Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-08-07
: LOCAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs. Charles Chidister of Fair
field, Iowa, came last Saturday for
| a weeks visit with relatives at the
II. W. Wilson and George B. Scott
home.
Howard Kittell and family of Har-
Ian were in the city Sunday visiting
friends, but came especially to hear
Bishop Stuntz, who made an adj
Miss Alma Oelke who accompa-
MED her parents on a trip to Yuma,
Colo, and Colorado Springs, and re-
turned with them last week for an
over Sunday visit here, departed
Tuesday morning for Omaha, where
she returns to her duties after a two
weeks vacation.
George Foley, accompanied by
his daughter, Cecilia and Miss Olga
Baker went to Carroll Sunday where
they visited his daughter, Miss
Elizabeth Foley. From there they
went to Lake View, where they spent
the afternoon and returned to Audi
bon late in the evening.
Edwin Van Gorder who has been
spending several weeks at Camp
Minocqua, Wis, and Charles Van
Gorder, who has been at Pike Lake
Lodge, Wis, returned home Tues
day morning The brothers said
they had good time fishing and
boating and having a vacation worth
while.
Mrs. Sarah Squire of Storm Lake
and Mrs. j. NJ Gibson of Chilli
Gothic, Mo-, who have been guests
| at the home of their brother, A. N.
Detwiler and family north of the
city, left Tuesday for Storm Lake,
where Mrs. Gibson will make an ex-
tended visit before returning to her
home.
AS long as it requires an 80 acre
| field for a starting and landing
! place for an air ship the ordinary
dooryard will not serve the purpose.
We have not yet reached the point
of development where the air ship
will become a general conveyance
for pleasure riding, but We may
soon get there.
C.. M. Jensen who lived in Audu-
bon many years but moved to Wat
! erloo several years ago, was in the
vicinity last week visiting at the
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| and family. He said he noticed
bon and regretted that he could not
stay longer for he was compelled to
return home Tuesday morning.
A number of Audubon people will
remember couple of young men
who visited the city recently. They
represented Simpson college and
were Mr.. Simpson of Atlantic and
Mr.. Fisher of Clarinda. These
two men with two others went to
the Burlington gravel pit Sunday to
take swim and young Fisher was
drowned. Rev. Proctor relates
that he was for a number of years
Fishers pastor. while the family
lived at Gravity.
Gravel is better than plain mud
for roads, but paving is enough bet
| ter than gravel that every city in
| the United States is paving its
| streets. Think of the millions
they could save if gravel were in
fact wholly meeting the need on the
streets. With every farmer own
ing an automobile and getting ready
to buy one or more trucks for
tquick marketing, the farm is just as
much in need of good roads as the
city of good streets.
Frank Higgins, who has just re-
turned from overseas service and
was honorably discharged at Camp
Dodge, arrived in the city Monday
for a short visit with his uncle, w.
II. Bolton and family. He was born
and raised in this county but moved
with his parents to Staples, Mimi,
several years ago His father, Roe
Higgins, was accidentally killed
about a year ago. Yesterday he
went to his home at Staples to re-
main with his mother.
According to the Des Moines Reg
lister there are $4,000 owners of au-
tomobiles in Iowa who have not
made application for license this
year. A number of special state
agents will soon be appointed by
Governor Harding to assist county
attorneys in the collection of delin-
\ quencies. A drive is to be start
ed in every county in the near flu
ture and if you are one of those
who have not made application this
year, you had better get busy.
1 Alex Caldwell and wife who 1--we
been enjoying a months visit with
relatives and old time friends at
| their former home, Morris, ILL.,, re-
turned home Monday evening. They
made the trip overland and had the
best time of their lives. Mr.. Cald-
well said a month ago when he left
here the crops in Illinois were
ahead of those in Iowa, but on his
return home he finds the Iowa crops
4 better than those in Illinois. En-
route home they stopped at Colona,
i ILL.,, for a short visit with Tom
Davis and wife whom they found en-
\ joying life as usual.
Joe b. Hurd of Medford, Oregon.
was in Audubon over Sunday to visit
his grandmother, Mrs. Laura Hurd
and other relatives. The young man
is a son of Elijah Hurd who was at
one time a teacher in our schools
and an attorney here. He has been
4 student in college at Wichita,
Kansas. the last year and is now
hurrying home to meet brother
who returned from government EN-
ployment in Peru, South America,
and to say farewell to a sister who is
about to leave as a missionary. The
coming year he expects to continue