Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-05-18

were found by their sons. Neighbors
say they heard revolver shots at about
midnight When Mr.. Denge failed TO
appear at his store the son went to
the home to find out what was wrong.
Mrs. Denge's body was found on the
bed. She was partially undressed.
Denge's body lay on the floor, the re-
volver clutched in his right hand.
Denge was one of the best known
business men in Winterset. He was
about 60 years old and his wife was
ten years his Junior No causo for
Denge's act is known.
The Dain Manufacturing company
of Ottumwa has shown its sympathy
for preparedness by posting in its
plant a bulletin for employees which
says that preparedness is but insur-
ance against an unforeseen national
crisis and closes with the following
paragraph: an order that our en-
ployees may feel free to aid in pre-
paredness we will, until further notice,
pay full day rate. ten hours per day,
to employees enlisted in the national
guard during such time as they may
be required to attend the annual en-
campment or other military duty in
the state"
The forty-sixth annual convention
of the Christian churches of Iowa was
held at Osceola. The following Off
GERS were elected for the ensuing
year: President w. NJ. Baker, Mar
shalltown; first vice president. Edgar
Price, Council Bluffs; second vice
president, C. o. Stuckenbruck, Lake
City; secretary, Orville Hodge, Sig
Quincy; first assistant secretary,
George Henry Nevada; second assist
ant secretary, A. B. Kerns, Dies
Moines; treasurer, B. F. Prunty, Des
Moines. The next convention will be
held in Des Moines.
The state Y. M. C. A. will open its
summer camp for the boys of Iowa
at Okaboji lake June ~. Camp Fos-
ter, as the camp is named, after the
man who first contributed toward it,
will this summer celebrate its fifth
anniversary. 1t was organized five
years ago following a gift of $1,000
by Mr.. Foster of Ottumwa, and has
since been maintained partly through
the patronage of the Brenton brothers
of Dallas Center, Joseph H. Allen of
Pocahontas, F. A. Mccormack of Sioux
City, e. T. Meredith and H. A. Wal
lace of Des Moines.
Eight honor scholarships, which will
be given next year and annually there
after to seniors and juniors in Grim
nell college are the latest provisions
which the college administration has
made for assisting deserving young
men and women to secure an educa-
tion. The senior scholarships carry
full tuition of 500 while the junior
honors represent half tuition Men
and women share alike in this recog-
milton and two men and two women
from each class will be chosen for
the honors.
Des Moines lost her fight at the
Methodist general conference at Sara
toga Springs, ~ Y, for the removal
of the episcopal residence from Omaha
to the Iowa capital. Strong arguments
were presented by both sides and the
final vote was 26 to 21 for Omaha. The
arguments presented by Des Moines
boosters were the five colleges in
Iowa, 10000 Methodists in Iowa as
against $4,000 in Nebraska, center of
the Methodist population and $500
Methodists In Des Moines as against
1888 in Omaha.
A campaign against the Iowa barn
fly, which shall be statewide in its
application, was planned by the State
Society of Medical Women at its an
nual convention in Davenport. The
women physicians say that they have
proved by experiments that the Iowa
barn fly is one of the most deadly in
sects living. They hold that its bites
are fatal to children, causing infantile
paralysis. Several experiments in
which flies had been allowed to bite
monkeys, caused their death.
That anti-child labor laws in Iowa
seem futile to prevent the toiling Of
children is the allegation of Miss Clara
Taylor, national Industrial secretary
of the north central field of the Y. w.
e. A.-and she adds that Iowa women
are laboring too many hours a day.
Miss Taylor, addressing Iowa univer-
sity girls, said that Iowa, though
ranking highest in literacy, has very
lax laws, governing Industrial condi-
TONS"
The federal grand Jury has started
an investigation of the Iowa Nebraska
Wholesale Grocers' association of If
ty-six members, it being charged that
they have violated the antitrust law
preventing manufacturers from selling
to grocers. Dozens of witnesses have
been summoned from different states.
Local daughters of the American
revolution will restore and refurnish
an old log cabin in Oleson park, the
oldest building in Ft. Dodge. 1t was
part of the fort first erected there
as protection against the Indians,
and later 1t was used as a meeting
place for the army officers stationed
there. The cabin will be used as a
chapter house.
Nearly 200 members of p. E. o. at
tended the sessions of the twenty
fourth annual state convention of the
order held at Newton Practically
every chapter in the state was repre-
scented.
Teachers in the Fort Dodge schools
who have not completed q college or
normal school course within the last
five years will receive a bonus OF $50
from the school board If they attend
a six weeks summer school session