Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-11-30
NEWS FROM OTHER
PARTS OF IOWA

tiles of goodies to the border for thu
soldier boys Thanksgiving spread.
The Greek Orthodox church which
is being built at Mason City will soor
be completed and opened for worship
Fourteen hundred people heard
Mary Antin. the gifted immirgranI
girl. speak at Iowa City last Sunday
Miss Ethel Hall, of Maryland, has
been employed by Charles City to
AXE charge of social service work in
that town.
Latimer brothers company will
soon open a variety store al Algona
the operate.
Matt Clemson. jr., of Dyersville, is
a poor shot He took shot at his
wife but missed her and the bullet
struck his mother-in-law.
Six barrels of beer were ordered
destroyed at Charles City by the court
They were taken from the quarters OF
a Serbian, who was arrested for boot
Logging.
The Humboldt Gun club pulled off
it's annual shoot and banquet. Two
roast pigs and numerous chickens
ducks and other good things were ser.
we'd at the banquet.
In Buchanan county the PROPOSE
ton to change the number of county
supervisors from three to five and ell
ect the five by districts instead of al
large, carried by about ZOE majority
E. A. Stevens, publisher of the Sill
C;tx, onA n =" RavC h.
Usher of the Woodbine Twiner, have
traded newspapers and each will take
possession of the new property on De-
cember 1.
1t cost Congressman Harry E. Hull
$4,517 to be reelected. OF this sum
the republican congressional COM
mittee donated $4,000 M. F. Cronin
Hull's opponent, spent s3,043 trying
to land the job.
Swea City recently authorized the
issuance of $4,000 in additional
bonds for the new consolidated school
the amount originally issued having
sary school building.
Committees have been appointed al
Mason City to encourage shop
carly campaign among patrons OF
merchantile establishments during
the first three weeks of December tc
prevent the usual holiday rush.
If it were not for the divorce cases
lawyers and courts would have com
paratively little to do. There are
thirty-one divorce cases on the calen'
der of the johnson county district
oourt torn, which ic now in session
The Cedar Rapids Republican has
explained that it was mistaken when
it printed a statement that William
Jennings Bryan he'd charged for q
Sunday address at Cedar Rapids. Mr.
Bryan never charges for Sunday ad-
dresses, it is understood.
The boys away from home" who
happen to be in Mason City on
Thanksgiving are assured of good
time. for the community ''Y" has ar;
ranged to give them big fret
Thanksgiving dinner at the Chamber
of Commerce club rooms.
Special motion pictures and Other
attractions, with no admission fee
have been prepared by Muscatint
citizens for the entertainment o.
those who attend the Iowa truck
growers convention in that town OF
November 81. 2S and 30.
Davenport club women are flustrat
ed over the movie picture proposition
4 committee will be named today t.
consider the question of better NOV
ing pictures, and to provide for the
cooperation of club women and thea
ter proprietors in the work.
Women members of the Mcpherson
Avenue Improvement club at Council
Bluffs dragged that thoroughfar'
after a recent snow and placed ii IL
good condition for travel when otheI
highways in the Bluffs were still
covered several inches deep will
snow.
While Peter Suhr. of Schleswig
was working in a well, a metal rot
which was being drawn TO the sur
! face, slipped from the hands of Hen
! ry Schutt and fell to the bottom
striking Suhr on the head and tear
| ing ii open. Fortunately no vital spo
was struck. and Suhr is recovering
nicely.
John Taylor. deputy postmaster a
| bOOHGNlilC, put up a siJis mat u
had been robbed of S315. He wa
found bound and gagged in the littl
postoffice building. He was the son o
the postmaster Later postofIice in
speotors got to him and were not Ion
in securing a confession from hin
that he had bound and gagged him
self.
The Knoxville Journal this wee
publishes an interesting letter fror
Hugh Pope. reminiscent of his frs
rip to Knoxville. seYenty-one year
ego. when the town" consisted q
two log cabins. Mr. Pope. who is s
wears of age. boasts that his memor
is as good as il was seventy years ag
and his narrative proves the truth o
his assertion.
w. l.. Latta IS one of several shee
men in the vicinity OF Logan. and :
how that he handles some sheep h
lust finished marketing his WOO
which is the clip from his sheep les
qDring and this fall. Tho TWO clip
hinGs were sold Friday. and whe
weighed up they brought him II
neat sum of S9.626.50 This may loo
like n woody story. hut the writer say
the bank deposit for the amount.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adam Wolland. q
nuhuuue. were hosts 70 about 90
friends at Germaria han in that cit
or Monday night. the occasion helm
. celebration Of their golden wcddin
anniversary. Both ar0 nPtives o
| Germany where Nr Weliard wa
born in 1S4O and Nrs Weiland 4
'Sti. Mr. Wclland came to Ame~i"
in 1864. settling In DTtu1ue. L
September. 1866. Miss Katherin
GIN came to the United Sta cs. els
setting at Dubuque and or Noyembe
90, 1866. the couple were married.
Word has been received by Rober
Kean, a farmer of DUBUQUE county
from Capt II. e. Honeywell. famou