Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-09-02

| fill vacancy, the name of Matthew
| Czizek, democratic candidate for CON
/! gress, will not be placed upon the bal
lot.
Joseph Lewis of Lone Tree was
badly bruised in runaway. He
| chung to the dashboard, holding his
three daughters from being thrown
out. The horse was stopped later
| by Frank Kline, Jr.
William Alvin Burch and his sister,
Mrs. Harriet Grace German, both of
Clarinda, have brought suit in Dis
trict Court to break their fathers
will of his estate of 100000. William
was bequeathed $500 and his sister
s..
William Rouse, 95 years old, one
of the oldest men in Perry, a resi-
dent of Dallas county since Des
Moines was a village, and a veteran
of the Mexican war, is dead at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. c. D.
| Crane.
Eva Vanleuvan, Is is under arrest
| at Council Bluffs on charges of steal
ing diamond ring and other jewelry
from the home of Mrs. Carrie Lock
wood while she was being entegtain-
ed by Mr.. Lockwood during his wifes
absence.
Miss Beryl Hart, former member
of the Iowa University faculty, was
recommended by the Columbia Uni
versity officials to the Belgian COM
mittee of the Commission for Relief
in Belgium, and was appointed to
a fellowship overseas by the COM
mission. Miss Hart is the daughter
i Of Former County Attorney w. r.
Hart, ST., and sister of Lieutenant
Hart, Jr., of Iowa City.
George V. Puntney died at the home
of his daughter Mrs. Nellie Sanborn,
at Cresco. Mr.. Puntney had reach
ed the ripe age of one hundred years.
He was one of the early pioneers of
Winneshiek country, going there from
Virginia, as millwright He built
the first saw mill on the Canoe creek
in the year 1851 Subsequently, he
built flour mill at Plymouth Rock
and ran it for a number of years.
Iowa has collected $50, 1915 .25 in
license fees from 1911 to July Is, 1920
a period of ten years, from owners
of autos, trucks, and motor vehicles
that ply the highways of the state
During that period of time, Iowans
have purchased 384,717 more gasoline
and electric motor vehicles than they
had in 1911. Up to July Is, 1920, To-
vans had registered 414,786, motor
vehicles while in 1911 they registered
and paid license fees for only 3O,069
motor vehicles.
One of the most unique gatherings
ever held will come together at Ro-
land on the afternoon of Sunday, Aug
~ In the forenoon beginning at IL
o'clock there will be special services
in the English language at the Ber-
gen church. Immediately after the
services the survivors among the TAG
men and women who have been con-
firmed by the Rev G. Smedal, pastor
of the Bergen Lutheran church, will
gather on the Bergen parsonage lawn
for a picnic dinner.
4 The activities of the state educa-
tlonol department of Iowa, which has
ATTRACTED the attention of citizens
and educators in other states, prompt
ed Francis A. Sta2ger, Jr., an attor-
ney, OF Bridgeton N. j., to visit the
state capitol to confer with Superin-
tendent McClenahan on the plan of
school consolidation in the country
4 districts. 1t is his intention to sub
NIT the Iowa plan for consolidated
schools to the board Of education in
his home county.
Railroads operating in Iowa will on
August 10th have in hand revised
schedules covering freight and pas
senger rates they wish effective in
this territory. On August II, the
Iowa State railroad commission will
meet again, and either pprove or dis
approve of the schedules. Between
August 10 and II, associations of ship
pers or others interested may have
Tune to study the rates asked by the
railroads, and be ready on August II
to voice either approval or disapprov-
al in part or in total.
| Fumes from the gasolene in paint
with which Merle Ferren, of Colo.
was covering the walls of cistern at
his home, came near proving fatal.
! The young man had been working in
the cistern for some time. His mo.
| Their, who was working in the kitchen
lnearby missed his usual noise at
work after time and going to the
cistern found that he had toppled
lover and was lying in the bottom ap.
parently unconcious Help was al
Ionee Summoned and he was removed
IN an Unconscious condition
| Passenger travel between interior
Iowa points is likely to cost no more
/ than M does now aNnr After tln on