Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-15

The Marshalltown State bank will
erect a $125,00O building.
b. L. Smith, 81 years old and an
Iowa City civil war veteran, is dead.
Westcott & Winks of Clarion will
put up a produce building to cost
$4,000.
Leon Wallace Of Cascade, working
at a well drill, was killed by slip
ping rope.
Bishop j. w. Bashford in his will
bequeathed his love and best wishes
to Sioux City.
Mr. and Mrs. Thompson Tucker Of
Marshalltown celebrated their sixth
eth wedding anniversary.
Eugene Goodwin of Rowley won
the $1,000 prize offered by an eastern
newspaper for the best song.
A committee of 100 men and WON
en- are canvassing Tabor for 100000
endowment for Tabor college.
At Newton the assessors books
show total OF $4,229,724. an in
crease Of 100000 over last year.
DR.. E. r. Talley of Grinnell has In
vented substitute for rubber which
can be made for cents pound.
Peter Allen Lynch, 80 years old,
the oldest pioneer and civil war vet
eran in Jefferson county, is dead.
F. e. Dubes, M A. Cass and Ed
Durband have bought $50 acres at
$34O an acre from Will Nicholson at
Lemars
The Fort Dodge Red Gross sent
$40 to each of the Webster county
soldiers with the One Hundred Six
ty-eighth.
Henry w. Rothert, superintendent
Of the Iowa School for the Deaf. at
Council Bluffs for thirty-two years,
has resigned.
Women were the big Victory loan
bond buyers at Webster City. Mrs.
j. L. Kamrar took $500 and Mrs.
g. A. Brennecke took $4,000.
Two new garages are being built
at Oelwein, one for 100000 by the
Oelwein Auto company, and the 9TH
er for $4,000 by Frank P. Kint.
A fund of $4,000 has been raised
by johnson county farmers and bust
ness men to put over the hard road
proposition at an election to be held
soon.
The Webster City fair manage.
ment will include in it's catalogue
and premium list this year the
names of the 1853 men sent out by
: Hamilton county to the war.
The school teachers who are on
strike at Waverly, have been given
the right to ask Governor Harding
to name board to arbitrate their
differences with the board Of direct
ors.
Plans are making at Sioux City
for the s1,0O0,000 War Eagle hotel.
to be eleven stories high, to have 314
rooms and possibility for enlarge
ment to provide 200 more and to be
fireproof.
Leo Stanton, of Sioux City, 16
years old, student of Dubuque col
lege,. was found dead in bed. Slant
on was injured in the abdomen in a
baseball game. Death is ascribed to
organic heart trouble brought on by
the injury.
AS a result of adoption by. the SUI
pervisors Of Black Hawk county of
resolution calling for referendum
vote on the question of hard sur
faced roads on June 8, that county
will be the first in the state to vote
under the new law. The resolution
was unanimously adopted by the
board
Adjutant General Louis G. Lasher
and Lieut., Col. Frank 3. Lyman, who
have returned from the special meet
ing of the National Guard association
at St. Louis, report that the guard
has Instituted movement to abso-
lutely divorce itself from the regular
army. The movement is the out
growth OF the experiences of the
guard under the regular army in the
world war.
Somebody may have chance to
buy the town Of Runnels. District
Judge Thomas Guthrie granted a
Judgment Of $2.327.21 to the Farmers
Savings bank of Runnels against the
town of Runnells for failure on the
part Of the town to pay warrants to
the above named amount. Failure
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of the town to make good on the war
rants could result in the sale Of the
town to satisfy the Judgment.
Talk about your big money for
hogs, Joe n Roberts Of Grant, is
coming to the front with one that
stands well above the twobit class.
He sold one in Elliott last week that
tipped the beam at go pounds and
brought $119.56, the price of a good
horse. Not only that but he sold
twenty-three head averaging 329
pounds that brought in check large
enough to pay for at least five acres
Of good Iowa land, the amount being
$1.4SS.72.
Some months ago M. McGrath Of
Clarion sent registered letter to
England to soldier boy. Last week
1t was returned to him as delivery
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