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

before it was too late to prevent the
act. He is somewhatS weaker today
but will recover.
Held up at the point of a gun by
masked highwayman, Clue M. Whit
ing of Marshalltown, street car mot
orman, Monday night was compelled
to give up SIS, mostly company mon
ey. Whiting was relieved of the con-
troll lever of his car and had to walk
some distance to report the crime.
The police are investigating. The
crime was committed in the dark,
/ lonely spot at the south approach of
the railway viaduct. Three months
ago Whiting was held up and beaten
by three men.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. A. futile of Glen
wood have just received Christmas
present from Mrs. j. B. Caskey of
| Hopkins, Canada, three pounds of
butter which was three weeks on the
way 1t had been through the dead
letter Office at Winnipeg, had been
repacked at Toronto, had passed safe
! fy through the customs Office and was
marked duty free" The butter was
in good shape and several old friends
of the Caskey family during their
residence in Greenfield have had
chance to sample it and pronounce it
very fine.
Walnut was threatened with de-
struction Sunday night when the wat
er supply gave out while the fire de-
partment was fighting a blaze. APP
peals were sent to Omaha and Council
Bluffs. Aid was received from AvOca
in time to save the town. A double
tank chemical made the trip in rec
ord time. Three buildings were des-
troyed, with a loss of $4,000. The
drug store and stoch OF o. o. Mackay
were destroyed, loss $1,000; the For
hes hardware store and the Sunder-
land grocery store were damaged
900 each.
Fire at Dunlap Monday totally des-
troyed the electric light plant and
the people of the town are wondering
what they will do. Churches, moving
picture shows, the library and nearly
all the residences were lighted from
this plant. The stores are not so
badly affected as they close early and
many have private plants or use
lamps The fire is said to have been
caused by the explosion of one of the
engines. The loss of buildings is not
very heavy but the four dynamos and
three engines represented quite an
outlay and all are a total loss.
r. B. Johnson of Griswold filed a
suit at the clerks office in Cass coun-
Co ;po Ii, do
from the Rock Island railroad to the
amount of $500. He states that he
delivered % head of Jersey cows and
IL calves for shipment at Burgin,
Kentucky, to the defendant for trans
portation to Griswold, the usual time
for such transportation being four
days. He says that the trip occupied
eight days instead and on account of
careless handling the stock was dam
aged and injured to the amount of
$1,000. III. M. Boorman is his attor-
ney.
Deputy Game Warden Frank Me
man reports that another fine buck
deer was recently killed at Avoca.
If the citizens of Avoca and the farm
ers in the territory in which the deer
roam do not get the legislature to take
some action in the protection of the
deer, there will be very few left in a
few years. Now is the time for COM
mittee of citizens and farmers to go
before the legislature and ask for a
game reserve for the keep and pro-
lection OF the famous Avoca deer. The
herd of deer near Avoca has been one
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