Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-02-22

NEWS FROM OTHER
PARTS OF IOWA
Verna, the 12-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. E. 7. Neer, of near
Griswold, was the victim of a pc
culiar accident when she fractured
one of her legs while playing with
the other children of the Pleasant
Ridge school at the noon hour Mon
day. In playing she collided with one
of the other children.
/ Tuesday morning Bruce w. Engle
stole a march on his brother. Walter
and at the Christian church parsonage
| of Atlantic, Bruce Engle, son of Mr..
and Mrs. j. F. Engle of Wiota. was
united in marriage to Verbeudah, the
daughter of James Morgan of Anita.
The only witnesses were the parents
of the groom. The -newlyweds will
make their home after the first OF
March, at Billings Mont, until a
house is erected on the Engle ranch
nearby.
| John Day, a we'll known young
farmer living near Lorimor, was in
stantly killed in an automobile ac-
cident Friday morning. The accident
occurred about seven miles west of
Lorimor. Mr.. Day was driving a
Chandler car and was going so fast
that he failed to take the turn on a
bridge at the foot of hill. The car
went over the embankment, turned
over three times and Mr.. Day was
dead when picked up, his neck being
broken. He was alone.
Fearing an epidemic of scarlet
fever at New Market and to guard
against contagion, the public schools,
churches, moving picture shows and
all other places of general meeting
are closed. So far only one sure case
has developed, that being Edna
Mason, the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Mason. Another case has
been reported and is thought to be
scarlet fever, but as yet the physi-
clans have not fully determined the
nature of the illness.
Word reached Red Oak that a jury
in a Kansas City court awarded
(Blackie) Mansfield judgement for
$2,250 against the Burns detective
agency. The damages were for third
degree measurers used in trying to in
duce him to confess to the Villisca
AK murder and for dragging him into
a grand jury investigation in this
county from which he was exonerated
Mansfield testified that the detective
brandished an ak over him slapped
| his face. threatened TO throw him in
to the river and otherwise misused
him. Mansfield has damage suit
pending against Iowa officials.
After forty-one years in the cloth
ing business in Atlantic during which
time he has seen the town grow from
a village and has seen two generations
come and go, Charles Block, pioneer
clothier, who for many number of
years has been associated in the bus
mess with his son, Ike NJ. Klock, I'M
der the name of Block & Son. con-
cluded deal for the sale of the bus
mess to the latter and has retired.
The change in ownership is of more
than passing moment in the business
| life of Atlantic. The retiring senior
members of the firm went to Atlantic
in 1876 and established clothing
business.
Word was received at Wiota We'd
nesday morning at the home of Otis
Roe and wife, that their son-in-law,
DR.. John l.. Pollock, formerly of that
place and more recently of Hanley
Falls, Mimi. was found frozen to
death after he had been on a call
and had been missing tive days from
home. His wife is the eldest daugh-
ter of Otis Roe and wife. Mr. Roe left
on the early morning train for Abba.
where he met his daughter and the
body as the interment will be made
there, where his parents live. He
leaves widow, his parents and two
brothers, one of whom DR.. ID. X.
Pollock. formerly lived in Atlantic,
and the other lives ct Abba.
! A resolution adopted by represen-
tative meeting in the Commercial club
of Wapello county citizens with far
mers predominating, urged that the
county take no backward step in road
Legislation now pending, and that the
Johnston road law is not representa-
tive of the majority of the people
of the county. 1t also included the
appointment of committee of three
or more men to confer with the rep
resentatives of the county in the leg
islature at as early date as possible.
A motion prevailed urging all present
to ask their friends as well to write
the representatives in the legislature
urging their opposition to the John
ston bill. Five men were named to
go to Des Moines to see the legisla-
tors.
coroner's inquest was held Mon
day over the body of an infant child
which was found dead in the attic
of house occupied by Mrs. Hoyr
Pizer at Iowa Center. Mrs. PiZer
was divorced from her husband last
April and has four children. She ad-
mitted finally the babe was hers and
that she was alone when she gave
birth to the child. She said that the
babe lived just few minutes and
being alone she wrapped II in quilt
and put II in a trunk and was going
to give ii decent burial as soon as
she was able to. The babe was taken
to Nevada and placed in the Morfoot
undertaking establishment. The cor
oner's jury found that the infant had
died. or come to it's death by manner
unknown to the jury.
An interesting character is Henry
HOLLYWOOD of Hamburg. Mr.. Holm
wood has drawn but SIS of his sal
airy in two years in spite of these
days when so much is told of the