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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
TO ENTER BRANCH OF SERVICE

Wilbur Talbot. for sometime the
assistant to J. A. Humiston at
the Northwestern dep-t but more re-
Gently employed in the came capacity
at Manning. spent Sunday in the city
visiting his mother and other men,
bers of the family. and bidding good
bye to his friends and associates.
Wilbur enlisted in the marine branch
of Uncle Sans service at Omaha
sometime ago. where he successfully
passed the physical examination. He
left Sunday for st. Louis where he
will have to take another eXamina-
ton and from there will be sent to
Fort Port Royal. S. c., the same
place where William Roth went sew
eral weeks ago.
Wilbur has been giving careful
study to the Morse code with view
to securing a berth in the wireless
telegraphy branch of the service
and he hopes that he will ultimately
land the much desired position.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
FIRST NJ. T.. CHURCH

The record at Sunday School last
Sunday was 1913. This was very
good but we might DO better. Let
everyone make a special effort Sun
day to be at Sunday School and see
If we cannot go away beyond the
200 mark.
Sunday is the day set apart as
Mothers Day" and we have plann-
ed to fittingly observe it Sunday
morning A. Mothers Day" sermon
and special music by the fathers and
mothers of the Church. This would
be a good day for parents not men,
bers of the church to unite with the
church. An opportunity will be
given those who wish to do So
At the evening service the Ep-
worth League will give program
entitled. "A Pageant of Progress.
This will be program in costume
and requires over forty characters to
give it. The public is invited to at
tend this service. The date of our
next Annual Conference has been
fixed for September 18th and will
be held at Indianola, Iowa.
The Boy Scouts are meeting reg
ularly each week now and the troop
is almost full.
at the regular hours We hope to
make it a Mothers Day" service
and invite the community to be
present.
Our mid-week service is held each
Wednesday evening.
Jackson Giddens. pastor.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
new HALL
Was DEDICATED
New Hall With Imposing and
Impressive Ceremonies

The Woodmen of the World, a
fraternal organization which started
in Audubon less than three years
ago, and which now boasts of mem
bership of II, all of whom are in
good standing, dedicated their new
lodge room over the Wilde produce
establishment on Thursday evening
of last week
The snow and inclement weather
prevented many from attending, and
those who were there was confined
principally to the members here in
town. The weather. however, put
no damper on the enthusiasm of the
occasion, and the splendid ceremony
was carried out without a hitch.
The lodge room had been uniquely
decorated with flags and bunting
J. r. Best. who is the head man of
the institution presided and called
j. c. Aldrich. of Des Moines. state
manager of the w. o. w. to take
charge of the dedicatory service.
Owing to the few occasions for
which the ceremony is used, Mr. Aid
ridge was compelled ia use the ritual
but he handled the matter in a most
pleasing and dignified way. Mrs.
May b. Furnham. who has charge
of the Woodmen Circle. work in the
state, followed with a most Inter
esting talk on the work and aims of
the circle. and dwelt at length on
the importance of the auxiliary to
the W. o. w.
The evenings program was inter-
spersed with musical numbers
which were supplied by Miss Mamie
Michels, who rendered a patriotic
solo, a violin solo by Miss Tilda
Schmidt. vocal solo by Fl. J. Hoogen-
akker and solo and grand march
by four little boys. Charles Wilde.
Maurice Phillips, Burton Clifford and
Eddie Roberts This feature was
one of the most pleasing of the even
ing. The w. o. w. drill team also
gave two splendid drills. Through
out the evening. Mrs. c. II. Wilde
presided at the piano.
After the completing of the dedi-
cation and the closing order, a SOC
ial hour was enjoyed and ice cream
and cake were served for refresh
mentS
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
MEMBERSHIP Is INCREASED

On Thursday evening of last week
the Campfire Girls gathered at the
home of Mrs. n. S. Hansen for what
they were pleased to term a "Cere-
monial Meeting" after which a social
hour was to follow. This company
of young girls was organized about
two years ago and from time to time
have enjoyed many social gatherings
and long and delightful 'hikes."
Some of the original members have
either left or are not affiliated with
the. organization so it was voted to
increase the membership to it's full
strength. The following young lad
les were admitted to membership:
Alice Rutherford. Alsace Graham,
Nettie Lane. Zelwyn Graham. Cenia
Bisgaard. Ramona Simpson. Thelma
Curtis. Ruth Johnson and Ruth Reed.
After the class had passed through
the form of initiation, they felt that
they were full Pledged Campfire Girls
and entitled to all of the good times
in store. The closing feature of the
meeting was the serving of refresh
mentS.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
CLARK HAS GOOD SALE

Referring to the X. p. Clark sale
of Hereford cattle at Harlan last
week the Harlan Republican makes
the following reference:
"Mr. Clark was very well salts
fled with the result of his sale. and
said he would quite likely come to
Harlan for his next one. He sold
animals for an aggregate of about
$4,000. the cows averaging near
S49O. the bulls near $3.50.
The Association sale was not quite
so successful as the Clark sale.
largely because the offerings did not
run so uniformly good as did the
Clark offerings They never do at
joint sales Some breeders have
better stun and are better feeders
than others. Also the weather was
simply fierce. Seventy-four animals
sold for S22,405 an average of about
s2O@ NJ Armentrout of Botna had
fourteen animals in the sale. thirteen
of which are reported as sold in the
secretary's list for $685.. an aver
age of almost $3.50. F. w. Ham
had six animals in the sale, but only
three are shown as sold on the
clerks books for $S45. an average
of almost $2S2"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
SURPRISE THEIR TEACHER

Miss Margaret Weston, who has
been teaching one of the rural
schools, was the object of a pleasant
little surprise last Saturday evening
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. B. A.
Railsback. While Miss Weston was
in town. the jolly crowd gathered and
on her return to the Railsback home
found right royal welcome. Some
thirty of the young people of the
vicinity composed the party, and in
asmuch as Miss Weston is not to re-
turn to her school, fney determined
to give her sort of 10 farewell. The
details of the surprise had been kept
a profound secret and Miss Weston
knew nothing of the pleasant time in
store for her until she reached the
scene of action. After spending the
evening in games of all kinds, re-
freshments were served.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
ARE NICELY LOCATED

r. j. LOyeland and family VINO
left last week for their new home
at Wabash. Indiana. write friends in
the city that they are nicely located
and that Mr. Loveland will go to
work at once for large canning
company. Mr.. Loveland is known
among the Gamers as one of the
ablest and best posted men in the
business. II was with much regret
that they left Audubon after seven
years residence here. Mrs. Loveland
was active in the Baby Club and
other social organizations and they
will be missed from a large circle of
friends. The best wishes of host
of close personal friends follow them
TO their new home and trust that
success may crown their every EFFORT.
The Republican will follow them TO
their new home to keep them fully
posted on all of the happenings Of
the community
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
AUDUBON MEN CAN
DO STATE SERVICE

iowa stay-at homes will also have
their opportunity TO wear uniform
and pack muskct.
Plans for statewide home guard
organization to be based upon the
same general basis as the present
national guard, but not subject to
duty away from the state are now
being formulated.
1t is probable, according to Cover
nor Harding, that the Iowa guard
will not be in the state more than
sixty or ninety Gays. To replace
them two or more regiments of home
guards will be enlisted from among
the older men and those not able to
qualify for the regular military or
ganization.
The companies will include about
fifty men each. and they will be
tutions, aid in keeping the peace. or
for any other military duty within
the state.
Attempting to Get Equipment
The question of equipment is the
most serious one to be solved. This
matter was taken up at the recent
defense conference in Washington,
and the war department has been
required to make some provision for
arming the home guards.
Members will be quartered at their
homes. The national guard armories
will be used by the home guard Tor
drill and headquarters purposes.
Mayor John MacVicar, Secretary
of Des Moines Ralph Faxon of the
Chamber of Commerce, and the gov
ernor conferred for more than an
hour on the military situation Tues
day afternoon, and cooperation be-
tween the city and state was agreed
upon for the local home guard.
Governor Harding has called the
first meeting of the state defense
council named by him for next Fri
day morning at 10 o'clock. Practi-
cally all who were appointed have
accepted.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
VERY SMALL. ATTENDANCE

Prof. j. w. Leach was very much
disappointed last Friday evening
when but thirty-five persons attend
ed the benefit concert at the Metho-
dist church Mr. Leach volunteered
to give his services in order that a
fund for the relief OF the poor Bel
gian children might be raised, II
was hoped that our people would be
sufficiently interested in this good
work, but for some reason or other
they failed to give the concert the
patronage to which it was justly en-
titled.
Prof. Leach is singer OF ability,
Il gentlemen and scholar and should
have been given more consideration
II is yet possible that the program
will be repeated at an early date.
and if it is. Audubon people ought TO
be more generous in their patronage.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
TOURNAMENT Is CALLED OFF

The Interstate Firemen's Tourna-
ment which was to have been held in
Audubon July 3 and 4 has been called
off due to unforeseen circum-
stances that have arisen, and the I'M
running teams Many of the young
men in all of the GOWNS are enlist
ing in the army. and almost every
town in the district that was to par
ticipate in the tournament, report
that their men are leaving and that
their places cannot be filled.
The officers of the association
conferred with Geo. Oelke of this
city yesterday, and taking everything
into consideration. thought best to
call the tournament off. While 1t
will be somewhat of disappolnt-
ment to Audubon. yet there was no
use going ahead unless the tourna-
ment could have been made a sue
cess Mr. Oelke asked us to make
this statement in todays Republican
that the people might know what ac-
ton had been taken officially.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
Y. P. |. WAS
ORGANIZED HERE
Delegates From Fourteen Different
Societies Perfect New League
While i'm Convection i'm
Ibis CITY

convention of tne Young Peoples
Society of the Danish Lutheran
church was held in Audubon last
Saturday and Sunday Delegates
from fourteen different societies
were in attendance and while in ses-
sion Saturday perfected a new or
ganization which is 20 be known as
! Evangelical Lutheran Young
Peoples League of the Iowa District
of the United Danish Evangelical
Lutheran church in America. -
A large delegation of young people
reached Audubon Friday afternoon
and Saturday morning many more
arrived so that in the afternoon
there was a good representation at
the opening service. which was de-
voted largely to business and the
signing of the constitution of the
new league. In the evening the
Danish church was crowded to its
utmost capacity and a most profit
able service was held.
Three services were held on Sun
day. morning afternoon and evening.
Throughout the session the follow
ing ministers took part: Rev. F.
c. Hansen. Davenport; Rev. n. TIL.
Jersild, Viborg, S. D.; Rev. James
c. Petersen. Harlan; Rev. G. B.
Christensen, Ebernezer; Rev. II. l..
Jensen. Bethania: Rev. c. c. Kloth.
Elk Horn and Rev. p. Rasmussen.
of Extra and assisted the local pas
tor. Rev. J. p. Christensen. who has
taken an active part as a lecturer in
various states for the young people
of the church.
In order TO make it convenient
for both delegates and home people,
dinner was served in the NJ. w. A.
hall on Saturday and dinner and
supper on Sunday This afforded all
splendid opportunity of enjoying
each others society in social way.
The following is the list of dele
gates present: Miss Mayrtle Jergen-
sen. Des Moines. Iowa. Hjalmar Lar
sen, Spencer. Iowa; Miss Olga
Hjorth. Spencer Iowa; Andrew Lar
sen. VibOrg. S. D.; Miss Rose Han
Bersford. S. D.: Aluf nielsen. Bers-
Davenport Ia; o. c. Christensen,
Weston, Ia; Miss Elsie nielsen, Har-
IAN. ID, MISS luOInle f1OTSluuO,
Cedar Falls. Ia; Miss Dagmar Dan
ielsen, Coulter Ia; Wilmer johnson,
West Branch. Ia; Carl Larsen.
Council Bluffs Ia; Miss Christine
Sorensen. Council Bluffs. Ia. Miss
Elizabeth Beck Royal, Ia; Miss
Nora Hagedorn. Royal. Ia: Miss
Marguerite Christensen. Weston. Ia;
Miss Anna Andersen, Audubon. Ia;
]. X. Jensen. Audubon. Ia; Niels
S. Petersen. Audubon, Ia: Henry X.
Petersen, Extra, Ia; Miss Iona Ras-
mussen. Extra. Ia; Miss Ida Hem
mingsen. Ebenezer: Henry Larsen.
Ebenezer.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
DEATH OF MRS. ANNA CARRIER

Mrs. Anna CARRIER daughter of
Joel and Maria Mitunell, of Pennsyl-
vannia. was born in Green county
Penn. June %. 1854, and departed
from this life at her home in Gray
Iowa. May l. 1917, at the age of
50 years. 10 months and IL days.
She came to Iowa in 1872 and was
united in marriage to John CARRIER.
September Z. 1875. who departed
from this life July 5th. 1915. at
Gray. To this union five children
were born. all of whom servive her,
three girls and two boys: George W.
and James CARRIER and Mrs. Dustin.
of Gray, Iowa: Mrs. W. j. Markley,
of Manning. Iowa. and Mrs. limo
Halliday. of Hancock. Iowa. also ten
grand children and host of friends
to mourn her loss Funeral services
were held last Wednesday and. the
remains were laid to rest at cameron
Center by the side of her husband
who passed away two years ago.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
TO MY FRIENDS

AS I am leaving Audubon, after
having been resident for the past
seven years. and during that time in
terested in the Audubon Canning Co.,
I take this method of extending my
sincere thanks to the business men
my friends, and to the growers of
this vicinity for the kindly fayors
shown me. | sincerely trust that the
same courtesy extended me will con-
tinue with the manager w.
H. Smith. a man of broad experience
and reliable. and any business deal
ings with him will receive the same
courteous and far treatment which
always tried to accDrd..
RI. Rowland.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
SUFFERS A BROKEN RIB

A. n. Detwiler. one of our spry
old veterans of the Civil war, who
was helping his son do some work
on the farm in Lincoln township
Monday. fell from the wagon and in
some manner broke a rib. The in
jury was extremely painful and a
physician was called at once to give
the patient as much relief as pos
sible. He was resting much easier
the next day and Wednesday morn
ing he was brought to his home in
the city. Mr.. Detwiler will not be
able to do a great deal of work for a
while, and he will have to spend
most all of his energies in reading
the war news as dished up in the
daily papers.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
EVANGELICAL CHURCH

Next Sabbath at 10 a. m. Sabbath
School in charge of Mr. John Butter
ton. Supt Subject Jesus the True
Vine"
IL a. m. preaching, subject
christian Motherhood" All pres
ent will be interested in this subject.
7:15 p. IN. Young Peoples AL
lance" subject Fellowship with
God" Leader Miss Iva Twist
500 p. NJ. preaching on some in
teresting subject.
Y. p. A. Business Meeting at the
church Tuesday evening at p. m.
Wednesday evening, prayer meet
ing in charge of w. c. Sheets, leader
Meeting of the Woman's Mission
airy Society next Thursday at p. m.
at Mrs. W. c. Sheets Bring your
thank offering boxes.
Quarterly meeting. June Bird.
Children's Day June 10th.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
MORE OF OUR BOYS ENLIST

Sunday evening the brass band
and hundreds of our citizens went TO
the Northwestern depot to bid God
speed to four more of our young
men, who were leaving to enlist IN
the service of their country. The
boys who were leaving were Henry
Preston. Otto Clark, Ernest Reed and
Adam Klein They had not made
up their mind to their choice of the
branch of service, but were willing
to go into whatever branch Uncle
Sam needed them.
The young men of the state have
volunteered so freely. that practi-
cally all branches of the service have
been filed to their war strength.
Two of the boys returned home
Tuesday. one of them was under
eighteen years of age. and not hav-
ing the consent of his parents, was
rejected
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
ENDEAVOR ELECTS
THEIR NEW OFFICERS

Sunday evening the Christian En-
deavor Society of the Presbyterian
church held a business meeting at
their regular meeting hour and elect
ed officers for the coming year. Those
elected were Miss Leona Wilson,
president; Miss Astrid Jensen. vice
president; Miss Cladine Kruse. sec
rotary and treasurer and Miss Mary
Davis corresponding secretary. The
members of the society have been
planning on sending delegates to the
Storm Lake Conference which will
be in session ten days during the
month of July. Misses Leona Wilson
and Alma Christensen We're elected
as delegates and Misses Astrd Jen-
sen and Donna Baker. alternates.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
LAST MEETING OF
CLUB YEAR HELD

The last meeting of the club year
for the Womans Club was held at
Watts hall yesterday afternoon. A
large number of the members were
present. A new constitution for the
club was adopted and the election of
officers was also changed from the
May meeting until the October meet
ing of the club and at that time new
officers will he elected.
Mrs. VIM. Rucker wave a splendid
demonstration in Salad making that
was greatly appreciated by the lad
les.
The hall was profusely decorated
with flags as a courtesy to the W. r.
C's. who were guests of the Club.
Mrs c. H. Wilde led the singing in
the Club shorus of patriotic songs.
Another feature of the short pro-
gram was the song and march by
four young boys. Charles Wilde.
Maurice Phillips. Burton Clifford and
Eddie Roberts.
Mrs. VIM Ruucker and Mrs. R.
B. Hayes were made a committee to
arrange for parcel post sale to be
held a week from next Saturday at
the McCort meat market The pur-
pose of the sale is TO raise fund.
half of which is to go to the RELIEF
Corps for patriotic material and the
other half will be given by the club
to the National Red Cross.
Delegates to the biennial of the
Federation of Womans Clubs to be
held in Fort Dodge May % to 26
were selected Mrs John Graham
and Mrs Mary Mcmahon were elect
ed delegates and Mrs Chas. Sunberg
and Mrs. II. G.. Rice. alternates. It
is quite probable that all of them
will attend.
The meeting yesterday will be the
last one until next october. but much
of the work that has been laid out
by the club will be carried into exc
cution during the summer months.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
VISITS OLD TIME FRIENDS

G. l. Miller. who for many years
has been making his headquarters
at Boone, Iowa. while holding a posi-
ton on the road for Chicago school
supply house. was in the city Monday
visiting old time friends. Some 35
years ago he was superintendent of
our public schools, but each year he
visits his sister at Extra and manages
to spend at least a part of the day in
Audubon. He is enjoying the best of
health at this time and made his
annual visit to Audubon county while
enroute to the western coast.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
pHuLlTHEAN CLUB ENTERTAINS

The members of the Philathean
Club. class of young girls in the
Methodist Sunday school and their
teacher. Miss De Frates, entertained
their mothers last Saturday after
noon at the home of Miss Esther
Fulton. The home was artistically
decorated in red and white carna-
tions and other appropriate decora-
tions. A three couse luncheon was
served and musical program rem
dered. A very delightful time was
had by the 30 or more who were
present.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
TO ORGANIZE RED CROSS

The patriotic League of women.
which is to be organized in Audi
bon, will postpone their meeting un-
til a State Organizer can be secured
and a permanent Red Cross organ
ization perfected.
The committees on gardening will
continue their work.
The plan for Tag Day to raise
money for Red Cross purposes will
he carried out on Saturday May II,
if the weather is favorable.
Mrs. W. w Smith. chairman.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
SHERIFF BRINGS HIM HOME

Merrill Gleason who was taken be-
fore Judge Rockafellow in Atlantic
several weeks ago, and paroled I'M
der good behavior. skipped out last
week and was finally located at
Wahoo, Nebr. Sheriff Frank Wilson
went after him Monday and return
ed to Audubon yesterday. Young
Gleason will be taken before the
Judge at the present term of the
District court He will. in all prob
ability. be sent to the state school
at Eldora.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
AUDUBON BOY, SCOUTS

The Boy Scouts are meeting each
week now and have commenced the
taking of the regular military train
ing Some of them will soon finish
their tests for second class Scouts.
There are 80 now enlisted and three
more will make up the full troop
If the boys can be of any service in
helping clean up or beautify the town
they will be glad to lend what as
sistance they can.
Jackson Giddens. Scoutmaster.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
WILL RENT THEIR HALL

The w. VS.. who have recently
located in their new lodge room,
have decided that they will rent their
hall to outside parties. for dances
and other gatherings. They have a
new piano in the hall and this will
make it very convenient for gather
ings where musical instrument is
needed. G. H. Wilde will have
charge of the renting and those de-
string the use of the hall will con-
fer with him.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
EPWORTH LEAGUE PROGRAM

The Epworth League of the Meth
odist Church will give "A program for
the public Sunday evening at the
regular preaching hour, Ii is en-
titled. "A Pageant of Progress" and
requires about forty characters TO
give it, The new officers of the
League will be installed at this SER
vice. The new officers recently
elected are, Gladys Wedemeyer.
President; Maggie McCaw, First
Vice: Rebecca Weeks, Second Vice;
Grace Johnson. Third Vice; Blanche
Fancherz, Fourth Vice: Alsace Ora
ham, Secretary; Frank Kester. Urea;
Zelwin Graham. Pianist and Mil
dred Jones Chorister.