Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1920-12-30
Iowa News
Items Of Interest
Summarized for
Busy Readers.

Lora hlrsman, 3-year-old son or Mr.
and Mrs. Theodore Kirsman of Ottum
wa, died recently from effects of fall
ing into kettle of boiling water.
G. H. Peppers of Centerville, is su
ing his mother-in-law, Mrs. Holmberg
for $4,000 in Los Angeles now, fol
alternating his wife's affections.
The Woodbury. county board Of SUI
pervisors recently completed letting
contract for paving seventeen miles
of country road at a total cost OF
100000
John Despennett, of Oskaloosa, pa.
rolled from Anamosa, was sentenced
to life Imprisonment by Judge Dewey
for entering a home with a loaded
weapon.
Paul B. Anderson, nephew of Pro-
fessor and Mrs. C. E. Seashore of
Iowa City, will sail for Europe Christ
mas Eve, where he will join the In
ternational Y. NJ. C. A. staff.
Bad roads Jared loose a seam in
the gas talk of a car belonging to
Frank Menneka, garage man of Ma
quoketa, which caused gas leak.
The gas ignited and the car burned
up.
Cut off with $500, when the will of
his brother, w. L. Paup, left $4,000
each to the other brothers, Joseph
Paup of Harlan is contesting the will,
charging undue influence and mental
incapacity.
Three Iowa people are among 100
heirs to the $S,0OO0O0 Wycoff estate
in New York. They are H. e. Wy
coff, Cedar Rapids; ]. A. Walker, SO,
laborer, Atlantic, and Mrs. ]. w.
Lucas of Glenwood All of the heirs
have been summoned to gather in
Glenwood at the Lucas home to dis
CPS plans for having the estate di-
vided.
Wapello county's first tragedy of
the hunting season occurred recent
ly when Peter Polls living in OF
tumwa was instantly killed when the
trigger of shotgun he was remov-
ing from a wagon caught on the end
gate and discharged the weapon. The
shot entered the right side. He was
dead when his companions reached
his side.
U. B. Slaughter, well known farmer
of Shelby county, topped the Omaha
market recently with load of finish
ed Angus yearlings which sold for
$1S.75 and averaged 958 pounds. The
cattle were the first of their class
seen on the market for some weeks
and the price paid was not only the
top for that day, but the highest paid
in some weeks.
The creation of the office Of state
archiest is proposed by P. e. Nc
Clenahan, state superintendent Of pub
lie instruction, who. is arranging to
have the matter brought to the atten.
ton of the Legislature. His duties,
as outlined by McClenahan, would be
TO inspect and approve the plans for
all public buildings including school
houses, and to supervise their con
struction.
Edward Brady, who was arrested in
Des Moines, has confessed that he
slipped the guns to the FIVE bandits
who, escaping jail at LeMars. killed
the son of Sheriff Maxwell a year
ago. He is said to have implicated
others. The bandits are now in Fort
Madison for life, on their pleas OF
guilty to the attorney general after
their capture a few days following
their escape.
The board of supervisors in special
session at Corydon awarded a CON
tract for the building of eleven miles
of road in Wayne county to the Lit
tig Construction company of Daven
port. The contract price 10 49.4 cents
a yard, 101a cents below the contract
price for road work in Wayne coun
ty a year ago. There are $4,000
yards of road, making the total cost
OF the improvement about $4,000.
Seven inspectors, appointed four
months ago by the state auto depart
ment to apprehend license evaders
have collected fees amounting to $35,
BIO, according to the report of Chief
Inspector w. c. Merchens, made pub
lie In addition the inspectors, the
report shows, visited 1907 garages
instructing the garage owners in re
gard to the state laws relative to rec.
ording the license numbers of autos
engines and the names of owners and
drivers of machines left in storage
repaired or rented. The fees collect.
ed include license payments for 1852
autos. ST. chauffeurs, 1,475 ownership
transfers and 146 requirements of
lost license plates.
The picture theater, residence
belonging to Clarence Smith and an
old building formerly used as a movie
house were burned at Carson The
Corning fire department could not
help because of the bad roads.
Charles and John Zhorne, farmers
near Tama. have recently finished
husking 5000 bushels of corn on their
place and in addition have filled a
large silo. The former husked 100
bushels of corn a day a number of
times, while his average was 80 bu.
shells day. John Zhorne husked on
an average Of 20 bushels each day.
Friends and neighbors of Mrs. Mil
lie Cox of near Winterset gathered l.
600 bushels of corn for her in a sin.
gle day recently. Mrs. Cox's husband
died following an operation at a hos
pital in Des Moines in the early part
of October, leaving her with the care
OF three children.
w. A. Moore of Gibson, Iowa. and
Mrs Hanna Stewart of Cedar Rapids
are in hospital suffering from seri-