Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-10-07


passenger car with which you en-
barked upon your honeymoon and yet
be forced to apply to welfare So
ciety in Muscatine for lodging would
be embarrassing to most bridegrooms,
but 1t didn't seem to take any of the
joy out of the life for George Carrot,
en- route to Seymour, to visit rela-
tives. A series of mishaps drained
Carrots purse, as well as his small
bank account, and upon his arrival
| there he was forced to soak" his
extra suit to buy gasoline. Carrot
and his wife were given meals and
lodging at hotel at the expense Of
charity organization.
Roger Paine sold his fine farm two
miles northwest OF Eagle Grove for
$22S.57 per acre. Fred Madison, of
Goldfeld, was the buyer Mr.. Paine
bought this farm eight years ago for
SIP per acre, which was then an al
most unheard of price for Iowa land.
1t Is we'll improved farm in all de-
tails, electric lights in all the build
ings, silG well fenced, in fact, all
that goes with a modern farm has
been put on that farm by Mr.. Paine.
Frank T. Logan, a former member
OF the county board Of supervisors and
wealthy Scott county farmer, COM
mitted suicide at his home near Blue
Grss5 by drinking carbolic acid. He
had been in Ill health for a long time
and was suffering under the misap-
prehension that he could not meet
| $4,000 in notes which fell due in a
few days. He was So years of age.
| An effort is being made to straight
en- the county road between Keystone
and Van Horne near the old reservoir
The bridge near there has been the
scene of many serious auto accidents
during the past few years. The road
is especially dangerous to strangers
and the people of that vicinity are
anxious to have the danger elinin-
ated.
Leonard H. Frank has sold his
model dairy farm east of Springdale
to John A. Magoun for $4,000 cash,
or a trife over 1915 an acre for the
ninety-two acres. Twenty-Five dollars
worth of revenue stamps were affixed
to the deed. The farm is well known
among dairymen throughout the state
for its modern milking equipment and
it's sanitary stables.
Marshalltown and Marshall county
spent $1S,466 in improving the Lin
coin highway this season, according
| 70 Nd
| F. Coon, at Clinton. The work was
| for grading and paving, and putting
in bridges and culverts. During the
winter Marshalltown will let paving
contracts in the sum Of $26,S00 for the
| highway east and west of that city
Three men from Woodbury. county
have now been given penitentiary
| sentences under the new law which
provides that a person twice found
guilty of contempt under the statute
covering illegal sale Of liquor may be
sentenced to year in state institu-
ton and fined $1,000.
Maquoketa has erected new s22,-
900 shop school building for the &C.
commodation of the newly required
courses in manual training domestic
science and agriculture. The new
building, constructed of brick, meas
ures 6s by II feet and is two stories
high with basement.
Harry Peck of Melvin. ILL.,, and Will
liam Bowman, of Clinton, are lying
in the county Jail at Charles City,
where they were arrested, and the
officers claim confessed to having
stolen Ford car from farmer near
Goldfield. They had the car in their
possession when arrested.
A fire in the Hesse block in the
business section of TT. Madison caus-
ed $4,000 loss. The equipment of
the Moose lodge rooms was destroy
ed and the stock of the Hesse Cloth
ing company damaged by smoke and
water. The origin is unknown.
The first Japanese to be received
at the penitentiary at Fort Madison
arrived there recently. He is Juseck
Tomito Krishima. soldier and cook,
sent up from Poweshiek county for
| fifteen years for uttering forged in
| struments.
A heavy auto containing three per.
sons passed over the four year old
daughter of James Skeie, at Randall.
and although the front and rear
wheels passed over the abdomen, the
child stands a chance for recovery.
Judge Ezra Willard, OF the law firm
of Willard and Willard, of Atlantic,
one OF the most widely known men,
bers of the bar in southwestern Iowa,
died at his home following stroke
of paralysis.
While leaning over the top OF the
shaft in the Streepy mine near Cen
terville to call to man below, w. T.
Sanders, aged 46, lost his hold and
fell distance of $50 feet and was
instantly killed
Michael Faulkner, teamster at De-
corah, was killed by landslide. He
was engaged in hauling gravel from
pit and was caught by an avalanche
of dirt
At recent meeting of the board
OF supervisors of Shelby county con-
tracts were awarded for the construc-
ton OF eight new steel bridges to cost
s15.500.
Mrs. S. X. Bellamy, mother Of j. 8.
Bellamy, president Of the Knoxville
Electric company, died at her home
there, aged 81 years. She was pio-
neer resident of Marion county.
A farm sale of unusually large size
was concluded when the Thos. Rogers
place adjoining Mt. Vernon was pur-
chased by II. w. Dee. The property
consists OF 120 acres and brought the