Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-06-22

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the charge of being the axman who
killed the Moore family in 1912 has
caused that tragedy to become the
chief topic of interest in Villisca.
Opinion as to the guilt and innocence
OF Mansfield is divided and also the
question as to whether the murderer
was hired to commit the deed, as 10
claimed by the private detectives.
Ross Moore, a brother Of the murder
ed man, places no belief in the report
OF the detectives that the person who
killed his brother and family was
hired to do 1t. He thinks that Mans
field may be the guilty party, but IL
SO says he believes the act was en-
gineered by his own deformed mind.
Sheriff 0. c. Jackson OF Montgomery
county holds the same opinion as Mr..
Moore. He admits that Mansfield may
be the guilty man, but scouts the idea
that some one hired the murderer to
kill the family. Feeling over the
murder is heated and there have been
threats of violence.
AL and Frank Sawvell, farmers of
McGregor, have transformed twenty
five acres of hillside land from a prof
itless farm to an extremely profitable
rock mine. Last summer they open
ed up quarry and found the rock
tested high. Then they capitalized as
the McGregor Stone Crushing COM
pany, bought big crusher, stone cars
and other equipment, put in a side
track and set men and electric power
to work grinding up their farm. The
market was ready and eager for the
product and they have been increas-
ing the output steadily. They now
have a payroll of $3.50 a week and
are constantly adding to their force
Within month the company has ship
ped forty cars of paving material to
different towns in Iowa.
The iowa Masonic Grand lodge meet
ing in Davenport was attended by 140
more delegates than were ever before
registered at grand lodge session.
Officers elected were: Grand master,
Judge A. Arthur OF Logan; senior
grand warden, Geo. l.. Carton of Des
Moines; junior grand warden, p. H.
Schaeffer of Burlington; grand secre-
tary, Newton r. Parvin, Cedar Rapids;
grand treasurer, c. l.. Overly of
Ames; grand custodian, T. P. Bence,
Bloomfield. The next meeting was
awarded to Waterloo. The grand 10 sge
dues of $4,000 Masons were increased
from rs cents to one dollar a year and
the charity appropriation increased
from $4,000 to $500.
w. H. Angel of Waterloo, the man
who was convicted of setting fire to a
rented farm house north of Waterloo,
in which he had been living and SEN
fenced to long term in prison, has
been paroled before commitment. All
parties In the case asked that he be
paroled. 1t was brought out in the
testimony that the man was in finan-
cial straits and his wife was i'll when
the crime was committee. He had
never before been guilty of any seri-
Gus offense.
George s. Wright of Council Bluffs
has been elected president of the Uni
versity of Iowa association. The an.
nual meeting Of the organization of
Iowa alumni also voted to back the
plan presented which called for the
publication of a new alumni directory.
Judge r. p. Howell, 1898, of Iowa City,
was elected vice president. Theodore
Wanerus, 1910, of Iowa City, was
made secretary, and P. A. Korab, 1893,
was chosen treasurer of the associa-
ton.
Mystery surrounds the sudden dis
appearance of Hattie Wyatt. 16 year
old Blakesburg girl, who has been
missing from her home for several
days. When the girls parents arose
one morning they found note on the
parlor table telling them not to wor-
ry about her. Bloodhounds were Sc
cured in hope of securing trace of
the girl, but they gave up the scent
when they reached the intersection
of two streets in Ottumwa.
Judge John w. Anderson, of the
Woodbury. county district court, re-
ports that, in his opinion. crime has
decreased rs per cent and the con.
sumption of liquor has decreased 80
per cent in Sioux City since Iowa be-
came dry state, January list, last.
There have been fewer criminal cases
in police court and most of the police
court business now consists of viola
lions OF the liquor law.
The dedication of q costly new
church just completed by the Danish
Lutherans OF Harlan was one of the
chief features Of the national con-
vention of Danish Lutheran churches
which convened there with about L.
500 delegates present Five thousand
members attended the dedicatory exer-
cises.
The last remnants of the train
wrecked near Packard on the Rock
Island railroad have been cleared
away. The day coach, in which six.
teen persons met their death, was
raised from Flood Creek but no add.
tional bodies were found. 1t Is
thought all persons on the train have
been accounted for.
President Marquis Of Coe college a;
Cedar Rapids has announced a casa
gift Of $4,000 by Elizabeth r. Voos-
hees of New Jersey. The money viii
pay for the completion of Voorhees,
hall, the new girls dormitory, one
wing of which has been built and oc.
cupied and for which Mrs. Voorhees,
had given $4,000.
Six miles of graveled roads are as
sured Carlisle this summer. McKis-
sick Brothers, garagemen of Carlisle,
are furnishing gravel free for four
miles 0f tha parmadaa road cannacf-