Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-12-07
NEWS FROM OTHER
PARTS OF IOWA

PAklS W WWA
December 10 to % are the dates
selected for the Ottumwa poultry
show this year.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. A. Speer, of Cedar
Fall, have just celebrated their gold
en- wedding anniversary.
John T. Stuble, pioneer of John
, son county, died at his home in Scott
township, near Iowa City, on Monday
night, aged SS years.
The new quarters of the Vinton
Country club are nearly completed.
The clubhouse is pronounced one of
the best of it's kind in Iowa, for a
town of Vinton's size.
Verne Marshall, editor of the Cedar
Rapids Gazette, is a favorite drawing
card as an entertainer since his return
from the European war zone. He is
in frequent demand as a lecturer in
various parts of the state.
Speaking of cruel and unusual
punishment, Burlington court SEN
fenced a man arrested for drunkenesa
to spend thirty days in Jail or to make
use of railway ticket to Kansas City
he had in his pocket.
Albert Little, of Perry, who was re-
leased from the inebriate asylum at
Knoxville on parole, has been return
ed to that institution, following char
ges made against him that he had set
fire to two or three buildings at Perry
recently.
! Six counties will be represented at
meeting to be held at Shenandoah
on December IA. when municipal
problems will be discussed. The
counties to be represented in the
meeting are Cass, Fremount, Mills,
Montgomery, Page and Pottawat-
tamie.
Hinton is acquiring considerable
attention because of it's unique motto
and the device illustrating it. Hinton
business men have on all their stat
ionery picture of a hammer with
the handle broken in two, and under
meath appears the words: 1.-THE town
without a knocker."
At meeting of the Greater Daven-
port committee II was decided hold
hn m
carry out the clubs plans for building
houses for rental purposes to meet
the demand for dwellings of moder-
ate size. The committee plans to
build from 100 to 200 houses at once,
to cost from $4,000 to$2,500 each.
Three cows belonging to Harm H..
Taper, north of Kamrar, recently
died from drinking water from a
creek into which refuse cement from
a culvert job. had been dumped, sew
eral days in succession. An examina-
ton of the stomach of the animals
revealed a coating of cement on the
inner Inning, also a ball of cement
/ in each.
Mike Donnelly, veteran horse train
er and driver at Davenport, surprised
his friends this week by announcing
his retirement from the occupation
which he has followed for many years
Donnelly is "a years old, and has
trained or driven many of the fastest
horses in race track history. He is
owner of 1.200-acre farm in Illinois,
and it is said he intends to devote his
attention to the big farm.
n. r. Graham, who resides north
west of Griswold had one of the best
yields of corn that we have heard of
/ There was eighty acres in the field
and-while having il picked, Mr.. Ora
ham weighed all of it. This field
yielded seventy-four bushels per acre
For years Mr.. Graham has been feed
ing cattle on his farm and this is
another demonstration that il man
expects to keep his land producing he
must put something back.
Il The elevator at Elk Horn has been
rushed of late. November 81 c. II.
Doe bought eighty-two loads of corn
aggregating 4,110 bushels, andatwo
loads of oats aggregating lis bushels
at eighteen pounds. This was the
record braker up to that time for
one day but on Monday last the re-
ceipts were nineey-six loads of corn,
three loads of barley, and three loads
of oats. Trouble is being experience
ed in securing cars for shipment OF
the grain.
twenty-five pounds of honey were
recently removed from a swarm of
bees hived under the approach of a
bridge near Garden Grove, Decatur
county. While workmen were re-
4 pairing the bridge, children of Morris
Arnold began poking a stick into the
into ground hog den behind the
planking They discovered that a
swarm of bees had taken up it's abode
in the deserted den of the ground
hog. which was directly under the
beaten track of the highway. Mr.
Arnold removed the honey.