Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-07-22

Mike Ford of Cedar Rapids, paving
contractor and theater owner is dead
Two fremen were badly injured
when fire trucks collided at Water
loo.
Baskerville now has permanent
secretary for her Chamber of Com
merce.
William l. Chamberlain, president
of lowe State college from 1886 to
1890, died at his home in Hudson, o.
He was 81 years old.
Thieves entered a clothing store at
Iowa City recently and stole articles
of clothing valued at more than ST..
600. They have not been apprehend-
ed.
All officers of the Iowa Letter Car
riers Association were reelected at
the annual convention at Clinton
They will meet at Cedar Rapids next
year.
c. A. Finkbine, founder, and for
many years president and general
manager of the Wisconsin Lumber
company of Des Moines, died at his
home recently.
Marion county has new county
engineer in the person Of Robert
johnson. who comes to Knoxville
from keokuk county, where he was
county engineer for the past year.
Eight are dead. two seriously in
jured, 20 were taken to hospitals in
Humboldt, FIT. Dodge and Livermore
as the result of wreck caused when
an NJ. & st. l.. passenger train plung
ed through trestle near Arnold.
Herbert Ashby and Carl E. Symon,
young bandits who shot Louis Fine
of Cedar Rapids while staging a hold
up of his store, were sentenced to 80
years in the state reformatory at Ana
mose. There We're taken to prison
Immediately.
Gov. j. A A. Burnquist recently
sent kilograms to the governors OF
North Dakota, South Dakota, Wiscon
sin and Iowa, asking them to join
him in urging President Wilson to ap-
point a temporary federal fuel adj
ministrator to solve the present coal
| situation.
The body OF Guy Rankin. wealthy
farmer living near Harvey, who was
drowned recently was found by po-
lice and sheriffs two and one-half
miles down the river from the point
where he went under Rankin and
his wife were swimming about log
when he started across the river for
The third annual meeting of the
Lake Okoboj Epworth league insti-
camp grounds at Spirit Lake from
/ July 10 to %. The Rev. w H.
Spence ofaNIorningside, who has serv.
ed as dean of the institute faculty
for two years, will continue in that
capacity.
The league OF Iowa municipalities.
composed of town and city officers
from all over the state, will convene
in Des Moines Aug. II, to 10 incln
sive AT about the same time, the
state organization of county officials
will meet in Des Moines and it is
tainments for the two associations
another log. telling his wife to wait
The recent purchase Of the only
general store at Farmer by the stock
holders of the Farmers Cooperative
Elevator Co., has given them control
of the town. Besides the general
store they control the elevator, lum-
Der yard and blacksmith shop. The
town was formerly known as Glas-
Cow and is located few miles from
Cedar Falls
Third in rank in the entire United
States in the civil service examina-
lions held by the United States geo.
logical survey was the position at
tanned by Waldo Clock of Vinton
who received his bachelors degree
this June from the State University
of Iowa Mr.. Clock was one of the
five in the college of liberal arts to
graduate with highest distinction
No republican nominee for COVER
nor will be selected at the state con-
vention in Des Moines July 20 until
the delegates have answered at least
FIVE calls of the roll of counties is the
opinion of those in authority Then
if deadlock between the Moore,
Kendall Deems and Havner dele
gates still exists, dark horse may
be called into play.
Frank Hanson, aviator, who fell 4 :
600 feet to his death in an attempted
parachute leap at Casper, Wyo was
buried in Hampton. Hanson was an
Iowa boy and leaves his parents and
!. six brothers. His death was due to
the failure of a new type Of para.
chute to open properly. When it fin.
ally caught the wind the boy had
attained such velocity that the har
ness was stripped from his body. "a
Leaning against a loose screen in
the third story of his home, Ole Olson
81 years old, fell to his death below
His death was instantaneous, a .brok
en- neck being revealed by the cor
oner's inquest.