Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-01-25
NEWS FROM OTHER
PARTS OF IOWA

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The city council at Algona has let
the contract for four miles of addi-
tional paving to be of the asphaltic
concrete type and to cost $1.53 per
cubic yard.
The city council of Grundy Center
has let a contract to the Ford Paw
ing Company for the construction of
AZ blocks of bitulithic paving for
$1.92 per square yard.
Twenty-four indictments for boot
Logging returned by the Woodbury.
county grand jury indicate activity in
behalf of law enforcement in the
northwestern Iowa metropolis.
Last Saturday Robt. Hercules shot
and killed his brother, Amos Hercu-
les, on the formers farm three miles
south of Reinbeck, and then walked
to a neighbours to be accompanied
to Reinbeck, where he was taken in
to custody by the officers. 1t is said
that the shooting was in selfdefense.
Mrs MAIDS Faaborg one of the
young women who was badly injured
in the John Faaborg disaster the
ltwenty-fourth of December near Au-
dubon, had her arm rebroken and re-
set a few days ago. She has much
pain and suffers considerably from a
good many boils on her body, besides
the bruises she sustained. The rest
of the wounded. ones are getting on
as well as can be expected.
G. r. Lott of Onawa lost a team OF
horses valued at $500 by drowning
in Blue Lake the accident happening
while he was loading the sled to
which the team was hitched with ice.
The sled was partly loaded, when the
team backed into the hole which had
been cut in the ice, and Mr.. Lott and
other ice harvesters who rushed to
his assistance were powerless to pre-
vent it. The sled sank with the team.
Nicholas White, one of the pion-
GERS of Shelby county, died Saturday
at 1920 a. M, after an illness of
about two weeks. The immediate
cause of the death was heart failure
and a touch of pneumonia. He had
not been we'll since protracted i'll
ness last October, which left him in a
weakened condition. Deceased had
had several strokes of paralysis in re-
cent years, one about ten years ago
and a more recent one about a years
ago.
; A burglar entered the home of Rev.
Edgar Price, pastor the First Chris
tain church of Council Bluffs last
Sundny night finding there Mr.. Prices
: little nine-year-old son, who had gone
home from church because he was
sleepy. The artless boy with more
wis dom than in an elder, took in the
situation, told the intruder he was
in a rpeacher's house and that the
!, preacher had no money, showed him
: over the house in order to convince
him, and loaned him SO cents as he
D went away.
e For 2SS hours, twelve days, Mich
4 ael Ehr, farmer near Raymond has
been lying in an unconscious state a.
e the result of injuries to his head
: caused Jan. 8, by the explosion of {
n lighting plant which he was attempt
o ing to thaw out. Ehr was taken to ;
p hospital in Waterloo and his condi
n tion has been unchanged. Food is ad
: lministered in tablet form. His fore
|. head was crushed and a large mum
her of fragments of bone were re
moved by the surgeon who attende,
him.
\ Charles Jacobsen, a resident of on
4 of the townships north of Council
r. Bluffs, was fined S25 and cost
e ing in district court for violating
+ quarantine established at his HON
, by the health authorities on accoun
q of a contagious disease in his family
II was charged that he refused to re
" main at home and included in tn
e costs taxed against him is an item @
a $3.50 for hire of an automobile tina
: was reouistioned to run him dow
p and return him to his point of dc
tention.
o
Ed Shelton of Tama had both eye
7 and mart of his law blown away, an