Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-09-07

the front porch. Later a neighbor
asked him for loan. Shortly after
the neighbor left DR.. Reynolds went
to the hiding place and found nothing.
1t has been known for years that DR..
Reynolds had money hidden on his
premises, and it is supposed some
one has been Systematically watching
and secured this jar of money.
In hopes of prolonging life by use
until the paralysis has left her lungs,
lungmotor was sent to the Fred
Robinson home south of La Porte
City. A child Is years old is suffer.
ing from infantile paralysis. The
disease affected the muscles of the
chest and the child was in danger of
suffocation. Several tanks of oxy-
apparatus will be left until all danger
is past.
The Iowa Society of certified public
accountants met in annual session
here. Officers elected for the com.
ing year were. George Shillinglaw, Ce.
dar Rapids, president; p. l.. Billings,
Waterloo, vice president; E. G. Prou.
ty Davenport, secretary; E. C.
WEIGH, Eldora, treasurer; William
Guthrie, Sioux City, E. C. Worthing.
ton and ]. E. Cole. of Des Moines,
trustees. The next quarterly meet
ing will take place in November at
Davenport.
The finding of the badly decompos,
| ed body of militiaman two miles
from the Iowa camp near Brownsville
leads guard officers to believe that
Corporal James Donovan of Battery
B, Davenport, was murdered and rob-
bed by Mexican bandits. Donovan had
been missing since August 18th and
had been posted as a deserter. When
he left camp he had more than 800
| in his possession. The dead body had
been riddled with bullets.
Anthony Walsh, who with his sons
built the Rock Island Southern rail-
way, small system in Iowa, died at
San Francisco while members of his
family were rushing west to be with
him in his illness. Walsh was 81
years old and began his business ca.
fortune said to total several million
dollars. He leaves six sons, all prom.
inent in railroad and public utility
corporations. The body was brought
to Clinton for burial
Wallace Mckee, of Carlisle. won
first prize in the boys judging at the
Iowa state fair. Six scholarships to
Ames are given to the six boys that
rank the highest. The entries num-
bered 10, the largest in the history
of the fair. The other winners were
as follows: Rosco Even, Milford; H.
v. Jones, Tabor; Robert Thomas, Co.
dar: Fred James, Waukee; Malcolm
Trout, Birmingham. The boys scored
corn and live stock.
With the strike OF the Quaker Oats
employees settled by partial victory
for the strikers. Fort Dodge was
threatened with a walkout of 300 EN-.
ployes of the Lehigh Sewer Pipe and
Tile factory. Several employees at the
clay products plant were discharged
for union activity. Many of the tile
men favored an immediate strike but
negotiations were begun with the man.
agement looking toward reinstate-
ment of the unionists.
Housewives of Iowa should be par
ticularly interested in the state but
ter mark. This seal is issued to
creameries whose output is up to a
certain grade. None of its product
must go below 92 per cent and rs per
cent must be above SO. Four cream
cries are using the mark at present
II the dairy and food commission find
the products of these creameries go.
ing below these marks, the seal will
be taken away from them.
At the federal loan boards hearing
on location of federal farm loan
banks Des Moines not only asked that
bank be located there, but it asked
that the state of Iowa alone be one
of the IL districts into which the
country will be divided. Other places
have been content to ask for a bank,
and leave it to the board to put as
many states into district as il thought
best.
Three men were injured, two prob
ably fatally, in collision between an
automobile and a gasoline railroad
handcar on the Minneapolis & st.
Louis railroad near Gilman. The most
| seriously injured were J. L. Smith
and Harry Freese of Clear Lake, who
occupied the automobile, while N.
Knutson, section foreman, who op-
Grated the handcar. was the third.
A fall from the hay NOW of his
barn proved fatal to Claus Lutte,
aged 80 years, at Lone Tree. Internal
injuries which resulted from striking
the shafts of buggy on the floor be-
low caused his death three hours
after the accident.
Contract for the erection of $4,000
Carnegie library at Mount Ayr has
been let. The building will be one
story and basement, 80 by 80 feet.
Andrew Carnegie has donated $4,000
toward the building.
Two trusty convicts, both serving
life sentences at the Fort Madison
penitentiary, captured a guards au-
tomobile and made their escape and
no trace of them has been found. The
prisoners were Earl Lindsey of Des
Moines. an aviator, serving a life SEN
tence for q criminal assault, and Ar
mold thinner, serving a life sentence
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