Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-04-06

city III lOWd are searching lOT ulul.
He first bougt fine residence, then
he purchased several hundred dollars
worth of furniture He also bought
high power automobile, then he
bought some art works. In each case
he rendered a check in payment, the
check always being for a larger
amount than his bill. In that way he
secured a considerable amount of
cash. The checks were found worth
less. The mans description is said
to tally with that OF a swindler OF
national fame.
Iowa Wesleyan's chapel exercises
were the scene OF wild demonstra-
ton on the part OF students when II
was announced that a $4,000 gift had
been made by w. J. Steckel of Bloom
field, one of the schools directors.
More than $4,000 OF the $500, 900
sought as an endowment has already
been raised and the school authori-
ties are confident all will be secured
by April rs. The students will act
as voluntary boosters for the endow-
ment campaign in their various home
towns during the spring vacation.
Following a running revolver bat
tie, robber who had entered the
barn Of Elmer Baker, southeast of
Altoona, escaped after exchanging
shots with Harley Baker, who heard
the man In the barn and attempted
to capture him. County officials, as
sisted by members of the M. p. A. of
Bondurant and Rising Sun, a society
for tho capture of horse thieves, are
securing the country between Des
Moines and the Dallas county line in
automobiles for the man.
Iowa now has seventy high schools
which have been put on the accredit-
ed list by the North Central ASCOT
alton of Colleges and Secondary
Schools, an association made up OF
the colleges of sixteen states. This
association is considered as one of
the strictest in its college entrance
requirements of any in this country.
Recently five additional high schools
have been added to the list. They
are Belle PLANE, Colfax, Lyons, Spirit
Lake and Storm Lake.
The publishers OF an Iowa farm pa
per have purchased Iowas champion
bushel of corn, for which $500 was
paid. This is believed to be the high.
est price ever paid for bushel OF
corn in the United States. The corn
is of the yellow dent variety and was
awarded first honors at Iowa's great
corn show at Ames last winter II is
pronounced by good judges to be the
best bushel Of corn ever grown in the
state. 1t was grown by Wayne w.
Polk of Sidney.
Two hundred farmers from Warren,
Monroe and Marion counties met in
Des Moines in an effort to get the
route Of the Daniel Boone trail from
Des Moines to st. Louis routed so It
will run south from Des Moines
through Carlisle, Pleasantville, Knox.
vile and Abba. At this meeting
speeches were made by Governor
Clarke, Paul Beer, Gardner Cowles,
Harvey Ingham, Lafayette Young.
Henry Slack and others interested in
the good roads movement.
School consolidation has been voted
at Sheldahl. A $4,000 bond issue
carried for the erection of a new
building. The consolidation includes
four schools.
Municipal elections were held in
46 out OF 101 cities in 62S out of 703
towns in Iowa. Officers were chosen
for terms of two years. Cities and
towns which did not elect officers this
year will choose officers for two
years in 1917.
There will be no racing on the Mis-
sissippi river by excursion steamers
the coming summer as has been the
case in recent years. Though no &C.
cidents have occurred a number Of
disasters have been narrowly averted
The two boat companies controlling
the most Of the excursion business
have agreed not to carry excursions
out OF the same port which eliminates
the possibility of unsafe speed
Farley Sheldon, mayor of Ames for
twenty-five years, was defeated for
reelection by George Baker with a
46 out of 101 cities; in 62S out OF 703
vote to 40 to Shelden's 1854. Sheldon's
record of twenty-five years in office
is almost without precedent. His
services to the city in the way Of
public Improvements secured, of a
definite municipal program and Of
clean ideals, have been very great.
Iowa leads all other states in the
proportion Of cultlivatable land, within
her borders. Ninety-six per cent of
the area of the state is being farm
ed. Only two of the ninety-nine coun-
ties have less than nine-tenths OF
their area under cultivation, while
in the majority the proportion is
nineteen-twentieths or more, a record
which no other state can begin to ap-
proximate.
John Reid Williams, OF Keokuk, old
est Mississippi river captain, has
just celebrated his one hundredth
birthday anniversary. Captain Will
liams has been engaged in the river
traffic for nearly seventy years. He
is still hale and hearty and says he
could still pilot steamer through
the devious river channels.
Pensions have been granted TO the
following Iowans: Penina Cargill, Ce-
dar Rapids. $12; Ophelia Moore, Des
Moines, $12; Mary E. Vanderberg,
Sioux City, $12; Susannah M. Coates,
Redfield, S12; Sarah ]. Mark, Des
Moines. sl2; Gertrude X. Kessler. by.
sart, 312.
Yeggmen who used an automobile