Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-05-20

be formed in Iowa will in all likeli-
hood be mustered in within few
days. Adjutant General Logan has
announced his intention of going to
Muscatine whenever summoned and
as the necessary 1870 enlistments in
the new organization are now practi-
cally assured, the commanding officer
is to be notified that all is in readi-
ness for the mastering out of the in
fantry company and the creation Of
the artillery organization. Muscatine
is erecting $4,000 armory to house
the battery.
Three men and two women were
charged formally with enticing fe-
male under 16 years of age away
from her home at Guthrie Center.
They are alleged to have abducted
13-year-old Aileene Downs from her
home there and brought her to Des
Moines by automobile. The accused
are John Archer, Jack Cavanaugh, A.
Tiddleman, Hanzel Mansel and Gladys
McLuen. They pleaded not guilty.
George Anderson, a young farmer
living in Diamond township, Cherokee
county, was accidentally shot and kill
ed while hunting gophers. The hired
man, attracted by the shot, found An
derson lying near the fence, and as.
sistance was speedily secured. The
wound, however, proved fatal almost
Immediately. 1t is supposed that the
trigger caught while he was climbing
over the fence.
Experts from the horticultural ex-
pertinent station of Iowa State col
lege have stated that there was no
damage done to the fruit of this Sec
tion by the cold weather and frosts.
garden truck not sheltered we're badly
damaged, according to their report
James Shawan, a farmer living
near Haven, an inland town in Tama
county, was almost disemboweled
when a buzz saw which he was oper-
sting saving wood burst. A piece Of
the saw struck Shawan in the abdom-
en-, cutting an immense cash, and
causing the intestine to protrude.
Miss Ruth Davis of Jefferson, a
freshman in the liberal arts college
of the State university, was drowned
in the Iowa river just below Prexy's
point The fatality resulted from the
upsetting of a canoe below the city
park bridge.
A Carnegie free public library is
now assured for Bedford. The coun-
CT at it's meeting passed resolution
accepting the gift of $4,000 from the
Carnegie corporation of New York,
and approved the board of trustees
appointed by Mayor Webb.
A new Methodist Episcopal church
to cost in the neighborhood of $780,
900 will be erected at Marengo the
coming summer. The lot has already
been purchased while plans for the
structure have also been accepted.
F. H. Shade, Boone constable,
allowed prisoner to escape from his
custody while en- route to the county
Jail. While Shade was paying his
carfare, the fellow slipped out the
front end of the car.
The Washburn Manufacturing com,
pany, manufacturers of a new type
hayrack, new industry recently Sc
cured for Newton, are moving into the
old New-lite plant and will soon be
in operation.
John McHugh, president of the
First National Bank of Sioux City
has accepted the first vice-presidency
of the Merchants and Metals National
bank of New York City. The salary
is reported to be $4,000 year.
Miss Clara Mark, school teacher
at Burdette, who had returned home
for the summer, Is recovering from
an attack made by an unknown man,
who climbed ladder into her room
struck and choked her.
A meeting is soon to be called by
the Farmers institute of Glidden to
arrange for financing a proposition to
erect an opera house there. The
ground has already been purchased by
a committee.
Charles H. Ferguson Of Keokuk is
being held to the grand jury at that
place on a charge Of forgery. He Is
the son of the Rev. John Ferguson
of the same place.
A baby boy was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Scheckel Of Springbrook Regu'
larly every year the stork visits this
household. this being the fifteenth
child. All are living.
The Iowa Telephone company has
a force of forty men at work in the
vicinity Of Hampton, constructing a
new line from Iowa Falls to Mason
city.
Mrs. Magdalena Sherer, the Oldest
woman in Scott county, who on Feb
18th of this year observed her Tooth
birthday anniversary, died at her
home in Buffalo.
The auto drive entirely around
Clear lake stands a good chance Of
completion, property owners having
given the land for the road and the
supervisors having accepted ii and
made plans for grading and surfacing
over half the road has been complet
ed.
Frank Hoffman of Davenport kissed
his mother goodby. Later note was
found on the levee wall OF the Mis-
sissippi river, together with his hal
and coat. The body has not yet beer
recovered Mrs. Garyey, who has
family of four children. says she
spurned the youths affections.
A heavy frost visited northern Iowa
particularly severe about Charles
City, where there is much fruit, but
fruit men say the damage to frui
will not be heavy. Little corn has
been planted as yet in northern Iowa
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