Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-01-06
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NEWS VI !: /; |:


Linn County will vote down the ST.
100000 bond issue for the new court,
house, if the farmers get their way.
James w. White, formerly of
Boone, will assist in the laying of 1876
miles of pipe in France. White will
sail for France at once
- G. A. McAtee, formerly of Glidden,
Iowa, was found not guilty of annoy
ing 13-year-old Helen Anderson, Des
Moines, when he appeared for trial
in Municipal court.
l. E. Brumbaugh, we'll known far
mer of near Avoca marketed load
of lambs on the Omaha market re-
Gently for which he received $115O.
S. e. erase of Waterloo was pre-
sented with fine gold watch for
deed in which he stopped train from
going over wrecked trestle during
binding rainstorm
Because she was afraid of banks,
Mrs. Honora Smith of Guthrie Center
in charge of the affairs of the j. P.
Randall estate, hid $S45 in a heating
stove. 1t is now in ashes.
The consolidated school and town
public library Of Arispe, burned re-
Gently with a loss of $4,000. The in
surance on the building was $4,000.
What caused the fire is unknown.
The O'Brien county Breeders AS
ISOLATION recently held their second
annual consignment sale at the sales
pavilion in Sheldon. Nearly 10 head
were offered by various consignors.
Prices were good.
w. C. Dickson of Bloomfield re-
covered 81 damages from his So West
Grove neighbors, against whom he
brought suit for $4,000 for violently
forcing him to buy Liberty Bonds and
contributing to the Red Cross during
the war.
When Mrs. Charles E. Green, Of
Waterloo died last July she asked as
a dying request that if her daughter
marry she thought it would be appro-
pirate to have the ceremony in the
Brotherhood of Yeomen lodge room,
suance of this promise Miss Alma
Green and Stanley E. Ingersoll were
married in the presence of 200 Yeo-
men.
After thirty years Walter Bright,
adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. Noel
Bright, farmers near Massena, has
just learned the identity of his par
ents and that they are living. His
Father, William Halverson, is a me-
chanic living at Oelwein, Ia. The
mother, who was divorced from Hal
version many years ago, married a
man named Donavan. She lives at
independence.
The five children of l.. C. Rierson,
farmer, living six miles north of Ne
vada, were given $4,000 recently.
The gift is 500 acre farm. located
five miles northwest of Nevada, pre-
sented to them by their father. The
children are Ward L.. Lawrence and
Netty Rierson, all living with their
parents, and Mrs. r. H. Mcneil of Ne
vada, and Mrs. F. H. Mcneil of Nc
Callsburg. The farm is valued at APP
proNimately $3.50 an acre.
The farm bureau women of Pow
eshiek county have just finished a
county wide campaign on citizenship.
Meetings were held at four points in
the county, with a total attendance
of over 600. Professor Gannaway OF
Grinnell College was secured to lead
in the work. All township chairmen
and school district co-operators of the
h,r
William Allison is the county chair
man of the women's division.
John Power and his nephew, Cur
tiss Love, were drowned near West
Bend recently. Power, was 43 and
the nephew was IS. The Love boy
had made his home with his uncles
John and l.. e. Power for seven
years. The boy has left his home to
look after his traps and in crossing
the bayou ii is believed he went thru
the ice. His uncle, hearing his cries
is thought to have gone to the boys
rescue, and both were drowned.
John Bickle of Centerville Iowa
is in an Illinois Jail and Louis Cora
lies seriously wounded in hospital
following the shooting of Cora near
Glencoe, Illinois. Mickle gave him.
self up to the police at Chicago and
dc'.lared he shot Cora because the
latter had insulted his bride of six
days. Cora is said to have been a
disappointed sutton and to have fol
lowed Mrs. Mickle in an endeavor &c
have her leave her husband.
Iowa has long been recognized as
the leading agricultural state of the
union; and itNis therefore eminent7s
fitting that an Iowan should be in
charge Of the Agricultural Depart
ment of the government. For many
years this has been true, and fol
nearly the entire life of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, the same has
been presided over by an Iowan. AND
now. our President-elect Harding, has
announced that the new Secretary oil
Agriculture will be Henry c. Wallace