Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-03-01

which spans Indian creek, just east of
town, he stepped from the train and
slipped through between the two
tracks, striking on the ground some
twenty or thirty feet below. Rail-
road men picked Mr.. Gasson up and
brought him to Emerson where his
| injuries were dressed. 1t was found
that the man had suffered a broken
| left wrist, received q bad cut on the
head, besides being badly bruised
about the body and limbs. He was
cared for at the hotel for few days
and Thursday was taken to his home
at Stanton.
All efforts to find Augusta Whitney
whose absence from her home at
Oseceola is causing delay in the
funeral of her father, b. F. Whitney,
have failed. About a month ago she
disappeared from home. Since then
no word has been heard from her by
her relatives or friends. Tuesday
night Miss Whitney's father died, and
the family do not wish to hold the
funeral until all members of the fam
lily are present. kilograms and tele-
phone calls have been sent to large
number of towns in Iowa asking
friends to help locate her. Meanwhile
the funeral has been set Sunday. The
girl is about 20 years old. She is
about five feet, four inches tall and
weighs little more than 100 pounds
She has reddish brown hair and
brown eyes. Miss Whitney has num-
erous relatives in Red Oak Indianola
Valley junction and Ottumwa
A young son of Ed Fahler living
at Creston was the cause of an ac-
cident quite peculiar, if not serious
results, late Saturday. The lad had
acquired a cartridge and boylike
was not satisfied until he could hear
it explode. He placed it on the rail-
road track and awaited the coming
of train. When the car wheels
exploded the cartridge the bullet was
shot across the street, striking and
breaking the front window of a
barber shop. From the window glass
the bullet continued it's course, gaz-
ing the check of Peter Anton. an old
man in the barber shop. and thence
cutting the sleeve of another Gus
toner in the shop. The crash of
breaking glass and narrow escape
of two men created quite a little ex-
element. An investigation was made
Immediately, when the boy fessed up
quite willingly that his thoughtless
act was responsible for the near
tragedy.
Twenty-Five of the high school
students of Stanwood High school
rebelled and refused to attend
school because athletics had been
suspended by order of the school
board The action was result of GER
tain unruly conduct charged against
the members of the high school
basketball team, supposed to have
been INDUCED in on the various
trips that have been on this years
schedule. The boys were told that
no further athletics would be fol-
lowed until they proved to the school
boards satisfaction that the members
of the team had conducted themselves
properly. The boys team, men,
bers and supporters protest their in
nosence and backed by dozen high
school girls, the entire number began
a strike to last until the authorities
dtuittlCS, VI tuclI
suspension. The rebelling students
compose almost half the Standwood
Consolidated High school.
Near Glendon in Guthrie county
there was discovered some years ago
a large deposit of shale of some kind
that hard brick is made from in
yards near Des Moines and at Van
Meter. 1t is on the branch of the c.
r. l. & p. that extends northwest
from the main line at Menlo for
Guthrie Center. There has been a
plant in operation there for some
time. making brick and tile. 1t was
owned by Messes. Wells Bros. &
Clay. Recently this project has
been incorporated in the name of
Glendon Brick and Tile company with
capital stock of $4,000. Its pre-
sent output is three carloads of
drain tile per day. They manufacture
drain tile, hollow building blocks
and common brick. 1t employs
about twenty-five men. The presi
dent of the company is John A. Clay
II. NJ. Crane is vice-president, w. F.
Moore is secretary and treasurer.
There are no specimens of this pecu
liar kind of shale elsewhere in the
county. This company has an in
exhaustible supply of II and made
some income from shipping it to
Atlantic and Audubon to be mixed
with soil for the manufacture of
brick. They expect TO double the
capacity of the plant and increase
their number of laborers. This com
pany has the prospect of being big
success