Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-27

Seuahef CdlS company at Cylinder,
wrote out check to Dennis McTigue
for $l6,S71.30 for 1883 bushels OF
(. corn delivered to him during the past
few weeks. All Of the corn was rails
ed on Mr.. McTigue's farm near Cylin.
der. Mr.. O'Halloran has been in the
grain business for twenty-five years
and this, is the largest check he ever
gave to any party.
An entire train will be necessary
to carry the household goods, ma
chinery and stock of the farmers
from the vicinity of Perry who are
going to Minnesota this spring. AL
ready twenty-four cars have been
spoken for. They will be chartered
by men who are attracted by the low
er priced land in the vicinity of Tracy
and Walnut Grove, MINI. About IS
per cent of the men, have bought
farms there and the others will 60 as
tenants
Patriotic societies of Marshalitown,
including the G. A. r., w. r.. c., Span
ish war veterans and the soldiers of
the world war, have fled with the
board OF supervisors strong petition
asking that a county memorial to the
soldiers be built In that city. The
board before acting on the petition
and presenting it for vote of the
people, will ask for an expression of
whether a monument or building is
preferred, and place the question be-
fore the voters.
John R. tHoskins, the Prescott farm
er who recently killed his wife and his
two stepchildren with a club, is as
closely guarded as IL he was under
sentence of death and in charge of
death watch, two guards keeping
n!sst and day vigil over him, both as
a protection against possible harm
from without and to prevent any at
tempt at suicide, which he failed to
accomplish the day he slew the mem.
bers of his family. Hoskins has been
sentenced to life imprisonment.
Chris Colome, Colome, s. D., a
graduate OF Carlisle school, reputed
to be one of the 1wealthiest indian
land owners in the United States, was
in Sioux City recently. Mr.. Colome,
arting with half section Of land,
$ won. wealth through his own eff
IT'S. After graduating from Carlisle
entered the real estate business
d has been associated with w. H.
ackett in many large land deals in
nth Dakota. Mr.. Colome wears
damond which cost $4,000. As a boy
he participated in the Wounded
Knee uprising.
Mrs Minnie Woodhead of Pine
City, Mimi, and former resident OF
near Jefferson, probably holds the big
gest Red Cross record of any woman
in the state Of Iowa. She has worked
on an average of seven hours day
for $40 days, including Sundays. She
began Red Cross work July Is, 1917,
and completed her eighteen months
work January Is, 1919. She has de-
voted more than 1900 hours to this
patriotic work. She has wound and
knit Is pounds of yarn which has been
converted into 1O2 large helmets, 81
sweaters. 40 trench caps, III pairs OF
socks, las afghan squares, z wristlets,
2 scarfs and IL hospital sponges. In
addition to the above knitting, Mrs.
Woodhead has sewed together and
edged four afghans and made Ameri-
can flag centers for three Of these.
Earl Caddock. champion wrestler
of the world, will probably wrestle
TO retain his title in the Olympic
meet to be held in Paris in the
spring. Caddock, who is now a ser
geant with the Eighty-eighth divi-
sion. was all ready to sail for home.
He was booked to sail and was
dreaming of seeing the New York sky
line and after that-his wife in Wal
nut. Then came the orders taking
him off the sailing lists and shooting
him back to the headquarters troop
with the Eighty:eighth at Gondre-
court. Sergeant Caddock is now busy
collecting a suitable number OF cuss
words with which to express himself.
The Olympic meet will be stipend
GUS tournament which will be unpre-
cedented in the history OF the world.
paddock will be given an opportunity
10 set up such an indisputable claim
to the International wrestling crown
as has never before been given a
grappler. Here are his own words In
regard to It: III the division is over
here until the Olympics and / feel in
the right sort of condition. ii feel
as good as 1 was. shall enter the
meet" Caddock declared. .but L am
not In form now. am below weight,
never weiged more than 1870 during
all of my wrestling days, but am now
down to ia. and l don't feel right,
haven't felt right since left the
States"
George L. Dobson. prominent Iowa
republican and one time American
consul to China. died. at Redmond
Ore, recently. Mr.. Dobson was 81
years old and had been resident of