Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-01-18

city ever had. The deer are known
far and near and to allow the pot
shooters to kill them off is shame.
About twenty-five minutes past sew
en- O'Clock Sunday night the fire bell
began its wild appeal for help, and
those seeking the location of the fire
found the smoke coming from the o.
o. Mckay drug store at Walnut. Ar
irving at the scene the earliest COM
ers found the one story building
burning heavily, apparently the fire
was located in the basement and the
building was so dense with smoke
that no one dared to enter the build
ing, either from the front or rear, and
by the time the hose was turned on
the building was burning so fast and
furious that occupants of the stores
adjoining on the north and south be-
gan to carry their goods and fixtures
out of the buildings.
: j. A. Peterson, residing south of
Corning, reports that he raised the
best crop this year he ever realized,
getting over 5000 bushels of corn
on eighty acres, fifteen acres of
which produced over eighty bushels
per acre, by weight. and while 1t was
weighed at husking time 1t was dry
and would shrink but little. M. ].
Stewart, another successful farmer,
sold a buggy load of hogs for which
he drew $685.. The fathers of both
these men hauled corn to Corning
number of years ago at IL cents per
bushel from their farms in Lincoln
township. In those days in the place
of placing their feet under the ma
hogany at the hotel they brought
lunch with them and if it was cold
weather the lunch was not very
warm.
Give your child a nickel OCCASION
ally. 1t won't break you, and it will
give the child it's first lessons in the
art of handling money. But most i'm
portant of all, teach it to save two
cents of every nickel you give it. That
will teach it thrift and the art of saw
! ing. Let it take its pennies out and
count them over. Every time it
counts them it will want to add few
more to the pile. That will inculate
the art of accumulation. But don't
let it depend on what you give it. 1t
should be taught to earn money, and
the first lesson should go with the
first nickel That will demonstrated
the necessity and increase its capac-
lity for work. And in after years,
when success has crowned it's efforts,
| it will look back over the lapse of
| time and tell others that it had the
best father and mother that God ever
permitted to live.
f. r. Winslow. grocer of Mar
shalltown and wife were both shot
| by masked bandit Tuesday night
who entered Winslow's store and de-
manded of the proprietor that he
throw up his hands. Winslow was slow
| in responding because he thought it
a Joke and just as he raised his arms
the robber shot him through the
breast. The bandit then turned to
the cash drawer and was attacked
| from the rear by Mrs. Winslow, who
tore away his mask. The robber then
shot Mrs. Winslow twice through the
breast. But before she fell she man.
aged to reach telephone and yell
police" to the central operator. This
frightened the robber so he backed
to the door and fired a parting shot
as he fed, leaving 500 in the cash
drawer undisturbed Police with
blood hounds are working on the case
Winslow and his wife are both in
hospital, but neither is dangerously
wounded.