Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-04-10

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Over $4,000 electors, majority,
| signed the petition for the removal of
| the county seat from Marion to Cedar
Rapids
L. B. Speers of Davenport. who was
charged with larceny offered to en-
list and was allowed to do so. He
returned there after year of brave
service for Uncle Sam in France and
the charge has been dismissed.
The Krebs farm of 100 acres, mile
east of Dysart was sold by auction to
Butler county farmer for $685. an
acre. Before leaving the ground the
new owner disposed Of the place at
| a $40 an acre raise, getting $345 an
acre.
| Walter Craddock, Muscatine car
! penter, who squirmed and writhed
| in agony, and scratched continually.
was sentenced to two baths day
for the next ten days when he was
hailed before Police Magistrate John
c. Higgins Of Davenport
Mrs. J. Lankton is quite Ill at her
home in Sidney. It is thought some
lglass has lodged in her throat A Jar
lof peanut butter was being opened
and broke and it is feared some Of
the splinters were left in the butter.
Her throat is badly swollen and Is
causing much suffering.
!. Arthur Busk of Fonda, life convict,
has confessed that he was author of
the $1,000 silk robbery at Fonda,
three years ago. The silk was sold In
st. Paul. Buck is serving life SEN
tence for numbering two officers at
Minot, N. D. He formerly lived at
Forest City, Iowa. He told officers
he had been in the Iowa penitentiary.
for burglary.
| Henry +. Lamphere Of Grinnell,
who has just returned from Camp
\ Mcclellan. Ala, for short stay at
home brings an interesting story Of
another Grinnell man engaged in Red
Cross work. Just before he left Camp
4 Mcclellan, Mr.. Lamphere got in touch
with Mr.. Lyon and learned that the
latter is expecting to leave soon for
the first lap Of III slong trip to ST.
IBERIA, where he will be engaged in
active Red Cross work.
Who shall be the guardian of pref
ty, winsome 14-year-old Carmela Ag-
mes, Fines? Shall it be her father, her
stepfather or her grandfather? Each
is claiming the child and the courts
of three counties and two states have
been petitioned to adjudicate the case
or some branch of It's complicated
features. James Edmund Fines of Des
Moines is the father. Charles w. Odell
of Chicago is the stepfather Former
& State Senator Charles g. Hipwell Of
Davenport is the grandfather. The
GIRLS mother died last December. She
was a resident of Chicago and her
daughter bore the name of her step.
father and lived with them there,
Farmers of near Hampton are be-
ing solicited by the Hampton-Kelley
Canning company for acreage for
sweetcorn for the coming season. Sol
icitaors have been handicapped by
the bad condition Of the roads, but
many farmers are calling at the Of
fees, and there is no doubt that the
local factory will have to run to ca.
pacity to care for the cereal. Even
from Geneva 1t is stated, there are
many who express a willingness to
grow sweetcorn and a loading station
may be installed there to avoid the
long haul by wagon. The highest
price so far offered by the company
$14 per ton, is to be paid this season
and this is quite an inducement With
this crop, the farmer can market ii
early, has the fodder left, or can clear
the ground and fall pillow early If he
wishes The u. S. Government will
take large part of the product fol
the soldiers.
Oscar Ruff of Sioux City, for the
second time won verdict against
the Western Iowa company when II
district court recently jury award
ing him $71,532.74, the full amount O.
damages for which he sued for the
+ loss of his drug stock incurred IL
the collapse of the Hedges building
The jury was out less than foul
hours. The verdict was the larges
!, ever returned by a jury in the Wood
: bury county courts. Attorneys fol
the Western Iowa company said the,
I would ask for new trial and failin.
: in this would take an appeal to tn,
supreme court. The Ruff case wa
. tried three times in the district court
The jury disagreed in the first trial
: Mr.. Ruff was awarded $500 in tn,
second hearing. The defendants wer,
granted new trial when their al
,torneys argued the court had ere,
in admitting testimony following
Hypothetical question by counsel TO
Mr.. Ruff
C. A. Barden of Oskaloosa recent,
sued ON note thirty years old an.
recovered Judgment.
Thomas H. Macdonald of Iowa vii
he in charge of highway work for tn
4 deDartment of apricuJt,,ra oooord;,,