Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-11-02
IOWA NEWS NOTES

\ A special election has been called al
Emmetsburg to permit the voters to
pass upon the question sof changing
the municipal government from the
aldermanic to the commission form.
The Tribune is strongly opposed to
the change.
The Great Northern railway has
settled the claim of Mrs George
Hugh, of Emmetsburg. whose hus-
band was killed by train at Garfield,
Mimi, on September /, by paying
Mrs. Hughes the sum of $685.
Corn and wheat and alfalfa and
prize pigs and fat kline are not the
only products of Iowa soil. l.. j.
huffman, of Polo Alto county, receiv-
ed $500 for carload of pie PUMPKINS
he shipped to Chicago markets. and
he is shipping two carloads of cab
bage to the same market
Representative of number of
grain elevators have held two meet
ings at Onawa, relative to improving
conditions of their business. Com
plant is made that some persons
who contracted grain for delivery to
/ the elevators sell the grain thus con-
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delivered at the time specified the
elevators are losers.
While making repairs on a wind
mill near Pocahontas. John Svedja
/ fell to the ground, a distance of
thirty feet, and was severely injured
| The corner stone for the new build
! ing for the consolidated schools at
Early was laid on Tuesday with i'm
pressive ceremonies, number of
people from neighboring town attend
ing the ceremony, despite the bad
weather.
A resident of the country near Sac
| City killed fox near his home the
other day. There are a number of
wolves in that part of the state, but
foxes are rarity, and some of the
oldest inhabitants say they haven't
seen one for nearly forty years.
The Iowa Light, Heat and Power
company with large force of men,
in engaged in putting in new electric
lines which will give Remsen and
other towns in that section first class
Light and Power service.
The new Y. M. c. A. building at
Dubuque will be opened for the use
Of members on November Is.
A fire at Denison did much dam
age to the Myers bakery at that place
The Perry Tribune says the Jones
Chautauqua system, with headquart-
ers at Perry, is the largest system in
the world. During the past summer
315 chautauquas were served from
the Jones institution. while two or
three dozen towns which had arrang-
ed for chautauqua under the Jones
system were cut off because of in
ability Of the system to serve them
Towns in twelve states are included
in the Jones system. Where Mr.
Jones, the organizer and proprietor
of the system. started out in 1910.
the Tribune says, 1t took him thirteen
weeks to hold thirty-nine chautau-
quas. the number held that season.
1t now takes him just six days to hold
forty-five chautauquas, so systematic
ed has he made his institution
Members of the junior class of the
Charles City high school. in order to
raise money with which to give a
banquet to the senior class. have all
agreed to work for real money for
two whole days. All are busily en-
gagged in hunting jobs which will
bring in the necessary coin.
At a recent sale of Poland China
hogs near Mt. Vernon the average
price paid was S55.S2 for the fifty
two hogs sold, and buyers were pres
ent from all sections of eastern and
northern Iowa, and some were there
from Illinois. Another sale OF i'm
portance in Linn county was that of
the herd of Hereford cattle on the
Sandy Hill farm of f. w. Kreischer,
near Mt. Vernon. The cattle were
sold at private sale to Warren T.
Grey. of Kentland. Ind. who shipped
them all to Indiana. The cattle sold
for $500 a head. During his opera
tion of his Sandy Hill farm Mr..
Kreischer has shipped his cattle to
seventeen different states.
A coon roast is a favorite form of
entertainment at Mt. Vernon. The
coon" il is perhaps needless to say.
is not of the variety which is some
times roasted at southern lynching
bees.
At a special election held in Rich
land township, Adair county, the
proposition to issue $4,000 in bonds
for schoolhouse for the consolidated
township school was defeated The
mems vote stood IS for and 99against
the bonds, and the women's vote was
A for and SO against Some time
ago. at a special election. the town.
ship voted in favor of consolidated
school, but this time voted in opposi.
ton TO bond issue for schoolhouse
in which to hold the consolidated
school sessions.
While Robert Welsh. of Harlan
was calling at the Lemke home
listening to Miss Florence Lemke