Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-02-17

Four junk firms are among the bid.
ders expected to make offers for the
Crooked Creek Railroad and Coal
company's property when the foreclo-
sure sale is held Attorneys for the
road have prepared decree to be
sent to Judge H. T. Reed of the fed
eral court for his signature authoriz-
ing sale Of the property. The eigh.
teen mile stretch of light steel track.
as crooked as its name indicates, was
built between Webster City and Le-
high In 1872 when the coal mining
industry at Lehigh was at its height.
AS the mines became exhausted, the
fortunes OF the road declined. Its
lone locomotive became incapacitated
for its duties OF making one round
trip day. The receiver will secure
an order allowing him to rent an
other locomotive.
Four Iowa stockmen we're killed,
railroad fireman dangerously injured,
and others probably less seriously
hurt, when heavy coal train, pulled
by two engines, crashed into the ca.
boose on the rear end of a stock train
on the Northwestern railroad a half
mile north of Dunlap The dead are:
George Beachler, Boone; ]. G. Mel.
son, Stanhope; Alexander Waite, Fen.
ton; man, supposed to be John Z.
Johnson. Talmadge. Twenty cars
were wrecked and many cattle killed
and crippled. The fireman on the coal
train was injured SO he may die.
Iowa's butter output could be in
creased four fold, according to W. B.
Barney, state dairy commissioner. II
every county in the state produced as
much butter as Bremen county the
output would be worth $124,213,195, or
four times its present worth. II meth
DDS used by the best dairymen were
followed 1t would be easy to add fifty
pounds to the average production of
each cow In Bremen county. On that
basis the state would produce yearly
532,601,636 pounds of butter, worth.
at 80 cents a pound, $3.50, ESQ, 490.S0.
DR.. ]. l.. Reeves OF LIE Mars, who
last March shot his wife and then
attempted to shoot himself, pleaded
guilty to assault with intent to kin
and was given sentence OF one year
In the state penitentiary Mrs
Reeves recovered from her wounds
and has been living with her husband.
1t Is said their differences have been
settled and that she wished to avert
his prosecution. The shooting occur
red during a family quarrel DR..
Reeves has been a practicing physi-
clan at LIE Mars twenty years.
According to information given out
by officers OF the Muscatine and
Western railroad, the new interurbah
line will be In operation between
Iowa City and Muscatine by March
or little later. Four electric cars
have been purchased for this run,
but steam trains will be run from
Muscatine to Montezuma for a time
at least. The new company promises
Sunday passenger service on this
line, which is a source OF great salts
faction to the people of Montezuma.
Sixty-four University OF Iowa goods,
most Of them sorority members and
nearly all of them socially prominent
there. have lost their party privileges
for one month as result of an in
fringement Of the university rules.
The co-eds we're found guilty OF going
to confectionery pariors after the re-
cent freshman Pan-Hellenic dance.
The university girls are supposed to
go directly to their homes after par
ties.
A. M. Deyoe, state superintendent
OF public instruction, has just issued
an opinion UNFOLDING former County
Superintendent Gertrude E. Miller on
the Legality of the consolidation Of
schools at Gilman. The rulings OF the
former county superintendent were
upheld in every particular. 1t was
alleged by those who opposed the plan
that the consolidation had been per.
fected illegally.
Summoning his last remaining
strength, Roy Mcclure, s year old
son of J. Mcclure OF Dubuque. tele-
phoned to neighbor when his two
brothers and two sisters were over
come by coal gas from furnace.
When the neighbor arrived he found
the boy lying unconscious beside the
telephone. Physicians were summon
ed and found it necessary to use pull
motor in reviving the children.
In trying to make his fine brood
sows comfortable during the recent
severe cold weather. w. NJ. Sells Of
near Sidney lost several valuable ami
mails by fire. Mr.. Sells placed stoves
In the hog sheds. One sow was kill
ed by the gas fumes and the stove
in another shed upset or exploded and
set fire to the building and sows and
sheds were consumed.
The G. A. r. POST at Charlton has
let the contract for the erection OF
soldiers monument in the court
house square at cost Of $500. The
monument will be 20 feet, 4 inches
high and 10 feet square at the base.
The post will also receive two can.
non from the government to be plac-
ed near the monument.
The Warren County Farmers I'm.
provement association has decided to
employ county farm agent. A sal
airy higher than that paid by most
counties possessing farm agents will
be paid. according to the plans. An
Iowa State college man will be given
first choice for the job.
With fractured thigh. Lyon Sachs.
year old Sioux City boy. lay for
half an hour on the sidewalk in zero
weather. TIE Sachs boy was pass