Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-02-03

The appointment OF Ira Noble, for
mer convict, as industrial agent for
the Iowa state prison at FIT. Madison,
was announced co-incidentally with
the announcement that Noble had
been married to Miss Byrde Brock.
hagen, secretary Of Warden ]. c. San
ders. Noble was released after serv-
ing fourteen years of life sentence
for murder His sentence was COM
muted because of model conduct IL
prison Noble studied and worked day
and night. He attracted the atten-
ton of Warden Sanders and became
the warden's personal attendant.
Business conditions are better at
the present time in Iowa than they
have been in any year in the last ten
years. in the month of January, de-
clares X. G. Dancolet, agent for the
state board OF parole, who Is in close
touch with employers. Conditions
will be good during 1916, according
to the Indications" said Mr.. Lance
let. 1.-THE owners OF manufacturing
plants are doing better business
than they have ever done in January
in previous years, and there are some
big contracts in sight.
The family of w. F. Steinkamp, Of
Lenox, probably owe their lives to the
faithfulness of their dog. The home
took fire while the father and three
children were asleep, the smoke
aroused the animal, but failed to
awaken the family. The animals
loud barking finally aroused Stein.
kamp, who arose to investigate. He
barely had time to rescue the chill
dren before the flames reached their
bedroom. The house was completely
destroyed
Bank drafts with an aggregate val
ne estimated at $4,000. and other
financial paper which will raise the
total considerably, were in a mail
pouch stolen and rified at Newton aft
er the outbound mail left the post
office. The>robbers burned the pouch,
after emptying it, destroying what re-
NAMED of the letters they had torn
open. Part of one letter which had
escaped the flames contained a $40
bill. This was the only money in
the pouch that was recovered.
Forty per cent of the backward chill
dren can be made normal by proper
medical attention and common sense
application of the laws of psychology,
according to DR.. R. H. Sylvester of
the state university psychological
clinic. Proper medical treatment, re-
quisiteN cooperation of the school and
home and the help of the psycholog-
ical clinic are the agencies which DR..
Sylvester is insisting upon as cures
for the backwardness Of school chill
dren in Iowa.
Time signals sent by wireless from
Key West a distance of over 1000
miles, have oeen received by the new
wireless telegraph station at Iowa
State college. The message, which
was clearly received, although IT, was
the farthest gathered in by the sta
ton. was but one of many received
daily from stations far away. The sta
ton at Iowa State college, which has
Just recently been expanded, is one
of the strongest In this section ,of the
country.
DR.. c. c. Huron, assistant superin-
tendent of the Wesley Memorial hos
pital, Chicago, has been elected su-
perintendent of the Iowa Methodist
hospital at Des Moines, to succeed
w. T. Graham, who accepted the su-
perintendency of the state hospital
at Iowa City. DR.. Huron, who Is
thirty-two years Of age, has been as
sistant superintendent of the Chicago
hospital four years and had previous
experience In hospital management.
An extra force of detectives has
been employed by the Iowa Bankers
association to combat an epidemic of
forgery which has broken out in sew
eral different sections of the state.
Several arrests already have been
made, and more are expected. One
man, charged with passing fraudulent
checks in Des Moines, has been taken
into custody in Minneapolis, where
he is said to have defrauded a depart
ment store.
A series of accidents put three work.
ers in the Burlington shops at Cres-
ton in the hospital. Acting Yard
Foreman Joseph Sweeney was perhaps
fatally hurt when an engine was de-
rallied at the coal pit. A flying piece
of steel destroyed the sight OF one
eye for Walter Ohlschlager, and Carl
E. Johnson suffered a deep liberation
OF one shoulder and arm, when he
collided with projecting nail.
A. w. Anderson, for more than for
ty years resident of Webster City,
who has always religiously voted the
republican ticket, has Just learned
that he has never been entitled to
vote and has asked for naturalization
papers.
Mrs. Julia Undum, of Gilman, IS
years old, never believed in banks
run by other folks. She was her own
banker and when searched following
a request by her relatives, she was
laden with currency. Money was sew
ed In the seams Of her clothing, tuck
ed away in different parts of her skirt
and petticoat and suspended in little
bags fastened about her waist and
throat. BY the time the officers had
finished searching her they had ex-
tracted s3.61S.50 from her clothing. In
one package alone was $500 on which
the bank seal, dated 1906, had never
been broken.
Thoroughly fireproof and modern
will be the plan followed by the West
Liberty school board, in the construc-
tion of the new building to take the
place OF the school recently destroyed
by fire. The steps preliminary to the
necessary bond issue, will be taken