Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-12-30

TON, was almost completely wrecked
by fire which started at 2:30 O'Clock
and burned until $50. The estimated
loss is about 500, 900, but is said to
be practically covered by insurance,
Fire started in the Suffer & Ludman
Drug company establishment, which
Is total loss. The cause of the fire
is unknown. Every office in the
building, of which there are about
fifty, is either demolished by fire or
water and smoke has damaged ad.
Joining establishments. The heaviest
losers are the Suffer & Ludman Drug
company; Kaut & Kreishbaum, hard.
ware; l.. B. Ringold company, cloth
ing; Trexal Bros, and Mrs. Wash
burn, millinery.
The true spirit of Scouthood has
been manifested by the Boy Scouts
of Mason City. Residing there is
Fred G. Whitney, blind from birth,
but with an ambition to some day
amount to something. He went to Vim
ton and in addition to a liberal edu-
cation he learned broom making. He
is young man without means and
had no way to begin. The Boy Scouts
learning of his case got busy and or.
ganized campaign to set him up in
business. All the funds necessary to
open broom making industry have
been secured, and the blind boy is to
be manager. AS soon as he makes
enough money to pay off the debt the
property is to be decided to him.
Oscar Oakleaf, Madrid banker, re.
ceived a black hand letter demand.
ing that he leave certain sum of
money at a special point about half
mile south of Madrid. Mr.. Oakleaf
turned the letter over to the Madrid
authorities and a deputy sheriff with
a squad on guard about the spot men.
toned in the letter. A move was then
made as though to deposit the money
at the spot. However, nobody ap-
peared to claim it. The letter has
been turned over to federal authori-
ties. Madrid officers believe it the
work of amateurs who lost their nerve
at the critical moment.
Iowa has 324,S16 men available for
military duty according to the report
of Adjutant General Guy e. Logan, OF
the Iowa National Guard. OF this num-
Der 1903 are members of the Iowa
state militia, which figures 1.02 per
cent in the organized soldiery. This
figure exceeds the general average per
cent of the entire nation, which at
tains an average of only 76 per cent
of the available males being affiliated
with the state guard. Iowa ranks
twenty-fifth in the forty-eight states OF
the union in the number of men which
could respond to the colors in the
event of war.
Iowa is to have a new town located
on the Burlington railroad. The town
win be named Robbins and will be
about five miles from Hastings, in
Mills county. ]. d. Robbins, wealthy
farmer, in whose honor the town will
be named, has been working for twen-
ty years to secure the railroad sta
ton. He and other farmers in the
vicinity donated the land, graded the
tracks and laid out the elevator and
stockyards grounds. The location of
tbs new town is one of the prettiest
spots in the Botna valley, and is in
the center OF rich grain growing and
stock raising community.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. F. Hiser of Nevada
have attracted attention both in this
country and abroad by their butterfly
and moth collecting. It is a profitable
business and the Hisers derive a COM
Portable income from it. In their
private collection Mr.. and Mrs. Hiser
have rare and beautiful specimens of
butterflies and moths from all over
the world. They. keep up continu-
GUS correspondence with American
and foreign collectors. In the Hiser
laboratory there is complete equip
ment for keeping and mounting speci-
mems, and for Matching the eggs and
rearing the larvae.
Fred Meyer of Van Meter, found
guilty of second degree murder at his
trial on the charge of killing his wife
last July, was sentenced to fifteen
years in the penitentiary at Fort Mad
ison. Motion for new trial of his
case was denied by Judge Loren n.
Hays. Meyers bond was fixed at $780,
600 and steps were taken TO file an APP
peal in his case. His relatives are
wealthy and declare they will fight
for his freedom to the last.
When state accountants went over
the books of Cherokee county officials
year ago the. county issued a war
rant for about $500 to pay for the
work. The state is supposed to pay
the accountants and the county is sup
posed to reimburse the state. The
warrant has never been called for and
is still in the court house vaults.
Coffee houses to take the places OF
saloons which will go out of bust
ness in Davenport the first OF the
year were advocated at a meeting of
Davenport's leading social settlement.
The coffee houses are planned to
serve the needs of the working class.
The fact that Davenport has been a
wet center, since it was founded is
causing the philanthropists great wor-
ry in looking into the future of So
cial conditions there.
The Farmers Hog and Produce COM
pany OF Waukon has bought 20,420
hogs in the last three years, paying
for them $410,590.4O.
Land doubling in price in eight
years is making money pretty fast
That is the record of some Winnebago
county land owned by B. A. Plummer
There are 500 acres in the tract and
he bought it eight years ago for S41,-
900. He has just disposed Of the en-
tire tract which is located four miles
west Of Forest City for an even $780,
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