Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-09-30

automobiles In Fort Dodge the back
firing OF an engine has broken a mans
leg. The victim of this accident was
Charles Pratt. He was cranking a
car when the crank kicked and hit
his leg, breaking it just above the
ankle. Mr.. Pratt, in telling of the &C
cident, stated that In spinning the
crank he had braced himself with
one leg inside the buffer When the
crank few back it hit him.
Charles City lays claims to having
the only plutocratic police force in
the state. Every man on the force
Is the owner of an automobile and
also has land interests to his credit.
In fact 1t is stated that Mayor Nc
Leod will permit no man to enter the
service of the city who Is not the
possessor OF an automobile and is
the owner OF land. The force is
known as the millionaire Police
Force of Charles City"
One of the biggest shipments of
lambs ever made to northern Iowa
was received by Moon Brothers, who
operate big farm and cattle ranch
near Burdette. The shipment was
made from Omaha and consisted of
$500 lambs. They will be put out on
the big pastures Of the Moon ranch
and later fattened for the Chicago
market. 1t required fourteen cars to
transport the shipment.
Henry Lefebure G Son, of Fairfax,
ha oh 49, ~
twenty Belgian horses to the Panama
exposition, where the horses will be
on exhibition and will come in COM
petition with the world. Mr.. Lefe-
bure is confident his horses will bring
back number of prizes. He is also
enthusiastic over the stock exhibits
at the fair from Iowa, and believes it
will beat the world.
An echo of the county engineer
cases was heard at Eldora when the
county officials served notice on s.
B. Gardner, formerly county surveyor
and engineer on certain drainage dis
tricts, notifying the defendant that the
county claims there is still owing to
1t an amount OF over $4,000 This
amount is alleged to be due from
Gardner on certain over charges made
by him while county engineer.
Mrs. Mary Johnson, scrub woman
in one of the big office buildings in
Sioux City, was held up by masked
man as she was going to work at
dawn and robbed Of two nickels she
was carrying for street car fare. Mrs.
nh hnII xn
allow her to keep one of the nickels
so she would be able to ride home at
noon, but he refused with a laugh at
derision.
Leo L. Perrin, formerly teller at the
Cedar Rapids National bank, and
Russell H. Mckenzie, formerly man
ager of Kresge's 5 and 10 cent store
In Cedar Rapids, both we're indicted
by the Linn county grand jury. Perrin
claimed to have been held up by a
lone bandit and robbed of $4,000 and
Mckenzie is accused of having appro-
priated $4,000 of his firms money for
his own use.
j. M. Hays. an old time Marion
county pioneer, now living in Kansas,
Is the father Of twenty-one children,
nineteen of whom are still living,
ranging in age from 9 to 40 years. Mr..
Hays is well along in the seventies
but has the appearance of a man not
more than IS and is as strong and
vigorous as most men of so. He has
"a big farm in Kansas; owns fine
auto, and is thoroughly enjoying life.
Had this been a good growing sea-
son there is no telling how big a rad
ish Charlie Rice, of Tama, would have
grown. Notwithstanding the rains
the halls, the chinchbugs, and the
bollwevil, he brought to the market
two monster radishes. The larger
one measured 26 inches from the tip
to the point where 1t merged from
the ground and tipped the scales at
l0k pounds.
Harold Records, a Cedar Rapids
youth Of Is years, has been taken into
custody at the complaint of his moth
er. The young man chased his moth
er from her home brandishing load
ed revolver and she promptly phoned
to the police station asking that the
officers take charge of him and see
to sending him to the reform school
at Eldora.
Lew w. Anderson, one of the most
prominent insurance and real estate
men in Iowa, died suddenly at his
home In Cedar Rapids of apoplexy
For many years he had been state
agent for the Fidelity Deposit COM
pany of Maryland.
M. A. Chantry, general superintend-
ent of the Tabor G. Northern railroad,
has resigned and it is reported that
a general shake up with many changes
will follow
Seventy-five Council Bluffs people
on their way to work in Omaha re-
ceived the scare of their lives when
the trailer on the car in which they
were riding left the rail on a bridge
and threatened to plunge into the
river. No one was injured, but traf-
fc was delayed until the wrecker
could place the derailed car on the
track again.
Journalism will be taught in the
University Of Iowa this year for the
first time. Announcement was made
at Iowa City of the details of the
course which will train students in
the practical side of newspaper work.
If,he lives till April II, 1916, A. B.
Dowell of Vinton will have lived in
Iowa eighty years. He believes he
is the Oldest native Iowan, never hav-
ing lost his residence in the state, al
though in his S3rd year. Mr.. Dowell
is an auctioneer and does not propose