Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-12-16


cloudy, cold weather.
I Lawrence Eagen of Bevington, Ia,
had several ribs fractured, when his
automobile turned turtle.
P. L. and Frank Lovelace, Negroes,
and brothers, killed each other in
pistol duel at Sioux City.
j. w. Fowler OF Clearfeld was
found dead at his home, as result of
! the accidental discharge OF his shot
gun.
While climbing over wire fence
with his % rifle Fred Hopkins, 81
years old, well-to-do farmer at Mt.
Ayr, was instantly killed
Voters in the Killduff school dis
trict near Newton, refused to sane
ton issuance of $4,000 bonds to erect
a new consolidated school building.
w. w. Waters, a breeder of Perch
eron horses in Johnston county was
awarded - ribbons at the Internation-
al Livestock Show. recently held in
Chicago.
Ted Clark, q years old, of Nevada.
is now in the state reformatory at
Anamosa under sentence of three
years for conspiracy to rob Andrew
Jorgenson, farmer.
A concert by Iowa composers of
their own work, featured the bien-
/ NAL contest and convention of the
Iowa Federation OF Musical Clubs,
which was held at Grinnell
Miss Mary G. Harper, superintend-
ent of nurses at the hospital of the
University of Iowa, has been elected
president of the Iowa State Nurses
Association for the coming year.
Whit Robinson of Atlantic is in
hospital at Faribault, Mimi. suffer
ing from severe wounds received
when he lost his footing and plunged
headlong against a revolving buzz
saw.
The farmers of Warren county have
saved $37,775 during the past year
| through the market work of the coun-
ty farm bureau, not including the
enormous saving on $3.50 pounds of
wool now in the warehouses of the
| Wool Growers association at Chicago
Five persons were injured none
seriously when Burlington mail train
crashed into a passenger train at the
depot at Creston. None of the cars
| left the track. Failure of the passen-
| ger train to clear the incoming track
on time caused the accident.
| Harry Morelan, we'll known farmer,
| living few miles from Iowa Falls,
sustained loss of several thousa nd
dollars recently. when his barn and
implement shed were destroyed by
| fire. Included in the loss were II
| head of cattle, horses, hay, grain and
farm implements.
| The friends of Mr.. c. Dant gathered
| at his home near Mount Ayr recently
and husked his so acres of corn. The
ladies of the neighborhood furnished
| free hot dinner. Mr. Dant sustain
ed an injury recently which made it
impossible for him to work and his
/ him out.
Harold Grundon, IS years old of FIT.
Dodge was killed by a. taxi c. Eas-
| ton. driver of the taxi. was held by
the police for investigation. He
claims it was purely accidental The
boy was hauling a little wagon OF
groceries in the middle of the street
He lived only few minutes after
the taxi hit him. Ess
| Information against A. j. McKen.
| zie, United States prohibition officer
at Dubuque, on charge of having re.
ceived $3.50 to cover a violation OF
the national prohibition act at Car.
roll, Iowa, has been fled by" United
States Attorney Frank sO'Connor. The
case is the first to be recorded in the
district against prohibition officer
serving in that territory.
/ One Of the show places OF Iowa, this
fall, is the 3200-acre corn field of the
! Adams ranch, short distance from
Odebolt In order to harvest this
| enormous crop more than 100 wagons
drawn by 200 mules, are used The
Il ldllu was lOIIlClIv huOWu dS lne
i Wheeler ranch and belonged to H. C
1 Wheeler, we'll known in Iowa some
years ago. as candidate for COVER
nor against Horace Boies.
Two former Iowans are sailing or
the Pacific Mail liner Venezuela from
San Francisco for the far east. tbs
4 American Baptist Foreign Mission so
ciety announces. The Rev. and Mrs
Homer C. Nycum Of Keota and Wool
4 stock. respectively, are going to take
\ up missionary work, in Burma: Mrs
Edna Webster Nycum is a member
Of Eagle Grove Baptist church. The.
will be stationed at Moulmein, Burma
Albert Hunter near Mount Avn. was
found lying dead in his orchard where
he had been working. His death was
due to apoplexy. He was 50 year.
old and lived on this farm for fifty
seven years.
Jimmy Hamilton and Roy Gin;
were sentenced to life term of HARD
| labor at tha state nriSon at Fort Ma6i