Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-05-18

| Patents granted Iowans: John =.
Bardrick, lndianola, mail catching ap-
paratus; Jacob S. Baughman, Burl-
! ington, pulley attachment for wheels;
( Victor w. Clough, North McGregor,
/ brooder: John W. Freyer, st. Charles,
| gate opening means; Bonnie P. Han
son, Bancroft, tender for automobiles
/ and other vehicles; Roy A. Houdy-
shell, Tama, package tie; Orson r.
and E. NJ. kirkpatrick, North Eng
lish, egg or cream beating vessel;
Joseph p. Machovec, Iowa City band
I light; Arthur X. Mutton, Waterloo,
1 pivoted end lock bolt; Hans F. Neve,
Hancock, gearing for monographs
and other talking machines; Joshua
II. Smith, Cedar Falls, DETECTING ra-
diator for furnace registers; Carlton
E. Stoner Sioux City, sample case
for shoes; Geoffry w. Welch, De-
corah, support and guard for tele-
phone wires; Dick w. Webb and w.
G. Stephens, Clarinda, rat trap: Win
fred o. and G. Whitmore, Madrid. nut
lock.
When told that General Funston was
seriously considering asking the war
department to order the First Illinois
national guard cavalry regiment to tho
border for patrol duty because he is
short of cavalry. Adjutant General
Guy 4. Logan said that it would be no
surprise if lowas squadron of caval-
ry was not asked for. He said he had
offered them to the war department.
The first Iowa squadron is located
near Iowa City, the members being
farmer boys, who own their own
horses. Major Ralph p. Howell is
their commander when not acting as
district judge. If they are ordered
into the service the government would
appraise the horses and purchase
them at good price.
Rev. A. A. Loughridge of Des
Moines has donated to Iowa State
| University a collection of bibles in
various Oriental languages, in COM
memoration of the centennial anniver-
sary Of the American Bible society. 1t
is made up of languages spoken in In
| dia, Abyssinia, Gujarat, Peninsula,
Hindustan Burmah, Siam, etc.--repre-
senting 16S,200,000 people. Rev. Mr..
Loughridge translated many of them
| They read from the back Of the book
to the front. Mr.. Loughridge was for
merly missionary in Vinukonda, In
! dia.
Fifty barrels of beer and fifty cases
of whiskey were seized by police at
the Rock Island freight house in Des
Moines. The booze was shipped to
the city by the Des Moines Beer COM
pany at Rock Island, H., and police
believe that most of it is consigned
to fictitious addresses. Three vans
were necessary to convey the huge
1 shipment to the police station. The
seizure is the biggest that has been
made since the closing of the saloons
Condemnation proceedings will be
started against it.
Andrew Mcclure, 26 years old, Mrs.
Carrie Mcclure, his mother, Sc years
old, and his four year old son we're
killed four miles north of Thornburg
when the McClune's automobile col
lided with one in which Clint Nc
Stadden and DR.. Tinsley were riding.
The latter were seriously injured in
the collision. McClune's car was GO
ing at the rate of fifty miles an hour,
| ahead of an approaching storm, 1t is
claimed, when the accident occurred.
Boosters for the Chicago, Kansas
City and Gulf highway met in Daven-
port to perfect plans for promoting
the highways in this state. II. J.
Lyle of Ottumwa, secretary of the
Iowa division of the highway presided
at the meeting. According to plans
the highway would run from Daven-
port to Iowa City, where it would
turn southwark to Washington, west
to Hedrick, south to Ottumwa and
then southwest direct to Kansas City.
The state veterinary department is
watching closely any new develop
ments in the foot and mouth disease
situation in Illinois. State Veterinar-
ian j. |. Gibson has written to Dr. Dy-
son, state veterinary of Illinois, ask
ing the exact conditions in Christian
county where a new outbreak has
been reported.
w. J. Brownell of the Farmers and
Merchants Telephone company Of
Hawarden, closed a deal whereby he
purchased the exchange at harrisburg
and Williams from F. c. Baughn. The
consideration was $4,000. Brownell is
now owner Of all exchanges between
Williams and Sioux City with the ex-
ception OF Fort Dodge.
Delegates from all sections of Iowa
gathered in Marshalltown for the
twelfth annual convention of the Lu-
Their league of Iowa, which includes
in its membership the young peoples
organizations of the Lutheran church
in the state.
The treasurer of the United States,
John Burke, will be present at the
| state university commencement this
year to attend the reunion of the
class of 1886, of which he was a men,
Der.
A profit of $42 per acre is what L.
]. Kolb made on 1882 acres of land
which he purchased in Woodbury.
county last October. The land is To-
Gated near the town of Lawton, and
is well improved.
A liquid preparation which will
make infiammable materials absolute
ly fireproof has been perfected in the
State University OF Iowa.
Embarrassed because OF his extreme
size for his age, Victor Thompson Of
Emmetsburg, fifteen years old, ran