Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-11-03
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Mrs. Elizabeth w. Stewart of Ce-
Oar Rapids has been granted a di-
vorce in Chicago from her million
aire husband.
Sixty thousand dollars was the total
loss in fires during a "a hour period
near Atlantic The first was at Anita
and the other at Kirkman.
A $500 reward for the capture of
the gunner who killed one man at
Murray, and wounded three others,
is offered by Governor N. E. Kendall.
The War Finance Corporation re-
Gently approved loans to three Iowa
banks for agricultural purposes in
amounts of $4,000, $4,000 and s1O,-
600.
After being blind from an attack
OF scarlet fever the fve-year-old son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. SEVERN Markussen
OF Cedar Falls has regained his eye
sight.
The Jackson State Savings bank of
Maquoketa will reopen. The County
Bankers association will loan money
needed to meet the banks immediate
obligations.
James Stewart, hired man, won the
case in which o. N. Parston of Chero-
kee sued him for SIS, 900 damages for
alienation of Mrs. Parston's affections.
The jury awarded Parston $1,000 on
the first trial.
Theodore Utley of Sterling, ILL.,,
drove his motor car down a 2O-foot
embankment near Clinton to avoid
striking buggy in which a woman
and two children were riding. He is
in hospital with fractured thigh.
Three hundred farmers near Rolfe
have ordered their phones taken out
as the first step in the war with the
telephone company. The concern re-
fused to lower the rent down to pre-
war prices. There is talk of starting
mutual line
Robbers broke into two business
houses at Ankeny recently and ran
sacked them, escaping with goods val
ued at $3.50. The stores thus visited
We're the Victor Laurent restaurant
and Fontani brothers bakery. No
money was secured.
Charles Jesnick of Oralabor, Iowa,
whose skull was featured when he
was kicked by mule, lies in crit
lcal condition at Iowa Lutheran hos
pital in Des Moines. Attaches of the
hospital believes he has small
chance for recovery.
Over 100 tons of crushed limestone
have been shipped into Black Hawk
county recently and is being distribute
ed among the farmers northeast of
Cedar Falls. They are putting six
tons to the acre and will raise alfal-
ia upon this land next season.
Students in the college of law at
the University Of Iowa this year have
previously studied in "a different col.
leges or universities where they did
their required work in liberal arts
This year there are 2O8 students regis.
tered in the law college, an increase
of 25.6 per cent over last years re.
gistration.
Clyde Fulton, young blacksmith
OF Oelwein is not expected to live as
the result of an alleged booze party
Fulton it is alleged became sleepy
and lay down, whereupon the other
members of the party hitched rope
to him and dragged him for some
distance behind their automobile. Full.
ton has three fractures of the skull.
Standing in the yard of their farm
home watching an electric storm, Mr.
and Mrs. Loran Higgins and their
son of Guthrie Center were knocked
down by bolt of lightning. Though
stunned for some time they later re.
covered. The lightning also struck
schoolhouse near by, killing pair
of ponies stabbed in an adjoining shed
The neighbors of S. Cundiff south
of Laurens, assisted by the citizens
of Laurens, turned out in body
numbering 12O men and f1fty-fou1
teams and wagons, to husk and crib
his corn. The job was finished in
seven hours, the ma husking and
cribbing about 1000 bushels of corn
about seventy-five acres. The crowd
was served a regular dinner at d
neighboring farm by seven willing
cooks. Mr.. Cundiff has been a long
sufferer from the aftereffects of the
influenza. The family has been quar-
antined for seven weeks, one member
of the family having infantile paraly
sis.
After trying to kill himself, Buell.
Downs, employed in the Wallberg fur
niture store at Keokuk confessed to
his employer this noon that he broke
into the store and took $50 from the
! safe and hid it in his bathroom. His
confession followed the taking of fin
ger prints evidence by local police
and state experts. Police got finger
print experts and they took prints of
of bar across door, and Chief Police
MCPHERSON had every employs, fin
! ger prints taken. After Downs were