Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-04-29

education during the period from
July /, 1915, to July /, 1917. OF this
sum S4,262,s00 will go to the current
support, maintenance and improve
ment OF the institutions and $750,O00
will be available for new buildings.
Analysis OF the appropriations pro-
yided by the Jones and Savage bills
shows that the division gives, for the
biennium, to the state university at
Iowa City s1,533,O00, to the state COL
lege at Ames $2,060,000, to the State
Teachers college at Cedar Falls
s5s6,000, and to the college for the
blind at Vinton sS3,200.
An overland trip in a covered wag-
on from their home in London, Can
ada, to st. Louis in the pioneer days,
then boat trip up the Missouri to
Rockport, Mo-, and another prairie
schooner journey brought Mr.. and
Mrs. John Lee to their present home
at Northboro forty-seven years ago.
Recently their children, grandchil-
dren, relatives and friends gave them
surprise celebration on their golden
wedding day.
A big damage suit or suits against
| Pottawattamie is certain to result
from the accident in which Mrs. Har-
| dy Ferguson of Avoca was killed and
Elmer Koetjie was badly hurt by
driving into the Nishnabotna river
where bridge had been washed out.
A coroner's jury which investigated
the death of Mrs. Fegruson was I'M
usually severe in their condemnation
of the county for its negligence.
Otto Frolich, a wealthy pioneer
resident of Holstein, attempted to
commit suicide by slashing his throat
with knife. His wifes screams at
tracted the attention of Peter ARP,
who was passing by and he grappled
with Frolich and took the knife away
before a fatal wound had been inflict-
ed. Frolich has been in i'll health
lately and respondent
Official notice has been received by
officers Of Cedar Rapids council,
Knights of Columbus, that the annual
state convention will be held there
May "a and 25. A third degree initia-
! ton is being planned for the 23d,
which will bring together 500 or 600
knights from all over the state. There
are 80 councils in Iowa, and each
council is entitled to two delegates.
As the result of pouring kerosene
oil from an oil can into the fire, Mrs.
| Breaking, the cook in the Rock Rap
ids cafe, lies dying from burns, in
ternally and externally. The can ex-
ploded and spread the burning oil
over the unfortunate woman, and be-
fore aid could come she was burned
| beyond recognition.
1t is estimated that fully forty
buildings will be erected in New Lon
don this spring and summer. The
| city is not on boom-it is a gradual
growth, and the buildings are mostly
residences with two churches, and a
store building.
The first main halt in a jaunt Of
2,10o miles was made in Des Moines
by Edward v. Mitcheltree and Harry
e. Bryan, the Hawkeye mixers. The
young men are on their way from
New Sharon to San Francisco, where
| they will attend the exposition.
The commercial clubs of Illinois
Rock Island and towns east of and
| including Des Moines are writing au-
thorities at Philadelphia, urging that
the old liberty bell be routed over
the Rock Island road on its way to
the Panama exposition.
The enactment of the jitney law by
the legislature which has just adjourn
ed was a sad blow to the jitney bus
operators in Cedar Rapids. Because
of the clause requiring the buses to
be operated from a. m. until IL mid
night, the business has been abandon.
| ed there.
special election on the question OF
granting the Central Iowa Light and
Power company of Boone a twenty
year franchise to furnish the city OF
Lake City with electricity for lighting
heating and power purposes will be
voted on.
A serious cutting ARRAY occurred be
tween convicts in the state peniten
tiary at Fort Madison. A colored
prisoner named Smith attacked q
white man named Southwark, and bu,
for the interference Of other convicts
would have made clean job Of 1t.
Peter Christian, OF Pittsburgh, Pa.
a labor agitator, was fatally injured
while attempting to board freight
train at Missouri Valley. Both legs
were cut off by the wheels of the
train and he died of his injuries short
ly after the accident.
Thousands OF acres of cultivated
ground near Muscatine will be undel
water as result of the flood stage
of the Mississippi. The river is rising
at the rate Of foot day. A twelve
foot stage is feared.
After many delays the stage is al
set for the trial of Mrs. Charlotte Val
Horn at Mason City before Distric
Judge Edwards of Parkersburg, on
. charge of shooting to death her hus
!. band.
Thomas Cannon has sold a farm
; two miles south Of Duncombe t
James Fitzgerald OF Duncombe TO
1925 an acre. The farm contained ~
acres.
Harlan voted bonds in the sum o
$4,000 for a new high school build
ing and $4,000 for ward school
The vote was s22 for and $50 against
The proposition to change the nam
of Grundy Center to Grundy, submit
ted to voters, was defeated, only a
voting for the change and LAG against
The proposition to re-establ!sh par