Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-12-09

WINE ne was hunting rats ana
looking under the hog house the shot
gun William Graney, of Mason City,
was carrying was accidentally fired,
the contents striking him full in the
face. The lower jaw was blown away
so that not semblance remains and
half of his tongue was shot off. All
the food he takes and all that he will
ever be able to take will be liquid
food and taken through a funnel. Mr..
Graney is anxious to live. AS soon
as he leaves the hospital he will be
taken to some prominent plastic sur
geon and his face reformed.
To have reached the age OF IS years
is some distinction, but to have lived
that long and still be in such good
physical condition that q broken rib
and numerous bruises does not put
one out of commission, Is still more
unusual. Such, however, was the ex-
perience of Patrick Sheehan, who lives
south of Perry. Mr.. Sheehan is quite
| active and is able to be about the
farm every day Recently while go
Ing downstairs he slipped and fell.
One rib was broken and he was con-
siderably shaken up. but he expects
to be out in a short time and to keep
on enjoying life for several years to
come.
Forty-two prize winners in the boys
corn growing contest which was con-
Quoted by the Iowa Bankers associa-
ton with the cooperation of the Ames
college have left for San Francisco and
other coast points. The prize win
ners were accompanied by Prof. p. c.
Taft of the agricultural department at
Ames. Stops will be made on the
way at points of interest. A trip to
California with expenses paid was Of
fered as prize to the boy in each
county growing the best acre of corn.
The estimated cost per boy for the
trip is $135. The contests are govern
ed by the Ames rules for boys corn
contests.
c. P. Andrews, who escaped from
the penitentiary at FIT. Madison No
vember Is, 1914, has been located at
Folsom, Cal, where he has been lock-
ed up since April of this year on a
three year sentence, according to in
formation received by Warden ]. C.
Sanders of Fl. Madison. Andrews
had twenty months to serve at FIT.
Madison when he made his escape. He
was employed as bookkeeper at the
Iowa institution and also did some
teaching. He will be brought hack
to finish his sentence.
Iowa's farmers sons set the pace
in corn growing for their fathers in
the acre corn growing contest just
closed under the direction of the ag
ricultural extension department OF
Iowa State college. The forty county
| winners got yields in this unfavorable
year ranging all the way from 56.2
bushels per acre to 1901 bushels
The average yield for the forty-one
boys was 91.9 bushels; that is, not in
| field measured corn, but in dry corn
and every deduction made for moist
ure and shrinkage.
If the 25,000,O00 posts required each
| year for Iowa fences were set In
one line and spaced rod apart, they
would build a fence three times
around the earth at the equator; their
cost is nearly 100000. There is 9
pressing need, however says the for
estrymen at Iowa State college, fol
more and better posts. The subiec
of better fence posts will form a par
of the work to be offered at the Ames
winter short course, January 81 t.
February 5.
A. B. Copley, well known Rocl
Island official, died at the home O
his brother, William Copley, at Mitch
ellville. He was SO years old and hat
been i'll several months. Mr.. Cople.
had been with the Rock Island TO
thirty-one years. He began with tn,
company in Des Moines and from tn,
office Of yardmaster gradually worket
up to the position of assistant genera
manager OF the third Rock Island dis
trict.
| One of the leading farms in tn,
country around Linden, in DALAI
county, is that owned and operate,
by Thornburg brothers. These tw,
men live on and handle $50 acres O
some of the best land in their sec
ton; and in their management OF tina
large tract of land the Thornburi
boys have given the first place I,
livestock, for they believe that stccl
feeding and stock raising go hand II
hand with fertile soil.
| After suffering for almost thre,
weeks from terrible burns receive,
when an acetylene gas plant exploded
Jacob Mayer, a hardware dealer o
st. Anthony, died in hospital. Maye
heard a noise back of his store com
ing from the cave where the tow
gas machine Is stored. He lighte,
match to investigate. and terrif
explosion followed.
Warren Proctor, former member o
the class of 1912 at Grinnell and a
one time a member of the Grinnel
Glee club, has been engaged by tn
Chicago Grand Opera company. Hi
first appearance was as Walter II
"Thannhauser." Mr.. Proctor is ten
or soloist Of some fame and has beer
for some time an artist pupil of San
dor s. Radanovitz, in New York City
| Maurice Martin, aged 20, recen
graduate of the Council Bluffs higl
school, who was leader in athletics
studies and social activities, died whel
his brain was punctured by nail
The accident occurred when he wa
assisting his father tear down house
The state OF Iowa has made fin'
showing in the Belgian relief work
according to the report of the com
mission for relief in Belgium fol
eight months ending June 80, 1915