Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-03-09

practically assured by reason of ac-
ton taken at the annual meeting of
tn A. ID. Good Roads association. Four
hundred and fifty farmers pledged
themselves to pay the necessary as
sessment to pave the Ames-Des
Moines road from Des Moines to the
county line. Mayor Farley Sheldon
of Ames in turn promised that Story
county would complete the improve
ment into the college town. BY paw
ing the entire road from Des Moines
to Ames it may be designated as the
official Jefferson highway route.
w. p. Peterson, a civil engineer in
the employ of the Rock Island rail-
road, was authorized by Governor
Clarke to go to Oskaloosa to see what
can be done there to prevent disas-
trous floods along the banks of the
Des Moines river. A huge ice gorge
at Given has backed the water up sew
eral miles and already residents
along the river bottoms have been
forced to leave their homes. Indica-
tons are that the water will reach
a point ordinarily not attained by
high water If the ice gorge is not dis
lodged.
Because they received telegram
Saying that Mr.. and Mrs. Anderson,
relatives Of theirs, had been frozen
to death at Fort Benton, Montana, and
had left three small children home
less, Emil and Kate Gunderson OF
Fort Dodge got together enough mon
ey to make the trip out there to get
the children and see that their rela-
tiyes were buried. Arrived, they
found their kinsmen alive and happy,
and discovered that another Mr.. and
Mrs, Anderson, total strangers to
them, had been the victims of the
tragedy.
l.. c. James believes he has discov-
cred oil on his farm northwest of
Wapello. He has secured samples
of his find and will have 1t tested
Oil has been found near Aledo, ILL.,,
which is across the river from Wap-
clio and James believes that possibly
some of the same geological condi-
tons exist on his farm as are to be
found on the other side of the river
He has conferred with the assistant
state geologist, James H. Lees, con-
corning the geological conditions in
his county.
James Fenlon of Des Moines is said
to be the oldest travelling man in the
ITnifad Gfofao hA to
years old, has been Juggling a grip
over the country for 70 years and
still spends three or four days a
week at his job. For the last 80 years
he has been selling windmills and
pumps. During these years he has
sold $1,000 windmills in southern
Iowa. The number seems likely to be
increased to $4,000, since the aged
veteran of the grip expects to start
out again this spring.
At foreclosure sale the Fort Madi-
son water works system was bid in
by C. F. Street of New York, former
general manager of the company, for
$4,000. The Citizens Water company
was the only other bidder and offered
$4,000. The Citizens company,
which was voted franchise at De-
cember election, announces it will
install new plant the coming sum.
mer.
Iowa Sunday schools will be repre-
scented at the Iowa State fair this
year with an exhibit of the latest les.
son materials and samples of the
work OF the younger students in, mod.
cling and other hand craft, IL the
recommendations of the conference
held in Des Moines meet with the ap.
prevail of the state convention of the
Iowa Sunday school association in
Dubuque June 1928.
More than 5000 persons attended
the dedication services at the new
Church OF Christ at Jefferson. The
church cost $4,000 and at the begin
ming of the services there was SILL.
900 outstanding against it. More than
$4,000 was raised, paying off the
debt on the church and leaving a good
sized balance.
Mrs. Roma Wheeler Woods, pioneer
suffragist and club woman of Iowa,
died at her home in Sutherland. She
was at one time president of the Iowa
Suffrage association. 1t was at the
Woods home that the first literary SO.
ciety, the first equal rights society
and the first taxpayers league In
O'Brien county were organized.
Triplet daughters we're born to Mr..
and Mrs. AL Thompson, who reside
on farm east of Mt. Auburn. They
are the first children In the home.
This is the second pair of triplets to
be born in Benton county, triplet boys
being born to Mr.. and Mrs. Sanders
of Vinton little more than one year
ago.
Thomas F. McCartan, a pioneer of
Pocahontas county and cashier of the
Bank of Pocahontas, died at his home
\ there from an attack of apoplexy. He
was 62 years old. Mr.. McCartan set.
tied In this county in 1871 and was
county auditor from 1886 to 1898,
since which time he has been cashier
of the Bank Of Pocahontas. He leaves
a widow and six children.
For the first February without sa.
looms Fort Dodge has the record of
only twenty arrests, while in Febru.
airy last year there were 1853. or the
twenty this year but twelve were for
drunkenness.
Another chapter In the romance
of Iowa farm lands was turned when
s. w. Neil sold one hundred sixty
acres north of Fort Dodge to A. w.
Hawley for $265.00 an acre. Mr.. Neil
acting as agent for John Sortland
sold two hundred sixty acres east OF