Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-08-05

son of DR.. A. C. Armitage, was the
hero of an automobile accident that
happened to the Shenandoah tourists
miles from Santa Fe. When the car,
running 20 miles an hour, fell over
an embankment, DR.. Armitage was
knocked unconscious, Mrs. Armitage
seriously injured and the daughter,
Claire. was also hurt. The lad escap-
ed injury.
Earl w. Lindsay, serving life
term at Fl. Madison for statutory
offense committed at Colfax, has been
refused clemency in report of the
state board Of parole and approved
by Governor Clarke, which has just
been made public. The board refused
to recommend any change in the SEN
tence.
Suits have been filed in the district
court at Fort Madison asking in the
aggregate 5000 as salaries and COM
mission claimed to be due and unpaid
for sale of stock In new tire indus
try at Keokuk. The plaintiffs are r..
W. Dayton and C. E. Edison. They
affirm that they we're hired at $40 per
week and commission Of 20 per cent.
The workmen and the contractor
who were moving the Christian
church in New Sharon back from its
old foundations preparatory to remod-
cling 1t were very fortunate when
they had moments warning and got
out Of the way just as the steeple
toppled over and smashed the church
into a mass of ruinA
A tornado passed through Boone
county doing thousands of dollars
damage. Buildings were unroofed
and blown over and elevators, silos
and trees were laid low. The roof
Of the Boone Gas company's boiler
house was carried through the air
and dropped on the top Of big gas
holder.
The body of Cecil Goldthorpe, the
2 year old baby who mysteriously dis
appeared from his home FIVE miles
west Of Mason City, was found by
Sheriff Marsh and Deputy Sheriff
Knapp. The body was floating on
creek one mile east of the house and
was caught in barbed wire fence.
The First Methodist Episcopal
church of Bloomfield has been chosen
rs one Of the thousand centers of
the nation wide Forward Movement"
recently organized by the Evangelis-
tic commission of the 1912 general
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church.
In running fight Motorcycle Police
man Prehn, ran down and captured
Charles Wexler and William Swan
son at Mason City. They confessed
to have stolen the Geo. Tubbs Moline
touring car at Maquoketa. The men
abandoned the car soon after the
chase opened.
Only 60 per cent of the wheat
around Shenandoah is in shock and
because of sprouting and Smelling of
overripe grain less than that amount
will be saved. No crops have been
threshed as the threshing crews are
unable to start.
Davenport has but seven jitney
buses as the result Of decision by
Judge F. D. Let's in the district court
dissolving the temporary injunction
the jitney operators had secured
against the city's enforcing the new
traffic ordinance.
Mrs. Matte Hanson, aged 49, died
at her home in Council Bluffs from
accidentally swallowing carbolic acid
She had been sick and 1t is said that
bottles of medicine had been placed
near the acid bottle. A husband and
two children survive.
1t recently became known that sew
eral Sioux City saloonkeepers will
keep their places Of business open
after Jan. /, 1916, despite the repeal
of the mulct law. These saloons will
remain open to try out test case to
fight the closing law.
The little son of Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Kilborn of Boone swallowed
an open safety pin recently and the
pin became lodged in his throat. Ply
sicians were called and after much
work loosened the pin so that it came
out through the nose.
A needle, lodged in the stomach OF
Miss Mena Blair, dressmaker Of Cot
ter, was located by the X-ray in an
Iowa City hospital. and the intrud-
ing bit of steel was then removed by
the surgeons.
Chief of Police B. F. Nickerson Of
Webster City received a telegram
from his sister in Chicago, telling him
that his niece, Miss Mamie Shannon,
was among those drowned in the East
land disaster.
The board Of supervisors have let
the contract to Captain Head for
crawling two miles Of the Lincoln
highway between Jefferson and Grand
Junction. The best bid was 70 cents
per yard and the bids ranged to 50
cents. 1t will cost 5000 per mile for
four inches of gravel.
Rev. l.. E. Viets. pastor of the Bap-
fist church of Iowa Falls, has just
issued the official programs Of the
Iowa Baptist assembly that viii be
held in that city from July 80 to Au-
gust s, inclusive. An exceptionally
strong program has been offered this
year.
Auto speeding has received a Jolt |
in Waukon. Ten prosecutions have
been made for violations Of the speed
laws. Signs made of cement block
with an iron pipe and square sign
that can be read from all four direc.
tions now greet autoists.
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