Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-05-31


keeper in Des Moines, was married
recently to Mrs. Eliza Brown, 60
years old, who lived near the bride
groom near Ankeny. Among the in
terested spectators at the wedding at
the Slavery hotel in Des Moines were
the six children of Uncle Jimmy" by
Q former marriage and the six chill
dren of Mrs. Lewis. He is the grand
father of sixteen children and she
the grandmother of twelve children
and three great grandchildren.
A veterinary doctor in Newton filed
out and signed prescription recently
that enabled his patient to evade the
Sunday blue laws. Druggists of the
city kept open, but only to fill pre-
scriptions, so when a man came into
one Org store and presented the fol-
lowing the druggist had nothing to
do but fill it. The prescription called
for: Star tobacco, 10 cents; FIVE
cigars, 25 cents. Consumer to boil
and spray on animals"
In sending her only son to serve
his country, Mrs. Pauline Van Gundy
of Slater proves her love for the stars
and stripes. In the letter she sent
to the Des Moines recruiting officer
she says: Il am greatly pleased to
see my boy, the only boy | have to
give, give his life for his country if
need be in this great hour of crisis.
] am willing to do and give all / have
for our great land, the dear old U. s.
A."
An Oskaloosa boy, Leroy Brammer,
died in a Des Moines hospital re-
Gently of q broken back received
while doing "slide for life" with a
carnival company showing at Dexter.
Brammer collided with tree while
making his descent from the Dexter
schoolhouse on a wire. The injured
boy was kept at Dexter for two weeks
and then was brought to a Des Moines
hospital. Efforts to save his life
proved futile. as-s4s,. ,.s.rl,- -ss.s.s. s..,
A military training camp will be
held at Ames this summer in con-
nection with the regular session of
the summer school. This camp is TO
provide training for young men who
want to enter Class A at FIT. Smelling
or who have been conscripted and
want to qualify for positions as Off
GERS. The camp will be open not only
to summer school students but to any
one who wishes to take the work.
The farmers of Polk county are
going after the crop proposition on q
big scale this spring. The four horse
team and the big tractor are samples
of the means being employed to in
crease the acreage and at the same
time reduce the labor item and the
number of men needed. The motto
on many farms is "A 100 per cent
corn crop and a no per cent weed
crop" .rqrr 1FEGT =
Fort Dodge is planning big Flag
Day celebration on June 14th. Ten
thousand people are to be in the pa
rade in which the local militia COM
panies and the men called by the
draft will have the place of honor. The
school children and all civic and fra
ternal organizations will march in the
parade. 4&g a.
Police raiders nipped in its INFANCY
what promised to be gay party in
Waterloo. Police took captive 1879
pints of whisky, two barrels of beer
and gallon jug of port wine. The
cheer stuff was all ready for the feast,
having been packed in ice for the oc-
casion. In the dining room a table
groaned under Dutch" eats.
A Des Moines man, Mr.. George Van
Evera, recently took an automobile
trip over the central part of the state
and in reporting his trip, stated that
he had never seen crop conditions
looking better than they are this
spring.
The infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
John Hoore of Kirkman is causing a
great deal Of curiosity in the COM
munity. She developed two teeth on
her lower jaw only a week or two
after birth.
According to reports from Madrid,
Louis Lang, printer, committed sui
eide recently by cutting his throat.
No motive for his act is known. He
leaves a mother, wife and two chill
dren.
With population of LOO Sheffield
has furnished "a men for the army
and navy and the town feels that it
should be listed in the honor roll of
Iowa towns.
A score OF young women in Council
Bluffs who have enlisted as Red Cross
nurses have been formally mustered
into the organization by DR.. MacRae,
head of the local Red Cross unit.
More than 100 high schools in the
state have been supplied with COM
mencement speakers by the extension
department Of the state university.
Herbert Seal, former farmer, re-
ceived hin certificate from the com
mercial department of the Western
Normal school at Shenandoah this
spring, at the same time that his
daughter Vera Seal graduated from
the ninth grade of the public school.
Mrs. Seal laughs about her two chill.
dren being graduated.
"A trifie more cheerful" is the e.
port from the Rev. Lyn George ].
Kelly at Logan. Mr.. Kelly filled the
Presbyterian pulpit few times there
several years ago. Although he has
many friends there, they have not
been allowed to talk with him.
Twelve hundred negro officers are
to be given a special course of train
ing at Fort Des Moines this summer.
The men will be chosen from the nom
commissioned officers and privates