Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-03-30
STATE NEWS

Electric interurban service between
Muscatine and Iowa City has been in.
augurated on a two hour schedule.
The line operates west to Montezuma
and What Cheer. The towns and
cities on the route are Iowa City,
Lone Tree, Nichols, Muscatine, River.
side, Kalona, Wellman, Webster,
South English, Keswick, Thornburg,
What Cheer and Montezuma.
A pet cat is given credit for saw
ing the lives of Mr.. and Mrs. c. A.
Koonse and three roomers at the
Koonse home in Clarinda, which
burned. The meowing of the cat
awoke Mrs. Koonse, who found the
house in flames. The occupants had
only enough time to seize a few ar
ticles of clothing and escape.
Land values have gone up steadily
in the vicinity of Manila. One land
owner recently refused an offer of
$11, 900 more than he gave for an
eighty acre tract purchased eight
years ago. Two miles from Manila
another farm has realized the owner
an increased valuation of $1,000
year during the last sixteen years.
Three prisoners confined in the
Webster City Jail sawed their way
out and escaped. They were being
held for petty crimes, but were being
Investigated on the suspicion that
they belonged to an organized gang
Of thieves that has been working in
that section. This was the first Jail
delivery there in years.
Fire, which caused the loss of
barn, threatened for a time to de-
stroy the south side of the main bust
ness street of the town of Liscomb.
AS result of the close call the peo-
pie of the town began at once the
circulation of a petition asking the
council to bond the town for adequate
water supply and fire protection.
Mrs. d. B. Henderson, aged widow
Of the late Col. D. B. Henderson, for
merly speaker of the house of repre-
sentatives, is in hospital at Dubuque
suffering from injuries that may
cause her death. She fell down a
fight of steps at her home fracturing
her right hip and spraining her back.
Nathan Henderson, 6S years old,
and his wife, 60 years old, of Logan,
are suffering from an attack of
measles. They are the Oldest persons
ever afflicted with the measles in Lo-
gan.
Records for carload of hogs were
broken in Johnson county when
James Lacina received draft for 81
300 for seventy-two hogs, shipped to
the Chicago market recently. He
realized 1915 a hundred.
Residents of Ware have voted to
erect $40,0OO school building. The
district is consolidated one. The
vote stood 102 to 50 in favor of the
bond ISSUE
Mrs. Arle Dykeman, west of Pella,
was killed and her little daughter ia
tally injured in a kerosene explosion.
The woman was attempting to start
fire with the kerosene. Eight other
children upstairs escaped unhurt.
In Crawford county in the last two
years 800 permanent bridges and cul.
verts have been built, and at meet
ing of township trustees and road
workers recently vote of three to
one in favor of bonding for the COM
pletion of the bridge work, and vote
of two to one in favor of bonding of
permanent grading were passed.
Mrs. Alto Knouse of Fruitland has
received from the postmaster general
notice of her appointment as post
mistress for the town of Fruitland.
She succeeds her husband, 8. e.
Knouse, who recently resigned his
post.
Thomas J. Fitzpatrick and his
young bride Of Dubuque were caught
beneath their overturned automobile
and crushed to death. Mrs. Morrison,
Mrs. Fitzpatrick's mother, and Mrs.
David Hack, daughter of President
German of the Rock Island railroad,
who were also in the car, were in
jured. The party was returning to
Dubuque after a trip In the country.
Mr.. Fitzpatrick was one of the best
known attorneys in the middle west.
He and Mrs. Fitzpatrick were mar
ried only two months ago and only
recently returned from a honeymoon
trip to the Philippine islands.