Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-18

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falfa. Each year he scatters manure
from his feeding yard over. 100 acres
Of his land.
The delegates appointed by Gov
ernor Clarke to attend the river ter.
minal conference of the Mississippi
valley states to be held in st. Louis
Feb. Is and 10 are: Lee Hammill,
Keokuk: Capt. w. A. Blair, Daven-
port: A. F. Frudden, Dubuque; w.
F. Muse, Mason City; Roy G. Stew
art. Cedar Rapids; James F. Powell,
ottumwa; A. C. Miller, Des Moines;
M. G. Bailey, Clearfield Robert B.
Wallace. Council Bluffs; R. o. Green,
Fort Dodge: George c. Call, Sioux
City.
A muster was taken at the Soldiers
home in Marshalltown last week of
members eligible to the support
fund. The government pays the state
500 per year for the care of each
veteran in the home who has served
in either the civil, Spanish-American
or other wars. At present there are
SIS eligible for the fund. There are
S12 men and women in the institution
at the present time. or this number
1874 are in the hospital.
The Iowa Sheep Breeders and Wool
Growers association at the annual
convention held at Ottumwa Christ
mas week decided to leave the date
of their 1915 meeting open until tho
local farmers fixed the date of the
institute and stock show, and 1t is
expected to hold the convention in
Ottumwa at the same time, which
has been fixed for the second week
in October.
Lumber and coal dealers from
many points in Iowa and adjoining
states will come to Cedar Rapids
February % and % to attend the an
nual convention Of the Central Iowa
Retail Lumbermen's Association. Be-
tween 400 and 500 guests are ex-
pected.
Mrs. James Thompson, aged 50,
wife Of prominent farmer living
three miles from Clarinda. was in
stantly killed when her dress caught
in the machinery of wood saw.
She was thrown almost directly
across the saw and her body severed
in an instant.
The president has nominated the
following Iowa postmasters: George
w. McKeehan, Cincinnati; H. II.
Richards, Churdan; Thomas P. Wat
son, Bows; C. F. Duncombe, Fort
Dodge; ]. e. Spence, Milton, and
Earl Patton, Danbury.
Pleasant Grove township, Marion
county will have consolidated
school, the second in the county The
decision was made by an election
held in Pleasantville, the result Of
which combines nine independent
school districts as one.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Williams of
Pasadena, Cal, have made donation
of $4,000 to the Iowa Conference
Permanent fund for retired ministers.
The donors of this spsendid gift were
for many years connected with the
church at Centerville, Ia
A. w. Askwith, 65 years Old, a
prominent attorney of Council Bluffs,
was found dead in his office. The
cause of death has not been deter
mined. Mr. Askwith was attorney
for the Iowa Central railroad and 9TH
er important Interests.
r. c. Christian, administrator OF
the estate OF Bert Ball, an electrical
lineman, who was killed while work
ing on line for the municipal cleo.
trio company of Ames several years
ago, has been awarded by the city
council of Ames $500 as settlement.
Wolves abound in many parts of
Lee county and are giving the farm
ers considerable trouble by their at
tacks on young stock. Several have
been shot by hunters, bounties OF
$40 head being paid for the pests.
Muscatine's new $4,000 armory is
now assured. The structure will be
so arranged as to accommodate a
battery of artillery should the state
decide favorably as to the plan pro-
posed by Adjutant General Logan 4
The Fifty-sixth infantry l. N. G.,
will camp at Clear Lake for ten days
beginning July 10. The orders have
been received at the regiments head
quarters at Fort Dodge
Mrs Lee Kirton of Melcher died
from the result of a runaway a few
days ago She is survived by three
little children and her husband, who
was slightly injured.
The president has nominated the
following Iowa postmasters: Pearl l..
Marier Dumont; Louis A. Wiweke,
Cherokee and Martin F. Kelly, De-
witt.
Mistaking bichloride of mercury
tablets for stomach medicine, Neil
Murphy, secretary of the Trades and
Labor assembly at Fort Dodge, took
an almost fatal dose.
A Burlington passenger train kill
ed William Edgar, farmer, aged
so, on crossing one mile east OF Mt.
Pleasant. He was driving team.
Mrs. Susan Cronk, aged II, the
first white child born in Linn county,
whose father, Isaac Butler, settled
the Tama county community known
now as Butlerville, or Indiantown,
was buried at Montour last week.
Plans are being made for the en-
tertainment of the annual meeting OF
the Iowa State Drainage association,
which is to be held at Webster City
Feb. 1926.
At an election March Fort Dodge
will vote on the issuance of bonds
for $4,000 for the construction OF
a central grade high school building