Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-11-23
NEWS FROM OTHER
PARTS OF IOWA

Interesting Paragraphs Relating To
The DOings and Transactions of
Our Neighbors
Jcnitors of the Burlington schools
have pettioned the board of education
for a 10 per cent increase Of wages.
The cash premiums paid out a. the
1916 Tristate fair at Burlington have
just been figured up. They total
$11,S74.5O.
The LeClare city council held a
Especial meeting to discuss the infant
lie paralysis situation. Four cases
of the disease are said to be prevalent
in the town.
The Muscatine Jail is already ex-
tending lodging facilities to many
weary Willies, who are entering the
winter season suffering serious finan-
cial embarrassment.
Only two republicans were elected
to county offices in Shelby county, the
rest of the officials-elect being demo-
Gratis. But Harding carried the coun-
|ty with lead of ISL votes over
Meredith.
Ottumwa and Burlington are rivals,
in some particulars, Ottumwa has
some boy horse thieves who are bare
ly into their teens, and Burlington
hobs up with an automobile thief
who acknowledges having attained
the ripe age of 13 years.
Arrangements have been made at
Hampton for improvements to the
Hotel Rule and the Citizens National
bank, both situated in the Rule block
in that town, which will make the
bank, building and the hotel both
strickly up to date.
The Davenport Democrat. in
news item, says friends of Judge
| William Theophilus are urging him
to again run for election as a member
Iof the Iowa state supreme court at
| the next election. They hold Judge
lTheophilus was grossly abused dur
ing the campaign
Miss Emma NJ. Church, speaking
before a Davenport woman's club,
declared: "The modern home is more
like museum full OF furniture for
which we have no use, unlovely to
look at and only precious to the
owner because haloed with sentiment
or through associations.
Cedar Rapids people have decided
70 abandon the municipal Christmas
tree which has been held there for
several years past, it is said. and in
stead will devote all the money that
can be raised, including that usually
spent in the municipal Christmas tree
FESTIVITIES, in directly relieving the
poor
The Dubuque Times-J ournal takes
exception to a reference of the
Marshalltown Times Republican to
the vote in Dubuque in favor of Hard
| ing, as an indication that the Dubuque
liquor interests were backing Harding
by reminding the Marshalltown paper
that Dubuque also returned ma
jority for Havner. whom the T. r.
supported.
Rev. Father j. w. Bulger, recent
ly appointed pastor of st. Antheny's
Catholic church at Davenport by
Bishop Davis, will resume charge or
his new work on November 20. He
succeeds Very Rev. DID. j. Flannery
as active head of the parish, the lat
ter having retired from active work
after being pastor of st. Anthony's
Ior tnlrty-IlVe years.
John E. Hesse, promoter and head
of the defunct Farmers & Merchants
bank of Greenville and the west side.
was arrested today on indictments re-
turned by the Woodbury. county grand
jury. 1t is charged in the indictments
that Hesse accepted deposits after the
banks were insolvent. He was releas-
ed on bond. Hesse formerly was en-
gagged in the banking business in
Denver, Col.
The Iowa City and West Liberty
Road Improvement association is the
somewhat extensive name given an
organization formed at schoolhouse
near West Liberty the other evening.
Its purpose is to lave a good oiled
highway between the two towns. 1t
is proposed that the farmers between
the two towns pay one-third
the cost of the improvements. and the
towns the other two-thirds. The
estimated cost is about $4,000.
Hearing that a company which had
been billed to show at his theatre. at
very high price, was not up to speci-
fcations Manager Fletcher Russell,
of the Windsor theatre at Hampton.
Cancelled the date and then telephon-
ed all patrons who had purchased
seats of the cancellation, and returned
the money advanced for sale, all at
considerable expense. hut with the
determination TO maintain the reputa-
ton of his theatre for giving good
shows.
A baby was abandoned about
week ago on the doorstep of John
StieglitZ. of Muscatine A few DAYS
later letter was received from
woman claiming to be the mother of
the infant, but the author of the corr
munication has not yet been located
Muscatine authorities say the mother
is undoubtedly local woman. Mr..
and Mrs. Stieglitz have announced the
baby will be given every care by them
though they have not definitely decid-
ed upon adopting it.
Arthur Bruce, claiming Indiana as
his home, and two other men. who
were bound to the south for the
winter. were stealing a ride on the
Rock Island road down in the south
part of the state. when the two other
men attacked Bruce and robbed him
of what money he had. Bruce was a
resourceful travler. however, and
after being thrown from a flatcar by
his assailants he telephoned ahead
and had the men arrested for robbery
when the train pulled into Center
vile.
Much sympathy has been aroused
at Clarinda for two young men. broth
ers, who have been arrested for
violating the Iowa law probiting the
marriage of first cousins. Charles
and Ed Duckworth married their
first cousins. whose names were Inr-