creek running through 1t,
making it subject to overflow in ex-
tremely wet seasons.
The productivity of Iowa soil Is
illustrated on the farm of T. j. Beat
| ty, near Hancock, where he harvest
ed the second crop OF oats. The Sec
ond crop came voluntary after the
first had been cut and stacked and it
is said the second crop will yield
thirty to thirty-fve bushels to the
acre.
Joe Miller, colored farmer living
near Fort Dodge. has complained to
the police that after clairvoyants had
promised to locate supposed mi
ser's buried wealth on his place, they
failed to make their appearance with
$1,025 belonging to him and his wife.
Automobile routes have been order.
ed established out OF Altoona. Ankeny
and Polk City by the postoffice depart
ment at Washington. They will start
December | and each route will pay
salary of $500.
j. L. Huston, aged 80 years, of Guth.
rie Center, was killed and J. W. ELI
son of Des Moines was badly injured
in an auto accident near Adair, when
their machine turned turtle. Both
are insurance men. Itt
The little town OF Struble. near LIE
Mars, is greatly excited over an at
tempt by some unknown man to chic
reform Mrs. L. Lewis, an invalid. The
stranger demanded money. He took
81, from two purses in the home.
District Judge Clark has settled the
squabble over control of the old Bap
fist church at Rockford by turning
1t over TO the Baptist state conven
ton, and thus ended bitter quarre
which has lasted for two years.
Charles Lewis of Grinnell has in
stituted a search for his two little
daughters, aged seven and nine, who
have disappeared from their home
The will of Ellen c. Colby, OF Hum
boldt in which she gave the bulk o.
her estate to Minnie Hanna, her maid
and companion for over seventeen
| years, valued at around $4,000 ha,
! just been upheld by verdict OF jury
The grand jury at Waterloo indict
ed Frank H. Young, Cedar Rapids, 6
double jointed man, who is charged
: with purposely dlslocating his shout