Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-09-16

E. Tyden, wealthy Chicago manu-
facturer, who bought the Delano
farm, located about seven miles west
of Greene, consisting of about six
hundred acres, last year, is spending
thousands of dollars in improving the
place. He has erected large house
and several large barns, hog houses,
and other buildings, three silos and
has done great deal of fencing. He
has also put in nineteen carloads of
tile this season and expects to put
sixteen Tiers at work laying tile for
some time.
Neil Macmillan, farmer near Ma
son City, is dead and Henry Lorenzen,
a farm hand, is fatally burned, the
result Of kerosene explosion when
Macmillan poured oil on smolder-
ing fire. The bottom was blown out
of the five gallon can by the explo
sion and the men covered with burn
ing oil.
Mrs. Eva McCune, of Iowa City,
whose son, T. w. McCune, was killed
by an engine, when he jumped off a
work train, has sued the Rock Island
Railway company for $40, 900. John E.
Barnett has sued Joseph Barnett G.
Co., lightning rod makers of River
side, for $500, because of injuries in
flicted in their factory.
Mrs. Charles Friedman, with her
mother and daughter, who were re-
turning to their home in Des Moines
from Minneapolis in their auto, met
with an accident at Nevada, where
the machine turned over, pinning the
occupants beneath. None was seri-
ously injured.
Mrs. Earl DuPoy, wife of a leading
Benton county farmer, was instantly
killed in her barnyard near Vinton
when she was thrown under a heavily
laden wagon. Her skirt was caught
by the singletree as the wagon pass
ed. Death, caused by broken neck,
was instantaneous.
Mrs. Bessie L. Worden, of Water
loo, aged 16 years, will be the young
est divorced woman in the state IL
the suit she is bringing against her
husband, p. Worden, Is successful.
Mrs. Worden was married when she
was fifteen years old, and claims in
her petition that her husband has not
supported her.
Sneak thieves entered the home
of Chas. F. Townsend in Des Moines
and stole a small sum of cash and
frh hn toh hial,
had been presented to Mr.. Townsend
when he retired as president of the
Photographers associates of Amer
lea.
Z. /. Fields, a Waterloo negro, who
bought lot in an aristocratic neigh
borhood and moved box car on 1t
for home, has offered to move out
II the twenty-seven citizens who pc
titioned the city council to force him
to vacate will each put up $40.
Work has been started on the new
$4,000 school house at Brandon. The
building is 42xSs feet with two stories
and basement and will be fireproof.
There will be six rooms and an as
sembly room. The gymnasium with
lockers will be in the basement.
The handsome new high school
building recently completed at Halle
ton is the finest in Buchanan county
and there are few il any towns the
size of Hazleton that have a finer,
better equipped or more up to date
school building
A factory costing $4,000 which
will manufacture raw steel for the
Pittsburg, Gary and Chicago South
markets, will be built in Keokuk at
once, according to an announcement
made by the Keokuk Industrial asso-
citation.
Chris. Englebert, prominent stock
buyer OF Conroy, suffered stroke of
apoplexy while driving an automobile.
His wife was with him at the time.
With the aid of passersby she rushed
her husband to hospital, where it is
said he will recover.
Crazed from the lack of dope" Ed.
Wilson, prisoner in the county Jail
at Sioux City, attempted to commit
suicide by slashing his right wrist
with razor. He missed the artery
and will recover.
Edwin Reppe, a resident of Lans-
ing, is in a precarious condition at
his home there after an attempt to
swim a distance OF two and one-half
miles A physical breakdown result
ed from the over exertion.
The police of Mason City are look
ing for the murderer of Winch Pres
ka, who was recently found dead in
his room with a crushed skull.
Ed Gibbons, of Farley, while de-
spondent, took carbolic acid and is
dead. He is survived by wife and
three children.
'Uncle Jimmy" Carr Story coun-
tvs only centenarian and probably
the oldest man in the state OF Iowa.
died at the home of his daughter. in
Nevada. at the remarkable age of 100
years, 10 months and "a days.
The town of Marathon has voted a
bond issue of $4,000 for the purpose
OF installing a municipal electric light
plant Only eighteen votes were cast
against the proposition.
The cornerstone OF the Soldiers
Memorial hall of Blackhawk county
being built at Waterloo has been laid
by G. A. r. men Of Waterloo, Cedar
Falls and LaPorte City.
Alice Bigham. aged Is. who disap-
peared from her home in Ottumwa,
has been located at Eldon employed
by a prominent family as maid and
L 80 4. a.
who wrote her too many letters.