Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-03-02

An amazing thing happened when
so many men attended q missionary
meeting in Des Moines that those in
charge were obliged to request wom-
en- visitors to leave. So far as known
this breaks the worlds record for
missionary meetings. 1t was the sec
ond session of the Laymen's Mission
airy conference. 1t is distinctly q
mems conference and attendance and
admission is predicated upon regis
tration and the payment of a fee to
defray expenses. 1t had been an
nounced, however, that women would
be admitted to the gallery provided
that space were available after all
the men had been seated. But the
unexpected happened. Men from Des
Moines and central Iowa came in
such numbers as to require the entire
capacity of the church. The attend
ance of men exceeded 1900.
Waterloo is to be known as the Red
Geranium city of the United States.
Two prominent business men made
PASFOoAeioh W VIC RoldIy Cluu ludI
If 1t would get back of a city wide
movement to have business men and
residents display red geraniums and
use the flower on stationery they
would contribute $500 each. This Of
fer has been taken up and a commit.
tee has been named to go ahead with
the movement. The club will add to
the original donation and merchants
will be urged to make a profmse dis
play of red geraniums in window
boxes. Traffic posts will be sur
mounted with pots containing the
bloom, residents will set geranium
plants in porch boxes and hanging
baskets, and the city will be a riot of
red and green.
Declaring for 365 day roads through
county referendum on the issuance
of bonds, the Iowa Good Roads confer
ence, in session at Des Moines, ap-
pointed an executive committee of
five members, which is charged with
the duty of choosing representative
men from each county to boost for
good roads and crystalize favorable
sentiment in each community of the
state. This committee consists of the
following men: r. p. Bolton, secre-
tary of the Greater Des Moines COM
mittee: Frank C. Carson of Iowa
City, who presided over the roads con-
ference; w. G. Haskell of Cedar Rap
ids; w. M. Kelley of Washington;
Senator John Foster of Guthrie Cen
ter.
The old covered bridge" that has
spanned the Raccoon river at Des
Moines for fifty-eight years, has pass
ed into history. With crash that
could be heard for blocks the anci.
ent structure, relic Of days when
Des Moines was village, was swept
away by huge ice gorge that carried
before It two piers of the bridge
When the bridge was built in 1858 it
was a toll bridge. William Hall, a
pioneer of Des Moines, was toll COL
lector at the bridge from the time it
was built until his death number
of years ago. The toll collected for
crossing the bridge is said to have
paid for the expense OF constructing
It,
With $4,000 armory just complet-
ed Muscatine may erect another $780,
600 structure in order to house its ar
tillery organization. After the pres
ent armory was built it was found to
be unsuited to artillery purposes and
unless a new building is erected the
battery will be mustered out. 1t is
now proposed to erect a building to
serve exclusively for military purposes
while the lately completed building
will be converted into an auditorium.
Feeding city prisoners in Des
Moines since the saloons closed is
much cheaper, according to the report
of Purchasing Agent Davis. During
the last three wet" months of the
last saloon year the total cost OF the
city Jail food was s303.53. During the
corresponding period of the first sa-
loonless year the cost was only $134.
.93. Fewer prisoners have been ar.
rested since prohibition became ef-
fective.
All the engines on the Muscatine &
Montezuma branch of the Rock Island
railroad have been condemned by q
United States inspector, following a
wreck on the road. The inspector
stopped an engine that was just about
to start out on the line, condemned
~ than tA fhn Nd
condemned the remainder The road
was forced to send to Cedar Rapids
and secure a new engine before traf-
fic could be continued on the line.
Franklin county is to join the list
Of Iowa counties that will take steps
to thoroughly test the seed corn Petit
lions were started at the short course
in Hampton recently and these were
generally signed and were presented
to the board. 1t was acted upon favor
ably and the sum of $500 appropriate
cd. An expert will likely be brought
into the county to conduct thorough
test and determine what is suitable
and safe to plant.
Lorinda Champlin in July, 1912,
decided a house and lot in Waterloo,
worth $1,000 to Des Moines college.
Now Martha E. Wilson, only surviv-
ing heir, has filed suit to have the
deed annulled on the ground that Mrs.
Champlin, who was so years old and
in feeble health in 1912, did not real
ize what she was doing. 1t is alleged
this property constituted the major
portion of Mrs. Champlin's estate.
At the age OF IS years, Mrs. Fan.
ME Sheppard of Roland is seeking
divorce from her third husband. She