Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-12-23


ails worn by poorly dressed man
who died at Valley Junction hotel,
over $4,000 in cash. bank checks and
certificates OF deposit were found.
The discovery of the big sum was
made by the undertaken who was pre-
pairing the body for burial. Identifi-
cation Of the man was made by Mrs.
Christi Junge. his mother, OF DeFor-
est, Mich. who had given him up
for dead long ago, having lost all
trace OF him. The mother, so far as
she was able, cleared up the mys-
terry surrounding him. Henry Junge
was the dead mans name.
Passenger fares from all Iowa sta.
tons to points outside of the state
will be advanced as soon as the rail-
roads prepare and file new tariffs with
the interstate commerce commission.
Authority for the increase was grant
ed by the commission in a ruling
handed down recently. Interstate
passenger rates In the middle west
ern states are cents q mile. The
railroads now have permission to in
crease them to "a cents per mile. The
travelling public In Iowa pays $780,
100000 a year in passenger fares,
half OF which Is interstate business,
according to Wayne Ellis, statistician
with the Iowa railroad commission.
He says the increase will cost Iowa
$2,000.000 annually in the future.
There was local overproduction
Of both apples and potatoes in Iowa
this year. In some sections, notably
around st. Ansgar, Aurelia, Hawar-
den, Manning. and in Scott county,
there were far more potatoes than
the people there could use, and in
many sections of Iowa there was an
actual scarcity of potatoes. In apples,
the same condition was true; in Mills,
Pottawattamie, Fremont, Polk, and
half dozen other counties, there were
more apples than the local markets
could take care Of, but there were
and are places where apples COM
manded more than a dollar per BUSH
ell for good fruit.
Whether Ed Drummond, a promi-
nent and wealthy farmer residing
near Donahue, took poison with sui.
cidal intent or whether enemies tried
to kill him seems due to remain
mystery as investigation by local au.
thorities has brought no solution. No
indication that the death was from
other than natural causes was given
the public until the coroner had held
QnfnnCv hAdx hAI n
chemical examination made OF the
stomach Of the victim. Traces of
strychnine were found.
Here's what causes grief among
the Corn Belt Meat Producers asso-
citation Of Iowa, which recently closed
meeting in Des Moines. The cat
tie from which was obtained the meat
they ate at the Slavery hotel were
raised in Iowa, shipped to Chicago as
feeders, then bought on the Chicago
market by Iowa farmers and return
ed to Iowa to be fed Iowa corn. They
shipped them to Chicago to be slaugh.
tered and the meat sent back into
Iowa. Their answer is-an Iowa
market.
The clearing house for apples and
potatoes, established by the extension
department of Iowa State college,
brought together this year a goodly
number OF growers and buyers OF
these two staple crops, of which there
was seeming oyerproduction in the
Hawkeye state this year. or course,
when they got together, there was
only one result; the growers found
the market which they were looking
for, and the buyers found the high
quality product for which they were
willing to pay good prices.
There will be no test of the repeal
Of the Iowa mulct law in Sioux City.
All hope of starting such a suit in
the Woodbury. county district court
vanished when the city council de-
cided not to issue liquor permits to
become effective after Jan. /. AS the
procuring of resolution of consent
from the council was the first step
necessary to make possible test of
the constitutionality OF the repeal, any
litigation here has now been fore
otoAiCu Wy TIC SOuuCll IcCcuL dCtiOu.
Three years this side of the GEN.
fury mark is an experience not often
attained in this age, only three per-
sons out OF 100000 reaching the age
OF SO, according to insurance statis-
tics. Yet one OF Center. Points citi.
zens. Mrs. Jane Arnett, recently
celebrated her 9th birthday. She is
today enjoying fair degree Of health
and the full use of her faculties and
excellent prospects Of reaching the
100 mark.
Joseph Harrigan, former vice-presi.
dent; George Homan, former cashier,
and Charles Siege, former teller In
the Dubuque National bank, were
sentenced by Judge Reed in the fed.
eral court to Ave years each in the
penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth.
Kan. The three former bank officials
pleaded guilty to charges of having
made false entries on the books OF
the bank and of misappropriatin
funds approximating $4,000.
Word has been received in Perry
Of the death of William George, prob
ably the oldest Iowa resident, and who
would have been 102 years old had
he lived until March 16 next. Mr..
George died at the home of his son,
Henry George, In Coon Rapids, with
whom he had lived for the past eight
years.
Leonard P. Ayres, director of edu-
cation Of the Russell Sage Founda-
ton, told school superintendent and
principals gathered at Iowa City in
their second annual conference that
vocabulary of only 1000 words was
used in nine-tenths Of all that the